tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086941578419555377.post2037325552609994438..comments2024-03-04T12:09:13.941-08:00Comments on <center>Alien Explorations</center>: Alien: The Garage - "Treasure Room" - Temple EnvironmentUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086941578419555377.post-87078563050959853162023-07-31T07:37:49.525-07:002023-07-31T07:37:49.525-07:00I have to say all these years later that looking a...I have to say all these years later that looking at this scene in terms of the original version of the tomb sequence from The Adventures of Tintin: The Pharoah's Cigars as published in Le Petit Vingtième back in the 1930s, I don't bother to think about the idea of sacrifice so much (other than Kane becoming like the sacrificial victim in the alien life cycle from O'Bannon's original script), it's like a drug hallucination that opens up the mind to deep memories and inspires weird and unearthly fears in the person's mind, and the image of the pharoah in the Tintin story looks as if he's ready to touch Tintin on the head, and so curiously becomes the alien beast . I do look at the idea that Ridley was often busy trying to basically construct the film as best as he could in the limited time given and that there wasn't always time to have a sensible back stories for every little thing, but a scene like this spews out so many ideas as if they must have been on the tips of everyone's tongue and perhaps they were making use of these associations at every moment. Today we can think that every time the man in the alien suit is posing, it looks as if the alien must be becoming one thing or another, such as with arms stretched out becoming a cross like formation, and anything associated with that. But I suppose there are these multiple sides to the scene to explore with the idea that this Alien is somehow the devil, the antichrist or even some sort of messiah. Of course they were talking about it. I suppose it seem as if they were setting up dream like chains of events leading to deaths, as if we're dealing with another version of The Omen, or it could even be the Wicker Man. As we know there was never really any valid reason why the alien should be in the Narcissus other than to get to the end of he film, but they played with it in the most interesting ways they could as well. There is also now a scene from a 1970s Pink Panther comic book which I connect with Brett's death as well. Will I find something else that no one will dare talk about?wmmvrrvrrmmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10052091646279943607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086941578419555377.post-62114000971633885852016-11-21T07:42:42.957-08:002016-11-21T07:42:42.957-08:00Bit of a late response, but I'm just wondering...Bit of a late response, but I'm just wondering to what degree things unconsciously took form without people realising it and perhaps it was so obviously there when they realised what was going on and they couldn't avoid it. Of course, Ridly designed some of these sets as temples like environments, but what the context was and how it should relate to anything else is something to wonder about. So it looks as if the whole of the set of the upper level of the Nostromo looks as if it almost wanted to transform into a Kabbalic Tree of Life. It's confusing. I'm thinking about that Jones Town Massacre that took place the year Alien was made. Odd things were possibly in the air.wmmvrrvrrmmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10052091646279943607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086941578419555377.post-3960549408199276582015-07-28T12:09:13.346-07:002015-07-28T12:09:13.346-07:00There is a ritualistic feeling to this scene. Bret...There is a ritualistic feeling to this scene. Brett moves inexorably towards sacrifice, through the portal of the landing bay doors of his own free will, then cleansed and anointed by the gentle rain. The creature descends in a messianic pose, arms outstretched, pierces Brett then carries him aloft towards the light.<br /><br />Scott and Rawlings were playing conspicuously with these themes and images in this scene. The more I read of their comments, the more apparent this becomes- it was deliberate. It almost reads like a scene from the Wicker Man.<br /><br />On a side note, Ripley's cursory inspection of the garage area, conducted as Parker and Brett are fixing the electrics for the storage room door, set up the sense of false security whereby Brett could stroll carelessly into deadly peril. She makes a few blunders on the way to becoming a hero... Adrian McKennahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17167586793217868937noreply@blogger.com