a) Cocoon scene Ridleygram
For an cut scene from Alien, involving the humans transforming into alien spores, Ridley provided Fantastic Films magazine with a storyboard that showed a Dallas in his slow transformation represented by a empty bubble with his hands and head appearing at the top.
For an cut scene from Alien, involving the humans transforming into alien spores, Ridley provided Fantastic Films magazine with a storyboard that showed a Dallas in his slow transformation represented by a empty bubble with his hands and head appearing at the top.
It might not have occurred to many that this was supposed to be the character engulfed in a ball of fire rather than the spore.. But here we seemed to have a human form crying out for help in a bubble surrounded by a wall of flesh.
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| Ridley Scott's storyboard for Ripley using the flame thrower on Dallas in the alien nest |
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| scene from Brainstorm |
c) Conveyor belt to Devil's Garbage disposal
A scene in this death tape unfolds where humans were stuck inside these bubbles within a landscape of flesh that was supposed to be a sort humans meshed together into a flowing form leading towards the Devil's Garbage disposal. The director wanted to have a whole landscape of flesh seen from afar but he had to settle for closeups and in the final movie only a short clip of what was intended was actually seen.
A scene in this death tape unfolds where humans were stuck inside these bubbles within a landscape of flesh that was supposed to be a sort humans meshed together into a flowing form leading towards the Devil's Garbage disposal. The director wanted to have a whole landscape of flesh seen from afar but he had to settle for closeups and in the final movie only a short clip of what was intended was actually seen.
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| scene from Brainstorm |
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| scene from Brainstorm |
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| Alison Yerxa confers with one of her effects "actors" prior to shooting live-action segments for eventual rear-projection into the hell scapes. (Cinefex 14: p43) |
- Doug Trumbull: Even though everyone referred to it as 'hell', it really isn't, in any literal sense. It's a hellish image of pain and torture. We used a lot of animal guts in that scene, trying to get the feeling of vulnerability and physical pain and compression in one rapid-fire burst of images.(Cinefex 14:
- Doug Trumbull: I wanted something quite different where that is totally in another dimension - that it didn't adhere to any of the laws of physical science. It was going to be very organic, sort of decayed and desiccated, a horrible place with thousands of people all meshed in it, caught, trapped - all sort of flowing down towards a big Devil's Garbage Disposal, and dressed with actual entrails and cow intestines.(Cinefex 14: p43)
I'm always disturbed by this scene whenever I see the movie.
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