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Comparing Two Film Aliens
Men and women work vigorously every day to support themselves and loved ones. They all work long hours, doing gruesome and dirty work, for such little pay. The two movies Alien (1979), directed by Ridley Scott, and the sequel Aliens (1986), directed by James Cameron, portrays the working class extremely vaguely. In the first movie, a corporation sends out a crew of miners into outer space on the Nostromo and they encounter a weird space creature. Ash, an android disguised as a person, lets the alien on board which goes against the regulations. Ridley, the senior officer of the ship, eventually finds out that the crew was going to be used as food and incubation for the alien so it can reproduce. In the second film, a similar fate happens. The

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