Video: Bill Paxton's Entire Role as Private Hudson in 'Aliens'

Wednesday, 04 May 2011 07:22 Written by  Jordan DeSaulnier
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Video: Bill Paxton's Entire Role as Private Hudson in 'Aliens'

One of the many, many things that separate Alien and Aliens from their genre counterparts – and indeed the rest of their franchise – are the memorable, fleshed out supporting characters.  Whereas most films with killer monsters are populated by bland meatbags waiting to get eviscerated, Ridley Scott's space truckers and James Cameron's colonial marines make a big impression.  In Aliens, longtime Cameron muse Bill Paxton plays Private Hudson, a blustering jag who falls gloriously to pieces when the feces hit the fan.  A new video compiles every single one of Paxton's over-the-top line readings as Hudson, so you can see his entire catchphrase-packed character arc, without the fuss of, you know, watching a good movie.

The six-plus-minute video, titled 'Is That Your Boy?' and posted to YouTube by pmiglio, is excerpted from the director's cut, so you might even some sweet,sweet Hudson with which you previously unfamiliar.  If this is the case, check out the extended cut, as it provides a lot of additional weight for Sigourney Weaver's Ripley, and more thoroughly establishes the xenomorph queen well before her appearance.

Hudson, we hardly knew ye.  Game over, man.

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