Textual Analysis Of Alien

Alien is an original, extraordinary visual film that has the ability to terrorized moviegoing audiences by rather what they don’t see, combining the dread and fear of the unknown, and the idea that something is lurking just around the corner, waiting in the darkness made of pure evil. The film’s own tagline reads, “In space no one can hear you scream.” Is hauntingly fitting as the doomed space travelers are trapped aboard their own spaceship in uncharted space with a hostile alien stalking them. When Alien was released in 1979, no one had ever seen such a powerful, scary, well-executed film of this type before. Prior films like George Lucas’ Star Wars (1977) and Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Ridley Scott’s Alien …show more content…
There are several superb creative first in this film that makes it unique, the attention to detail in the production values (interior and exterior design of spaceships, uniforms, and given that lived in look), the used-tech setting implies that everything is dated in the far future, and that these characters are more like deep space “truckers” bickering about shares (money) rather than interested in exploring space for new life forms. Another key element the film adds is “for the first time in major studio science fiction history, it’s a woman - Ellen Ripley - who is the resourceful, realistic hero of the film” (Scalzi 57), and sole survivor, instead of a man, which makes film even more …show more content…
Unable to rid the alien stowaway that is now stalking them one by one, Ripley, Lambert, and Chief Engineer Parker (Yaphet Kotto) decide to blowup the ship. But the alien is quicker, it kills Lambert and Parker before they can escape. Ripley grabs Jonesy the cat, flees into the lifeboat Narcissus, but only to discover after the Nostromo has exploded that the alien is already there waiting for her. Trapped, inside the Narcissus, she has no where to go, except to battle the alien one last