Eventually, Ripley calms him down stating, "We really need you and I'm sick of your bullshit. Hudson starts to gain control of his fears, partly because Ripley is acting like an officer, therefore he'll fall in line, and because he suddenly remembers what his job entails—acting like a soldier. When the Aliens overrun Operations, Hudson fights without fear, constantly taunting the Aliens and gunning them down at will. Secondly, from a film making perspective, Hudson represents "the audience".
By portraying him as panicking and stricken with fear, it represents what normal people would do if they were in a similar situation. After all, if none of the characters were shown to be afraid of the aliens, they wouldn't seem nearly as menacing.
It also allows the audience to develop a sense of compassion and empathy for the on screen characters—right before the aliens mount their final attack, even Hicks seems afraid. The role of the audience was portrayed by the Lambert character in the first film. Numerous behind-the-scenes pictures and documentaries of Alien show the Alien's head with ridges, but the special effects artists covered it with a gelatinous substance, causing the head to appear smooth. The reason for the different look in Aliens is that director James Cameron thought the Alien head looked more interesting with the ridges visible, so the special effects team left out the gel.
According to the extras from the DVD, Cameron also didn't want to have the clear dome on the Alien's head, as he thought it would be prone to breaking. To stay within the continuity of the saga, one could argue that Aliens are "born" with a smooth head and that this cover falls off after a while, exposing the ridges.
Another proposed theory is that Aliens, similar to bees and ants, can differentiate into different castes including Queens ; the original script also called for much smaller, albino versions of the Aliens, serving as worker drones in the Queen's lair, to care for the eggs.
The adult Aliens seen in this movie are considered Warrior Aliens, who are bred for combat and defense of their hive. Bishop noted that the acidic blood appeared to be neutralized by the stasis fluid.
And even on Earth, there are several different types of containers that can safely hold acid, so it is not surprising that a medical lab would have some of these on hand. A point could be made that the confrontation with the Aliens might have been avoided if everyone had simply followed Bishop by crawling through the duct towards the uplink tower. However, this would have been unwise from a strategic point. Following the battle in the atmosphere processor basement, the nest has been awakened, and the Aliens can be expected to actively pursue the survivors, especially at night.
In fact, Bishop is taking quite a risk by getting to the uplink tower "with all those things running around": one of the Aliens stowing away on the first dropship and subsequently causing it to crash already proves that the creatures do not limit their movements to indoor spaces.
There was even an unfilmed scene in the original screenplay where Bishop encountered an Alien while crawling through the conduit. Bishop simply didn't have a choice because someone had to get out and pilot the second dropship down. However, an entire group of marines would not be safe outside, where it is cold and wet, and the danger can come from all sides, making the group that much harder to defend.
So the best strategy would be to lock themselves into the main colony building, sealing all doors that lead in and setting up sentry guns in the Special Edition while waiting for Bishop to get the second ship down, and then mount an escape through the front door. However, nobody considered that the Aliens would find a quick way into the building. Trying to use the conduit to escape at that time was impossible, given the time it would take to weld it open again. Also, Newt warns them that they should get inside because it would be dark soon and "They mostly come at night When Ripley learned that Burke intended to secretly bring the Facehuggers back to Earth for bioweapon research, she threatened to alert the Earth authorities that he was smuggling in dangerous organisms.
She further vowed to report him for his role in the slaughter of the colonists as he sent them to the derelict ship without warning them of what was inside. However, Burke's intention wasn't to kill Ripley but to get her and Newt impregnated with the alien embryos, then freeze their bodies in order to get them through quarantine.
In the first film, after Kane was impregnated, he was unconscious for a long period of time after the facehugger had fallen off. Burke figured that no one would know what they were carrying inside, and they were simply the only two at the time who were isolated enough for the impregnation to succeed. The Facehuggers were being kept in stasis tubes in the Med Lab. He then placed the tubes on slow drain just before he left the Lab again.
When the fluid in the stasis tubes had drained sufficiently, the Facehuggers revived enough to escape from the tubes themselves. It's possible that, in addition to the stasis fluid neutralizing the effects of the acid, they might have had some sort of analgesic that also numbed them and reduced their considerable strength. Once the tubes had drained and the analgesic had worn off, they could pop the covers of the tubes and escape.
