This week, I began (in earnest) my Voyant tracking web journey for the semester. I began the place that seemed most logical: with my all-time favorite movie, Alien (1979).
I was captivated by Alien from the first time I saw it because it’s Just. So. Sick. Like, physically revolting. The creature from this film (and the whole perfunctory franchise it spawned) is so horrifying and disgusting that it obviously feels so foreign and eponymously alien. However, it also freaks out the viewer on a strange, body level.
I dived deeper into the world of Alien. It turns out, other people thought it was horrifying too. I collected some important links and collected them in a Voyant page. Notable words that stand out on this page are “original” (it was a revolutionary film), “blade” (probably part of Blade Runner, another bleak sci-fi film that came out a bit later, and “women” (Alien was evidently a watershed moment for images of women in sci-fi).
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