tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10869415784195553772024-03-17T02:46:54.346-07:00Alien Explorations<center>Exploring the "Alien" Movies and HR Giger.<br> All entries are continuously edited and altered. <br> Articles are published not by actual date.</center>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2818125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086941578419555377.post-91321054869700591382022-06-30T21:03:00.000-07:002024-02-11T15:11:55.903-08:00"Alien" Explorations Index<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><span style="font-size: large;">The Alien Saga</span></u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2010/04/alien-3.html">3. Alien 3</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2010/03/prometheus_06.html">7. Promethe<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">us</span></a></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/alien-5.html"><span style="font-size: large;">9. Alien 5</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: -small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Any donations for work done on this website are accepted via <a href="https://www.paypal.me/alienexplorations">Paypal.me</a>.</span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: -small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Perhaps you could even buy me a cup of coffeee! </span></span></span></span><br /></span></b></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></b></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></b></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Other Alien blogs, forums and sites to explore:</span></b></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> <a href="http://avpgalaxy.net/">AVPGalaxy.net</a> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: -small;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: -small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: -small;"><a href="http://propsummit.com/">Propsummit.com</a> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: -small;"><a href="http://www.zen171398.zen.co.uk/">TheRealCharlesLippincott.blogspot.co.uk</a></span></span></span> <br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: -small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: -small;"><a href="http://www.zen171398.zen.co.uk/">Dennis Lowe's website</a></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: -small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: -small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: -small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.martinbowersmodelworld.com/">Martin Bower's Model World</a></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: -small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: -small;"> </span></span> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: -small;"><a href="http://monsterlegacy.blogspot.co.uk/">Monsterlegacy.blogspot.co.uk. </a></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: -small;"><a href="https://thenostromofiles.com/">thenostromofiles.com</a> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: -small;"><a href="https://retrocosm.net/2013/07/03/in-space-no-one-can-hear-you-scream/">retrocosm.net</a> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: -small;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: -small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: -small;"><a href="https://www.avpcentral.com/">www.avpcentral.com</a></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: -small;"><a href="http://alienseries.wordpress.com/">Strange Shapes</a></span> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: -small;"><a href="http://www.scified.com/blog/weylandyutaniarchives">Weyland Yutani Archives</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: -small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://lanimadelmostro.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: -small;">L'AnimaDelMostro.blogspot.com</span></span></span></a></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: -small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: -small;"><a href="https://runesoup.com/2016/05/solving-prometheus-the-most-astrognostic-film-ever/">runesoup.com</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: -small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: -small;"><a href="https://aliens30anni.wordpress.com">30 anni di ALIENS</a></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: -small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">& my exploratory Alien fan art and ideas site,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> <a href="http://alienpredalienadinfinitum.blogspot.co.uk/">Alien Predalien Ad Infinitum</a></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and my other site just about my own <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">other thoughts</span></span></span></span><br />
<a href="http://wmmvrrvrrmm.blogspot.co.uk/">The Wmmvrrvrrmm blog </a><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><u><b>Making of Alien3</b></u></div><div style="text-align: center;">Scriptwriters and directors</div><div style="text-align: center;">a) <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1987/10/first-alien-3-plans.html">First plans</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">b) <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1992/01/clive-barker-and-alien-3.html">Clive Barker asked to scriptwrite</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">c) <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1987/10/william-gibson-and-alien-3.html">William Gibson works on a script</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">d) <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/renny-harlin-alien-3.html">Renny Harlin attempts to make Alien 3</a></div><div style="text-align: center;">e) <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1991/08/vincent-wards-alien-3.html">Vincent Ward attempts to make Alien 3</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">f) </span><a href="https://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2022/05/alien-3-david-fincher-takes-up-role-of.html">David Fincher takes up the role of director</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">g)<span style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></b><span><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1992/08/havent-clue-about-bishop-2.html">Haven't a clue about Bishop 2</a></span></span></span> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">h) <span><a href="https://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2021/09/alien-3-timeline.html">Alien 3 timeline: production etc</a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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a) <a href="https://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2019/11/alien-3-gillis-and-woodruff-get-job.html">Gillis and Woodruff get the job</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div>b) <a href="https://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2019/11/alien-3-gillis-and-woodruff-see-signs.html">Gillis and Woodruff see signs of Fincher's fighting spirit</a></div><div><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b> </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Alien Life Forms </b></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>a)</b> <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1992/09/riddle-of-alien-3-beast-with-4-legs.html">Giger's Alien lifeforms</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-size: small;"><span><b>a.i) </b><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1992/05/gigers-alien-3-beast-version-1.html">Alien 3 beast version 1</a></span><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span></span><span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><span><b>a.ii) </b><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1992/04/gigers-new-alien-3-beast.html">Alien 3 beast version 2</a></span><span><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times", "times new roman", serif;"></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times", "times new roman", serif;"><b>a.iii)</b> <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1992/04/gigers-bambi-burster.html">Bambi-burster</a></span><span style="font-family: "times", "times new roman", serif;"><b> </b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times", "times new roman", serif;"><b>a.iv) </b></span><span><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/gigers-super-facehugger.html"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Super Face-Hugger</span></a></span></span></div><div><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">a.v)</span></span></span></b> <a href="https://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2022/10/alien-3-facehugger-hidden-in-victims.html">Facehugger hidden in victims chest </a>
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a) <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1992/09/alien-3-cpl-dwayne-hickss-dead-body-prop.html">Cpl. Dwayne Hicks's Dead Body</a> </div><div>b) <a href="https://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2021/12/alien-3-stunt-ripley.html">A stunt Ripley</a><div>c) <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/alien-3-pair-of-mummies.html">Pair of mummies</a></div><div>d) <a href="https://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2019/02/alien-3-sigourney-weaver-plaster-cast.html">Sigourney Weaver plaster cast 'life mask' </a></div><div>e) <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/alien-3-blueprints.html">Blueprints</a></div><div>f) Creature props, artwork etc</div><div>f.i) <a href="https://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2020/04/alec-gillis-couple-of-my-sketches-from.html">Alec Gillis' concept art (Face Hugger and Dog Burster) </a></div><div>f.ii) <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2021/09/alien-3-mockup-of-alien-beast-puppet.html">Early mockup of the Alien beast puppet</a><div>f.iii) <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/alien-3-baby-alien-queen-prop.html">Baby alien queen prop</a></div><div>f.iv) <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/alien-3-scale-three-piece-production.html">¼ scale three-piece production casting of the Alien</a><br />
f.v) <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2018/01/alien-3-adi-alien-3-rod-puppet-maquette.html">Alien 3 Rod Puppet Maquette original production material</a><br />
f.vi) <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/alien-3-bambi-dogburster-hero.html">Dogburster hero animatronic puppet original movie prop</a><br />
f.vii) <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/alien-3-xenomorph-dogburster-head-cast.html">Dogburster Head cast original production material</a><br />
f.viii) <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/alien-3-dog-burster-paint-reference.html">Dog Burster Paint Reference Prototype Head </a> </div><div>f.ix) <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/alien-alien-ox-bambi-burster-head.html">Ox "bambi burster" head</a> </div><div>f.x) <a href="https://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2022/05/alien-3-dog-puppet-with-dogburster-alien.html">Dog Puppet with Dogburster Alien</a></div><div>fi) <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/alien-3-alien-creature-reference-model.html">Alien creature reference model</a> <div>f.xii) <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1997/06/gino-acevedos-alien-painting-guide.html">Gino Acevedos alien painting guid</a>e</div><div> </div><p></p>
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<span style="font-size: small;">c) </span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1992/09/alien-3-kevins-phil-davis-prisoner.html"><span style="font-size: -small;">Kevin's (<i>Phil Davis</i>) costume</span></a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">d) </span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1992/09/alien-3-erics-niall-buggy-costume.html">Eric's (<i>Niall Buggy</i>) costume</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">e) </span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/alien-3-dillon-complete-costume-6.html">Dillon's (<i>Charles Dutton</i>) costume</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">f) </span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2018/04/alien-3-william-near-complete-costume-4.html">William's (<i>Clive Mantle</i>) costume </a> </span><br />
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<b><b>See: </b></b><b><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2004/04/avp-peter-briggs-vs-paul-anderson.html">The Development of Peter Briggs' AvP script</a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b> <span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"> <u><b>Making the movie</b></u></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>See: <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2004/07/paul-ws-anderson-sells-v-p.html">Paul W. S. Anderson comes on board</a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b> </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><b>See: </b></b><b><b><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2004/09/tatopoulos-concept-work-for-alien-vs.html">Patrick Tatopoulos's concept work for alien lifeforms</a></b></span></b> <br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b> </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><b><b>See: </b></b></b><b><b><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2004/07/avp-ron-shusett-and-dan-obannons.html">Ron Shusett and Dan O'Bannon's involvement</a></b> </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b> </b></div></div><span style="font-size: small;">
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<b> </b></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><b><b><b><b><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><b><b><b><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><b><b><b><b><span style="font-size: small;"><b><b><b><b><b><b>See:</b></b></b></b></b></b></span></b></b></b></b></b></b></span></b></span></span></b></b></b></b></b></b></span></b></b></b></b></b></b></span></b></span></span><b> </b></b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2004/07/sigourney-weaver-vs-alien-vs-predator.html">Sigourney Weaver vs Alien vs Predator </a></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">See: </span></b></span><a href="https://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2022/01/aliens-vs-predator-borrowing-from-jack.html">Borrowed from Jack Kirby's The Eternals #19 </a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: small;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1997/05/alien-resurrection-reviving-alien.html">Reviving the Alien Franchise </a></span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: small;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1997/11/whedon-writes-alien-resurrection-script.html">Whedon<span style="color: #fce5cd;"> </span>writes<span style="color: #fce5cd;"> </span>the Alien Resurrection<span style="color: #fce5cd;"> </span>script</a></span><br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: small;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2006/03/joss-whelan-injects-vampiric-blood-into.html">Whedon injects vampiric blood into the script</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2018/11/alien-resurrection-calling-sigourney.html"><span styl="">Calling Sigourney</span></a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1987/05/alien-resurrection-winona-ryder-cast-as.html">Winona Ryder cast as Annalee Call</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Marco Brambilla <i>(<a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ripley-s-alive-believe-it-or-not-1.129720">mentioned in the Irish Times</a>)</i> </span></span></center>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1997/11/alien-resurrection-signing-jeunet-on.html">Signing Jeunet on</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: small;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1997/05/alien-resurrection-darius-khondji.html">Inspired by Francis Bacon</a> </span></div>
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</span></a><span style="font-size: small;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2016/03/jeunets-life-in-beverly-hills.html"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><u>Creature and SFX</u> department </span></u></span><br /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1997/03/alien-resurrection-newborn.html">The Newborn</a></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1997/09/alien-resurrection-alien-newborn-adi.html">ADI's Newborn Rod Puppet</a></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2020/04/alien-resurrection-alien-beast-cgi_66.html">Swimming Aliens</a></span><br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/alien-resurrection-alien-newborn-skull.html">The Newborn skull casting hard copy (original production material)</a> </span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1997/09/the-vipers-nest.html">The Viper Pit / Nest</a><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1997/09/alien-resurrection-alien-stunt-head-prop.html">Alien Stunt Head Prop (Genuine?)</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2021/12/alien-3-animatronic-puppet-for-charles.html">Dr Wren (JE Freeman) Animatronic Bust</a><br /><br /><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: small;">Costumes</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1997/09/alien-resurrection-di-stephanos-costume.html">DiStephano's costume</a></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1997/09/alien-resurrectiion-vriess-costume.html">Vriess' costume</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1997/09/alien-resurrection-hillards-costume.html">Hillard's costume</a></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1997/09/alien-resurrection-christies-costume.html">Christie's costume</a></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/alien-resurrection-auriga-crew-costume.html">Auriga crew costume</a> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><b>Concept Artists</b></span></u></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.hu/1997/05/sylvain-despretz.html">Sylvain Despretz wheelchair, guns and auriga concepts</a></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1997/05/chris-cunningham-halls-alien.html">Chris Cunningham / Halls alien warrior and newborn concepts</a></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1997/09/steve-wang.html">Steve Wang Ripley clone, alien newborn and alien warrior maquettes</a></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1997/09/jordu-schells-work-on-alien-resurrection.html">Jordu Schell's Alien, Newborn and Ripley 7 maquettes</a>'s</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1997/05/alien-warrior-concepts-by-art-lee.html">Arthur Lee's Alien warriors</a></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1997/05/ripley-clone-concept-art.html">unnamed Ripley Clone Concept Art </a></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/alien-resurrection-closeup-study-of.html">unnamed 2 Closeup study of an Alien Warrior</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2022/11/lot-36-alien-resurrection-1997-large.html">unnamed 3 Xenomorph Concept Sketch</a></span></div></span><span style="font-size: small;"><div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"> <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1997/09/gigers-letter-to-twentieth-century-fox.html">Giger's letter to 20th C Fox no.1 (November 13th 1997)</a></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2012/09/gigers-letter-to-twentieth-century-fox.html" target="post">Giger's letter to 20th C Fox no.2 (December 19th 1997)</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /></div>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: #fff2cc;"> </span></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1997/07/jan-kounen-and-alien.html">Jan Kounen and the alien</a></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1997/06/dark-horse-alien-comics-influence-alien.html"><span style="font-size: small;">Dark Horse Alien comics influence</span></a></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1997/09/ripley-breaks-out-of-her-surgical-gown.html">Homage to Ken Russell's "Mahler"?</a></span><br /><span><a href="https://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2020/05/alien-resurrection-sex-in-space.html">Sex in space</a></span><br /><span><span><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1997/07/ripley-call-lesbian-relationship.html">Ripley - Call: A lesbian relationship?</a> </span> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span><span><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1997/05/alien-resurrection-newborn-as-echo-of.html">Citadel Miniatures's Plague Elemental inspire the Newborn?</a></span></span> </span><br /><span>Alien Warrior by Arthur Lee (painted by Daniel Brodzik?) references:</span><br /><span><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2018/07/alien-warrior-by-arthur-lee-painted-by.html">a. Master Francke's Resurrection of Christ (1424) ?</a><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2018/11/arthur-lees-alien-warrior-references.html">b. "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" (1907) by Pablo Picasso?</a> </span><br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">c) <a href="https://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2018/11/alien-resurrection-arthur-lees-alien.html">Vaughan's tattoo in David Cronenberg's Crash?</a> </span><br />
<span> </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: small;"><b>Echoes from Alien Resurrection</b></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1997/09/alien-resurrection-leads-to-chris.html">Chris Cunningham's "Africa Shox" music video.</a></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2001/09/vidocq.html">Alien Resurrection inspires Pitof's Vidocq</a></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1997/07/creature-effects-alien-mutant.html">Creature-Effect's alien mutant </a></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: small;"><b>Resources</b></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1997/10/joss-whedon-genius-behind-buffy-section.html">Extract from "Joss Whedon: The Genius Behind Buffy</a>"</span><br /><span style="color: #fce5cd; font-size: small;">Extract from </span><span style="font-size: small;">"<a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1997/10/extract-from-joss-whedon-geek-king-of.html">Extract from Joss Whedon: Geek King Of The Universe</a></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086941578419555377.post-15628362520283697512015-03-23T01:38:00.003-07:002023-04-05T03:02:18.011-07:00 Alien 5: "Anchor" for Neill Blomkamp's unmade Alien 5 (2015) by Geoffroy Thoorens references Erotomechanics VIII, (work 423) (1979) by HR Giger? <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTaLmTGlNA5_6C2PN3vezTzcFgCdLZuMb9BKdXxwuQswGZIxwVX3YYNpiP_-DWkCsqxRqsCkDv7PSi-QYKOSkK2DoOdmYugfamtmC7emcTdxAlYRhSddQhSZb827oL-SQND0uUS2hsbq804i_MCULhCOzzNyIpcwpfR7oONbUUkoTxFqKhknki0fNE0Q/s3442/%22Anchor%22%20for%20Neill%20Blomkamp's%20unmade%20Alien%205%20(2015)%20by%20Geoffroy%20Thoorens%20references%20Erotomechanics%20VIII,%20(work%20423)%20(1979)%20by%20HR%20Giger%20%20271131678_10227304306332849_523247806521057975_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1098" data-original-width="3442" height="127" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTaLmTGlNA5_6C2PN3vezTzcFgCdLZuMb9BKdXxwuQswGZIxwVX3YYNpiP_-DWkCsqxRqsCkDv7PSi-QYKOSkK2DoOdmYugfamtmC7emcTdxAlYRhSddQhSZb827oL-SQND0uUS2hsbq804i_MCULhCOzzNyIpcwpfR7oONbUUkoTxFqKhknki0fNE0Q/w400-h127/%22Anchor%22%20for%20Neill%20Blomkamp's%20unmade%20Alien%205%20(2015)%20by%20Geoffroy%20Thoorens%20references%20Erotomechanics%20VIII,%20(work%20423)%20(1979)%20by%20HR%20Giger%20%20271131678_10227304306332849_523247806521057975_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p> </p><p style="text-align: left;"> </p><div style="text-align: center;">leading from</div><div style="text-align: center;">: <a href="https://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2023/04/alien-5-red-harvest-unmade-geoffroy.html">Alien 5: Geoffroy Thoorens' artwork</a> <br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">and<br />
<a href="https://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2019/07/erotomechanics-viii-work-423-1979-by-hr_29.html">HR Giger's Erotomechanics VIII (work-423) (1979)</a> <br /></div><p> <br /></p><p>a) <span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs xlh3980 xvmahel x1n0sxbx x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x1f6kntn xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" dir="auto">"Anchor" for Neill Blomkamp's unmade Alien 5 (2015) by Geoffroy Thoorens</span></p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinzhW3glCF2lg_586InXFEw0ib-HgwYfviDRIO7hWbR2Axe4qyx8dSpm7irxrbSZ1E5iKOcsDcyuUuxcGeN_i-8I7_4GJMyK4jJ7OnUmFKHRr9-H0bvDxjLk85jXyaPTQIH0nld5N-TME_bTjsv8h9yaLCzWJ850FmGBjF3tB5yzqRLafg2L6Nf73nIg/s1875/%22Anchor%22%20for%20Neill%20Blomkamp's%20unmade%20Alien%205%20(2015)%20by%20Geoffroy%20Thoorens%20271131678_10227304306332849_523247806521057975_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1098" data-original-width="1875" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinzhW3glCF2lg_586InXFEw0ib-HgwYfviDRIO7hWbR2Axe4qyx8dSpm7irxrbSZ1E5iKOcsDcyuUuxcGeN_i-8I7_4GJMyK4jJ7OnUmFKHRr9-H0bvDxjLk85jXyaPTQIH0nld5N-TME_bTjsv8h9yaLCzWJ850FmGBjF3tB5yzqRLafg2L6Nf73nIg/w400-h234/%22Anchor%22%20for%20Neill%20Blomkamp's%20unmade%20Alien%205%20(2015)%20by%20Geoffroy%20Thoorens%20271131678_10227304306332849_523247806521057975_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p> </p><p>b) <span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs xlh3980 xvmahel x1n0sxbx x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x1f6kntn xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" dir="auto" lang="en">References Erotomechanics VIII, (work 423) (1979) by HR Giger </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ8vpsGh3JaN8n1lZ-Y5AJrSXV66n6E1Q86IFwUSTfkz-HQ8lP-sjMYAxA4_j4iXygkxAQF0gCFro6kduQ-8r-GY7Zdmgg9r8GjGB1cYs_6iW54ax4jK-JpfqdIjuH7viN7FhNyUPiMX4u/s1600/Erotomechanics+VIII%252C+work+423+%25281979%2529+by+HR+Giger" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="952" data-original-width="1367" height="277" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ8vpsGh3JaN8n1lZ-Y5AJrSXV66n6E1Q86IFwUSTfkz-HQ8lP-sjMYAxA4_j4iXygkxAQF0gCFro6kduQ-8r-GY7Zdmgg9r8GjGB1cYs_6iW54ax4jK-JpfqdIjuH7viN7FhNyUPiMX4u/s400/Erotomechanics+VIII%252C+work+423+%25281979%2529+by+HR+Giger" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Erotomechanics VIII, work 423 (1979) by HR Giger</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>c) One above the other<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYHPX_rZvzjgKl7ixxBueet5yVuvPSKBXrOjce5qJ5aA1Kb1XETlwn-nC2hqZ7n2S8VlPz22JZYLUIBY82wVAyrB3CKfLBIeP6nNic1y_hXmSu1lil5zvkf-uWqrQLdnosyB33vKcppufVBr2NIdKlYPbzTxvSibHdl-Du7SFTkPauJTFCEdGKt2Oisg/s2048/%22Anchor%22%20for%20Neill%20Blomkamp's%20unmade%20Alien%205%20(2015)%20by%20Geoffroy%20Thoorens%20references%20Erotomechanics%20VIII,%20(work%20423)%20(1979)%20by%20HR%20Giger%20271126477_10227304387414876_8816272681489388650_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1601" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYHPX_rZvzjgKl7ixxBueet5yVuvPSKBXrOjce5qJ5aA1Kb1XETlwn-nC2hqZ7n2S8VlPz22JZYLUIBY82wVAyrB3CKfLBIeP6nNic1y_hXmSu1lil5zvkf-uWqrQLdnosyB33vKcppufVBr2NIdKlYPbzTxvSibHdl-Du7SFTkPauJTFCEdGKt2Oisg/w313-h400/%22Anchor%22%20for%20Neill%20Blomkamp's%20unmade%20Alien%205%20(2015)%20by%20Geoffroy%20Thoorens%20references%20Erotomechanics%20VIII,%20(work%20423)%20(1979)%20by%20HR%20Giger%20271126477_10227304387414876_8816272681489388650_n.jpg" width="313" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>d)<span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs xlh3980 xvmahel x1n0sxbx x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x1f6kntn xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" dir="auto" lang="en"> The right leg area of Erotomechanics and the right end of the platform</span><br /> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIsNCJ6xQKekLj0wDvFxqX0JE6DAI8zs3uKuBg0DfH7LQ2IQUHyKRftPgPX2PeUMUJzxo-xQXeD3hTOQ9b2rVndOOMPJSDxfo4MkfotVtzFcgYNDhTzjsjno43Xl9sIdUv2r_MhbwMnZ36bIf5XvpcexDB3q5C42g1XKEyKuJQK-9rUwYWtY_qQSsVKQ/s2449/%22Anchor%22%20for%20Neill%20Blomkamp's%20unmade%20Alien%205%20(2015)%20by%20Geoffroy%20Thoorens%20references%20Erotomechanics%20VIII,%20(work%20423)%20(1979)%20by%20HR%20Giger271123326_10227304391614981_1747084762545445035_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2449" data-original-width="1198" height="522" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIsNCJ6xQKekLj0wDvFxqX0JE6DAI8zs3uKuBg0DfH7LQ2IQUHyKRftPgPX2PeUMUJzxo-xQXeD3hTOQ9b2rVndOOMPJSDxfo4MkfotVtzFcgYNDhTzjsjno43Xl9sIdUv2r_MhbwMnZ36bIf5XvpcexDB3q5C42g1XKEyKuJQK-9rUwYWtY_qQSsVKQ/w256-h522/%22Anchor%22%20for%20Neill%20Blomkamp's%20unmade%20Alien%205%20(2015)%20by%20Geoffroy%20Thoorens%20references%20Erotomechanics%20VIII,%20(work%20423)%20(1979)%20by%20HR%20Giger271123326_10227304391614981_1747084762545445035_n.jpg" width="256" /></a></div> <p></p><p> </p><p>e) <span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs xlh3980 xvmahel x1n0sxbx x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x1f6kntn xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" dir="auto" lang="en">The right leg area of Erotomechanics and the right end of the platform</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivNLtEJlkfmvjv7bIOtlGUO7_v0fNoKTpS7fAVH-lPt3oJRmvh7shzE76VczfZCjCYPenATXS564yCzAi9eAuHH8EJO9WLP9zDjxeXTGHLLi58sgdSYlO_heCpHe9zhuodmOfQ8c2DG8QA07rsMbyIKI-Aw6fTGEIMMAjDYTtHmeDzczJm76OA5BjK0g/s1027/%22Anchor%22%20for%20Neill%20Blomkamp's%20unmade%20Alien%205%20(2015)%20by%20Geoffroy%20Thoorens%20references%20Erotomechanics%20VIII,%20(work%20423)%20(1979)%20by%20HR%20Giger%20271121027_10227304410695458_1515343294897674341_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="769" data-original-width="1027" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivNLtEJlkfmvjv7bIOtlGUO7_v0fNoKTpS7fAVH-lPt3oJRmvh7shzE76VczfZCjCYPenATXS564yCzAi9eAuHH8EJO9WLP9zDjxeXTGHLLi58sgdSYlO_heCpHe9zhuodmOfQ8c2DG8QA07rsMbyIKI-Aw6fTGEIMMAjDYTtHmeDzczJm76OA5BjK0g/s320/%22Anchor%22%20for%20Neill%20Blomkamp's%20unmade%20Alien%205%20(2015)%20by%20Geoffroy%20Thoorens%20references%20Erotomechanics%20VIII,%20(work%20423)%20(1979)%20by%20HR%20Giger%20271121027_10227304410695458_1515343294897674341_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs xlh3980 xvmahel x1n0sxbx x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x1f6kntn xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" dir="auto" lang="en"> </span><br /> </p><p>f) <span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs xlh3980 xvmahel x1n0sxbx x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x1f6kntn xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" dir="auto" lang="en">The
