three act structure

Alien
ACT ONE
The opening of Alien starts out with the crew of the Nostromo waking up from cryosleep then they
sit around eating their first meal , where they chat about how long they have been on the journey and their pay . This establishes the characters and encourages them the audience relate to them .

The first dilema is when one of the crew members gets attacked by a face hugger , then the crew takes the victim back to the space ship to remove it , this is an inciting incident , that is also a tipping point.

ACT TWO
The crew are socialising in a relaxed atmosphere ,when the same crew member who was earlier attacked by the face hugger chokes, they initially think he is choking on his food , he lays on the table and the alien bursts out of his chest .This is the second tipping point .After this scene the feel the crew feel misery and face defeat . They eventually try to blow up the ship and escape , but only one crew member survives


ACT THREE
The alien survives and climbs on the escape shuttle but the sole survivor of the ship depressurises the shuttle and the alien flys off into space . .