The draining of the fluid from the tubes could also have involved loosening the covers slightly which might give the creatures an advantage in escaping. In the previous movie, the one Alien was smart enough to single out mostly individual victims instead of a group Brett, Dallas , and to stow away on the shuttle when the Nostromo was set to self-destruct.
This implies a reasonable capacity for thinking. However, it did menace Lambert, seemingly not realizing or caring that Parker was armed with a flamethrower to the Alien's luck, Parker couldn't use it without harming Lambert anyway.
In the DVD commentary, James Cameron states that the Aliens in Aliens had been alive for a few weeks at least and, thus, had plenty of time to adapt and learn. Some viewers say that the Aliens have more than enough capacity to reason that humans are dependent on light and electrical energy. It cannot be clearly deduced how intelligent Aliens are. They eventually learn to stay away from the sentry guns in the Special Edition , but it takes them quite a number of sacrifices before they find out.
This suggests that they learn through a process of trial-and-error. Generally speaking, the quicker an organism learns, the more intelligence it possesses.
Just like small children, they need to experience it first before they can learn anything about it. It is very much possible that they damaged a conduit by accident earlier in life, noticed how it caused the power to go out, and used that knowledge to intentionally cut the power later.
Others postulate that the introduction of a Queen indicates that the Aliens are a hive species, reducing the Aliens to mere drones with no more intelligence than a very evolved insect. By this reasoning, the Aliens did not intentionally cut the power, but accidentally damaged some electrical conduits, probably while they were finding ways into the complex through the ceiling. The Queen seems to display a fair ability to reason.
She recognises the threat that Ripley's flamethrower poses after some demonstration and then calls off her warrior Aliens. She is also able to figure out how an elevator works; notice that Ripley needs to press the switch in order to go up; the Queen must have done the same to reach the platform.
It is unclear whether she knew this procedure ahead of time or whether she was imitating Ripley's actions although it is possible that the elevator goes back up automatically, as it did when Ripley first came down into the sub levels and the elevator closed and departed after she disembarked.
She also appears to know how to safely hitchhike on a dropship or was it lucky chance that she ended up safe in the landing strut bay? This opens the possibility that it is just the Queen that displays intelligence, and the warrior Aliens simply obey her. When Ripley and Hicks are escaping, they enter an elevator, as the door closes an alien forces its way through and so Hicks shoots it.
The result has the acid splashing all over Hicks' armor and he likely got small spatters on his arms and face. Aboard the dropship, Hicks has bandages all over his upper torso and around his head as well. In subsequent comic book adaptations which are an alternate storyline from where Alien 3 went show Hicks with a scar on the left side of his face. As he was leaving the elevator with Ripley he clearly had black scorch marks on the left side of his face which were likely a result of his getting some arterial spray.
He is mainly seen running in the background but blends in with the others, so it's hard to discern who he is in each scene.
However, he does have two close-up shots. The first is after Ripley knocks the cornbread out of Bishop's hand and everyone at the table looks Ripley's way as shown in the frame here. The second is after Frost was set on fire and fell over the ledge. Wierzbowski is the one who leaned over the ledge and was grabbed by Hicks, who shouts in slow motion , "Come on!
He is often mistaken for Crowe, as Crowe is the one killed in the explosion. In most of the expanded universe, comic books, video games, and even in the Assembly cut of Alien 3, they are referred to as "xenomorphs".
They are first referred to as xenomorphs by Lt. Gorman in Aliens, but this isn't an official name and is simply a blanket descriptive term to cover any unknown alien species, since the term "xenomorph" is derived from the Greek words "xeno" stranger, alien, foreigner and "morphe" form, shape.
In the expanded universe, some of the comic books give the species the name Linguafoeda acheronsis meaning "vile tongue from Acheron" , but this has not actually been mentioned in any of the movies.
In the background art of the Alien Quadrilogy DVD menus, they are called Internecivus raptus "murderous thief" , but this name also does not get mentioned in the actual films themselves. With only 19 minutes left before the complex blows up, Ripley forces Bishop to fly to the atmosphere processor, so she can get back into the hive to get Newt, using her homing bracelet to track her.
