And Foster never once gives us any glorious moments to cherish, instead he skates right past the terror of the alien, and Ash. If Foster planned to write the novel in the manner he did, he should have given us an extra 100 pages.
#ALAN DEAN FOSTER ALIEN 2 MOVIE#
In the movie you’ll recall Ash goes haywire about an hour and 20 minutes in, while in the book, Ash’s true motives and subsequent attack aren’t even revealed until the final 25-30 pages.Īll of Foster’s major energies are invested in the first two thirds of the book, which is fair, except for the fact that the action that takes place in the first two thirds of the film are essentially pushed aside and crammed into a very small portion of the novel. Another example of a major timing misfire comes in the betrayal of Ash, the resident robot. However, in the novel, Kane isn’t convulsing on a mess table until about 70-75% of the way through the book damn near 200 pages in. Just enough time and exploration has passed to trigger the major swing in cinematic direction. In Scott’s film, Kane has his internal buddy burst through his chest about 40-45% of the way through the film. That doesn’t quite happen in this instance. When I’m reading a transfer of this nature, I expect the two mediums to run a parallel course. The major problem – aside from the Ripley issues – for me, was the pacing of the book versus the pacing of the film. It’s an engaging enough read, and it plays pretty faithful to the movie. Now, don’t take any of that to mean this is an outright terrible novelization. Ripley is practically synonymous with the brand, for goodness sake. She’s simply one more personality in this piece, which is rather odd, given her prominent role in the original picture. Tim Lebbon recently worked up a wonderful Alien tie-in titled, Alien: Out of the Shadow, and he did an excellent job of bringing Ripley to life, in all her bad ass glory. It’s not until the final 30-50 pages that Ripley becomes the Ripley we met almost immediately in Ridley Scott’s films… which is just too damn bad, because it’s too damn late. Don’t get me wrong, she’s a bit of a hard ass in the novelization, but she has very, very few moments in which all focus lies on her. Somehow, Foster has allowed Ellen Ripley to blend into the crew, few defining or separating traits apparent.
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Unfortunately, she doesn’t feel quite like the dominant force we’ve come to know her as in this specific novel. Well, she was in the films, and a few of the books. She is after all, one of the most gorgeous, powerful and riveting heroines in history.
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Well, we don’t actually see Sigourney in Alan Dean Foster’s novelization of the film, but what the hell, I like to pretend. I can’t shake my lust for Sigourney Weaver. I adore these nasties in any medium, on screen or on paper makes no difference. That’s just me, a diehard Alien fan since the mid-80s. I’m absolutely obsessed with these wicked xenomorphs, so just about anything centered on their existence, even the potential destruction of man, has me completely transfixed and endlessly gushing.
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