leading from
drawing of a triangle from the early Alien script, found scratched into the alien pilot's dashboard. |
Ron Cobb's alien skeleton pilot remains where the triangle image warning is found. |
Suddenly, Melkonis lets out a grunt of shock. Their lights have
illuminated something unspeakably grotesque: A HUGE ALIEN SKELETON,
SEATED IN THE CONTROL CHAIR.
They approach the skeleton, their lights trained on it. IT IS A
GROTESQUE THING, BEARING NO RESEMBLANCE TO THE HUMAN FORM.
MELKONIS
Holy Christ...
Standard shines his light on the console at which the hideous skeleton
is seated. He moves his light closer and peers at the panel.
STANDARD
Look at this...
They approach.
STANDARD (CONT'D)
Something has been scratched here...
into the veneer. See?
Traced raggedly onto the surface of the panel, as by the point of a
sharp instrument, is a small triangle:
Tintin finds the crashed plane and goes hunting for crew |
Derelict ship by Chris Foss for Alien |
c) Discovery of items
On Thursday June 10th 2017, I find myself looking through the comic book story "Tintin and The Black Island",
Part of the story involves looking for a plane, and soon Tintin discovers the crashed remains of the aircraft and afterwards in the woods nearby finds a pilot's leather jacket and nearby discovers a torn up note that when assembled shows a triangle.
On Thursday June 10th 2017, I find myself looking through the comic book story "Tintin and The Black Island",
Part of the story involves looking for a plane, and soon Tintin discovers the crashed remains of the aircraft and afterwards in the woods nearby finds a pilot's leather jacket and nearby discovers a torn up note that when assembled shows a triangle.
Tintin finds a leather pilot's jacket and a torn up note. From "The Adventures of Tintin: The Black Island" |
On May 28th 2019, I found online an image of the original version of this part of the story as published in Le Petit Vingtième 26, from 1937, where instead of just a flight jacket, Tintin finds a whole flight suit. The pieces of the letter displayed against a black background are presented as a puzzle for readers.
Le Petit Vingtième 26, 1937 |
d) Flight jacket and triangle note transformations
Thinking about this in relation to the information I've gathered from reading "Red Rackham's Treasure"
In the Alien script, the crashed aeroplane merged with the idea of the Unicorn shipwreck transforms into the derelict ship.
Thinking about this in relation to the information I've gathered from reading "Red Rackham's Treasure"
In the Alien script, the crashed aeroplane merged with the idea of the Unicorn shipwreck transforms into the derelict ship.
The pilot's jacket would transform into the alien space pilot remains in the derelict ship
This
Triangle
though is a reference to an area with three trees with red flare lights in the branches, where something
was going to be dropped by a passing aircraft but merged with the
document from the Unicorn shipwreck transforms into a warning about a
relatively nearby pyramid building.
Tintin assembles the ripped up note and there is a triangle image. From "The Adventures of Tintin: The Black Island" |
e) The beast of the black island
While
Tintin gets caught up in an incident involving a gang of
counterfeiters, and this eventually leads to a castle on the black
island in Scotland rumoured to be a place where The Beast lives and
devours anyone who visits the place. It turns out to be where the counterfeiters are based with their printing press down in the basement, and a large gorilla named Ranko trained to kill intruders.
In
Alien, Broussard who becomes the character Kane gets caught up in an
alien life cycle ritual, and gives birth to a creature that turns into a
six foot tall murderous tentacled beast.
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