Alien Movie Essay

The Alien is a science fiction horror movie. Its setting in space and the presence of technology and artificial intelligence empathizes on its science fiction genre. Moreover, the presence of the Alien and the fact that it is a threat to human lives reflects it is also a horror film. The movie revolves around seven human beings that have the mission to return to earth from the space.

As Charlie and Jasper were walking towards Laura’s hanging, dead body, background noises were made whilst walking through the dark forest such as crickets, birds chirping and leaves beneath the feet, crunching when stepped on. With these additional noises creates a sense of horror and fear for the audience to feel, as if they do not know what is going to occur next.

Within the film “The others”,sound shapes the audiences attention in many ways, but mainly to capture one’s attention at a specific, rather scary or intense, moment. This can be seen in the film as the daughter Anne Stewart is playing in her communion dress on the floor. As Grace Stewart enters the room to remove her daughters dress, we hear the low humming noises coming from Anne and the light clicking noises of her toy. This captures the audience to look directly at the little girl, specifically her hand, which is holding her toy. The visualization of Anne’s hand, which is seen to be the hand of an old woman, is followed by a low-pitched bass noise, and the creaking of the floor as Grace walks closer to her daughter.

Contrastingly to the 16th century Othello, the 19th century film progresses past the monarchic period to view deceit as a tool to rise up in social status via the use of cultural capital instead of the Machiavellian ideology. At the beginning of the film, the scene on a rooftop with pianist and an opera singer perform classical music, Anthony Minghella utilizes mise en scene as a cinematography technique to illustrate an ideal upper-class life. The arrangements of certain objects in the scene proposes the central role of cultural capital in the socio-economic class. The Princeton jacket symbolizes the high classed education that Ripley desires, and eventually creates a domino effect, causing the consequences of deceit to become more severe.

The portrayal of ET transitions from creepy and terrifying to unusual and harmless. The development of this scene through cinematography creates a unique

The author explains “I’m in a large control room filled with computer banks and work stations, which make for convenient blocks to hide behind as I dodge the stalking alien moving through the room” (Hornshaw 2). Again the author displays good use of storytelling, but much is left out in the recounting of the events. He doesn’t explain the way the light shimmers off of every corner of the room, the way the alien’s tail seamlessly cascades and slithers over every object that it comes into contact with, the way characters’ sweat accurately drizzles over the complexity of their near natural looking faces, or the way the fog and smoke gently drift through the air being wisped in tiny curtails as active entities glide through them. All of these systems are being algorithmically controlled and provide engagement with the player, engagement that the article does not portray very well. In another division of the writing, Hornshaw narrates his experience with the game’s audio, telling about how he can perceive the alien rumbling through the ventilation systems and hallways of the space station (1). But again, his overall explanation of the sound quality is lacking. There is a constant groaning and grumbling of machinery in the background, which adds to the awe-inspiring moments of

So when Zeus decreed that man must present a portion of each animal they scarified to the gods Prometheus decided to trick Zeus. He created two piles, one with the bones wrapped in juicy fat, the other with the good meat hidden in the hide. He then bade Zeus to pick. Zeus picked the bones. Strictly speaking, there have been 5 movies in the Alien canon: Alien, Aliens, Alien 3,Alien Resurrection, and Prometheus.

First I will be giving a brief synopysis of 2001: A Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick. This movie start off somewhere millions of years ago. Where ape like creatures who could be the start of humans are seen in their natural habitat doing what they would naturally be doing. Then they come across something unusual a black structure known as a monolith, upon coming across this monolith the ape starts to change and this is when the the first sign of tool usage. By one ape being curious and finding the remaining bones of an animal and then starts using the bones as tools, starting to hit things with it which then set them apart from others. Here is where evolution appears and the change of men is seen. As time passes to the future, the movie

