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Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Dan O'Bannon, based on a story by O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett. It follows a spaceship crew who investigate a derelict spaceship and are hunted by a deadly extraterrestrial creature.
7 sty 2018 · The second ‘birth’ scene is the discovery of the alien. The crew discovers the derelict craft. Again, this was designed by Giger and it’s full of sexual symbolism. The crew enters through vaginal portals. This implies they are inside the maternal body, inside the womb. The interior is a huge, cavernous space. It is dark, dank and humid.
21 sie 2024 · The film ends with Ripley recounting the terrors they experienced, then finally descending into hibernation with Jones the cat as the shuttle travels home. Alien is available to stream on Hulu.
12 maj 2022 · More than any other ALIEN movie, David Fincher’s ALIEN 3 is aware of Ripley’s existence as a woman, and the unique and universal horrors that come with the territory of inhabiting a woman’s body.
17 kwi 2020 · Alien was a revolutionary film in many ways, and arguably the first nihilistic, anti-human science fiction series with a darkly occultic undertow. While 2001 may have been an alchemical odyssey, Alien’s worldview is far more self-conscious with its H.R. Giger-designed concept art.
23 sie 2024 · Unpacking the Gothic monstrousness of sci-fi horror Alien, and how this narrative repeatedly reveals its twists in plain sight. There’s a terse, pivotal scene in Alien where the surviving crew of the Nostromo discuss their odds of survival.
26 paź 2003 · Its most obvious influence is Howard Hawks’ “The Thing” (1951), which was also about a team in an isolated outpost who discover a long-dormant alien, bring it inside, and are picked off one by one as it haunts the corridors. Look at that movie, and you see “Alien” in embryo.
