THE TALENTED ELLEN RIPLEY

"Alien"(1979)

The WRITERS

-Dan O'Bannon with his friend Ronald Shusett had an idea.
To write a horror story in space. They wrote the story for the movie ALIEN.

The DIRECTOR
-Born in the coastal town of South Shields, english director Ridley Scott influenced by HEAVY METAL MAGAZINE gave us “in space no one can hear you scream”

The STAGE
-The crew of a commercial deep space mining ship, investigating a suspected S.O.S., lands on a distant planet.

The PLOT DEVICE
-They discover a nest of strange eggs.

The TWIST
-Lt. Ellen Ripley is our female hero.

The MacGuffin (is a term popularized by film director Alfred Hitchcock, referring to a physical object or character, which drives the actions of the characters as they search for it or try to obtain it.)

-THE ALIEN


The Deus ex machina(a narrative ending in which an improbable event is used to resolve all problematic situations and bring the story to a conclusion.)

-RIPLEY
...This is Ripley,
W564502460H, executive officer,
last survivor of the commercial
starship Nostromo signing off.

The budget -11 million

DR. HENRY AND MR. JONES

"Raiders of the Lost Ark"(1981)

The WRITER
-George Lucas desire to create a modern version of the serials of the 1930s and 1940s

The DIRECTOR
-Cincinnati born Steven Spielberg influenced by the film CASABLANCA mixing fights, explosions and the supernatural. With a similar villain. The Nazis.

The STAGE
-The archaeologist and adventurer hero Indiana Jones travels the world to find MISSING TREASURES.

The PLOT DEVICE
-Jones claims that he has no belief in the supernatural, only to have his skepticism challenged when he discovers the Ark.

The TWIST
-Indiana Jones delivers the Ark to the U.S. government and it gets kept in an enormous warehouse. Not a MUSEUM.

The MacGuffin
-The secret power of the ARK

The Deus ex machina-Indiana surrenders and is tied to a post with Marion.
Belloq performs a ceremonial opening of the Ark, which appears to contain nothing but sand. Suddenly, spirits resembling Old Testament Seraphim emerge from the Ark.
Indiana warns Marion to close her eyes.
The apparitions suddenly morph into "angels of death", and lightning bolts begin flying out of the Ark, gruesomely killing the Nazi soldiers. The fires rise into the sky, then fall back down to Earth and the Ark closes with a crack of thunder.


The budget -18 million