I have lived long enough to see the cultural touchstones of my age fade away. From the movie Alien, the “face huggers” were alien spawn that would erupt from an egg and latch on to a host, planting a parasite within that would eventually erupt violently from the chest of the host. In this case, two people have been attacked, but the third has been rejected by the alien. Thus, he will not be killed by an alien violently emerging from his chest but he still feels let down that he was rejected.
The two guys on the left may look like elephants, but really they’ve just been grabbed by “face huggers” from a scene in the movie “Alien”. That scene is very iconic, as the characters were examining alien eggs. Everything seems calm and under control (as you might expect when inspecting eggs) but then SUDDENLY THIS WEIRD SPACE ALIEN POPS OUT OF ITS EGG AND ATTACHES ITSELF TO SOMEONE’S FACE!
Scary stuff. This is something you would never want to happen to you.
And that’s what’s going on with the third guy. For whatever reason, he get spared the horror of getting a face-hugging space alien, but still manages to feel a twinge of rejection.
Grickle does some fantastic (and sometimes unsettling) animation.
I believe he was rejected because the alien parasite is scared of his long nose.
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The parasite refused to attack him.
I have lived long enough to see the cultural touchstones of my age fade away. From the movie Alien, the “face huggers” were alien spawn that would erupt from an egg and latch on to a host, planting a parasite within that would eventually erupt violently from the chest of the host. In this case, two people have been attacked, but the third has been rejected by the alien. Thus, he will not be killed by an alien violently emerging from his chest but he still feels let down that he was rejected.
The two guys on the left may look like elephants, but really they’ve just been grabbed by “face huggers” from a scene in the movie “Alien”. That scene is very iconic, as the characters were examining alien eggs. Everything seems calm and under control (as you might expect when inspecting eggs) but then SUDDENLY THIS WEIRD SPACE ALIEN POPS OUT OF ITS EGG AND ATTACHES ITSELF TO SOMEONE’S FACE!
Scary stuff. This is something you would never want to happen to you.
And that’s what’s going on with the third guy. For whatever reason, he get spared the horror of getting a face-hugging space alien, but still manages to feel a twinge of rejection.
Grickle does some fantastic (and sometimes unsettling) animation.
I believe he was rejected because the alien parasite is scared of his long nose.