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.^ Ridley Scott and especially Sigourney Weaver made Alien what it is today.- Alien reboot, a prequel, is confirmed! | SCI FI Wire 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC scifiwire.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ That was the tagline for Ridley Scott's 1979 science-fiction horror masterpiece, Alien!
^ In 1979, Ridley Scott's classic film Alien hatched.- Buy Aliens Comics, Graphic Novels, Collectibles & More - TFAW.com 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC www.tfaw.com [Source type: General]
.^ The film's title refers to its primary antagonist : a highly aggressive extraterrestrial creature which stalks and kills the crew of a spaceship .
^ In the script and film the computer is referred to by the crew members as "Mother".
^ The alien , also called the xenomorph , [1] [2] is a fictional parasitoid extraterrestrial species that is the main antagonist of the Alien film series.- Alien (Xenomorph) - Xenopedia - Alien vs Predator 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC avp.wikia.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ I will try and note if it won a Saturn Award, (for Best Science Fiction Film, unless otherwise noted).
^ User rating 8.0/10, IMDB. Won the Saturn, and the 2006 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.
^ American science fiction films .
[6] .^ Science fiction horror films .
^ In 2008 the American Film Institute ranked Alien as the seventh-best film in the science fiction genre as part of AFI's 10 TOP 10 , a CBS television special ranking the ten greatest movies in ten classic American film genres.
^ American science fiction films .
[9]
.^ Alien inspired three movie sequels and dozens of comics, graphic novels, and toys!- Buy Aliens Comics, Graphic Novels, Collectibles & More - TFAW.com 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC www.tfaw.com [Source type: General]
^ The success of Alien launched a media franchise of novels , comic books , video games , and toys , as well as three sequel and two prequel films.
^ The success of the film series resulted in the creation of a media franchise with numerous novels , comic books , video games , toys , and other media and merchandise appearing over the years.
.^ L.V. 426, the world on which Ripley first encountered The Alien, has now been colonized.- MOVIES: ALIEN FAQ part 1/4 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC www.faqs.org [Source type: General]
^ Sigourney Weaver remained the only recurring actor through all four films, and the story of her character Ripley 's encounters with the Aliens became the thematic thread running through the series.
^ It also launched Weaver's acting career by providing her with her first lead role, and the story of her character Ripley 's encounters with the titular Alien creatures became the thematic thread that ran through the sequels Aliens (1986), Alien 3 (1992), and Alien Resurrection (1997).
[10] The subsequent prequels
Alien vs. Predator (2004) and
Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007) abandoned this theme in favor of a
crossover with the
Predator franchise.
Plot
.^ The commercial towing spaceship Nostromo is on a return trip from Thedus to Earth , hauling a refinery and twenty million tons of mineral ore and carrying its seven-member crew in stasis .
^ Many recent action pictures have improbably young actors cast as key roles or sidekicks, but by skewing older, Alien achieves a certain texture without even making a point of it: These are not adventurers but workers, hired by a company to return 20 million tons of ore to Earth.
^ Most Recent Customer Reviews 5.0 out of 5 stars Alien: 20th Anniversary Edition [Award Series] When commercial towing vehicle Nostromo, heading back to Earth, intercepts an SoS signal from a nearby planet, the crew are under obligation to investigate.- Amazon.com: Alien (The Director's Cut): Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto, Bolaji Badejo, Helen Horton, Eddie Powell, Derek Vanlint, Ridley Scott, David Crowther, David Giler, Gordon Carroll, Ivor Powell, Ronald Shusett, Ronald Shusett, Walter Hill, Dan O'Bannon: Movies & TV 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC www.amazon.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ COMPUTER I have intercepted a transmission of unknown origin.- Alien script by Dan O'Bannon & Ronald Shusett 15 September 2009 4:15 UTC www.dailyscript.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Upon receiving a transmission of unknown origin from a nearby planetoid , the ship's computer awakens the crew.
^ The 1997 sequel Alien Resurrection , the fourth film in the series, echoed this element by having the crew of the Auriga refer to the ship's onboard computer as "Father."
[11] .^ Acting on orders from their corporate employers, the crew lands the Nostromo on the planetoid, resulting in some damage to the ship.
^ In it, the crew the Nostromo lands on a hostile planet in response to a faint SOS call, only to discover an abandoned ship with a ravenous alien on board.- Buy Aliens Comics, Graphic Novels, Collectibles & More - TFAW.com 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC www.tfaw.com [Source type: General]
^ For scenes showing the exterior of the Nostromo a 58-foot landing leg was constructed to give a sense of the ship's size.
.^ Parker [Yaphet Kotto]: Chief engineer.- MOVIES: ALIEN FAQ part 1/4 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC www.faqs.org [Source type: General]
^ Directed by Ridley Scott , starring John Hurt , Sigourney Weaver , Tom Skerritt ( add more ) .- Alien movie mistakes, goofs and bloopers 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC www.moviemistakes.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Sigourney Weaver as Ripley , the Warrant Officer onboard the Nostromo and chief protagonist of the film.
.^ Was the alien found by Dallas, Kane, and Lambert its pilot?"- Alien reboot, a prequel, is confirmed! | SCI FI Wire 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC scifiwire.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ DALLAS Lambert, am I coming in any clearer.
^ Dallas, Kane, and Lambert discover that the signal is coming from a derelict alien spacecraft.
.^ Inside it they find the remains of a large alien creature whose ribs appear to have been bent outward from the inside.
^ In the commentary for Aliens, it was speculated that this was part of the maturation of the creatures, as they had been alive far longer than the original alien.- Alien (Xenomorph) - Xenopedia - Alien vs Predator 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC avp.wikia.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ "I say we should go back to where the alien creatures were first found and explain how they were created.- ALIEN Movies Resource - ALIEN 5 10 September 2009 19:13 UTC www.planetavp.com [Source type: General]
.^ Ripley, meanwhile, determines that the signal transmission is some type of warning.
^ At the same time as they discover a hive colony of some unknown creature, the ship’s computer deciphers the message to be a warning, not a call for help.
^ One scene that was cut from the film occurred during Ripley's final escape from the Nostromo : she encounters Dallas and Brett who have been partially cocooned by the Alien.
.^ Attaches itself to Kane's face.
^ Kane discovers a chamber containing numerous eggs , one of which releases a creature that attaches itself to his face.
^ Planet of the Vampires (1965) contains a scene in which the heroes discover a giant alien skeleton ; this influenced the Nostromo crew's discovery of the alien creature in the derelict spacecraft.
.^ Kane, Ripley, and Lambert enter.- Alien script by Walter Hill and David Giler 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC www.dailyscript.com [Source type: Original source]
^ DALLAS Ash and myself will go with Lambert.- Alien script by Walter Hill and David Giler 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC www.dailyscript.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Watches Dallas, Kane and Lambert enter.- Alien script by Walter Hill and David Giler 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC www.dailyscript.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ They unsuccessfully attempt to remove the creature from Kane's face, discovering that its blood is a potent acid .
^ Attempts to remove facehuggers generally prove fatal, [1] as the parasite will respond by tightening its grip, and the facehugger's acidic blood prevents it from being safely cut away.- Alien (Xenomorph) - Xenopedia - Alien vs Predator 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC avp.wikia.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ At the same time as they discover a hive colony of some unknown creature, the ship’s computer deciphers the message to be a warning, not a call for help.
.^ Eventually the creature detaches on its own and is found dead.
.^ With the ship repaired, the crew resume their trip back to Earth.
^ As the alien stalks through the ship, the crew chooses to go against their company's orders and fight back.- Alien - Television Tropes & Idioms 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC tvtropes.org [Source type: General]
^ When commercial towing vehicle Nostromo, heading back to Earth, intercepts an SoS signal from a nearby planet, the crew are under obligation to investigate.
.^ Ash (Alien)] Chest-burster - the alien begins its life by bursting from the chest of its host.- MOVIES: ALIEN FAQ part 1/4 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC www.faqs.org [Source type: General]
^ Kane awakens seemingly unharmed, but during a meal before re-entering stasis he begins to choke and convulse until an alien creature bursts from his chest, killing him and escaping into the ship.
^ Contamination (1980) was initially going to be titled Alien 2 until 20th Century Fox's lawyers contacted writer/director Luigi Cozzi and made him change it, and it built on press coverage of Alien 's chestburster scene by having many similar creatures, which originated from large, slimy eggs, bursting from characters' chests.
Lacking conventional weapons, the crew attempt to locate and capture the creature by fashioning motion trackers,
electric prods, and
flamethrowers.
.^ Brett follows Jones, the crew's cat, into a large room where the now-fully-grown Alien attacks him and disappears with his body into the ship's air shafts.
^ Kane awakens seemingly unharmed, but during a meal before re-entering stasis he begins to choke and convulse until an alien creature bursts from his chest, killing him and escaping into the ship.
^ In the opening scene of Alien , the clothes are distinctly reminiscent of diapers, as the lethargic crew are "born" from closed spaces into the white room controlled by the AI "Mother".- Alien - Television Tropes & Idioms 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC tvtropes.org [Source type: General]
.^ Dallas was ambushed by the Alien among the darkened air ducts, preventing Dallas from maneuvering the Alien through the airlock and into space.
^ Dallas enters the shafts intending to force the Alien into the airlock , but it ambushes him.
^ Kane awakens seemingly unharmed, but during a meal before re-entering stasis he begins to choke and convulse until an alien creature bursts from his chest, killing him and escaping into the ship.
.^ Lambert implores the remaining crew members to escape in the ship's shuttle, but Ripley, now in command, explains that the shuttle will not support four people.
^ One by one, each crew member is slain until only Ripley is left, leading to an explosive conclusion that sets the stage for its stunning sequel, "Aliens."- Amazon.com: Alien (The Director's Cut): Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto, Bolaji Badejo, Helen Horton, Eddie Powell, Derek Vanlint, Ridley Scott, David Crowther, David Giler, Gordon Carroll, Ivor Powell, Ronald Shusett, Ronald Shusett, Walter Hill, Dan O'Bannon: Movies & TV 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC www.amazon.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The final name of the ship was derived from the title of Joseph Conrad 's 1904 novel Nostromo , while the escape shuttle Narcissus was named after Conrad's 1897 novella The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' .
.^ Accessing the ship's computer, Ripley discovers that Ash has been ordered to return the Alien to the Nostromo 's corporate employers even at the expense of the crew.
^ Acting on orders from their corporate employers, the crew lands the Nostromo on the planetoid, resulting in some damage to the ship.
^ Planet of the Vampires (1965) contains a scene in which the heroes discover a giant alien skeleton ; this influenced the Nostromo crew's discovery of the alien creature in the derelict spacecraft.
.^ Ash attacks her, but Parker intervenes and decapitates him with a fire extinguisher , revealing Ash to be an android .
^ For the scene in which Ash is revealed to be an android and has his head knocked off, a puppet was created of the character's torso and upper body which was operated from underneath by a small puppeteer.
^ Before Parker incinerates him, Ash predicts that the other crew members will not survive.
.^ Before Parker incinerates him, Ash predicts that the other crew members will not survive.
^ Ash attacks her, but Parker intervenes and decapitates him with a fire extinguisher , revealing Ash to be an android .
^ Then two days before we left Thedus, replaced him with Ash.
.^ Self Destruct Mechanism : the engines of the Nostromo in Alien .- Alien - Television Tropes & Idioms 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC tvtropes.org [Source type: General]
^ The remaining three crew members plan to arm the Nostromo' s self-destruct mechanism and escape in the shuttle, but Parker and Lambert are killed by the Alien while gathering the necessary supplies.
^ Alien originally was to conclude with the destruction of the Nostromo while Ripley escapes in the shuttle Narcissus .
