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“Just tell me one thing, Burke. You’re going out there to destroy them, right? Not to study...not to bring back...but to wipe them out.”

Following her first major film role (ANNIE HALL notwithstanding) with the character of Warrant Officer Ripley in the 1979 blockbuster ALIEN, Sigourney Weaver became a household name and rose to superstardom, leading to further acclaim with roles in films like EYEWITNESS, THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY and GHOSTBUSTERS.

Even so, in arguably every aspect, James Cameron’s 1986 sequel ALIENS took Ripley and Sigourney alike to an entirely unprecedented level, both fulfilling and by all accounts completing a wholly satisfying arc for the character and in seeing Sigourney’s performance be recognized with a Best Actress nomination at the Academy Awards the following year...a rare feat given the Academy’s traditional reluctance to recognize genres like science fiction or horror, certainly in a category so prestigious.

Ripley’s is a story of survival, pure and simple. And while that idea certainly factors into the later sequels, I wanted to focus on her arc as it pertains to ALIENS...admittedly because it comes to a strong and far more optimistic conclusion than either ALIEN 3 or ALIEN RESURRECTION, as much as I enjoy those films for what they are.

The ALIEN series is owned and copyrighted by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, now a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Studios, a division of The Walt Disney Company.

“I Will Survive,” written by Freddie Perren and Dino Fekaris and performed by Gloria Gaynor, is owned and copyrighted by Polydor Records.

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