There is a kind of pet in this world, not cute, not spoiled, not arrogant, strict dietary requirements and golden, but also like raising a little ghost has the habit of "anti-devouring" the owner.
Pets originate from alien planets and have two hobbies - to live and to squeeze out their hosts.
It's one of the Hollywood film industry's most thrilling screen idols, the Alien.
<h1>First, the mystery of the cultivation of aliens</h1>
As early as the 1970s, the film department of the University of Southern California in the United States trained a heavy taste science fiction maniac - Dan O'Bannon, who can be said to be the "inventor of the alien". Dan has been committed to shooting science fiction movies with unlimited brain holes with the limited cinematic techniques of that year, and later he and another screenwriter, Ronald Lee. Shusset, the two worked together to create a script called "Interstellar Monsters", which tells the thrilling story of an alien creature that sneaks into a human spaceship and enters the crew, causing the lives to be destroyed.
Dan O'Bannon's former work Black Planet
The script was revised several times, and finally perfectly shaped an alien xenomorph called "Alien", at the same time, George Lucas's "Star Wars" became a box office hit, making the "science fiction movie tide" stand out, and Fox Pictures in the United States only took out $4.2 million and decided to bring the Alien to the big screen.
The director Fox sought out was Ridley Scott, who was still obsessed with making European art films, and he learned from the Swiss surrealist artist H. Scott. R. Geiger drew inspiration to create a punk-filled alien creature; geiger's alien frightened the studio giants, who at one point discussed with the producers, "Can you not let the audience be so stimulated?" As a result, the producers are stubbornly heavy tastes, insisting that the audience enjoy super sensory stimulation. In this way, after more than four months of filming cycle, "Alien" appeared on the big screen in 1979, causing the audience to scream collectively.
Alien, 1979
As a result, the era of the "Alien" series dominating the film industry officially began, and it became one of the greatest science fiction series in American movies. The limited production budget of that year forced the filmmakers to go their own way, creating an unprecedented spaceship confined space model, allowing astronauts to compete with murderous alien creatures. Prior to this, Hollywood concocted sci-fi film series only had a number of grand epic battle blockbusters such as "Star Wars" and "Star Trek", and few people started from a small place to create horrors in space. And Scott is a big fan of Kubrick, the classic sci-fi horror film "2001 Space Odyssey" with the spaceship's island space and the strange artificial intelligence computer to create countless thriller bridges, which is the "Alien" series adhered to the creative concept. In contrast, "2001: A Space Odyssey", "Alien" is more commercial, without any obscure brain-burning chapters that make the audience in the clouds, conquer the audience with a cold and bloody temperament, and kill a bloody road in a number of science fiction films that rely on burning money to concoct large scenes.
2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968
<h1>Second, the training ground for big-name directors</h1>
According to the screenwriter's original intention, the end of "Alien" should be the rhythm of "no one survives", but Fox Company has foreseen it and firmly believes that it will become a "cash cow" series, so it is stunned to let the heroine survive. While the film was constantly searching for gold, it also won the Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects and was nominated for Best Art Direction.
Director Ridley Scott has since become a science fiction fan, shooting the sci-fi biblical movie "Blade Runner" in the hearts of fans; then turned the gun to produce another sharp female film "The End of the Wild Flower", and won the Oscar for Best Picture with the epic blockbuster "Gladiator".
Then, the alien splashed blood on the big screen again and again, making you so scared that you couldn't stop at all.
In 1986, Alien 2 made its debut, thanks to Ridley. Scott ran all the way to the art film, temporarily abandoning the idea of running a gold-digging film. So Fox wisely hired another big name, James Cameron.
Alien 2, 1986
James Cameron had not yet made his famous work "Terminator" that year, he boldly removed the strong literary atmosphere in the first part, simply pursued the thrill of action movies, and once again stunned the cinema, in exchange for the global box office of 80 million, won seven Oscar nominations, and finally won two awards for best sound editing and best visual effects. Like Scott, "Technical Control" Cameron has successfully advanced to the ranks of Hollywood's first-line directors because of the birth of "Terminator" and "Alien 2".
Next, the Alien series conducted "horror training" for another future director, that is, "Seven Deadly Sins" and "Fight Club" director David Finch. Before taking over "Alien 3", David Finch was just an ordinary advertising director, but unfortunately, David Finch's screen debut was only exchanged for a scolding. Critics have more unceremoniously pointed out that Alien 3 is the worst film in the series. David Finch lost the first battle, leaving countless psychological shadows, and did not hesitate to refuse the invitation to re-edit "Alien 3", but also inspired his counterattack fighting spirit, and later he used a series of good films to make Hollywood subservient to him.
Alien 3, 1992
Unexpectedly, 1998's Alien 4: Reborn is here again! The director of this invited film is no longer a rookie or a fledgling celebrity, but the French geek director Jean-Pierre Genet, who made a splash six years ago with "Rhapsody in the Black Shop" and won four César Awards in a row. Taking over the "Alien" series is another good opportunity to cook dark themes. The interesting thing about Alien 4 is that it is "rich" and costs as much as $70 million to produce, which is the result of this desperate struggle - over 160 million at the box office.
