CineTV Contest #74 : ALIEN. ( My Favorite Movie with an Alien).
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In 1980 I was a regular at a large movie theater located in the Urbanizaction Altamira in the city of Caracas in Venezuela, this theater consisted of a patio and a balcony and had a large screen and an exceptional surround sound. The fact is that in that cinema they were showing a film whose advertising included the following slogan: "In space, no one can hear your screams". The name of the film was Alien.
So far, nothing special, except for the fact that I was twelve years old at the time and the film was B censorship, suitable for people over 14 years old. They didn't ask me for my ID, maybe because both the ticket agent and the doorman knew me from the many times I went alone to that movie theater.
I enter a room with few spectators in which you could hear laughter and the opening of candy, the film begins and there is a disturbing opening sequence, in which the camera swarms like a ghostly entity through the facilities of the industrial building Nostromo.
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In my mind there was a clear flashback to the opening scene of Star Wars: A New Hope, but this manages to be erased by the sense of suspense and dread conveyed by the images being viewed, and the silence in which almost the entirety of this scene is held.
Gone are the laughter and the opening of candy.
From there on, the combination of horror and Science Fiction is fascinating and the director takes us on a journey in which we are afraid: Of being eaten, of animals bigger than us and with sharper teeth, of rape, of danger approaching without us being able to see it, of parasites and disease, of loneliness, of betrayal, of burns, of darkness, of technology that fails us, of the relationship between humans and androids identical to us, of male unease in the face of pregnancy and childbirth, and of the disappearance of friends and companions.
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The crew members of the ship come out of their cryogenic sleep state as they receive a distress call and are taken to an inhospitable planet far away from the Solar System, after suffering some damage the ship lands on the planet and find an abandoned alien spacecraft and the fossilized remains, Petty Officer Ellen Ripley, who discovers that the message was a warning and not help, Meanwhile, Executive Officer Kane manages to find a huge cave full of numerous eggs, and from one of them an alien creature is released, which manages to attach itself to his helmet, melt his visor and leave him unconscious.
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Inside the Nostromo, Captain Dallas and Sub Officer Ash are unable to remove the strange creature from Kane's face, and its blood is a corrosive acid. The creature drops dead from the face by itself and so, the crew resumes the trip to Earth, not knowing that they will travel with a terrifying alien that has the ability to be a parasite, change forms and in its adult stage in an intelligent being of more than two meters high that crazed selects the terrified crew members turning them into their victims.
Two years before, I went with my mother to see a movie called Close Encounters of the Third Kind, a film in which pacific aliens that were barely distinguishable communicated with humanity through musical notes. I doubt after seeing Spielberg's work that my mom would have let me see this Alien movie alone.
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Among the images that I consider the most stark and uncompromising, and that were made with practical effects, is the moment when this alien, looking like a horrifying larva with a tail and terrifying teeth, emerges from a sea of blood and guts from the chest of Kane (John Hurt), one of the scientists on board the Nostromo ship.
In addition to this alien, Ellen Ripley, becomes the heroine of the story, and one of the first female leaders of action cinema. In the end, the heroine survives with a cat named Jonesy.
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I left the theater very impressed and in love with Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), and more than a space movie I felt I had seen a very relentless monster.
As the years have gone by and I have re-watched the film a few times I realize that the setting of the first film is a dark, industrial-looking space transport ship in which all the crew members are more interested in getting paid than in going where man has never gone before. The crew gave the impression of being that kind of characters who were fed up with the job they were doing.
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Alien, presented an alien monster that seemed organic, the advances made in the field of makeup and practical special effects made this being could express itself and come to life through terrifying attack mechanisms, such as the secondary jaws.
Directed by Ridley Scott and starring Sigourney Weaver, the film kicks off one of the most culturally important sagas of recent decades. The conceptualization of the extraterrestrial monster was in charge of the artist H.R. Giger.
I chose this film because I believe it is the first to efficiently mix horror and science fiction films, where the alien is the unknown mute killer who kills his victims one by one, and the female protagonist is the one who opposes the alien as she would do in a horror film. It also put Ridley Scott on the map of great film directors and as far as I know it is one of the films that laid the groundwork for action heroines.
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I prefer this kind of alien movies than the more sentimental E.T. type, I think that if we meet alien life it would be very dangerous and aggressive, if so I wouldn't want to meet any of them.
This is my participation in the CineTV Contest #74 - Favorite movie with an alien Link Here. A big greeting to all, I hope you enjoy reading. Good luck to the other participants.
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Great choice. Nice movie too
If we talk about extraterrestrials, Alien or E.T. immediately come to mind.