From: jack.bohn64@gmail.com   
      
   Mark Leeper wrote:   
   > June 25 is the fortieth anniversary of the release of JOHN   
   > CARPENTER'S THE THING (not to be confused with THE THING FROM   
   > ANOTHER WORLd (1951) or THE THING (2011)). Given that it is forty   
   > years old, and based on a story that is about seventy-five years   
   > old, THERE WILL BE SPOILERS! Briefly, this is a logic puzzle mixed   
   > with an alien invasion story.   
   >   
   > It might help one's understanding of the film if one can remember   
   > what characters had what names, but personally I have never found   
   > anyone who could keep the characters straight. Is that perhaps to   
   > emphasize how they are all part of a Protean entity with no   
   > permanent individuality?   
      
   I only ever saw it the once, and I generally blame not distinguishing   
   characters on myself.   
   There is a podcast: "The Thing in Character"   
   https://neozaz.com/category/podcasts/ttic/   
   I followed over from other podcasts they'd done, and as a primer if I ever do   
   watch it again.   
   As they explain in their intro, they go through character by character   
   examining the story of each.   
   (They had the advantage of watching it multiple times as projectionists back   
   in the day.)   
      
   --   
   -Jack   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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