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I had seen Alien before, but wanted to make sure it was fresh in my mind.

I thought a lot about our discussion in class and what makes something science fiction and what makes something a horror flick, even though, I think that there is definetly something to be said about science fiction horror flicks.

Horror films have always been marked by this extremely huge emphasis on shock value as well as grossness and gore. I've heard this called gratuitous violence. It is sort of the idea of watching someone slash someone 100 times as opposed to watching a movie on World War II.

Sci Fiction tells tells some sort of story in a context twisted from our normal world. Alien was some where in the middle between a Science Fiction movie and a shocker, so to speak.

I feel like creating this gruesome disgusting creature earned that film the most money above any other reason. Tecknolust had so many hidden meanings that we were either able to pick up on or that you (Anne and Liz) told us in class. Tecknolust seemed educational. Alien was not, at least for me. Also, the gender roles seemed less complicated and less constructed. It was refreshing to see a more normalized take as a female protagonists role in what we would think would have been a male or masculinized position. For all intents and purposes, she was pretty normal seeming, or at least she didn't wine and cry like a baby, or like some producers would have directed their female protagonists to act. However, she didn't seem like a granola cruncher either...!