John Carpenter

John Carpenter’s Paranoid Los Angeles

Phillip Bryant·

Issue 73: Los Angeles

In John Carpenter's three primary Los Angeles films—Assault on Precinct 13, They Live, and Escape from L.A.—he explores the degree to which paranoia is essential to the American way of life.

"Who can’t relate to a life not going as planned, to endlessly deferring dreams in exchange for quiet domestic desp… twitter.com/i/web/status/14673…
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