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    – David Thomson SOURCE: Guardian Unlimited 1 month ago
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The talented Ms Ripley
  1. But that's really a case of Ridley Scott playing to a very old-fashioned gallery.
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  2. I'd agree that she's a great character; a great archetype ... But this is actually an archetype that goes right back to [gothic novelist] Ann Radcliffe in the late 18th century. Ripley is cut from the same cloth as all those other gothic heroines. She's like your classic three-chord pop song. It's just ...
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  3. The thing about Ripley is that she is not especially sympathetic to the human beings in her world ... In the second film you do get the feeling that she and the beast have a kind of understanding. There is a scene at the end where Ripley threatens to kill off its offspring and the beast backs off. That ...
    – David Thomson SOURCE: Guardian Unlimited 1 month ago
  4. What you saw on camera was the real response
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  5. It is a very slow-building film that gives the sense of some great unnamed terror to come. That's a quality that has much more to do with horror than it does with science fiction.
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  6. I'm no Ripley ... I had doubts that I could play her as strongly as she needed to be played. But I must say that it was fun exploring that side of myself. Women don't get to do that very often.
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  7. It's basically a haunted house film ... The only difference is that the old dark house just happens to be a spaceship.
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  8. She advanced the movie heroine pretty far and pretty fast ... I think the entertainment industry would be very different without her. Without Ripley there would be no Leela in Futurama and no Buffy either. She's probably also responsible for toughening up the Bond girls. If you look at the first Bond mo...
    SOURCE: Guardian Unlimited 1 month ago
  9. With those first three movies you have the sense that they are playing, probably unintentionally, with the three classic female archetypes from folklore. Ripley goes from being maiden [in Alien], to mother [Aliens], to crone [Alien 3]. That's where they went wrong with Alien: Resurrection. If there is n...
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