Cameron's guest, Alec Gillis, effects designer for Aliens, observes that "the queen alien has organic, flowing lines to her, because she's feminine. She's hideous but she's also very beautiful, which is fitting of an elegant matriarch of an alien society."
Keep in mind that often, monsters don't start off as monsters. They start off as someone or something beautiful and mysterious. We don't learn until later in the story that what seems beautiful, or magical is, in reality, a monster.
We should be questioning every aspect of civilization, all the ways it's gone wrong. And of course, science fiction is one of the best ways to do that.
Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.
He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
500 execs and national medical and psychological organizations, and pioneered
first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and
Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful
people on his Bottom Up Radio Show,
and founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and
opinion sites, OpEdNews.com
more detailed bio:
Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness (more...)
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