{"id":21,"date":"2010-05-07T14:06:38","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T14:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/?p=21"},"modified":"2010-05-07T14:12:01","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T14:12:01","slug":"alien-resurrection-betrayal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/2010\/05\/07\/alien-resurrection-betrayal\/","title":{"rendered":"Alien Resurrection: a betrayal of the canon ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The image of Lieutenant Ripley disappearing into the flames, clutching her dreadful offspring to her as she plummets, at the end of <em>Alien 3<\/em> was pretty decisive. \u201dNo sequel!\u201d the film seemed to be declaring: \u201dno more!\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_20\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/files\/2010\/05\/ripley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-20\" title=\"ripley\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/files\/2010\/05\/ripley-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Ripley\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lieutenant Ripley in &#39;Alien 3&#39;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Yet, five years later in 1997, a new breed of alien emerged in <em>Alien Resurrection<\/em>, from the director Jean-Pierre Jeunet and the team behind <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jean-Pierre_Jeunet\">Delicatessen<\/a><\/em> and <em>City of Lost Children<\/em>.\u00a0This seemed promising, for those of us who like Jeneut&#8217;s films, as well as for fans of the first three films who possibly saw Ripley&#8217;s fiery demise for the signal that it was: no more films to follow.<\/p>\n<div class=\"kent-video-wrapper\"><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='840' height='503' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S1myB44Tjiw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen='true'><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>I loved <em>Delicatessen<\/em>: the wonderfully craggy features of Dominique Pinon and their expressive repertoire are a joy to watch, as they are in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0211915\/\">Amelie<\/a><\/em>, another of Jenuet\u2019s films from 2001. And, in parts, I like <em>Alien Resurrection<\/em>; it has the sepia-look and the feel of Jenuet\u2019s other work. But does his style work when translated into the hallowed tradition of the <em>Alien<\/em> franchise ? The premise that the incarnation of Ripley in <em>Resurrection<\/em> is the result of an extensive breeding programme, whose ultimate aim is the re-creation of the monster from Ripley\u2019s DNA, feels slightly stretched to begin with as a means of moving from the previous film into the latter.<\/p>\n<p>Sigourney Weaver is, as always, highly watchable: Winona Ryder is perhaps not so compelling; and the notorious scenes of the hybrid alien swimming in the flooded depths of the ship as it chases the crew, where it\u2019s very obvious that it\u2019s an actor in a rubber suit, only let the side down further still.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think: should Ripley have been resurrected at all, or left to lie in peace ?<\/p>\n<p>Posted by\u00a0<strong>Daniel Harding<\/strong>, Deputy Director of Music at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">University of Kent<\/a>. \u00a0Click\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\" target=\"_self\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a><strong> <\/strong>to view his Music Matters blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The image of Lieutenant Ripley disappearing into the flames, clutching her dreadful offspring to her as she plummets, at the end of Alien 3 was pretty decisive. \u201dNo sequel!\u201d the film seemed to be declaring: \u201dno more!\u201d Yet, five years later in 1997, a new breed of alien emerged in Alien Resurrection, from the director &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/2010\/05\/07\/alien-resurrection-betrayal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Alien Resurrection: a betrayal of the canon ?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":620,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1123,1138],"tags":[1133,1134,1135],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pandora\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}