QuoteThe Alien's implicit sexuality is paramount importance. It has to be the driving sexual force of the film, because sex is essentially the point of the Alien. If we have the other characters happily bonking tonks while the Alien's running around somewhere else, we're undermining a significant part of what makes the Alien relevant. It works like this:
When Kane got facehugged, we didn't know what the hell was going on. Something was attached to his face, and, uh, it was feeding him oxygen. Why would it do that?
'Cause it was mating with him, essentially. We don't realise this until the chestburster bursts, and it's a part of why that scene is a go-to example of brilliant horror. It wasn't just gory and brutal; it was a realisation. In that moment, everything suddenly made sense amidst the blood and broken bones. Kane had been raped by the facehugger and forced to bear its young. And then his child had killed him.
It's a complete perversion of human pregnancy and our social sense of sexuality. A man being raped and made pregnant just turns the world upside down.
So the Alien is an ultramasculine force that destroys the masculinity of the other characters through the nature of its being.
And that means no sex. It means no sex because that would undermine the horror of the creature. Since if people are able to function sexually while it's active and they know of its existence, then the creature has failed and the horror has failed.
Quote^They could show a sex scene early on in the movie to show contrast. I think actually makes sense.
Yeah exactly. I'm still not getting how actual sex early in the movie invalidates the sexual symbolism comes later. It doesn't. It maybe changes the themes perhaps, but it's nothing that couldn't' be intelligently integrated. You should also realize that the prequel is not going to be a remake, it's a different story, so things will be approached differently.
QuoteI agree completely. Sex scenes are done purely to draw movie goers, generate controversy, or fill run time. Sex sells in different forms and the studios know it. I do not like how movies and more recently video games are wasting time and resources to incorporate sex scenes in their games, when clearly they are inserted for publicity and not for story telling or artistic purposes. I hope that Alien does not go that route.
Honestly, this is a bunch of bunk. In horror and thrillers violence and sex are intertwined as they are in the real world. Just pointing out shitty titty scenes in Firday the 13th Part 4 for instance doesn't invalidate the nudity or sex in other films that used it correctly. A serial killer is a sexual predator, giving him voyeuristic tendencies or having him seek out people who have sex makes sense.
In films where romance is importanct, the sex is used to show intimacy. Unless you guys are Catholic priests, I don't see what you could possibly find wrong with that as being portrayed as part of a relationship.
Also I really don't have problems with sex existing in film as part of the entertainment factor. Some movies are just meant as mindless entertainment, so why not? Obviously I don't include fine pieces of art like Alien in that fold, but I don't let myself resent seeing things that should be pleasant because of some deep seeded sexual taboos created by religion for its own purposes. Judging everything by the same standards though is pretty damn pretentious. If you're holding a videogame about shooting people to the same standards as Citizen Kane, there's a good possibility you probalby need to get a life.
