James Cameronwho a few days ago warned about the danger of AI, is one of the most influential directors and successful Hollywood. The filmmaker responsible for Aliens: The Return and collaborator in the next Alien: Romulus, knows the xenomorph very well and that will soon terrorize us again in the cinemas, highlighting what were the elements that made Alien, the eighth passenger by Ridley Scott, a masterpiece of the Seventh Art and a gem of horror cinema. Cameron addresses the design element that differentiates this creature from other and emphasizes its importance in the feelings and sensations it creates in viewers years after the premiere of the first film.
James Cameron knows perfectly well the important detail of Alien’s design that makes it such a terrifying monster.
Cameron, when he embarked on Aliens, had to dissect and analyze the xenomorph in depth to turn it into a terrifying and imposing monster on screen. In the extras of the latest Blu-ray editions, the director believes he has found the key by which the being emerged from the imagination of HR Giger It terrifies audiences so much. “Something that isn’t talked about much is the design of the alien. It’s all mouth, no eyes. There’s no sense of being in front of some kind of consciousness that you can confront,” indicates.
“It is very different from us. When you look at the face of a crocodile or a shark you see eyes, you have the feeling that, at least a little, it is like you. At least it is from this planet” comments the director. For the director, as Noah Hawley also explained in his series of Alien For Disney and FX, the important thing is to highlight how strange and different the alien is. It is nothing like what we can find in this world. And that’s very scary.
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The alien has no eyes, it is all mouth; teeth, which remind us of a predator in its essence
“When you look at the alien, it is the unknown. It has teeth, and even behind those teeth it has more teeth. There is something that terrifies in a primary way. It is a predator reduced to its minimum essence. The last thing you see of a predator when it attacks you are the teeth, and with the alien you only see teeth. It works at such a basic level that we almost don’t understand it,” he adds. Yes, there is something primal, but in its darkness we can find something as deep as the human fear itself and that we all share as a species. “The design not only wanted play with primary fears. There is also a psychosexual fear, an underlying Freudian terror. The fear of something that grows inside you, pregnancy and sex in general. It is something that the designs that Ridley Scott and HR Giger jointly created achieved, this imagery has a primary sexual component that made it fascinating to the public,” she concluded.
The new film, Alien: Romulus, will arrive with a terrifying plot that will make great references to the original installment and fans of the genre. It will be released in theaters on August 16.