.^ Ripley arms the self-destruct sequence and heads for the shuttle with Jones, but finds the Alien blocking her way.
^ Self Destruct Mechanism : the engines of the Nostromo in Alien .- Alien - Television Tropes & Idioms 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC tvtropes.org [Source type: General]
^ She unsuccessfully attempts to abort the self-destruct, then returns to find the Alien gone and escapes in the shuttle as the Nostromo explodes.
.^ Self Destruct Mechanism : the engines of the Nostromo in Alien .- Alien - Television Tropes & Idioms 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC tvtropes.org [Source type: General]
^ She unsuccessfully attempts to abort the self-destruct, then returns to find the Alien gone and escapes in the shuttle as the Nostromo explodes.
^ Alien originally was to conclude with the destruction of the Nostromo while Ripley escapes in the shuttle Narcissus .
.^ As she prepares to enter stasis Ripley discovers that the Alien is aboard the shuttle.
^ Ripley enters the landing gear area of the Nostromo (where Brett got killed) and discovers a cocooned Dallas and Brett mutating into an egg.- MOVIES: ALIEN FAQ part 1/4 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC www.faqs.org [Source type: General]
^ Accessing the ship's computer, Ripley discovers that Ash has been ordered to return the Alien to the Nostromo 's corporate employers even at the expense of the crew.
.^ She puts on a space suit and opens the hatch, causing explosive decompression which forces the Alien to the open doorway.
^ EXTERIOR - SHIP - OUTER SPACE A hatch slides open on the side of the ship, and Broussard's wrapped body tumbles silently out.- Alien script by Dan O'Bannon & Ronald Shusett 15 September 2009 4:15 UTC www.dailyscript.com [Source type: Original source]
^ In the opening scene of Alien , the clothes are distinctly reminiscent of diapers, as the lethargic crew are "born" from closed spaces into the white room controlled by the AI "Mother".- Alien - Television Tropes & Idioms 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC tvtropes.org [Source type: General]
.^ She shoots it with a grappling gun which pushes it out, but the gun is caught in the closing door and the Alien is tethered to the shuttle.
^ A group of people in a closed environment trying to figure out who has been infected with an Alien virus.- Alien Raiders Movie Download in DivX/iPod Quality 11 September 2009 22:022 UTC www.moviepro.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ In this scene we also find out that aliens do have the intelligence to sacrifice one of them to open up doors that would otherwise be kept shut.- MOVIES: ALIEN FAQ part 1/4 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC www.faqs.org [Source type: General]
.^ When the unarmed Ripley blasts the first Alien out the airlock and into space.- Alien - Television Tropes & Idioms 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC tvtropes.org [Source type: General]
^ One by one, each crew member is slain until only Ripley is left, leading to an explosive conclusion that sets the stage for its stunning sequel, "Aliens."- Amazon.com: Alien (The Director's Cut): Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto, Bolaji Badejo, Helen Horton, Eddie Powell, Derek Vanlint, Ridley Scott, David Crowther, David Giler, Gordon Carroll, Ivor Powell, Ronald Shusett, Ronald Shusett, Walter Hill, Dan O'Bannon: Movies & TV 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC www.amazon.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Took A Level In Badass - Ripley for one as she starts out as a simple commercial freighter officer and ends up kicking ass in Aliens.- Alien - Television Tropes & Idioms 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC tvtropes.org [Source type: General]
.^ The film ends with Ripley and Jones entering stasis for the return trip to Earth.
^ In this film, Ellen Ripley returns to the beast's planet with a squad of marines, which includes such personalities as the humane Cpl.- Amazon.com: Alien Quadrilogy (Alien/ Aliens /Alien 3 /Alien Resurrection): Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt, Winona Ryder, Carrie Henn, Lance Henriksen, Paul Reiser, Bill Paxton, William Hope, Jenette Goldstein, Al Matthews, David Fincher, James Cameron, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Ridley Scott, Dan O'Bannon, David Giler, Joss Whedon: Movies & TV 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC www.amazon.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ After all, the last Alien flick - Alien Resurrection - ended with Ripley headed toward Earth.- ALIEN Movies Resource - ALIEN 5 10 September 2009 19:13 UTC www.planetavp.com [Source type: General]
Origins
| I knew I wanted to do a scary movie on a spaceship with a small number of astronauts...Dark Star as a horror movie instead of a comedy. |
— .^ Dan O'Bannon describing his impetus for writing Alien .
^ Dan O'Bannon drafted an opening, in which the crew of a mining ship are sent to investigate a mysterious message on an alien planetoid.- Alien (Xenomorph) - Xenopedia - Alien vs Predator 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC avp.wikia.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The script for the 1979 film Alien was initially drafted by Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett .- Alien (Xenomorph) - Xenopedia - Alien vs Predator 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC avp.wikia.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[12] |
.^ American science fiction films .
^ While studying cinema at the University of Southern California , Dan O'Bannon had made a science fiction / comedy film with director John Carpenter and conceptual artist Ron Cobb entitled Dark Star (1974).
^ Science fiction horror films .
[12] The film included an alien which had been created using a spray-painted
beach ball, and the experience left O'Bannon "really wanting to do an alien that looked
real."
[12][13] A few years later he began working on a similar story that would focus more on horror.
.^ Ronald Shusett , meanwhile, was working on an early version of what would eventually become Total Recall .
^ Computer games Alien Doom unauthorized 3rd party; for Doom 1.2 (will probably also work with 1.666+) Aliens: Total Conversion unauthorized 3rd party; for Doom 1.2 and 1.666 (These are game "patches", and require the required version of Doom in order to be played.- MOVIES: ALIEN FAQ part 1/4 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC www.faqs.org [Source type: General]
[12][13] .^ Impressed by Dark Star , he contacted O'Bannon and the two agreed to collaborate on their projects, choosing to work on O'Bannon's film first as they believed it would be less costly to produce.
^ Writer Dan O'Bannon based the film on a sequence from his previous film Dark Star , in which a beachball-shaped alien runs amok on a spaceship and tries to push an astronaut down an elevator shaft.- Alien - Television Tropes & Idioms 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC tvtropes.org [Source type: General]
^ This sounds like an animated Pixar project – they’re already two years in and have a year and a half to go of actual work as they prepare for its release in December of 2009.
[12][13] .^ O'Bannon had written twenty-nine pages of a script entitled Memory comprising what would become the film's opening scenes: a crew of astronauts awaken to find that their voyage has been interrupted because they are receiving a signal from a mysterious planetoid .
^ For the filming of the chestburster scene the cast members knew that the creature would be bursting out of John Hurt , and had seen the chestburster puppet, but they had not been told that fake blood would also be bursting out in every direction from high-pressure pumps and squibs .
^ Ridley Scott had originally wanted the film to be scored by Isao Tomita , but 20th Century Fox wanted a more familiar composer and Goldsmith was recommended by then-President of Fox Alan Ladd, Jr. Goldsmith wanted to create a sense of romanticism and lyrical mystery in the film's opening scenes, which would build throughout the film to suspense and fear.
.^ They investigate and their ship breaks down on the surface.
^ EXTERIOR - SURFACE OF PLANET - NIGHT The ship touches down, heavily; it rocks on huge shock absorbers.- Alien script by Dan O'Bannon & Ronald Shusett 15 September 2009 4:15 UTC www.dailyscript.com [Source type: Original source]
^ INT. CARGO LOCK - DROP-SHIP 192 Bishop continues as they move down the ramp.- Aliens script by James Cameron 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC www.dailyscript.com [Source type: Original source]
[13][14] .^ He did not yet, however, have a clear idea as to what the alien antagonist of the story would be.
^ O'Bannon, however, denies that this was a source of his inspiration for Alien 's story.
^ Weaver supported this idea, stating that "I think it would be great to go back, because I'm asked that question so many times: 'Where did the Alien come from?'
[12]
.^ O'Bannon soon accepted an offer to work on a film adaptation of Dune , a project which took him to Paris , France for six months.
^ The Nostromo was originally yellow, and the team filmed shots of the models for six weeks before Johnson left to work on The Empire Strikes Back .
^ It's his Alien, let him work his magic and the film will be awesome..- Alien reboot, a prequel, is confirmed! | SCI FI Wire 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC scifiwire.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[12][15] .^ But it’s not a story about science fiction.
^ Tapping, who co-starred on that series last season, will return for several episodes.” Categories: Sci Fi · fantasy · movies · science fiction Tagged: fantasy , movies , Sci Fi , science fiction .
^ Comment from: Lazlo May 1st, 2009 at 11:27 pm So Luke creams his jeans on science fiction.- Jennifer Marohasy » Defining the Greens (Part 6) 10 September 2009 19:13 UTC jennifermarohasy.com [Source type: Original source]
[14] .^ Categories: Books · Sci Fi · Singularity · science fiction Tagged: Books , Sci Fi , science fiction , Singularity , Vinge .
^ In the Virga books, I’ve pushed even further, to create an innovative science fictional world.
^ It was Ridley who took a book of Giger's paintings and told Giger what he wanted to mix in order to create the creature.- Alien reboot, a prequel, is confirmed! | SCI FI Wire 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC scifiwire.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ "I have never seen anything, that was quite as horrible and at the same time as beautiful as his work," he remembered later.- Alien (Xenomorph) - Xenopedia - Alien vs Predator 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC avp.wikia.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ I had never seen anything that was quite as horrible and at the same time as beautiful as his work.
^ The girl had never seen anything like it.- Atomic Rocket: Aliens 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC www.projectrho.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ And so I ended up writing a script about a Giger monster."
^ The script for 2012 is apparently so good, that the studios started a bidding war for distribution, with Sony ending up the winner.
^ But being higher up the evolutionary plane, and being “human” and able to create and that’s the operative word, a higher order of things, we should be able to have some understanding of them and be able to write at least something about them.
[14] .^ After the Dune project collapsed O'Bannon returned to Los Angeles to live with Shusett and the two revived his Memory script.
^ In addition, they began to acquire a diverse and ever-growing audience from their live performances throughout Los Angeles...an eclectic audience seeking refuge from the sameness of the music around them.- Indo Jazz Fusion: Indian Music meets Jazz Piano with Tabla and Electronica 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC alienchatter.com [Source type: General]
^ O'Bannon soon accepted an offer to work on a film adaptation of Dune , a project which took him to Paris , France for six months.
.^ Shusett suggested that O'Bannon use one of his other film ideas, about gremlins infiltrating a B-17 bomber during World War II , and set it on the spaceship as the second half of the story.
^ And one is about the dangers of the other world.
^ During the process of recording our first CD, Satnam brought in a few of his poems that reflected a one world, one people sentiment.- Indo Jazz Fusion: Indian Music meets Jazz Piano with Tabla and Electronica 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC alienchatter.com [Source type: General]
[14][15] .^ The “-k” keeps alien from changing the version number.- Installing using an RPM file « Ubuntu Blog 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC embraceubuntu.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The working title of the project was now Star Beast , but O'Bannon disliked this and changed it to Alien after noting the number of times that the word appeared in the script.
^ Alien script by Dan O'Bannon & Ronald Shusett ALIEN (project formerly titled STARBEAST ) Story by Dan O'Bannon & Ronald Shusett Screenplay by Dan O'Bannon 1976 SYNOPSIS En route back to Earth from a far part of the galaxy, the crew of the starship SNARK intercepts a transmission in an alien language , originating from a nearby storm-shrouded planet.- Alien script by Dan O'Bannon & Ronald Shusett 15 September 2009 4:15 UTC www.dailyscript.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ He and Shusett liked the new title's simplicity and its double meaning as a noun and adjective .
[12][14][16] .^ Shusett came up with the idea that one of the crew members could be implanted with an alien embryo that would later burst out of him, feeling that this was an interesting plot device by which the alien creature could get onboard the ship.
