Aliens are one of the favorite themes of Hollywood-style sci-fi movies. Aliens are present in all but different ways. Some of them are friends, some of them are enemies, some of them are a mixture of both. You can read below how the alien theme is handled in the most important science fiction films ever made.
Contact (1997)
Idealized aliens
Adapted from the novel by the famous astrophysicist Carl Sagan, Contact is also directed by Robert Zemeckis. He lost his father when he was a child. Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) is an astronomer who has spent years hoping to reach her father to find a signal that could mean life in space.
Finally, the signal he calls is coming from the Vega Star, and when it is deciphered, the plans of a spacecraft that can take a human being to a nearby Vega Star to meet an alien emerge. When it comes to the choice of the astronaut who will board the spacecraft, it is being debated whether the person making such a journey should be faithful. Thus, the film only questions the belief in God and the relationship between science and religion through the possibility of meeting an alien.
The Faculty (1998)
Fighting aliens disguised as human beings
Robert Rodriguez’s cult thriller, The Faculty, depicts aliens as parasites that have entered the teachers of a high school in Ohio. The Breakfast Club, especially the youth films, referring to a lot of students, athletes, athletes, such as princesses, such as archetypes, a group of students who would not normally come together, they start to act as a soulless robots teachers. Alien parasites begin to spread to students, leaving only six non-infected people. Finding a way to get rid of the parasites, our team also challenges the clashes of teen-slasher that young people often lose.
E.T. (1982)
Being friendly with aliens
Steven Spielberg’s film E.T., which makes us all want an alien best friend, tells the story of an alien friendship with ten-year-old Elliot. Elliot, who tries to feed the alien hiding in his house with chocolate and sugar, begins to form a telepathic bond with him after a while. He called himself E.T. This cute alien who likes to read comics and watch Sesame Street is even posing as a ghost for Halloween with Elliot and his brother. MEAT. and Elliot’s fling with government agents raiding their homes. Helping her friend do her one last favor and return to her planet, Elliot is building a unique friendship.
Avatar (2009)
Taking advantage of alien flesh and milk
James Cameron’s widely debated Avatar is a modern Pocahontas story set in the 22nd century. The Pandora satellite, inhabited by the blue and peaceful Na’vi tribe, is discovered by humans. In order to communicate with the people of Na’vi and study Pandora, human and Na’vi breaking avatars are produced. Even one of the soldiers sent as part of the Avatar Project falls in love with both Pandora and Na’vi Princess Neytiri. However, the main purpose of this project is to find an alternative colonial candidate for the rapidly depleting Earth. This time we watch the aliens on the other side that we are often used to see as invaders in cinema.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Enchanted by aliens
Written and directed by Steven Spielberg, Close Encounters of the Third Kind prefers to look at the alien issue from a much more romantic place. The chain of events, which began in 1945 with the reappearance of lost military aircraft years later, continues with the fascination of many people in contact with aliens in different regions. Anyone who comes into contact with aliens is drawn to a place where a giant spaceship will land with a feeling they don’t understand. People who communicate with aliens with the help of music realize that these aliens are only interested in some special people.
Alien (1979)
Alien Breed
Ridley Scott’s legend, Alien, describes the nightmarish journey of Nostromo, a commercial spaceship returning from a mission on another planet. On the way back to a planet on a signal they received the team, hundreds of eggs they encounter are attacked by a creature. The creature sticks Kane in the face and neutralizes him.
It all starts when they take back the attacked Kane back to the spaceship. During a dinner, the creature, which does not reveal itself for a while, is born from Kane’s chest and is released and disappears in the depths of the ship. Let’s add that our main character, Ripley, who has tried to get rid of the creature throughout the film, has a similar destiny in the third film of the series.
District 9 (2009)
Keeping the aliens out of your sight
An alternate 1982 mockumentary District 9 describes what happened to a spaceship landing in Johannesburg. People who enter the spaceship, which does not move for a long time, encounter a very crowded alien community that looks sick and weak inside. After a while they decide to place all the aliens in a refugee camp called District 9. While humans try to regulate life with aliens through rules, laws and organizations, the sole purpose of aliens is to escape from this dreadful planet and return home.
Pacific Rim (2003)
Falling in love with aliens
At the Pacific Rim, directed by Guillermo del Toro, people have found a very laborious and strange way to fight the aliens that have attacked Earth for many years. Giant monsters called Kaiju, coming from a portal at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, kill too many people and cause irreparable damage. The solution was to produce giant robots called Jaeger of the same size as these monsters. Although this method worked at first, it became weaker to fight the more powerful Kaiju. The only way to defeat these giant aliens is to unite all humanity for this purpose.
Arrival (2016)
Trying to understand aliens
Arrival is the first science-fiction film by director Denis Villeneuve, who has previously impressed him with every single film. Spaceships descend to twelve different regions of the world, each country to communicate with the aliens and to begin to work to understand the purpose. One of the people chosen for this work is the linguist Louise Bank (Amy Adams).
The process of communication with aliens calmly and patiently enables Louise to quickly deal with, or even establish, one-on-one relationships. For the sake of not giving spoilers, we can say that the intention of aliens is quite different from that of all countries.
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