Class Assignment

Rating: 8/10 (9 December 2014)

In a college level FILM 249 course Fall 2014, we studied the film Aliens. What I suggest a viewer watch for during the film is the power of women. The propose or reasoning behind the director's inclusion of the power of women in this film may be to showcase through the main character Ellen Ripley and Rebecca "Newt" Jordan. Through Ripley the director is showing the strength that women have mentally and physically by how she is able to operate the machinery and how she is able to help the soldiers despite her fear of becoming a host for the aliens. It can also be shown through Newt too by how out of all of the people she is the only one to survive, how she leads them through the complex and how she keeps fighting through the end. Although Cpl. Hicks does survive he is injured and Ripley and Newt are fine with not a scratch.