The Alien series will never seem to give up on the idea of a female lead. Especially considering how popular the actress playing the character has become, she will still be at the forefront of the sequel.
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It's not my country either.
Alien was iconic for doing that with women in the first place. So they're sticking with what works.
I don’t know… most horror franchises have a woman that’s the main lead. It’s just following that trope.
Alien was a slasher movie in space and Ripley was the Final Girl.
Technically valid, as Scott was influenced by TEXAS CHAINSAW. And both films have a lot of unseen implied horror. Yaphet Kotto's death is so lightning-quick you know he's gone, but may not not realize his brain exploded.
Ripley was the quiet woman in ALIEN, definitely...and only weepy after the other one could freak out no more. I am not going to compare her to Laurie Strode, as I've always believed ALIEN blows HALLOWEEN out of the cinematic water. I also feel CHAINSAW lacks repeat value, unlike ALIEN.
I believe most sci-fi horror films have too many final PAIRS.......such as DEEPSTAR SIX or LEVIATHAN. So maybe it's something in the water. An occasional trio couldn't hurt. LEVIATHAN's almost-ending tricked me into thinking it was about to happen. At least DEEP BLUE SEA was a surpising final pair of two males......partially because test audiences found LL Cool J appealing and the final woman less so.
Like Pitch Black.
What about Aliens? A woman, one and a half men, and a little girl. Pretty close.
Alien Resurrection has two men and two women, but one of the ladies was a fake lady.
The Thing did it better.
Like Pitch Black.
What about Aliens? A woman, one and a half men, and a little girl. Pretty close.
Alien Resurrection has two men and two women, but one of the ladies was a fake lady.
The Thing did it better.
Always assuming one or both of them were men...
Alien came out in 1979, just a year after Halloween. If anything, it was helping create the trope.
Alien had creatures based on the sexually inspired art of HR Giger. Aliens framed the final battle as female alien vs female human. There's a lot of sexual themes and subtexts in the franchise, and having prominent women characters leans into that.
That annoyed me the most. Alien is a woman and Predator is a man. How dare they change the status quo.
Unless you count the AvP movies.
Which I fully understand if you don't on account of how awful they are.
In Predator Dutch and Anna survived.
And in Predators a man and woman survived in the movie
And in Predators a man and woman survived in the movie
I did say outside of Predators, and Ana plays no part in defeating the Predator
Ridley Scott has said in the DVD/Blu-ray commentary that the names and lines in the movie Alien were meant to be generic as possible so any actor or actress could say them; and that if Sigourney Weaver hadn't auditioned/accepted the role, then the next person to play the role would have been a white make and the lines would have been mostly unchanged.
Let's not rag on Michael Biehn. It's Sunday.
AVP1 gets substantially better after you try but fail to properly see AVP2. They'd've been better off hiring Helen Keller for cinematographer.Unless you count the AvP movies.
Which I fully understand if you don't on account of how awful they are.