Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) 1/21 @ 10 PM ET

frakkintalos · January 21, 2010, 10:25pm

You know, I’ve been chased a few times in my life. I’ve never been caught. I never understand how people get caught in films. I must be good at hiding.

BadgerSpoon · January 21, 2010, 10:26pm

I like this plan. Hide underground and wait for it to blow over.

BadgerSpoon · January 21, 2010, 10:27pm

Alien hiveminds are somewhat more difficult to evade than ice cream truck drivers, I’d wager. :rolleyes:

frakkintalos · January 21, 2010, 10:28pm

I think we’ve established. It’s a good plan.

frakkintalos · January 21, 2010, 10:29pm

Ha! You remembered that. That’s amazing.

frakkintalos · January 21, 2010, 10:30pm

When she looks at him, chills literal chills.

Albatross · January 21, 2010, 10:30pm

Becky, the original Doll. Joss would be so proud…

frakkintalos · January 21, 2010, 10:31pm

“I didn’t know the real meaning of fear until I kissed Becky.”

Miles is stepping out of the closet. Good for him.

Albatross · January 21, 2010, 10:32pm

Hello, crazy man. Nice to see you again.

frakkintalos · January 21, 2010, 10:32pm

“You’re in danger! You’re in danger! They’re here already! You’re next! You’re next, You’re next…!”

BadgerSpoon · January 21, 2010, 10:33pm

“I didn’t know the meaning of fear until I kissed Becky.”

How long have you been having these feelings? :rolleyes:

Albatross · January 21, 2010, 10:34pm

I can admit the '70s version had the stronger ending, but money is going to have to change hands before I watch that movie again. I’ll stick with the original, warts and all.

BadgerSpoon · January 21, 2010, 10:35pm

It was a difficult story to forget.

mmm, hive mind.

frakkintalos · January 21, 2010, 10:35pm

Wouldn’t this have been a wild spin if he was trippin’?

BadgerSpoon · January 21, 2010, 10:35pm

So you won’t be joining us tomorrow, then?

Albatross · January 21, 2010, 10:36pm

I have other plans anyway, but those were two painful hours I’ll never get back; no need to repeat the experience.

frakkintalos · January 21, 2010, 10:37pm

Awwww, c’mon. That film is great for Veronica Cartwright’s screaming alone. Leonard Nimoy is mega-creepy.

BadgerSpoon · January 21, 2010, 10:37pm

Could have been part of MK-ULTRA. Perhaps this movie was intended as a subversive dig at our own government. :eek:

Albatross · January 21, 2010, 10:38pm

I would totally watch the last five minutes again…but no more.

frakkintalos · January 21, 2010, 10:42pm

It’s so strange…

wikipedia:

The film has been read as both an allegory for the loss of personal autonomy in the Soviet Union, as an allegory of Cold War paranoia, and as an indictment of the damage to the human personality caused by reductionist modern ideologies of Right and Left. It has also been read, however, as a metaphor of alienation in modern mass civilization, or a covert indictment of McCarthyism.

Despite the general agreement among film critics regarding these political connotations of the film, lead actor Kevin McCarthy said in an interview included on the 1998 DVD release that he felt no political allegory was intended. The interviewer stated that he had spoken with the author of the original novel, Jack Finney, who also professed to have intended no specific political allegory in the work.

In his autobiography, “I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History,” Walter Mirisch writes: “People began to read meanings into pictures that were never intended. The Invasion of the Body Snatchers is an example of that. I remember reading a magazine article arguing that the picture was intended as an allegory about the communist infiltration of America. From personal knowledge, neither Walter Wanger nor Don Siegel, who directed it, nor Dan Mainwaring, who wrote the script nor the original author Jack Finney, nor myself saw it as anything other than a thriller, pure and simple.”

Simply amazing. It seems so obvious.