The RJ (The Thing 1982)

  Inspired by the "mutated" Campaign Hat worn by Kurt Russell in the cult classic Science Fiction remake of   "The Thing" The "R.J.", inspired by the "mutated Campaign hat" that Kurt Russell wears in the John Carpenter remake of "The Thing" falls into the third category. A week doesn't go by when someone doesn't either come into our shop, or e-mails us about making this one-of-a-kind! It's rather fascinating, since the hat actually has a short life span in the film. It is seen only in a few shots in the first act when Russell goes off to see the crashed saucer in the snow crater, and never appears again (see the film clips below). Kurt Russell's hat may symbolically be a foreshadowing of "things" to come. The story is about an alien that mutates into the form of the person (or animal) it enters, changing it into a grotesque version of the original. And the hat seems to have gone through the same transformation. Its' origins comes from the classic US Army's "Campaign Hat" that was po