I find all these comments about the SJ exaggerated. The truth is there are many persons here who don't want to admit that they suffer from dead and mummified alien uniform/suit fetishism
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QuoteJockey should me more strange and terrifying.
Several things to say.
In
Alien the SJ as presented is mysterious, intriguing, etc. But he is long dead and mummified. So it doesn't have to move on screen or to interact with the characters, obviously. It's the fan who begins to wonder about it (how does he walk, has it got legs), the casual spectator is going to take it as it is : something that was not necessarily done with the idea that it should be practical or really "realistic" in mind.
In a movie where there is interaction between the "SJ" and the characters, where the SJ is an acting protagonist, things cannot be the same, and there is not the same liberty as in drawings or as in the SJ of
Alien. (By the way, I like the 1st and the 3rd pictures - but I don't find the 1st one very different conceptually speaking than the big guy in
Prometheus, and the 3rd one wouldn't pass in the movie imho).
QuoteJockey should me more strange and terrifying.
Not necessarily. First, I would say "Wait and see". Some may have watched all the trailers 200 times, but it will not change the fact we have only seen the SJ for not even 3 seconds, and some have said that he looks imposant and awe inspiring. To me, it's better that this creature be in some extent in the "uncanny valley", and that its terrifying aspects lie more in what it is able to do or create than in what his body is. Furthermore, I think we have clues that tell us that it will not be the only alien creature we see in that movie - and that maybe there's more in the bif guy that meets the eye
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2 - There are maybe real aliens, several thousands light years away, that wouldn't bet of being terrified by us (little mammals with nails instead of claws, etc.), but that would change their mind when we would have attacked them thanks to nuclear weapons, biological toxins, and made dissections on them
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3 - I find some depictions of SJ (with one leg, etc.) artistically and conceptually interesting... But frankly. If a species is able to create the xenomorphs and spaceships like the ones we can see in
Alien and in the trailers of P., I don't think it would accept to have impractical bodies etc., and would have corrected its physical defects and even tried to become as "perfect" as possible. By the way, we can see that the big guy in P. has himself mechanical aspects...
