What is it about James Camerons Aliens script and direction that makes it a classic?
2007-02-10 06:14:40 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
The best thing about the original Alien was that through most of the movie, you never got a good look at the Alien so you weren't sure what it was and it was very mysterious and suspenseful. In the second movie, you already knew what it looked like but there were tons of them so that made up for it. After that, the other sequels lacked that sense of suspense.
2007-02-10 06:33:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well take the fact that it is always dark, humid, and you know that wherever you stand something is going to crawl up from the darkness and get you.
The most important fact though is the music....without it it would have been a joyride. But add the strange sounds, the dissonant melodies and there you have it.
Cameron is a great director and knows how to deliver fear onto the screen. Then he went about doing the Titanic! What a disgrace!
2007-02-10 14:27:18 · answer #2 · answered by dissectional80 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Aliens is a movie perfect for repeated viewings. Steeped in the mythology of the human psyche undergoing the dark night of the soul...the first movie was a classic horror movie set in space.
Cameron wisely uses the nightmare Ripley has to remind us of her underlying trauma and her triumph in the first movie...then shows us the cost of that victory. If the first movie harkens back to Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness'...then Cameron hints at touches of of progression of the hero and what she needs to do to free herself from the corruption of mind body and soul that the aliens represent...by plugging in more elements from Joseph Conrad's book "Nostromo".
"Sulaco" is the name of the town in Joseph Conrad's Nostromo, which was the name of the ship Ripley sets out on to face her demons. In essence she knows that because of the truma suffered on the mining complex 'Nostromo' from the first movie...
part of her still lies there...she is incapable of moving on...the nightmares suggest as much. So when she boards the 'Sulaco' she is at once returning to the scene of her trauma and lost friends...and taking the necessary steps to deal with her past...mourn it...and leave the spectre of the Nostromo behind her forever.
In the book Nostromo is the name of the incorruptible anti-hero. Cameron takes this as a means of cementing the ties between the first horror and the present one...making sure Ripley is tempted by corruption, never gives in...making her the incorruptible anti-hero of this saga. And when the human being fails tocorrupt her...by cutting off access to any life on earth...manipulating her to coming along as an advisor...then trying to bribe her with thoughts of riches...he attempts to corrupt her by alien impregnation....and fails.
Ripley is the part of us...that no matter what has been done to us...no matter the odds...will always seek to do the right thing.
Her unwillingness to break protocol to bring the infected crewman aboard in the first movie...and jeopardise the lives of everyone on board...is forced go into overdrive here when she realises that the entire human race is threatened by the corruption of this alien species. Her willingness to face her demons sets the stage...her unwillingness to be corrupted and hence protect the human race triggers the lethal confrontations and consequences that follow.
Cameron's script makes Ripley believable, human, accessible...she is feminine and masculine sides working together in harmony...and almost becomes a force of nature...
Cameron's direction delivers a high octane version of a tale told round the campfire since the beginning of man. The woman who has been through hell...must face it again...to regain paradise lost...for the sake of others...and herself.
Aliens is one of my alltime fav movies...I gave up a night of drinking with friends...to attend the 12:00 midnight show on opening day here in New York City. I recall the moment Ripley comes out in the mechanized loader and tells the queen..."Get away from her you Bi!ch!!". Half the audience was on its feet... fists pumping...screaming back at the screen...telling Ripley to "Kick her @$$ "...
I remember the looks on the faces of the audience after the movie was over. Everyone was laughing and joking...and all the women were grinning. Yeah!
Aliens is the ultimate campfire tale...
It bears repeated viewing for those whom it touched and touched deeply. It is a celebration of life...and it carries thoughts that resonate forever within our psyche...
We are our sister's keeper...we are our brother's keeper...and sometimes, the right thing...for the right reason...is its own reward...
That's why Aliens is a classic...to me.
2007-02-10 15:25:59 · answer #3 · answered by Zholla 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because it wasn't only scary, it was creepy. Those alien things were disgusting to look at, and we didn't see them often.
I guess it was mostly the anticipation of that horrible thing, and with it your impending and inevitable death. Being eaten alive.
2007-02-10 14:20:17 · answer #4 · answered by srgttdawg 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You've got two females going at it in space determined to kill each other.
2007-02-10 14:24:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
PEOPLE love that kind of stuff
2007-02-10 14:36:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