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CULTURE CRITICISM<\/p>\n
[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”ADD Title” background_layout=”dark” text_orientation=”center” max_width=”660px” text_font_size=”72″ text_text_color=”#f9f9f9″ border_style=”solid” custom_margin=”18px||80px|” text_line_height=”1.1em” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|desktop” text_font_size_tablet=”52″ background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial” _builder_version=”3.0.75″ module_alignment=”center”]<\/p>\n
Alien Thoughts<\/p>\n
[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ fullwidth=”off” specialty=”off” transparent_background=”off” background_color=”#f7f7f4″ allow_player_pause=”off” inner_shadow=”off” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”off” padding_mobile=”on” make_fullwidth=”off” use_custom_width=”off” width_unit=”on” make_equal=”off” use_custom_gutter=”off” custom_padding=”0px|||” custom_padding_tablet=”0px|||”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” make_fullwidth=”off” use_custom_width=”on” width_unit=”on” use_custom_gutter=”off” custom_padding=”0px|||” padding_mobile=”on” allow_player_pause=”off” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”off” make_equal=”off” parallax_1=”off” parallax_method_1=”off” parallax_2=”off” parallax_method_2=”off” column_padding_mobile=”on” custom_width_px=”620px” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_image admin_label=”Profile Pic” src=”https:\/\/www.chisnell.com\/chizblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/07\/chizpicpng.png” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”off” sticky=”on” align=”center” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” border_style=”solid” custom_margin=”-48px|||” _builder_version=”3.0.64″ max_width=”125px” show_bottom_space=”off” \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”Name” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”center” text_font=”PT Sans||||” text_font_size=”18″ text_text_color=”#323232″ text_line_height=”1.4em” border_style=”solid” custom_margin=”14px||0px|” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial” _builder_version=”3.0.64″ module_alignment=”center”]<\/p>\n
Steve Chisnell<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”ADD Date” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”center” text_font=”PT Sans|on|||” text_text_color=”#363636″ border_style=”solid” custom_margin=”0px|||” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial” _builder_version=”3.0.75″ text_font_size=”24″ module_alignment=”center”]<\/p>\n 19 Sept 2017<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” make_fullwidth=”off” use_custom_width=”on” width_unit=”on” use_custom_gutter=”off” custom_padding=”0px|||” padding_mobile=”on” allow_player_pause=”off” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”off” make_equal=”off” parallax_1=”off” parallax_method_1=”off” parallax_2=”off” parallax_method_2=”off” column_padding_mobile=”on” custom_width_px=”620px” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Lead Text” background_layout=”light” max_width=”620px” text_font_size=”24″ text_text_color=”#363636″ border_style=”solid” custom_margin=”40px||0px|” text_line_height=”1.4em” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|tablet” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial” _builder_version=”3.0.75″ text_font_size_tablet=”22″]<\/p>\n This past weekend was the 40th anniversary of Steven Spielberg\u2019s <\/span>Close Encounters of the Third Kin<\/span><\/i>d, one of the best movies of the 20th century, according to 873 different lists, including American Film Institute\u2019s 100 Greatest American Movies. Of course I did not miss the opportunity to see it once again on a massive screen, something I hadn\u2019t done since I was 14. <\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Part 2 Text” background_layout=”light” max_width=”620px” text_font_size=”20″ text_text_color=”#363636″ border_style=”solid” custom_margin=”30px||0px|” text_line_height=”1.5em” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|tablet” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial” _builder_version=”3.0.75″ text_font_size_tablet=”16″]<\/p>\n I probably know every note of John Williams\u2019s score after having worn out two vinyl record versions, a cassette tape, and a CD. I\u2019ve read the book three and a half times, and I\u2019ve seen the behind-the-scenes documentary twice. A copy of an early movie poster is rolled away carefully in some closet, somewhere, and only a special few of my contacts announce their calls by the iconic 5-note theme on my phone. I\u2019m an average fan.<\/span><\/p>\n It struck me, as my own viewing obsession partly mirrored Richard Dreyfuss\u2019s involuntary compulsion to find Devil\u2019s Tower–did I mention that I\u2019ve been there?–that part of the wonder from the story is the absence of alien antagonism. Abductions are mysterious, not malevolent, It\u2019s a story of a search, not a triumph over evil. We have, in this story, really nothing to fear.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=”off” use_custom_width=”off” width_unit=”on” use_custom_gutter=”on” custom_padding=”50px|||” padding_mobile=”on” allow_player_pause=”off” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”off” make_equal=”off” parallax_1=”off” parallax_method_1=”off” column_padding_mobile=”on” custom_padding_tablet=”17px|||” custom_padding_last_edited=”on|tablet” custom_width_px=”830px” parallax_2=”off” parallax_method_2=”off” gutter_width=”2″ background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial”][et_pb_column type=”3_4″][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.chisnell.com\/chizblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/09\/close2.