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“They Live” is fear of Reagonomics

Alienating the Audience

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The Power of Nuance in a Movie

I like it when there's at least some nuance to the people that you are sort of attacking. This is a polemic and it doesn't have that. I think a movie is stronger if the bad guy has some points in their favor. The way to do that in this film would be if the aliens really believed Reaganomics. But as soon as we think you like if you had something like that, it would do that.

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