Tuesday 5/19/09

• Is your interpretation of the movie closer to something that Biskind would say or Jancovich? In other words, is The Thing more about the need to meet the alien (Soviet) Other with violence, or is it more about social tensions or contradictions in American society?

I think my interpretation is closer to Biskind's. I say this because in that time, everyone was paranoid and fearful of communists. This being so, I doubt very many movie makers would have made something that stressed change within America, under the fear of being accused of being an accomplice of communist spies.
However in my opinion, I think that these movies weren't intended for political interpretation at all. I believe that they were simply movies that were made for entertainment, just like how movies are made today.