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...Alien: The Director?...
...Screen In his profile of Uma Thurman and her violent, extremely physical role in Quentin Tarantino's action film Kill Bill Volume 1 [Oct. 13], critic Josh Tyrangiel asserted that "the only analogous performance in recent movie history is Sigourney Weaver's turn as the avenging warrior" in the Alien series. This is a very limited view of cinema history. Action movies made in Hong Kong and Japan have routinely featured dynamic heroines who cause much more mayhem than your typical, contrived male Hollywood action hero-and these are the kinds of movies Tarantino is paying homage to in Kill...
...mortals with whom she must associate and a sadistic pleasure in watching them torment themselves. She is also lucky enough to get to wear a different gorgeous costume, designed by Jane van Cleef ’06, in each of her appearances. The chorus of minions are sufficiently alien and demonic, although it was impossible to hear any of their dialogue, which was spoken in overlapping snippets or in not-quite-unison. The play also includes a few addresses by a bizarrely dressed figure who quotes Tolstoy and Shakespeare to the audience; as far as I could tell, these interruptions...
...those who have seen the film before, the new scenes fill out the commentary about gender roles in the original version of Alien, which is generally credited with creating the first female action hero in the form of Weaver’s Ripley. After Ripley attempts to quarantine the explorers in the Alien’s opening scene, she and a professional rival nearly have a physical altercation. The scene pits Ridley—the first major female action hero—in a catfight that reveals the lack of respect for her authority held by the rest...
...reissue of Alien truly is a remarkable chance for a new generation of moviegoers to see a beautiful classic film...