Explain! Why is a living carrot dressed in a spaceman suit? This kind of irresponsible, sloppy writing is what's wrong with these kind of movies! It completely ruined the entire film for me with this blatant irregard for logic.
sharewell, it IS an astro...uh...carrot?
uh...nevermind.
Because carrots are living things too.
shareThat blatant "disregard" for logic comes from a film which has an alien creature akin to a living plant using human blood in earth-filled containers to grow offspring.
So what logic are you talking about? A science-fiction film tends to set up its own logic, so why wouldn't an intelligent creature, even one similar to a plant, be effected by cold weather to some degree or have some sort of moral compass that caused it to be clothed?
Remember, this is a 1951 movie with James Arness as a Frankenstein-like figure not wishing to run around naked, not a 1980s puppet-effect remake or modern CGI version. You're just ruining the movie for yourself, that's all.
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...so why wouldn't an intelligent creature... ...have some sort of moral compass that caused it to be clothed?
The Thing From Another World is NOT a "carrot" - Klomak is a highly-evolved being of superior intelligence and limitless possibilities. The only ones who refer to Klomak as a "carrot" (or "super-carrot") are puny, brain-dead earth creatures!
SURRENDER, EARTHLINGS - YOUR WEAPONS ARE USELESS AGAINST US!!
Perhaps there is no logic to it insofar as the story goes so I think it was just a cost cutting move on the part of the film makers.
I recall reading somewhere that the reason that the Metaluna Mutant from "This Island Earth" wore pants was because it was cheaper to do so than to make a full body suit!
By the way, the suit in question also has a little emblem on the left (better seen in photo stills of James Arness in his creature make-up) that looks a lot like the RKO Pictures' logo!
sharebecause in the 1950's,censorship was still a strong factor in film, and there is no way the movie boards would have approved a naked anything, even a carrot. We've come a long way, baby lol.
shareBecause generally it isn't a good idea to pilot a flying saucer without any protective clothing on. In fact, space travel without wearing any clothing is also a bad idea. The same applies to roaming about an alien planet like "The Thing" was doing. Apparently, "The Thing" has more common sense than you do.
sharePlus, one has to remember that in the s.f. novella from which this was adapted ("Who Goes There?"), the hostile alien from space was a body-jumper. So, while not touched on in this JUSTLY-RENOWNED & UNDENIABLY BRILLIANT PIONEERING CLASSIC (probably due to budget constraints), it could be surmised that Arness' character was as much a prisoner of the true hostile alien as the scientists and soldiers, themselves.
shareJet pilots wear G-suits, and astronauts wear specialized clothing -- and neither has a thing to do with modesty.
Think: Protection, military uniform, retaining body heat, etc.
It may also have worn a suit because there could have been tomatoes there and it wanted to make a good impression.
Hi, Bob.
Um...a tomato is a fruit, so it would be a homosexual relationship.
shareUm...a tomato is a fruit, so it would be a homosexual relationship.Erm, most plant life are "hermaphrodite" (possessing both male and female sexual characteristics/organs)-- so it would have been a bisexual thing between bisexuals....
Because Edith Head was on salary.
sharelol
p.s. So how many IMDb posters will get that reference? Two percent?
Kill all humans!
Actually while the creature was "vegetable" in content, he was humanoid in physiognomy, so he was apparently a lot closer to us than the carrot that Scotty was blathering on about. He would wear clothes like we would for a variety of reasons...
Maybe he was modest ... and didn't want anybody to see his "thing" from another world.
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Maybe the humans actually over-estimated The Thing. I mean, considering how he attacked them head-on almost every time, it seemed that he was more inclined to rely on brute force and instinct.
Summary: "me hungry, me pounce on anything that moves."
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Tomatoes and Edith Head notwithstanding... It was frikkin' cold!!!
~LjM
Step on it! And don't spare the atoms!
You are all going to vegetable hell for besmirching my carrot-leader. (smashes everything around, flails arms)
shareYou scare me NOT!!
{Reaching for my giant veggie peeler}
~LjM
Step on it! And don't spare the atoms!
You are all going to vegetable hell for besmirching my carrot-leader.
Speaking of vegetable hell...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aoq_FEYuc48
Memory says, I did that. Pride replies, I could not have done that. Eventually, memory yields.
Because Edith Head was on salary.On salary, or on celery? ;-)