Aliens - The Return
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| German title | Aliens - The Return | ||
| Original title | Aliens | ||
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| Country of production | United States | ||
| original language | English | ||
| Publishing year | 1986 | ||
| length | Theatrical version: 137 minutes Director’s Cut : 154 minutes |
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| Age rating | FSK 16 | ||
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| Director | James Cameron | ||
| script | James Cameron | ||
| production | Gale Anne Hurd | ||
| music | James Horner | ||
| camera | Adrian Biddle | ||
| cut | Ray Lovejoy | ||
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Aliens - The Return (Alternate title Alien II , title Aliens ) is an American science fiction - action film from the year 1986 and the continuation of Alien - The sinister creature from another world from the year 1979 . Aliens - The Return is the second part of the Alien film series . The film, starring Sigourney Weaver , was directed by James Cameron .
Due to its lavishly choreographed action sequences and the direct confrontation with the numerically superior opponent, the film speaks to its audience more directly than the first part, in which the tension was created indirectly through psychological tricks and hints.
Plot (theatrical version)
Ellen Ripley, the only survivor of the spacecraft Nostromo , is found by a salvage ship after 57 years of wandering through space in a cold sleep. She tells her story in front of a commission of inquiry, but finds no faith and loses her officer's license . At the end of the questioning, she incidentally learns that a colony was founded 20 years ago on the planet LV-426, on which the Nostromo crew had stumbled upon the alien eggs . When some time later, the contact to the colony breaks off, it will after some initial hesitation with a troop of marines (Colonial Marines), the android Bishop and Carter Burke, the representative of the operating company of the colony (Weyland Yutani) , as a consultant on board the troop transport Sulaco Sent back to the planet to rescue possible survivors and destroy any aliens.
A drop ship brings the entire crew to the planet and lands near the colony. During the search of the building complexes the soldiers find a survivor, a little girl named Rebecca, called Newt (“ Newt ”). Since all colonists have an implanted tracking device , the marines can pinpoint their location. Finally, they find the colonists, who hang woven in as hosts for the aliens in the middle of their nest, directly under the colony's atmosphere converter, a huge fusion reactor that makes the planet's atmosphere breathable. During the first wave of aliens' attacks, the troop not only suffer heavy losses, the reactor's cooling system is also damaged. As Mission Commander Lt. Gorman, who turns out to be completely incompetent, Ripley takes the initiative and rescues the surviving Marines with a transport tank . With the drop ship, the troops want to get back to their space transporter in order to then bomb the colony - against Burke's will - with nuclear weapons and thus destroy the aliens. This does not happen, however, because the drop ship is brought down by an alien that has come on board unnoticed. The troops then withdraw into the building complex and barricade themselves on one floor.
There they learn that there will be a thermonuclear explosion in the reactor due to the defect in the cooling system in four hours . Bishop is supposed to use the colony's radio system to maneuver the Sulaco’s second drop ship onto the planet by remote control. Meanwhile, Burke Ripley reveals the real intentions of the company: Weyland Yutani wants to bring some aliens to earth in order to market them there as bio-weapons, which Ripley condemns in the strongest terms. When she falls asleep next to Newt in an examination room, Burke locks them up together with two facehuggers (carriers of the parasitic alien archetypal form) in order to use the humans as hosts of the aliens and thus circumvent the quarantine regulations on their return. Besides, he would have gotten rid of Ripley's who had threatened to make his plans public. At the last second, Ripley manages to draw the Marines' attention with a fire alarm, which can save the two. The Marines want to execute Burke for his betrayal , but shortly afterwards the aliens penetrate the complex through the ceiling. The squad flees into the colony's ventilation system and has to accept further losses there. Burke escapes on his own and falls into the hands of the aliens shortly afterwards. Shortly before Ripley, Newt and the wounded Dwayne Hicks join Bishop and the second drop ship as the last survivors, Newt is kidnapped by the aliens. Heavily armed, Ripley goes in search of Newt while Bishop and Hicks wait for them in the drop ship.
Ripley manages to find Newt, but the way back leads through the nest of the egg-laying alien queen. This recognizes in Ripley a potential danger for her brood and allows her free retreat. When Ripley is about to leave the nest, an egg opens next to her. Thereupon, using up all her ammunition, she sets the nest on fire and then escapes in the direction of the drop ship. The alien queen then strips off her termite-like egg-laying organ and chases them both.
