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The Thing Film Analysis

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The Comparisons and Contrasts of the films of The Thing and The Thing From another world
In respects to the Film of The Thing of both the 1951 and the 1982 versions of the film. They both share a same Sci-Fi theme in which they both had social fears of society. Depending on which version of the film, they both contrast in their social fears and themes. They also contrast in The alien itself from being a super intelligent carrot to an actual sinister like creature that both can manipulate or perfectly imitate humans. The story develops differently from both of the versions of the film that the effects of it leaves a big gap between the films.
The Plot of both the films are similar in which an alien invasion occurs and the alien is an …show more content…

Both the films differed in both the plot and the characters but resembled the same motive which was to prevent the thing being exposed to the world and cause total invasion to the world.
Following up the Thing itself; it differed a lot in both the films. It was depicted as an unstoppable force with intelligence and was a humanoid vegetable in the 1951 version. The John Carpenter’s version took many shapes and forms as it actually demonstrated that it did imitate humans perfectly. For Example: The Scene where McReady was preparing the blood test, right as he was going to test Palmers blood, a co pilot of the outpost, resulted of him being the thing but before the blood test he talked, walked, and acted like a human being with same facial features. The Thing itself opposed as a threat to both the films as a lethal creature and its ability to copy itself to people and go about their day.
Concluding the Comparison and Contrast of both the films, the theme of both the film both differ from each time period it was filmed. The Sci-Fi theme of both the films could be that social fears of the era of the dates the films were both produced in. Such as the 1951 could correlate to the fear of communism in which the thing infiltrated their base and how the military could handle the situation in which they ultimately did and showcased scientists as greedy individuals. In the other hand, The 1982 would be the fear of the S.T.D. known as HIV which was an epidemic of the time in which

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