Yes weapons training is a part of martial-arts and has a fitness component but you have to have the right mindset...romantasy..no..divine femininity..no. By the way, this isn't yoga in the traditional sense. https://t.co/ukQMFEZ3Cw
Sigourney Weaver on what she loved about her character in "Alien" (1979):
"Interviewer: Ripley is now seen as this feminist action hero. Did you think about that or the politics of your representation at the time?
Weaver: What I loved about Ripley in the first one, thanks to [producers] Walter [Hill] and David [Giler], and in the second one, thanks to Jim Cameron, was that I didn't really feel like a badass heroine ever. What I felt was like you or me in this situation, [wondering] what the f**k you were going to do.
It was an everyman character that could be any of us. That was very unusual at the time that a character, a woman character, went through a whole film, doing difficult things by herself, a lot of the time, and didn't have some scene where she bursts into tears and cries in a corner for a while. Because I'm telling you, in those days, they really wanted women to be sympathetic. And that meant that either you had to be in a little skirt and run around, or you had to have these scenes where you cried and broke down because they thought if you didn't that you would seem unfeminine. So I was so lucky that I avoided all of that because I was doing science fiction, because I was in the future. And I was just playing this character who was put in this situation. And it was written like a man. It wasn't written like the way they wrote women in those days."
("At 28, Sigourney Weaver Was Thrust Into An Alien World", Zosha Millman, Bustle, 2021)
P.S: On this day, 47 years ago, "Alien" (1979) had its limited release in the USA.
Alien
(1979)
The crew of a commercial spacecraft encounter a deadly lifeform after investigating an unknown transmission
REF: PHX/ALIEN79/POSTERART/093
#Alien1979#PosterArt
What makes the Colonial Marines unforgettable isn’t just the gear or the guns—it’s the chemistry.
From Hudson’s bravado to Vasquez’s grit, Hicks’ steadiness to Apone’s command, these characters feel like a real unit. And that’s no accident—James Cameron had the actors train together, forming bonds that translated on screen.
💬 Which Marine felt the most real to you? Who do you think you’d trust if you were dropped into LV-426?
Let’s hear your squad picks. 👇