When Bishop rescued her shortly before the reactor exploded, the queen was able to hide unnoticed in the landing gear of the drop ship and was taken to the Sulaco . There it comes to the final fight between Ripley and the alien queen. Ultimately, with the help of an exoskeleton loading robot and the automatic airlock , Ripley can take the alien queen into space. The survivors Ripley, Newt, Hicks and Android Bishop, torn in two by the alien queen, prepare to return to Earth.
The sound of a crawling facehugger can be heard on the last text of the credits.
production
Emergence
After Alien hit the box office in 1979, many films tried to swim in its waters. These include Astaron - breeding of Secrets (Alien Contamination) (1980), Inseminoid (Inseminoid) (1981), the creature was not nice (The Creature Was not Nice) (1981), Galaxina (1980), Planet of Terror (Galaxy of Terror) (1981), Mutant (Forbidden World) (1982) and John Carpenter's Das Ding aus Another Welt (The Thing) (1982), all of which flopped at the box office. When a sequel to Alien came up, the producers at 20th Century Fox were initially not taken with the idea, as they feared another flop. In the co-production company from Alien , Brandywine Productions ( Gordon Carroll , David Giler and Walter Hill ), is however believed in the success of a sequel, and three years after Alien , it was agreed that this would require a whole new approach to audiences back into Lure cinema.
Despite the many open questions from Alien , such as the question of Ripley's fate, no common denominator was found and Brandywine turned to other projects - including a futuristic version of Spartacus . In the late autumn of 1983 the Spartacus project had developed so far that the search for a screenwriter and director could be started. Walter Hill and David Giler loved the script for Terminator and met with James Cameron to offer him the Spartacus project. Although he declined, Hill and Giler were so interested in working with Cameron that they offered him the sequel to Alien . As a big fan of the first part, Cameron immediately accepted. As a default from the producers, he only received Ripley's appearance together with soldiers.
Cameron wrote a 45-page draft on Aliens before filming Terminator . A key point was the deepening of the main character Ellen Ripley. He described her as a divorced woman and the mother of a young daughter whom she accused of abandoning her after returning to earth. This background, and constant nightmares about what happened on LV-426, motivated Ripley to return. The role of Carter Burke was still missing in this draft; on the original Earth Satellite Station Beta (later Gateway Station ) a Doctor O'Neil took care of them, the later betrayal on LV-426 was committed by Gorman in affect. Furthermore, there was a quarantine order on the Sulaco that prevented the stranded from steering the second drop ship onto the planet, instead a shuttle for the colonists was sought and later piloted by Ripley. In addition, towards the end of the film, Ripley and Hicks were also kidnapped and spun by the aliens, Ripley was able to free himself and left Hicks behind to save Newt.
Since the financing of Terminator was not yet secured, Cameron used the free time and wrote the script for Rambo 2 - The Mission in addition to the screenplay for Aliens . When Cameron was able to start shooting the Terminator , the producers were so satisfied with the version that had been made by then that they gave Cameron time until after shooting the Terminator and also offered him the position of director. Cameron considered the offer for a long time and finally agreed on the condition that Gale Anne Hurd , whom he fell in love with while working on Terminator , would be allowed to co-produce the film. After numerous changes, Cameron released the first completed script version on February 28, 1985 to Brandywine . It already contained the character of Carter Burke, and there was also a scene in which Ripley met the coarse Burke while searching for Newt. The figure of the android Bishop also underwent a fundamental revision, which made him appear much more "human". After further revisions (among other things, the working title Alien II was changed to Aliens ) with Hill and Giler, the finished script was submitted to Brandywine on May 30, 1985 .
Much effort and time has gone into making the Marines' equipment. While the Sulaco only existed as a model and only an inoperable copy of the UD4L Cheyenne was built for outdoor shots, a disused aircraft tug for the M577 APC (Armored Personnel Carrier) was gutted from the nearby Heathrow Airport and according to Cameron's designs by a specialist company rebuilt in just two weeks. The large military equipment should externally resemble those that were used by the US armed forces in the Vietnam War . For example, the UD4L Cheyenne launch ship should have similarities to the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II and Bell UH-1 . The armament of the marines arose from individual parts of various standard firearms. The M41A Pulse Rifle was designed by Cameron and engineered by British weapons experts Simon Atherton and Andrew Fletcher. The rear part was taken from the American Thompson M1A1 submachine gun , the front part consists of the shortened barrel of a Luigi Franchi SPAS-12 shotgun . The grenade launcher is based on parts of a Remington 870 bolt- action shotgun . The M56 Smartgun used by Vasquez and Drake is largely an MG42 , a relic of the German Wehrmacht , which was known for its high rate of fire . To make handling easier, the heavy rifle was mounted on a steadicam tripod, with half a motorcycle handlebar acting as a trigger. The Heckler & Koch HK VP70 served as a handgun for the most part , while Vasquez used a Smith & Wesson Model 39 in her last shot . The Marines' body armor was designed by Terry English, a professional in military equipment in movies.
