Sulaco (fictional spacecraft) Sulaco (fictional spacecraft) The U.S.S. "Sulaco" is a fictional spaceship and important setting in the film "Aliens". It also appears briefly in the opening scene of "Alien 3", in the "" and "" video games that takes place shortly after the events of "Alien 3". The "Sulaco" is named after a fictional town in Joseph Conrad's novel "Nostromo", which is also the name of the ship from the original "Alien". A number of other names in the franchise are based on Conrad's work as well. Some scholarly research into the symbolism of the Alien franchise has considered it significant that
Papa, Can You Hear Me Sing takes up the challenge to sing the song which forms the musical crescendo of the movie. The movie was released in 1983 amidst rejuvenated native Taiwanese sentimentalities and the gradual liberalisation of Taiwanese cultural and linguistic behaviour from the strangle hold of Taiwanese mainland-Chinese dominated authoritarian government, and the cultural tensions between citizens of mainland Chinese and native Taiwanese origins. It also depicts, for the first time in Taiwanese cinema, the controversial process of demolition-and-relocation. Papa, Can You Hear Me Sing Papa, Can You Hear Me Sing () is a 1983 Taiwanese musical film directed by Yu Kanping () starring