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”fade_in” sticky=”on” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” border_style=”solid” _builder_version=”3.0.75″ show_bottom_space=”on” animation_direction=”fade_in” \/][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″][et_pb_divider color=”#aeaeac” show_divider=”on” divider_style=”solid” divider_position=”top” hide_on_mobile=”off” custom_css_main_element=”width:130px;” disabled_on=”off” \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”Photo Caption” background_layout=”light” text_text_color=”#363636″ border_style=”solid” text_font=”PT Serif||on||” text_font_size=”16″ text_line_height=”1em” custom_margin=”20px||0px|” max_width=”130px” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial” _builder_version=”3.0.75″]<\/p>\n “We have, in this story, really nothing to fear.”<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=”off” use_custom_width=”on” width_unit=”on” custom_width_px=”980px” use_custom_gutter=”on” padding_mobile=”on” allow_player_pause=”off” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”off” make_equal=”off” parallax_1=”off” parallax_method_1=”off” parallax_2=”off” parallax_method_2=”off” 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animation_direction=”off” \/][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_divider _builder_version=”3.0.75″ divider_style=”solid” divider_position=”top” height=”50px” \/][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.chisnell.com\/chizblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/09\/aliene.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”off” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” border_style=”solid” _builder_version=”3.0.75″ show_bottom_space=”on” animation_direction=”off” \/][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.chisnell.com\/chizblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/09\/aliendarrival.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”off” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” border_style=”solid” _builder_version=”3.0.75″ show_bottom_space=”on” animation_direction=”off” \/][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.chisnell.com\/chizblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/09\/alien12klautu.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”off” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” border_style=”solid” _builder_version=”3.0.75″ show_bottom_space=”on” animation_direction=”off” \/][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” make_fullwidth=”off” use_custom_width=”on” width_unit=”on” use_custom_gutter=”off” custom_padding=”0px|||” padding_mobile=”on” allow_player_pause=”off” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”off” make_equal=”off” parallax_1=”off” parallax_method_1=”off” parallax_2=”off” parallax_method_2=”off” column_padding_mobile=”on” custom_width_px=”620px” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Part 3 Text” background_layout=”light” max_width=”620px” text_font_size=”20″ text_text_color=”#363636″ border_style=”solid” custom_margin=”46px||0px|” text_line_height=”1.5em” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|tablet” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial” _builder_version=”3.0.75″ text_font_size_tablet=”16″]<\/p>\n Set aside the Star Trek universe, and we have created too few stories of us meeting The Other and finding a friend. The most well-known might be Klaatu (and Gort?), Neytiri, the Star Child, and a few unnamed aliens from<\/span> Contact, The Abyss, <\/span><\/i>and<\/span> Arrival<\/span><\/i>. (Most others come from children\u2019s films.) And, in every one of these cases, it is human ego and ignorance which nearly dooms our meeting. No, when it comes to meeting the inhuman, we nearly always meet something inimical, narratively transforming our ignorance to a virtue. <\/span><\/p>\n Science fiction has lined up for us decades of extraterrestrial villains, invaders and possessors, absorbers and infiltrators. Each has a means slightly different from his predecessor, but the motives are identical: to destroy the noble us. The morality of the alien invader is seemingly unfathomable, the allegory of the creature is human sin (violent, gluttonous, carnal), and the resolution of the conflict is nearly always a narrow victory by mankind. <\/span><\/p>\n Thus with any we see as Other. We are redeemed through the story by defeating the mysterious force which motivates the worst of our own vices. Predator, Alien, <\/span>kaiju<\/span><\/i>, and Wellsian Martians are different manifestations of violence and hubris; <\/span>Pitch Black<\/span><\/i> creatures consume, <\/span>They Live<\/span><\/i> aliens enslave; <\/span>Species<\/span><\/i> creatures have carnal appetites. And <\/span>The Thing<\/span><\/i> reminds us that, but for our \u201cpurity,\u201d we are inches from our own grotesque metamorphosis. <\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=”off” use_custom_width=”on” width_unit=”on” custom_width_px=”980px” use_custom_gutter=”on” padding_mobile=”on” allow_player_pause=”off” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”off” make_equal=”off” parallax_1=”off” parallax_method_1=”off” parallax_2=”off” parallax_method_2=”off” parallax_3=”off” parallax_method_3=”off” column_padding_mobile=”on” gutter_width=”2″ custom_padding=”30px|||” custom_padding_tablet=”6px|||” custom_padding_last_edited=”on|tablet” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.chisnell.com\/chizblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/09\/alien13ghidorah.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”off” sticky=”off” 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src=”https:\/\/www.chisnell.com\/chizblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/09\/alien1.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”off” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” border_style=”solid” _builder_version=”3.0.75″ show_bottom_space=”on” animation_direction=”off” \/][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.chisnell.com\/chizblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/09\/alien2warofworlds.