TASK DEFINITION: Given scene/plot descriptions from movies or TV shows, and given a specific question about the scene, summarize the question into a title
PROBLEM: In the final sequences of Alien (1979), Ripley activates the self destruct sequence of the Nostromo. After seeing the alien in front of the shuttle entrance, Ripley runs back to the control room and frantically tries to deactivate the self destruct. The whole sequence can be seen here in pictures and in the YouTube clip below. Why would Ripley make this decision; what's the need for disabling the self-destruct? Basically she was dead anyway. Nowhere to go and the alien was on to her. So it would just seem to be the best option to destruct the ship and the alien.

SOLUTION: Why did Ripley try to deactivate the self-destruct sequence at the end of Alien?

PROBLEM: A recent trend that I've noticed (or I'm just crazy and need to delete this question) is to release a major film outside of the U.S. first, even if it's a Hollywood film. Usually a week or so later the film gets released in the U.S. Why are movies being released this way?

SOLUTION: What's with the trend of releasing movies outside the US first?

PROBLEM: After Stephen got shot by Diamond Dog's men right in front of his Brother Bloom he reveals to him that it was only fake blood and he pulled of the ultimate con. He says farewell to Bloom, that he shouldn't ever return to St. Petersburg and cannot see him for some time. But already shortly after, when he is driving in the car with Penelope, Bloom realizes that the blood was indeed real blood and that his brother is in fact dead. Yet when he sits in the grass crying over his brother, he repeats what Stephen once said: The perfect con is one where everyone involved gets just the thing they wanted. seeming appeased and walking into a future with Penelope. The way he says that and seeing that Penelope is most probably the thing Bloom wanted and vice-versa seems to imply that Stephen also got what he wanted (and thus achieved the perfect con), yet he died. So what did Bloom want to say with that quote? Does this mean that Stephen really wanted to die? But why?

SOLUTION:
Did Stephen really get what he wanted?