Comparing The Film Aliens, Alien 3, And Alien: Resurrection

I chose to watch the films Alien, Aliens, Alien 3 and Alien: Resurrection. These films reflect changing within the American experience and identify it three different ways. For one it discusses the idea of fear of the unknown, and the exploration of the new frontier. Two, it discusses the idea of advancement’s in technology and science, and how those two can quickly turn their backs on you. The third idea being a lead role for a women and a feminist character within a franchise. Alien as a franchise explores the idea of space travel and the unknown. The film tells the story of a journey undertaken by a group of explorers to find an unknown species and try to figure out what this extraterrestrial life form is. The unknown species ends up coming abroad the ship and implanting a child within one of the crew members. At the end of the film the Alien is killed, but the series of movies after the original shows that the Alien has not yet been defeated and not even Sigourney Weaver’s character, Ripley, can defeat this horrifying creature. …show more content…
During the times women were never really seen as the ones surviving or fighting off the bad guys. It is also interesting to note that she is not sexualized throughout the film, maybe a few references but it’s not throughout the whole series. She is not put in the film as an object merely for the male to gaze upon. Even in Alien 3 when she is at the prison, no males really make any sexual jokes towards her and they end up looking up to her. Also in the first two films, when she strips down to go into the sleeping chamber there is no sexual feeling to it, it really is just meant to symbolize her vulnerability. Alien was one of the first films where a women is not seen as a sexual object, although we do see a bit of sexism within the film when Dallas disregards Ripley’s concern about not trusting Ash, and even Ash is concerned with Ripley’s