The Study On The Ideology Of American Aliens Movies

Alien movies have been a popular genre revered by audiences since scientific movies have been screened.Hollywood DreamWorks uses aliens as a ploy and has produced numerous such movies to accommodate audiences' demand as well as encouraging consumerism within a market driven world.Alien movies continuously seek the balance between profits and cultures,attracting audiences with the spectacle of visual effects and breaking the boundary of the popular and literature.At the same time,these movies send American core ideology conspicuously to audiences via the entertainment medium.Alien films produced earlier were limited by technology,hence movie scenes and images were not well-made.Alien characters were played as more simplistic because of anthropocentrism and shown as villains in films,easily defeated by human beings,resulting in the reflection of the American optimism that emphasizes bravery and the invincibility of humankind.However,with the advancement of science and technology,developments in human spaceflight enable us to further cognize the universe in depth.Humans began to realize that we may not be the center of the universe,and anthropocentrism has been dispelled.In the meantime,Computer-generated imagery(CGI)allowed us to make more vivid scenes in films.Alien characters are no longer simplistic butgradually became more sophisticated.In alien movies,producers employ metaphors of humans and aliens living together to reflect real events.Internally,it reveals American anxiety about the reality and their concerns about ecology,in order to deliver the mainstream conception of a hardworking culture to achieve societal and family values.Externally,they create an imagery of American hero invincibility,as Americans are the key to save the world,to show the country's power and further implement cultural hegemony.The aliens in movies also depict all kinds of people in real life.Humanoid alien figures represent situationally based imagination,relying on the human vision and showing the compatibility of the United States.Aliens are also synthetic images seen as the fear humanity has towards unknown objects.Like the horror creatures blending in with society in Alien,waiting for the chance to take lives.Discrimination towards visible minorities,non-Protestants and aboriginals exist in the States,who were represented by aliens in the territory.No matter if humans co-exist with aliens,aliens will always be foreigners,which reveals America's white supremacy ideology.On the other hand,movies reflect other threats faced by American society,such as domestic racial riots and various external wars.In addition,compared to the earlier masculine centered alien movies,actresses have increased in roles in those movies due to thedevelopment of feminism.Some alien characters even show female characteristics indicating the improved status of women in society.Advanced techniques make more exquisite images through visual effects in the alien films in accordance with the audience's perpetual chase of alluring things.They also cause the audience to think on a more rational level.However,fantasy and narratives are not two separate entities;fantasy could also exist within the narrative.Commercialized trendy alien films with their well-liked plots and common characters in accordance with consumer demands to be entertained,are in fact produced to deliver the ideology of America.