They Live | The Long Fight

Roddy Piper - the world's most persistent Ray Ban salesman

I love that one interview with the director: "Did you ever consider shortening the fight scene?" "FUCK no"

Can we all appreciate the fact that Keith David threw the money into the box with dead accuracy from like 20 feet away????

He cared about him enough to fight him just so that he could know the truth. That's a real friend right there

"Either put on these glasses, or start eatin' that trash can." Best context-free movie quote of all time.

RODDY PIPER: "How epic do you want this fight scene to be?" JOHN CARPENTER: "Yes."

The thing I loved about this scene is the escalation. They're both relatively clean clothed and fresh faced, and they start out fighting with classic fisticuffs, but once their endurance is spent and they've laid enough of a beating on each other, they resort to fighting dirty, clawing at the eyes, kneeing the balls, crawling all over each other. It feels like a real fight. By the end of it they're both covered in sweat, their clothes are dirtied and they just look fucked up. Not only that, but there's no music either, and the camera doesn't shake: everything is clear. The scene is entirely focused on the visceral fight. Also Keith David chucking that money into Roddy's box at the start was slick.

When Rowdy laughs at the bottle break is just perfect. Gets me every time.

This fight represents how hard it is to wake the people closest to you

That was the old school way of waking people up from the Matrix.

The most impressive thing about this fight was the glasses staying intact.

Best fight scene in cinematic history. Rest in peace Roddy Piper. We miss you.

you need to respect how evenly matched they are

Before The Matrix, this was the original “Wake Up” movie.

This scene is representative of how hard it is to wake me up in the morning.

"I'm trying to save you and your family's lives." "You couldn't even save your own!" Love that line for some reason.

This fight is like trying to cancel your Sirius XM subscription with their "customer service".

Sucks that Piper didn't act more. He was actually pretty convincing and believable in this film most than most athletes that act ever are.

This movie is even more relevant today than it was 35 years ago

All throughout the scene I’m like “DAMNIT, JUST PUT THE GLASSES ON!!”