groin area and the piping connecting to the orifices become the right
support along the part of the platform jutting out from the side of the
platform.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj28v8fmCCLkDklxFjSC1N3eV5nenmMsGCm79KSDWWoboI0b9fOfB6-sNIWYRsjo70R_Jx7wmYhSmWxwJtaxoifw7RD-rTZJlaki03E6IRXYERjOo_h8o5IZ8WZcOtoZl93NgK-VBxHIiUSw7HylOrNdQJh0JAD9BzUlh1avRFAIm9MD2EANeE_pKA8eQ/s1787/%22Anchor%22%20for%20Neill%20Blomkamp's%20unmade%20Alien%205%20(2015)%20by%20Geoffroy%20Thoorens%20references%20Erotomechanics%20VIII,%20(work%20423)%20(1979)%20by%20HR%20Giger%20%20271129023_10227304435576080_5872479028574377678_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1521" data-original-width="1787" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj28v8fmCCLkDklxFjSC1N3eV5nenmMsGCm79KSDWWoboI0b9fOfB6-sNIWYRsjo70R_Jx7wmYhSmWxwJtaxoifw7RD-rTZJlaki03E6IRXYERjOo_h8o5IZ8WZcOtoZl93NgK-VBxHIiUSw7HylOrNdQJh0JAD9BzUlh1avRFAIm9MD2EANeE_pKA8eQ/s320/%22Anchor%22%20for%20Neill%20Blomkamp's%20unmade%20Alien%205%20(2015)%20by%20Geoffroy%20Thoorens%20references%20Erotomechanics%20VIII,%20(work%20423)%20(1979)%20by%20HR%20Giger%20%20271129023_10227304435576080_5872479028574377678_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086941578419555377.post-49472107024348295162015-01-30T06:15:00.000-08:002015-11-28T06:54:06.422-08:00January 2015<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Leading from </span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/p/updates-2015.html"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">updates<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>2015</span></a></span></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Saturday 31st January</b></u><u><b> 2015</b></u></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <b>1) </b>Wrote my summary of the exploration of Giger's derelict exterior as a preface for the Index in <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/design-of-derelict-gigers-work.html">The <b>Design of Giger's Derelict</b></a></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <b>2) </b>Information
about how Ridley Scott first started with the derelict by taking an
idea from Giger's Necronomicon has been absorbed into "<a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/01/having-derelict-ship-idea.html">Giger has the derelict idea</a>"
, however a new point of confusion comes out of the report that Giger
came up with a derelict ship design that looked too much like a
saxaphone and the question might arise about when he came up with this
illustration and if it might be present in a sketch but not easy to work
out.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <b>3) </b>Added image of Brian Johnson's head split in two revealing an Escher optical illusion drawing to <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/escher-optical-illusions-on-brian.html">Escher optical illusions etched on the mind of Brian Johnston </a></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Friday 30th January</b></u><u><b> 2015</b></u></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"><b>1)</b> Okay,
this might actually be the origin of the derelict's hammer head,
finally. This was-sceptre discovered in 1895 in Ombos, shown here on
display at the Victoria and Albert museum in London. <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/01/influence-of-was-sceptre-on-design-of.html" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank"><wbr></wbr></a><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/01/influence-of-was-sceptre-on-design-of.html">Influence of was-sceptre on</a><wbr></wbr><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/01/influence-of-was-sceptre-on-design-of.html"> design of</a></span></span><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/01/influence-of-was-sceptre-on-design-of.html"> the tip of the derelict's engine</a></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <b>2) </b>Added quote from Scifi entertainment, Feb 1996, p41 to <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/01/dan-script-surgeon.html">Dan The Script Surgeon</a></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <b>3)</b> Broke down <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/design-of-derelict-gigers-work.html">The Design of Giger's Derelict</a> into separate pages leading from the page </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Tuesday 27th January</b></u><u><b> 2015</b></u></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Added comments by Ron Cobb from Mediascene #35 to <b><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/05/ron-cobbs-design-philosophy.html">Ron Cobb's design philosophy</a> </b>and continued to work on this page in general</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Saturday 24th January</b></u><u><b> 2015</b></u></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> The page "<b>Starting to Construct the Nostromo exterior</b>" has been removed and the contents broken up into separate pages or integrated with other pages linked to <b><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/creating-nostromo.html">Creating The Nostromo.</a></b></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <i>(<b>NB</b>
What I'd like to say is that to the degree I've wanted to present about
the creation of the Nostromo has been a blurred fragmented clueless
mess and I'm overjoyed to think that I've managed to successfully break
the information down into pages helping to connect the stray bits of
information to a greater degree<b> </b>or at least give them some kind of context in terms of the bigger picture and this work of course continues. )<b><br /></b></i></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Friday 23rd January</b></u><u><b> 2015</b></u></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <b>1) Updated</b><b> </b><b><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/10/confusion-about-number-of-nostromos.html">Confusion about number of Nostromo's shuttles</a></b> using information from Bill Pearson's article in the "<i><b>From Script to Screen</b></i>" book</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <b>2)</b> Added <b><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/four-foot-long-nostromo.html">Four foot long Nostromo</a></b>
based on a comment from Simon Deering in the "Alien Makers" and the
knowledge that Jon Sorensen worked on the four foot version </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Thursday 22nd January</b></u><u><b> 2015</b></u></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <b>1) Updated </b><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/the-alien-derelict-as-ancient-egyptian.html">The Alien Derelict as the Ancient Egyptian God Ra's Barge of a Million Years?</a></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> with some information about the mythos of the Ancient Egyptian concept</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <b>2) Eternally updating, rearranging and altering</b> <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/10/initial-construction-of-nostromo.html">Initial construction of the Nostromo. </a></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <i><b>(NB</b>
At the moment as I research this, I am looking for information about
the front section of the Nostromo that was created and find a blurring
in what is being said, do they mean the front section of the Nostromo
lander or do they mean that the Nostromo is both the tug and the
refinery and so the tug is simply the front section. And then there is
talk about a small model that was built and shown to Ridley while Bill
Pearson built a small model as a rough and it was Brian Johnson approved
of it, were they the same model?)</i></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Wednesday 21st January</b></u><u><b> 2015</b></u></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <b>1) </b>Added <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/01/nostromos-windows-into-engine-room.html">Nostromo's Windows Into The Engine Room</a> based on Bill Pearson's article in the "<i><b>From Script to Screen</b></i>" book
<b>2)</b> Updated <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/06/new-nostromo-engine-room-miniature.html">New </a><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/06/new-nostromo-engine-room-miniature.html">Engine Room Miniature</a>,<span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/10/initial-construction-of-nostromo.html"> Construction of the Nostromo exterior</a></span>, <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/adding-new-cockpit.html">Adding a new cockpit</a>, with sections from Bill Pearson's writeup of the construction of the Nostromo in "<i><b>From Script to Screen</b></i>" </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Monday 19th January</b></u><u><b> 2015</b></u></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Added <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/the-alien-derelict-as-ancient-egyptian.html"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Alien Derelict as the Ancient Egyptian God Ra's Barge of a Million Years?</span></a></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Sunday 18th January</b></u><b><u><b> 2015</b></u> </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <b>1) </b>Added section from the<span class="watch-title long-title" dir="ltr" id="eow-title" title="AvPGalaxy.net - AMC Prometheus Q&A with Ridley Scott and Damon Lindelof"> AMC Prometheus Q&A with Ridley Scott and Damon Lindelof to</span><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/lindelofs-response-to-spaihts-script.html"><u><b> Lindelof's response to Spaihts script</b></u></a>
detailing what Ridley had asked Lindelof to do in terms of Spaihts
script, although it's not really certain when and where Ridley did talk
to Lindelof about this.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <b>2)</b> Updated, <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/10/the-coming-of-bill-pearson.html">The coming of Bill Pearson</a>, <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/10/initial-construction-of-nostromo.html">Initial Construction of the Nostromo, </a>and<b> </b><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.hu/1979/10/nostromo-with-close-encounters-of-third.html">Nostromo with Close Encounters Of Third Kind mothership lighting</a> with sections from Bill Pearson's writeup of the construction of the Nostromo in "From Script to Screen". </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Saturday </b><b>17th January</b></u><u><b> 2015</b></u></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> An attempt to compare similarities between elements of the story for "<b>Doctor Who and The Cybermen</b>" with "<b>Prometheus</b>".
I admit this article is rather rough and perhaps their similarities are
somewhat blurredly represented by me and then the complexities of it
all could spin off into very dimly lit god knows where places, it has
been giving me a headache today and perhaps the similarities of the
hammerpede head and the hieroglyph of the scarab with its wings
outstretched begins to make me ask questions. <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/echoes-of-doctor-who-and-tomb-of.html"><b>Echoes of Doctor Who and The Tomb of The Cybermen in Prometheus.</b></a></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Sunday 11th January</b></u><u><b> 2015</b></u></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Rather than expanding "<i><b>The Script That Ridley Wanted</b></i>", it was merged with "<a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/01/dan-script-surgeon.html">Dan The Script Surgeon</a>" since they were dealing with the same subject and this page remained with the latter title since it was the better of the two.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Saturday 10th January</b></u><u><b> 2015</b></u></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <b>1) </b>A page about <span class="st"><i>"<b>The Realism of Giler and Hill's</b></i><b> earlier drafts</b>"</span> of the Alien scripts been turned into three pages now: (i)<b> <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/the-realism-of-giler-and-hills-earlier.html">Hercules, Genghis Kahan and Attila the Hun vs Jack the Ripper script?</a></b> (ii)<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/01/alien-cylinder-script.html">The Cylinder script</a></span></span> (iii) <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">"<i>The script that Ridley wanted</i></span></span>"
and the latter page will soon be expanded to mention how Dan O'Bannon
put something near to his old script back together again which have all
been linked to the section <b><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/06/early-alien-artwork.html">Pre-Production.</a></b></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">2) </span></span>The page about Ron Cobb's concept sketches became renamed as <b><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2009/03/design-of-derelict-cobbs-concept.html">Ron Cobb's Derelict ship concepts</a></b> however the information about the <b><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/01/alien-cylinder-script.html">The Cylinder script</a></b>
scenario on that page has been seperated and merged with some of the
information about the bunker from the page formerly known as "<span class="st"><b><i>The Realism of Giler and Hill's</i> earlier drafts</b>"</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <u><b>Friday 9th January</b></u><u><b> 2015</b></u></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <b>1) </b>Added<b> </b><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/possibilities-of-merging-universes-of.html"><u>Possibilities of merging universes of Alien and Blade Runner</u></a>.
This is just a page about the Ridley had thoughts about adding
references to Blade Runner to Prometheus and Charles De Lauzirika added
an "Easter Egg" inspired by this fascination about merging the two and
on a least a couple of occasions he's had to inform people that it's
only a light hearted joke. So if I have to be told about this 'Easter
Egg" being evidence that Alien and Blade Runner take place in the same
universe, I have something at hand to show them.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <b>2)</b> Created a page f<a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/01/scaraboid-multiple-eyes-of-horus.html">or scaraboid multiple eyes of horus/ wedjat/ udjats </a>seperate from simply the <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/12/multiple-wedjats.html">multiple eyes of horus/ wedjats/ udjats</a>, the latter which now I have discovered come in threes and sometimes nines</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <b>3) </b>Added <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/01/henu-barque-on-dress-of-sculpture-of.html">Henu Barque on dress of sculpture of unidentified high ranking woman</a></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <u><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/01/henu-barque-on-dress-of-sculpture-of.html"> </a></u></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Thursday 8th January</b></u><u><b> 2015</b></u></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <b>1)</b> Added <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/01/possible-inspirations-for-derelict-ship.html">Trails of inspirations for the derelict ship</a>
as a list for various works that Dan O'Bannon is either known to or
likely to have read or seen which feature the idea of a derelict ship</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Monday 5th January</b></u><u><b> 2015</b></u></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <b>1) </b>Added <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/01/mystery-derelict-found-at-sea-in-call.html"><u><b>"Mystery derelict found at sea" in "Call of the Cthulhu"</b></u></a>. A possible sign of where Dan O'Bannon had been drawing inspiration from
to write about the discovery of a derelict vessel where the crew ran
into something rather troubling.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <b>2) </b>Added <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/01/candidate-for-giger-chthulhu.html">Candidate for a Giger Cthulhu </a>,
about whether there's a remnant of a Cthulhu painted by Giger in his
painting of the Egg Silo, and what there would be to compare it with.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <b>3)</b> Added <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/chris-nolan-on-alien-and-blade-runner.html">Chris Nolan on Alien and Blade Runner </a></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Sunday 4th January</b></u><u><b> 2015</b></u></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Added <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/conception-of-cybermen-of-doctor-who.html">Conception of the Cybermen of Doctor Who</a>. <span class="userContent">Well, this is straying from Alien here again,
but I seem to find it important to explore the background of the
Cybermen from Doctor Who to look at some of the grounds of science
fiction thinking which had led to the formations of films such<span class="text_exposed_show">
as Alien and I've covered the basics of their conception here and will
add to it more eventually if I can find out any more decent information.
I think these characters might have caught the imagination of HR Giger
for at least for a while with his interest in biomechanoids. The
inventor of the Cybermen who was Kit Pedler was an interesting person
with a scientific background who found himself concerned about the
future of humans and their machinery, and well as we many of us may
have noticed, ideas from one of the stories seems to have wormed its way
into Prometheus.</span></span></span></span></span></span> <br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Thursday 1st January 2015</b></u>
<b> </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <b>1)</b> Updated <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.hu/1979/10/life-cycle-of-alien.html">Life cycle of the alien</a>
with information based on thoughts from Ridley Scott about the alien
transforming into a chrysalis and returning to the form of an egg.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <b>2) </b>Updated <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/04/organic-box-like-thing.html">Organic box like thing</a>
with a mention by Ridley Scott about the intended scene with Bodaji
dressed as the alien suspended in the air attempting to unfold like a
bird from an egg </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <b>3)</b> Added <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/01/ivory-label-of-pharaoh-semerkhet.html">Ivory label of pharaoh Semerkhet</a> which shows a very early depiction of a Sokar Funerary Barque/Henu Barque</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> 4) Added <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/01/djet-comb.html">Early depiction of Sokar Funerary barque on a djet comb</a></span></span></span></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086941578419555377.post-16289613768318108312014-12-03T11:22:00.002-08:002023-07-25T04:58:44.475-07:00Giger's "Vlad Tepes" referenced in the Eldon character in the "Fire and Stone" comic book series?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;">leading from </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1978/08/transformations-in-vlad-tepes-1978.html">HR Giger's Vlad Tepes, (1978)</a></span></b></div>
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In
2014, Dark Horse created a comic book series called "Fire and Stone"
incorporating the Aliens, Alien Vs Predator, Predator and Prometheus
franchises into a set of interconnecting comic book stories and a
mutating android villain named Eldon that in its later stages of its
transformed looked seems as if it has a face roughly inspired by the
female figure on the left with its white elongated ribbed head and near
flat animal nose.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alien Vs Predator: Fire and Stone, no.3</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Detail from Giger's painting Vlad Tepes showing the head</td></tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086941578419555377.post-86187758177983486732014-12-01T19:09:00.000-08:002015-12-04T15:25:28.485-08:00December 2014<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">leading from</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/p/updates-2015.html" target="viewpage8729262586978744275">2014</a></span> </div>
<br />
<u><b>Wednesday December 31st 2014</b></u><br />
Added note about Kit
Pedler to co script-writer of Doctor Who and The Tomb of the Cybermen
being inspired by Erich Von Daniken to <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/von-danikens-concepts-used-in-prometheus.html">Von Daniken's concepts used in Prometheus.</a> More about how "Doctor Who and The Tomb of the Cybermen" appeared to inspire Prometheus will be added.<br />
<br />
<u><b>Tuesday December 30th 2014</b></u><br />
Added
scan of Back of the River Boat Leviathan by Chris Foss from a
transparency in Charlie Lippincott's collection and renamed the page
named "Riverboat Design, 1977" as sketches <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/the-riverboat-design.html">7 & 8 Riverboat Design</a>
since the picture of the back of the Riverboat Leviathan has been
revealed to be numbered as 7 while the image on the transparency of
drawing of the rest of the ship in Charlie Lippincott's collection
revealed it to be numbered as 8. <br />
<br />
<u><b>Thursday December 25th 2014</b></u><br />
Slightly re-edited <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/08/derelict-entrance.html">Derelict Entrance</a>
page adding quotes by Lyndsey Muir from Charlie Lippincott's Facebook
page which basically reaffirm the basics of what Brian Muir has already
said about the entrance<br />
<u><b><br /></b></u>
<u><b>Wednesday December 24th 2014</b></u><br />
<b>1)</b> Made separate page for the <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/12/multiple-wedjats.html">Multiple Wedjats</a> that were amongst the single Wedjats on the <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/eye-of-horus-wedjat.html">The Eye of Horus /Wedjat</a> page<br />
<br />
<u><b>Wednesday December 17th 2014</b></u><br />
<b>1) </b>Added<a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/jesus-christ-emissary-from-outer-space.html"> Jesus Christ: Emissary from outer space</a><br />
<b>2)</b> Added<span style="font-size: small;"> <span id="search" style="visibility: visible;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/ridleys-afterthought-on-prometheus.html">Ridley's afterthoughts on Prometheus </a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span id="search" style="visibility: visible;"><b>3) </b>Added <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/deacons-mouth-echoes-of-scare-faces.html">Deacon's mouth echoes of scare faces from Beetlejuice</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span id="search" style="visibility: visible;"><b>4)</b> </span><span id="search" style="visibility: visible;">Added </span><span id="search" style="visibility: visible;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1980/03/ship-of-fools-comic-book-story.html">Space Jockey inspired "Ship of fools" comic book story from Doctor Who Weekly #23-24 </a> </span><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/deacons-mouth-echoes-of-scare-faces.html"> </a></span><br />
<br />
<u><b>Sunday December 14th 2014</b></u><br />
Added <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/reaching-prometheus-2.html">Reaching Prometheus 2</a><br />
<br />
<u><b>Saturday December 6th 2014</b></u><br />
<b>1)</b> Slightly updated<span style="font-size: small;"> <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/industrial-conglomerates-and-their-ships.html">Industrial Conglomerates And Their Ships</a> with information from <span class="st"><span class="st">An interview with Ridley Scott by Danny Peary, Omni Screen Flights, Screen Fantasy</span></span></span><span class="st" style="font-size: small;"><span class="st"> </span><span class="st">and </span></span><span class="st" style="font-size: small;">Warren presents, Alien Collector's Edition. </span><br />
<span class="st" style="font-size: small;"><b>2)</b> Updated </span><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/08/bismarck.html">Building the Refinery</a> with Ron Cobb's experience of the event from Fantastic Films July 1979<br />
<b>3) </b>The
contents of the page "Ridley's Nostromo" which contained part of an
interview from Fantastic Film magazine was absorbed by the pages <span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/industrial-conglomerates-and-their-ships.html">Industrial Conglomerates And Their Ships</a> and </span><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/08/bismarck.html">Building the Refinery</a> <br />
<span class="st" style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<br />
<u><b>Friday December 5th 2014</b></u><br />
Slightly updated <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.hu/1979/10/the-creature-in-wall.html">The Creature In The Wall</a> with information from H.R. Giger's Alien diaries<br />
<br />
<u><b>Wednesday December 3rd 2014</b></u><br />
Updated<a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/05/simon-deerings-auto-destruct-panel.html"> Simon Deering's auto destruct panel</a>
by identifying use of, "Akasa" "Bel", "En-Soph", "Aum" along with
"Padme", as well as "Yoni" along with "Linga" in Blavatsky's writings
and creating a separate page "R<a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/12/alien-references-to-blavatskys-secret.html">eferences to Blavatsky's Secret Doctrine</a>" for these words<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086941578419555377.post-52150678635993682582014-11-01T19:08:00.000-07:002015-12-04T15:26:31.942-08:00November 2014<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">leading from</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/p/updates-2015.html" target="viewpage8729262586978744275">2014</a></span> </div>
<br />
<br />
<u><b>Wednesday November 26th 2014</b></u><br />
Added <a href="file:///Users/wmmvrrvrrmm/Downloads/alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/industrial-conglomerates-and-their-ships.html">Industrial Conglomerates and their ships</a> <br />
<br />
<u><b>Tuesday November 25th 2014</b></u><br />
Added parts from a December 2003 Total Film interview with Giger to <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/04/carlo-rambaldis-alien-head.html">Carlo Rambaldi's Alien head, </a><br />
and <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/04/no-no-eyes.html">No, No eyes!</a> and <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/04/sculpting-alien-costume.html">Sculpting the alien costume</a><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Saturday November 22nd 2014</b></u></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Added 2005 quote from Ridley about use of the alien in bacteriological warfare first published in Empire in 2011 to <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2008/01/dissecting-derelict-end-of-line-and.html"><u><b>dissecting the derelict end of the line the and back to the distant past.</b></u></a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Friday November 21st 2014</b></u></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Expanded the page about <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/scriptwriter-damon-lindelof.html">Damon Lindelof</a> and his involvement in Prometheus, breaking it down into several pages.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Thursday November 20th 2014</b></u></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Re-writing, re-editing and making corrections to <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/04/gigers-alien-head.html">"Giger's Alien head"</a>.
