Ellen Ripley

Before the events of the “Alien”

The movie series does not reveal the details of Ripley's biography before the main events. The information below is taken from additional materials and books.

Additional materials of the film “Aliens” show that Ripley was born on January 7, 2092 in the colony “Olympia” on the Moon (registration number at birth - 759 / L2-01N). After receiving a master's degree in engineering from New York University of Aeronautics, Ellen went to serve in the US merchant navy, where she worked on the Zhelyazny ship as a co-pilot. Somewhere in the period before 2122 ^[1] Ripley (reg. Number W5645022460H) began working for Weyland- Utany and joined the KKKSH Nostromo team as a warrant officer (this is dated August 10, 2120), who was transporting from the mine on Tedus, 20 million tons of mineral ore to Earth ^{[2] [3]} . Prior to this, Ellen tried to revise her contract so as to take a vacation and spend more time with Amanda. Ultimately, Ellen and Weiland-Yutani reached a compromise, as a result of which Ellen could take a vacation after she completed the flight to Nostromo.

Family

On June 24, 2111, Ripley had a daughter, Amanda. Ripley’s dossier, shown in the movie Aliens, shows that Amanda was conceived during one of the flights. Although this was contrary to Weiland-Yutani policy, Ellen did not receive any disciplinary sanction or requirement to terminate the pregnancy or give the child up for adoption. According to the novelization “Alien: Resurrection” by Ann Carol Crispin, Amanda was born at home. Tim Lebbon’s book “Alien: From the Shadows” shows that Amanda’s father was called Alex, and that he and Ellen were married, but when Amanda was three years old, divorced, and Alex disappeared from their lives. Further, according to the novelization of the game Alien: Isolation of Keith Decidido, Helen married Paul Carter, who did not have a relationship with Amanda.

Amanda was 10 years old when Ellen, going on that fateful flight, promised her daughter that she would try to return to her 11th birthday, although, according to Ellen, Amanda had already learned in early childhood not to believe her mother’s promises regarding schedules her flights. According to the novelization Alien: Resurrection, Anne Crispin, Alex took Amanda to his place when Ellen and the entire Nostromo crew were reported missing. Further, according to the game Alien: Isolation (whose action takes place 15 years after the “Alien”), Amanda, becoming an adult, did not abandon her attempts to find out Ellen’s fate. As a result, she learned to be a technical engineer and also began working at Wayland-Yutani, settling in the space sector where Nostromo was last seen. Once she found out that a black box with Nostromo was found in space, which was transported aboard the Sevastopol trading station, where Amanda, to her horror, collided with an Alien. In the end, Amanda found an additional message from Ellen, from which she learned that her mother had to blow up the Nostromo and is currently drifting in space.

Amanda tried to sue Wayland-Yutani, but she gave her a lot of bureaucratic red tape. According to Carter Burke's dossier, after that she lived a rather quiet, unremarkable life. December 23, 2177 (2 years before Ellen is found in a drift shuttle in outer space) Amanda dies at the age of 66 under the name Amanda Ripley McClaren (Carter Burke says that McClaren may be her married name). The body was cremated and buried in Wisconsin . The presence of any children in Amanda (according to Burke) was not officially registered, but in the story “Alien: Sea of ​​Sorrow” by James Moore, they appear with Ellen, a distant descendant of Alan Decker.

In the script of the film “Aliens” and the novelization by Alan Dean Foster, it is mentioned that Amanda died of cancer, but the cause of her death is not mentioned in the film, which made it possible to mention in the chronology from additional materials to the film “ Prometheus ” that the effective treatment of cancer was discovered by the company “ Weiland Corporation ”90 years before the birth of Amanda (however, Foster’s novelization mentions that some forms of cancer remained incurable).

