Fig 1 - Poster
Alien is a 1979 Sc-Fi Thriller film directed by Ridley Scott
and the film really does emphasis “No one can hear you scream in space”. The spaceship
Nostromo is on its way to earth from Thedus but upon receiving a transmission
from an unknown planetoid. The ships computer “Mother” awakens the crew and
they decide to land on the planetoid.
“At the same time it
reworks the sexual anxiety of the slasher movie with startling efficiency”. (Jamie
Russell, 2003). Sex is a strong hidden factor throughout the film, at the
beginning of the film when one of the crew members is exploring on his own in
an unknown and alien-looking ship and is attacked by a small alien what flung
from an egg smashing through the crew member’s space helmet and attaching
itself to his face. The alien is basically rapping the crew member by forcing
its long tactical down his throat and using him as host for the offspring.
Fig 2 - Designs
“Although it has often
been described as being a haunted-house movie set in space, “Alien” also has a
profoundly existentialist undertow that makes it feel like a film noir — the
other genre to feature a slithery, sexualized monster as its classic villain.”(Andrew
O’Hehir, 2003).
The design of the main alien is much sexualised in the way
its head has a lot of resemblance to a penis and the chest bursting scene of
the offspring bursting out from the crew members belly.
The transformation from a little sperm looking alien into a
large quick and advance in stealth alien in the film happens very quick. Maybe
showing it in stages of it’s life to an adult form would of been more suttle or
maybe the director wanted the quick growth of the alien to make more of an
impact on the audience.
“Technically
brilliant, tense, horrifying and visually breathtaking, there's not a moment in
this B-monster movie that doesn't excel well beyond the usual genre trappings.”
(R.L Shaffer, 2010). The scenery of
the film is pure concept art, amazingly designed and constructed but even
though the film is set in the future it doesn’t have the white pristine feel to
it, instead it has an organic industrial feel towards the film.
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