When Ripley locates the bracelet, however, she finds it on the floor and Newt is nowhere to be seen. Suddenly, Newt, who has been cocooned nearby, sees an Alien egg opening and a Facehugger about to leap out at her, so she screams. Ripley finds her, kills the Facehugger and releases Newt from the cocoon, and they start running back to the surface. Along the way, she takes a wrong turn, and they suddenly find themselves in a lair, facing the egg-laying Alien Queen.
As she and Newt slowly back away, Aliens close in around them. The Queen "orders" the Aliens to back away when Ripley threatens to destroy her eggs. Ripley finally empties her flame-thrower and automatic rifle on the Queen, the Aliens and the eggs, and tosses in her arsenal of grenades, destroying the Queen's means of laying them. However, the Queen herself survives and chases after Ripley and Newt as they head back up through the complex to the platform, only to find that the dropship is no longer there.
Just as a second elevator door opens and the Queen comes out, the dropship appears and picks them up. They head back to the Sulaco, and the complex blows up.
As they're disembarking from the dropship onto the deck of the Sulaco, Bishop explains that the platform was becoming too unstable, forcing him to take to the air and to hover while waiting for them. Suddenly, Bishop is pierced through the chest by a large tail and then ripped in half. The Queen emerges from the landing gear of the dropship where she managed to stow away as the dropship was leaving the colony. Newt takes cover under the floor grates, while Ripley tries to divert the Queen by running into the cargo hold and closing the heavy steel door.
The Queen then goes after Newt, but Ripley emerges from the hold in one of the mechanical cargo power-loaders that makes her more of a match in size and strength for the Queen.
The two "mothers" fight each other, with Ripley eventually able to trap the Queen in an airlock and blow her into space. In the final scene, Bishop and Hicks have been placed in hypersleep, and Newt and Ripley do likewise for the return trip to Earth. The introduction of the Queen to the Alien franchise has caused considerable debate among viewers attempting to build consistent canon between the first two movies.
Ridley Scott, director of the first movie, has stated that he considers the original cut of Alien to be the definitive version—no queen and the scene in which Ripley stumbles upon Brett and Dallas being transformed into eggs having been cut from the movie.
The transformation scene resurfaced in the Director's Cut released in , but by that time James Cameron had free reign from the studio to come up with his own alien life cycle for the second movie which was released in as described in the commentary for Aliens: The Special Edition.
A popular hypothesis among fans is that the Aliens have a hive-based society. With insects, there is no "Queen" egg until the workers choose to create one. It could be that the lack of a Queen compels the Alien warriors to create the right circumstances for the production of a Queen, and that the "transforming" is part of preparing a host or producing the correct food source to make a "Queen facehugger".
In this case, transforming humans is a behavior the Alien falls into if a Queen isn't available to make eggs. Another theory is that the Alien doesn't turn people into eggs at all; the cocoons simply appear egg-shaped, but it takes a Queen to lay the eggs containing the Facehuggers. There are many theories about how the eggs got aboard the derelict. The nature of the derelict and its crew are a mystery, left intentionally unanswered by the original crew that produced Alien. Viewers have proposed various theories, such as: Theory One: The Queen burst from the derelict's pilot.
He may have been the only crew member on the ship, so once he died, the ship crashed, leaving the Queen time to lay thousands of eggs, then hibernate, until visitors came. Theory Two: The Space Jockey was some sort of scientist. He investigated a planet and found the eggs, loaded them onto his ship to examine, and was then impregnated by one. When he came to, not knowing what had happened to him, he took off into space.
The alien then birthed, and he crashed with all the eggs intact no queen present. Theory Three: Ignoring the continuity with the franchise and speculating on the original idea behind the aliens: the ship had a large crew, who were turned into eggs as per a theory stemming from the director's cut. This would also mean that Lambert's comment "I wonder what happened to the rest of the crew" was a subtle hint this was the original intention.
Active 4 years, 8 months ago. Viewed 3k times. So how old was she by the finale of Alien 3? How many years apart were these two dates? Improve this question. SQB Daft Daft I think there are three implicit parts to this question. First, How many years had passed since Ripley's birth? Second, how slowly does a person age in hypersleep, or is their aging completely static? And finally, as a consequence of those factors, how many years had her body aged, between being awake and in hypersleep?
