Saturday, September 4, 2010

See The Scary Movie Alien

By Corrine Spencer

By taking a look at this particular piece, I can venture a guess that you are looking to learn a little more about the film "Alien" in many different capacities. Through the course of the upcoming paragraphs, you will be introduced to the film through a plot synopsis, a breakdown of the actors and actresses that made the film possible, and why this movie revolutionized sci-fi horror films.

The first thing that you should likely understand is that this film was by no means the first or even close to the first movie to feature extraterrestrial beings. The idea of humans interacting with these beings and creatures was not something out of the realm of possibility for movie goers. However, you might care to know that there were very distinct differences between the beings of the preceding films and the beings created by the minds behind this franchise.

The main difference was that these beings did not just stand around and look creepy. They don't take you up into their spaceship and try to learn more about you. They kill you, or they use your body to grow new beasts inside of... Plain and simple. Also, most extraterrestrial beings up until this point still looked a particular way that people expected them to look, but they were nothing like the minds behind this film had in mind.

They were creatures that fed on fear as much as they fed on the lives of humans. They walked on all fours and they stalked and hunted their prey, which in this case was a group of unknowing space miners. They had several sets of teeth, and they salivated a substance that could eat through metal floors with ease. While you don't learn it in the original release, but in the sequels, most of them report to a much larger and much more terrifying queen.

The film centers on a crew that is sent off to collect mineral and tow it back to Earth. They receive a distress signal that brings them out of hypersleep and encourages them to check out a nearby planet. While they are on the planet, they soon learn that they are not alone when Dallas and Kane encounter a large supply of feathery eggs. One breaks open and attaches to Kane's face, which is impossible to get off.

Through the course of the plot the creatures that the little one will grow to become begin to surface and wreak havoc. The crew also learns that they were meant to land on the planet and the ship would house aliens being sent back to Earth, and they would likely be the in flight meal for this excursion. The crew is all but demolished, except for Ripley who escapes on a shuttle after setting the self destruct functions. She is not alone, and the alien is outside the shuttle attempting to find a way inside. When she tries to come in through the thrusters, Ripley fires them which incinerates the creature and Ripley returns safely to Earth.

This movie would not be nearly as good if it weren't for the incredible acting involved. Performances from Sigourney Weaver (Ripley), Tom Skerritt (Dallas) and John Hurt (Kane) really made this movie remarkable.

So if you cared to learn a little more about the "Alien" franchise, this should have been a help to that end. There is a lot to know, but if you haven't seen the film you should start there, and then you might consider renting the sequels just so that you are completely up to speed.

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