^ For the filming of the chestburster scene the cast members knew that the creature would be bursting out of John Hurt , and had seen the chestburster puppet, but they had not been told that fake blood would also be bursting out in every direction from high-pressure pumps and squibs .
^ Planet of the Vampires (1965) contains a scene in which the heroes discover a giant alien skeleton ; this influenced the Nostromo crew's discovery of the alien creature in the derelict spacecraft.
[12][15]
.^ Science fiction horror films .
^ In writing the script O'Bannon drew inspiration from many previous works of science fiction and horror.
^ However, he was keen on emphasizing horror in Alien rather than fantasy, describing the film as " The Texas Chain Saw Massacre of science fiction".
.^ He has stated that "I didn't steal Alien from anybody.
^ Later, the technology exchange between the United States and these aliens began to have its greater influence and the funding action began.- Aliens Part 1 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC spacepub.com [Source type: Original source]
^ In “Earthbound,” aliens traveling to Earth state it will take them 75 years to reach their destination, making one wonder why it didn’t take the moon that long to encounter the aliens.
I stole it from
everybody!"
[17] .^ The Thing from Another World (1951) inspired the idea of professional men being pursued by a deadly alien creature through a claustrophobic environment.
^ Legal Notice: Entire contents trademarked (® or TM) and copyrighted (©) 1986-2010 by Things From Another World, Inc.- Buy Aliens Comics, Graphic Novels, Collectibles & More - TFAW.com 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC www.tfaw.com [Source type: General]
^ I went through this movie almost feeling sorry for the aliens disguised as human beings, and that they started mutating and killing in self defense.- Alien Raiders Movie Download in DivX/iPod Quality 11 September 2009 22:022 UTC www.moviepro.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[17] .^ Forbidden Planet (1956) gave O'Bannon the idea of a ship being warned not to land, and then the crew being killed one by one by a mysterious creature when they defy the warning.
^ Cobb came up with the idea that the creature could have a powerful acid for blood, a characteristic that would carry over to the adult Alien and would make it impossible for the crew to kill it by conventional means such as guns or explosives, since the acid would burn through the ship's hull.
^ Set in the distant future, a spaceship carrying some 40 people, mostly ones wanting to settle on other planets from their own, hits a meteor shower and crash lands on a distant planet killing all but about a dozen of them.
[17] .^ Planet of the Vampires (1965) contains a scene in which the heroes discover a giant alien skeleton ; this influenced the Nostromo crew's discovery of the alien creature in the derelict spacecraft.
^ The same technique was used for the scene in which the crew members encounter the dead alien creature in the derelict spacecraft.
^ A VHS box set containing Alien and the sequels Aliens and Alien 3 was released in facehugger-shaped boxes, including some of the deleted scenes from the Laserdisc editions.
[17] .^ O'Bannon has also noted the influence of "Junkyard", a short story by Clifford D. Simak in which a crew lands on an asteroid and discovers a chamber full of eggs.
^ Planet of the Vampires (1965) contains a scene in which the heroes discover a giant alien skeleton ; this influenced the Nostromo crew's discovery of the alien creature in the derelict spacecraft.
^ In it, the crew the Nostromo lands on a hostile planet in response to a faint SOS call, only to discover an abandoned ship with a ravenous alien on board.- Buy Aliens Comics, Graphic Novels, Collectibles & More - TFAW.com 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC www.tfaw.com [Source type: General]
[13] .^ He has also cited as influences Strange Relations by Philip José Farmer (1960), which covers alien reproduction, and EC Comics horror titles such as Weird Tales which carried stories in which monsters eat their way out of people.
^ As its tongue-in-cheek title suggest, "Monsters vs. Aliens" is partly homage to old-fashioned B-movies made in the 1950-60s.- Monsters vs. Aliens Movie Download in DivX/iPod Quality 11 September 2009 22:022 UTC www.moviepro.net [Source type: General]
^ And I do agree the AVP series is getting way out of hand with its stories which are geared more for the comic book person than the real authenticity of a movie.- Alien reboot, a prequel, is confirmed! | SCI FI Wire 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC scifiwire.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[13]
With roughly eighty-five percent of the plot completed, Shusett and O'Bannon presented their initial script to several studios,
[12] pitching it as "
Jaws in space."
[18] They were on the verge of signing a deal with
Roger Corman's studio when a friend offered to find them a better deal and passed the script on to
Walter Hill,
David Giler, and Gordon Carroll, who had formed a production company called Brandywine with ties to
20th Century Fox.
[12][19] .^ O'Bannon and Shusett signed a deal with Brandywine, but Hill and Giler were not satisfied with the script and made numerous rewrites and revisions to it.
^ They were on the verge of signing a deal with Roger Corman 's studio when a friend offered to find them a better deal and passed the script on to Walter Hill , David Giler , and Gordon Carroll, who had formed a production company called Brandywine with ties to 20th Century Fox .
^ With roughly eighty-five percent of the plot completed, Shusett and O'Bannon presented their initial script to several studios, [12] pitching it as " Jaws in space."
[12][20] .^ This caused tension with O'Bannon and Shusett, since Hill and Giler had very little experience with science fiction and according to Shusett: "They weren't good at making it better, or in fact at not making it even worse."
^ In the Virga books, I’ve pushed even further, to create an innovative science fictional world.
^ He notes, however, that it is a horror film first and a science fiction film second, since science fiction normally explores issues of how humanity will develop under other circumstances.
[12] .^ O'Bannon believed that they were attempting to justify taking his name off of the script and claiming it as their own.
^ Panicked by the attack, one of the explorers steps off the path in an attempt to ensure his own safety.
^ Like all reptilians, these claim to have originated on Terra thousands of years ago, a fact that they use to 'justify' their attempt to re-take the earth for their own.
[12] Hill and Giler did add some substantial elements to the story, however, including the
android character Ash which O'Bannon felt was an unnecessary subplot, but which Shusett later described as "one of the best things in the movie...That whole idea and scenario was theirs."
[12] In total Hill and Giler went through eight different drafts of the script, mostly concentrating on the Ash subplot but also making the dialogue more naturalistic and trimming some sequences set on the alien planetoid.
[22].^ Aliens DVD. 20th Century Fox .- Alien (Xenomorph) - Xenopedia - Alien vs Predator 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC avp.wikia.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Science fiction horror films .
^ American science fiction films .
.^ However, after the success of Star Wars in 1977 the studio's interest in the genre rose substantially.
^ According to Carroll: "When Star Wars came out and was the extraordinary hit that it was, suddenly science fiction became the hot genre."
^ Similar to the Star Wars "downfall prequels", they will more than likely ignore all fan-dom and write the story however they see fit.- Alien reboot, a prequel, is confirmed! | SCI FI Wire 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC scifiwire.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ According to Carroll: "When Star Wars came out and was the extraordinary hit that it was, suddenly science fiction became the hot genre."
^ The decision to make the lead character a woman was made by Giler and Hill, who felt that this would help Alien stand out in the otherwise male-dominated genre of science fiction.
^ The evolutionary paleobiologist's beliefs mean that science fiction films such as Star Wars and Star Trek could be more accurate than they ever imagined in depicting alien life.
.^ Aliens DVD. 20th Century Fox .- Alien (Xenomorph) - Xenopedia - Alien vs Predator 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC avp.wikia.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Alien 3 DVD. 20th Century Fox .- Alien (Xenomorph) - Xenopedia - Alien vs Predator 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC avp.wikia.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Alien was greenlit by 20th Century Fox at an initial budget of $4.2 million.
[12][22]
Direction and design
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^ She got up to check and she saw two Hispanic males men wearing masks and armed with handguns walking towards her.
^ The egg opens and the face-hugger launches out at the organism and attaches itself by wrapping a long "tail" around its victim's neck and using long spider-like legs (like a spider, the face-hugger has 8 legs) to firmly grip the organism's head.- MOVIES: ALIEN FAQ part 1/4 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC www.faqs.org [Source type: General]
^ Vasquez swings the smart-gun to ready position on its support arm, locking it with an authoritative CLICK. She and Hicks head toward the source of the signal, the others following.- Aliens script by James Cameron 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC www.dailyscript.com [Source type: Original source]
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H.R. Giger's 1976 painting
Necronom IV inspired the design of the Alien.
.^ Dollhouse,” from 20th Century Fox TV, is Whedon’s first TV project since his 2002 Fox drama “Firefly.” .
^ The original Alien is as close to near perfect moviemaking as there was back then and no remake would ever top it .- Alien reboot, a prequel, is confirmed! | SCI FI Wire 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC scifiwire.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Amy Adams is in negotiations to star opposite Ben Stiller in 20th Century Fox’s “ Night at the Museum 2 .” .
[22][23] .^ Hill declined due to other film commitments as well as not being comfortable with the level of visual effects that would be required.
^ The Terror from Beyond Space (1958), [17] [59] as well as a kinship with other 1970s horror films such as Jaws (1975) and Halloween (1978).
^ I resent films that are so shallow they rely entirely on their visual effects, and of course science fiction films are notorious for this.
[24] .^ Peter Yates , Jack Clayton , and Robert Aldrich were considered for the task, but O'Bannon, Shusett, and the Brandywine team felt that these directors would not take the film seriously and would instead treat it as a B monster movie .
^ O'Bannon and Shusett signed a deal with Brandywine, but Hill and Giler were not satisfied with the script and made numerous rewrites and revisions to it.
^ But his employer, property company Grainger, didn’t take these beliefs seriously – in particular his belief in climate change – and sacked him.- Jennifer Marohasy » Defining the Greens (Part 6) 10 September 2009 19:13 UTC jennifermarohasy.com [Source type: Original source]
[23][25] .^ Ridley Scott and especially Sigourney Weaver made Alien what it is today.- Alien reboot, a prequel, is confirmed! | SCI FI Wire 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC scifiwire.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Films directed by Ridley Scott .
^ Giler, Hill, and Carroll had been impressed by Ridley Scott 's debut feature film The Duellists (1977) and made an offer to him to direct Alien , which Scott quickly accepted.
[14][25] .^ Scott created detailed storyboards for the film in London , which impressed 20th Century Fox enough to double the film's budget from $4.2 million to $8.4 million.
^ Alien was greenlit by 20th Century Fox at an initial budget of $4.2 million.
^ Ridley Scott had originally wanted the film to be scored by Isao Tomita , but 20th Century Fox wanted a more familiar composer and Goldsmith was recommended by then-President of Fox Alan Ladd, Jr. Goldsmith wanted to create a sense of romanticism and lyrical mystery in the film's opening scenes, which would build throughout the film to suspense and fear.
[23][26] .^ His storyboards included designs for the spaceship and space suits , drawing influences from films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey and Star Wars .
^ O'Bannon brought in artists Ron Cobb and Chris Foss (who he had worked with on Dark Star and Dune , respectively) to work on designs for the human aspects of the film such as the spaceship and space suits.
^ The Terror from Beyond Space (1958), [17] [59] as well as a kinship with other 1970s horror films such as Jaws (1975) and Halloween (1978).
[26] However, he was keen on emphasizing horror in
Alien rather than fantasy, describing the film as "
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre of science fiction".
[23][25]
.^ I resent films that are so shallow they rely entirely on their visual effects, and of course science fiction films are notorious for this.
^ American science fiction films .
^ Science fiction horror films .
.^ I've always felt that there's another way to do it: a lot of effort should be expended toward rendering the environment of the spaceship, or space travel, whatever the fantastic setting of your story should be–as convincingly as possible, but always in the background.
^ But immediately afterward your authorities implemented a lot of rules to try to prevent another attack.
