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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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alienseries.wordpress.com
The Alien's habit of cocooning its victims serves different purposes across the various films. Alien tried to establish that the cocooned victims 'morph' into eggs, thereby continuing the Alien threat. Alienstook advantage of the cocoon scene's removal from the theatrical cut of the first film and showed that the eggs were instead the result of... |
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openlettersreview.com
At their king's behest, four grizzled blind men approach an unidentified object. He warns them that it has lain forgotten in an unforgiving place, and is a putrid, clammy thing. They nod, not daring to remind the king which sense they lack. Standing almost nine feet tall, the object forces each man to claim his own portion. The first man, at the object's rear, says, "It has a knobby trunk, out of which smooth, hollow tubes run. It must be a sculpture." Caressing its top, the second man partially agrees. "A sculpture yes, but not an object. It is a soldier, wearing a large helmet, pocked and ridged with the scars of battle." The third man, who's been kneeling, waves a finger. "But it is long and jagged, like the skeleton of some legendary beast." The king smi... |
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www.denofgeek.com
Alien: Romulus adds another step to the xenomorph's life cycle, making it an even more upsetting metaphor for pregnancy and childbirth. |
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