Ridley Scott's Alien Film Analysis
In Ridley Scott’s film “Alien” the world is introduced to new slimy villain in this 1979 horror sci-fi film. That villain is no other than an alien predator whose instincts is to kill anything moving. The alien is stuck in a commercial spacecraft that has six human crew members and an android. After reading articles about science fiction films I really understood how unique and ahead of its time this film was. it doesn’t go the same route that other sci-fi films go through during the 1970s like the Star Wars (1977), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), and Close encounter of the Third Kind (1977). In Matheson, T. J. article “Triumphant Technology and Minimal Man: The Technological Society, Science Fiction Films, and Ridley Scott's Alien” it explains
how advance technology is capable of duplicating the physical and behavioral characteristics of human’s. Regarding Alien, we can see that this becomes true when we are introduced to Ash. Ash is a Science Officer who was ordered to look after the crew members. Towards the end of the movie, we find out that Ash is no other than an artificial intelligence that has human qualities and is capable of duplicating the physical and behavioral characteristics of a human. When Ash is eating with other crewmembers of the ship he is able to sit down and have a conversation with others and nobody questions that he is an android due to his presentation as a human.
The android towards the end gives a hint, when he is on the verge of death that he can sympathies. While Ridley defends here self from Ash attacking her, another crew member picks an object and takes off the androids’ head. His last words were “I can’t lye about your chances, but you have my sympathies.” Which would explain that he also capable of having feelings like a human being. They also assumed that he was there to find a weapon for his programmer and when he saw how the Alien was so aggressive he found an opportunity to save it for his programmer to see if they could make a weapon out of it. This gives the characteristic of a human looking out for himself. He was going to do what benefits him instead of taking care of the other crewmembers. So with those two scenes we see in the movie that technology was used to become a misused tool to misguided human beings and only look out for the person who programmed it.
how advance technology is capable of duplicating the physical and behavioral characteristics of human’s. Regarding Alien, we can see that this becomes true when we are introduced to Ash. Ash is a Science Officer who was ordered to look after the crew members. Towards the end of the movie, we find out that Ash is no other than an artificial intelligence that has human qualities and is capable of duplicating the physical and behavioral characteristics of a human. When Ash is eating with other crewmembers of the ship he is able to sit down and have a conversation with others and nobody questions that he is an android due to his presentation as a human.
The android towards the end gives a hint, when he is on the verge of death that he can sympathies. While Ridley defends here self from Ash attacking her, another crew member picks an object and takes off the androids’ head. His last words were “I can’t lye about your chances, but you have my sympathies.” Which would explain that he also capable of having feelings like a human being. They also assumed that he was there to find a weapon for his programmer and when he saw how the Alien was so aggressive he found an opportunity to save it for his programmer to see if they could make a weapon out of it. This gives the characteristic of a human looking out for himself. He was going to do what benefits him instead of taking care of the other crewmembers. So with those two scenes we see in the movie that technology was used to become a misused tool to misguided human beings and only look out for the person who programmed it.