^ Sure, it was Raimi who ended up making the movie, but after hearing the things he had to say, there is no way he could’ve made this bad of a movie if he would’ve done the exact story he wanted.
That way the story and the characters emerge and they become more real. |
— .^ File:Ron Cobb Alien concept art.jpg Some of Ron Cobb 's conceptual art for the ship and escape shuttle.
^ The designs of the Nostromo and its attachments were based on combinations of Ridley Scott's storyboards and Ron Cobb 's conceptual drawings.
^ Dan O'Bannon drew his own version based on Giger's design, with help from Ron Cobb, which became the final version.
[14] |
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^ There Is No Kill Like Overkill - A staple of the series: In Alien , Ripley sets the ship on self-destruct and escapes in a shuttle.- Alien - Television Tropes & Idioms 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC tvtropes.org [Source type: General]
^ These included models of the Nostromo , its attached mineral refinery, the escape shuttle Narcissus , the alien planetoid , and the exterior and interior of the derelict spacecraft.
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.^ File:Ron Cobb Alien concept art.jpg Some of Ron Cobb 's conceptual art for the ship and escape shuttle.
^ The final name of the ship was derived from the title of Joseph Conrad 's 1904 novel Nostromo , while the escape shuttle Narcissus was named after Conrad's 1897 novella The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' .
^ Lambert implores the remaining crew members to escape in the ship's shuttle, but Ripley, now in command, explains that the shuttle will not support four people.
.^ In these drawings the ship was called Leviathan (top) and Snark (bottom left).
The name
Nostromo came later.
.^ O'Bannon introduced Scott to the artwork of H.R. Giger ; both of them felt that his painting Necronom IV was the type of representation they wanted for the film's antagonist and began asking the studio to hire Giger as a designer.
^ A Nigerian design student, Badejo was discovered in a bar by a member of the casting team, who put him in touch with Ridley Scott.
^ The original had its flaws, but somewhere in development under Paramount they got the funds to reshoot and hire a strong sound designer.- Teach me about Horror [Archive] - Quarter To Three Forums 10 September 2009 19:13 UTC www.quartertothree.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[23][25] .^ Alien was greenlit by 20th Century Fox at an initial budget of $4.2 million.
^ Century Fox initially believed Giger's work was too ghastly for audiences, but the Brandywine team were persistent and eventually won out.
^ The set with the deceased alien creature, which the production team nicknamed the "space jockey", proved problematic as 20th Century Fox did not want to spend the money for such an expensive set that would only be used for one scene.
[25] .^ According to Gordon Carroll: "The first second that Ridley saw Giger's work, he knew that the biggest single design problem, maybe the biggest problem in the film, had been solved."
^ He notes, however, that it is a horror film first and a science fiction film second, since science fiction normally explores issues of how humanity will develop under other circumstances.
^ Even the unheard of actors, maybe first film all did a bang up job.Directing was good, aside from a little over use of the choppy action scene I had no problems.- Alien Raiders Movie Download in DivX/iPod Quality 11 September 2009 22:022 UTC www.moviepro.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[23] .^ Scott flew to Zürich to meet Giger and recruited him to work on all aspects of the Alien and its environment including the surface of the planetoid, the derelict spacecraft, and all four forms of the Alien from the egg to the adult.
^ Planet of the Vampires (1965) contains a scene in which the heroes discover a giant alien skeleton ; this influenced the Nostromo crew's discovery of the alien creature in the derelict spacecraft.
^ Art Director Les Dilley created 1/24th scale miniatures of the planetoid's surface and derelict spacecraft based on Giger's designs, then made moulds and casts and scaled them up as diagrams for the wood and fiberglass forms of the sets.
[23][25]
.^ His storyboards included designs for the spaceship and space suits , drawing influences from films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey and Star Wars .
^ O'Bannon brought in artists Ron Cobb and Chris Foss (who he had worked with on Dark Star and Dune , respectively) to work on designs for the human aspects of the film such as the spaceship and space suits.
^ Writer Dan O'Bannon based the film on a sequence from his previous film Dark Star , in which a beachball-shaped alien runs amok on a spaceship and tries to push an astronaut down an elevator shaft.- Alien - Television Tropes & Idioms 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC tvtropes.org [Source type: General]
[23][27] .^ Cobb created hundreds of preliminary sketches of the interiors and exteriors of the ship, which went through many design concepts and preliminary names such as Leviathan and Snark as the script continued to develop.
^ Cobb created the name to imply a business alliance between Britain and Japan, deriving "Weylan" from the British Leyland Motor Corporation and "Yutani" from the name of his Japanese neighbor.
^ Matte paintings were used to fill in areas of the ship's interior as well as exterior shots of the planetoid's surface.
.^ The final name of the ship was derived from the title of Joseph Conrad 's 1904 novel Nostromo , while the escape shuttle Narcissus was named after Conrad's 1897 novella The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' .
^ Lambert implores the remaining crew members to escape in the ship's shuttle, but Ripley, now in command, explains that the shuttle will not support four people.
^ She unsuccessfully attempts to abort the self-destruct, then returns to find the Alien gone and escapes in the shuttle as the Nostromo explodes.
[28] .^ The production team particularly praised Cobb's ability to depict the interior settings of the ship in a realistic and believable manner.
^ Ridley Scott described the set as the cockpit or driving deck of the mysterious ship, and the production team was able to convince the studio that the scene was important to impress the audience and make them aware that this was not a B movie .
^ ON SHIPS: There were hundreds of workers building the sets for Avatar – MDF was being thrown around like candy to make the sets as realistic as possible – and it was very successful.
.^ Under Ridley Scott's direction the design of the Nostromo shifted towards an 800-foot-long tug towing a refining platform two miles long and one and a half miles wide.
^ Films directed by Ridley Scott .
^ Giler, Hill, and Carroll had been impressed by Ridley Scott 's debut feature film The Duellists (1977) and made an offer to him to direct Alien , which Scott quickly accepted.
[14] .^ Cobb also created some conceptual drawings of the Alien, but these were not used.
^ But overlay your favorite shape, then add some layer effects (gradient, sheen) and you can create a wide variety of alien eyes very quickly.- Alienize: Transform a person into an alien 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC www.marcofolio.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ Some of the Nostromo' s corridors were created from portions of scrapped bomber aircraft, and a mirror was used to create the illusion of longer corridors in the below-deck area.
[23][27] .^ Moebius was attached to the project for a few days as well, and his costume renderings served as the basis for the final space suits created by costume designer John Mollo.
^ The surface as seen from space during the landing sequence was created by painting a globe white, then mixing chemicals and dyes onto transparencies and projecting them onto it.
^ His storyboards included designs for the spaceship and space suits , drawing influences from films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey and Star Wars .
[14][27]
Casting
.^ Template:Details Casting calls and auditions for Alien were held in both New York and London .
^ Hot Toys will soon be expanding it's series of figure kits from Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem with an all new Predator kit called "Predator Cleaner."
^ A new site from "The Ultimate Predator" dedicated to Aliens and Predator trading cards called Access Space has just popped up online.
[26] .^ With only seven human characters in the story, Scott sought to hire strong actors so that he could focus most of his energy on the film's visual style.
^ Scott chose not to show the Alien in full through most of the film, showing only pieces of it while keeping most of its body in shadow in order to heighten the sense of suspense and terror.
^ Yes, its maintenance of an optimistic future was appealing, but the strong stories and readily identifiable characters ensured the viewers’ continuing loyalty.
[26] .^ He employed casting director Mary Selway, who had worked with him on The Duellists , to head the casting in the United Kingdom, while Mary Goldberg handled casting in the United States.
^ The creature's head was manufactured separately by Carlo Rambaldi , who had worked on the aliens in Close Encounters of the Third Kind .
^ A twelve-inch tall model kit of the Alien was released by the Model Products Corporation in the United States and by Airfix in the United Kingdom.
[29][30] .^ In developing the story O'Bannon had focused on writing the Alien first, putting off developing the characters for a later draft.
^ Bull and company started creating story and character arcs in August 2007, examining character backstories, outlining and assigning episodes for each of the authors to write.
^ O'Bannon, however, denies that this was a source of his inspiration for Alien 's story.
[23] .^ The crew is unisex and all parts are interchangeable for men or women.- Alien script by Dan O'Bannon & Ronald Shusett 15 September 2009 4:15 UTC www.dailyscript.com [Source type: Original source]
^ He and Shusett had therefore written all of the roles as generic males with a note in the script explicitly stating that "The crew is unisex and all parts are interchangeable for men or women."
^ He notes how the film plays on men's fear and misunderstanding of pregnancy and childbirth, while also giving women a glimpse into these fears.
[29][31] .^ This left Scott, Selway, and Goldberg free to interpret the characters as they liked and to cast accordingly.
^ He employed casting director Mary Selway, who had worked with him on The Duellists , to head the casting in the United Kingdom, while Mary Goldberg handled casting in the United States.
.^ American science fiction films .
^ Scott has stated that this concept was inspired partly by Star Wars , which deviated from the pristine future often depicted in science fiction films of the time.
^ Science fiction horror films .
[32]
.^ File:Alien (1979) - main cast.jpg The principal cast members of Alien .
^ The principal cast members of Alien were: Bolaji Badejo as The Alien , the titular antagonist of the film.
Left to right: Holm, Stanton, Weaver, Kotto, Skerritt, Cartwright, and Hurt.
The principal cast members of Alien were:
.^ The principal cast members of Alien were: Bolaji Badejo as The Alien , the titular antagonist of the film.
^ For most of the film's scenes the Alien was portrayed by Bolaji Badejo, a Nigerian design student.
^ File:Alien (1979) - The Alien.jpg Bolaji Badejo in costume as the Alien.
.^ A Nigerian design student, Badejo was discovered in a bar by a member of the casting team, who put him in touch with Ridley Scott.
^ The principal cast members of Alien were: Bolaji Badejo as The Alien , the titular antagonist of the film.
^ He employed casting director Mary Selway, who had worked with him on The Duellists , to head the casting in the United Kingdom, while Mary Goldberg handled casting in the United States.
[33][34] .^ Scott believed that Badejo, at 7'2" and with a slender frame, could portray the Alien and look as if his arms and legs were too long to be real, creating the illusion that there could not possibly be a human being inside the costume.
^ While I wish I could better explain what exactly Cameron is doing, there really is no way to even guess at any of what we’ll see come December of ‘09.
^ A separate model, approximately forty feet long, was created for the Nostromo' s underside from which the Narcissus would detach and from which Kane's body would be launched during the funeral scene.
[14][33][34] .^ Stuntmen Eddie Powell and Roy Scammell also portrayed the Alien in some scenes.
^ For some scenes, such as when the Alien lowers itself from the ceiling to kill Brett, the creature was portrayed by stuntmen Eddie Powell and Roy Scammell; [14] [35] in that scene a costumed Powell was suspended on wires and then lowered in an unfurling motion.
^ For most of the film's scenes the Alien was portrayed by Bolaji Badejo, a Nigerian design student.
[14][35]
.^ Veronica Cartwright as Lambert , the Nostromo 's navigator.
^ Giger pronounced rhyming with "eager") Cast: Ellen Ripley [Sigourney Weaver]: Warrant Officer J. Lambert [Veronica Cartwright]: Navigator.- MOVIES: ALIEN FAQ part 1/4 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC www.faqs.org [Source type: General]
.^ A multimedia franchise and the first to combine science fiction with body horror .- Alien - Television Tropes & Idioms 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC tvtropes.org [Source type: General]
^ I will try and note if it won a Saturn Award, (for Best Science Fiction Film, unless otherwise noted).
^ At long last, Dark Horse Comics heralds the return of the heavyweight champion of modern science-fiction/horror, Aliens!
