I know I’m human. And if you were all these things, then you’d just attack me right now, so some of you are still human. This thing doesn’t want to show itself, it wants to hide inside an imitation. It’ll fight if it has to, but it’s vulnerable out in the open. If it takes us over, then it has no more enemies, nobody left to kill it. And then it’s won.
[talking into tape recorder] I’m going to hide this tape when I’m finished. If none of us make it, at least there’ll be some kind of record. The storm’s been hitting us hard now for 48 hours. We still have nothing to go on. [Briefly turns of tape recorder and takes a drink. Looks at the shredded longjohns and turns it back on] One other thing: I think it rips through your clothes when it takes you over. Windows found some longjohns but the nametag was missing. They could be anybody’s. Nobody… nobody trusts anybody now, and we’re all very tired… there’s nothing more I can do, just wait… RJ MacReady, helicopter pilot, US outpost #31. [turns off recorder]
-Kurt Russell, in John Carpenter’s The Thing, from 1982
3rdarm. You are reaching for a shining star. If you don’t have chaos within yourself you cannot reach it.
Great film!