Rod
After Gordon Carroll, David Giler and Walter Hill decided to only work as executive producers at Aliens , it was up to Gale Anne Hurd to ensure that the budget of only 18.5 million US dollars was possible used effectively. Dick Bush ( Phase IV ) was originally intended to be the head cameraman , but the collaboration with Cameron was not possible due to artistic differences. Derek Vanlint declined the offer to photograph the second part after Alien , but put his then assistant Adrian Biddle on to Cameron. Ron Cobb ( Alien , Conan the Barbarian , Leviathan ) helped Cameron create the storyboard and designed the colony complex, the atmosphere converter, various vehicles for the colonists, weapons and uniforms. Syd Mead ( Tron , Blade Runner ) was brought into the team to design the Sulaco inside and out. His suggestions for the appearance of the drop ship (in the original Dropship ) UD-4L Cheyenne fell through with Cameron. Crispian Sallis was hired as the interior designer for the Gateway Station and the colony complex, together with the James Bond veteran Peter Lamont he made sure that Cobbs and Mead's designs were turned into real sets. For the special effects , Cameron chose the L.A. Effect Group because he knew two of the employees there, Robert and Dennis Skotak, from his work on Planet of Terror and Terminator . Brian Johnson and John Richardson were still known to Brandywine from Alien and were therefore appointed to the staff for various other effects recordings. At an early stage in the creation of aliens , Cameron also wanted to win HR Giger , the designer of the "primal alien", for his film, but Giger was too busy working on Poltergeist II - The Other Side . For the mask effects, Cameron finally asked Stan Winston , whom he already knew from filming the Terminator, for his collaboration , Winston immediately accepted enthusiastically. Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff, who have worked on every alien film to date, also joined this team. In the absence of Giger, Cameron personally took over the design of the alien queen.
Casting
Cameron's script, with Ripley's deepened character drawing , convinced Sigourney Weaver to take on the lead role of Aliens . The debutants Jenette Goldstein (Vasquez) and Carrie Henn (Newt) convinced during the audition, whereby Jenette Goldstein misunderstood the title of the film and thought it was about illegal immigration. In keeping with this role model, she wore a sleeveless blouse to the audition, and it was her steel upper arms that made the difference. James Remar was originally supposed to play the role of Hicks , but after differences with Cameron he was replaced by Michael Biehn , who had already played Kyle Reese in Terminator for Cameron . In some shots of the landing on LV-426, Remar can still be seen in the finished film. Even Lance Henriksen (Bishop) and Bill Paxton (Hudson) made the leap from Terminator to Aliens . The stand-up comedian Paul Reiser was chosen to cast the inscrutable Carter Burke, Al Matthews (Apone) and the Canadian William Hope (Gorman) completed the extended circle of speaking roles. The rest of the marines are rarely heard in the film.
Sigourney Weaver got 1 million for her role dollars Gage , 30 times more than they had received for the first part. Never before had an actress received such a large sum. Only Elizabeth Taylor was rewarded higher for her performance in Cleopatra, thanks to many contractual clauses .
Filming
The film was shot from October 1985 to February 1986 at Pinewood Studios near London . The shooting started with the opening sequence of the film, in which Ripley is found by the rescue team. Cameron's detailed filming schedule quickly fell behind, as it took Sigourney Weaver three weeks longer than planned on the set of Half Moon Street . The staging of the Marines' advance into the atmosphere converter was preferred, but Peter Lamont and his crew were still busy removing asbestos from the location, a disused generator station called the Acton Power Station . Cameron continued to run out of time when he had to re-shoot various scenes in which James Remar was seen with Michael Biehn. Cameron, known as uncompromising and very dominant during the shoot, quickly became unpopular with the British film crew when problems with his working pace began and many did not trust the 31-year-old director with such a large project. It has also been alleged that Gale Anne Hurd only got the position of producer because she was the director's wife. A strike after the dismissal of a team member could only be ended quickly through the mediation of Gale Anne Hurd. When Sigourney Weaver joined the team, the mood rose and filming went well. Further delays arose when the L. A. Effects Group fell behind with various model recordings; Arkadon Motion Control was hired to provide support . When the planned release date for the film was in jeopardy towards the end of the year, both shooting teams worked almost around the clock. In February 1986 filming was completed and the people around Peter Lamont began to dismantle the assembled sets.