[36] .^ She originally read for the role of Ripley, and was not informed that she had instead been cast as Lambert until she arrived in London for wardrobe.
^ Hurt was Scott's first choice for the role but was contracted on a film in South Africa during Alien 's filming dates, and so Jon Finch was cast as Kane instead.
^ Giger pronounced rhyming with "eager") Cast: Ellen Ripley [Sigourney Weaver]: Warrant Officer J. Lambert [Veronica Cartwright]: Navigator.- MOVIES: ALIEN FAQ part 1/4 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC www.faqs.org [Source type: General]
[29][37] She disliked that the character seemed to be the weakest emotionally,
[34] but nevertheless accepted the role: "They convinced me that I was the audience's fears; I was a reflection of what the audience is feeling."
[29] Cartwright won a
Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance.
[5][6]
.^ Accessing the ship's computer, Ripley discovers that Ash has been ordered to return the Alien to the Nostromo 's corporate employers even at the expense of the crew.
^ Ian Holm as Ash , the ship's Science Officer who is revealed to be an android and betrays the crew.
^ Ash [Ian Holm]: Science officer, an android.- MOVIES: ALIEN FAQ part 1/4 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC www.faqs.org [Source type: General]
.^ Holm was the most experienced actor cast in the film.
^ [T]he 1979 Alien is a much more cerebral movie than its sequels, with the characters (and the audience) genuinely engaged in curiosity about this weirdest of lifeforms...Unfortunately, the films it influenced studied its thrills but not its thinking.
^ He filmed many of their rehearsals in order to capture spontaneity and improvisation, and tensions between some of the cast members, particularly towards the less-experienced Weaver, translated convincingly on film as tension between their respective characters.
.^ John Hurt as Kane , the Executive Officer who becomes the host for the Alien.
^ Hurt was Scott's first choice for the role but was contracted on a film in South Africa during Alien 's filming dates, and so Jon Finch was cast as Kane instead.
^ MJ 12 and those who have been subordinate feel they have done everything possible and appropriate for the intense situation of hosting aliens with much greater technology on the earth.- Aliens Part 1 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC spacepub.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ In 1979, Ridley Scott's classic film Alien hatched.- Buy Aliens Comics, Graphic Novels, Collectibles & More - TFAW.com 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC www.tfaw.com [Source type: General]
^ The alien's acidic blood was conceived as an answer to this trope in the first film.- Alien - Television Tropes & Idioms 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC tvtropes.org [Source type: General]
^ The release of Aliens #1 will coincide with the thirtieth anniversary of the Ridley Scott-helmed film masterpiece, Alien, and will be preceded by an Aliens/Predator special for Free Comic Book Day!
[34] .^ However, Finch became ill during the first day of shooting and was diagnosed with severe diabetes , which had also exacerbated a case of bronchitis .
^ Hurt was Scott's first choice for the role but was contracted on a film in South Africa during Alien 's filming dates, and so Jon Finch was cast as Kane instead.
[38] .^ By this point, Hurt was in London, his South African project having fallen through, and he quickly replaced Finch.
^ Hurt was Scott's first choice for the role but was contracted on a film in South Africa during Alien 's filming dates, and so Jon Finch was cast as Kane instead.
[29][38] .^ His performance earned him a nomination for a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role .
^ Cartwright won a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance.
^ It was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score , a Grammy Award for Best Soundtrack Album , and a BAFTA Award for Best Film Music [6] The score has been released as a soundtrack album in several versions with different tracks and sequences.
[6]
.^ Parker [Yaphet Kotto]: Chief engineer.- MOVIES: ALIEN FAQ part 1/4 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC www.faqs.org [Source type: General]
^ Yaphet Kotto as Parker , the Chief Engineer.
.^ Kotto was chosen partly to add diversity to the cast and give the Nostromo crew an international flavor.
[29]
.^ In charge of the Nostromo, Captain Dallas and his crew were the first humans to enjoy the company of the Aliens.
^ Captain of the Nostromo, Dallas was heroic and resourceful, although his questionable judgment call did unfortunately enable the Alien entity to infiltrate the ship.
^ A. Dallas [Tom Skerritt]: Captain.- MOVIES: ALIEN FAQ part 1/4 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC www.faqs.org [Source type: General]
.^ Skerritt had been approached early in the film's development but declined as it did not yet have a director and had a very low budget.
^ Production time was short due to the film's low budget and pressure from 20th Century Fox to finish on schedule.
^ Later, when Scott was attached as director and the budget had been doubled, Skerritt accepted the role of Dallas.
.^ Later, when Scott was attached as director and the budget had been doubled, Skerritt accepted the role of Dallas.
^ Skerritt had been approached early in the film's development but declined as it did not yet have a director and had a very low budget.
^ Scott created detailed storyboards for the film in London , which impressed 20th Century Fox enough to double the film's budget from $4.2 million to $8.4 million.
[26][29]
.^ (In the novel, his first name is "Thomas") S. E. Brett [Harry Dean Stanton]: Engineering technician.- MOVIES: ALIEN FAQ part 1/4 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC www.faqs.org [Source type: General]
^ Harry Dean Stanton as Brett , the Engineering Technician.
^ Tom Skerritt Sigourney Weaver Veronica Cartwright Harry Dean Stanton John Hurt Ian Holm Yaphet Kotto .
.^ Tapping, who co-starred on that series last season, will return for several episodes.” Categories: Sci Fi · fantasy · movies · science fiction Tagged: fantasy , movies , Sci Fi , science fiction .
^ This would also explain the reason why Ripley had a very soar throat during the first parts of the movie.- MOVIES: ALIEN FAQ part 1/4 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC www.faqs.org [Source type: General]
^ I don't get much mileage out of a movie like The Exorcist, for instance, though I can recognize that it's a quality story told and filmed well.- Teach me about Horror [Archive] - Quarter To Three Forums 10 September 2009 19:13 UTC www.quartertothree.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
[26] .^ Scott was amused and convinced Stanton to take the role after reassuring him that Alien would actually be a thriller more akin to Ten Little Indians .
^ Hurt was Scott's first choice for the role but was contracted on a film in South Africa during Alien 's filming dates, and so Jon Finch was cast as Kane instead.
^ Scott remarked that, if the series were to continue, the most logical course would be to explore the origins of the space jockey and the Aliens.
[26]
.^ WARRANT OFFICER RIPLEY, sole survivor of the Nostromo.- Aliens script by James Cameron 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC www.dailyscript.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Sigourney Weaver as Ripley , the Warrant Officer onboard the Nostromo and chief protagonist of the film.
^ The role of Ripley was Weaver's first leading role in a motion picture, and earned her nominations for a Saturn Award for Best Actress and a BAFTA award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Role.
.^ The decision to make the lead character a woman was made by Giler and Hill, who felt that this would help Alien stand out in the otherwise male-dominated genre of science fiction.
^ In total Hill and Giler went through eight different drafts of the script, mostly concentrating on the Ash subplot but also making the dialogue more naturalistic and trimming some sequences set on the alien planetoid.
^ However, he was keen on emphasizing horror in Alien rather than fantasy, describing the film as " The Texas Chain Saw Massacre of science fiction".
[29] .^ Weaver, who had Broadway experience but was relatively unknown in film, impressed Scott, Giler, and Hill with her audition.
^ Giler, Hill, and Carroll had been impressed by Ridley Scott 's debut feature film The Duellists (1977) and made an offer to him to direct Alien , which Scott quickly accepted.
^ Scott created detailed storyboards for the film in London , which impressed 20th Century Fox enough to double the film's budget from $4.2 million to $8.4 million.
.^ She was the last actor to be cast for the film, and performed most of her screen tests in-studio as the sets were being built.
^ Holm was the most experienced actor cast in the film.
^ All this on top of being one of the most Dirty Cowards in film history.- Alien - Television Tropes & Idioms 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC tvtropes.org [Source type: General]
[29][34] .^ The role of Ripley was Weaver's first leading role in a motion picture, and earned her nominations for a Saturn Award for Best Actress and a BAFTA award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Role.
^ Cartwright won a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance.
^ His performance earned him a nomination for a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role .
[6]
.^ To assist the actors in preparing for their roles, Ridley Scott wrote several pages of backstory for each character explaining their histories.
^ Despite not appearing in either prequel, Sigourney Weaver has expressed interest in reuniting with Ridley Scott to revive her character for another Alien sequel.
^ Ridley Scott 's sons and the son of one of the cameramen stood in for the regular actors to make the set seem larger on screen.
[22][39] .^ He filmed many of their rehearsals in order to capture spontaneity and improvisation, and tensions between some of the cast members, particularly towards the less-experienced Weaver, translated convincingly on film as tension between their respective characters.
^ Some autopsies have revealed a crystalline network which is thought to have a function in telepathic [and other] functions which help to maintain the group-consciousness between members of the same species.- Known Types of Aliens and Races 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC www.thewatcherfiles.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
^ The principal cast members of Alien were: Bolaji Badejo as The Alien , the titular antagonist of the film.
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Film critic
Roger Ebert has noted that the actors in
Alien were older than was typical in thriller films at the time, and that this helped make the characters more convincing:
[N]one of them were particularly young.
.^ Alien is a 1979 science fiction / horror film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Tom Skerritt , Sigourney Weaver , Veronica Cartwright , Harry Dean Stanton , John Hurt , Ian Holm and Yaphet Kotto .
^ Tom Skerritt, the captain, was 46, Hurt was 39 but looked older, Holm was 48, Harry Dean Stanton was 53, Yaphet Kotto was 42, and only Veronica Cartwright at 29 and Weaver at 30 were in the age range of the usual thriller cast.
^ Captain Dallas ( Tom Skerritt ), Executive Officer Kane ( John Hurt ), and Navigator Lambert ( Veronica Cartwright ) set out to investigate the signal's source while Warrant Officer Ripley ( Sigourney Weaver ), Science Officer Ash ( Ian Holm ), and Engineers Brett ( Harry Dean Stanton ) and Parker ( Yaphet Kotto ) stay behind to monitor their progress and make repairs.
.^ Many recent action pictures have improbably young actors cast as key roles or sidekicks, but by skewing older, Alien achieves a certain texture without even making a point of it: These are not adventurers but workers, hired by a company to return 20 million tons of ore to Earth.
^ And to clean up, everyone had to leave Earth and set in place millions of these little robots that went around to clean up the trash and make Earth habitable again.
^ This is a means by which these aliens snatch bodies and control people to make them their own.- Aliens Part 1 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC spacepub.com [Source type: Original source]
[10]
.^ David McIntee , author of Beautiful Monsters: The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to the Alien and Predator Films , has praised the acting and characterizations in Alien .
^ A couple Alien items have popped up for sale at Monsters in Motion including this 2 CD set of the original film's score, as well as this all metal Alien figure !
^ However, Ridley Scott conceived of a "fourth act" to the film in which the Alien appears on the shuttle and Ripley is forced to confront it.
.^ He notes that part of the film's effectiveness in frightening viewers "comes from the fact that the audience can all identify with the characters...Everyone aboard the Nostromo is a normal, everyday, working Joe just like the rest of us.
^ Yes, its maintenance of an optimistic future was appealing, but the strong stories and readily identifiable characters ensured the viewers’ continuing loyalty.
^ He notes, however, that it is a horror film first and a science fiction film second, since science fiction normally explores issues of how humanity will develop under other circumstances.
.^ They just happen to live and work in the future."
^ The word is soaked in meaning, but according to the mythos, they are generally considered as scientifically and technologically advanced beings living just outside our solar system.
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Set design and filming
.^ Alien was filmed over fourteen weeks from July 5 to October 21, 1978.
^ Principal photography took place at Shepperton Studios in London , while model and miniature filming was done at Bray Studios in Water Oakley .
