00:00In Prometheus, Shaw is a woman suffering from her infertility, but David, in his morbid curiosity,
00:05will allow Shaw to become pregnant with a being that can be compared to the Facehugger.
00:09But in an act of desperation, she performs a caesarean section using a medical crate in one of the most incredible scenes of the saga.
00:16In Aliens, after more than 50 years of hypersleep, Ripley wakes up to find her daughter dead and must once again face her worst nightmare.
00:24But she will have a good reason to do so, she will face capitalism, patriarchy, the ignorance of soldiers and an army of xenomorphs.
00:32All of this is driven by immeasurable courage, fueled by a maternal instinct that will enable her to overcome all her trials.
00:38In Aliens, we witness the battle of two mothers, the alien queen who defends her eggs and Ripley who sees in Newt, an orphan, the child she lost and who will do everything possible and put her life on the line to protect her.
00:50By allowing these three characters to survive, James Cameron gives victory to the principle of family values, the source of happiness, composed of a child and his two parents.
00:59But in his darkness and frustration, David Fincher completely destroys this pattern in the first minutes of his film, mercilessly eliminating Ripley's loved ones, taking away everything that made her a happy woman.
01:10She becomes the source of the Immaculate Conception by carrying life within her without understanding how.
01:15Religion and mythology will also play an important role in the saga. Ripley's very Christ-like sacrifice in Alien 3, a film that highlights a religious sect, then her resurrection in Alien 4, which places the character in the rank of a deity and where symbols are numerous.
01:29In Prometheus, Shaw relies on his faith, passed down from his father, to believe in the existence of his creators.
01:34Can you take off your father's cross then?
01:36And why would I want to do that?
01:40Well, because we come from them.
01:42And where do they come from?
01:44It's all there, we won't know anything about it.
01:46The myth of Prometheus is highlighted in a deleted scene from the film, where an engineer explains that they not only created humans, but offered them a basis for development, just as Prometheus does in Greek mythology by offering fire.
01:57When an engineer sacrifices himself to create another form of life, it echoes the myth of Manu and Yemo, two twin brothers, where one must sacrifice the other to create the universe.
02:05In Alien Covenant, David, sole master of his necropolis, quotes Ozymandias, a poem that depicts the death of man in favor of nature.
02:13What David seeks through his creative impulse is to return the universe to the hands of naturally pure beings.
02:19And even in the latest film, Romulus, where the space station, which is divided into two zones, Romulus and Remus, refers to the story of the founders of Rome, abandoned and taken in by a she-wolf, becoming de facto stronger.
02:31Scientists on the station are also working to make humans stronger, developing a cure from the black liquid that would increase their stamina, physical strength, and thus their ability to survive.
02:43Because humans have always had this visceral desire to survive. Such a fragile being, capable of disappearing in no time, yet endowed with unprecedented destructive force.
02:52Unable to shake off his attraction to violence. In Alien, in 1979, the Xenomorph is simply a continuation of this violence.
02:59It is shaped by humans, except that it has no consciousness. It only derives from its note this primal desire to kill.
03:06The man loses control and the cat, which Ripley recovers and saves, allows him to give the illusion that he is still in control, that he is at the top of the chain, but that is no longer the case.
03:16In Aliens, Carter proves to be far more brutal and violent than the aliens. In Alien 3, the prisoners have given up hope, losing control of their impulses and waiting only for death.
03:26Many have criticized Prometheus and Alien: Covenant for featuring stupid characters, but it seems clear that this is assumed by the director, because Ridley Scott does not hide his misanthropy in the three films of the saga that he directed.
03:37He exaggerates the features of these characters to bring out all the human stupidity in its entirety. Removing the helmets is really stupid.
03:44But this is the result of a stupid confidence that human beings have in believing themselves to be invincible.
03:48I refuse to believe that humanity is the by-product of some molecular assembly, or the result of a simple biological accident.
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