The Thing (1982).
Whenever I watch John Carpenter's The Thing,my mind always wanders,thinking the same questions,Im sure these question have been asked and answered before...
Where does the Thing come from? I had always imagined that it perhaps hopped around different planets infecting different species ,assimilating their bodies and taking some of their characteristics and combining it with every other alien life form they had come into contact with. So where had they been before they had crashed into the arctic all those many years ago.?? Whenever the Thing is interrupted imitating its host,there seems to be a theme in its shape,whether it's when it's imitating the dog's or when Norris transforms,we get a good idea that maybe its last host were giant spiders? Then again what about that flower shape with the teeth projecting from it? Perhaps they came across some sort of Triffid planet with giant man eating rose type heads.It's all very confusing stuff,and what about the stomach of Norris turning into a massive pair of teeth,I suppose this is all part of the theory that every molecule has its own defensive system,so what they bond together and turn into teeth and attack its prey? This is all conjecture on my part,I wish I had some knowledge about interplanetary biology,or even a bit of knowledge about anything would be good,but your mind wanders as it does.I also recently read that they filmed a happy ending (I wonder if its on the deleted scenes of the new blu ray I bought from Scream Factory),apparently MacReady gets rescued by a helicopter and as he is flown out they test his blood and he his human.As much as I love the ending to the film as it is,I kind of like this happy ending,we have followed the film through MacReady's eyes,he has been the viewers catalyst so it kind of makes sense that he represents us,and im thinking that not many would want to be assimalated by some sort of shape shifting monster,so the people’s champ is free of alien tampering and live’s to fight another day.,