Shaw/Vickers & Ripley/Lambert

Ridley Scott does love female characters, especially strong female characters. I recently watched some of the special features of the Alien DVD and it got me thinking of a few symbolics. They mention that the character of Lambert was written to represent the audience's fear & the Ripley character was essentially meant to show where fear drives you (fight or flight); Ripley embodied that strength or survival/fighting instinct we have. For those reasons, they wanted the Lambert character (in the theatrical version) to be the last one to die in order to keep that fear aspect/symbolic 'til the end. And then we get to see what happens with the strong Ripley character, what happens through that fear and what it enables us to do. The end of the first Alien movie was intense and heart-pounding, and it was all about that primordial instinct to survive...we get to experience that through the character, like in any great film. At the end of Prometheus when the ship crashes, Shaw and Vickers are the last two surviving characters (if we exclude the David head). We can imply that the Shaw character represents the kinder and more humane/emotional side, while Vickers symbolizes the colder, corporate and more power-driven aspects. We see how the corporate aspect loses when Vickers gets crushed (unless she's really a robot and survives somehow), and how the more humane/emotional side prevails when faced with danger or certain death. CORPORATION/BIG COMPANY VS. AN INDIVIDUAL/HEART/INSTINCT. Who wins? Perhaps this symbolic was a bit obvious for some, but I still find it interesting to see how Ridley Scott pushes certain symbolics through his female characters. Maybe I'm just reading too much into it, but it still stood out for me near the end of the Prometheus film, and I thought the parallels were once again interesting, i.e. two female characters (who embody different aspects/symbolics) at the end of both films. Any thoughts fellow fans? [img]http://www.moviemarket.com/library/photos/281/281388.jpg[/img] [img]http://img.over-blog.com/550x386/1/17/12/99/Images-12/prometheus-Charlize-Theron.jpg[/img]