However the structure of that page will continue to change as time goes
by because it is a page still for collating the information about the
subject matter at the moment and it will in time become divided into
several pages. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Wednesday November</b><b> 19th 2014</b></u></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Added <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/11/the-alien-as-dragon.html">The Alien as a Dragon</a>
since Ridley has managed to reiterate the idea that the alien is a
dragon in a recent interview after he mentioned it about 35 years ago.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Saturday November 8th 2014</b></u></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Added comments from Martin Bower from his <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Martin-Bower/224996374264598">Facebook page</a> to <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/10/nostromos-engine-room-towers-become.html">Nostromo's engine room towers become Engines</a><u><b><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/10/nostromos-engine-room-towers-become.html"><br /></a></b></u></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Wednesday November 5th 2014</b></u></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Updated "</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/harboring-remains-of-li-tobler.html">Harboring the remains of Li Tobler</a></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">"
with an additional statements about where the bones of the dead wife
rumour was going by Roger Christian, and William Malone managed to get
confirmation from Mia Bonzanigo about the Li Tobler's brain splattered
on a Giger painting, as found in Rue Morgue magazine </span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">#149</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Monday November 3rd 2014</b></u></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>1) </b>Added <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/11/alternate-endings-for-alien.html">Alternate endings for alien</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>2) </b>Perhaps have completed <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.hu/1979/10/sex-and-alien.html">Sex and The Alien</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>3)</b> Re-edited<a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/space-jockey-evolution-from-gigers.html"> Evolution of the Space Jockey via Giger's Necronomicon</a> adding quotes from Alien The Archives that just seemed to be quotes repeated almost word for word from elsewhere </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/11/alternate-endings-for-alien.html"><br /></a></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><u>Sunday November 2nd 2014</u></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>1)</b> Added information from interview with Sigourney Weaver to <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.hu/1979/10/sex-and-alien.html">Sex and The Alien</a> from Alien: The Archive, p96</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>2) </b>Added information from interview with Sigourney Weaver to <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.hu/1979/10/sex-and-alien.html">Sex and The Alien</a> from<b> </b>Omni Screen Flights/Screen Fantasy, "Playing Ripley In Alien" p162.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>3)</b> Added comment from interview with Sigourney Weaver to <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.hu/1979/10/sex-and-alien.html">Sex and The Alien</a> from Fantastic Films #11 </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>4)</b> Added comment from Ridley about his ideas for the Nostromo pulling the derelict from Alien The Archive to <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/10/the-crunch.html">The Crunch</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>5)</b>Added <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/11/early-sketch-of-refinery.html">Ridleygram of the refinery</a> that loosely resembles key buildings from the spire filled skyline of Oxford.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Saturday November 1st 2014</b></u></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>1) </b>Added
detail from David Giler about Ridley meeting up with Giler and Hill at
Musso's from a report from interview for Alien Evolution documentary to <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/08/ridley-arrives-in-hollywood.html">Ridley arrives in Hollywood.</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>2)</b>
Added detail about David Giler and Sandy Lieberson both being at Cannes
at the time of the release of The Duellists to Ridley of the Duellists
in the page <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/07/alien-hunt-for-director.html">Hunt For The Director.</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>3)</b> Added detail about David Giler interest in Giger's work to <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2009/06/into-necronomicon.html">Into The Necronomicon</a> from a report from interview for Alien Evolution documentary</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>4)</b> Added details from interview with Ron Shusett to <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.hu/1979/10/the-creature-in-wall.html">Creature In The Wall</a> from</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/2008/09/executing-alien/">Cinefantastiqueonline.com/2008/09/executing-alien</a> </span></span></div>
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</span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><i><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/echoes-of-prometheus.html">Echoes of Prometheus</a></i></span><br /></span><br /></div>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Seeing Alien</span><br />
Neil Marshall was too young to see Alien when it first came out, but his uncle had, and would enthrall him with tales of strange planets, chestbursters and the unusual notion of a woman as the hero of a science fiction horror movie. He became hook but didn't manage to see Alien for the first time in 1982 when it was broadcast on television and he was 12 years of age, It surpassed all expectations for him.<br />
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><i>Impressed</i></span><br />
He found that the director Ridley Scott along with the artists H R Giger and Rob Cobb, working from a script by Dan O'Bannon set out to create two extremely very realistic and compelling future worlds, one human and the other alien, and then set them on a collision course with one another. There was nothing that ever seemed fake, and so the sets, the spacecrafts, the planet, the characters, the costumes, the performances, all felt credible and authentic to him<br />
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><u><b>Nostromo<span style="color: #ea9999;">.</span></b></u></span><br />
He was impressed by the way the opening of the movie would give the viewer a brief tour of the Nostromo's interior, that was a workhorse of the spaceways, both cumbersome and functional. Its corridors were claustrophobic, dark, wet and grimy. It felt every inch a lived in working environment and its rudimentary familiarity drew him into the story. Every inch of this world was about the get the humans, from the vacuum of space to the cornbread and the corporation, let alone the androids and alien beings. Space Travel would be no picnic.<br />
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;">The Crew</span><br />
Neil could identify with all the characters , Ripely, Dallas, Ash, Kane, Parker, Brett and Lambert, who were all blue-collar workers. They bitched about money, food, and each other. Neil put this down to having spent months in Hypersleep. He was very glad that they were not just a bunch of teens in jeopardy and that they were not even that sympathetic, but instead were scratchy, sweaty, and stretched thin by months in close quarters confinement. They were flawed and therefore very human<br />
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><b>The derelict ship </b></span><br />
The derelict spacecraft, if that was it was, looked to Neil like something almost organic, and complete with several vagina-like portals through which the astronauts explorers access. He wondered if that meant it was a female spacecraft. It had something that resembled a pilot, but also had a womb, loaded with eggs waiting for an unwitting human to stray inside and "fertilize".<br />
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><i><b>The Space Jockey mystery</b></i></span><br />
When Neil saw Alien, the thing that burrowed deepest into his mind was not the Alien creature, or the face-hugger or the spore, but instead it was the Space Jockey. He decided that it was an example of something unfathomable and even more incomprehensible than the alien itself which to him was basically a predator. He was asking the questions such as whether it had grown out of the chair and if its nose was apparently connected to its body in such a way that it could not move. It was in his mind something utterly and completely alien.<br />
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<i><span style="color: #fce5cd;">The Egg</span> </i><br />
Kane described the 'eggs' as "Round leather objects" . They seemed alive and were crowned with more vagina like orifices that opened up and ejaculated another alien organism, and so it was time to say hello to the Facehugger <br />
<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><i> </i></span><br />
<i><span style="color: #fce5cd;">The Facehugger </span></i><br />
This little creature essentially killed you by raping the victims face and made them pregnant, and this was not limited to a female victim. So if the human was unlucky enough to be orally impregnated, then the process of giving birth was no less unpleasant and ultimately fatal. The alien could not be accused of being sexist. Any sex, any age, any thing was fair game.<br />
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;">The Chestburster</span><br />
The birth of the chest burster was violent, painful and bloody, much had been said about the Chestburster's big entrance, and yet despite lifting all the veils of movie magic, it still retained the powr to shock and disturb. However, none of it would have been so convincing if it wasn't for John Hurt;s agonizing death throes and the rest of the cast looking on, dumbfounded and appalled. The aliens may be monstrous , but it's the humans that sell the horror in the movie. <br />
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;"><i>The Alien creature</i></span><br />
The Alien is described by Ash the robot as "<span style="color: #ea9999;">the perfect organism</span>" and so Neil went with the idea of this creature's perfection. As a biological entity, he considered it precise, elegant and lethal. Its design, life cycle and behaviour were all so sexual, and given the nature of HR Giger's work, this wasn't surprising. But the creature in its different stages of a life cycle were not merely repulsive and terrifying, but also darkly beautiful and disturbing.<br />
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With the adult alien itself, a gangly, seven foot tall drooling slithering phallus of death, complete with erectile tongue for thrusting out and penetrating its victims bodies, it was amazing that they could make this thing up and turn it into what Neil thought was the greatest movie monster of all.<br />
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Appreciation of Jim Cameron's Aliens</span><br />
Aliens the sequence became the first film to leave him in a state resembling shell shock, literally trembling from adrenaline rush and intensity. He found that Jim Cameron's genius was in making a sequel that continued the story set up in Alien, and followed its lone survivor, Ellen Ripley, but dropped her and the entire movie, like an incendiary bomb, into an entirely new genre -
sci-fi war. There were soldiers fighting aliens on earth before - <i>War Of The Worlds</i>, <i>Invaders From Mars</i>
etc - but film goers had never seen drop ships plummeting into combat with a
xenomorphic hive before. This changed everything for Neil. But despite all the
incredible storytelling and design work involved in the movie, for him it
was the sound that left the biggest impression. From the moment Jones
hissed and Ripley shattered that glass on the floor he knew his ears were
in for a beating, and the rest of the movie rocked my world. <br />
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;">The need to make an Alien movie </span><br />
With his fascination with the mythology and character of the Alien, a part of him to wanted to do an Alien film one day, it wouldn't be like an Aliens vs Predator story that he imagined before that film was actually made, would be a "<span style="color: #ea9999;">smash-em up</span>" movie that would get the kids in. Rather than attempting to create a big story, and it would be a return to the original<br />
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Alien 3 Treatment </span><br />
He actually wrote a treatment for Alien 3 but it went unused. It featured the characters going back to the original planet from the first movie where more eggs were discovered in the spacecraft, and so they have to rescue the people back there. He thought enthusiastically that it could still be used for a future movie at the time he talked about it.</div>
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<span style="color: #fce5cd;">Alien Resurrection disappointment</span><br />
He thought that they had lost the plot with Alien Resurrection to the point that it seemed to have even have deterred his interest in the series<br />
<i><b><span style="color: #fce5cd;"> </span></b></i></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><i><b><span style="color: #fce5cd;">Promethean disappointment</span></b></i><br />
Neil respected Ridley's statement when he said "<span style="color: #ea9999;">if you can shoot it for real, shoot it for real</span>", he saw that as the tangible things translate better to the screen. However when he came to watch Prometheus, he was crushed with disappointment to find out that when it came to the Space Jockey coming alive for the film, instead of some inscrutable alien being, in the context of the story it was a man in a suit. And perhaps this was painfully ironic, given the lengths they went to in the original movie to disguise the fact that the Alien creature was a man in a suit<br />
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<i><span style="color: #fce5cd;"><b>Almost made The Last Voyage of the Demeter</b></span></i><br />
He would the year that Prometheus came out start working on a film inspired by Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. The story would focus on one of the ships that transport the vampire from Transylvania. In the original text, the ship arrived in England but all the crew disappeared except the captain whose body is attached to the helm, and the scriptwriter took some inspiration from Alien<br />
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<b>See: <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/bragi-schut-wrote-last-voyage-of-demete.html">Bragi Schut wrote The Last Voyage of the Demeter screenplay</a></b> <br />
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<i><b>Source Quotes</b><br />
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<li><div id="what-s-your-favourite-horror-film-">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Empire:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">What’s your favourite horror film?</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Neil</b>: <span style="color: #ea9999;">Tough call, but I'd have to say… <b>ALIEN</b>.</span> <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(<a href="http://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/neil-marshall-axelle-carolyn-first-couple-horror/">http://www.empireonline.com/</a>)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Neil Marshall:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">Looking back at <i>Dog Soldiers</i>,
I thought it wasn't particularly scary. It came out as a black comedy
more than anything else. I still had this fundamental need in me to make
a horror film that genuinely terrified people. In the same way that I
was genuinely terrified by the likes of <i>Deliverance</i> or <i>Alien</i> or <i>The Shining</i>,
all those films from the '70s that I grew up with and have haunted me
ever since. There was also a need to make a horror film that took itself
seriously, that played it straight. So the story emerged from that
desire really</span>. <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(<a href="http://theeveningclass.blogspot.co.uk/2006/07/descentthe-evening-class-interview.html">http://theeveningclass.blogspot.co.uk/</a></span></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> July 22, 2006</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">)</span></span></li>
<li><b>Scifi-universe : <span style="color: #ea9999;">De Dog Soldiers à Doomsday, on a pu voir qu’il y a toujours une femme assez robuste. C’est volontaire ? </span></b><br /><b>Neil Marshall:</b>
<span style="color: #ea9999;">Absolument ! En tant que réalisateur de films, je ne suis pas intéressé
par des cris pathétiques… Des femmes qui ne savent que hurler… J’aime
les femmes fortes, comme dans Alien, Terminator. J’aime les femmes dans
ce genre de films.</span><br />
<b><b>Scifi-universe:</b></b><b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">Le personnage de Ripley dans Alien, est-il celui que vous aimez le plus ?</span></b><br />
<b><b>Neil Marshall: </b></b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Oui ! Je pense que c’est la mère de toutes les femmes fortes dans les
films. Je me souviens que c’était tout une histoire quand le film Alien
est sorti… Le fait que le héros soit une femme. Vraiment toute une
histoire… Mais pourquoi ? C’était certainement inhabituel… Mais c’était
super. Et ça a bien marché dans l’histoire.</span><br />
<b><b><b>Scifi-universe:</b></b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">Dans Doomsday, on a la sensation que vous êtes fans des films des
années 80. Je pense à des films comme Mad Max, New York 1997 ou des
films italiens de séries B comme ceux de Sergio Martino ? </span></b><br />
<b><b><b><b>Neil Marshall: </b></b></b></b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Oui, je suis fan de ces films de série B italiens traitant de
l’apocalypse… Mais j’aime les trucs fous. Cette période particulière de «
conception de films » est, selon moi, une période pleine de nouvelles
idées, de fraicheur… Entre 1979 et 1985, tant de super films sont
sortis. Alien, puis Mad Max, Conan, E.T., New York 1997, L’empire contre
attaque, les aventuriers de l’arche perdue. Tant de films géniaux. Donc
oui, c’était une immense inspiration pour moi. J’avais beaucoup de
chance… J’avais 12 / 15 ans à l’époque… C’est l’âge idéal pour découvrir
ce genre de films qui m’ont ensuite inspiré.</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: #ea9999;"> </span>(<a href="http://www.scifi-universe.com/actualites/7568/rencontre-avec-neil-marshall">http://www.scifi-universe.com/actualites/7568/rencontre-avec-neil-marshall</a>)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></span><b>Moviehole: </b><span style="color: #f4cccc;">He actually wrote a treatment for “Alien 3”, but it went unused. He
says he thinks the story could easily pass off for the next movie. “<span style="color: #ea9999;">They
go back to the original planet from the first film where they discover
more eggs on the spacecraft and so have to rescue the people back
there</span>”, he says. “Y<span style="color: #ea9999;">ou never know, it might be used for a future one</span>”.</span><i><b><b>(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20030424092344/http://www.moviehole.net/news.php?newsid=1127">https://web.archive.org/web/20030424092344/http://www.moviehole.net/news.php?newsid=1127</a>)</b>
</b><b>From an article about Dog Soldiers which was released in March 2002</b><b>(Thanks to AVPGalaxy.net for reporting this in 2019)</b></i><b>
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<li><b>Moviehole: </b><span style="color: #f4cccc;">But Marshall says the last “Alien” movie deterred his interest in the
series temporarily. “</span><span style="color: #ea9999;">They just lost the plot with Alien Resurrection</span><span style="color: #f4cccc;">”,
he says. “</span><span style="color: #ea9999;">But I’m fascinated with the mythology and character of the
Alien and part of me would love to do an Alien film one day. Not an
“Aliens vs Predator” – that’ll just be a smash-em up movie that’ll get
the kids in. It’ll have no great story – but a return to the original</span>”.<b>
<i>(<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20030424092344/http://www.moviehole.net/news.php?newsid=1127">https://web.archive.org/web/20030424092344/http://www.moviehole.net/news.php?newsid=1127</a>) From an article about Dog Soldiers which was released in March 2002</i></b><b><i> (Thanks to AVPGalaxy.net for reporting this in 2019)</i></b></li>
<li><b>HFC: It’s impressive to think the same guy revolutionised the
genre three times with Last House on the Left, Elm Street and Scream.</b><br />
<b>Axell Caroly: </b><span style="color: #f4cccc;">Yeah, and every generation of horror fans has been hit by something he’s created.</span><br />
Neil Marshall:<span style="color: #f4cccc;"> I was more of a Carpenter fan with The Fog and The Thing. Also,
Alien really defined it for me. And The Shining – that psychological
thriller. </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(<a href="http://horrorcultfilms.co.uk/2015/09/interview-with-axelle-carolyn-and-neil-marshall-on-tales-of-halloween/">http://horrorcultfilms.co.uk/2015/09/interview-with-axelle-carolyn-and-neil-marshall-on-tales-of-halloween/</a>)</span><br />
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<li><b>Neil Marshall: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">I remember just after he’d made <i>Alien</i>,
Ridley Scott said “<span style="color: #e06666;">if you can shoot it for real, shoot it for real</span>.’ He
meant that tangible things translate better to the screen.<span style="font-size: xx-small;"> (<a href="http://www.dontpaniconline.com/magazine/film/ray-harryhausen-and-the-giants-of-special-effects">http://www.dontpaniconline.com/</a></span></span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="day">14</span> Sunday 2011<span style="color: #ea9999;">)</span><b> </b></span></li>
<li>Neil Marshall: "<span style="color: #ea9999;">An American Werewolf in London is an interesting
film because watching it when you're young it's absolutely terrifying
but seeing it now you realise it's actually very funny.</span><span style="color: #ea9999;"> That
period of time - when I was around 11, 12 and 13 years old - it was the
age of VHS when friends started having VHS players. That's when I saw
The Howling, I saw Alien, I saw The Shining, I saw Texas Chain Saw
Massacre and all these films around that time. They stuck with me and
inspired my love of horror. They informed me and made me who I am.</span>"<span style="font-size: xx-small;"> (<a href="http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/whats-on/film-news/neil-marshall-admits-directing-tales-6682936">http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk, 22 OCT 2015)</a></span><b> </b></li>
<li><b>Neil Marshall:</b><span style="color: #ea9999;"> Few horror movies have had such a profound effect on me as Ridley
Scott’s 1979 masterpiece, “Alien.” Few movies of any kind have had as
much of an impact and influence on the movies I make.</span><span style="color: #ea9999;">
</span><span style="color: #ea9999;">I was too young to catch it at the cinema when it was first released,
but my uncle did, and he enthralled me with tales of strange planets,
chestbursters and the unusual notion of a woman as the hero of a
science-fiction horror movie. I was hooked, but I didn’t get to see it
for myself until it was first broadcast on television in the UK in 1982
when I was 12, and it surpassed all expectations.</span><br />
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</span><span style="color: #ea9999;">Director Ridley Scott, along with artists H.R. Giger and Ron Cobb,
working from a script by Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett, set out to
create two utterly realistic and compelling future worlds, one human,
one alien, and then set them on a collision course. There is nothing in
“Alien” that ever seems fake. The sets, the spacecraft, the planet, the
characters, the costumes, the performances; everything feels credible
and authentic.</span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;">
</span><span style="color: #ea9999;">The opening on the movie gives us a brief tour of the “tug” Nostromo,
a workhorse of the spaceways, cumbersome and functional. Inside, its
corridors are claustrophobic, dark, wet and grimy. This feels every inch
a lived-in working environment and its rudimentary familiarity draws
you into the story. Everything in this world is out to get you, from the
vacuum of space to the cornbread and the corporation, let alone
androids and alien beings. Space travel, in this movie, is no picnic.</span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;">
</span><span style="color: #ea9999;">The characters – Ripley, Dallas, Ash, Kane, Parker, Brett and Lambert
– are blue-collar workers we can readily identify with. They bitch
about money, food, and each other. After spending months in hypersleep,
who wouldn’t be a little grumpy? I love that they’re not a bunch of
teens in jeopardy. They’re not even that sympathetic. Instead they’re
scratchy, sweaty, and stretched thin by months in close quarters
confinement. They’re flawed and therefore very human.</span><br />
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</span><span style="color: #ea9999;">The ALIEN on the other hand, is described by Ash as “<span style="color: #e06666;">the perfect
organism.</span>” Its very perfection is what makes it so otherworldly. As a
biological entity, it’s precise, elegant and lethal. Everything about
the ALIEN is sexual – its design, life cycle, its behavior – given
Giger’s work that’s not too surprising. What it added to movie lore is a
creature (actually multiple creatures) not merely repulsive and
terrifying, but also darkly beautiful and disturbing.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ea9999;">A scene from “Alien.” (Robert Penn / 20th Century Fox)</span></div>
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</span><span style="color: #ea9999;">So which came first, the ALIEN or the EGG?</span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;">
</span><span style="color: #ea9999;">Actually neither. The derelict spacecraft comes first, if indeed it
is a spacecraft. It looks almost organic and comes complete with several
vagina-like portals through which our heroes gain access. Is it a
female spacecraft? It has something resembling a pilot (more of which
later) but it also has a womb, loaded with EGGS just waiting for some
unwitting human to stray inside and “fertilize.”</span><br />
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</span><span style="color: #ea9999;">Kane describes these EGGS as “round leathery objects.” They seem to
be alive and are crowned with yet more vagina-like orifices that open up
and ejaculate another alien organism – say hello to the FACE-HUGGER.</span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;">
</span><span style="color: #ea9999;">This little beast essentially kills you by raping your face and
making you pregnant, and this is by no means limited to woman. The alien
can’t be accused of being sexist. Any sex, any age, any thing is fair
game, and if you’re unlucky enough to be orally impregnated, then the
process of giving birth is no less unpleasant and ultimately fatal.</span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;">
</span><span style="color: #ea9999;">Much has been said about the CHESTBURSTER’s big entrance, and yet
despite lifting all the veils of movie magic it still retains the power
to shock and disturb. It’s violent, painful and bloody, but none of it
would be nearly so convincing if it wasn’t for John Hurt’s agonizing
death throes and the rest of the cast looking on, dumbfounded and
appalled. The aliens may be monstrous, but it’s the humans that sell the
horror in the movie.</span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;">
</span><span style="color: #ea9999;">And so we come to the main event, the ALIEN itself, a gangly,
seven-foot-tall, drooling, slithering phallus of death, complete with
erectile tongue for thrusting out and penetrating its victims’ bodies.
