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in the milieu of a Los
Angeles megalopolis of the
near future.
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"Alien") has created an
oppressive, somber city with
soaring pyramids and
skyscrapers, obscured by an
ever-present pall, garishly
lit with neon advertisements
that leer from building-sized
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video screens and omnipresent
blimps that slowly
ply the smoke-shrouded sky,
flashing travel ads and CocaCola
appeals.
In this environment, a
textured populace thrives
and the detective story
unfolds. Basically, the film
centers on the detective
(Harrison Ford) who is
forced out of retirement to
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engineered "superhumans"
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"Star Trek") who are supposed
to serve as slaves.
Ford's Rick Deckard is,a
man who has somehofw
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mentality of the 1940s in Die
next ceniury. And yet,
Ford's character works
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hunts. Los Angeles of 40
years hence is beyond the
scope of the gumshoe's intellect.
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summer sci-fi bomb is John
Carpenter's "The Thing."
The story is about a group of
Americans at an Antartic
base confronting an alien
stranded in the wasteland by
a crash landing and frozen in
the ice for 100,000 years. This
"Thing," once thawed (by
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begins to kill and digest
humans. What makes the
Thing particularly difficult
to destroy is its ability to
assume the appearance of
any type and any number of
the living creatures it slays.
Kurt Russell is the lead in
a cast that includes some
good actors, but instead of
developing its characters,
the film showcases the
Thing's attacks and tran
sformations.
"The Thing" fails to
produce a cohesive tension,
a strong unifying sense of a
desperate, inexorable
confrontation between a
group of well-rounded
characters and the alien
invader.
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Huston has created a selfaware
attempt at "big"
musical making for a formulized,
almost ritual effort.
The film is glossy but only
occasionally interesting.
OVERALL, the dance and
musical numbers (music by
Charles Strouse,
choreography by Arlene
Phillips) are very self
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