The film Alien: Strange human behavior
Sept 20, 2019 3:38:05 GMT -5
Post by Radrook Admin on Sept 20, 2019 3:38:05 GMT -5
Here are the things I find weird in the film Alien.
The first strange thing is after Ash slices one of the face-hugger's knuckles and it bleeds acid and starts eating its way toward the hull. As they hurriedly descend from level to level after it, the crew is looking up at the ceilings to see where the acid will come dripping down. That is that last thing a person who expects acid to suddenly come dripping down from the ceiling would do. Especially when it involves acid so strong that it swiftly eats through metal as if it were wax.
Then there is the case of Science Officer Ash's behavior. Why doesn't the crew immediately blame Ash, for not knowing that the alien face-hugger had deposited an alien embryo in the executive officer Kane's, gut?After all, he had Kane under intense observation, had the means of looking inside to see what was going on. He had clearly demonstrated this when he initially examined Kane and concluded that the facehugger was feeding him oxygen. So why is the crew totally comfortable with not immediately questioning his obvious culpability in the whole mess?
Only Warrant Officer, Ellen Ripley, holds Ash accountable by saying that he has been doing nothing. But even there she avoids pointing out the obvious-that Ash was supposed to know that an alien was growing inside his patient. Or are we to believe that the crew did not expect him to know what was inside his patient even though Ash was constantly examining him and looking inside? Also, why weren't they surprised that Ash defended the alien when it emerged from the patient's chest by ordering them not to touch it?
Then we have Ripley taking time out at the end of the film to calmly fix her hair up in a bun when she is preparing the escape-vehicle for crew evacuation . Please note that just a few moments before, she had been acting terrified. You know, nervously glancing over her shoulder, and cautiously pausing to look around corridor corners. Why the sudden calmness of a woman who knows that there is an alien predator who will attack her at any moment? Are we expected to believe that setting her hair up in a bun was more important to her at that moment than her own safety?
During this time, we have the alien suddenly approaching the other female crew-member and navigator Lambert as she is gathering essential components to make survivability possible in the escape vessel. The engineer Parker, who is helping her, is armed with a flamethrower, but claims that she needs to get out of the way for him to use it. Strange, since when Parker runs at the alien, it has to turn around to face him. In other words, the alien's back was facing Parker as it was approaching Lambert. So how could she have been in the way of his using the flamethrower??
Despite those flaws, the acting is excellent and the film is worth watching. But fixing those things would have made it better.