00:00Greed, lack of perspective, empathy, interpersonal skills, overflowing self-sufficiency, a lack of humility.
00:07All of Scott's characters who appear in this universe suffer from at least one of his flaws.
00:11This is why they sometimes die so stupidly, because they have this habit of despising everything they cannot control.
00:18Scott makes us understand that they don't deserve to meet their maker.
00:22And if their creator exists, they are just as stupid.
00:25Humans believe they were created for a specific purpose.
00:27Their ego even makes them believe that they can outwit death.
00:30But the engineers and the xenomorphs are there to make them understand what primitive beings they are.
00:35Something David understood well.
00:37You seek your creator. I contemplate mine.
00:42I will serve you and yet you are human.
00:47You die and I don't.
00:50He is scorned by his creators.
00:53And me, you similarly created, why?
00:55Well, because we could.
01:01Imagine your disappointment if your creator told you the same thing.
01:07And his goal is to destroy them.
01:09He simply finds them unworthy of his perfection.
01:11All these philosophical questions, this much sought-after purpose of existence,
01:15will ultimately find no answer.
01:17Nothingness is the answer.
01:19And in Covenant, he does it again.
01:33Impatience, lack of solidarity, disrespect for the environment around them,
01:37all this will get the better of humans.
01:39In the first film, Ash is fascinated by the purity of the alien,
01:42beyond any notion of good and evil,
01:44following his instinct without established rules.
01:46He becomes aware of the flaws of humans,
01:48and therefore his own.
01:50Unlike David, who considers himself too perfect to coexist alongside such fragile organic beings.
01:55Forgetting the most important thing,
01:57there can also be good in these living beings.
01:59He is looking for a perfection that does not exist.
02:02Gives himself a paltry goal to try to understand his role,
02:05to the point of claiming to be the creator.
02:06It suffers from the same defects as human beings.
02:09It is imperfect, like all living things.
02:11This is what Ridley Scott tried to tell,
02:13in various works of his filmography,
02:15and maybe the Alien saga wasn't the most relevant universe to do it in.
02:19But it's still interesting to have tried it,
02:22and to have been able to offer something different,
02:24something imperfect, like all of us.
02:27Perfect.
02:31Am I really?
02:33Perfect.
02:35Your son.
02:36You are my creature.
02:42A man who loved imperfection was Giger.
02:45His catharsis was nothing short of heavenly.
02:47On the contrary, it evoked the beauty of chaos.
02:49When he designs the xenomorph,
02:51it gives him this very disturbing phallic aspect,
02:53which immediately places sex at the heart of the saga's themes.
02:56In Alien, human victims will be penetrated without their knowledge,
02:59destroyed by a being with tendentious appearances
03:02which will destroy them from within.
03:03In the first film, there are many sexual allusions,
03:06and they are synonymous with aggression.
03:08The facehugger, which is reminiscent of the female sexual organ,
03:11forcefully shoves his trunk into the mouth of one of the passengers of the Nostromo,
03:14implanting an embryo into his body.
03:16A scene of rare violence will follow,
03:18and the film innovates in the way it makes a male character undergo
03:21such a violent assault on his privacy.
03:24When H attempts to assassinate Ripley,
03:26He does this by shoving a rolled-up magazine into her mouth.
03:29In the last act, the Alien intrudes into Ripley's cabin,
03:32very scantily clad.
03:33He enters into his intimacy,
03:34and tries to eliminate it with his erectile tongue.
03:37In the third film,
03:38prisoners isolated from the world
03:39try to resist the temptation to attack the only woman in the group.
03:42And the Alien, him,
03:43much more organic than in the first opus,
03:46continues to assault Ripley,
03:47to remind him of his traumas.
03:48It is through a sexual relationship
03:50that Shaw will harbor a horrific creature within her
03:52that she will try to eliminate like a virus.
03:54And in Covenant,
03:55Walter and David,
03:57two physically identical humanoids,
03:59have an ambiguous relationship.
04:00Especially through a scene where the two play the flute,
04:03and where the sexual allusion only underlines David's narcissism,
04:06who finds himself attractive in some way.
04:08He ends up destroying this relationship,
04:10by eliminating Walter.
04:12Because sex,
04:13like everything else in the Alien saga,
04:15is synonymous with destruction and death.
04:16When David decides to destroy the engineers with their own weapons,
04:20he sends a very clear message.
04:22No one is safe.
04:23The creator and the creature.
04:25And that's what this saga is all about,
04:27which through the prism of science fiction,
04:29comes to question the spectator
04:30with exciting questions
04:32on the origin of creation,
04:33his goal,
04:34what drives us,
04:36and what scares us.
04:37But beyond that,
04:38the saga has been able to offer us works
04:39all equally interesting,
04:41with their moments of bravery,
04:43of fear,
04:44and their controversies,
04:45without ever leaving anyone indifferent.
04:47I am very happy
04:48to have been able to put my words to this saga.
04:50I invite you to do the same in the comments,
04:52and thank you for listening.
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