I’d say you couldn’t make this up, but they did, and in turn created the
greatest movie monster of all.</span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;">
</span><span style="color: #ea9999;">To me, ALIEN (both the movie and the creature) is a perfect
collaboration of brilliant minds and creative forces, all working
together to push the envelope of ’70s cinema. I somehow doubt this movie
would get made in today’s movie climate. It’s too adult, or perhaps too
alien, for an audience weaned on superheroes and CGI. And yet, it
spawned a successful franchise that’s still going strong today, via
sequels, spin-offs, video games, and recently a prequel.</span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;">
</span><span style="color: #ea9999;">And therein lies the rub….</span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;">
</span><span style="color: #ea9999;">When I first saw “Alien,” the thing that burrowed deepest into my mind was not the ALIEN or the FACE-HUGGER or the EGG, but the <i>other</i>
alien creature seen in the movie, the SPACE JOCKEY. This, to me, was
far more incomprehensible than the ALIEN itself. Despite all I’ve said
above, the ALIEN is basically a predator, and that’s something I can get
my head around.</span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;">
</span><span style="color: #ea9999;">The SPACE JOCKEY, on the other hand, is entirely unfathomable. Has it
grown out of the chair? Has its “nose” apparently connected to its body
in such a way it cannot move? It is, to my mind, something utterly and
completely alien. Imagine my crushing disappointment to find out, all
these years later, that it was not some inscrutable alien being after
all, but was, within the context of the story, just <i>a man in a suit</i>!
Painfully ironic, given the lengths they went to in the original movie
to disguise the fact that the ALIEN (played by Bolaji Badejo) was in
fact just that.</span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;">
</span><span style="color: #ea9999;">Nevertheless, “Alien” is still a remarkable film-making achievement
and an intense and terrifying movie which still holds up today with
considerable ease.</span><br />
– Neil Marshall (<a href="http://herocomplex.latimes.com/movies/alien-neil-marshall-praises-ridley-scotts-sci-fi-classic-guest-essay/#/0">http://herocomplex.latimes.com/movies/alien-neil-marshall-praises-ridley-scotts-sci-fi-classic-guest-essay/#/0</a> <span class="date">Oct. 30, 2014</span>)</li>
<li>Neil Marshall: <span style="color: #ea9999;">Few films have left me in a state resembling shell shock, literally trembling from the adrenaline rush and intensity. <i>Saving Private Ryan</i> was one of those, but <i>Aliens </i>was the first. James Cameron’s genius was in making a sequel that continued the story set up in <i>Alien</i>,
and followed its lone survivor Ellen Ripley, but dropped her and the
entire movie, like an incendiary bomb, into an entirely new genre -
sci-fi war. We’d had soldiers fighting aliens on earth before - <i>War Of The Worlds</i>, <i>Invaders From Mars</i>
etc - but we’d never seen drop ships plummeting into combat with a
xenomorphic hive before. This changed everything. But despite all the
incredible storytelling and design work involved in the movie, for me it
was the sound that left the biggest impression. From the moment Jones
hissed and Ripley shattered that glass on the floor I knew my ears were
in for a beating, and the rest of the movie rocked my world. </span><i>(<a href="https://nfts.co.uk/blog/%E2%80%9Ci-wouldn%E2%80%99t-be-making-movies-and-television-today-if-it-wasn%E2%80%99t-raiders-lost-ark%E2%80%9D">https://nfts.co.uk/blog/%E2%80%9Ci-wouldn%E2%80%99t-be-making-movies-and-television-today-if-it-wasn%E2%80%99t-raiders-lost-ark%E2%80%9D</a>) </i></li>
<li>Neil Marshall: <span style="color: #ea9999;">Inspired by “Raiders,” Marshall started as a teenager shooting his own Super 8 remakes of the Indiana Jones and “Alien” movies.<i> </i></span><i>(<a href="https://variety.com/2006/scene/markets-festivals/neil-marshall-1117936383/">https://variety.com/2006/scene/markets-festivals/neil-marshall-1117936383/</a> January 18, 2006)</i></li>
<li>Neil Marshall: <span style="color: #ea9999;">Besides <i>Hellboy,</i> Marshall also expressed interest in directing a <i>Creature from the Black Lagoon</i>
film (and Universal could certainly do worse than hire a director who
has proven that he can deliver both frights and monsters effectively)
and an <i>Alien</i> movie. While mostly wishful thinking, horror fans
would certainly be excited to see Marshall’s take on either of the
classic monsters, whether under water or in outer space. </span><i>(<a href="https://www.horrornewsnetwork.net/hellboy-rise-blood-queen-director-neil-marshall-promises-r-rated-content-traditional-special-effects/">https://www.horrornewsnetwork.net/hellboy-rise-blood-queen-director-neil-marshall-promises-r-rated-content-traditional-special-effects/</a> <span class="post-meta-infos">June 27, 2017</span>) </i></li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086941578419555377.post-72982819762054877972014-10-01T19:06:00.000-07:002018-01-04T03:52:49.294-08:00October 2014<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/p/updates-2015.html" target="viewpage8729262586978744275">2014</a></span> </b></div>
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<span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Friday October 31st 2014</b></u></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>1)</b> Added information Ron Cobb working on the Nostromo by The Alien Archive to<a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/05/ron-cobbs-design-philosophy.html"> Alien : Ron Cobb's design philosophy</a></span></span> <br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>2)</b> Added information about Spielberg being offered the Alien film from a comment by Ron Cobb in The Alien Archive to <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/07/alien-hunt-for-director.html">Alien: Hunt for Director</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>3) </b>Added comment by Ron Cobb in The Alien Archive to <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/08/the-art-rooms-of-la.html">Alien: The Art Rooms of LA</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>4) </b>Added information from comment by HR Giger in The Alien Archive to <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/06/physicality-of-alien-humanoids-head.html">Physicality Of The Alien Humanoid's Head</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Thursday October 30th 2014</b></u></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Added <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/10/chris-foss-leviathan-sketch-no3.html">Christ Foss' Leviathan Sketch No. 3 </a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #ead1dc;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Tuesday October 28th 2014</b></u></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>1)</b> Updated <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.hu/2014/07/harboring-remains-of-li-tobler.html">Harboring The Remains Of Li Tobler</a> with Brian Johnson's report about the story from the Alien Legacy documentary</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Saturday October 25th 2014</b></u></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>1) </b>Added <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.hu/1979/10/egg-silo.html">Egg Silo</a> page to list the pages dealing with the egg silo from Alien</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>2)</b> Added <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.hu/1979/10/egg-silo-interior.html">HR Giger's Preliminary Egg Silo Interior</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>3)</b> Added <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.hu/1979/10/hr-gigers-egg-silo-interior-version-i.html">HR Giger's egg silo interior version i</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>4)</b> Added <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.hu/1979/10/chris-foss-alien-temple-interior.html">Chris Foss Alien Temple interior</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">5) Added <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.hu/1979/10/egg-silo-exterior.html">Giger's Egg Silo Exterior</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #ead1dc;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Thursday October</b></u><u><b> 23rd 2014</b></u></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>1) </b>Added Brian Johnson's statement from Alien Legacy Documentary about Giger having the bones of his "ex-wife" to <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/harboring-remains-of-li-tobler.html">Harboring the remains of Li Tobler. </a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>2) </b>Added photo of Dan O'Bannon and Ron Cobb in the art rooms to <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/08/the-art-rooms-of-la.html">The Art Rooms of LA</a> from Alien Legacy documentary.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Monday October 20th 2014</b></u></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>1) </b>Added <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.hu/1979/10/one-more-surprise-ending.html">One more surprise ending </a><b> </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>2) </b>Added <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.hu/1979/10/life-cycle-of-alien.html">Life Cycle of the Alien</a> <i>(in response to quotes being published by Xeno Alpha 07 in a discussion going on at <a href="http://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/index.php?topic=51548.0">AVPGalaxy.net</a></i><i> )</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>3)</b> Added quote from Bolaji from Cinefantastique to <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.hu/1979/10/the-creature-in-wall.html">The creature in the wall</a> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #ead1dc;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Saturday October 18th 2014</b></u></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Added <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.hu/1979/10/the-creature-in-wall.html">The creature in the wall</a> about the scene of the alien being discovered in the Narcissus</span></span> <br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #ead1dc;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Wednesday October 15th 2014</b></u></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>1) </b>Updated <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/10/initial-construction-of-nostromo.html">Initial construction of the Nostromo, </a><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2009/03/design-of-derelict-moebius-concept.html"><b>Moebius' Derelict</b></a> and <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.hu/1997/05/sylvain-despretzs-alien-warrior-concepts.html">Sylvain Despret's Alien Resurrection Alien Warrior Concepts</a> with images from SFX#254 December 2014's preview of The Alien Archives</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>2) </b>Added Veronica Cartwright's comment from Alien Quadrilogy documentary to "Mother of All KY Jelly Tubes" on the <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/john-birkinshaw-aka-mother.html">John Birkinshaw aka "Mother"</a> and rewrote the summary to accommodate additional information </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>3) </b>Rewrote :<a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2009/02/early-signs-of-form-of-alien-creature.html"> The starting point at Swiss Made 2069</a> adding information from Cinefantastique Vol 9: No.1 and broke it down into two pages, the second being <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.hu/1979/10/swiss-made-2069-connected-with-dr-who.html">Doctor Who and the 10th Planet inspired</a><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2009/02/early-signs-of-form-of-alien-creature.html"> Swiss Made 2069?, </a>since Swiss Made 2069 deserved its own page and the page about Doctor Who and the Tenth Planet will become extended. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #ead1dc;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Tuesday October 14 2014</b></u></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>1) </b>Added image of six limbed alien understood to a preview from the Alien Archives</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">and shows itself to have the characteristics of <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.hu/1997/05/sylvain-despretzs-alien-warrior-concepts.html">Sylvain Despretz alien warrior concept art for Alien Resurrection from</a> SFX#254 December 2014's preview of The Alien Archives <i>(thanks to Jonin of Alien Xenomorph Origins on Facebook for the headsup)</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>2)</b> </i>Added <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.hu/1979/10/nostromo-with-close-encounters-of-third.html">Nostromo with Close Encounters Of Third Kind mothership lighting </a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Sunday October 12th 2014</b></u></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1)</b> Created <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/10/confusion-about-number-of-nostromos.html">One Nostromo shuttle or two?</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>2)</b> Article from SFX# 6 , from November 1995 where Bill Pearson is interviewed, broken chunks scattered across <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/10/the-crunch.html">The Crunch</a>, <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/adding-new-cockpit.html">Adding a new cockpit, <b> </b></a><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/10/nostromos-engine-room-towers-become.html">Engine room towers become engines, </a><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/10/probes-from-refinery-transplanted.html">Probes from the refinery transplanted elsewhere,</a> <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/10/confusion-about-number-of-nostromos.html">Ron Cobb's design philosophy, One Nostromo shuttle or two?</a> and <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/10/finishing-touches-to-nostromo.html">Finishing touches to the Nostromo</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Saturday October 11th 2014</b></u></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1) </b>Added <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/10/belly-lights-of-nostromo.html"><b>Belly lights of the Nostromo</b></a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>2) </b>Updated<b> <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/08/steve-jolliffe-of-tangerine-dream-joins.html">Steven Jolliffe of Tangerine dream joins </a></b><b><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/08/steve-jolliffe-of-tangerine-dream-joins.html">the Nostromo wiggeters</a></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Friday October 10th 2014</b></u></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1)</b> Added Dennis Lowe's view on <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2009/03/dissecting-derelict-gigers-egg-silo-and.html">Giger's egg silo and derelict squeezed into one</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>2) </b>Added Denis Lowe's view on the <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2008/01/dissecting-derelict-to-explain-more.html">Space Jockey fused wth the chair</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>3) </b>Added an index page for <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/10/dennis-lowe.html">Dennis Lowe</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Wednesday October 8th 2014</b></u></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1) </b>Expanded on <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/10/the-arrival-of-jon-sorensen.html">Jon Sorensen's arrival</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>2) </b>Added <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/john-birkinshaw-aka-mother.html">John Birkinshaw aka "Mother" </a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Monday October 6th 2014</b></u></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Divided page about the<b> <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/creating-nostromo.html">creation of the Nostromo</a></b> into several different pages linked by this one </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Saturday October 4th 2014</b></u></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1)</b> Added <b><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/10/ridley-scotts-egg-silo-exterior-adapted.html">Ridley Scotts egg silo exterior adapted from Giger's Necronomicon</a></b> having worked out where Ridley took the head from</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ead1dc;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Friday October</b><b> 3rd 2014</b></u></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1)</b><b> </b>Updated section <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2006/03/resurrection-of-ripley.html">The Resurrection of Ripley</a>
with information from the books Joss Whedon: The Genius behind buffy
section and Joss Whedon : Geek King Of The Universe merged together</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>2) </b>Added segments from the books <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/1997/10/joss-whedon-genius-behind-buffy-section.html">Joss Whedon: The Genius behind buffy section</a> and <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1997/10/extract-from-joss-whedon-geek-king-of.html">Joss Whedon : Geek King Of The Universe</a> from Googlebooks</span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086941578419555377.post-9878427907550861712014-09-01T19:00:00.000-07:002018-04-03T16:53:41.724-07:00September 2014<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Tuesday September 29th 2014</b></u></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1)</b> Updated <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2009/06/into-necronomicon.html">Into The Necronomicon</a> with a quote from Ridley from the Alien Saga documentary</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>2)</b> The section "Giger's objectives with the alien" becomes transformed into <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/04/gigers-objectives-with-alien.html">Starting the Alien, </a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and
the information about the body contortionists has been given its own
page merged with the information about the body contortionists as <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2009/06/nucleus-of-alien.html">Looking for the Alien's Nucleus</a>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>3)</b> <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2009/06/nucleus-of-alien.html">Looking for the Alien's Nucleus</a> is broken into separate sections attempting to focus on bringing clarity to each section.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>4) </b>Added image of the model Veruschka to <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/09/enter-verushka.html">Enter Veruschka</a> folded into a position vaguely reminiscent of the <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/04/organic-box-like-thing.html">Alien folded up like a box</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Sunday September 28th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1) </b>Wrote summary for <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2010/02/noomi-rapace-plays-elizabeth-shaw.html">Noomi Rapace plays Elizabeth Shaw </a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>2)</b> Wrote summary for <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/charlize-theron-plays-meredith-vickers.html">Charlize Theron plays Meredith Vickers</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>3)</b> Uploaded a complete black and white scan of <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/08/moebius-space-jockey.html">Moebius' space jockey </a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>4)</b> Created another page <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/p/ridleygrams.html">Ridleygrams</a> to list the Ridleygrams</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>5)</b> Expanding and splitting up sections on <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2009/02/tomita-planets.html">The Tomita Planets</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>6)</b> Expanding section on the <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/09/two-robots-chatting.html">Two Computers Chatting</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">7) Added <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1972/09/work-209-echoes-of-cybermen.html">Giger's Landscape XVI: Residual traces of the Cybermen?</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Monday September 22nd 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1) </b><b> </b><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/the-derelict-and-juggernaut.html"><u>The Derelict and the Juggernaut</u></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>2)</b> <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/ridleygrams-of-beluga-head.html">Ridleygrams of Beluga Head</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>3) </b><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/09/chris-foss-leviathan-undercarriage.html">Chris Foss Leviathan undercarriage</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>4)</b> <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/09/grotestque-rock-formations-in-alien.html">Grotesque rock formations in Alien </a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Sunday September 21st 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1</b>) Added comment by Richard Stammers from Cinefex 130 to<a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/the-dark-side-of-moon.html"> The Dark Side of The Moon</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>2)</b> Added comment by Paul Butterworth from Cinefex 130 to <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/orrery.html">Origins of the Orrey </a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Friday September 19th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1)</b> Updated <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/did-cocoon-scene-ridleygram-inspire.html">Did cocoon scene Ridleygram inspire Brainstorm's hell?</a> with images from Cinefex of the organic landscapes being created.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Wednesday September</b><b> 17th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="userContent"><b>1)</b> Questions about <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1976/09/necronom-viii-based-on-ancient-helmet.html">Necronom VII, inspired by Viking Helmet or perhaps another Doctor Who monster or even both?</a> (<i>This very much up in the air but it's interesting to find out more
about the Doctor Who monster that it vaguely resembles in terms of
Giger's biomechanoid concept and if that is a coincidence, well....</i>)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>2)</b> <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1972/01/alien-and-influence-of-doctor-who.html">Alien and the influence of Doctor Who</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><u>Sunday September 7th 2014</u></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/09/skirting-part-of-r2-d2-kit-on-nostromo.html">The skirting from R2D2 kit on the Nostromo</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Saturday September 6th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Possible connection between Cybermen and Giger's Extra-Terrestrial outfit for <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2009/02/early-signs-of-form-of-alien-creature.html">Swiss Made 2069</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Friday September 5th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="userContent"><b>1)</b> Updated the page about <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/moebius-concept-sketch-for-alien.html">the other Moebius sketches of derelict ships</a>, now that I've been able to identify them as
the ones from Ashcan Comics #4 having found the copies of the sketches
that Jean-Marc L'Officier uploaded to his site.</span></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>2)</b><span class="userContent"> <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/09/the-disappearance-of-moebiuss-artwork.html">What happened to the Alien artwork by Moebius that went missing</a>? </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Thursday September 4th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Added additional information to <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/07/ridley-receives-alien-script.html">Script Out of the Blue</a> about the picking up of a copy of Metal Hurlant in the Dordogne based on the Q&A at Genesis Cinema, August 2014</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Wednesday September 3rd 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Summary for the <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/little-rascal.html">Little Rascal</a> has been rewritten </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Tueday September 2nd 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1) </b>Updated <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/06/casting-kane.html">Casting Kane </a>with Roger Christian's view on the incident of letting go of Jon Finch.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>2) </b>Chronologically arranged source quotes for <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/04/organic-box-like-thing.html">Organic box like thing</a> and added image file with the article from Famous Monsters of Film Land from 1979.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Monday September 1st 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Added <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/09/the-eye-goggles-of-alien-stage-iii.html">the eye goggles of Alien stage iii version 2.</a> Were they inspired by ancient Egyptian depictions of lillies?</span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086941578419555377.post-77683642497131297952014-08-24T05:35:00.002-07:002023-07-19T16:43:33.911-07:00Alien Q &A, Genesis Cinema, August 24th 2014<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #d2bcc6; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">leading from</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/07/alien-resources.html">Alien: Resources</a></span><b> </b></div>
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<b>(end of Alien movie) </b><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">There we go, that was alright, wasn't it. There we go, as I say now , couple of things ........ special guests</span><br />
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<b>voice:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">Ivor Powell</span><br />
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(Soft cell music suddenly comes up) <br />
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<b>Wayne Imms:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">There's Soft Cell for you. Erm where was I. Oh thank you. Ivor Powell played a key role in the making of Alien as associate producer, he worked with Ridley Scott in bringing the film to the screen. His credits also include Ridley Scott's other films which were The Duellists and Blade Runner. Let's now welcome you to the stage. The first name to appear on the end credits as well.</span><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell:</b><span style="color: #ea9999;"> Are we on?</span><br />
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<b>Sound technician:</b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Yes,</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms</b>:<span style="color: #ea9999;">Yes</span><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">That, That, erm, credit always made Ridley jealous, because I got the applause at the end of the film because everyone was so impressed, just because of the position</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Good stuff. Terry Rawlings with his editing skills, helped shaped the suspense and other elements of Alien, as well as Ridley Scott's, erm, The Duellists and Blade Runner, as well as Legend, he also edited Chariots of Fire, Golden Eye, Entrapment, The Saint and The End Tour among many many other films. Come on then Terry, come over here. Oh good. Here we are, there's some water obviously if you want some.</span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawlings: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Okay</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">Erm, Ivor, first, how did you become involved with Alien, you worked with Ridley before so, you knew him</span><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Yeah, I erm, I worked with Ridley on commercials, erm, er, I was a, I guess a sort of struggling first assistant director , and erm, one day got a call basically to er, come and do this commercial that a studio provides for all studios, er, but it wasn't as a first, it was for a second, because er, and I said, "<span style="color: #e06666;">sod it, I'll do it</span>", erm, because I need the money, erm, so that started a long sort of like a fifteen year relationship with working with him, working on commercials, erm, eventually er, you know, helping, working with him for, get a picture, you know, get the first picture off the ground, which was the Duellists</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">What did you first know of Alien, how did... d'you remember or you know, how he kind of er, well, came, get , got across to you, the idea of the film, </span><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">Yeah. We'd er, we'd made er, we made The Duellists, and er, Ridley, erm, I was along, literally from, er, knee high, I was a sci-fi fanatic, absolutely loved Horror movies, Scifi movies. Used to as a teenager, used to go and see erm, theSunday only , which doesn't happen these days, but Sunday only movies that were in obscure little cinemas, ahem, I was going to say like this but no, but all in London, but it was Sunday only, it was usually a double bill like X the Unknown or It the Terror From Beyond Space, and I used to sit there, and try and get my arm around the, whatever girlfriend I had, at the moments I knew were coming up because I had seen them a sort of thousand times before. Anyway, erm, so, I'm digressing, as I always do, but Ridley absolutely hated any of that, that shit, he was a realist, he loved historical drama. He had as he constantly reminded me, erm, an eye, erm, he went, er, I think it was Hornsey College of Art, and erm, listen, he was an artist, and er, but he didn't like that sort of thing. However much I tried to show him scifi movies or enthuse him about... he didn't get it, and one day, I'll get to the end in a minute, and one day we were travelling back from our first wrecky down to the Dordogne in erm, the South of, in Sarlat, sort of mid France, and er, on the Station waiting for the train, there was this, erm, magazine rack, and there was this, er, comic there called Metal Hurlant/ Heavy Metal and I bought it and we were sitting on the train going back to Paris and Ridley sort of saw it and picked it up and there was on of Dan O'Bannon's erm, er, str... comic strips in there, erm which was about, which was part of the foundation for. for , for Blade Runner. Anyway, that, the images in that Heavy Metal comic absolutely hooked him, he suddenly, it was like he had an epiphany, and er, so I think vaguely that was the kind of oh no, he just kind of saw the light there, and so, erm, though that wasn't the seed of Alien, what happened was that after the success of The Duellists , erm, I think he had some fan Sandy Lieberson who was then head of Twentieth Century Fox in England, erm, sort of basically passed him this script that had been going 'round Hollywood with various directors and kind of happened... hadn't happened... and erm. Ridley and I had a little tussle with the script because it was scifi and I thought well I should read it first, but no, he said No, I'm going to read it first, it's been offered to me, so anyway, so he shut himself in an office next door, our offices in Lexington Street in Soho, and all I could hear was "</span><span style="color: #e06666;">Fuck me!</span><span style="color: #ea9999;">" every time he used to get to one of the various scenes in the original script which changed quite a bit, So anyway, and I read it, you know, the rest is history, I mean he, he , he saw it, he saw it as a, he saw the potential in it and, er, did it his own way and whatever, that's my story</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Terry were you, 'cause The Duellists was his first film before, and also before Alien wasn't it, so...</span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawlings: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Yes, yes</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms: </b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">though you didn't edit that you did the sound, didn't you? so...</span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawlings:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">That was the last film I did sound on, I mean, I've been doing sound for about fifteen, sixteen years, and that's when i really first met, first met Ridley, and when I got connected with Alien was the fact, I was now editing Watership Down, and I got a call from Ridley's office to say, "we're going to make this film Alien, we'd like you to do the sound", so I said <span style="color: #e06666;">"I'm not interested in doing the sound, I'd like to cut it</span>", so he said "<span style="color: #e06666;">you'd better come and meet the producers then.</span>" So I went to the office and we spent ages talking mostly about Watership Down, and I said at the end, "<span style="color: #e06666;">well can I cut this film or not?"</span>, and they said "<span style="color: #e06666;">yes</span>" and I drove home like I was driving a 747 not realising what we were about to make, which, looking at it now, so many years, I mean you've seen it a few times, but I thought it was wonderful watching this tonight or this afternoon, I should say. And er, it makes you realise all the hard work was worth it, and particularly because, apart from working on The Saint, which I did, which was one of the hardest films I've worked on, this was the hardest film I ever did, we worked, as Ivor will tell you, we worked seven days a week like eighteen hours a day, right, and we never seemed to leave. I mean, I was doing the second film I'd ever done, so was Ridley, so was Ivor, so was the costume designer and we all wanted to do the best we knew how, and so we just wouldn't give up.</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">You mentioned the costume designer John Mollo</span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawlings:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">Yes</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">His first film was Star Wars, which he won an Oscar for.</span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawlings: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Yes</span> <br />