Are you asking for her objective or subjective age? I've updated my question. She might have been alive for years but only aged ?
Very interesting! Daft Since she does not physically age fifty-seven years between the first two films, she clearly is not aging naturally during that time. The parsimonious assumption is that hypersleep causes humans to either cease aging, or age at a very slow rate perhaps one-eighth normal, given the change in Weaver's real-world age between Alien and Aliens.
Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. He told them that they were doomed, but that they had his sympathy. Ripley then knocked the head over, deactivating him once again. With the number of crew members being reduced to three, the Narcissus would be able to support them. Ripley, Parker, and Lambert decided to escape in the Narcissus after activating the Nostromo's self destruct device.
While waiting for Parker and Lambert to collect the necessary supplies, Ripley heard Jones over the intercom meowing, and left to retrieve the cat. The Alien then attacked Parker and Lambert. Ripley rushed to save them, but it kills them and leaves behind their bodies with one of Parker's arms being torn off and hanging. She activates the self-destruct and rushes to the escape shuttle. Ripley then had a short face-off with the creature in front of the shuttle, and with it blocking her way, she rushed to reactivate the cooling unit.
Ripley rushed back to the shuttle and found the Alien gone. She enters the shuttle and narrowly escapes as the Nostromo explodes. Ripley, having thought that the Alien died in the explosion, prepared for Hypersleep. However she was shocked when the creature revealed itself hiding in one of the walls.
Ripley panicked and scrambled to the spacesuit closet. Catching her breath and composure, she realized the creature hadn't discovered her yet. Unarmed, she quickly made a plan to get rid of the creature once and for all, quietly slipping on a spacesuit and slowly making her way to a control console.
She then started the process to open the hatch and flush the creature out; unfortunately, the process gave off steam and the creature became agitated. Ripley quickly lost her courage, but by the time the creature was in striking distance of her she opened the hatch to the vacuum of space.
All loose objects and the creature were sucked out. It held onto the entrance, until Ripley shot it with a harpoon.
However, the hatch closed on it, tethering the creature to the shuttle. The Alien then tried to get back in via the engine, but Ripley hit the ignition and the creature was blown into space.
After she gave her final report on the status of the ship, cargo, and crew Ripley signed off and entered hypersleep. She is visibly traumatized by her experience and has recurring nightmares about being impregnated with a chestburster. She is introduced to a representative of Weyland-Yutani, Carter J. Burke , who tells her she is going to be brought before an inquiry for the destruction of the Nostromo and possibly the deaths of the crew, as the company does not seem to know about the Alien.
Before her debriefing, Burke showed Ripley a photograph of her adult daughter and informed her that she married without children and died two years before Ripley was awakened, causing her to break into tears.
Ripley was then brought before a court of Weyland-Yutani, as well as other interstellar company officials. She tried to convince them of the existence of the Alien, but they denied that Weyland-Yutani's "special order" existed and also denied the existence of the Xenomorph , or any similar species.
Ripley asked them to check out LV to find out for themselves, but she learned that a terraforming colony has been living there peacefully for years. They finally decided that she has acted "with questionable judgement" and put her on a six-month period of psychometric observation and revoke her flight license, although they do not file any criminal charges.
Ripley settles down on Gateway working as a power loader operator, but she misses working on a starship and still has nightmares about the Alien. Ripley was one of two civilian advisers to the mission, the other being Burke for the interests of the company. Ripley gave a debriefing on her prior experiences with the creatures.
Although, a few Marines joked about the "bug hunt"; Sgt. Apone quickly put them in their places. Ripley would also use her skills with a power-loader to help the Marines on moving supplies. During one of the meals, she discovered that the executive officer Bishop was an android.
After her near death experience with Ash, Ripley was left wary of synthetics and went on the offensive at Bishop, ordering him to stay away from her. Burke told Bishop that Ash "malfunctioned and there were a few deaths", and Bishop tried to reassure Ripley by telling her that malfunctions were only common in older models. Later, the investigation team prepped and supplied before heading planet-side. After the APC was dropped, the Marines went on patrol through the medical and operations buildings within the colony and found it to be deserted.
