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WWE legend “Rowdy” Roddy Piper died after suffering a heart attack in his Hollywood home. He was 61.
Born Roderick George Toombs, Piper joined the WWE in 1984 after getting his start with the NWA in the late 1970s.
But to me, Roddy will always be the hero of John Carpenter's film, THEY LIVE,
where aliens masquerade as humans, slowly taking over the world by rigging the culture against humanity.
Based on Ray Nelson’s short story, Eight O’Clock in the Morning,
the movie is one of those rare subversive stories that forces viewers to question their world and their surroundings.
Because, despite the fact that the movie is about ghoulish aliens,
it communicates truths to the viewers that are only alluded to in mainstream movies.
In fact, looking deeper into the storyline, one might realize that there’s probably more “science” than “fiction” in the story of They Live …
especially when one has “truth-seeing sunglasses”.
The headlines then and now eerily foreshadow the storyline of the movie,
for sometimes it does seem as if society's leaders have an agenda aimed at destroying, not helping, humanity.
What do you think?
They Live is a pretty neat flick, and Roddy Piper did a great job with it. I still enjoy his line: "I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass...and I'm all out of bubble gum."
ReplyDeleteThat line does tend to stick with you, doesn't it? When his character looks down on the money in the man's hands to see the words "THIS IS YOUR GOD" sticks with me.
DeleteOh, everyone see Terry at River City Comic Con in Marietta, Ohio.where he will be a guest August 15th!
DeleteYou have one good memory. I actually remember that film.
ReplyDeleteI still occasionally watch snippets of it even now. DVD's are wonderful companions. -)
DeleteSad about Rowdy Roddy Piper. He had beaten cancer and seemed to be doing better.As far as our leaders, they have always looked out for #1.
ReplyDeleteIt seems the years of abuse wrestlers inflict on their bodies catches up with them. Few make it out of their sixties. :-( And you're right: politicians are in it for themselves sadly.
DeleteIt's sad about Piper. That is way too young to die. I imagine years of abuse and Steroids had a hand in it.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know who Piper was at all until about a year ago when he was on an episode of "The Haunting of..." If you don't know it, its a WE show that pairs up celebrities like Piper who have had disturbing supernatural or ghostly experiences with a medium (she's got a thick New Jersey accent). Piper came across as extremely likeable, dedicated to his family, but literally and figuratively so haunted by the deaths of friends and colleagues in a traffic accident that he felt guilty for being alive and considered suicide. May he now rest in peace.
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