How come many U.S. sci-fi stories deals with alien invaders that always reminds us of being primitive?

Question

I've seen a Japanese anime about an alien invasion when I'm a kid. The invaders were advance yet in the end, the Earth brought the war on the invaders' doorstep and that makes me feel proud ...sort of...

Answer 1

Well, think about the premise of these types of films:

In the plot, you have to pose a theoretical invasion of aliens with enough of a superior technology that they can get here in some kind of spacecraft . That supposes a technology of space travel that would be much more sophisticaled than we have managed to achieve in the thousands of years since our human race was back in caves trying to keep from starving.

Then, you have to have enough earth chauvinism to believe there is some type of human invention that is sufficient to defeat the invaders. H.G. Wells saw it as the simple microbes that evolved on earth, and for which the aliens had no immunity developed in their bodies. Other sci fi stories have plotted t a race that can be defeated by sound waves, or light wave frequencies, or electricity or water, or even Jello !

If the writer is going to bring off a believable story with a happy ending as the earth destroys and defeats the invaders, you have to create a believable plot twist at the end. If not....it is really going to be a lame book or movie.

Answer 2

Well, sure. If you take a literature course, or read a book about great themes in literature, you'll find that this particular plot is used in every genre of literature: cowboy, sci-fi, sea, romance, and war novels. Superior force invades, causing initial defeats for our side, then great despair, then out of defeat comes either a young inexperienced upstart hero, or heroes, wielding an untried weapon of some sort, the battle rages, and we win. Goes back to Beowulf, probably.

Answer 3

Because we are curious about the unknown. Primitive we know what was no need to go back.