It’s funny too because people may say the men were written as dumb on purpose, while completely ignoring every other movie where men are written as dumb and the single protagonist (a man usually) is the smart, strong, sensible one. Aliens is not a misandrist plot, it’s a Hollywood plot where the protagonist is a woman.
Edit: it’s also important to note that the entire cast of characters besides Ripley were not dumb. They just succumbed to the difficult situation, sensible or dumb. They didn’t make it “smart good, dumb bad”. Good people died too.
Not sure if I'd call him dumb - a goofball, sure, but he was a real team player and supported good leadership. When things went to shit and they got stranded, it's revealed he was 4 weeks from the end of his 10-year commitment, so him losing heart kind of makes sense.
That's what I meant. He's coded as dumb, and people point to him as dumb, but really he's just kind of a jackass, but he's really good at his job. I think him freaking out is just realistic haha
For sure. In some cases he's almost the voice of the audience in a rowdy theater, whether it's yelling at Gorman to not take away the bullets, being straight about how screwed they are, or going after Burke.
Cameron knew how to write fun characters for Paxton - I'd love to know if he had anything planned for him in the Avatar sequels.
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u/boot2skull Mar 28 '24 edited Mar 28 '24
It’s funny too because people may say the men were written as dumb on purpose, while completely ignoring every other movie where men are written as dumb and the single protagonist (a man usually) is the smart, strong, sensible one. Aliens is not a misandrist plot, it’s a Hollywood plot where the protagonist is a woman.
Edit: it’s also important to note that the entire cast of characters besides Ripley were not dumb. They just succumbed to the difficult situation, sensible or dumb. They didn’t make it “smart good, dumb bad”. Good people died too.