Vision Guru Ripley. Scott's classic work "Alien", although it has been 41 years now, but this deep space horror science fiction masterpiece, has been talked about by posterity, the film created a precedent for the fear science fiction genre, but also let the shape of the alien such a terrifying creature to be famous in the world.
Among them, the release of the film left a lot of unsolved pits, although in the later "Prometheus" and "Alien Contract" have been solved, but there are still many puzzles that have been around until now there is no answer.
For example, the yellow cat named Jones in the film, who is the owner, why it was not killed by the alien, etc., today's article, we will try to solve the puzzle left by this little yellow cat.
Before talking about this, the first thing to say is that in 1979", "Alien", there is actually a deleted version, one of the deleted scenes in the film, that is, Ripley put the yellow cat into a cage to escape, and then encountered the alien, Ripley was frightened to leave the yellow cat behind, and the alien stared at the yellow cat for a while.
The alien's shot of watching the yellow cat was added to the director's version, which caused a lot of alien fans' conspiracy theories, believing that the yellow cat and the alien can actually communicate in language, and the yellow cat and the alien are actually a group, so before the yellow cat led the hat brother to the workshop to let the alien catch, and then the yellow cat communicated with the alien from it, so that the alien first hid in the escape space shuttle.
Of course, these are a bit over-interpreted, but this is a few seconds of additional footage to further understand that aliens do not have the heart to kill all animals, at least for cats, aliens are not interested, and the killing nature of aliens seems to be more aimed at humans.
But I actually have the opposite view.
The most obvious role of this cat in the film is to help drive the rhythm of each scene, so that one scene passes from one scene to another.
Of course, in the deeper study, I said in the chat about "The Hidden Corner", if a good film work appears animals, animals will generally have symbolic direction.
So what does the cat of "Alien" mean, the cat slaves should all know that the cat is a creature full of spirituality and unpredictable changes.
It's no wonder that in the Marvel Universe, Captain Marvel's pet cat is a meta-eater.
In ancient times, especially in ancient Egypt, cats were regarded as gods, and in general, cats were narcissistic animals that could not show love and emotion, and could be regarded as objects of contact with supernatural creatures, but could also become symbols of human companionship.
The theological story of the connection between cats and the unknown world of humans is one of the oldest, and the ancient Egyptian goddess Buster, is a symbol of the protector.
Therefore, when you watch a lot of "Mummy"-related film works, you often see that there are cats in the tomb, and cats are the guardians of the field of life.
Having said all that, in Alien, I think the symbolic meaning of the Jones cat is also the guardian of life, and this cat represents the symbol of life.
There is a scene in the film where the hat brother goes to catch the cat, and when the cat sees the alien behind the hat brother, the cat makes a hissing sound, although this is a normal reaction, it can be understood as a warning to the hat brother.
At the end of the film, only Ripley and the cat survive, and in the end Ripley lies in a mummy-like dormant pod, which is not like the previously said that next to the mummy, there must always be a cat who is the guardian of life.
Perhaps because of the companionship between the cat and Ripley, the cat, in a sense, guarded Ripley.