I wanted to have the final confrontation with the Alien be a hand-to-hand fight... To be a very intense, personal thing, not done with guns, which are a remote way of killing. Also, guns carry a lot of other connotations as well. But to really go one on one with the creature was my goal. It made sense that Ripley could win if she could equalise the odds. So there had to be some way of amplifying her strength, in a way that was not a comic-bookish sort of concept, like taking a pill. At a certain point, I was toying with the idea of having the Marines have battle suits. But then I thought, oh, no, youre going to see that coming a mile away. Anyway, how would Ripley know how to operate a battle suit? They wouldnt be teaching her. It was really critical to the story that she emerge under pressure as the person who really takes control. They discredit her at the beginning; the last thing theyd do is hand her a gun and teach her how to use a battle suit. - James Cameron
Posted on: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 16:56:20 +0000
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