The initial sound heard, even before any credits come on the screen, is an eerie suspenseful music that reminds one of a twilight zone while also making the audience feel anxious. It then opens with a close-up frame of the face of who we later learn to be the woman Scottie falls in love with, Madeleine. The shot then continues to pan her face, from her lips to her eyes, displaying her beauty, which is further portrayed and intensified throughout the whole movie as Scottie falls deeper and deeper in love with her. When the camera zooms in to show a close up shot of both her eyes that completely fill the frame, the eyes look left and right to create the sense of being watched and followed, a common motif throughout the film. The digital editing comes into play shortly after when the camera zooms in on just one of her eyes, which after the eye widens and glows a florescent red color, creating an even deeper sense of fear, a digital circling object appears in the center of her eye, and grows until eventually filling the whole frame. This circling object creates the first initial feeling of vertigo, allowing the audience to experience what Scottie feels in the opening scene, allowing the audience to subjectively align itself with Scottie in future scenes without even meeting

Structured societies are becoming an increasingly large problem, in which members of the social construct must either conform or they will inevitably suffer from isolation. In Kubrick’s film 2001: A Space Odyssey the audience is presented with a futuristic rendition of the year 2001, where society’s emphasis on structure and rules are exaggerated to the extreme. Technology is exceedingly advanced in the fictitious utopia, and in turn a problem poses humanity – humans must work increasingly hard to further advance and a reliance on technology is built. The late 1960 film, depicts a decrepit and remote space travel where social interaction borders obligation and non-existent because of the structure. Nevertheless, such a structured society inevitably

The composition of shots also exemplifies the disconnection between them. In one frame of the sequence, the family is filmed in the same frame; however, the quarrelling parents are separated by furniture whilst Maisie is positioned in the corner of the frame hidden, demonstrating their dysfunctional relationship. By this, the audience is encouraged to feel angry towards the parents for exposing their young child to this unhealthy relationship. Additionally the sound of an emergency service is heard from the distance. The blaring sirens symbolise the broken relationships within the family. However, it also represents the parents’ selfishness in failing to focus on their daughter’s needs first amidst their countless conflicts. The harsh natural lighting on

In the movie the Shining there was a lot of mise-se-scene used in it to get the viewers pulling in and to get there blood pumping. The first scene that showed a lot of mise-se-scene was the scene that happened when Wendy was stumbling threw the hotel losing her sanity. This specific shot was in one of the rooms that she looked into. The shot was the one that had all of the skeletons in it. In the still there is so much mise-se-scene that can be seen and picked out. First, the angle is a normal angle, which may have been used to make the viewer feel as though they are the one who is looking in on this horrific or strange room. Second, there is a hazy effect given by the spider webs in far left corner of the screen where one skeleton sit. In addition there is fog effect stretches across the whole room. Furthermore this look in the picture shows the viewer that the room is old and has not been touched in a very long time. In addition, the effect of the fog could also lead the view to get the feeling of unclearness and feeling that something is going to grab them. Third, the blue tent that lays across the whole room give it a sad, loopy feeling. However, it also can be seen as

This screenshot is from the film Finding Nemo, (Pixar, 2003) and contains a few components of Mise-en-scene which can be found in this still. These components are a diagonal line composition, meaning the use of diagonal lines, and pointing out the strain of being pushed; the utilization of high key lighting, which lightens up the mood and a long shot representing the scene.

The science-fiction film genre serves as an excellent medium for examining shifting power structures, social paranoia and Cold War politics during the 1950s. A number of films released during this period, including: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), Them (1954) and Attack of the 50ft Woman (1958), are particularly symptomatic of the social and political atmosphere of the time. These films navigate not only narrative based issues such as the threat of aliens and science experiments gone wrong; but also wider issues of the time, such as the Cold War, changes in the US film industry, urbanisation, politics, the growing power of women and most significantly, social concern about nuclear energy.

I believed that the alien that we are talking about here is not some unknown species on Earth that we have discovered yet. If people ask me about the definition of an alien, then I would say it’s an unknown and extraordinary creature that come from anywhere except the Earth. Perhaps if a special force attacks from the Moon, I would call it as an alien invasion. Ever since I know that our Earth’s diameter is approximately 67 trillion smaller than the while universe, I strongly believe that aliens definitely exist! The aliens are scattered all around the universe using different language, living style, transportation, and diet; basically every aspect of thing in our life. Honestly, most of the movies and shows that I watched involve aliens and supernatural forces; and that just shows how exciting this topic is to me. Therefore, I believed that this is a great opportunity for me to write an essay about my belief on alien ever since young.