Word: alienment
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sequel, Fry has alien children...
...been asked about Alien for almost twenty years now. Looking back, do you feel like you can take credit for inventing a new type of heroine...
...woman's part it gets all schmaltzy and stupid. If you want to write a great part for a woman, just write it for a man, without any preconceptions like, now she needs her little sympathetic moment, now she needs to show that she's emotionally fragile. I think Alien turned out the way it did because of producers who just decided to let the female character loose, and that's where it came from, not for political reasons, but because it's much more interesting...
Human beings, by nature, are a skeptical bunch. Fads and le dernier cri (the trendy French for "the latest trends," ironically) aside, we are often hesitant to accept concepts which are new and alien, especially when it comes to technology. Consider the group of Aristotelian professors who made the following pronouncement to Galileo after he claimed to have discovered Jupiter's moons using a telescope: "[They] are invisible to the naked eye and therefore do not exist." Or the snappish response of Warner Brothers' founder H. M. Warner, who retorted in a 1927 interview, "Who the hell wants to hear...
...with a sign reading WILL WORK FOR DISTRIBUTION. And in a move even Pakistan wouldn't attempt, producers offered pedestrians a ride in a van, then refused to pull over until they finished showing their movie. Four filmmakers, each with a movie about extraterrestrials, sent their actors dressed in alien costumes to accost people on the street. I had never realized how many scripts involve aliens and repeated use of the phrase anal probe...