{"id":17801,"date":"2016-02-02T09:23:16","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T08:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/?p=17801"},"modified":"2020-04-17T08:17:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T07:17:33","slug":"the-thing-de-john-carpenter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arte.tv\/sites\/olivierpere\/2016\/02\/02\/the-thing-de-john-carpenter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Thing de John Carpenter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Thing<\/em> (1982) de John Carpenter est ressorti le 27 janvier en salles, distribu\u00e9 par Splendor Films.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Thing<\/em> pousse la m\u00e9thode du cin\u00e9aste \u00e0 son point d\u2019aboutissement esth\u00e9tique et th\u00e9matique. B\u00e9n\u00e9ficiant qu\u2019un gros budget (il s\u2019agit d\u2019un film de studio, Universal), Carpenter a pour la premi\u00e8re fois recours \u00e0 des effets sp\u00e9ciaux tr\u00e8s sophistiqu\u00e9s pour l\u2019\u00e9poque (c\u2019\u00e9tait bien avant les trucages digitaux et le \u00ab\u00a0morphing\u00a0\u00bb) qui permettent au film de marquer un jalon dans l\u2019histoire du cin\u00e9ma fantastique.<\/p>\n<p>C\u2019est le g\u00e9nial Rob Bottin qui se charge des transformations et autres mutations terrifiantes qui scandent ce remake d\u2019un film de science-fiction de Christian Nyby produit (et un peu plus que cela) par Howard Hawks, le cin\u00e9aste de chevet de Carpenter. Aid\u00e9 par les d\u00e9lires en latex de Bottin, qui s\u2019apparentent parfois \u00e0 des sculptures surr\u00e9alistes et cauchemardesques o\u00f9 l\u2019int\u00e9grit\u00e9 du corps humain \u2013 et animal \u2013 est violemment bafou\u00e9e, Carpenter transcende le film original tout en restant fid\u00e8le \u00e0 une certaine \u00e9thique hawksienne. Carpenter filme \u00ab\u00a0\u00e0 hauteur d\u2019hommes\u00a0\u00bb un sujet m\u00e9taphysique et parvient l\u2019exploit d\u2019aller tr\u00e8s loin dans les trucages gore et la violence explicite sans pour autant renoncer aux principes de la suggestion et de l\u2019invisibilit\u00e9 chers au fantastique classique. Si elle explose litt\u00e9ralement \u00e0 intervalles r\u00e9guliers dans des manifestations sanguinolentes, l\u2019entit\u00e9 mal\u00e9fique qui s\u2019empare de la station polaire am\u00e9ricaine et du corps des membres de l&rsquo;exp\u00e9dition est diffuse et impalpable, comme un virus. On ne verra jamais la forme originelle de l\u2019extraterrestre prisonnier des glaces apr\u00e8s l\u2019atterrissage forc\u00e9 de son vaisseau spatial. Film du d\u00e9chainement baroque, <em>The Thing<\/em> prend pourtant comme point de d\u00e9part un trou vide, ce carr\u00e9 de glace creus\u00e9 dans la banquise d\u2019o\u00f9 fut malencontreusement extrait l\u2019alien. Cette b\u00e9ance plusieurs fois reproduite au d\u00e9but du film s\u2019accompagne d\u2019espaces d\u00e9sertiques et glac\u00e9s, \u00e0 la blancheur immacul\u00e9e, bient\u00f4t promis aux flammes et \u00e0 la souillure organique. Comme dans d\u2019autres grands films d\u2019horreur modernes (<em>Les Dents de la mer<\/em>, <em>Alien<\/em>) les sc\u00e8nes choc de <em>The Thing<\/em> poss\u00e8dent de furieuses connotations sexuelles. La chose introduite dans le corps de ses victimes \u2013 toutes masculines &#8211; se transforme en vagin dent\u00e9 engouffrant sa nouvelle proie ou prend la forme d\u2019une fleur monstrueuse.<\/p>\n<p>D\u00e9cri\u00e9 \u00e0 sa sortie \u00e0 cause de ses exc\u00e8s d\u00e9monstratifs et m\u00eame exhibitionnistes (\u00e0 l\u2019instar de deux autres grands remakes des ann\u00e9es 80, <em>La F\u00e9line<\/em> de Paul Schrader et <em>Scarface<\/em> de Brian De Palma), et de sa volont\u00e9 morbide d\u2019expliciter des forces mal\u00e9fiques abstraites, le chef-d\u2019\u0153uvre de Carpenter s\u2019av\u00e8re pr\u00e9curseur de l\u2019int\u00e9r\u00eat croissant de certains cin\u00e9astes des ann\u00e9es 90 pour la parano\u00efa, l\u2019organique, la m\u00e9tamorphose et l\u2019abjection (Cronenberg, Lynch, le Ferrara de <em>Body Snatchers<\/em>) et rejoint m\u00eame, dans son projet apocalyptique, le moins ma\u00eetris\u00e9 mais tout aussi monstrueux <em>Possession<\/em> de Zulawski, r\u00e9alis\u00e9 en Europe un an plus t\u00f4t.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Thing (1982) de John Carpenter est ressorti le 27 janvier en salles, distribu\u00e9 par Splendor Films. 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