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<b>Wayne Imms: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Erm. He was of course at the even five years ago</span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawlings:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">Yes. That's right</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">About Alien. Erm. But, what was your personal vision before you actually worked on it, Terry?</span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawlings:</b><span style="color: #ea9999;"> well, I thought the script was interesting, but the thing is, obviously, until you start seeing the material, you don't know what ye .... you don't know what the concept or, you know what the concept is but you don't know how he's going to achieve it and what it's going to look like, but as soon as you started seeing this material, you thought, this is really something very special, you know, the... the design of this film was amazing, I think. I mean, I don't think you've seen anything like this, even the Star Wars film wasn't a standard.... couldn't stand up to the quality of this film, I don't think, at the time.</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">Erm, did you both go on set while they were filming? </span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawlings:<span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span></b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Well, Ivor, he must be at all the tiles</span><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Yes, erm when I was erm, yeah, it was a kind of a job you know as a, when you're a line producer, you're . a lot of the time you're locked into an office sort of dealing with the the the logistics of things, trying to make sure that there are, you know, that everybody's, you know, the next set's ready or you get delegated jobs, like one of my main jobs was, believe it or not, we started the film, and we really hadn't got locked down, erm, who the hell was going to design and make the alien, we had several attempts. In fact the first alien suit was made by a guy, I won't name him at the moment, but anyway, but, he made, he had his offices on the Shepperton lot, and he made the first Alien suit, and erm, obviously made out of a kind of latex rubber, but the first time anyone tried to put it on, it all kind of just fell apart, and, erm, it was a long dispute about payment for it. etc. Erm, and then Gordon Carroll, who was the main sort of, one of the three American producers that were kind of resident actually working on the movie day to day with me, erm, he suggested he'd called up this guy, erm, Carlo Rambaldi, erm, who made, er, you know the , whatsit, close en... the the creature in close encounters etc</span><br />
<b><br />Wayne Imms: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">And on Jaws too</span><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell</b>: <span style="color: #ea9999;">Yeah, and on Jaws. Yeah, yeah. Erm, and erm, he knows more than I do. And er, so anyway, Carlo came over , erm, we had another guy make the tail mechanism which was a bit of a... a number, etc, erm, and erm, but anyway, eventually this, suddenly the Alien began to take shape , and , and another young guy that I met, erm, er, called Roger Dicken, who was kind of a, whose main claim to fame, I seem to remember he worked with erm, who was the guy who did Mighty Joe Young, the name, er, Ray Harryhausen, no</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">Ray Harryhausen</span><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">It was Ray Harryhausen who'd done the the the the Kong creature for er Mighty Joe Young. I mean, he was an absolute horror movie fanatic anyway. He came over here and he was given much, though he wanted to do the design of the A.... , the the, the main Alien, but he was given the job of making the face hugger and the little rascal as we called it, the one that dives across the table. erm we had to give them all names, and erm, so yeah, that's, that all came apart, or came together, so I got came apart. I nearly came apart, I can tell you. We never thought we were going to have a creature</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">Erm, you mentioned the little rascal that ran across after it came out of John Hurt,erm that was quite a scene, and erm, you know. Were you, you weren't there when they shot that were you ?</span><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">I was indeed</span><br />
<b><br />Wayne Imms:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">Really, go on, tell us, what was it like?</span><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">Erm, well, I'm sure you all heard a million times, but erm, I mean, Ridley erm wanted to make it as real as possible, and again, Ridley I think at the back of his mind all the time I mean Terry kind of didn't quite touch on it.... the script was, in the wrong hands, would have been an absolute B movie, a B, you know, er. i... i... it.... it wasn't subtle... certainly.... I mean there were many many drafts of the script, erm and when Dan O'Bannon and Ron Shusett did it, erm, it it, listen it was great, I loved... I loved it, I could relate to it, um, but once it got through David Giler and Walter Hill's hands, they kind of er... again, they weren't particularly sci-fi orientated and so they did their changes, they changed the male, the, the, the, hero into a heroine, erm, that became Ripley etc... etc... So Ridley in the same sort of frame of mind well when we came to shooting the chestburster sequence, you know, he sent the, one of effects guys down to the local abattoir to fill up buckets with slop and guts and whatever it is, which basically got slung about the place, erm, much to the surprise of the actors.</span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawling:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">They were surprised by it. They were</span><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">Veronica Cartwright was certainly surprised by it yeah, actually she, I think she fell over the back of wherever she was sitting at the time. So that gave it a certain er voracity er and shock value, erm, but we didn't have the kind of money that you know, erm, they would have nowadays, everything now it would be done CGI, you'd all... everybody would be saying, well, we could do it in post, etc. we couldn't, we didn't, you know, we were under constant pressure erm, from the studio who were very supportive, but none the less wanted us to keep to budget and nobody had ever dreamt at that time of spending the same amount that erm they spent on Star Wars, on a horror movie, so erm, you know it was , it was a tense shoot</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">Fox did quite well didn't they in the 70s with science fiction, you know Star Wars</span><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">They did indeed, they did indeed, which is why I guess, er they they came on board this and obviously er, they recognised Ridley's potential</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">Mmm. So Terry, as editor, how closely did you work with Ridley, did you.. I don't, did you like sit together and cut it?</span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawlings:</b><span style="color: #ea9999;"><b> </b>The way I work I, I, I assemble everything, I cut it the way I feel it should it should go and every night, I would talk to him about this, and if he had time, which he didn't have a lot of time, if he had time, he would come and look at it with me, and if he liked it, we'd leave it, to work on when we had the whole thing together, but I mean the way he worked is that, er, you talk to the director all the time of shooting as well and you want to know what his ideas are on a particular scene and then you try an obviously incorporate his ideas, but some of your own, when you're, when you're editing it. So if you work with the right director, and I always found it worked well with Ridley, erm he wouldn't, he wouldn't interfere while while we were up, while I was doing my cut of the film, and when we got down to it, I mean we would analyze all the sequences and we would work on it and change things where they needed to be changed, it was the same fact for practically everyone I've worked with. That's the way you do it anyway, but you must speak and and er understand your director and we... spend a lot of time talking to him, what do you want from this, what are you after? Soon as you know that, then you can try and achieve it for him, but I always say you've got to give something of yourself but what's the point if you don't add anything.</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">So, what's it, as editor, Terry, what's it like on a you know, first, obviously since it's release on the big screen, but as an editor, what's it like for you to see it</span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawlings:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">Tonight, today?</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">Yeah</span><br />
<b><br />Terry Rawlings:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">Well, in general I thought it was wonderful, I'm not just saying it because we worked on it, but I couldn't see anything that I would like to change</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">That's good I think 'cause people are involved in something but are never that satisfied are they?</span><br />
<b><br />Terry Rawlings: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">No, I mean the thing is there are things that I've worked on that I'm not that satisfied with</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Anything in particular</span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawlings: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">I refuse to answer. On the grounds that it would incriminate me.</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">You can tell me later.</span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawlings: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">No, the thing is, looking at that today, was it a Blu-Ray you were playing?</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">No, it was a DCP. A digital cinema package</span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawlings: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Oh yeah, well it looked fantastic,</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">It did actually, yeah</span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawlings: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">It looked wonderful. And er, what I thought was, it, everything we had tried to achieve, we achieved, and that makes you feel really good. I mean the thing that's standing up now after thirty five or thirty six years as far as we're concerned or longer for Ivor</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">You were a teenagers when you worked on it weren't you</span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawlings:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">I was in the cradle</span><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">I'm still in nappies</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Or in both</span><b><br /></b><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">I mean, i don't know what you guys out there feel, but I mean it takes forty five minutes for anything to really happen in this movie, this movie wouldn't get made now days because the pressures would, would be to, I just think that erm, that people's patience, attention levels are different, and they want something like in the first few minutes. They're always telling me write scripts that, you've got to get and grab the reader by balls by the first ten pages. And I think that they kind of apply that to movies in general these days and erm, the sort of cinemas that you, we all go and see, we love it when they're made well, are the big franchise movies but, this, this movie now, I mean, it made me incredibly proud, because I hadn't see it for a few years, I mean, you get glimpses of it and it's sort of shown on telly and things, but even here today on a small screen with not the big surround sound, it was still impressive but I think it's the, it's the er the weight, the erm tension that builds up in the hands of this master who is, there are no other editors have been, or certainly at the moment, who had the control, the kind of sound, music, erm, and visual, etc. I just thought it was brilliant</span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawling: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">The thing about Alien which, I've said this before and I'll say it again, eighty percent of the film is in slow motion. When you think about it, we creep around this ship to start with, the ship glides in, it starts off with the ship gliding in. We then spend endless time wandering around the decks, onto the bridge and switching on, and it opens them up, when they open up in the , in the flower, I call it the flower, and I love the way, I wanted to make those dissolves so he was coming out of himself like he was coming out of a chrysalis, that's all slow, and then they just sit around the tall table talking, nothing's happened, nothing really happens for ages, but you're keeping everybody in their toes. There's certain things about that film, all the time you're tense, and I think you know, Jimmy Shields who was the sound editor, no longer with us unfortunately, he did an amazing job as well, because to keep people's attention is very hard when you're doing this. One of the biggest problems with this film is when we first got it together was having to show it to anybody, because the thing is until it had it's sound track on it, as Ivor just said, you would bore people to death, you just sit watching these people wandering about without any tension because tension is created with the music and the sound effects. You know, you can do it in silence, but it's not the same, so if anything it was a difficult film to get to the public to start with and we had a lot of sort of hiccups as far as that's concerned as well because when we first finished the film here, we had a man come over from America called Leonard Kroll who was their sort of er, post production supervisor for 20th Century Fox, was a great ally to me. We mixed the film at Elstree Studios and we did a six track stereo for a 70 mil print. They then said, "<span style="color: #e06666;">we want to run, we want you to come over with this</span>", er ", <span style="color: #e06666;">this weekend. We're going to go on a sneak preview tour.</span>" So we arrived in America and they said "<span style="color: #e06666;">we want to show this film this afternoon, we want this tonight rather</span>", our first day there and it was being shown to the science fiction fans of America and we had all these funny people turning up dressed up like Star Wars and any other science fiction you could think of</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">We've got some here today</span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawlings: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Anyway, they all turned up at this thing and they had this screening as the Zanuck theatre which was their major dubbing theatre in Fox and it sounded terrible. I mean the film was really sounding bad. So they were saying, "<span style="color: #e06666;">oh we've got a problem with this</span>" and we said, "<span style="color: #e06666;">well there is no problem.</span>" And this Leonard Kroll, who was, as I said was a great ally, said "<span style="color: #e06666;">I was there when they did it and everything was fine</span>", so we go off the next day and we go to St Louis. Well when you go to the, when you go up with a six track, which we don't do any more now, but when they went up then, you would take a seventy, right, seventy mil sound placement reel, and they play this thing and you go into the theatre and it was just the sound and lets say "<span style="color: #e06666;">now speaking from theatre six</span>", sorry, "<span style="color: #e06666;">now speaking from speaker extreme right</span>" and it would go shhhhp shhhhp shhhhp , do all this stuff, now I'm speaking from speaker extreme left, silence, they didn't have a speaker there because they said they took it out and used it in one of their other rooms, so you've got a theatre that's not playing the sound properly, so that was another bad screening. We went from there to Denver, we had the same problem, so by and now, Fox were thinking that they had got a disaster on their hands, so we go then to Dallas where in this cinema, they had er two older men running the place, you could have eaten off the floor, the sound was fantastic, the picture was pin sharp like you saw it today, and people were fainting and being sick in the theatre, it was, it was crazy. I mean, they had thin red curtains at the back of the theatre and then one of the ushers looked through the curtains as the chest burster came out and fainted straight into the "<b><i>orchestra (?)",</i></b> so the management were going crazy, you remember that?</span><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell:<span style="color: #ea9999;"> </span></b><span style="color: #ea9999;">I have to intercede here because the 20th Century Fox thing. the kind of, erm, Alan Ladd Junior and the other execs etc that had, made, that made this film and thank, bless them all, but they'd made another film a few years back and I can't remember what the hell it was called </span>(Rolling Thunder, 1977) <span style="color: #ea9999;">but it tanked, it was very violent and it had, er, one sort of scene where a bad guy's got hold of a, a person's hand and shoved it down one of these waste disposal things in the kitchen and the audience kind of went absolutely bananas and, er, they hate, for whatever reason they hated the violence and the executives were watching it, this preview, they actually chased them out of the cinema and down the street. So whenever execs from Fox were watching this film, they were very wary because they knew this film was sort of violent , obviously and they were all sort of standing at the back looking at each other like that, saying, as if, when people were starting fainting, they looked as if to say, "<span style="color: #e06666;">shall we run, you know, shall we run for it now or not</span>."</span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawlings: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">And one of the reasons, I didn't finish ending the long endless story about the sound, but we found out afterwards, that the theatre that we ran it in first, the Zanuck dubbing theatre, had just finished mixing the film The Rose and they had a rock and roll team in there, because it was a rock and roll style movie and they re, re-voiced all the speaker systems so it sounded completely thin and tinny compared to what we wanted and that was one of the reasons, but then they decided they would run it for forty eight hours non stop from the Friday and you couldn't every... , I was staying there, and I watched the Egyptian theatre and no matter what time of the day or night they were queueing.</span><br />
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W<b>ayne Imms: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">That was what I was justing thinking of at the Egyptian theatre, because. Is that where the actual premier was</span><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Yes</span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawlings: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Yes </span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">Because your dear wife was telling me "<span style="color: #e06666;">oh, I've still got the ticket</span>" I said "<span style="color: #e06666;">You should have brought it today, I would have loved seeing that</span>" Erm, and that had quite a reaction, obviously, you know, because that was like the launch of this great film to the public</span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawlings: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Yeah. It really was. The thing is just, what amazed me that they were queuing non stop.</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Mmm </span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawlings: <span style="color: #ea9999;"> </span></b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Yeah</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">It was, you know, not the second time I saw it on the big screen but it's, I felt it was stressful to watch it, and really intense, and that's a good thing</span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawlings: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Well, it means it worked then</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Was it stressful generally, for anyone here?... It was, even though you know what was going to happen, it was, I suppose sometimes if you know what's going to happen, it's the build up to that , you know, after the suspense and stuff. You know</span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawlings: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">That was a whole part of this film, editing this film, was how far can you push someone in the corner before they say, "<span style="color: #e06666;">come on, give us a break</span>". You've got to get it timed right, and that was the thing that took us the longest of all, timing these things, to get the most tension before you let it, the cat out of the bag so to speak</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">It</span><span style="color: #ea9999;"> might be a silly question, but how do you know, how do you know how to make a film like that?</span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawlings: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Well, it's perfectly instinctive, you've got to feel it yourself. I mean, there's no rule book is there? There is no rule book, you do it until you're happy with it, and then obviously when an audience see it, er, they either let... tell you it's working or isn't working, and er , and that was , as I say, that was a difficult thing with that film. but er, I think looking at it again today, everything worked, and I think apart from the one in the, the rain room with the chains, when Brett gets killed, the first one, this, yeah, erm, well the second one really, no what sit</span><br />
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<b>Other voice (possibly Wayne or Ivor):</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">What, other than Kane?</span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawlings: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Yeah, other than Kane, he's the first one, that was longer originally, we had it, I had it longer, and I found it more tense and more stressful, and the thing is, I remember there was a shot I had of the alien in the water,<b> </b>like on a cross<b>. </b>It looked like he was on a cross hanging up, but you couldn't see it properly 'cause he's all diffused with the water coming down, and he starts looking up and you know, the way he looks and he thinks he's seen something, and the thing is, they said "</span><span style="color: #e06666;">take it out because you're giving it away</span><span style="color: #ea9999;">". I said "</span><span style="color: #e06666;">No one's going to know what they're looking at 'cause you've never seen it , but when we see it, they know they've seen it.</span><span style="color: #ea9999;">" It's the same when you're., when she's in the end fixing the thing, the , the shuttle, at the end, when she's switching all the switches on, getting prepared, you're looking at it, you can see it's head there if you know what you're looking for, and the arm is up, it's all there</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">cause it, then again there's those cylinders quite close to the head, which aren't dissimilar</span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawlings:<span style="color: #ea9999;"> </span></b><span style="color: #ea9999;">yuh, exactly, that's right</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">But there again, as you say, if you know what you're looking for, you know the film, you know it's there don't you</span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawlings: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">yeah, you do now, of course</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">it's still, it's still great</span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawlings: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">yeah, yeah</span><br />
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<b><b>Wayne Imms: </b>: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">even though you know it's there. Ehm, ah, when you, you mention the bit about the rain and Brett, did they put that bit in you mentioned in the director's cut?</span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawlings:<span style="color: #ea9999;"> </span></b><span style="color: #ea9999;">no, no, no they never did</span><br />
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<b><b>Wayne Imms: </b></b><span style="color: #ea9999;">alright</span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawlings:<span style="color: #ea9999;"> </span></b><span style="color: #ea9999;">No the thing is, there's , there is a, there is a</span><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell :</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">the business with</span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawlings: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">no, you're talking about the end</span><br />
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<b><b>Wayne Imms: </b></b><span style="color: #ea9999;">yeah</span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawlings: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">he's talking about in the rain. No, there was a scene in the end, in the end of the film which I thought was absolutely ludicrous. He's got three minutes to get off the ship before it blows up, and she hears a sound, and amongst all that noise, she hears some sound and goes down and finds the bodies all stuff in a chrysalis</span><br />
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<b><b>Wayne Imms: </b></b><span style="color: #ea9999;">oh yeah yeah</span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawling: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">and that's back in, that's something put back in, which is crazy, it doesn't make any sense</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Ivor, you said, you've done or you do, you love science fiction films erm</span><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">yeah</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms</b>: <span style="color: #ea9999;">but this film, do you think its fair to say it's as much science fiction as it is horror,<b> </b>some say it's one or the other</span><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell:<span style="color: #ea9999;"> </span></b><span style="color: #ea9999;">no, yeah, well, that's a difficult one because I mean erm, I mean , well talking about the rain, the rain sequence, I mean, I, erm, again being sort of scifi grounded, I sort of said to Ridley, "<span style="color: #e06666;">what-what-what's all this wet business, I mean, wha-what-what's the raison d'etre for it</span>" etc and he said "<span style="color: #e06666;"> oh no, it's great, you know"</span>, I,</span><br />
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<b>Wayn Imms: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">That's Ridley</span><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">Yeah. That's Ridley, it reminded me at the end, erm, Ridley was, you know, he went to art college, and and he was brilliant there, um, he , well got an amazing business mind, erm, witness the fact that he's got such an empire today, erm, but he just, he, he kind of, he weened himself on making commercials, and Ridley always used to get the kind of visual commercials and, Alan Parker, there were only like around two or three companies then, Alan Parker used to get the stuff with the old sort of content in, with the humour in, so poor old Ridley was used to a, was used to a definite sort of conflict between the two of them, that erm Ridley always had to something, a silk purse out of a sows ear and he would have to make it sexy.</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms:</b><span style="color: #ea9999;">The Hovis ad up the hill,</span><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Hovis was great, I mean that</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">There was the Cinzano Ad with Joan Collins</span><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, Alan got the dialogue, Ridley got the pictures, but just looking at the end again and that business with Sigourney, I mean erm, you can see why she became such a major star., I mean, I remember Ridley, 'cause again, this is with his , like commercial hat on, before we shot that sequence, we like held up shooting for a couple of hours where I set out one of the costume designers to go, 'cause the first pair of knickers that they turned up with for Sigourney to wear, as far as Ridley was concerned looked like a pair of diapers and they weren't sexy enough, so then we all waited while he went out and came back, and whatever the smallest pair were, those were the ones that got chosen as you can see etc, I mean, Sigourney's a , you know was a very healthy girl, and big sort of legs, she did a lot of running, etc, but they made her look amazingly I mean, sexy, and the whole thing was this undercurrent of sexuality and that end sequence of her changing into that virginal white space suit,</span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawlings: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">And then it's mouth, the alien's mouth</span><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell:<span style="color: #ea9999;"> </span></b><span style="color: #ea9999;">yeah, yeah, absolutely. All of that, talk about Freudian. Erm, It was beauty and the beast really., so</span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawlings:<span style="color: #ea9999;"> </span></b><span style="color: #ea9999;">it was all calculated. It was all worked out.</span><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell:<span style="color: #ea9999;"> </span></b><span style="color: #ea9999;">oh absolutely, oh yeah yeah yeah, but it still works, my god it works, but but the only flaw I can find in the thing now which makes me cringe now and again, there's little bits of dialogue now that I think in today's world they'd say is Irvin the Explainer stuff, you don't need that bit of dialogue, it's like I'm going to fill this gas tank now, type stuff, or you wouldn't have that now, I mean that would just get chopped, but this was sort of early days I guess. Erm, But visually I'm, I mean, and sound... I can't fault it</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">Any more question. A couple? I won't be long, have another drink very soon</span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;">Really. Wow, alright.Well I had some lovely chips down the road earlier. Erm, why do you think. Okay, it's a great film but why was Alien so successful. What would you say?</span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawlings: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Because people like being scared</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">yes</span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawlings: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">People like being scared, they like to laugh, they like comedies, but people also like to be scared, because they're safe in here, so they can be scared by watching the film. I think that works</span><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">By the same token, I mean by today's standards. It was immensely, it was incredibly successful, but not nearly as successful as it might have been because the mid American female audience did not ... , they just turned their backs on it, they hated the erm, the chestburster sequence, er, they found it, it just turned them off, so it was mainly a male, a male orientated movie. Erm, and as such, only made like erm, you know, it probably less, you know, less than everybody hoped, erm, but um, I mean again, times have changed</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Off the top of your heads, can I erm, 'cause it was 79 obviously it came out, what other contenders it had at the cinema? can't quite remember</span><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">I can't remember either, erm, </span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">Any one know of big film that also have been, knocks around the cinema around that time of Alien's release?</span><br />
