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For questions about "The Thing", a sci-fi horror film directed by John Carpenter based on the novella "Who Goes There?" by John W. Campbell, about a team of scientists in the Antarctic who discover a shape-shifting alien
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Is The Thing biologically compelled to infect other worlds?
We don't know what the Thing's plans were, and it is unlikely that Carpenter ever considered the issue. There is no information for us to work with in the Carpenter film.
The Prequel (The Thing [2011 …
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In The Thing, do assimilated victims know that they are Things?
Yes, a person who has been assimilated by the Thing definitely knows they are a Thing. This has been addressed at some length on the fan site Outpost 31, both in interviews with John Carpenter and St …
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In the 1982 movie does the Thing have a gender or sex?
There is no canonical information about this, but it seems highly unlikely. The Thing reproduces by mere physical contact with another organism, so it has no reason to reproduce sexually. This sugge …
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Who broke into Outpost 31's blood plasma storage?
Update: I've asked producer Stuart Cohen and director John Carpenter about this. I'll amend my answer if and when they reply.
TL;DR: We don't know.
Background:
Despite the fact that Copper had the …
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In the 1982 movie, "The Thing", why do they have flame-throwers?
TL;DR: The only real answer is that it looks cool.
About the "flamethrowers":
As IMFDb says, there is really only one true flamethrower in the movie: an M2A1-7 military grade flamethrower. The othe …
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What happened to Fuchs in John Carpenter's The Thing?
This question is answered in a deleted scene. Childs and Palmer go looking for him, and eventually come to the greenhouse in which they grow some vegetables and fruits - as well as their marijuana su …
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Did the Chess Wizard from The Thing actually cheat?
Note: I've also sent a message to director John Carpenter, and will update this answer if and when he replies.
Update - Word of God from Producer Stuart Cohen:
I asked Mr. Cohen if the game was rea …
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Who gets infected first in John Carpenter's The Thing?
It is very difficult to say with certainty, which is precisely what Carpenter was going for. He didn't want us to know much about who was infected and when it happened.
Certainly, the first Thing …
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The Thing movie, the assimilation simulator
Unfortunately, the software program doesn't exist. It is a special effect added in post production. The producer of the film, Stuart Cohen, has a blog, and one of the entries is devoted to the compu …
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How is The Thing's memory stored, transferred and integrated?
What the Film - and John Carpenter - Say About It:
The film never addressed this issue, and Carpenter is notoriously taciturn about the questions everyone wants to ask, and extremely elusive in the f …
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Ending of John Carpenter's The Thing
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This is the million dollar question, as far as The Thing is concerned. Unfortunately, not only has the answer never been revealed, but the producer and director themselves say they have no id …
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Radio operator's throat in The Thing (1982) and The Thing (2011)
I am reluctant to say that anything about the prequel is better than the original movie - John Carpenter's film is a classic, and in my opinion, the best horror/science fiction movie ever made; wherea …
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Do we ever see The Thing's original form?
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No, we never see the Thing's "true form", if it has one. The director of The Thing (1982), John Carpenter, has said (in an interview which I can't seem to find at the moment) that he d …
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Why was Colin's suicide scene deleted?
The suicide scene itself was indeed deleted, but we do see Colin's body in the mid-credits scenes.
These images are from The Thing (2011), I promise.The related shots in The Thing (1982) are simil …
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How did the Thing build a spaceship?
Problems with your question:
Based on John Carpenter's The Thing (1982), we have no way of knowing whether the spacecraft was built by the Thing, or by some other species of alien. All we know is t …
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