posted
Kinda makes me wonder if he calls on Satan in his spare time... but you're right, he is VERY talented. And he should be thrilled to hear that from an expert on the subject of art, taking into account my improportionate, faceless stick figures and trees that a clever three-year-old could scribble out... Posts: 165 | Registered: Apr 2004
| IP: Logged |
does he also do some architecture as well? We had to direct a play last year for a theatre class and chose backgrounds that looked a lot like those...lots of skulls, etc. Very cool!
posted
An old flatmate once tried to convince me that Alien/s was all about the rape, domination of women and the masculination of men.
After listening to his many reasons why this was so, I pointed out that aside from the massively empowered Ripley, Giger had based the design of the alien on the female form, and that the alien in the movies (despite being a different alien each time) was female. The over-reaching theme throughout all four films was empowerment of women and that the fact that there were men in the film was incidental; they all die. The real fight is between the two female beings - one human, one alien.
Giger was proud of his alien creation, and often spoke fondly of "her". Except for the one in Alien 3, which he said looked like a "huge turd"
posted
Didn't he base the Alien artwork on H.P. Lovecraft? Someone told me that the artist behind the Hive did that, so... I just assume...
Posts: 2258 | Registered: Aug 2003
| IP: Logged |
posted
"Except, of course, for the undeniable fact that the heads of the Aliens (certainly in the first film) were giant 4-1/2 foot long penises.
Filled with live maggots."
If they are indeed filled with maggots, it just coincides with what I was saying. Horrendously large, phallic, psuedo penis-shaped alien heads filled with larvae that eats rot from the inside out.
Male genitalia being cleaned from the inside doesn't really serve the female rape scenario very well.
Posts: 6 | Registered: May 2004
| IP: Logged |
posted
You know, what I got out of those movies was a much darker view of the future of humanity and space. I mean, around then you had Star Wars and Close Encounters and (later ET). And, as the Onion's AV Club put it, "Alien gave us a new view of space: it could suck." I mean, I got the same kind've "woman empowerment" out of the second one, but I didn't pay nearly as much thematic attention to it.
Posts: 2258 | Registered: Aug 2003
| IP: Logged |
Printer-friendly view of this topic
![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
![[ROFL]](graemlins/rofl.gif)
![[Mad]](mad.gif)
![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
![[Evil Laugh]](graemlins/evillaugh.gif)
