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And the more the franchise leans into that aspect, trying to find new and innovative ways to display it, the more the gendered implications cannot be ignored.
Set between the Alien and Aliens instalments, Romulus follows a group of young miners who break into an abandoned spacecraft orbiting their planet.
This feeds into the negative idea that being genderqueer is unnatural. “Whose Future? Characters suddenly appear swallowed by these vessels. Alien: Romulus 2024 Dir. Fede Álvarez
On entering the station, Andy is no longer the outsider but the one who holds power. One of the characters in Aliens literally had gay sex
I didn’t even need to apply my accredited knowledge of queer theory to analyze this one.
The new Ripley is a tad pansexual.
Major spoilers ahead for Alien: Romulus, if you haven’t guessed.
I remember the first time I saw Alien.
Works Cited:
Cobbs, John L. “Alien as Abortion Parable,” Literature/Film Quarterly, vol. Binary oppositions are a way of examining dynamics of power within a gender binary.
As I mentioned in the first part of these essays, a prevalent theme throughout Romulus is this idea of rebirth and reawakening. Well, there’s no way to tell, really, since the Alien movies are only queer according to queer theorists, and queer theorists literally think everything is gay. The actress who played Vazquez in Aliens has said that her “masculine” personality traits in the movie attracts praise from gay men and lesbians alike.
Hallways are non-binary? This is the first time the chestburstersmigrate from the chest to the uterus, exploding out of the women’s pregnant bellies.
Alien/human pregnancy makes its entry to the main franchise alongside Ridley Scott’s return, with 2012’s Prometheus. In this prequel, an ill-fated group of scientists arrive on a planet hoping to find answers to humanity’s creation.
Here is the actual exchange:
Frost: “I sure wouldn’t mind getting more of that Arcturian poontang. The franchise began as a sci-fi horror with Ridley Scott’s 1979 Alien, before James Cameron’s 1986 sequel Aliens switched gears into action sci-fi.
If the synthetic is genderless, then the Xenomorph’s got all the gender.
Cixous, Hélène. Star Wars, Alien and Blade Runner,” Literature/Film Quarterly, vol.
Thanks for reading From the Water Closet! “Genre, Gender, and the Aliens Trilogy,” The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film, second edition, edited by Barry Keith Grant, The University of Texas Press, 2015.
Lavery, Grace.
While representing neurodiverse people as robots or non-human entities is most always problematic, I initially read Andy as being neurodiverse in some way, and felt an instant kinship with him in the same way I found kinship in Navarro. The move from chest to uterus is complete.