Robert Mitchum reprised the role of Marlowe in the remade UK classic mysteryThe Big Sleep (1978), with the setting transferred from a 1940s Los Angeles o an updated 1970s London.Its complex, sometimes baffling, unwieldy construction and its pacifist themes may have contributed to its unpopular reception just prior to the US entrance into World War I.Nothing like soft shoulders to improve my morale.The soft shoulders had a date, but she thought she could do something about that and was gonna check right back.I designed it.I""m very human." Bishop II attempted to coax Ripley to allow the extraction of the queen embryo egg-layer gestating inside of her by having her undergo surgery to extract it and then destroy it ("Can""t allow it to live") - but she didn""t believe him.