Looks like it’s been more than a month since I toasted his departure with a revisit to They Live, which seems no more far-fetched as it was back then as things are now must’ve been. Confession: I was ambivalent of this film when it debuted, because as groundbreaking as I knew The Thing was even as a kid and as much as I may have enjoyed Big Trouble in Little China (although the latter is not quite as easy to return to), John Carpenter was surely stealing my earlier idea of an invaded Earth,
the manuscript of which I recently unearthed. At least as far as I had gotten; the Gothic ball on my Selectric II must’ve given way by that last chapter, which would explain the abrupt change to Courier. My ending would’ve had the unfortunately-named protagonist uncover the secret conspiracy to control the destinies of our future leaders, only to be convinced by the aliens that we were all better off that way, anyway. It’s hardly remarkable, I admit, other than to show how much I owe Douglas Adams, but Henry’s treatment, wherever that went, could definitely be considered a progenitor of the modern graphic novel.
Tagged Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, movies, retro
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