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Invasion Los Angeles
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The Los Angeles Invasion Poster by John Carpenter transports us into a science fiction universe where an epic battle takes place between the inhabitants of Los Angeles and fearsome aliens. The suspense is palpable and the adrenaline is at its peak. This cinematographic work is a must for fans of sci-fi films.
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Description of this Los Angeles Invasion Poster
Invasion Los Angeles is a 1988 American science fiction action horror film written and directed by John Carpenter, based on the short story "Eight O'Clock in the Morning" by Ray Nelson, written in 1963. Starring Roddy Piper, Keith David and Meg Foster, the film follows an unnamed drifter who discovers, through special sunglasses, that the ruling class is made up of aliens who hide their appearance and manipulate people into they consume, reproduce, and conform to the status quo through subliminal messages disseminated through mass media.
Having acquired the film rights to the short story written by Nelson prior to the production of Invasion Los Angeles Carpenter used the story as a basis for the structure of the screenplay, which he wrote under the pseudonym "Frank Armitage". Carpenter said that the themes of Invasion Los Angeles stemmed from his dissatisfaction with the economic policies of then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan, as well as what he saw as an increasing commercialization of popular culture and politics.
Invasion Los Angeles enjoyed minor success upon release, ranking first at the North American box office. It initially received negative reviews, which lambasted its social commentary, writing, and acting; however, it later gained a cult following and received significantly more favorable critical reception. It is today considered by many to be one of Carpenter's best films. The film also entered the pop culture lexicon, and notably had a lasting effect on street art (particularly that of Shepard Fairey). A nearly six-minute sequence in which the protagonists fight in an alley is on lists of the best fight scenes of all time.
A homeless man, known as "Nada", arrives in Los Angeles looking for work. While on the street, he sees a street preacher who warns him that "they" have recruited the rich and powerful to control humanity. Nada finds a job on a construction site and befriends her co-worker Frank, who invites her to live in a slum soup kitchen run by a man named Gilbert.
That night, a hacker takes control of the television broadcasts, claiming that scientists have discovered signals that are enslaving the population and keeping them in a dream state, and that the only way to stop it is to cut the signal to its source. Viewers complain of headaches. Nada secretly follows Gilbert and the preacher to a nearby church and discovers them meeting with a group that includes the hacker. He sees scientific equipment and cardboard boxes inside. Nada is discovered by the blind preacher and escapes.
Both the slum and the church are destroyed in a police raid the same night, and the hacker and the preacher are beaten by riot police. The next day, Nada collects one of the boxes from the church and removes a pair of sunglasses, hiding the rest in a trash can. Nada discovers that sunglasses make the world appear monochrome, but they also reveal the media's subliminal messages that encourage consumption, reproduction and conformity. The glasses also reveal that many people are actually aliens whose faces resemble skulls.
When Nada taunts an alien woman in a supermarket, she alerts other aliens using a device resembling a wristwatch. Nada leaves, but he is confronted by two alien police officers. He kills them and steals their weapons. Nada enters a bank, where he notices that several employees and customers are aliens. He kills several aliens with a shotgun and escapes by taking Holly Thompson, an employee of Cable 54, hostage. At Holly's house, Nada tries to get him to try on the glasses, but she knocks him out the window and down. 'a hill and calls the police.
The next day, Nada returns to the alley and collects the sunglasses from a garbage truck before Frank meets Nada to give him his paycheck. Nada tries to convince Frank to put on the glasses, but Frank thinks Nada is a murderer and wants nothing to do with him. Frank and Nada engage in a long and violent fight, after which Frank is too tired to stop Nada from putting the glasses on him. After seeing the aliens and a flying saucer, Frank hides with Nada.
Frank and Nada meet Gilbert, who leads them to a meeting of the anti-alien movement. At this meeting, they are given contact lenses to replace their sunglasses and learn that aliens are using global warming to make Earth more like their own planet, and that they are depleting Earth's resources for their own profit. They also learn that the aliens have been bribing humans to become collaborators and promoting them to positions of power. Holly arrives at the meeting and apologizes to Nada. The police burst into the meeting and most of those present were killed. The survivors (including Frank, Nada and Holly) disperse. Nada and Frank are cornered in an alley, but they accidentally activate an alien wristwatch, opening a portal through which they escape.
The portal leads them to the aliens' spaceport, where they discover a gathering of aliens and human collaborators celebrating the elimination of the "terrorists". They are approached by a former vagabond met briefly in the slum, now a collaborator, who shows them around the installations. He leads them to the basement of Cable 54, the source of the signal, which is protected by armed guards. Nada and Frank find Holly and fight their way to the transmitter on the roof, but Holly kills Frank, revealing that she too is a human collaborator. Nada kills Holly and destroys the transmitter, before being fatally injured by aliens aboard a helicopter. As she dies, Nada gives the aliens the finger.
Once the transmitter is destroyed, humans around the world come out of their dream state and discover the aliens hiding among them.
