Alien 3: Facehugger hidden in victim's chest by HR Giger

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a) In the sketch drawn in what looks like September, we find that the tail connects with the woman's groin. we see a side view of the the body at the bottom with the fingers of the facehugger inside and the transparent coffin drawn at the end of the woman's legs.
 

Drawing by HR Giger (9/90_ (source: http://www.angelfire.com/)



b) In the drawing 104, firmly dates 24th August 1990, we find that the tail is drawn with the end looking as if it's turning into Ripley's brain.



Drawing by HR Giger for Alien III, CIV, (24th August 1990)

c) Here the face hugger is drawn as if it is inside the woman who is supposed to be Ripley, in a transparent coffin.
 
It's in the ribcage and the while the main body and tail becomes the spine. 
 
Something to point out is that David Fincher made sarcastic remarks about Ripley dying at the end of the Larry Ferguson script and like Snow White put in her tube waiting for Prince Charming to come along and wake her up. 
 
In the fairy tale Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs, they build her a glass coffin . So I wonder if it has something to do with thar ending then
 
  1.  Fincher: In the draft Larry was writing, she was going to be this women who had fallen from the stars. In the end she dies, and there are seven monks left—seven dwarfs.
    Q: You’re kidding.
    Fincher: Seriously. I swear to God. She was like… what’s her name in Peter Pan? She was like Wendy. And she would make up all these stories. And in the end, there were these seven dwarfs left, and there was this fucking tube they put her in, and they were waiting for Prince Charming to come wake her up. So that was one of the endings we had for this movie. You can imagine what Joe Roth said when he heard this. “What?! What are they doing over there?! What the fuck is going on?!”  ("Mother from another planet",  Premiere March 1992) )

d) Snow White and the Seven dwarfs
 
d.i) The dwarves gather around snow white who has been poisoned with a poisoned apple
 

 
d.ii) Snow White in her glass coffin waiting for Prince Charming to come along
 



d.iii) Are we waiting for Prince Charming to come along and get face hugged?


Chris Cunningham's / Halls' earlier Alien artwork

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a) From the 1992-1993, Chris Halls painted various illustrations of Aliens that conformed to the style of Simon Bisley, another illustrator of these aliens , known for his work in the comic book 2000AD. Hall's style generated images of these scythe like alien heads that had long jaws and from the front looked very narrow. The heads were generally very sinewy and muscular at the side in a way that might reflect the idea of tapping into the unconscious.

b) For Issue 18 of the comic book, Halls painted an Alien that differed from this style completely going for the alien queen as it would appear in the Aliens movie without any significant elaboration.

Aliens Issue 13 (July 1993) comic book cover by Chris Halls
This was given to Jack Hughes personally from Chris Cunningham/Halls when 
he was workingon Alien 3 as the concept artist and sculptor of the Alien. The 
head of the creature bears the same sort of sinuous details evident on the 
Aliens comic book cover above (source www.comicartfans.com/)

Alien drawn by Chris Halls for Alastair at the U.K.C.A.C. 93
(source: somethingfortheweakened.co.uk)

Aliens # 17 UK comic book cover,  June 1992, by Chris Halls


Alien # 5 UK comic book cover (Nov 1992) by Chris Halls

Aliens # 7 UK comic book cover (Jan 1993) by Chris Halls
Aliens # 18 UK comic book cover Dec 1993 by Chris Halls



Illustration intended for Aliens #23 UK, titled Aliens: Matrix.


Alien 3: inspiration from Element of Crime ?


a) Abundance of bald men
Alien 3 had an abundance of bald people as did Element of Crime including its director Lars Von Trier who appeared in a scene bald as a hotelier, and a main vicious character is a bald man, in Element of Crime it is a brutal police chief Kramer, and in Alien 3, it is the prison warden Andrews.  
 
 
 
 
Kramer talking to Fisher in Element of Crime
 
 
 
Andrews the prison warden in Alien 3
 
 
 
b) Child Killers
The lead character Fisher is hunting a child murderer named Grey, and in Alien 3, a percentage of the prisoners in the film are child killers


The bald cultists in Element of Crime

bald prison inmates in Alien 3


The bald cultists in Element of Crime
 
 
 
 
c) Autopsy of a young girl
An autopsy is performed on a young girl who died sufforcation at the hands of the killer Harry Grey in Element of Crime. 
 
The autopsy surgeon's assistant soon falls asleep on a surface covered in surgical tools
 
In Alien 3, an autopsy is conducted on the body of the character Newt who is revealed to have drowned in her cryotube. Meanwhile Ripley dares not try to say what she's afraid of that might have killed the girl, claiming that her concerns were about cholera infection. 
 
