Scott has created countless masterpieces, but for many, it’s 1979’sAlienthat will always be on top.
In his bookDanse Macabre, King raves aboutAlienuntil he gets to the ending.
According to him, that’s where it all goes wrong.
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Alienhas an iconic ending.
Our chests burst with love for the franchise.
Stephen King wasn’t a fan of either of these choices, calling them “extremely sexist”.
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He compared a stripped-down Ripley to nothing more than another sexualized victim of Dracula.
This gratuitous little twist doesn’t spoil the movie, but it’s still sort of a bummer."
Having Ripley go back for Jonesdoesn’t turn her from being the smart herointo a predictable female character.
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To some, he might just be a cat, but to Ripley, Jones is hope.
There is also nothing sexist about Ripley stripping down to her underwear.
Her character is not sexualized throughout the entire movie.
In deep space, the crew of the commercial starship Nostromo is awakened from their cryo-sleep capsules halfway through their journey home to investigate a distress call from an alien vessel. The terror begins when the crew encounters a nest of eggs inside the alien ship. An organism from inside an egg leaps out and attaches itself to one of the crew, causing him to fall into a coma.
And I say, Are you kidding?
It never occurred to me for a second that people would think my strip exploitive."
Alienis like a slasher film, with the hulking killer in a dark house hunting down its victims.
The terror begins when the crew encounters a nest of eggs inside the alien ship.