Aliens is the only part of the series that was filmed in 1.85: 1 format. Cameron deliberately chose not to use the anamorphic 2.35: 1 format because he had had bad experiences with it as an effects specialist for The Rattlesnake . In the audio commentary of the film, however, he admitted that he would shoot the film in 2.35: 1 today. In the 1.85: 1 format, the quality of the film suffered, it is clearly grainy and there is a lack of depth of field. This effect was reinforced by the fact that Cameron did not use the entire negative.
After filming was finished, Cameron and film editor Ray Lovejoy took a week to work out a rough cut of the film, otherwise Fox would have given this work to its own editor. The goal was a running time of a good two hours, because the longer the film would have been, the less often it could have been shown per day. The previous history on LV-426 fell victim to the scissors as well as the background to Ripley's daughter. The people in charge at Fox removed a few more sequences, most of which were later included in the Director's Cut.
Soundtrack
For the film music , Cameron engaged James Horner , whom he knew from his time with Roger Corman . Cameron didn't want a repetition of the original Jerry Goldsmith score , but rather music that musically supported the action sequences. Horner wrote the music in England and had two weeks to compose the score. The shortness of time put Horner under such pressure that he and Cameron argued. Horner later said in an interview that Cameron challenged him "more than I was physically able to do in the time I had." It would be 11 years before the two found each other again for the film Titanic .
The score was recorded in April 1986 at EMI Abbey Road Studios in London. James Horner was the producer, Tom Null and Richard Kraft were executive producers, and Greig McRitchie was orchestrated. The London Symphony Orchestra played under the direction of James Horner.
The Oscar-nominated soundtrack by James Horner appeared in 1989 as a CD at Colosseum Records under license from Varèse Sarabande Records, Inc . 2001 the same label released the Deluxe Edition of the soundtrack with a total length of 75 minutes and 46 seconds. It contains all the pieces composed for the film, most of which were not used in the finished film. Horner composed the music when only a few fragments of the film were finished because Cameron had delayed shooting. Because of this, some of these pieces later lacked the appropriate reference to the film.
At the end of the film (“Resolution and Hyperspace”) Horner extensively quotes the Adagio for solo cello and strings from the first ballet suite Gayaneh (1942) by the Soviet-Armenian composer Aram Chatschaturjan . The piece has already been used for another milestone in science fiction film: 2001: A Space Odyssey from 1968.
synchronization
The German synchronous processing was created by Berliner Synchron GmbH Wenzel Lüdecke . Joachim Kunzendorf was responsible for the direction and script .
| role | actor | Voice actor | Director's Cut |
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| Ellen Ripley | Sigourney Weaver | Hallgard Bruckhaus | Ulrike Möckel |
| Rebecca "Newt" Jorden | Carrie Henn | Antje Primel | |
| Corporal Hicks | Michael Biehn | Christian Brückner | |
| Bishop | Lance Henriksen | Harry Wüstenhagen | |
| Carter Burke | Paul Reiser | Volker Brandt | |
| Private Hudson | Bill Paxton | Ulrich Gressieker | Thomas Petruo |
| Private Vasquez | Jenette Goldstein | Heike Schroetter | |
| Lieutenant Gorman | William Hope | Hans-Jürgen Dittberner | |
| Sergeant Apone | Al Matthews | Kurt Goldstein | |
| Private Drake | Mark Rolston | Michael Christian | |
| Corporal Ferro | Colette Hiller | Rebecca Völz | |
| Private Spunkmeyer | Daniel Kash | Wolfgang Condrus |
As is very often the case with foreign language films, many of the idioms and slang expressions in the original turned out to be unsuitable for literal translation. Various word games fell victim to the corresponding substitute formulations, e.g. B .:
- During the briefing the Marines bring Vasquez expressed she was looking forward to the confrontation with the aliens, to which Hudson commented with an untranslatable pun: "Somebody Said alien, she thought They Said illegal alien, and signed up!", Eg: Someone said "extraterrestrials", she thought she said "illegal immigrants", (felt addressed) and answered. This sentence was inspired by Goldstein's casting error. The German version does not go into this, it says: "If Vasquez hears something from extraterrestrials, then it cannot be stopped, then it is fully there."