Movies

Alien

In “ Alien ”, Ripley is introduced as a Warrant Officer of the Kostsak Nostromo KKSKSH . The ship intercepted a signal that seemed to be asking for help and came from the planetoid designated LV-426, the Zeta II Grid system . Captain Dallas, senior assistant Kane and navigator Lambert explored there an abandoned alien ship, in which they found the fossilized remains of an unknown alien organism and thousands of xenomorph eggs. One of the xenomorphic larvae (“face grabber”) stuck to Kane’s head and laid an embryo in his body, which was then born, killing the carrier. The newborn (“the head”) grew to 2.1 meters in height and killed Captain Dallas and assistant engineer Brett. Meanwhile, Ripley found out that the Weiland-Yutani wants to get an Alien model, regardless of the lives of the Nostromo crew. This was confirmed by scientific officer Ash , who turned out to be an Android model 120-A / 2 manufactured by Highperdine Systems Corporation. His task was to protect a foreign organism. Chief Engineer Parker brought Ash to a non-functional state at the moment when he was trying to kill Ripley. After which Parker and Lambert died in preparation for the evacuation of Nostromo. Ripley set the ship to self-destruction and left it in the rescue shuttle Narcissus, along with a ship cat named Johnsy. The alien also escaped from the explosion in the shuttle, but Ripley lowered the pressure in the shuttle and threw him through the airlock into outer space. Ripley dictated a special message to the recorder and plunged herself and Johnsy into the hyperson.

Aliens

In “ Aliens ”, “Narcissus” was discovered after 57 years. A trial begins, in which the Weiland-Yutani is trying to figure out the reasons for the destruction of Nostromo (since the platform with the valuable cargo was destroyed along with the ship). It is obvious that his flight then was classified 57 years ago and the modern Weyland-Yutani leadership does not know anything about it or pretends to know nothing. The story of the Alien was completely ignored, and Ripley’s flight license was canceled. At the same time, the Company did not charge Ripley with any charges, allocated her a tiny apartment at the Gateway orbital station and appointed an exoskeleton loader in the cargo docks. In parallel, it turned out that the planet LV-426 (now called Acheron) has long been inhabited, the colony "Hope Hadley" was founded there. Soon, space marine corps lieutenant William Gorman and Weyland-Yutani spokesman Carter Burke came to Ripley, who informed her that the Colonial Administration had lost contact with the colony and persuaded her to fly with them and the space marines as a consultant on the Sulako ship. Arriving there, it turns out that the Aliens are operating in the colony. Almost the entire squadron of space armies perishes, Ripley, Corporal Dwayne Hicks, android Bishop and the last surviving colonist, the girl Rebecca Jorden (Newt), manage to fly out of the colony shortly before the atmosphere converter explodes there. But the “Alien Queen” falls on the “Sulako” with them, which Ripley, after a long struggle with the help of an exo loader, throws through the gateway into space.

Alien 3

In “ Alien 3 ”, Ripley comes to life on Fiorin's planet “Fury” 161, where there is a maximum security correctional institution, which belongs to the same “Weiland-Yutani”. An unknown person entered the Sulako in an unknown way and, trying to open a capsule for hypersnake, injured himself, which caused it to expire on board, expiring acid, and caused a fire. Ripley's capsule, along with others, was loaded onto the EEV rescue module, which managed to fly to Fiorina, but the landing was not soft and everyone except Ripley died. Meanwhile, along with the module, another face-grab hits the planet, which infects the dog (in the studio version - the bull) and after a set time in prison a new type of Alien appears, which begins to destroy the prisoners one by one. At the same time, Ripley finds the remains of Bishop and, connecting it to the “black box” of the module, finds out the details of the disaster. At the same time, she once encounters an Alien closely, but he, for unknown reasons, does not touch her, and a little later Ripley feels a strange malaise. After scanning her body, she discovers that an embryo is sitting in it, and the Queen's embryo. Since she was infected in hypersnake, and the testimony of the hypercapsules went to the memory of Sulako, which was transferred to the company, Ripley understands that the Weiland-Yutani, whose ship will arrive in the near future, is well aware of her condition. A little later, a message arrives from the company in prison, which clearly indicates: Ripley must be in quarantine until they arrive. The surviving prisoners lure the Alien into an injection mold and pour molten lead on it, and when the Alien crawls out of the lead, Ripley turns on the cooling system above him, because of which the Alien, unable to withstand heat stroke, explodes. When company representatives arrive, Ripley refuses to believe that they want to save her life, for which they will safely operate. Realizing that they only need the Queen, Ripley rushes into boiling metal.