^ Visual Effects Supervisor Brian Johnson, supervising modelmaker Martin Bower, and their team worked at Bray Studios , roughly thirty miles from Shepperton Studios where principal filming was taking place.
[30] .^ Production time was short due to the film's low budget and pressure from 20th Century Fox to finish on schedule.
^ Alien was greenlit by 20th Century Fox at an initial budget of $4.2 million.
^ Journeyman” is a production of 20th Century Fox Television.
[39] .^ A crew of over 200 workmen and technicians constructed the three principal sets: The surface of the alien planetoid and the interiors of the Nostromo and derelict spacecraft.
^ Planet of the Vampires (1965) contains a scene in which the heroes discover a giant alien skeleton ; this influenced the Nostromo crew's discovery of the alien creature in the derelict spacecraft.
^ Art Director Les Dilley created 1/24th scale miniatures of the planetoid's surface and derelict spacecraft based on Giger's designs, then made moulds and casts and scaled them up as diagrams for the wood and fiberglass forms of the sets.
[14] .^ Art Director Les Dilley created 1/24th scale miniatures of the planetoid's surface and derelict spacecraft based on Giger's designs, then made moulds and casts and scaled them up as diagrams for the wood and fiberglass forms of the sets.
^ Scott flew to Zürich to meet Giger and recruited him to work on all aspects of the Alien and its environment including the surface of the planetoid, the derelict spacecraft, and all four forms of the Alien from the egg to the adult.
^ Art Director Roger Christian used scrap metal and parts to create set pieces and props in order to save money, a technique he had used while working on Star Wars .
[26] .^ Tons of sand, plaster, fiberglass, rock, and gravel were shipped into the studio to sculpt a desert landscape for the planetoid's surface, which the actors would walk across wearing space suit costumes.
^ EXTERIOR - SURFACE OF PLANET - NIGHT The ship touches down, heavily; it rocks on huge shock absorbers.- Alien script by Dan O'Bannon & Ronald Shusett 15 September 2009 4:15 UTC www.dailyscript.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The air of the vast ship howls past her into space as she claws her way up a service ladder.- Aliens script by James Cameron 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC www.dailyscript.com [Source type: Original source]
[14] .^ The suits themselves were thick, bulky, and lined with nylon , had no cooling systems and, initially, no venting for their exhaled carbon dioxide to escape.
[41] .^ Combined with a heat wave , these conditions nearly caused the actors to pass out and nurses had to be kept on-hand with oxygen tanks to help keep them going.
^ Earn your customers’ trust more and more every time you go out of your way to help them to succeed.- Web Development & Site Promotion Articles 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC webdev.entheosweb.com [Source type: General]
^ The children nearly collapsed due to the heat of the suits, and eventually oxygen systems were added to assist the actors in breathing.
[39][41] .^ For scenes showing the exterior of the Nostromo a 58-foot landing leg was constructed to give a sense of the ship's size.
^ For the scene in which the Nostromo detaches from the refinery, a thirty-foot docking arm was created using pieces from model railway kits.
.^ Ridley Scott 's sons and the son of one of the cameramen stood in for the regular actors to make the set seem larger on screen.
^ Ridley Scott still did not think that it looked large enough, so he had his two sons and the son of one of the cameramen stand in for the regular actors, wearing smaller space suits in order to make the set pieces seem larger.
^ Tons of sand, plaster, fiberglass, rock, and gravel were shipped into the studio to sculpt a desert landscape for the planetoid's surface, which the actors would walk across wearing space suit costumes.
[41][42] .^ The same technique was used for the scene in which the crew members encounter the dead alien creature in the derelict spacecraft.
^ Planet of the Vampires (1965) contains a scene in which the heroes discover a giant alien skeleton ; this influenced the Nostromo crew's discovery of the alien creature in the derelict spacecraft.
^ The set with the deceased alien creature, which the production team nicknamed the "space jockey", proved problematic as 20th Century Fox did not want to spend the money for such an expensive set that would only be used for one scene.
.^ The children nearly collapsed due to the heat of the suits, and eventually oxygen systems were added to assist the actors in breathing.
^ Combined with a heat wave , these conditions nearly caused the actors to pass out and nurses had to be kept on-hand with oxygen tanks to help keep them going.
[39][41]
.^ The sets of the Nostromo 's three decks were each created almost entirely in one piece, with each deck occupying a separate stage and the various rooms connected via corridors.
^ Some of the Nostromo' s corridors were created from portions of scrapped bomber aircraft, and a mirror was used to create the illusion of longer corridors in the below-deck area.
^ One of them listed in this three part piece contains, I believe, 5 editions of the same movie!
.^ With new and extended scenes carefully added back into the film, the 12-disc set also includes hours of bonus features.
^ For now I’ll keep dreaming and hope that Universal realizes their mistake on the first film and comes around on this second one.
^ The film is set in 1957, making it nineteen years since Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, thus acknowledging the real-life passing of years between films.
[14][39][43] .^ The sets used large transistors and low-resolution computer screens to give the ship a "used", industrial look and make it appear as though it was constructed of "retrofitted old technology".
^ Ron Cobb created industrial-style symbols and color-coded signs for various areas and aspects of the ship.
^ For scenes showing the exterior of the Nostromo a 58-foot landing leg was constructed to give a sense of the ship's size.
[42] .^ However, the name and logo of "Weylan-Yutani" appears on several set pieces and props such as computer monitors and beer cans.
^ The company that owns the Nostromo is not named in the film, and is referred to by the characters as "the company".
^ Cobb created the name to imply a business alliance between Britain and Japan, deriving "Weylan" from the British Leyland Motor Corporation and "Yutani" from the name of his Japanese neighbor.
[28] .^ Cobb created the name to imply a business alliance between Britain and Japan, deriving "Weylan" from the British Leyland Motor Corporation and "Yutani" from the name of his Japanese neighbor.
^ However, the name and logo of "Weylan-Yutani" appears on several set pieces and props such as computer monitors and beer cans.
^ In coming up with a strange company name I thought of British Leyland and Toyota , but we couldn't use "Leyland-Toyota" in the film.
[27][44] .^ The 1986 sequel Aliens named the company as "Weyland-Yutani", [27] [45] and it has remained a central aspect of the film franchise.
^ H.R. Giger's iconic biomechanical creature comes to life in this new 7" Alien Warrior action figure, based on its appearance in James Cameron's blockbuster 1986 film, Aliens!
^ The success of Alien launched a media franchise of novels , comic books , video games , and toys , as well as three sequel and two prequel films.
.^ Art Director Roger Christian used scrap metal and parts to create set pieces and props in order to save money, a technique he had used while working on Star Wars .
^ Art Director Les Dilley created 1/24th scale miniatures of the planetoid's surface and derelict spacecraft based on Giger's designs, then made moulds and casts and scaled them up as diagrams for the wood and fiberglass forms of the sets.
^ To save money only one wall of the set was created, and the "space jockey" sat atop a disc that could be rotated to facilitate shots from different angles in relation to the actors.
[42][46] .^ Some of the Nostromo' s corridors were created from portions of scrapped bomber aircraft, and a mirror was used to create the illusion of longer corridors in the below-deck area.
^ The sets of the Nostromo 's three decks were each created almost entirely in one piece, with each deck occupying a separate stage and the various rooms connected via corridors.
^ Cobb also created some conceptual drawings of the Alien, but these were not used.
[42] .^ Special effects supervisors Brian Johnson and Nick Allder made many of the set pieces and props actually function, including moving chairs, computer monitors, motion trackers, and flamethrowers .
^ Stan Winston and his team are the special effects geniuses behind The Terminator, Aliens, Predator, Jurassic Park, Edward Scissorhands, and many more!
^ Visual Effects Supervisor Brian Johnson, supervising modelmaker Martin Bower, and their team worked at Bray Studios , roughly thirty miles from Shepperton Studios where principal filming was taking place.
[14][38] .^ Four matching cats were used to portray Jones, the Nostromo crew's pet.
[30] .^ During filming Sigourney Weaver discovered that she was allergic to the combination of cat hair and the glycerin placed on the actors' skin to make them appear sweaty.
^ Sigourney Weaver as Ripley , the Warrant Officer onboard the Nostromo and chief protagonist of the film.
^ I suspect that Sigourney Weaver’s Grace plays a key role in discovering the crucial communication methods and applying them to humans.
.^ By removing the glycerin she was able to continue working with the cats.
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.^ Giger airbrushed the entire set and the "space jockey" by hand.
^ File:Alien (1979) - space jockey.jpg H.R. Giger airbrushed the "space jockey" set by hand.
^ Religious zealots set fire to the model of the space jockey, believing it to be the work of the devil .
.^ Ridley Scott 's sons and the son of one of the cameramen stood in for the regular actors to make the set seem larger on screen.
^ Ridley Scott still did not think that it looked large enough, so he had his two sons and the son of one of the cameramen stand in for the regular actors, wearing smaller space suits in order to make the set pieces seem larger.
^ She was the last actor to be cast for the film, and performed most of her screen tests in-studio as the sets were being built.
[42][47] It was redressed to double as the egg chamber.
[14]
.^ H.R. Giger designed and worked on all of the alien aspects of the film, which he designed to appear organic and biomechanical in contrast to the industrial look of the Nostromo and its human elements.
^ Almost every horror film since Alien has ripped it off in some way, but most of the imitations have focused on details — a slimy killing-machine monster that is both vaginal and penile; the dripping, cavernous interiors of the Nostromo ; those immensely influential H.R. Giger " biomechanical " designs — and missed what you might call the overall Zeitgeist of the film.
^ ADI was given the difficult task of giving the xenomorphic Alien a fresh look, re-imagining the beast as combining alien and canine DNA, while remaining as faithful as possible to the classic Giger alien design.
[14][42] .^ For the interior of the derelict spacecraft and egg chamber he used dried bones together with plaster to sculpt much of the scenery and elements.
^ The same technique was used for the scene in which the crew members encounter the dead alien creature in the derelict spacecraft.
^ A crew of over 200 workmen and technicians constructed the three principal sets: The surface of the alien planetoid and the interiors of the Nostromo and derelict spacecraft.
[14][42] .^ You must have had some idea of what was going on.
^ Actor Veronica Cartwright described Giger's sets as "so erotic...it's big vaginas and penises ...the whole thing is like you're going inside of some sort of womb or whatever...it's sort of visceral".
^ Only endorse products that you would buy, or have already bought.- Web Development & Site Promotion Articles 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC webdev.entheosweb.com [Source type: General]
.^ Ridley Scott described the set as the cockpit or driving deck of the mysterious ship, and the production team was able to convince the studio that the scene was important to impress the audience and make them aware that this was not a B movie .
^ The set with the deceased alien creature, which the production team nicknamed the "space jockey", proved problematic as 20th Century Fox did not want to spend the money for such an expensive set that would only be used for one scene.
^ This set was also released in a VHS version and included a commentary track by Ridley Scott .
[42][47] .^ To save money only one wall of the set was created, and the "space jockey" sat atop a disc that could be rotated to facilitate shots from different angles in relation to the actors.
^ Only one of us could survive.- Alien script by Dan O'Bannon & Ronald Shusett 15 September 2009 4:15 UTC www.dailyscript.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The set with the deceased alien creature, which the production team nicknamed the "space jockey", proved problematic as 20th Century Fox did not want to spend the money for such an expensive set that would only be used for one scene.
[14][47] .^ Giger airbrushed the entire set and the "space jockey" by hand.
^ File:Alien (1979) - space jockey.jpg H.R. Giger airbrushed the "space jockey" set by hand.
^ Religious zealots set fire to the model of the space jockey, believing it to be the work of the devil .
