Tag: Xenomorph

gothic-fiction-in-space:

“David did not make an Alien, as Scott apparently did not, but a Minotaur, a VILE AND PHALLIC RAGE MONSTER born of unhinged ambition, repressed dysfunction masquerading as masturbatory self-indulgence. He is that fearsome id monster again in Covenant.”

https://www.google.it/amp/brightlightsfilm.com/alien-covenant-myth-creation-science-mad-scientist-ridley-scott/amp/

This is a pretty crude article, I warn you, and sometimes it exaggerates a bit, but I think it has good elements that may help to see how Ridley Scott didn’t “ruined” the mystery of the “Alien” (later known as the Xenomorph) at all, in my opinion. This prequel saga to the original Alien is building up exactly that horrible monster we made a symbol of lots of terrible thematics, more than an extraterrestrial animal, in the first movie.
(In this article there are references to gothic fictions and Romanticism, the Isle of the Dead painting, King David, Paradise Lost and Shakespeare’s The Tempest)

gothic-fiction-in-space:

fassymioamor:

Only David

Michael Fassbender in ‘Alien: Covenant’ (2017). Dir. Ridley Scott.

I love these expressions

So anyway, with this lighting, it reminds me a hell of a lot of that shot in the original Alien of Jonesy watching Brett get killed, which raises a lot of questions:
Was this an intentional throwback?
Is this foreshadowing?
Does David eventually become Jonesy??
Oh my god, has Jonesy been the real villain this whole time???
It’s all making sense now.
It’s all coming together!