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Old 11-16-2017, 01:53 PM   #20505 (permalink)
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Yeah, but that scene when *spoiler* the black guy whose name I can't remember dies and then the alien kills the woman with its tail by presumably going up through her torso was so much a rape scene. Even that part where Ripley is going down the corridor with the woman screaming over the intercom for way too ****ing long to not make you feel uncomfortable was def supposed to feel like a rape scene. So physical violation was very much a theme of that movie even beyond just the facehugger.
Yaphet Kotto. Check out the 1978 flick 'Blue Collar' with him, Harvey Keitel, and Richard Pryor. A little bit dated but ****ing intense ****. And all too real even today.



Re: Alien, vaginas, and sex innuendo

This says it all. Ridley was 100% going "there".

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