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During the scene in which Dr. Copper has his arms severed, a double amputee stand-in was used wearing a Richard Dysart mask. The audience focuses on the bloody stumps while the mask goes unnoticed. Like Sam Carter, Copper had a piercing, albeit on the nose rather than the ear.
So, what’s up with Copper’s nose ring in The Thing (1982) I’ve seen this film hundreds of times but have never noticed it until listening to the Dead and Lovely horror podcast. I popped in the blu-ray today and, sure enough, there it is.
Gourley and Rust talked about the nose ring on their Patreon commentary of The Thing. HeHateCans. • 3 yr. ago. I feel like Dysart’s character would be at home in Herzog’s Encounters at the End of the World.
In terms of appearance of the characters, Richard Dysart as Copper sporting a nose ring in 1982 certainly stunned me! I was completely unaware an alternate ending had been shot and am grateful it wasn’t used.
- Ian Dawe
Amusingly, a nose ring used to mean "I am someone's slave, and this is how they pull me around". More amusingly, tattoos/piercings used to be a sign of nonconformity, and now they are the opposite.
At least that was the backstory Richard Dysart came up with (the nose ring was his idea too) and Carpy didn't object. This could possibly explain who got to the blood. Of course it's all left to the imagination, but I like to think Copper had some Carter Burke type plan to get a sample of this thing back to the Ruskies, right up until Norris ...
Nov 2, 2021 · There's also the pothead Palmer (David Clennon); the pensive doctor Blair (Wilford Brimley) and Copper (Richard Dysart), a medic with a nose piercing – Clark (Richard Masur) is the dog handler, and he most certainly has some of the most interesting scenes in the film.