Other translation errors are:
- In the original, Ripley is found by a junk ship. The front man of the salvage group comments on the sleeping Ripley with: “Well, there goes our salvage, guys!”, So something like : That's about it with our (valuable) salvage, guys! . In the German translation, on the other hand, he says: “Guys, we've just saved them.” And the ship is reinterpreted as a rescue ship.
- Burke explains to Ripley: "You had drifted right through the core systems." With core systems are meant the most essential planetary systems inhabited by humans. The German translation misinterprets this as "our control systems".
- When asked, Ripley said: “I already said that it was not indigenous. It was a derelict spacecraft. It was an alien ship, it was not from there. ”The correct translation would be something like: I already said that it was not of indigenous origin. It was a wreck, it was a strange ship, it wasn't from there. The meaning-distorting synchronization is: “I already said that this being was not born here on our system. The ship was unmanned, it did not belong to any class known to us. "
- When Ripley says that she can help and operate the loading robot, Sergeant Apone replies: "Be my guest," just to the point . In the German dubbed version this was literally translated as: "Be my guest".
- Dietrich comments on the alien nest with “Looks like some kind of secreted resin!”. The latter is called separate resin , but in the German translation it became “dead heart”.
- Incinerator is the type designation for the Marines' flamethrowers . The German translation as the normal word “(garbage) incineration plant” doesn't make sense in the film.
- When Burke and Gorman visit Ripley's apartment, the English name of the planet LV-426 (LV-four-twenty-six) is literally translated to become LV-4206 (LV-four-twenty-six)
background
The spaceship that Ripley takes to return to LV-426 is named Sulaco . Roz Kaveney sees it as a tricky reverence Cameron to Ridley Scott's Alien , because Sulaco is the port city in Joseph Conrad's novel Nostromo . The port in Sulaco is operated by the OSN Company . The Marines spaceship, and thus the soldiers, are under the control of the "Company", in aliens of the Weyland Yutani .
The name of the operating company of the colony, Weyland Yutani , was created by Ron Cobb for Alien (here it is only shown briefly and with a different spelling on a computer monitor). Cobb thought of a global corporation and therefore took the name of the British car company Leyland Motors , changed the first letter and put the surname of his Japanese neighbor after it, and Weyland Yutani was ready . In the two crossover films of the Alien vs. Predator series, the Weyland (Alien vs. Predator) and Yutani ( Aliens vs. Predator 2 ) corporations are introduced, which merge to form the Weyland-Yutani corporation until the Alien plot. In Alien vs. Predator plays Lance Henriksen , who embodies the android Bishop in Aliens and Alien 3 , the company founder Charles Bishop Weyland. This suggests that the Android was designed and named after the company's founder long after his death.
During the sequence in which the crew is having breakfast, Ripley learns that the character L. Bishop is an android. In response to Ripley's antipathy against him that cites the first three laws of robotics by Isaac Asimov . He could not injure anyone or cause harm due to failure to provide assistance. Bishop is also shocked when he learns about the aggressive behavior of the android Ash from the previous part, and adds as a possible reason that Ash was an older android of the Hyperdyne Systems model 120 , which is an allusion to Cameron's Terminator is where the android was the Model 101 from Cyberdyne Systems .
The term xenomorph , as the marines call the aliens in this part, is not the name of the species , but means "strange shape" (Greek xénos : strange; morphé : shape).
analysis
The fine character drawing in Cameron's script, which makes the actions of the characters appear very credible, was praised by critics and audience alike. Ripley is shown as a traumatized mother who finds some kind of surrogate daughter in Newt. Both give each other support and help each other to process what they have experienced. In the moment of danger, Ripley puts Newt's life above her own and defends her by all means against the alien queen, who in turn only wants to protect her own species and brood.