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<b><b>Ivor Powell: </b></b><span style="color: #ea9999;">I can't remember the time<b>. </b></span><br />
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<b>Audience member's voice</b>: <span style="color: #ea9999;">Amityville horror </span><br />
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<b><b>Ivor Powell: </b></b><span style="color: #ea9999;">There Omen </span><span style="color: #ea9999;">at the time</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">No that was '76</span><b><br /></b><br />
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<b><b>Ivor Powell:</b></b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">Oh, it was '76</span><br />
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<b>Audience membe</b>r <span style="color: #ea9999;">Star Trek was out </span><br />
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<b>Audience membe</b>r : <span style="color: #ea9999;">Superman</span><br />
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<b>Audience member :</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">Amityville</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">No Superman was 78</span><b><br /></b><br />
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<b><b>Ivor Powell: </b></b><span style="color: #ea9999;">I'll have to get my clothes out for Star Trek</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ea9999;"> </span><b>Wayne Imms: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Moonraker</span><b><br /></b><br />
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<b>Audience member :</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">Amityville Horror!</span><br />
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<b><b>Terry Rawlings:</b></b><span style="color: #ea9999;">...would know all that </span><br />
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(Alien, Mad Max (April 12, 1979), Apocalypse Now (August 15, 1979), The Amityville Horror (July 27, 1979), Star Trek The Motion Picture (December 7, 1979), The Black Hole (December 21, 1979). Moonraker (26 June 1979), Phantasm (June 1, 1979), The Brood (May 25, 1979), Driller Killer, Prophecy (June 15, 1979), Meteor (October 19th 1979)<br />
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<b>Wayne Imms : </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">You are the one who asks these questions, so you should know these sort of things. Erm, Terry, you worked on Alien 3 as well</span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawlings: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">yes</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms :<span style="color: #ea9999;"> </span></b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Which was an underrated film, I'm sure at least most in here would agree</span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawlings: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Well, I think you've got to see the version made available now, which ever, version you can get on blu-ray, because it's the version that we intended everyone to see, but it ran into so many problems during when it was being shot because of er, Mr Fincher being, doing his first film, and they didn't trust him. I mean when you think how good he is now, they're mad. But the thing is, he was a great disciple of the biggies, and he wanted to make Alien 3 as a sort of homage to Alien the original and he wanted to spend a long time sort of doing this and the same as Ridley, he had his magical eye as well, and the thing is, because they spent so much time, they never get a chance to finish it as they want to finish it, am I right, and the thing is, they ran out of time and then the powers that be pulled the plug but they did on Alien 3, then we had to go to America to do the cut and I was going to America then for I think for or five months to do it, I was here 13 months doing Alien 3 because when i first got it together, we'd ran it for the studio and they said, it's "<span style="color: #e06666;">you know, it's got some stuff missing from it</span>", I said "<span style="color: #e06666;">course it has, because we didn't finish, and you, you cut us off and we needed A,B,C,D and E things to make it work"</span>, so they said "<span style="color: #e06666;">alright, we'll talk about this</span>," and then two months later, they called us in and then said "<span style="color: #e06666;">we've decided we're going to do A, C and D</span>" or something, really three of the things. They started up the whole film again and they did these things, and we ran if for them and they said" <span style="color: #e06666;">well it's much better but it seems like it needs those other things</span>". Nobody listens to you. You have all these idiots who are both called creative consultants, but you have creative consultants who don't know their arse from their elbow but they want to be a producer, so they want to get involved with what you're doing with, what you're working on, so they can be looked good in the eyes of the management. So there were all these arguments for ever and ever and ever and the thing is then we had all these ridiculous things to do. I mean how many of you here have seen Alien 3? Oh well done. I hope you've seen the latest version that you didn't see because in the original version, when they captured this Alien, we're talking about another Alien, when they capture the Alien, they they lock it into this, this vault, right, and the thing is in the original version, this crazy guy lets it out, they said you've got to cut that out. Can you imagine coming out so the thing never got let out, so it didn't make any sense. So when we first showed this film when we finished it, people were saying, it doesn't really follow, it doesn't work very well does it. It took a long time to get all the bits back as they were, Thank god for these blue rays that they do now where you can get a film back to its original concept, like we did with Legend. That's another one of Ridley's films that got slashed to bits and mucked around with, that's available now in its glory.</span><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">Terry gets a cut, by the way of all these blu-rays things</span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawlings:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">I wish I did, I wish I did</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">I did wonder there if your were telling the truth.</span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;">Prometheus, erm, much better than Alien. Of course as we know<b>. </b>I know what Terry, I like to say I know what Terry thinks of it, but we're paying to hear your feelings on the film</span><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Immensely disappointed, yeah, yeah, yeah. I did actually, um, um I write as well, and erm, I was trying for years after they had made Alien 1, I used to go home at night and write away, try to, you know, convince myself I was a writer. Fox were not interested in making, I don't know when. When was Aliens made, actually er. 80s?</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">86 it came out</span><br />
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<b>Voice in audience:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">85</span><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">86 yeah. Initially, yeah, after the first Alien, they weren't interested in doing a sequel, you can imagine nowadays, I mean before you'd even like finish the first one, if they sort of got the vibe it was going to be successful, they'd already have a sequel on the, you know, on the, on the tracks, but this took a long time, because they weren't really, they didn't see that it was, er, a franchise, and erm, I remember writing a thirty, forty page er sort of thing, based on the prequel, because that's the sort of thing that I found absolutely fascinating about was all Giger's, there were a lot of things that never got, you never saw er, in Alien one, like there was the entrance to the er, the derelict ship, erm, the alien derelict, there were these sort of hieroglyphics and things like that, that he did at a certain sort of Egyptian / sort of galactic sort of alien, erm, sort of background, and none of these things got seen, but all that fascinated me and I think that the little sort of bit of speech that er um er, the robot Ash gives about the, the kind of this, this, what this creature's about, I just, I found really fascinating and what was the space jockey, you know, where did he come from and all that, and I know some of it got vaguely explained in Prometheus but for me, it didn't, it didn't touch it at all,</span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawlings:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">It was never worked out </span><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">didn't didn't, so I was bitterly bitterly disappointed.</span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawlings:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">They gave the last five minutes to that</span><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">yuh,</span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawlings:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">It really wasn't about the Pre, it wasn't a prequel was it, really?</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">I guess not . Some people were saying that a bit of mystery was good, and therefore not to know, maybe you have a space jockey, and what it was and where it came from</span><br />
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<b><b>Ivor Powell:</b> </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Yeah, yeah, Probably because I mean, to be honest, it's a tall tall task to explain that and actually make it surprising enough, and, and sort of, on that sort of note, I mean, er, like Alien again, if you made it today, because of the resources and CGI and posters etcetera, I think some of the mystery, the temptation would be to show the alien much sooner, and I think the fact is that Ridley was always times up. Ridley was always terrified about a bloke stuntmen in rubber suits and he said, I am not making a movie like that so, he would postpone the day, you know, until right at the end, and unfortunately you have to see a man in rubber suit, you know on a wire coming out of the back of the ship that was strung up on the ceiling of one of our stages, but I think you know, that was now in retrospect to our advantage, which is why you've got so much tension , where you don't quite see anything because he didn't want to see anything because he knew it was going to be crappy if you saw too much of it</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">It would be like the shark in jaws really</span><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">Absolutely </span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">It's what you do with it, it's like the shocks and the editing isn't it, you know, okay, you know, a bloke in rubber suit but.<b> </b>It's not quite like that<b>. </b></span><b><span style="color: #ea9999;"></span></b><span style="color: #ea9999;">It's the wider picture as it were, isn't it?</span><br />
<b><br />Terry Rawlings:<span style="color: #ea9999;"> </span></b><span style="color: #ea9999;">It's like the Night of the demon, the film Night of the demon, They didn't want</span><br />
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<b><b>Ivor Powell</b>: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Another great movie</span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawlings: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">He didn't want a great demon, he didn't want to put any monsters in it at all. And the thing was put in after he left the film</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Who directed that</span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawlings:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">The Frenchman</span><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Jacques Tourneur, Tournier , Tourneur</span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawlings: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Tourneur, yes</span><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Brilliant, the guy, my first little film as a little nobody was on three years on 2001, and one of the guys that did the effects on that, a guy called Wally Beavers, the most lovely guy, yuh, well he did the effects on that, and I remember seeing that as a kid, I mean that was the sort of B movie that I absolutely loved, except I, I don't think it is a B movie, it's a most important, it's an M R James story</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Very good </span><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Casting's good. Fantastic story, except let down at the end because the studios, well we want, you know, we want to see something, you know, we want to see the creature, so we end up seeing this, you know, guy in a rubber suit with horns on with a bit of fire coming out of its arse and running around down a railway track, which was stupid</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms: (barely audible:<span style="color: #ea9999;"> </span></b><span style="color: #ea9999;">I was also into that sort of thing, anyway</span>)<br />
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<b>Terry Rawlings:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">You can see it from here if I don't get some food</span><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell</b>: <span style="color: #ea9999;">The strength, I think the strength of the film that we've seen this afternoon, was the fact that you don't see it, it's the fact that you see a little bit of it every time, and until the very very end when it stands up, when it gets the two, the two of them downstairs, that's the first time you've really seen it, and that's it's strength I think.</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Thanks to you, partly, Terry, the legend</span><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">Good old Terry</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Has anyone else got any questions. Now. Hmm can we have a mike, can we have, no that's what I was going to do. Usually it's not me doing this thing, I usually run around at the end with the radio on. Can you do that for us or not? Can anyone run around, you've done it? Come on Andy get your arse up here, come on, so can you do that for us. I did call you last time before.</span><br />
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<b>Wmmvrrvrrmm:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">Okay, I've got a question, but... in the Alien comic book story, um, at the end there's a scene where the alien has kind of curled up into like a box shape, and um, nobody actually has seen any photographs of it, I wondered if you know anything about it?</span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawlings: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">No I don't know anything about it, in Alien or anything that happened to a box., no I don't</span><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">The only story I know about the alien at the end, we were all standing having converted very economically, the erm the command module of the ship that you see in the very opening sequences, we converted that and redressed it into the Narcissus which is the escape pod, and we were all standing there thinking "<span style="color: #e06666;">right, okay, this is, so where's the alien going to be?</span>", and I remember just very timorously saying, erm "<span style="color: #e06666;">what if it's like a chameleon or something like that?</span>", and er, it was one of my few good ideas that got actually picked up on, developed and so they made the alien basically sort of like integrate itself, because it was biomechanoid, it was part organic, part... that was Giger's thing, so I guess it became part of the machinery, so as it, but it wasn't a box, it was actually a chameleon</span><br />
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<b>Wmmvrrvrrmm: </b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">Yes, but er. but before it enters the shuttle, erm, but when Ripley goes down the corridor and suddenly it comes out at her, erm, in the comic book it actually, well, it seems to be like a, you know, kind of crushed itself into a kind of box and unfolds</span><br />
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<b>Ivor:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">Perhaps it was mating with the cat, I don't know,</span><br />
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<b>Wmmvrrvrrmm: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;"> Okay , well </span><br />
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<b>Ivor:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">Because that was always another potential storyline,</span><br />
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<b>Wmmvrrvrrmm:</b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Yes</span> <br />
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<b>Ivor:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;"> that the cat's always you know</span><br />
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<b>Wmmvrrvrrmm: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Yuh, but maybe you weren't involved on that erm, on that day. Also another question, do you know where the.... um, how the space jockey got its name as the space jockey</span><br />
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<b>Ivor:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">We all get, we all gave, er um... gave things names really.... just made them up simply for communicating in documents and anything like that so, I don't know who first thought of it</span><br />
<b><br />Wmmvrrvrrmm:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">Okay, it wasn't you then</span><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell</b>: <span style="color: #ea9999;">I thought of the little rascal and er- what sit, the face hugger, that's, those are mine simply because</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Yeah</span><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">You know, you do, you know, you write out documents and things like sort to circulate them amongst the departments and it just seemed great and so at the end of each shooting day, Gordon Carroll the American producer made... he educated Ridley and I and other members. usually on editing/ clipping, called his little rascal which is the best dry martini</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">dry martini</span><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell:<span style="color: #ea9999;"> </span></b><span style="color: #ea9999;">yes, just going</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">I was just saying, I bet the rest here know, but the bit just before John Hurt gets the alien on his helmet, erm and you see in the egg like these things flapping on... that's Ridley Scott's hands with er washing up glove things, you know. You probably knew that already. Anyone else</span><br />
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<b>Man in audience: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">It's a question for Ivor. Erm,the erm, The film set precedent for the female protagonist in the film, and I didn't know it was originally scripted to be a male character. I just wondered did you come under any pressure to keep it as a male character or... or</span><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">No, no, erm, I mean, there were several early, I mean, by the time I was involved, the thing originally was Hill was going to direct this, erm and then for whatever reason, and and I remember I did the first budget on it, but their budget for it was something like 4.5 million, which was still a hell of a lot in those days, and the one I did for Ridley knowing Ridley and the way that he would want it to be visually etc, it kind of doubled much to their horror, so that caused a lot of consternation. Erm, but I think the script which was the one already being touted about, she'd already become, Walter and David Giler had already, erm done their bit on it, erm, they were brilliant, right, I mean I had to say as a team, they were brilliant, because I, they they for me, they erm, they taught me all about writing and about less is more because they were very spartan, in A their description, I mean to the point of craziness really, but er, their script was fantastic, and erm, they were truck drivers in space really, and er, it was, I mean Ripley already was a woman, where I did have, well now, I sold them off sadly,erm, I did have all the scripts, including Dan and Ron's first one, yeah, where they were all blokes.</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">Thankyou Alien my friend the biomechanoid </span><br />
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<b>Woman in audience:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">I was wondering if you could to settle an argument for me between me and my dad, because he actually introduced me to the whole Alien franchise when I was still a child about nine, and that's how I grew up to be script editor, so I was very upset about an integral part that I've been damaged. Do you believe about the thing that that people get screwed up by films with very strong imagery or do you think it's an inspiring thing? What, what's... what do you think of it</span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawlings:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">Well I think it can be both.</span><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">There are plenty of video, video games out there surfacing</span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawlings:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">Yes, video games can be dangerous I think, but, the thing is, it depends on the individual, obviously. I mean, er if you believe it's all real, then you have a problem. You know, you're watching these films which are fantasies, it might be a horror, if 's basically a fantasy film because you don't have space ships like that, and you don't have this sort of going on, so you've got to put, put that in the back of your mind and enjoy it as a story. I think then that you can forget the person who's got a... maybe a bit of a problem and they're going to believe what they're watching and that can, can damage them, you know, I think that's true, don't you?</span><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Yep, I mean, I , I , I, I think the world today, of course obviously we're getting into different areas now, but I mean, where, you know, your internet, everything 24/7, I think, erm, and er, I think, kids playing violent video games, 24/7, who won't switch off, won't go to work, I think we're potentially making problems for ourselves, I think kids going to see a movie or whatever it is , I think if you're very very young, like I can remember the first movie I ever saw, when i was a little tiddler, my mum took me to see The Day The Earth Stood Still with Michael Rennie, I mean, that absolutely stayed with me for the rest of my life, I mean I absolutely love it, erm, and er, that influenced me in a sense, but er as for seeing a horror movies, etcetera, I saw all these horror movies, absolutely loved them sort of play acted them and whatever, but, I haven't killed, killed anybody yet.. You you keep them in perspective, I mean where does it stop, I mean seeing a bad painting, a bad picture, er, er, reading a book and that, you know, of course that can influence you but, I think if you're potentially, you've got erm, a kind of mind that can be influenced by the negativity then I guess the potential is there, but, you know</span><br />
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<b>Woman in audience:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">Yeah, yeah, just as a last thing, at the end in the shuttle when she's... the special gases</span><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Yes</span><br />
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<b>Woman in audience:</b><span style="color: #ea9999;">.... on the... er, is it, are those gases are they hot or are they cold?</span><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">There's no science, that's all bollocks, that was all bollocks!</span><br />
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<b>Woman in audience: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">I just thought that they were cold because it was coolant, you know because she goes out with coolant</span><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">They've got and awful lot of gas on the ship, I think it was you know, every time we were in trouble, we need a bit of drama, turn that on or let bloody gas cylinder off or whatever. I think that, you know, I think we've become a bit more savvy and sophisticated nowadays and erm, I don't think you can get away with that well, it does make you, we can just about get away with the good old green you know monitor, computer type face, just... just about</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms:</b><span style="color: #ea9999;"> If I was on that ship I'd be letting off gas. Lady over there.</span><br />
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<b>Man in audience:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">I'm not a lady.</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms:</b><span style="color: #ea9999;"> You're not a lady of course </span><br />
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<b>Man in audience:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">This is a question for Mr Rawlings. Could you share us which scene in Alien is the most challenging for you to edit, and did you overcome that scene</span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawlings: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Well I think the most difficult to really get correct was the air shafts, we worked very hard on the airshafts, and, er, the strange thing was, when we worked on this thing and we had this box which was saying it's for an</span> (<b>inaudible:</b><span style="color: #ea9999;">air many thing</span>(?)`),<span style="color: #ea9999;"> yes, and where are they in the air shafts. And we continually recut this and we recut this, and when we finally got it done we showed this to er, er, I think er, David Giler and he said "<span style="color: #e06666;">God</span>" he said "<span style="color: #e06666;">it really is good but you really got the wrong person chasing the wrong person"</span> because the, the, you know the little lights that were following were all the wrong way round because you actually get the, you don't know the wood from the trees, you get involved, are we up the right corridor, are we in the right place when we're talking about where they are, that's the uh.... the airshafts were the most difficult, and took the longest anyway. The others seemed to work, fall into place</span><br />
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<b>Wayne Imms:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">Time for one more questions</span><br />
<b><br />Ivor Powell:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">Sorry it didn't, didn't help the fact that we had one little bit of like circular bit of tube, tube or corridors. And because, ern our dear beloved friend who, now lives in LA, Peter Beale, was head of Fox here at the time, used to rather like a military police man knowing sort of Ridley by reputation, he used to come on and say <span style="color: #e06666;">"Right, now what's that set there?</span>" and er, he would say "<span style="color: #e06666;">That's wallawallawalla</span>" and he'd look down at the set list etcetera and say <span style="color: #e06666;">"It's not on here</span>" and erm, 'cause Ridley was desperately trying to , you know, get other sets in and shoot things that were, unfortunately we had to tear the pages out, erm, er so had to make, design bridging sequences to put two things together, there was a great scene in a store room for example where the alien, that had to be ripped out, so the reason why Terry had such a hard job with the erm, airshaft was because literally, it was literally like a piece of tube. Erm, everything had to be reshot</span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawlings: (almost inaudible since he's speaking at the same time as Ivor: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">It was the difference between going down the right one or the wrong one</span>)<br />
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<b>Man in audience: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Thanks guys, thanks for the turnup. Erm, one of my questions was, erm, on a lot of sets these days, so much time pressure continuously, shoot really quickly and grab stuff, there never seems to be enough time, and I was just wondering erm, how, how you worked kind of time scale wise on this one, how much time you had to to shoot the whole thing and how quickly it was all put together from a, a cinematography perspective,</span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawling</b>s: :(barely audible in the background) <span style="color: #ea9999;">I can't remember</span><br />
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<b>Man in audience:</b><span style="color: #ea9999;"> because so many, so many amazing kind of shots are throughout the whole film, and what blew me away was small kind of cutaway shots, little closeups, things like that, even, even those appeared to have such incredible amount of consideration to lighting</span><br />
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I<b>vor Powell: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">That's Ri.., that, I mean, that is Ridley, and his sort of commercial training, I mean, really we had, we had some, some shot on an A and a B camera, but obviously we were shooting on film and not on digital which is something that you talk to, I mean digital shooting can be a lot faster, but on the other hand, you suddenly after every shot, everybody gather's around the monitor and says "<span style="color: #e06666;">right , let's all look at this</span>" and you wait and you wait and all look at it, "<span style="color: #e06666;">well let's have another</span>" and so, I don't know, swings and roundabouts.</span><br />
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<b>Terry Rawling</b>:(barely audible in the background) <span style="color: #ea9999;">How long was this? </span><br />
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I<b>vor Powell:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">But we had about, I think it was twelve, twelve weeks, I think our shoot was, twelve weeks,</span><br />
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<b>Audience member :</b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Thirteen weeks</span><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell:</b><span style="color: #ea9999;"> yeah, </span><br />
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<b>Man in audience</b>: <span style="color: #ea9999;">Must have been </span><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">we went over two, and were definitely hot guns to our heads to sore of finish up, finish up, they did sort of pull the plug on us at the end sadly, but there we go. So, sometimes pressure's good, you know, because otherwise, you know, people just can too much time, too much money, too much resource, and it doesn't necessarily mean for a better movie. You know, sometimes it's better to have the, used resources, you know, go on the old elastic band or whatever it is.... make something work, shoot something in camera as opposed to doing it, so you know</span><br />
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<b>Man in audience</b>: <span style="color: #ea9999;">I think that's always what inspired me as a camera operator, just seeing how much you can find in camera</span><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Yeah</span><br />
<b><br />Man in audience:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">And precede the CGI era, and how incredible it still looks , I think it still holds up today in that respect, so I just think....</span> (inaudible) <span style="color: #ea9999;">during</span>... (inaudible)<br />
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<b>Ivor Powell: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Yeah </span><br />
<b><br />Wayne Imms:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">Does answer my question , pretty, over the years since its release it still it looks brilliant doesn't it. Erm, so I'm afraid that's all we have time for, erm, I'll be back here in three weeks hosting an Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, 30th Anniversary thing, with its producer Robert Watts and art director Alan J Cassey. Erm, details on the genesis cinema website, and yeah, erm, there we go. Thanks very much for coming. I hope you had a good afternoon here with Alien and erm, Ivor and Terry. Erm, thankyou very much.</span><br />
