Ken Korczak:
One of my all-time favorite movies is Ridely Scott’s 1979 classic “Alien” starring Sigourney Weaver and perhaps the coolest space moster of all time.
Film critic Roger Ebert called Alien the most influential movie of its kind, and he turned out to be right. The movie created a dynsasty of sequals, and also video games, “hybrid” movies involving the Alien and the equally cool monster — “Predator.”
But what always intrigued from Day 1 — when I saw the movie when it first came out in 1979 — were the obvious Freudian elements of the film. In fact, the movie is loaded with Freudian/sexual symbolism, and perhaps is the greatest “Freudian Nightmare.”
Here is an article that outlines the Freudian elements of the movie “Alien.”
http://blogevolve.com/understanding-the-freudian-lusts-in-the-sci-fi-classic-alien
Tell me what you think!
January 25, 2008 at 8:12 pm |
Thanks! I pegged you as a Vonnegut fan and whole-heartedly agree with the sentiment. Also, I’m overly creeped out by your latest e-how article and will avoid watching Alien for a good long while. Marvelously done, though.
We must blog more often. Or, I must. I am a horrible blogger.
January 29, 2008 at 12:19 am |
I gleefully await that entry, my friend. and many, many more. I’m still, along with countless others, captivated by your ouija tales. A few weeks ago I had the chance to try my hand at the board again, and drunkenly passed it up. I don’t want to do it while intoxicated and I have yet to find friends who will give it a decent go.
February 8, 2008 at 11:34 pm |
You’re probably buried in work you actually get paid for, but I’m thinking you should definitely jump back into this covered wagon we call blogging.
March 13, 2008 at 8:35 pm |
OT: thanks for the plug over at Unexplained Mysteries and your interest in modern slavery.
March 18, 2008 at 4:48 am |
By some creepy synchronistic coincidence I was thinking about Alien the day I bumped into your post (after reading about your World Religion on Unexplained Mysteries). I haven’t looked at the film again but I’m wondering why you describe the Alien as bio MECHANICAL? I never saw it as anything but another life form. Second, doesn’t everything, when you think about it, look like a penis? Or a vagina for that matter. I guess I haven’t read enough Freud.
June 19, 2008 at 5:54 am |
Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation
Anyway … nice blog to visit.
cheers, Tubeless.