{"id":162299,"date":"2025-08-16T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T13:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=162299"},"modified":"2025-08-15T10:13:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T14:13:40","slug":"james-cameron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=162299","title":{"rendered":"“What are you gonna do, talk the alien to death?” — James Cameron"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nIt’s James Cameron’s birthday today, and I haven’t written all that much about him, but I did devote an entire column at Film Comment<\/i> to the sexual\/romantic tension between Ripley and Hicks in Aliens<\/i> – and how crucial it is to the film’s emotional resonance – it’s so much a part of it – it’s SUCH a satisfying relationship. <\/p>\n

\nPresent Tense: Almost Like Falling in Love<\/a><\/p>\n

I had fun writing about it and I had fun including a favorite Liz Phair lyric, which I thought summed it up perfectly.<\/p>\n

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It’s James Cameron’s birthday today, and I haven’t written all that much about him, but I did devote an entire column at Film Comment to the sexual\/romantic tension between Ripley and Hicks in Aliens – and how crucial it is … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,4,39],"tags":[2210],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162299"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176731,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162299\/revisions\/176731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}