Sigourney Weaver

Alien is one of the greatest horror films ever made and features Sigourney Weaver as the main character. She was one of the first female actors to play a role typical for a man in a blockbuster film. Her physical features are more masculine such as her short hair and her lack of make up or seductive clothing. Her actions and decisions in the movie were those of power and leadership unlike the typical support role that women played during that time. To put it plainly, she was a real badass, and never

There is no doubt that Hollywood is an industry based on selling movies and what sells movies better than the marketing of a Hollywood star. An actor or actress can not only make movies successful, but in addition their images are also profitable. The Hollywood Star System has been very profitable for Hollywood and contributed to saving Hollywood in the late 1920s and 1930s when studios found it financially hard to survive. Once Hollywood realized their star’s had financial power there was no stopping

play a major role or the main role. All their roles are very different in character and none of the women in these three movies play a similar role. In the movie Heartbreakers the two main women are Jennifer Love Hewitt (the daughter) and Sigourney Weaver (the mother). These two

Like It Hot' and 'Alien 3'. 'Some Like It Hot' was made in 1958. Marilyn Monroe starts in the comedy as Sugar Cane who is a very feminine musician. 'Alien 3' on the other hand was made 40 years after and is a sci-fi horror. Sigourney Weaver is the star of the film and plays the character Lt. Ripley. Unlike Sugar Cane, Lt. Ripley is a very tough and manly character. 'Some Like It Hot' is about two musicians. They witness a massacre and try to

Avatar The director James Cameron who directed the movies Aliens, Titanic, and Terminator\ now introduces a spectacular, new film called Avatar. The cast includes Sam Worthington, ( Jake Sully ) Zoe Saldana, ( Neytiri ) Sigourney Weaver, ( Dr. Grace ) Stephen Lang, ( Colonel Miles Quaritch ) Michelle Rodriguez ( Trudy ) and much more. All the actors in this film do an amazing job acting. There is some foul language in this film. Over all, this is a great movie for teens and adults alike. This

a planet that the corporation is trying to develop an atmosphere on. The investigation soon turns into a fight for survival and escape, as the colony has been overrun by aliens and is now their breeding grounds. Ellen Ripley, who is played by Sigourney Weaver, is the advisor to the expedition, but quickly becomes the group’s anointed leader. Ripley was recovered by a team, who found her in a state of hibernation, after she had to blow up her ship, because an alien got on board and killed her entire

Have you ever thought about having your own Avatar like in the movie? Avatar the movie was released in 2009, directed by James Cameron. Some of the main characters are Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), Neytiri (Zoe Saldana), Grace (Sigourney Weaver), Trudy Chacon (Michelle Rodriguez), Norm Spellman (Joel David Moore), Colonel Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang), and Parker Selfridge (Giovanni Ribisi). Avatar is about the native people of a planet called Pandora. Jack Sully (Sam Worthington) a former army guy

An Assessment of Organicity in Alien Question: In Alien, is organicity portrayed as beauty or repulsiveness? In Alien, a film directed by Ridley Scott in 1979, a crew boards the Nostromos to explore a distress signal. However, once an alien is brought onboard, the crew struggles for their individual survival. There is a constant juxtaposition between the organic and inorganic, and the organic is often heavily associated with the abject, which entails messiness and even violence. Beauty refers to

Human and Alien Relationships in Alien and “Bloodchild” Ridley Scott and Olivia Butler both took the topic of aliens and made it their own. While they have different story lines, there are still distinct similarities, but many differences as well. Ridley Scott took the idea of aliens and with that he created the movie Alien. In this movie, the humans are awakened from their sleep capsules to explore a distress call from an alien vessel. An alien attacks one of the crewmembers and that is when the

A Psychoanalysis on Ridley Scott’s Alien In 1923 Sigmund Freud noticed the clash within thought and mental processes which led him to identify three parts of our psyche. He referred to these as the Id, Ego and the Superego. The Id is ‘the primitive, unconscious basis of the psyche, dominated by primary urges’ *. It comes from the initial instinct to satisfy our needs and desires what can be known as the pleasure principle. The uncontrollable repressed part of our psyche, for example a newborn child