tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2233378012529819224.post5793993416446810793..comments2023-11-16T04:02:28.509-05:00Comments on "He Had on a Hat": The thing about The ThingTerence Bowmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04576129838447713151noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2233378012529819224.post-80570717517850907272011-11-16T14:50:40.536-05:002011-11-16T14:50:40.536-05:00Thanks for your comment and kind words, and most e...Thanks for your comment and kind words, and most especially thanks for your lead on the book.Terence Bowmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04576129838447713151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2233378012529819224.post-62252924116235518302011-11-15T04:22:17.708-05:002011-11-15T04:22:17.708-05:00Thanks for that very informative, concise piece of...Thanks for that very informative, concise piece of writing on one of my favourite films. Incidentally, the book has been reprinted and is for sale here in the UK, on 1/12/2011 for approximately £5, $8 USD? Many Thanks.grouchohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10047365482326792208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2233378012529819224.post-86490602195857200612011-10-28T13:27:53.421-04:002011-10-28T13:27:53.421-04:00I'll bring my copy when I come u0p to Montreal...I'll bring my copy when I come u0p to Montreal. You can photocopy it... ;)Matt Friedmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09782417943048098141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2233378012529819224.post-59057064601215193042011-10-21T18:45:09.724-04:002011-10-21T18:45:09.724-04:00Checked out the book on Amazon. It's going for...Checked out the book on Amazon. It's going for $106. That must be one majorly seminal piece of work...Terence Bowmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04576129838447713151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2233378012529819224.post-28772187387405223762011-10-15T11:27:07.615-04:002011-10-15T11:27:07.615-04:00I will check it out. High brow analysis of pop cul...I will check it out. High brow analysis of pop culture; I live for that shit, man. Seriously.<br />And, yeah, the control of science (or the intelligentsia in general really) is all over those 50's SF movies. I don't think it's until like Fantastic Voyage in '66 before you start seeing any kind of distrust of the military industrial complex. <br />There may be a whole other blog there.<br />It's an angle I dropped for length reasons.<br />Even in the new Thing, there is clearly an anti-scientist agenda. Well, of the older scientific establishment anyway. It's the older European male scientist that is truly responsible for unleashing The Thing, for similar reasons to Dr.Carrington's in the '51 version. However, the hero of the new film is a young female American scientist who consistently displays a stronger intuitive intelligence than any of her older male old world counterparts. An interesting shift in ideologies.Terence Bowmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04576129838447713151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2233378012529819224.post-9988860766208156342011-10-14T17:05:28.119-04:002011-10-14T17:05:28.119-04:00One theme from the 1951 version that I think ties ...One theme from the 1951 version that I think ties it more closely to Cold War flicks like Them! is the idea that science must come under the control of masculine, government, military control. Dr. Carrington is an unrealistic, impractical scientist whose science-for-science's-sake ideas lead almost to the destruction of all. He, and science generally, must be dominated by Capt. Hendry, and American state power generally. See Keith Booker's Monsters, Mushroom Clouds, and the Cold War: American Science Fiction and the Roots of Postmodernism.Matt Friedmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09782417943048098141noreply@blogger.com