Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site think.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!think!craig From: craig@think.ARPA (Craig Stanfill) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Alien II coming soon Message-ID: <3223@think.ARPA> Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 13:04:14 EST Article-I.D.: think.3223 Posted: Wed Oct 30 13:04:14 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Nov-85 02:33:30 EST References: <11900004@hpfclp.UUCP> <11900007@hpfclp.UUCP> Reply-To: craig@think.UUCP (Craig Stanfill) Organization: Thinking Machines, Cambridge, MA Lines: 17 There is a common notion that, in Alien, it was foreshadowed that the cat was going to bring the Alien back to earth. As it happens, several years ago (at Unicon 5 in Washington, DC) I talked with Linda Shusette, wife of the producer of Alien (Ron Shussette), and the topic of the cat came up. She said that the cat was intended as a sympathetic character, that they hoped the audience would identify with the cat and want the cat to live. As it worked out, the audience does not identify with the cat, but irrationally fears it and wants the crew to space it. The result is that the cat became a sort of red-herring, serving only as yet one more thing for the audience to be afraid of. As to what the purported makers of Alien II might do, your guess is as good as mine. They might well have the cat transport the alien back to earth, but this was never intended in the original movie.