To build up tension , Cameron made use of numerous options in the cinema of the time. Discreetly placed shock effects, the driving music of Horner and shaky hand-held camera settings in dark, narrow corridors are paired with the monotonous heartbeat-like noises of the marines' movement sensors and allow the audience to participate directly in the fate of the group. The viewer's gaze is also subjectified through the extensive use of point-of-view settings . In his color scheme, as in Terminator , Cameron relies on the color blue as a “symbol of cold destruction”. As there, in Aliens, according to Susanne Marschall, “the steel gray of the machines and weapons, refined in the blue light, becomes the color theme”.
Like aliens , several of Cameron's other films are characterized by dominant female roles. Examples of this would be the character of Sarah Connor in Terminator and Terminator 2 or Lindsey Brigman in The Abyss . In Aliens , in addition to the main character Ellen Ripley, you can also name the fearless buddy Vasquez and the confident pilot Ferro . The men, on the other hand, are not up to their task and collapse under pressure ( Gorman and Hudson ). Hicks has leadership qualities, but is injured at the end of the film and retires as a person acting as well as the very early dying Apone and Drake . Burke turns out to be a traitor and has great complicity in the failure of the mission.
Kristin Thompson and David Bordwell comment on Aliens that Cameron added "a military component with an emphasis on firepower and the camaraderie of a small combat group" to the previous film, knowing that "a successful film can be built around never-ending physical action." Joseph Sartelle notes that aliens reflect the domestic political situation in the United States in the mid-1980s. The end of the Cold War and domestic political problems such as the Iran-Contra affair meant that the action films of this time lacked an optimistic attitude. At the beginning of the film Cameron celebrated a “military daredevil”, but the rescue does not come from a military hero type, but from a woman, a girl and an android; “A group of symbolic 'minorities'”, as Sartelle stated. Although the film celebrates the military, it also portrays it as ineffective. The American Vietnam experience is "turned inward" and played through again there "with rather rough, violent and survival heroes".
Cameron shot his version of the Vietnam War with Aliens , probably also because only fragments were left of his script for Rambo 2 - The Mission . Like the US soldiers in Vietnam , in the end the Marines in Aliens also have to surrender to a technically inferior, but more determined and numerically and organizationally superior enemy, although the mood at the beginning of the mission virtually ruled out failure. "The parallels to the fighting situation in Vietnam are clear," said director Cameron, "full pipe and nothing on your mind!"
Director's Cut
As one of the first films ever, Aliens was re- released as Director's Cut on Laserdisc and VHS in 1991 . The Director's Cut contains 16 minutes of additional scenes. So the viewer learns that Ripley had a daughter, who has since passed away. In addition, the life of the settlers on the alien planet is shown in a sequence of almost six minutes , and it is shown how the colonists find the wreck of the alien ship and thus bring the aliens into the station. An extended scene from the landing sequence shows Private Hudson glorifying Marines weapons and equipment; There is also a sequence in which the marines successfully repel an attack by the aliens using sentry guns (automatic cannons). In a short scene, the audience first hears Ripley's first name, Ellen.
Sequels
Ridley Scott's film Alien had three sequels over a period of almost twenty years . After James Cameron's Aliens Return was followed by Alien 3 in 1992, directed by David Fincher . The last part of the Alien series , Alien - The Rebirth , was created in 1997 under the direction of Jean-Pierre Jeunet .
A 2004 directed by Paul WS Anderson Resulting crossover , Alien vs. Predator , connects the films of the Alien series with the 1987 and 1990 films Predator and Predator 2 . The plot of the film, set in 2004, offers some allusions to the Alien films, so Alien vs. Predator is on the one hand the continuation of the Predator films and on the other hand represents a kind of prehistory to the Alien series . Towards the end of 2007, brothers Colin and Greg Strause produced Aliens vs. Predator 2 (also: Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem ), a continuation of the first film with both film creatures, but with an independent plot and different actors.
reception
success
The film premiered in the United States on July 18, 1986 premiere . In West Germany it was released on November 13, 1986. Worldwide he grossed about 131 million US dollars. Aliens is more successful than its predecessor, which brought it to about 104 million US dollars. However, the production costs were also significantly higher.
Reviews
The film received mostly positive reviews. Rotten Tomatoes scored 72 positive and 2 negative reviews. Metacritic counted 20 positive, 2 mixed and no negative publications. On the Internet Movie Database page, the weighted average score of 8.3 out of 10 was determined from 626,557 users.
"The commercials promise that aliens will scare the viewer like few films before, and the commercials should be right."
"One of the few films whose plot is absolutely predictable, but it's so well made and so insanely exciting that it doesn't matter."
