Carrington wants to protect the creature at the cost of everyone else on the base. After all, the only good red, uh, alien is a dead alien. Mike Bunge of KIMT makes another interesting point about how the two films differ when it comes to tone and theme.
After all, these are very different sets of people living in very different eras. Underlying themes aside, perhaps the biggest difference between the original Thing and its cinematic spawn is the lack of paranoia.
In the movie, the film opens with a dog running across the snow with a helicopter in hot pursuit. Despite their best attempts to destroy the canine creature, the two remaining Norwegians are killed by their own incompetence and a trigger-happy American although, given the fact that one of the Norwegians was firing a machine gun at the U.
Wondering what drove the Norwegians to start shooting random dogs, the Americans visit their base and find the outpost in ruins. While the theatrical version is available in widescreen format, the syndicate version for TV broadcasting was converted to full-screen format at the time. Many important picture contents were lost in this way.
On the one hand, the US TV versions often deviate from the theatrical version. In addition to many reductions in violence and action, it often happens that gaps created in this way are closed again by alternative material. Due to the high violence factor of The Thing this was to be expected. John Carpenter has made numerous changes and adjustments to The Thing even in scenes already shot. Here are to mention in particular the already shot deviant! Examples of documented deleted scenes: MacReady sits in a shirt with a striking ethno pattern in front of the chess computer.
Behind him hangs an advertising poster for the city of Cairo. In front of him are two! Copper and MacReady find another dead Norwegian researcher hanging upside down in a cupboard at the Norwegian station. MacReady plays with an inflatable sex doll while watching the video footage from the Norwegian station in his hut. Bennings was stabbed to death with a screwdriver in a first, finished version in the dog kennel by a stranger.
Palmer and Childs search for fox in the former greenhouse of the station It was therefore interesting to see if any of this deleted material found its way back into the film within the syndicate version. Another aspect that made the syndicate version interesting for a cut report was Scream Factory's announcement that this version would contain an alternative ending.
Since John Carpenter had directed a total of three different endings for the theatrical version, but only showed two of them to a test audience at all, it was interesting to know what the alternative ending contained here shows. Would one learn more about Childs' and MacReady's fate?
After all, the third never shown alternative ending contained a shot of MacReady waiting for his death in the burned station, who was found just in time by the rescue team and subjected to a blood test. So he probably would have survived. This ending was shot by John Carpenter in case the producers would force him to change his preferred nihilistic end towards a positive one. Only a production photo of this ending is circulating, proving that the end was actually shot.
In the second alternative ending, discarded after the test screening, Childs was completely removed in the last scene. Related Posts. Click to comment. Published 20 mins ago on November 12, By John Squires. Continue Reading. TV 2 days ago. Movies 4 days ago. It's worth mentioning that there may well be a portion of audiences who find the The Thing to be better than this first adaptation, released in Being a s film, The Thing from Another World can come off quite cheesy by today's standards, and the pace can feel a bit languid.
The monster also isn't very scary when looked at through a modern lens. Still, it's not fair to judge such an old film by what audiences are used to today. Those with the patience needed to watch it play out will be rewarded by an interesting story, characters worth spending time with, cool sci-fi concepts, and some very tense moments. There's a reason this was selected for the U. National Film Registry. It's possible that Carpenter wouldn't agree though, as his fandom of the first adaptation of Who Goes There?
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