In last month's Empire magazine was an article about the Alien movies... what I didn't realise was all the Joseph Conrad references in the films.1) The ore-hauler in Alien is named Nostromo after Conrad's novel. The novel itself is named after its lead character.
2) Ripley escapes the Nostromo in the shuttle Narcissus, named after Conrad's novella The Nigger of Narcissus.
3) The town in which Conrad's Nostromo is set is Sulaco, a name James Cameron gave the Colonial Marine's ship in Aliens to maintain the Conradian theme.
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