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| | | | | Before Sigourney Weaver's Ripley, mainstream heroines were a different breed entirely. Sure, they were heroic in a more conventional way, but long before feminism became fashionable Ripley emerged from the shadow of her male (and robotic) counterparts by overcoming perhaps the fiercest creation in all of cinema. I'm talking, of course, about the xenomorph, H.R.... | |
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| | | | | Heroes have been at the center of fiction since the beginning of storytelling. The hero's journey as defined by mythologist Joseph Campbell, is universal and lends itself to tales in every culture. Naturally, cinema has not been immune from those heroic tales always with a male conquering the beast. While we have been treated to... | |
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| | | Part of the appeal of horror films - which is underappreciated, I think - is their capacity to evoke the sublime. This is a curious and complex emotion. It's a mixture of fear and fascination. It involves feeling simultaneously nervous or threatened by some perceptual phenomenon - because of its vastness or power - and... | ||