The fulcrum of the narrative of Aliens is made up of rivalry of two overprotective mothers: the alien queen, annoyed by the marine attacks on her drooling children, and Ripley, who over the course of the film develops a maternal relationship with Newt, a surviving child from the planet. After taking refuge in a laboratory, the bureaucratic stooge Burke unleashes two facehuggers into the room where Ripley and Newt rest, but with the help of Hicks, Hudson and Vasquez the two are saved. The sequence, in addition to taking your breath away with tension, shows how much Ripley has grown fond of Newt and how much she wants to save her at all costs, laying the foundations for the grand finale.
The meeting between Ripley and the queen
When Ripley thinks she has managed to save herself and save Newt, also thanks to the control over her fear of xenomorphs, a chilling discovery terrifies her: on the station there is a queen mother who churned out hundreds of eggs. Ellen’s gaze that runs over the immense body of the creature contains all her horror and dismay, but these will not stop her from setting fire to the eggs, unleashing the wrath of the queen. Demonstrating, once again, the incredible inner strength of this woman capable of recovering from worse traumas.
The final showdown between Ripley and the Queen
One of the fundamental sequences of Hollywood cinema, the greatest badass girl showdown ever committed to film, sees a battle-hardened Ripley face her final opponent. As imposing as Ellen is – she is well over one meter tall and she is eighty – she certainly cannot compete on equal terms with the indestructible and gigantic queen. For this she slips into the exoskeleton seen in a previous scene and faces the mother of the xenomorphs, beside herself with her anger. He will defeat her, emerging from the battle triumphant, and will return to cryostasis in the hope that the nightmare is over forever. The worst, however, is yet to come.