[42][47]
.^ The origin of the jockey creature was not explored in the film, but Scott later theorized that it might have been the ship's pilot, and that the ship might have been a weapons carrier capable of dropping Alien eggs onto a planet so that the Aliens could use the local lifeforms as hosts.
^ Planet of the Vampires (1965) contains a scene in which the heroes discover a giant alien skeleton ; this influenced the Nostromo crew's discovery of the alien creature in the derelict spacecraft.
^ Cobb came up with the idea that the creature could have a powerful acid for blood, a characteristic that would carry over to the adult Alien and would make it impossible for the crew to kill it by conventional means such as guns or explosives, since the acid would burn through the ship's hull.
.^ In early versions of the script the eggs were to be located in a separate pyramid structure which would be found later by the Nostromo crew and would contain statues and hieroglyphs depicting the Alien reproductive cycle, offering a contrast of the human, Alien, and space jockey cultures.
^ Would space aliens need redemption?
^ Planet of the Vampires (1965) contains a scene in which the heroes discover a giant alien skeleton ; this influenced the Nostromo crew's discovery of the alien creature in the derelict spacecraft.
[15] .^ Cobb, Foss, and Giger each created concept artwork for these sequences, but they were eventually discarded due to budgetary concerns and the need to trim the length of the film.
^ Two behind-the-scenes books were released in 1979 to accompany the film: The Book of Alien contained many production photographs and details on the making of the film, while Giger's Alien contained many of H.R. Gigers concept artwork for the movie.
^ Scott and Rawlings had also become attached to several of the musical cues they had used for the temporary score while editing the film, and re-edited some of Goldsmith's cues and re-scored several sequences to match these cues and even left the temporary score in place in some parts of the finished film.
[14] .^ With new and extended scenes carefully added back into the film, the 12-disc set also includes hours of bonus features.
^ At the time, I was going to end up visiting it… in the building where the TITANIC was created (the real ship, not the movie) and I was anxious to just see the entire town that was going to be housed in that giant space.
^ The show’s sets are 90% CGI and shot in the same cutting-edge style as the feature films 300 and Sin City.
[14]
.^ Alien originally was to conclude with the destruction of the Nostromo while Ripley escapes in the shuttle Narcissus .
^ The final name of the ship was derived from the title of Joseph Conrad 's 1904 novel Nostromo , while the escape shuttle Narcissus was named after Conrad's 1897 novella The Nigger of the 'Narcissus' .
^ Lambert implores the remaining crew members to escape in the ship's shuttle, but Ripley, now in command, explains that the shuttle will not support four people.
.^ Films directed by Ridley Scott .
^ In 1979, Ridley Scott's classic film Alien hatched.- Buy Aliens Comics, Graphic Novels, Collectibles & More - TFAW.com 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC www.tfaw.com [Source type: General]
^ However, Ridley Scott conceived of a "fourth act" to the film in which the Alien appears on the shuttle and Ripley is forced to confront it.
.^ Dollhouse,” from 20th Century Fox TV, is Whedon’s first TV project since his 2002 Fox drama “Firefly.” .
^ Amy Adams is in negotiations to star opposite Ben Stiller in 20th Century Fox’s “ Night at the Museum 2 .” .
^ Twentieth Century Fox Licensing & Merchandising (Fox L&M) today reveals exciting new details of their increasing portfolio of upcoming games based on Twentieth Century Foxs Aliens universe.
[48] .^ RIPLEY They wanted to investigate the Alien.- Alien script by Walter Hill and David Giler 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC www.dailyscript.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Scott had wanted the Alien to bite off Ripley's head and then make the final log entry in her voice, but the producers vetoed this idea as they believed that the Alien had to die at the end of the film.
^ In 1979, Ridley Scott's classic film Alien hatched.- Buy Aliens Comics, Graphic Novels, Collectibles & More - TFAW.com 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC www.tfaw.com [Source type: General]
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Special effects and creature design
Spaceships and planets
.^ Films directed by Ridley Scott .
^ File:Alien model filming.jpg Director Ridley Scott filming model shots of the Nostromo and its attached ore refinery.
^ However, Ridley Scott conceived of a "fourth act" to the film in which the Alien appears on the shuttle and Ripley is forced to confront it.
.^ He made slow passes filming at 2½ frames per second to give the models the appearance of motion.
^ The team therefore used a camera with wide-angles lenses mounted on a drive mechanism to make slow passes over and around the models filming at two and a half frames per second, [14] giving them the appearance of motion.
^ Filmed in 1964, the pilot was rejected by NBC the following year, but the network made a rare decision to order a second pilot.
[14]
The spaceships and planets for the film were shot using models and miniatures.
.^ These included models of the Nostromo , its attached mineral refinery, the escape shuttle Narcissus , the alien planetoid , and the exterior and interior of the derelict spacecraft.
^ Alien originally was to conclude with the destruction of the Nostromo while Ripley escapes in the shuttle Narcissus .
^ A separate model was created for the exterior of the derelict alien spacecraft.
.^ Visual Effects Supervisor Brian Johnson, supervising modelmaker Martin Bower, and their team worked at Bray Studios , roughly thirty miles from Shepperton Studios where principal filming was taking place.
^ My editors have been working non-stop, and we are beginning to work on the visual effects, signing a composer, etc.” .
^ I resent films that are so shallow they rely entirely on their visual effects, and of course science fiction films are notorious for this.
[49][50] .^ The designs of the Nostromo and its attachments were based on combinations of Ridley Scott's storyboards and Ron Cobb 's conceptual drawings.
^ Under Ridley Scott's direction the design of the Nostromo shifted towards an 800-foot-long tug towing a refining platform two miles long and one and a half miles wide.
^ File:Ron Cobb Alien concept art.jpg Some of Ron Cobb 's conceptual art for the ship and escape shuttle.
[49] .^ The basic outlines of the models were made of wood and plastic, and most of the fine details were added from model kits of battleships , tanks , and World War II bombers .
^ With a screen accurate look from the movie, this Power Loader with Ellen Ripley Collectible Model Kit Set really made us proud.
^ Shusett suggested that O'Bannon use one of his other film ideas, about gremlins infiltrating a B-17 bomber during World War II , and set it on the spaceship as the second half of the story.
.^ Three models of the Nostromo were made: a twelve-inch version for medium and long shots, a four-foot version for rear shots, and a twelve-foot, seven-ton rig for the undocking and planetoid surface sequences.
^ A separate model, approximately forty feet long, was created for the Nostromo' s underside from which the Narcissus would detach and from which Kane's body would be launched during the funeral scene.
^ The first cut of the film was over three hours long; further editing trimmed the final version to just under two hours.
[14][50] .^ Scott insisted on numerous changes to the models even as filming was taking place, leading to conflicts with the modeling and filming teams.
^ The manga takes place in a vastly larger timeframe than the film and involves a far wider array of characters and subplots.
^ Principal photography took place at Shepperton Studios in London , while model and miniature filming was done at Bray Studios in Water Oakley .
.^ The Nostromo was originally yellow, and the team filmed shots of the models for six weeks before Johnson left to work on The Empire Strikes Back .
^ The spaceships and planets for the film were shot using models and miniatures.
^ LAMBERT It'll take us six weeks to get back on course.
.^ Scott then ordered it changed to gray, and the team had to begin shooting again from scratch.
^ Scott insisted on numerous changes to the models even as filming was taking place, leading to conflicts with the modeling and filming teams.
[49][50] .^ He ordered more and more pieces added to the model until the final large version with the refinery required a metal framework so that it could be lifted by a forklift .
^ So, here it is, in order of thought as I went through, arranged in reading order, not in order to make sense, at least until the final summation.
^ It has selected the following 50 movies as contenders for the best, in alphabetical order (in the case of movies that have been made more than once, we’ve designated by date which version the AFI has selected): .
.^ He also took a hammer and chisel to sections of the refinery, knocking off many of its spires which Bower had spent weeks creating.
^ For the scene in which Ash is revealed to be an android and has his head knocked off, a puppet was created of the character's torso and upper body which was operated from underneath by a small puppeteer.
^ This new religious conspiracy genre created by Dan Brown has had many knock-offs.
.^ Scott also had disagreements with lighting technician Denny Ayling over how to light the models.
[49].^ A separate model, approximately forty feet long, was created for the Nostromo' s underside from which the Narcissus would detach and from which Kane's body would be launched during the funeral scene.
^ The scene of Kane inspecting the egg was shot during post-production.
^ The sets of the Nostromo 's three decks were each created almost entirely in one piece, with each deck occupying a separate stage and the various rooms connected via corridors.
.^ Bower carved Kane's burial shroud out of wood and it was launched through the hatch using a small catapult and filmed at high speed, then slowed down in editing.
^ Having a few guys in the Alien and Predator costumes duke it out the woods does not a good Alien or Predator film make.
^ The shot was acted out and filmed in reverse, then reversed and slowed down in editing to prolong the effect and show more detail.
[49][51] .^ Only one shot was filmed using blue screen compositing: that of the shuttle racing past the Nostromo .
^ For his third big-screen feat, the 32-year-old USC film-school grad is not only thinking inside the box.
^ Jones is a former ad exec turned filmmaker with only one film under his belt, a sci-fi short from 2000 called Whistle .
.^ The other shots were simply filmed against black backdrops, with stars added via double exposure .
^ The film was shot in three parts (called “transmissions”) that were made by different directors without input from the other two during the shoot.
[50] .^ I’m only concerned that they won’t give this duo of films the proper budget that they really need, especially with a first-time feature filmmaker working on them.
^ I saw it when the film was new and I would have been all of 13 or so at the time.- Teach me about Horror [Archive] - Quarter To Three Forums 10 September 2009 19:13 UTC www.quartertothree.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]
.^ The internet giant uses car-mounted cameras to take pictures of the world’s cities, towns and major roads.
^ For now I’ll keep dreaming and hope that Universal realizes their mistake on the first film and comes around on this second one.
^ The film is set in 1957, making it nineteen years since Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, thus acknowledging the real-life passing of years between films.
.^ Scott added smoke and wind effects to enhance the illusion.
[49] .^ For the scene in which the Nostromo detaches from the refinery, a thirty-foot docking arm was created using pieces from model railway kits.
^ For scenes showing the exterior of the Nostromo a 58-foot landing leg was constructed to give a sense of the ship's size.
^ He ordered more and more pieces added to the model until the final large version with the refinery required a metal framework so that it could be lifted by a forklift .
.^ The Nostromo was pushed away from the refinery by the forklift, which was covered in black velvet, causing the arm to extend out from the refinery.
^ For the scene in which the Nostromo detaches from the refinery, a thirty-foot docking arm was created using pieces from model railway kits.
.^ This created the illusion that the arm was pushing the ship forward.
[49][50] .^ Click through for a list of the show’s characters.
^ The spaceships and planets for the film were shot using models and miniatures.
^ The screen shows a section of the ship's schematic.- Alien script by Dan O'Bannon & Ronald Shusett 15 September 2009 4:15 UTC www.dailyscript.com [Source type: Original source]
[49]
.^ A separate model was created for the exterior of the derelict alien spacecraft.
^ Planet of the Vampires (1965) contains a scene in which the heroes discover a giant alien skeleton ; this influenced the Nostromo crew's discovery of the alien creature in the derelict spacecraft.
^ A separate model, approximately forty feet long, was created for the Nostromo' s underside from which the Narcissus would detach and from which Kane's body would be launched during the funeral scene.
.^ Matte paintings were used to fill in areas of the ship's interior as well as exterior shots of the planetoid's surface.
^ The scene was shot in one take using an artificial torso filled with blood and viscera, with Hurt's head and arms coming up from underneath the table.
^ A crew of over 200 workmen and technicians constructed the three principal sets: The surface of the alien planetoid and the interiors of the Nostromo and derelict spacecraft.
