Quote from: Nightmare Asylum on Jul 01, 2021, 08:30:25 PM
Weird, I know, for a notoriously pro-capitalist franchise like Alien.
They were anti-corporate, but that's not the same as being anti-Capitalist. The films have never really focused on criticising the economic model of Capitalism, itself (or advocating the alternative).
Heck, even Parker was constantly focused on shares and "the bonus situation". Him and Brett were all about the money.
The closest the sequel got was the understandable concern about the Nostromo's huge monetary value, from an insurance perspective. The criticisms Ripley exhibits are all about Burke's sleazy corporate
attitude and his sociopathic indifference to human life, nothing about Capitalism.
Yes, the company is hungry to get its hands on exploiting the creatures, but you'd get that from a similar entity operating under a Communist-style regime, too. Indeed, the recent Gibson script revival depicts that very same scenario occuring. And the USM, in the fourth film, is very much a big government-led initiative, not a private company. We could even go to the prequels and Daniels semi-championing personal property rights, in the form of the small home she was going to build with her significant other.
Anti-corporate, yes. Anti-Capitalist, not so much. You can be against cronyism, corruption and workplace abuse and still be pro-Capitalist.
And let's not forgot that if Weyland-Yutani is half as much of a monopoly as the EU paints it as being, it has no real competitors we're aware of. That's not really Capitalism. Competition is something the free market depends upon and needs in order to thrive.