“Science fiction film based on extreme tension and brilliant action scenes; the 'monstrous' events are bearable through the intelligent connection with comprehensible sensations. "
“[Cameron] betrays [...] the clichés and narrative patterns typical of the genre . Behind the supposedly trivial action entertainment of his film hides a subtle, abysmal game with the audience's expectations. The usual balance of power turns into its opposite, the state of affairs is called into question, and this creates that productive disquiet that always characterizes a good horror film . "
Awards
At the 1987 Academy Awards , Aliens was nominated in seven categories and won two Academy Awards in the categories of Best Sound Editing and Best Visual Effects . Worth mentioning is the genre-unusual nomination of Sigourney Weaver for the best female lead . In the same year she was nominated for a Golden Globe in this category. The other Oscar nominations were made in the categories of Best Editing , Best Production Design , Best Film Music and Best Sound Mixing .
Aliens also won the BAFTA Award in 1987 in the Best Visual Effects category and was nominated in the Best Mask , Best Production Design and Best Sound categories. Other awards from Cameron's film include the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation and eight Saturn Awards in 1987.
literature
- Alan Dean Foster : Aliens - The Return . Heyne, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-453-02456-7 .
- John L. Flynn: Dissecting Aliens . Boxtree, 1995, ISBN 0-7522-0863-2 .
- Eckhard Pabst: Myths - Mothers - Machines. The universe of James Cameron . Ludwig, Kiel 2005, ISBN 3-933598-71-0 .
- Lutz Döring: Awakening to Death - A critical examination of the functionality, ideology and metaphysics of the horror and science fiction films Alien 1–4 . Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2006, ISBN 3-8260-3302-7 .
- Lee Brimmicombe-Wood : Aliens Colonial Marines Technical Manual . Perennial Currents, 1996, ISBN 978-0-06-105343-6 .
- Susanne Marschall: Aliens - The Return . In: Color in the cinema . Schüren, Marburg 2005, ISBN 3-89472-394-7 .
- Roz Kaveney: From Alien to The Matrix . Tauris, 2005, ISBN 978-1-85043-805-2 .
- Ludwig Gangkofer, Mona Mahmoud, Kathrin Zauner: "Alien A Cult Film Series" . Specialized publisher for film literature, Landshut 2007, ISBN 978-3-9809390-4-1 .
Web links
- Aliens - The Return in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Aliens - The Return at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Aliens - The Return on Metacritic (English)
- Aliens - The Return in the online movie database
- Aliens - The return in the German dubbing files
- Aliens - The return at senseofview.de
- Comparison of the cuts in the theatrical version - Director's Cut from Aliens - The Return at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Certificate of Release for Aliens - The Return . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 1986 (PDF; test number: 57 012-a K).
- ↑ a b c d e Dissecting Aliens , John L. Flynn
- ↑ Superior Firepower: The Making of 'Aliens'
- ↑ Jenette Goldstein Starting Over After 40: The Success Story of Jenette Bras at aol.com, accessed on July 18, 2010.
- ↑ The Years of Living Splendidly by Richard Corliss, July 28, 1986.
- ↑ Interview with Horner in Soundtrack! , Volume 16, Issue 64 from December 1997, Daniel Schweiger
- ↑ Aliens - The Return. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing index , accessed on January 2, 2018 .
- ↑ Kaveney, p. 150.
- ↑ Marshal, p. 62.
- ^ Kristin Thompson, David Bordwell: Film History - An Introduction. McGraw-Hill Companies Inc., New York 2003, ISBN 0-07-038429-0 . P. 690.
- ↑ Joseph Sartelle: Hollywood Blockbuster: Dreams and Disasters. in: Geoffey Nowell-Smith (Ed.): History of the international film. Publishing house JB Metzler. Stuttgart and Weimar 2006, ISBN 3-476-02164-5 . P. 472.
- ^ "The Age of Man - James Cameron and his (film) world" , report by Lure Gräfe and Olaf Möller from November 26, 1991, film service .
- ↑ Report on Aliens by Barry Graves.
- ^ Box Office entry from Alien on boxofficemojo.com
- ^ Aliens on rottentomatoes.com , accessed April 12, 2020
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- ^ Ronald M. Hahn, Volker Jansen: Lexicon of Science Fiction Films: [2000 films from 1902 to today]. 7th edition, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-453-11860-X . Volume 1, p. 47.
