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In Reply to: Saw Alien yesterday. Frankly, what's all the fuss about? posted by clarkjohnsen on November 07, 2003 at 07:05:00:
Hi,
in the books that followed the movies it is speculated that the Alien race was most likely engineered to fight a war. It is also thought they took the combatants of both sides out for dinner.......so to speak. It's a hive and in hives the queen has the most smarts. They grow fast, and since this one is a queen,she learns scary fast. While the saving the cat thing is dumb; dumb is often seen in crisis situations. But....to answer your question.... the movie turns on a couple of thngs. The first is that this creature is a parasite. Humanity has a crappy track record with parasite. Mosquitoes are small and dumb, and more dangerous than they used to be. Now consider what a large, smart parasite could do. This potential danger derives from the dystopia theme.
We get out into space. We control a good chunk of the galaxy; but one chance encounter decimates a group of humans with only one soul left to tell the tale. But mostly the 'fuss' is about what you like. I liked the Alien series a lot, even read a couple of the books.
Follow Ups:
The Alien in the first movie wasn’t a queen. Using the hive model, I suppose you could call it a soldier. The egg-laying alien queen concept was James Cameron’s, and though the creature design is clearly derived from H.R.Giger’s alien, the queen seen in Aliens was based on Cameron’s sketches.In the original movie, the scenes in which the alien “cocoons” its victims - and the cocoons somehow become eggs - was cut because Scott thought that they slowed the pacing of the end sequence. Cameron said that if they’d been left in place, it would have precluded the creation of his queen character for Aliens.
Quite so. I had the book on the making of the original movie including a stela in the large dead alien's ship that showed the life-cycle of the nasty aliens and there were no queens. Each and every alien could reproduce itself asexually by planting an egg in a victim and wrapping them up in a cacoon like a living larder that would eventually turn into one of those pod things. In all, a much more terrifying concept since they don't need a queen to reproduce and take over a planet. But, then they had to go and make a bunch of space westerns out of it, and you know they gotta have a big guy in a black hat for a western. /_-)
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How dreadfully unlucky for our heros that out of all the leather eggs lying around, he had the misfortune to pick the Queen, without whose transformative capabilities the movie would not have made sense.Not that it did...
clark
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Pity you were so wrong. But will that teach you to curtail the patronizing?clark
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