Meanwhile Clemens' assistant who is sitting on the staircase starts to yawn perhaps on the verge of falling asleep



autopsy of a your girl scene in Element of Crime


autopsy of a young girl scene in Element of Crime

 
The sleeping assistant in Element of Crime
 
Clemens as he performs the autopsy on the young girl Newt's corpse in Alien 3
 
 
Clemens and Ripley after the autopsy on the young girl Newt's corpse in Alien 3



The assistant who's yawning and perhaps on the verge of falling asleep in Alien 3

 
 
 
d) Loris in a hole to juvenile alien in a hole
 
At the end of Element of Crime, Fisher's way out of the world is through finding a lid with a hole in the ground, perhaps a sewer line, where he finds a loris, and asks to be woken up from the hypnotic state. While it would be hard to connect the two completely, they both appear to be holes in the ground that  and both contain a surrealistic creature that brings an end to the role of the character looking inside the hole.

In Alien 3, a prison inmate Murphy shines his light on the young alien hiding in a hole in the floor of an airshaft, he looks in and the young alien spits acid in his face sending the Murphy to his doom torn to pieces by a fan blade.
 
 
 
In Element of Crime, Fisher looks into the hole, finding a Loris,
he wants to get out of this dreamlike world. The film ends
 


In Alien 3, Murphy discovers the small alien
curled up in the hole in Alien 3, and his life ends
 

 
 
e) Bishop 2's intentions falling apart like Fisher of "Element of Crime"   
 
The lead character of Element of Crime, the character Fisher is there to hunt a child killer, but by the end of he has found himself turning into a child killer despite his best intentions.  
 
Perhaps that was slightly like the way that in Blade Runner, Deckard intends to hunt Replicants down and then in the story, whether he was supposed to be a replicant or not, now he has become one or he has always been one all the time


Bishop 2 from Alien comes to Ripley seeming to have the best intentions, he intends to have the alien queen removed from her to be killed and then allow her to start a new life. 
 
He claims that he himself is not an android, but the progenitor of Bishop the android. 
 
In denying that he is an android he has perhaps become the strangest android of them all
 
However he wanted the alien queen specimen to learn from and surely he would have only wanted to create more aliens from it
 
Perhaps whoever or whatever he was, with the side of his head opened up, the big question still arises about whether he is a human or an android even if some demand that there is no question about whether he was a human or not because in the script he appears to simply be a human being mistaken for one of his androids
 
(See also: Haven't a clue about Bishop 2
 
Michael Elphick as Fisher in Element of Crime




Bishop 2 with the side of his head hanging open
 
 
 
f) Lars von Trier sees the Alien 3 similarities
 
d.vii.a) Years later Lars Von Trier himself was able to see the similarities between his Element of Crime and Alien 3, one thing to take notice of was its cinema photography and indeed this film was made near enough in his style. 
 
Bald apocalyptic cultist about to near enough bunjee jump off a crane in a diving ritual

The beach and the cranes in Alien 3

 
 
d.vii.a) But a beach with an abundance of lamps that might have reminded some viewers of the lamp bulbs in the beach scenes and also there were cranes.



Lit light bulbs on the ground of the beach



 
Lit light bulbs along the ground of the beach

 
 

  1. Lars Von Trier: Of course it would be nice if somebody would use some of these little things that I've been experimenting with. But I'm sure film changes rather quickly. You know I saw Alien 3 recently and it looked exactly like "The Element of Crime" - the locations whatever exactly the same. And I don't know how much ten years or so between. So you know everything changes all the time. And yeah, it would be fine if they used it in changing things.(Lars Von Trier interviewed by Linda Badley soon before September 2006 (Contemporary Film Directors), p162, 2011) 




g) Alien Resurrection references Von Trier's work 
However, when it came to making the following film in the Alien series, being Alien Resurrection (released 1997), Jean-Pierre Jeunet would openly cite Lars Von Trier as one of his influences for the movie although Jeunet's movie here would not be the movie that Lars would be comparing to his own

 

h) Lars Von Trier was the chestburster

During the scene where Lars Von Trier plays a shaven headed hotel clerk, in the commentary for the Element of Crime DVD, Lars Von Trier mockingly claims that this person is an actor who appears in Alien as the one who comes out of John Hurt's stomach.

  1. Tom Elling: And who's that

    Tomas Gislasen: I don't know. Wow that's scary What's he been in since?

    Lars Von Trier: In Alien.

    Tomas Gislasen: A promising career

    Lars Von Trier: He's the one coming out of John Hurt's stomach.  (Element of Crime DVD commentary)