{"id":16914,"date":"2014-05-20T00:49:27","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T00:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/alien-a-film-franchise-based-entirely-on-rape\/"},"modified":"2014-05-20T00:49:27","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T00:49:27","slug":"alien-a-film-franchise-based-entirely-on-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/alien-a-film-franchise-based-entirely-on-rape\/","title":{"rendered":"Alien: A Film Franchise Based Entirely on Rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/article_18932_alien-film-franchise-based-entirely-rape.html'>Alien: A Film Franchise Based Entirely on Rape<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/mildlyamused.tumblr.com\/post\/86213413266\/alien-a-film-franchise-based-entirely-on-rape\">mildlyamused<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"link_og_blockquote\">\n<div>Oh, we\u2019re not joking. Our goal isn\u2019t to paste a bunch of out-of-context shots or lines of dialogue to make some spurious case. We\u2019ll let \u2018Alien\u2019 screenwriter Dan O\u2019Bannon spell it out himself:\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>&ldquo;One thing that people are all disturbed about is sex\u2026 I said \u2018That\u2019s how I\u2019m going to attack the audience; I\u2019m going to attack them sexually. And I\u2019m not going to go after the women in the audience, I\u2019m going to attack the men. I am going to put in every image I can think of to make the men in the audience cross their legs. Homosexual oral rape, birth. The thing lays its eggs down your throat, the whole number.&rdquo;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In case you needed another reason to love \u2018Aliens.\u2019 O\u2019Bannon, Giger, and Scott set out to purposefully craft a horror series designed to make men feel as uncomfortable as rape scenes in normal movies do for women.\u00a0So it\u2019s basically a female action star surviving while every dude is alien raped and murdered.\u00a0It\u2019s a horror movie trope inversion.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alien: A Film Franchise Based Entirely on Rape mildlyamused: Oh, we\u2019re not joking. Our goal isn\u2019t to paste a bunch of out-of-context shots or lines of dialogue to make some spurious case. We\u2019ll let \u2018Alien\u2019 screenwriter Dan O\u2019Bannon spell it out himself:\u00a0 &ldquo;One thing that people are all disturbed about is sex\u2026 I said \u2018That\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-4oO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}