However, there were signs of battle, barricading and large acid burns to the structure of the complex. After the building was secured, Ripley, Burke and Lt. Gorman entered. Exploring the complex, a startling discovery was made: two living facehuggers were kept in stasis tanks in the med lab, showing the colonists had already discovered the derelict craft. While they were exploring, a signal was picked up on a motion tracker. The marines were surprised to find that it was a young girl.
Corporal Dwayne Hicks reached for her only to get bit in the hand and lose her down a ventilation shaft. Ripley then chased after the girl into the vents and managed to corner her and talk the girl in coming back with her to the marines.
Bishop began an examination of one of the dead facehuggers. As Dietrich , the marines' medic, treated the girl, Ripley asked her questions regarding the other colonists, her parents and her brother. The girl replied that they were all dead, which Ripley understood all too well. She introduced herself as "Newt", with her real name Rebecca Jorden. Ripley grew fond of Newt, remembering her own deceased daughter. The Marines found the colonists using the computer and discovered they are all grouped around the main cooling tower in the atmospheric processing center , a large reactor which made breathable air on LV They took the APC to the entrance and the Marines investigated.
Inside the processing station, the Marines kept in contact with Ripley, Burke and Gorman via radio and a camera which showed what they were seeing. Eventually, the team discovered the alien nest , where all the colonists are being kept. However, the signal from their cameras and radios became fainter at the point due to the structure of the processing station. Ripley realized that the Marines were right under the cooling tower and she informed Gorman, who was confused.
Burke explained that the processor "is like a big nuclear reactor": and that using assault rifles and grenades could rupture it and cause a thermonuclear explosion. Gorman agreed and had the Marines hand their grenades and ammo over to Frost. Ripley watches as the Marines found the cocooned colonists and some open eggs with dead facehuggers. She witnesses on the camera feedback as Dietrich discovers one of the cocooned colonists is still alive.
She begs them to kill her, but they do not listen and try to comfort her, promising to free her. Ripley was upset when the woman started to convulse, and a chestburster erupted from her. Gorman starts to panic and freeze up as the Marines' radio is cut off, while they are slaughtered by the aliens. Ripley yells at Gorman to do something before she seizes control and drove the APC into the alien hive. Corporal Hicks, Hudson and Vasquez managed to evacuate the scene.
During the escape, the APC was damaged to the point where it could no longer drive. Gorman was knocked out by falling crates. The group remained inside the APC and discussed ways to exterminate the aliens another way.
Ripley suggested leaving LV for the Sulaco in orbit to destroy the colony. The Marines praised Ripley's idea, but Burke claimed the aliens are an 'important species' and that they had no right to exterminate them, much to the chagrin of Ripley and Vasquez.
Despite Burke's protests, they went with Ripley's plan and signalled one of two dropships to land and collect them. But the dropship had an alien sneak onboard and killed one of the two crewmembers then it opens the door to the cockpit, and the pilot, assuming it was the other crewmember who was killed. This caused the dropship to lose control and crash into the APC and destroys both the Marines' transport and most of their weapons. At the suggestion of Newt, the survivors barricade themselves inside the colony complex.
The survivors set up camp in the main living quarters and med bay. The only intact weaponry from the APC was a collection of guns, ammunition and four sentry turrets. Hicks informed the group that they would have to wait at least seventeen days before they can expect a rescue. Hudson, having lost his emotional stability is fearful at this prospect, but Ripley, sick of Hudson's ranting, told him Newt survived longer than that.
Hicks gave Ripley a tracker beacon that she could wear on the wrist. In turn, she gave it to Newt. Newt, finally able to sleep in safety, is tucked in and comforted by Ripley. Bishop informed the group of a threat: the fight with the Aliens damaged the colony reactor, and they only have a few hours before it explodes. The group decided that they should pilot the second dropship from the Sulaco and escape while the nuclear explosion kills the Aliens.
However, the colony's radio link was down and the only active connection was outside. Bishop volunteered to go, as he was the only member of the mission qualified to pilot the dropship.
Ripley then directed the Marines in sealing off every entrance to the colony to keep the Aliens out. The Aliens attacked, and wore down the ammo of the Marine sentry guns to almost nothing but retreated knowing the Marines were now defenseless. Ripley read the colony's files and discovered that Burke ordered the colonists to investigate the derelict spacecraft.
She confronted him and told him that she would not allow him take an Alien back to Earth.
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