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<b>Afterwards I approach Ivor with an image from the Alien: The Illustrated Story in my mobile phone of the Alien as a box image</b><br />
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<b>Wmmvrrvrrmm</b>/Alien Explorations: <span style="color: #ea9999;">Here's the comic with that strange</span><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell</b> (taking a look at the comic book for the first time):<span style="color: #ea9999;"> yeah, sure it's not, not the alien kind of, it's obviously something. It's the alien and the cat box, isn't it? yeah the alien was supposed to compact right down, when we cast the alien, we always used to look for, when Peter found Bolaji whatsisname and er. so he always was supposed to er, in fact in some concepts, he was supposed to change shape all the time continuously, obviously metamorphosis, I don't know. </span><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">I wish that I could see that er, your little... erm ... Alien prequel... script... treatment.... thing, that would be wonderful</span><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">Yes, it was fun. </span><br />
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<b>Wmmvrrvrrmm:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">But, I know, I just.. it's the idea of all those strange ideas in the background </span><br />
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<b>Ivor Powell: </b><i>(barely audible recording so I just hope these are the words) </i><span style="color: #ea9999;">You've heard this. They threw me out in Hollywood all right on first time and anything, </span><span style="color: #ea9999;">but didn't want me there, they wanted me to change it to something else, I thought now <i>what do I do</i></span> </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086941578419555377.post-8794571035615130252014-08-01T18:58:00.000-07:002015-12-04T15:30:44.539-08:00August 2014<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/p/updates-2015.html" target="viewpage8729262586978744275">2014</a></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Sunday August 31st 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1) </b>Added <span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/did-cocoon-scene-ridleygram-inspire.html">Did cocoon scene Ridleygram inspire Brainstorm's hell?</a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="userContent"><b>2)</b> a) An update to <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/05/the-beast-with-metal-teeth.html">The Beast With Metal teeth</a> about the origins of the Alien's Metal
Teeth in the character Jaws in The Spy Who Loved me. The man who created
those metal teeth for Richard Kiel had also made them back in 1974 for
The Phantom of Paradise and maybe looking at this curious lineage and
seeing the face of the phantom with his helmet on might indeed beg one
to ask more questions the inspirations behind Giger's Alien. b) </span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".1t.1:3:1:$comment915652401785407_915669021783745:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".1t.1:3:1:$comment915652401785407_915669021783745:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".1t.1:3:1:$comment915652401785407_915669021783745:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0">Another
update, although Burman and Chambers made metal teeth for the Jaws
character, the production used ones by by a dentist in Pinewood instead.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Saturday August 30th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1) </b>Updated <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2008/01/dissecting-derelict-spores.html">Human to Spore stage</a> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>2)</b> Created index page <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/08/ridley-scott-comes-aboard.html">Ridley Scott comes aboard</a> for how Ridley got involved in Alien</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>3)</b> Added a page <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/08/ridley-arrives-in-hollywood.html">Ridley arrives in Hollywood</a> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>4) </b>Added a section showing <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/08/chris-fosss-early-nostromo-concepts.html">Chris Foss' early Nostromo concepts</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Friday August 29th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Updated <u><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/06/casting-kane.html">Casting Kane</a></u> with quote from HR Giger's diary from June 4th 1978 </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Monday August 25th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Added a page for <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/little-rascal.html">The Little Rascal</a><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/little-rascal.html">. </a>Previously
it was assumed that it was a name for the big Alien but it appears now
to be the name for the Chestburster instead of the big Alien.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Sunday August 24th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Whole of <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/independence-day-s-biomechanical-suit.html">Independence day's Biomechanical Suit</a> page an index page for smaller pages</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Saturday August 2</b></u><b>3rd 2014</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1) </b>Wrote the summaries for <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2009/06/nucleus-of-alien.html">Looking for the Alien's Nucleus</a>, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">2) Wrote the summaries for <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2009/06/d-bolaji-badejo-from-gold-coast.html">Bolaji Badejo from the Gold Coast,</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>3) </b>Wrote the summaries for <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/independence-day-s-biomechanical-suit.html">Independence Day's Biomechanical Suit</a> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>4) </b>Wrote the summaries for <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/06/space-ship-sequence-from-monty-pythons.html">Space Ship sequence from Monty Python's Meaning of Life</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>5)</b> Re-edited the summaries for <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/06/roger-dickens-big-alien.html">Roger Dicken's big alien </a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">6) Added <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/id4-aliens-invaders-comparisons-to-h-r.html">ID4 alien invaders comparison to H R Giger's Art</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Monday August 18th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1)</b> Updated <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1997/09/boyle-on-alien-4.html">Danny Boyle on Alien 4 </a>with comment by Billy Badalato on what if Danny Boyle had directed Alien:Resurrection with comments from Starlog, January 1998</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>2)</b> Added quote from Neon, December 1997 magazine to <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2009/06/h-creating-alien-facehugger.html">Creating the Facehugger</a> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>3)</b> Added quote from Neon, December 1997 magazine to <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/06/casting-kane.html">Casting Kane</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>4)</b> Added quote from Neon, December 1997 to <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2009/06/into-necronomicon.html">Into The Necronomicon</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>5)</b> Added quote from Alan Dean Foster from Starlog magazine #81 to <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/harboring-remains-of-li-tobler.html">harboring remains of Li Tobler </a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">and
also corrected a statement that claiming that Giger "didn't seem to be
very surprised about the rumours" to "Giger did seem very surprised
about the rumours"</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>6)</b> Added <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1992/08/poltergeist-2-creatures-rib-cage-and.html">Poltergeist 2 creatures' rib cage and spine influence on Alien3 beast?</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1992/08/poltergeist-2-creatures-rib-cage-and.html"> </a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Thursday August</b></u><u><b> 14th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Rewrote the summary paragraphs for <b><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/f-new-alien-design.html">A New Alien Design</a> f</b>or Prometheus, just to make them a little clearer and see if anything more could be added <b><br /></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Sunday August 10th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Added <span class="userContent"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1992/08/adi-borrow-from-hr-gigers-new-york-city.html">Did ADI borrow from HR Giger's New York city paintings for the Alien 3 beast? </a></span><u><b><span class="userContent"><br /></span></b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Tuesday August 5th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Added <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/08/wide-side-cockpit-window-loosely.html">Wide side cockpit window of Nostromo loosely inspired by Moebius?</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><u><b>Sunday August 3rd 2014</b></u></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Added </span><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1992/08/sigourney-weaver-photographed-by-helmut.html">Sigourney Weaver photographed by Helmut Newton</a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Saturday August 2nd 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Updated <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1992/09/riddle-of-alien-3-beast-with-4-legs.html">Riddle of the Alien 3 beast with 4 legs</a> with more information from Imagi-movies, Spring 1994 <br /><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><u><br /></u></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">leading from</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/p/updates-2015.html" target="viewpage8729262586978744275">2014</a></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><u>Thursday July 31st 2014</u></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1)</b> Updated <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/carlos-huantes-pilot.html">Carlos Huante's Pilot</a> with detail from Temple Passage (Life) getting to the root of Huante's design in Giger's work.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>2)</b> Updated the Moebius section for <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/01/development-of-space-jockey.html">Early designs for the Space Jockey</a> with a colour scan of the space Jockey credited to Moebius which I scanned from <b><span class="num_revue">L'Écran Fantastique n° 167,</span></b>
<span class="st">Novembre 1997.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Wednesday July 30th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1) </b>Added <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1976/07/hr-gigers-spell-iii.html">The Spell III</a> just exploring Giger's painting</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>2) </b>Added <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1986/07/the-alien-queen-and-terry-gilliams.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Terry Gillam's Giant Samurai from "Brazil" imprint on The Alien Queen?</span></span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Sunday July 27th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Added <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1987/07/the-spell-iii-and-aliens-queens.html">The Spell III and the Aliens queen</a> about how Giger's The Spell III (along with Alien Monster IV) was the other painting that inspired James Cameron's Alien design</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Friday July 25th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Added <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1972/07/h-r-gigers-aleph-inspired-by-doctor-who.html"><u>H R Giger's "Aleph"inspired by Doctor Who and The curse of Peladon </u></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Wednesday July 23rd 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Updating <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2008/01/dissecting-derelict-spores.html">dissecting derelict spores</a> with a quotes from Giger's Film Design and Gger's Alien</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b><br /></b></u></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Monday July 14th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1) </b>Added <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/07/alien-studio-environments-gigers-work.html">Alien Studio environments: Giger's work studio, Shepperton Studios</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>2)</b> Added <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/alien-studio-environments-giger-room.html">Alien Studio environments: The Art Department, Shepperton Studios</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Sunday July 13th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Updated <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/design-of-derelict-gigers-work.html">Design Of The Derelict: Giger's work</a>
with information from Star Wars and Alien comic book and corrected
turned the word "place" into "plant", why it had been left as the word
"place" is unknown.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Friday July 11th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1) </b>Updated <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/gigers-talks-about-aliens.html">Giger talks about Aliens</a> with one quote from Alien Saga documentary <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/gigers-talks-about-aliens.html"><br /></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>2)</b> Updated <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/07/alien-hunt-for-director.html">Alien: Hunt for the director</a>
with a note from Gilliam on Gilliam mentioning Sandy Lieberson's
connection with Ridley's producer for The Duellist's David Puttnam</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Thursday </b><b>July 10th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Updated <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1992/09/riddle-of-alien-3-beast-with-4-legs.html">Riddle of Alien 3 beast with 4 legs</a> with information from an excellent interview with Tom Woodruff Jr by <a href="http://www.outpost31.com/QATWJ.shtml">www.outpost31.com</a>
that shows frighteningly enough Tom had absolutely no idea that when
Giger was faxing Alien 3 designs that he was actually under a contract
with Fox.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Wednesday July 9th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Added <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/ghosts-of-gigers-biomechanics-in.html">Ghosts of Giger's biomechanics in "Man of Steel"</a><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/ghosts-of-gigers-biomechanics-in.html"><br /></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/ghosts-of-gigers-biomechanics-in.html"><br /></a></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Monday July 7th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1) </b>Update to <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/06/casting-kane.html">Casting Kane</a>. The story about how Jon Finch became ill from diabetes on Alien divides. <u><b><br /></b></u><b>2) </b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/Alien%20Explorations%20@ExploreAlien%20%20%C2%B7%20%2019m%20Update%20to%20%22Casting%20Kane%22%20The%20story%20about%20how%20Jon%20Finch%20became%20ill%20from%20diabetes%20on%20Alien%20divides.%20http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/06/casting-kane.html%20%E2%80%A6%20ReplyReplied%20to%200%20times%20RetweetRetweeted%200%20times%20FavoriteFavorited%200%20times%20Delete%20More%20%20Alien%20Explorations%20@ExploreAlien%20%20%C2%B7%20%2022m%20The%20myths%20about%20Giger%20owning%20the%20skeleton%20of%20a%20late%20wife%20or%20girlfriend%20and%20the%20other%20revelation.%20http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/harboring-remains-of-li-tobler.html">Harboring remains of Li Tobler.</a> The myths about Giger owning the skeleton of a late wife or girlfriend and the other revelation.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Sunday July 6th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1) </b><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/georgiou-tsoukalos-of-ancient-aliens.html"><u>Georgiou Tsoukalos of Ancient Aliens and Joe Rogan talk about Prometheus</u></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>2)</b> <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1982/06/aliens-relation-to-blade-runner.html"><u>Alien in relation to Blade Runner</u></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Saturday July 5th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1)</b><span class="userContent"><b> </b>An assembly of the confusing endless details
of the story about when Sandy Lieberson brought the Alien project to
England, Walter Hill bailed out of the directors seat and then there's
the</span><span class="userContent"> <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/07/alien-hunt-for-director.html">Hunt for the director</a> resulting in Ridley. </span></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>2)</b> Added an <span class="userContent">assemblage of the information about when <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/07/ridley-receives-alien-script.html">Ridley first received the Alien script</a>. It does seem as if the information is
certainly a slight blur made from almost half formed impressions </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="userContent"><b>3)</b> Slight update with more quotes for <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/06/the-biomechanoid-that-obannon-wanted.html">The Biomechanoid That o'Bannon wanted </a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="userContent"><b>4) </b>Slight update with a small quote chunk to <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/01/dan-script-surgeon.html">Dan the script surgeon</a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Friday July 4th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1)</b> Updated <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/06/casting-kane.html">Casting Kane</a>
with alternative story as to how it was revealed that Jon Finch was
diabetic, from interview with Brian Johnson at Originalprop. </span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>2)</b> Updated <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/carlos-huantes-pilot.html">Carlos Huante's pilot</a> adding an image of <span itemprop="name">La Centrale</span> by <span itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><span itemprop="name"><span lang="fr">Jean-Marie Poumeyrol to allow people to see the similarities between the two</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Thursday July 3rd 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1)</b> Updated <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/02/erotomechanics-vii-continues-to-explore.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Erotomechanics VII continues to exlore the Pakal Votan tomb lid imagery</a> with behind the scenes photos of the painting from "Giger's Polaroids"</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>2)</b> Updated article about a<a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/07/italian-comic-book-story.html"> comic book story from an Italian publication</a> which turned out to originally be from the British publication Starblazer and was by an Argentinian illustrator</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Wednesday July 2nd 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">1) Updated <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/carlos-huantes-babyhead.html">Carlos Huante's Babyhead</a> with recently released image of Babyhead model</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">2) Added <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/carlos-huantes-pilot.html">Carlos Huante's pilot</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Tuesday July 1st 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Created an article about a<a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/07/italian-comic-book-story.html"> comic book story from an Italian publication</a></span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086941578419555377.post-39522603810586121002014-06-01T18:55:00.000-07:002015-12-04T15:29:50.384-08:00June 2014<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">leading from</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/p/updates-2015.html" target="viewpage8729262586978744275">2014</a></span> </div>
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Monday June 29th 2014</b></u></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="userContent"><b>1)</b> Newborn concepts by <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1997/09/jordu-schell-alien-resurrection-concept.html" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">Jordu Schell for Alien Resurrection</a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span class="userContent"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".3h.1:3:1:$comment878626748821306_878628198821161:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".3h.1:3:1:$comment878626748821306_878628198821161:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><span data-reactid=".3h.1:3:1:$comment878626748821306_878628198821161:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$text0:0:$0:0"><b>2)</b> A couple more </span><a class="" data-reactid=".3h.1:3:1:$comment878626748821306_878628198821161:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$range0:0" dir="ltr" href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1997/06/chris-cunningham-halls-newborn-alien.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Chris Cunningham/Halls Newborn illustrations</a> for Alien Resurrection </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Sunday June 28th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/zuritipp-online-home-die-aufgabe-war.html">HR Giger interview with Zuritipp</a> from 13th August 2012</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Saturday June 27th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Updated <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/alien-vs-eraserhead.html">Alien vs Eraserhead</a> with information from Fear magazine from December 1990</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Friday June 26th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1) </b>Added HR Giger's <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/06/gigers-alien-monster-iii-homage-to-max.html">Alien Monster III, 1978 along side Max Von Moos' </a><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/06/gigers-alien-monster-iii-homage-to-max.html"><span class="irc_su" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;">Teufelsküche (auch: Stalingrad), from 1944</span></a></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>2</b></u>) Restored link for <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1996/02/4-treasures-of-satans-transformation.html">Alien Monster IV, a homage to Delville's Treasures of Satan</a> to <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/02/development-of-gigers-art.html">Gigers' Art </a></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">section since somehow the link was wrong</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Wednesday June 24th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">1) Added information about David Giler's ideas for the <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2006/03/resurrection-of-ripley.html">Resurrection Of Ripley</a></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">2) Added page dealing with Ridley's view of the <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/06/physicality-of-alien-humanoids-head.html">physicality of alien humanoids head.</a></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">3) Corrected the last paragraph of <u><b>"A bad taste"</b></u> on <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1992/09/riddle-of-alien-3-beast-with-4-legs.html">Riddle of Alien 3 beast with 4 legs</a> because it seemed to have suddenly lost coherency at the end</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Monday June 23rd 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">1) Added <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/06/dead-body-of-captain-found-but-crew.html">'Dead captain and missing crew' trope origins in Dracula</a></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">2) Slight alteration made to<a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1997/08/event-horizon_15.html"> Event Horizon</a> discussing the likelihood of it being influenced by Alien.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Sunday June 22nd 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Took
the source quotes from Famous Monsters and Warren Presents Alien
Collectors Edition, that appeared to be the same statement from Giger
but slightly rewritten, at <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/04/no-no-eyes.html">No No Eyes</a>
and corrected them since offering them both separately with their
slight differences. How the quote was left like that with a slight error
seems rather unexplained.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Saturday June 21st 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Added information about Rem the android from the Logan's Run TV series to <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/10/unleashing-androids-in-human-form-onto.html">Unleashing Human Disguised Androids</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Friday June 20th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1) </b>Added small amount of extra material to <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/01/the-coming-and-going-of-jean-giraud.html">Hello Moebius!... Goodbye!</a> from interview snippets from Giger and Moebius from the BBC4 Documentary <b>"In Search of Moebius"</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>2) </b>Updated<b> <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/06/stephen-king-on-alien.html">Stephen King On Alien </a></b>using additional information from "Bare Bones, Conversations on Terror With Stephen King<b>"</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Thursday June 19th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1)</b> Created a page about <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/06/the-biomechanoid-that-obannon-wanted.html">The biomechanoid that Dan O'Bannon wanted</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>2) </b>Made a page for Dan O'Bannon's <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/06/alien-list-of-elements-to-be-designed.html">List of elements to be designed by Giger</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>3)</b> <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/gigers-influence-on-ron-cobbs-alien.html">Giger's influence on Ron Cobb's Alien Birth Temple?</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><u>Wednesday June 18th 2014 </u></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1) </b>Added <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/carlos-huantes-facehugger-centipede.html">Carlos Huante's facehugger centipede</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>2)</b> Added Carlo Huante's Facehugger centipede's <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/alien-centipede-impregnation-leads-to.html">victim's cranial transformation concept </a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>3)</b> Added two more examples of Wadjets/ Eye of Horus amulets to <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/eye-of-horus-wedjat.html">Eye-of-Horus / Wedjat</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><u>Tuesday June 17th 2014</u></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Added
photo diagram to show rough similarities between points on a cutaway
brain model and Giger's third concept for an Alien humanoid to <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.hu/1979/06/alien-in-brain_1.html">Alien in the brain</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Monday June 16th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Updated<a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1997/08/event-horizon_15.html"> Event Horizon</a> page with quotes from the film commentary</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Sunday June15th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Added extra small details from Giger's story of the Passages I-IX paintings from Giger's film design to<a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/02/inspiration-behind-hr-gigers-passages-i.html"> Inspiration behind HR Giger's Passages I-IX</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Saturday June 14th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">1) Added image of Passages VI to <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/02/inspiration-behind-hr-gigers-passages-i.html">Inspiration behind HR Giger's Passages I-IX</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">2) Added <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/06/stephen-king-on-alien.html">Stephen King on Alien</a> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Friday June 13th 201</b></u><b><u>4</u></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1)</b> Changes to the <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/changes-to-space-jockey-telescope-viewer.html">Space Jockey's Telescope</a> viewer in Prometheus.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>2) </b>Added quote from Jon Sorensen's feelings about how the derelict have more buried beneath it in <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2009/03/dissecting-derelict-gigers-egg-silo-and.html">Giger's Egg Silo and the Derelict squeezed into one</a> and repaired paragraph b) which seemed to have an important chunk had been deleted from it. How this happened, I don't know</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>3) </b>Added a name page for Alien special effects technician<a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/06/jon-sorensen.html"> Jon Sorensen, </a> linking up pages where he is mentioned </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Wednesday June 11th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Updated the <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/j-g-ballard-on-alien.html"><u><b>J G Ballard on Alien</b></u></a> with new information from Interzone's former editor David Pringle and also a link to the short story <b>"David Cronenberg’s Alien — Novelization by J.G. Ballard"</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Tuesday June 10th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1)</b> Page with a selection of examples of the <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/eye-of-horus-wedjat.html">Eye-of-Horus / Wedjat</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Monday June 9th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1) </b>Added section on different <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/06/examples-of-midsagittal-cutaway-brains.html">different examples of midsagittal cutaway brains</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>2)</b> Added comment about Dan O'Bannon having the idea about opposing thumbs on the hand, to <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/04/sculpting-alien-costume.html">Sculpting the Alien costume </a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>3)</b> Added <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/ganesh-with-breathing-pipe-trunk.html">Ganesh with breathing pipe trunk</a> which is about a Ganesh sculpture shown on Ancient Aliens</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Sunday June 8th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1) </b>Updates have been made to <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2003/06/farzad-varahramyans-predaliens.html">Farzad Varahramyan's Predaliens </a>, Updates have been made to "<a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2003/06/michael-brooms-predalien.html">Michael Broom's Predaliens</a>". The "<a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2007/06/green-predalien-concept-drawings.html">Green Predalien</a>" has been added and I am not sure who the artist is here either, "<a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2007/06/predalien-facehugging-victim.html">Predalien face hugging victim</a>" has also been added and once more the images have no signature, "<a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2007/06/predalien-with-side-teeth-concepts.html">Predalien with side teeth concepts</a>"
has been added, but I'm not one hundred percent sure who the artist is.
