Next month, ABC is giving the television sci-fi classic "V" another try in a new version of the tale. The story chronicles an alien invasion of Earth. The aliens look just like humans and seem to have humanity's best interests at heart, but underneath their human suits they are reptilians bent on our destruction. A movie called The Fourth Kind, about allegedly actual alien abductions of humans, opens next month, as well. Yet another movie, this one about the apocalypse supposing coming in 2012, is on the horizon.
These are examples of Hollywood trying to reap profits by exploiting cultural trends and symbols. Whether aliens are in fact visiting Earth or not, little gray kidnappers with big heads have become icons of modern popular culture, which-- hopefully for the studio involved-- gives a movie about them a leg up in the race for box office. More forceful alian invasions have been classic sci-fi fare since H. G. Wells. New Age and apocalyptic visions have also gained a spot in pop culture around the turn of the third Christian millenium. Of course, something similar swept through the Christian world a thousand years ago, and here we still are.
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