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”off” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” border_style=”solid” _builder_version=”3.0.75″ show_bottom_space=”on” animation_direction=”off” \/][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.chisnell.com\/chizblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/09\/alien3.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”off” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” 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background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial” _builder_version=”3.0.75″]<\/p>\n When it comes to meeting the inhuman, we nearly always meet something inimical, narratively transforming our ignorance to a virtue. <\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#aeaeac” show_divider=”on” divider_style=”solid” divider_position=”top” hide_on_mobile=”off” disabled_on=”off” \/][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=”off” use_custom_width=”on” width_unit=”on” custom_width_px=”980px” use_custom_gutter=”on” padding_mobile=”on” allow_player_pause=”off” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”off” make_equal=”off” parallax_1=”off” parallax_method_1=”off” parallax_2=”off” parallax_method_2=”off” parallax_3=”off” parallax_method_3=”off” column_padding_mobile=”on” gutter_width=”2″ custom_padding=”30px|||” custom_padding_tablet=”6px|||” custom_padding_last_edited=”on|tablet” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” 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use_overlay=”off” animation=”off” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” border_style=”solid” _builder_version=”3.0.75″ show_bottom_space=”on” animation_direction=”off” \/][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.chisnell.com\/chizblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/09\/alien6pitch.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”off” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” border_style=”solid” _builder_version=”3.0.75″ show_bottom_space=”on” animation_direction=”off” \/][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.chisnell.com\/chizblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/09\/alien8predator.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”off” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” border_style=”solid” _builder_version=”3.0.75″ show_bottom_space=”on” animation_direction=”off” \/][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.chisnell.com\/chizblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/09\/alien9blob.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”off” sticky=”off” align=”left” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” border_style=”solid” _builder_version=”3.0.75″ show_bottom_space=”on” animation_direction=”off” \/][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” make_fullwidth=”off” use_custom_width=”on” width_unit=”on” use_custom_gutter=”off” custom_padding=”17px|||” padding_mobile=”on” allow_player_pause=”off” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”off” make_equal=”off” parallax_1=”off” parallax_method_1=”off” parallax_2=”off” parallax_method_2=”off” column_padding_mobile=”on” custom_width_px=”620px” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Part 4 Text” background_layout=”light” max_width=”620px” text_font_size=”20″ text_text_color=”#363636″ border_style=”solid” custom_margin=”30px||0px|” text_line_height=”1.5em” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|tablet” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial” _builder_version=”3.0.75″ text_font_size_tablet=”16″]<\/p>\n None of this is original or enlightening. The Other is little but a mirror we hold before us. When we make films of the evil alien \u201cother,\u201d we attempt to defeat the worst in ourselves that (we wish) was truly alien . . . and not human, after all. <\/span><\/p>\n If alien invasion stories are simply the science fiction genre\u2019s own turn at displacing our self-loathing, I\u2019m not sure that the friendly alien is wholly better for us. In that version of the story, we are the monsters. We destroy planets, slaughter the innocent in fear, enslave the weak, and conspire to cover it up. Somehow the aliens rise above it, triumph over the evil, and humble us with their nobility. Happy ending. Those of us in the audience, satisfied at the outcome, nod agreeably to justice against our own failings. And so, once again, the Navi people are saved and we have created another allegory of self-loathing. <\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row make_fullwidth=”off” use_custom_width=”off” width_unit=”on” use_custom_gutter=”on” custom_padding=”50px|||” padding_mobile=”on” allow_player_pause=”off” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”off” make_equal=”off” parallax_1=”off” parallax_method_1=”off” column_padding_mobile=”on” custom_padding_tablet=”17px|||” custom_padding_last_edited=”on|tablet” custom_width_px=”830px” parallax_2=”off” parallax_method_2=”off” gutter_width=”2″ background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/www.chisnell.com\/chizblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/09\/et.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” use_overlay=”off” animation=”fade_in” sticky=”on” align=”center” force_fullwidth=”off” always_center_on_mobile=”on” border_style=”solid” _builder_version=”3.0.75″ show_bottom_space=”on” animation_direction=”fade_in” \/][et_pb_text admin_label=”Photo Caption” background_layout=”light” text_text_color=”#363636″ border_style=”solid” text_font=”PT Serif||on||” text_font_size=”16″ text_line_height=”1em” custom_margin=”20px||0px|” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” background_size=”initial” _builder_version=”3.0.75″]<\/p>\n “Somehow the aliens rise above it, triumph over the evil, and humble us with their nobility. 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