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The USS Sulaco , the ship ’s name in James Cameron’sAliens , is a clever Easter egg for fans of the originalAlien , and of its theatre director Ridley Scott . The Sulaco Easter egg references the name of the spaceship in Scott’sAlien , the USCSS Nostromo , which itself is a reference and Easter egg for lover of novelist Joseph Conrad . Both of these Easter eggs are name that occur from Conrad ’s novel , Nostromo . While Cameron ’s Sulaco Easter eggs inAlienis most likely a simple computer address to Scott ’s movie , Scott ’s Easter egg inAlienis intelligibly more than just a nod to the director ’s being a fan of Conrad ’s work .
Joseph Conrad , who wrote tragical , politically charged tales around the turning of the 20th one C , has influenced many modern - sidereal day movies , includingFrancis Ford Coppola’sApocalypse Now , which is loosely free-base on Conrad’sHeart of Darkness . Ridley Scott is doubtlessly a fan of Conrad ’s employment , evidenced by the fact that his debut photographic film , The Duellists , was establish on a Conrad short story . Scott clearly chose the name Nostromo for the ship inAlienas an Easter egg and reference book to the book , which itself is named after its main character , an Italian sailor dub Nostromo . Perhaps not incidentally , Nostromo imply " shipmate " in Italian , which Scott may have used as a twofold meaning , referring to the Nostromo ’s Xenomorph stowaway ( arguably a sort of pry " shipmate").Compare this possibility to 2020 ’s Russian sci - fi repugnance movieSputnik , whose title intend " comrade " and is the name given to the stowaway alien tool in that picture .
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Although the Nostromo Easter egg seems like a uncomplicated nod to one of Scott ’s favorite source , it is possibly much more than that . It seems that Scott , as a fan of Conrad ’s oeuvre , used more than the novelNostromo ’s name for the spaceship inAlien . One can argue that Scott also used the novel ’s basic story for his moving-picture show . Nostromois the tragic story of Nostromo , a sailor who is used as an spendable tool by a potent mining company in the fictional town of Sulaco . Similarly , Alienis the tragical story of Ripley , an spaceman who is used as an expendable tool by the knock-down excavation company the Weyland - Yutani Corporation . The bunch of both the USS Sulaco inAliensand the USCSS Nostromo inAlienare pawns of powerful companies , as is the sailor Nostromo in Conrad ’s novel .
It also seems that Scott’sAlienis act upon by other instance of Conrad ’s work in improver to the novelNostromo . InAlien , the Nostromo ’s flight seedcase is advert Narcissus , which is an Easter bollock and reference to a Conrad novel , published in the United States asThe Children of the Sea , in which a mate of the ship Narcissus bring an infectious disease aboard , much like Kane ( John Hurt ) inAlien .
With the naming of the USS Sulaco , Cameron ’s Sulaco Easter egg inAliensessentially remain something of a franchise tradition started by Scott : naming elements of each flick after elements from Conrad ’s works . The ship Sulaco is named after the town of Sulaco in the fictitious South American nation of Costaguana , the master setting of the novelNostromo . Subsequent entry in theAlienfranchisehave also continued the custom , include inAlien 3 , in which the USCSS Patna is name after the ship in Conrad ’s novelLord Jim .
While the Sulaco Easter egg inAliensis emphatically a reference toAlien , the connections to Joseph Conrad ’s oeuvre seem to be fix to the original movie . This is because while Joseph Conrad ’s influence has go away a light marker on Ridley Scott’sAlien , the same is n’t necessarily on-key ofJames Cameron’sAliens . InAliens , it ’s not well-defined that Cameron ’s Sulaco Easter egg is intended to reference Conrad other than via the themes already introduced by Scott inAlien . To complicate matters , while Scott is often credited with naming the Nostromo starship inAlien , others have also been given credit rating for its naming , includingAlienproducer Walter Hill . Nevertheless , thisAlienEaster egg now belongs unquestionably to the franchise , no matter of its conceiver or the intention behind the mention .
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