Alien 4

200 years later, in Alien 4: Resurrection , military scientists from the Auriga ship managed to get the remains of her DNA , which made it possible to make a Ripley clone at the time before her death (along with the Alien embryo). Since the DNA of Ripley and the Queen was constantly mixed during cloning, the result was only hybrid clones and only for the eighth time scientists were able to create a seemingly normal Ripley clone with a normal Queen clone. However, it soon becomes clear that Ripley’s DNA is still slightly mixed with Alien’s DNA: Ripley’s physically very strong, she quickly regenerates wounds, contains acid elements in her blood, and when the Alien’s on Aurig break out of control, Ripley’s it feels from the first seconds. Later, she discovers that the Queen’s DNA is also mixed with her own: the Queen now has a kind of uterus, because of which she actually no longer needs eggs and human “incubators” and she has a hybrid of a person and an Alien. By joining the Android Call (which programs the ship to self-destruct upon entering the Earth’s atmosphere) and a group of bandits (who supplied “incubator” people for the military laboratory), Ripley escapes to the Betty shuttle, and when a hybrid of man and the Alien penetrates after her (he recognized his mother in her and therefore killed the Queen), Ripley with the help of his acidic blood breaks the porthole, and the hybrid is sucked into space. In the theatrical version, Ripley and Call in the finale admire the view of the Earth from orbit into the porthole. In the directorial version, they are sitting in a wasteland near the ruined Paris. The further fate of Ripley remains unknown.

In the Aliens vs. Comics Mini-Series Predator vs. The Terminator ”( Russian: Aliens vs. Predator vs. Terminator ), the“ Skynet ”that came to life in the distant future crosses terminators with Alien DNA , and only a clone of Ellen Ripley interacting with the Predators team can stop them ^[4] . Having penetrated the base where the Aliens are in the stasis , the terminators destroy all the personnel there. The Predators, who came after them, fight the robots, but they defeat them. Then Ripley frees the Aliens, and the Predators skillfully use them against their opponents (more precisely, the acid blood that falls on the robots, destroying them). Spilled blood activates the station’s self-destruction system. The Terminator, the only one who survived the battle, leaves the station on the rescue shuttle. Ripley, as once Alien in the first film , penetrates the shuttle and, with the help of her acid blood, causes the shuttle to explode.

Stephen King noted the growing sexuality of the actress in the movie “Alien”: “The two women on the crew look absolutely asexual, right up to the climax, when Sigourney Weaver fights with a terrible interstellar hare ... here she is the embodiment of femininity ... As if they say: “Everything was fine with her until she undressed” ” ^[5] .

Rewards

In 1979, Sigourney Weaver was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Debut for her role in Alien and the Saturn Award for Best Actress ^[6] . And in 1986, for playing the role of Ripley in the film Aliens, the actress was already nominated for an Oscar in the Best Actress category and a Golden Globe in the Best Dramatic Actress role and won the Saturn Award in the Best film actress " ^[7] .

In ratings

In 2003, the American Institute of Motion Picture Arts, in its list of 100 greatest heroes and villains, put Ripley in 8th place among the heroes ^[8] . Entertainment Weekly identified the heroine 5th line in her list of “20 Coolest Heroes in Popular Culture” ^[9] . In addition, Ripley received 9th position in the ranking of “100 greatest movie characters of all time” according to Empire magazine ^[10] (the highest position among female heroes), 8th place in the list of 100 greatest movie characters of all time according to Premiere ^[11] and 57 number in the list of 100 greatest fictional characters according to Fandomania ^[12] , first place in the list of 100 great female characters according to the British magazine Total Film , 5th place in the list of cool heroes of pop culture according to Entertainment Weekly . ^[13] , 2nd place on the Greatest Movie Badasses of All Time list according to MTV channel ^[14] , where she was the only woman except Sarah Connor in 6th place, 75th on the list of the sexiest science fiction characters according to the UGO Networks website ^{[15 ]} , the first place on the list of women who rocked science fiction channel Total Sci-Fi .