Alien 4, 1997
The four appearances of the series of movies have made the terrible cute pet of "Alien" become the god in the hearts of horror movie fans, and together with a series of supernatural creatures such as zombies, vampires, and King Kong, they have a glorious film history.
From 2000 to the present, horror science fiction films have emerged in an endless stream, and the opening of the "Alien" series has entered a bottleneck, and Fox has cleverly let its two gold-sucking magic weapons, the Alien and the Predator, meet smoothly and dominate the big screen together, but unfortunately it is powerless. If you want to honor the alien, you have to ask a big god to use a big move.
The one who saved the Alien was its "old father", Ridley Scott.
As early as 2002, Ridley Scott already had the intention of renewing his frontier with the Alien, but fortunately he had won a bunch of film awards and became a highly respected presence in Hollywood. He and screenwriter Joe Spice re-sorted the main line of characters in the "Alien" series, the mysterious background of the Alien, and the two finally came up with the "Alien" prequel that later shocked the film world - "Prometheus".
Ridley Scott on the set of Prometheus
Prometheus is not so much a prequel to Alien as a deeper, darker allegory of the universe. After the film's release in 2012, it received rave reviews, with Rotten Tomatoes giving it a 73 percent freshness rating; The Hollywood Reporter commented on the film: "Technically, Prometheus is a perfect movie." The Oscars were also very sharp to give it a nomination for the Best Visual Effects Award.
This means that the Alien series will be like the Star Wars series, the old tree will blossom and set off a storm of "prequel" series.
Thus, there was "Alien: Covenant", which was released in North America on May 19, 2017.
<h1>Third, live for a long time - the whole process of perfect pit filling</h1>
The birth of "Alien: Covenant" means that Ridley Scott will plunge into the alien world for a long time and cultivate his own pets; it also indicates that there will be a dazzling series in the history of science fiction movies, writing a grander chapter for "Alien", and also allowing "Alien Rice" to live for a long time.
This is another film with a long span of time, setting the story of a group of brand-new cosmic crew members on the "Covenant" spaceship to find the colony ten years after "Prometheus", and meet the Alien narrow road on the planet of the Paradise Ship. Despite the re-entry of charlize Theron and others, the male protagonist Michael Fassbinder exerted great energy, playing two roles in the film - the robot bionic walter (that is, the all-round nanny on the ship) and a key figure on the alien planet.
"Alien: Contract" once again stunned and brain-opening the "Alien fans"; it can be said that it almost subverted the established concepts brought to the audience by the previous films, and made the life of the Alien come to a big reversal.
As Scott promised, the Covenant completes a full-scale pit filling, detailing the Alien's past and present lives. The audience will have the privilege of witnessing the evolution of three generations of aliens, and the film deciphers the birth of the alien with extremely ingenious plot design, from the pathogen implanted in the human body through the air to the reproductive medium through the mask worm; step by step to achieve the purpose of expansion, but also trace back to the source, the spearhead of the disaster directly to the human being itself.
Why are alien creatures in the universe? When did the history of humanity's encounters with aliens begin? Why can aliens only be completed through human parasitism? How many planets in the universe still have aliens lurking? What role do bionics play in this apocalyptic catastrophe? The film delivers a flawless answer sheet. Darwin's "theory of evolution" and the theological elements of "God created everything" are perfectly integrated, both with rigorous hard science fiction logic and infused with religious overtones, deconstructing the philosophical proposition of the origin and extinction of species through the most terrifying methods.
In addition to stimulating the perception, there are also people and demons combined to form a suspected "god"; the incubation process of the alien egg like a flowering and scattered leaves, the shocking deconstruction of the human experiment, and the image of the alien mother who resembles a slender female body highlight the unique cinematic aesthetic of the Scott style.
"Breaking the convention" is also one of the characteristics of "Covenant", and unlike the "evil does not suppress the right" adhered to by many Hollywood genre films, this film does not hesitate to touch the depths of darkness. It also abandons the shackles of confined space and expands the scene to the dimension of a planet. What is even more surprising is that although the film maintains the pattern of the old series and creates the heroine protagonist who tries to save her companions, the real drama is undoubtedly placed on a robot. This is reminiscent of Scott's old classic Blade Runner, which also turned human beings into creators, but fell victims in the runaway. The bionic man in "Contract" is responsible for mastering the life and death of human colonists, and this dislocation completely abandons the main tone of the film circle that has always been "people-oriented", so that the story creation has new possibilities. In particular, the earth-shattering reversal at the end of the film, while making the audience stunned, also seamlessly integrated with the first "Alien", creating an endless afterglow of horror.
It can be said that the birth of "Contract" is the most complete annotation to the "Alien" series, making a complete splicing of the previous five fragmentary works, and missing it is equivalent to missing the most critical link of the entire series; compared with the previous "appetizer", it can be regarded as a "meal".
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