Why did the Alien take off Lambers clothes??/

Well, my take on that scene going way back when has always been this... The Alien had sort of been surprised by Parker bravely confronting it face to face.. obviously willing to risk himself to DEFEND Lambert from it. None of the others had really faced it face to face and fought it with their bare hands. And its natural sort of curiosity having been peeked by that, it then realized that Lambert was different from the others that it had met directly up to that point. She was a FEMALE, and the Alien realized this... and then it played with her like some sick deranged sadist that had just conquered the best of her Male "warrior defenders".... and Parker had been no match for it. When it was looking down on her it was almost conveying the thought that "I have defeated your best, and now I can do whatever the hell I want to you and there is nothing you or any of your friends can do about it". It is totally without any pity or remorse of any kind. And its like it deliberately leaves Lambert's body as a prop for whoever is left to see what it has done. Thats what made the Xeno scary sheeet back in 1979.

your theory goes well with my bow chicka wow wow theory, lol.

buttsecks, obviously.

Well, here’s the shot of poor Lambert’s bare, bloodied foot…complete with a broken big toe. Of course, she could just be an ex-ballerina, with that phalange. [IMG]http://i1203.photobucket.com/albums/bb381/jmichinock/Lambertsdeathremains.jpg[/IMG] For me, there’s no doubt that R. Scott, intended that the audience read a little something more into the death of Lambert, in comparison to the demise of the rest of the crew. From the stalking, the slow attack, the quasi-phallic tail, the bare, mangled foot, to the heavy, “giving birth” sounding breaths from Lambert…all intended to provoke a kind of psychosexual, violation, and rape-like event/atmosphere. At least, that’s what I pick up on in that scene. So, I suppose my take is nothing revolutionary, as a lot of us have similar ideas. Beautifully shot though…nothing graphic…implications only. Some other lesser director, would probably have shown more, thereby killing the most terrifying of personal imaginings. N

Anybody who's an Alien fan to fanatic has an idea of what the undertones that may lie behind Lamberts death told from RS. I may be wrong from any individual query but this topic and the thought of wanting to elaborate deeper on it at anytime makes me question some individuals. What the scene may have interperated is disturbing. I say this topic should be left alone. There so much more to the movie than to dwell on what the xeno did to Lambert.

I couldn't have said it better myself RHunter

My answer to "OP"'s question... "To Get To The Other Side" ! Yeaaa Baby !!!

I would prefer the Alien has raped Ripley

I'm on the boat that doesn't think that anything else happened here but a simple double-killing. No hanky-panky. I think by this time, however, the Alien was "toying" with the remaining humans like a cat does with a mouse before fatally killing it (though they often exhaust it to death and it goes into shock).

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abordoli...I'm with you there

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What is odd is that we know that is an actually human foot and not a prosthesis because RS doesn't spend money when he simply could accomplish the shot as cheaply as possible while keeping it effective....So who on the crew had a messed-up left-big-toe or could there simply be some apparatus behind it with some make-up making it appear broke.

maybe the xeno has a foot/toe fetish