LeAnne wrote:
> I don't think the end battle was written or portrayed as a cat fight:
> each female feels she must destroy the other to ensure her and her
> species' continued existence. The story isn't about war as we have
> fought it for millennia: the fight to control land, fuel, wealth, and
so
> on. The story is about the right to procreate at the expense of other
> life and the right to destroy other life to ensure the continued
> existence of one's own. I think for the story to work, to get to us the
> way it does, it has to touch our most primal, instinctual nature. The
> plot may be very human-centric in its view of procreation, but, hey, it
> was made for a human audience!
Outstanding! I agree. I think that's partly why that one line "Get away
from her, you Bitch!" bothered me, since it seemed to imbed the battle in
a frame that made it a lot less than it was.
> I was also disappointed with the third movie, but only because I could
> see so much potential just sitting there, nestled in the dialogue,
> ignored in favor of MTV-like cinematography. The movie starts out with
> this great question: if one too many male chromosomes makes a guy too
> violent, predatory for peaceable society, then is he also incapable of
> sacrificing for and protecting the society that outcast him? Are we,
> both male and female, limited by our biology? It could have been cool,
> but it fell flat.
Again, excellent. I think that my appreciation of Alien3 has a lot more
to do with my Ripley/Alien fandom than actually thinking that they did
that movie right. You're right that it could have been much more.
Rhian
rhian.m.merris@cpmx.saic.com
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