Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...senior economic adviser to the Credit Suisse First Boston investment bank, called the "sick man of Europe." In the U.S., unemployment will rise slightly, from 7% to 7.3%, by year's end and remain unchanged for 1987. Across the Pacific rim, jobless rates will remain relatively low next year, except in Australia (7.8%) and the Philippines...
Arriving at their destination, they find the colonists' space station deserted, except for Newt (Carrie Henn), a traumatized child who is the only survivor. The first film had merely mobilized Ripley's basic fight-or-flight instincts. The presence of Newt allows her to discover stronger, higher impulses, gives her positive rather than negative emotions to act upon. The audience too has a much stronger rooting interest in Ripley, and that gives the picture resonances unusual in a popcorn epic...
...this point Cameron did his usual unusual thing. He went into hibernation with a stack of legal pads, denying himself all sensory stimulation except music he deemed appropriate to the project (Gustav Holst's The Planets). He believes in junk-food diets as an aid to inspiration, "provided you don't take it past four months." Four days, fortunately, was all the time it took him to work up a treatment for Aliens that typed out at about 45 single-space pages...
...largest function of all these people is to provide a bustling background for Ripley's quieter, more intense development. In the first film she was a smart, self-contained careerist, essentially a reactive character, desperately fighting against something but not for anybody or anything except her own life. The sequel gives her something, someone wonderful to fight...
...just another high-tech monster movie, with scary things that kill everybody except the hero...