If Ridley Scott had his way in 1979's Alien, Sigourney Weaver's Ellen Ripley would have never become a horror icon she is today.
The Big Picture When looking at the female icons of horror, we usually think of the final girl, the young woman who survived the masked killer murdering all of her friends now finding the strength at the end to kill her aggressor. There's Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode in Halloween, of course, and Heather Langenkamp as Nancy Thompson in A Nightmare of Elm Street. A more recent example is Neve Campbell's Sidney Prescott in the Scream films.
Alien changed things for movies. There had been movies about extraterrestrial creatures before, but never where the creatures looked so real and scary. It might have been a man in a suit, but thanks to the H.R. Giger design, the creature in Alien looked like a foreign nightmare. The movie has a great, claustrophobic setting, as almost all of it takes place on board the Nostromo spaceship, and the monster is scary as hell, but none of that matters without characters to care about.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly in 2017, Scott talked about his original ending idea that was never filmed. He felt that the idea of the Nostromo blowing up and Ripley getting on the shuttle was a flat ending. Instead, when Ripley discovered the alien onboard and hit the buttons to open the airlock, what played out next would have altered movie history. With the alien hanging onto the door, Scott said, "She harpoons it, it makes no difference.
If Ripley had died at the end of Alien, then the whole film, if you could stomach watching it again, becomes all about the monster and not the hero. She's just another victim who took longer to kill than the rest. There's no happy ending, just depressing disappointment. Imagine if at the end of the first Halloween, after Laurie Strode went through so much, Michael Myers just stabbed her to death anyway.
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