A man toils away only to have the bonus he was promised torn away. Is there a more tragic character in film?
>>82207536
Why did the Reagan presidency kill working class heroes in movies?
>>82207536
>bonus he was promised
lolno,
he should get what he was contracted for, as Dallas fucking tells him in the scene you obviously haven't watched
>>82207620
>>82207620
>t. Dallas
The minute the baby alien bursts out of John Hurt's stomach is always the moment I lose interest in this film. Why? Because it is here that class issues are displaced by the struggle against the one enemy, the alien. Parker stops complaining about bonuses (class issues) and focuses on killing the killer monster. But this displacement is, in reality, more dangerous to Parker and Brett than the alien. Recall 9/11. It came down to the same thing. The anti-capitalist globalization movement (WTO) was displaced by the war on terror (WTC). I bring this up because as class tensions increase in our moment, the post-neoliberal moment, the moment when market ideology is in a state of crisis, it's important to ask who would benefit the most from an alien something, before the eyes of everyone, bursting out of the nervous guts/conditions of our times?
>>82207536
What's more, he's finished his work and is sleeping comfortably in suspended animation expecting to wake up on Earth being handed a well earned paycheck for a job well done, only to be rudely awakened halfway home and then fucking killed.
>>82207584
>>82207584
((()))
At least he wasn't the first one to die.
>>82207536
Parker was literally the smartest person in the film. Not once but twice did he make suggestions that could have saved everyone's lives:
>this isn't a rescue ship
>why don't they just freeze him
He deserved a bonus, but all he got was death.
>>82207536
Can we start a petition to get Ridley Scott to posthumously confer a bonus upon based Parker?