[49] .^ The surface as seen from space during the landing sequence was created by painting a globe white, then mixing chemicals and dyes onto transparencies and projecting them onto it.
[14][50] .^ The planetoid was not named in the film, but some drafts of the script gave it the name Acheron [34] after the river in Greece which appears in Greek mythology as the "stream of woe", a branch of the river Styx , and which forms the border of Hell in Dante 's Inferno .
^ In total Hill and Giler went through eight different drafts of the script, mostly concentrating on the Ash subplot but also making the dialogue more naturalistic and trimming some sequences set on the alien planetoid.
^ The date in which the events of Alien are set is not revealed in the film itself, but the first draft of the script gave the year as 2087.
.^ The 1986 sequel Aliens named the planetoid as "LV-426", [45] and both names have been used for it in subsequent expanded universe media such as comic books and video games .
^ Having traveled the universe with The Doctor, Sarah Jane is used to alien encounters.
^ The release of Aliens #1 will coincide with the thirtieth anniversary of the Ridley Scott-helmed film masterpiece, Alien, and will be preceded by an Aliens/Predator special for Free Comic Book Day!
.^ In Alien the planetoid is located somewhere in the Zeta 2 Reticuli system.
^ Zeta Reticuli Greys come from Zeta Reticulan, near Barnard's Star, which is a neighboring star system to Orion.- Aliens Part 1 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC spacepub.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Also known as Zeta Reticuli from the Zeta Reticulan star system (the Bernard star) neighboring the Orion area.- Aliens Part 1 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC spacepub.com [Source type: Original source]
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Egg and facehugger
.^ The scene of Kane inspecting the egg was shot during post-production.
^ A separate model, approximately forty feet long, was created for the Nostromo' s underside from which the Narcissus would detach and from which Kane's body would be launched during the funeral scene.
.^ He shines his light inside.- Aliens script by James Cameron 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC www.dailyscript.com [Source type: Original source]
^ He shines his light on one of them; then he lays his gloved hand on it.- Alien script by Dan O'Bannon & Ronald Shusett 15 September 2009 4:15 UTC www.dailyscript.com [Source type: Original source]
^ A fiberglass egg was used so that actor John Hurt could shine his light on it and see movement inside, which was provided by Ridley Scott fluttering his hands inside the egg while wearing rubber gloves.
[47] .^ The top of the egg opened via hydraulics, and the innards were made of a cow's stomach and tripe .
^ The egg nearest her begins to move...opening like an obscene flower at its top to reveal something stirring within.- Aliens script by James Cameron 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC www.dailyscript.com [Source type: Original source]
[33][47] .^ Initial test shots of the eggs were filmed using hen 's eggs, and this footage was used in early teaser trailers.
^ Only one shot was filmed using blue screen compositing: that of the shuttle racing past the Nostromo .
^ The spaceships and planets for the film were shot using models and miniatures.
.^ For this reason a hen's egg was used as the primary image for the film's advertising poster, and became a lasting image for the series as a whole rather than the Alien egg that actually appears in the film.
^ The origin of the jockey creature was not explored in the film, but Scott later theorized that it might have been the ship's pilot, and that the ship might have been a weapons carrier capable of dropping Alien eggs onto a planet so that the Aliens could use the local lifeforms as hosts.
^ However, he was keen on emphasizing horror in Alien rather than fantasy, describing the film as " The Texas Chain Saw Massacre of science fiction".
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![A man covered with sweat lays on a medical examination table, with a spider-like alien creature covering his face. <a name=]()
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^ It lands on her legs and she snaps her head to one side just as its TAIL STINGER buries into the metal wall beside her cheek.- Aliens script by James Cameron 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC www.dailyscript.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The thing's tail whips around her throat and begins to tighten, forcing the underside of its body close to her.- Aliens script by James Cameron 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC www.dailyscript.com [Source type: Original source]
^ The facehugger itself was the first creature that Giger designed for the film, going through several versions in different sizes before deciding on a small creature with humanlike fingers and a long tail.
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.^ File:Alien-The Facehugger.png The "facehugger" was the first creature Giger designed for the film, giving it humanlike fingers and a long tail.
^ The facehugger itself was the first creature that Giger designed for the film, going through several versions in different sizes before deciding on a small creature with humanlike fingers and a long tail.
^ H.R. Giger's iconic biomechanical creature comes to life in this new 7" Alien Warrior action figure, based on its appearance in James Cameron's blockbuster 1986 film, Aliens!
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.^ The "facehugger" and its proboscis , which was made of a sheep's intestine , were shot out of the egg using high-pressure air hoses.
^ The creature rips at high-pressure hoses.- Aliens script by James Cameron 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC www.dailyscript.com [Source type: Original source]
^ FAUST We could put on our pressure suits and blow all the air out of the ship.- Alien script by Dan O'Bannon & Ronald Shusett 15 September 2009 4:15 UTC www.dailyscript.com [Source type: Original source]
.^ The shot was acted out and filmed in reverse, then reversed and slowed down in editing to prolong the effect and show more detail.
^ Bower carved Kane's burial shroud out of wood and it was launched through the hatch using a small catapult and filmed at high speed, then slowed down in editing.
^ For its day, this show boasted some of the best visual effects on television (cheezy by today’s standards of course) with detailed scale models and stop-motion aliens.
[33][47] .^ The facehugger itself was the first creature that Giger designed for the film, going through several versions in different sizes before deciding on a small creature with humanlike fingers and a long tail.
^ File:Alien-The Facehugger.png The "facehugger" was the first creature Giger designed for the film, giving it humanlike fingers and a long tail.
^ H.R. Giger's iconic biomechanical creature comes to life in this new 7" Alien Warrior action figure, based on its appearance in James Cameron's blockbuster 1986 film, Aliens!
[33][43] Dan O'Bannon drew his own version based on Giger's design, with help from Ron Cobb, which became the final version.
[43] .^ Cobb came up with the idea that the creature could have a powerful acid for blood, a characteristic that would carry over to the adult Alien and would make it impossible for the crew to kill it by conventional means such as guns or explosives, since the acid would burn through the ship's hull.
^ For some scenes, such as when the Alien lowers itself from the ceiling to kill Brett, the creature was portrayed by stuntmen Eddie Powell and Roy Scammell; [14] [35] in that scene a costumed Powell was suspended on wires and then lowered in an unfurling motion.
^ The origin of the jockey creature was not explored in the film, but Scott later theorized that it might have been the ship's pilot, and that the ship might have been a weapons carrier capable of dropping Alien eggs onto a planet so that the Aliens could use the local lifeforms as hosts.
[15] .^ For the scene in which the dead facehugger is examined, Scott used pieces of fish and shellfish to create its viscera .
^ The same technique was used for the scene in which the crew members encounter the dead alien creature in the derelict spacecraft.
^ For the scene in which the Nostromo detaches from the refinery, a thirty-foot docking arm was created using pieces from model railway kits.
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Chestburster
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^ The facehugger itself was the first creature that Giger designed for the film, going through several versions in different sizes before deciding on a small creature with humanlike fingers and a long tail.
^ File:Alien-The Facehugger.png The "facehugger" was the first creature Giger designed for the film, giving it humanlike fingers and a long tail.
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.^ The chestburster was shoved up through the torso by a puppeteer who held it on a stick.
^ File:Alien-The Chestburster.png The "chestburster" was shoved up through the table and false torso by a puppeteer.
^ The scene was shot in one take using an artificial torso filled with blood and viscera, with Hurt's head and arms coming up from underneath the table.
[33] The scene has been recognized as one of the film's most memorable.
.^ The design of the "chestburster" was inspired by Francis Bacon 's 1944 painting Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion .
^ File:H.R. Giger - Necronom IV.jpg H.R. Giger 's 1976 painting Necronom IV inspired the design of the Alien.
[33] .^ This engraving represents the Alien originally designed by HR Giger from Alien 3 and numbererd and signed to 99 copies only!
^ This final change was viewed by many as the most egregious, destroying the closing note of the original version.
[33] .^ For the filming of the chestburster scene the cast members knew that the creature would be bursting out of John Hurt , and had seen the chestburster puppet, but they had not been told that fake blood would also be bursting out in every direction from high-pressure pumps and squibs .
^ The creature rips at high-pressure hoses.- Aliens script by James Cameron 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC www.dailyscript.com [Source type: Original source]
^ Much of the blood and tissues that they need could be supplied from slaughterhouses and there would be no more mutilations.- Aliens Part 1 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC spacepub.com [Source type: Original source]
[38] .^ The scene was shot in one take using an artificial torso filled with blood and viscera, with Hurt's head and arms coming up from underneath the table.
^ For the bulk of the scene Holm knelt under the table with his head coming up through a hole and milk , caviar , pasta , and glass marbles were used to show the android's inner workings and fluids.
^ This one is slower paced, quieter, perhaps because it is part of the trilogy, and he needed to set-up the “scene” so to speak.
The chestburster was shoved up through the torso by a puppeteer who held it on a stick.
.^ When the creature burst through the chest a stream of blood shot directly at Veronica Cartwright , shocking her enough that she fell over and went into hysterics.
^ Kane awakens seemingly unharmed, but during a meal before re-entering stasis he begins to choke and convulse until an alien creature bursts from his chest, killing him and escaping into the ship.
^ A spray of BRIGHT YELLOW ACID slashes across Drake's face and chest, eating into him like a hot knife through butter.- Aliens script by James Cameron 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC www.dailyscript.com [Source type: Original source]
[14][33][38] .^ According to Tom Skerritt : "What you saw on camera was the real response.
.^ She had no idea what the hell happened.
.^ We had to split up, and as I sat there in the dark, and the first fighters zoomed in from what seemed just over my head, all my childhood readings of Asimov, Heinlein and Clarke came to life, and I KNEW that this was what I loved – space and all it’s glories.
^ BROUSSARD (over, filtered) Well, the sun just came up again, and it seems the wind's died down.- Alien script by Dan O'Bannon & Ronald Shusett 15 September 2009 4:15 UTC www.dailyscript.com [Source type: Original source]
^ A new board for discussing all things Alien and Predator has opened up here !
[33] .^ The creature then runs off-camera, an effect accomplished by cutting a slit in the table for the puppeteer's stick to go through and passing an air hose through the puppet's tail to make it whip about.
^ I said it before when talking about the rumor , but this is going to make for one awesome live-action movie.
^ Large air shafts run off in different directions.
[33] .^ The real-life surprise of the actors gave the scene an intense sense of realism and made it one of the film's most memorable moments.
^ The scene has been recognized as one of the film's most memorable.
^ Scott chose not to show the Alien in full through most of the film, showing only pieces of it while keeping most of its body in shadow in order to heighten the sense of suspense and terror.
.^ During preview screenings the crew noticed that some viewers would move towards the back of the theater so as not to be too close to the screen during the scene.
^ A separate model, approximately forty feet long, was created for the Nostromo' s underside from which the Narcissus would detach and from which Kane's body would be launched during the funeral scene.
^ Some of these were closed by secret raids of government teams that were especially established to defuse the influence and presence of these bases, particularly during the 1960s and early 1970s.- Aliens Part 1 2 February 2010 13:23 UTC spacepub.com [Source type: Original source]
[53] .^ Alien named as top 18-rated scene .
^ In 2007, the British film magazine Empire named the chestburster scene as the greatest 18-rated moment in film as part of its "18th birthday" issue, ranking it above the decapitation scene in The Omen (1976) and the transformation sequence in An American Werewolf in London (1981).
^ In 2008 the American Film Institute ranked Alien as the seventh-best film in the science fiction genre as part of AFI's 10 TOP 10 , a CBS television special ranking the ten greatest movies in ten classic American film genres.
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