(The ADI video that new images have been extracted from is featured
here. <a href="https://www.blogger.com/The%20video%20that%20the%20images%20have%20been%20extracted%20from%20is%20featured%20here.%20%20http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txe5nRsvT2s%20%E2%80%A6">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txe5nRsvT2s 0)</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>2) </b>New image has been uploaded of <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/01/sokar-funerary-barque-offering-to-isis.html">Small Boat of Sokar Offering To Isis And Osiris Egyptian Wall Relief Temple of Isis.</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">3) Added image of <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1997/06/gino-acevedos-alien-painting-guide.html">Gino Acevedos alien painting guide</a> for Alien 3 </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Saturday June 7th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1) </b>Added
information from Ron Cobb in Starburst talking about Ron Shusett and
Dan O'Bannon being involved in changes to the final script to <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/01/dan-script-surgeon.html">Dan the script surgeon</a>
but am still to find some further comments from Dan about his own
alterations to the final script that I have seen somewhere a while back</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>2) </b>Added name page for <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/06/ron-cobb.html">Ron Cobb</a> to access articles associated with him </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Thursday June 5th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Added <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.hu/1997/06/chris-halls-newborn-concepts.html">Chris Cunningham/Halls' Newborn Alien</a> concept designs with comment by Sylvain Despretz </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Sunday June 1st 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.hu/1979/06/alien-in-brain_1.html">Alien In The Brain.</a> Did Giger's alien humanoid creature design take inspiration from the shapes of the thalamus area of the human brain?</span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086941578419555377.post-9432823096801864242014-05-15T07:02:00.000-07:002016-12-15T12:42:35.136-08:00Gareth Edwards, (director of Godzilla (2014) and Rogue One (2016)) inspired by "Alien"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/12/further-alien-echoes.html">Alien Echoes</a></span></b></div>
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<b>a)</b> <span style="color: #fce5cd;"><b><u>Knowledge of the Alien</u></b></span><br />
Gareth who directed Monsters in 2010, also directed the 2014 version of Godzilla and then the Star Wars film Rogu Own released in 2016, he considered Giger's alien to be one of his top three movie monsters recognising it as something unique and a big step forwards in terms of creature design and was another person saddened by the new of Giger's death on the day it was announced. In terms of the films themselves, he wasn't entirely sure whether he liked Alien or it's sequel Aliens the best. <br />
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<b>b)</b> <span style="color: #fce5cd;"><span style="color: #f9cb9c;"><u><b>Muto</b></u></span></span><br />
His Godzilla movie would be full of references to Giger's work, and so Giger's alien design would be one of the influence on his monster Muto that would be Godzilla's adversary for the film. His intention wasn't to make it definitely reminiscent of Giger's creature but because it was part of the path of exploration, he found that it way into the final design along with the other inspirational creatures, such as King Kong, Jaws, the tyrannosaurus rex, the giant insects from Starship Trooper. However on at least one occasion he decided to say it was the Alien Queen rather than Giger's Alien<br />
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c) <span style="color: #fce5cd;"><u><b>The Eadu l</b></u><u><b>andscape </b></u></span><br />
When he made Rogue One (2016), he included a planet in that was very much inspired by the mysterious unnamed planetoid in Alien.<br />
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<li><b>Den Of Geek: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Did you hear the sad news about HR Giger?
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<b>Gareth Edwards:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">I know, and our movie’s full of it. HR Giger’s probably one of the biggest influences on me.</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/godzilla/30507/gareth-edwards-interview-making-godzilla-spielberg-giger#ixzz3hfNA1lQ5" style="color: #003399;"></a></span><br /><b>Gareth Edwards: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">I did, at lunchtime. It’s so sad.</span><br />
<b><b>Den Of Geek: </b></b><span style="color: #ea9999;">He was such an influence on cinema. When you mentioned <i>Alien</i> just then, it reminded me. </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">( <a href="http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/godzilla/30507/gareth-edwards-interview-making-godzilla-spielberg-giger#ixzz3hfNA1lQ5" style="color: #003399;">http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/godzilla/30507/gareth-edwards-interview-making-godzilla-spielberg-giger#ixzz3hfNA1lQ5)</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Gareth Edwards:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">We went for a combo of all our favourite monsters from every movie.
Part-shark, part-Alien Queen, part-Starship Troopers, part gorilla…
They’re kind of an amalgam</span>”. (Empire Magazine, April 2014?)</span></span></li>
<li><b>Gareth Edwards:</b> <span style="color: #ea9999;">3.) It’s a tough one, but I think I would
probably say, somewhere between Ridley Scott’s “Alien,” and James
Cameron’s “Aliens.” I just think the design of that creature is just
phenomenal. Like H.R. Giger no one’s come close to something that unique
or something that big a step forward in terms of creature design. </span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(<a href="http://nukethefridge.com/2014/03/30/20-new-images-godzilla-plus-gareth-edwards-reveals-top-3-movie-monsters/#XX3RyDxGEtciSBKv.99">nukethefridge.com/2014/03/30/20-new-images-godzilla-plus-gareth-edwards-reveals-top-3-movie-monsters/March 2014)</a> </span></li>
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<b>Interviewer: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">And what about you know, you've teased us before,
other creatures being in the movie, were you using the same kind of
process out of that, obviously Monsters, there were many many creatures
in that film</span></div>
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<b>Gareth Edwards: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Um, yeah, I mean . The, the, I think it's out there now that there is maybe something else in the film obviously</span><br />
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<b>Interviewer: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Possibly </span><br />
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<b>Gareth Edwards: </b><span style="color: #ea9999;">Possibly. And, er,
we wanted to do something unique. Trying to find a unique monster in
this day and age, erm , one of the designers summed it up "<span style="color: #e06666;">well, it's
like trying to find the last parking space at Disney world</span>" or
something, it's like, so many monsters have been done in so many films,
like trying to come up with something that feels different, is, is
really hard, and we spent, I mean we must have spent over a year or so
designing whatever it is, and erm, and we basically looked at all our
favourite monsters from T-Rex to, to, H R Giger's Alien to Starship
Troopers to Jaws, to King Kong, and what is it, what is it about each
one that makes them like so iconic and then try to dial those aspects
in, and it's funny because we, we didn't it consciously, but we kept
what about this, try this, try this, try this, we kept mutating it, and
doing different things, and having different generations until we found
this, until we sort of arrived at something, okay that looks really
cool, and then we looked back at it and went, hang on, the head looks
like that monster and the arms look like that monster, and realised that
all these inspirational creatures, it kind of ended up in our thing,
and that felt appropriate really 'cause we set out to kind of do this,
you know, kind of, try and combine all those elements but in a way that
felt like cohesive be... you know creature that wasn't like a monster...
Frankenstein's monster, but like, yeah, it all has, it all looks like
it was evolved from the same, er, organism.</span> <span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/%28http://www.scified.com/site/godzillamovies/gareth-edwards-talks-creating-the-new-look-for-godzilla-and-designing-the-muto-monsters">( The Verge,</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa26RU2PHgE">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa26RU2PHgE </a>13th, April <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">2014) </span></span></span></li>
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But what about inspiration from other films? “<span style="color: #ea9999;">There was a lot of films in there,</span>” says Edwards. “<span style="color: #ea9999;">Like <i class="markup--em markup--p-em">Apocalypse Now</i>, <i class="markup--em markup--p-em">Alien</i>, even <i class="markup--em markup--p-em">Blade Runner</i>. The interiors of <i class="markup--em markup--p-em">Blade Runner</i>, that aesthetic. It feels like that 70s timeless sci-fi that hasn’t dated. If you were ever gonna go slightly away from <i class="markup--em markup--p-em">Star Wars</i>, they were a good reference. Things like <i class="markup--em markup--p-em">Thin Red Line</i>.</span>”</div>
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The most surprising mention there is <i class="markup--em markup--p-em">Aliens</i>, Ridley Scott’s more gothic sci-fi/horror classic from 1979. But as Edwards explains, there’s a very specific place where <i class="markup--em markup--p-em">Alien’s </i>stamp exists in <i class="markup--em markup--p-em">Rogue One</i>: “<span style="color: #ea9999;">When you see a planet in the movie called Eadu, it’ll make a lot of sense.</span>” </div>
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">(<a href="https://filmschoolrejects.com/that-timeless-sci-fi-gareth-edwards-on-taking-risks-with-rogue-one-40d2d7d9da77#.moxsfp22v">https://filmschoolrejects.com/that-timeless-sci-fi-gareth-edwards-on-taking-risks-with-rogue-one-40d2d7d9da77#.moxsfp22v</a>)</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Gareth Edwards: <span style="color: #ea9999;">Films that I used in there that got high score were <i>Apocalypse Now</i>; a little of <i>Thin Red Line</i>, and there’s a planet in our film that’s very much inspired by Alien. Also <i>Blade Runner</i>, <i>THX-1138</i> and of course the original <i>Star Wars</i>.</span> <span style="font-size: x-small;">(<a href="http://www.fandango.com/movie-news/from-alien-to-blade-runner-here-are-the-films-that-inspired-rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-751647">http://www.fandango.com/movie-news/from-alien-to-blade-runner-here-are-the-films-that-inspired-rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-751647</a>)</span></span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086941578419555377.post-52487709807654033682014-05-01T18:54:00.000-07:002015-12-04T15:29:10.097-08:00May 2014<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">leading from</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/p/updates-2015.html" target="viewpage8729262586978744275">2014</a></span> </div>
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Saturday May 31st 2014</b></u></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">1) <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.hu/2007/05/danny-boyles-sunshine.html">Danny Boyle's Sunshine</a> in relation to Alien </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">2) <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.hu/1979/05/the-beast-with-metal-teeth.html">The Beast With Metal Teeth</a>: The alien follow "Jaws" from The Spy Who Loved Me movie as tall humanoid with metal teeth.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">3) Added statement from Elegy #4 by Giger on the Alien 3 project to <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1992/09/riddle-of-alien-3-beast-with-4-legs.html">Riddle of Alien 3 beast with 4 legs</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Thursday May 29th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">1) Updated <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.hu/1997/05/sylvain-despretzs-alien-warrior-concepts.html">Alien Resurrection Alien Warrior Concepts</a> by Sylvain Despretz, adding another image</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">2) Added <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.hu/2010/05/moebius-homage-to-face-on-mars.html">Moebius homage to the face on Mars </a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Wednesday May 28th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Information from Newsweek added to<a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1997/09/the-vipers-nest.html"> The Vipers Nest</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Monday May 26th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Updated <b><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/06/stopped-in-street.html">Stopped in the street</a></b> with information from "The Stages of Alien" in Los Angeles Times.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Sunday May 25th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1) </b>Name section for <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.hu/1997/05/sylvain-despretz.html">Sylvain Despretz </a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>2)</b> Section showing <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.hu/1997/05/sylvain-despretzs-alien-warrior-concepts.html">Alien Resurrection Alien Warrior Concepts</a> by Sylvain Despretz </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Monday May 19th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1) </b><span class="userContent"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1997/05/ripley-clone-concept-art.html" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">Unidentified concept artist's Ripley Clone concept art for Alien Resurrection</a></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span class="userContent">2) </span></b><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/ripley-clones-by-chris-cunninghamhalls.html"><span class="userContent">Chris Cunningham's Ripley Clone concept art for Alien Resurrection</span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Sunday May 18th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2004/04/avp-peter-briggs-vs-paul-anderson.html"><span class="userContent">AVP Peter Briggs vs Paul Anderson</span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Wednesday May 14th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/renny-harlin-alien-3.html"><u><b>Renny Harlin and Alien-3</b></u></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Monday May 12th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">1) Working on a section about <a href="http://poltergeist-2.html/">Poltergeist 2</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">2) <span class="userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/alien-vs-eraserhead.html" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">Alien vs Eraserhead</a></span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Thursday May 8th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Added material from Dan O'Bannon interview from Phobos No.1 summer 1977 to<u><b> <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/06/dune-and-gathering-of-foss-obannon.html">Dune And The Gathering</a></b></u> , <b><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2009/06/hcocoon-scene.html">Cocoon scene,</a></b> <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/09/a-sofa-in-la.html"><b>A Sofa in LA</b>, </a><b><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/06/stopped-in-street.html">Stopped in the street</a></b> and<b><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/04/script-through-window.html"> Script Through The Window</a></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Tuesday May</b></u><u><b> 6th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Fleshed out section on the painting <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/04/c-spectres-of-necronom-ivs-development.html">Friedrich Kuhn II</a>, having added the original photo that Giger started with</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Friday May 2nd 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Added image of toadstool cap shaped derelict ship from Moebius' Arzach to <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/06/b-space-jockeys-remains.html">The Space Jockey's remains</a></span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086941578419555377.post-41753427787505453312014-04-01T18:52:00.000-07:002015-12-04T15:32:06.369-08:00April 2014<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">leading from</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/p/updates-2015.html" target="viewpage8729262586978744275">2014</a></span> </div>
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Saturday April </b></u><u><b>26th 2014</b></u></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Updated the section on <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2003/06/dave-dormans-predalien-mid-1990s.html">Dave Dorman's Predalien design</a> with a quote from the <a href="http://galactic-squid.com/comics/galactic-squid-interview-dave-dorman/1439/">Galactic-Squid.com </a>interview in which he more or less repeats what he said before anyway.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Monday April 21st 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1)</b> Added <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/x-files-season-6-episode-1-beginning.html">X-Files Season 6, episode 1. The Beginning</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>2) </b>Added quotes from <span id="btAsinTitle"><span style="padding-left: 0px;">Danny Boyle: Interviews Conversations with Filmmakers </span></span>Keith Hopper interviews Danny Boyle, Danny Boyle; Authorised Edition and Tim Out to <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1997/09/boyle-on-alien-4.html">Danny Boyle on Alien 4</a><b><b><b><b><br /></b></b></b></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Sunday April 20th</b></u> 2014</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1) </b>Added name section for <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/vincenzo-natali.html">Vincenzo </a><b><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/vincenzo-natali.html">Natali</a></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>2) </b>Added Vincenzo Natali's discussion about <b><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/vincenzo-natali-compares-splice-and.html">Splice/Alien comparisons</a> </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>3) </b>Added Lovecraftian sketches by Del Toro to<b> </b><br /><b><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2006/04/guillermo-del-toro-talks-about.html">Guillermo del Toro talks about Lovecraft's influence on Alien</a></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>4)</b> Added link page for the alien life-cycle <b><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/04/giger-s-alien-life-cycle-hieroglyphics.html">Hieroglyphics</a> </b>connected to the <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/p/lexicon.html">Lexicon</a> page<b> </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Friday April</b></u> 18th 2014</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1) </b>Added section <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1992/09/riddle-of-alien-3-beast-with-4-legs.html">Riddle of Alien 3 Beast with 4 legs</a> dealing with Giger and the Alien 3 production </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>2)</b> Added section on <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1992/04/gigers-new-alien-3-beast.html">Giger's Alien 3 beast</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>3)</b> Added section on <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1992/04/gigers-bambi-burster.html">Giger's bambi-burster</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>4) </b>Added section on <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/gigers-super-facehugger.html">Giger's Super Facehugger</a></span></span> </div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Saturday April 11th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Added Biomechanical Mia , Egyptian Style to <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/02/erotomechanics-vii-continues-to-explore.html">Erotomechanics vii continues to explore Pakal Votan tomb lid</a></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Friday April 11th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>1) </b><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/04/harry-dean-stantons-audition.html">Harry Dean Stanton's-audition</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">2) <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/04/wtf-with-marc-maron-alien-segment-from.html">Alien segment from Harry Dean Stanton interview for WTF with Marc Marin </a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Thursday April 10th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Finished section dealing with <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2006/04/guillermo-del-toro-talks-about.html">Guillermo Del Toro talks about Lovecraft's influence on Alien</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Sunday April 6th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Fleshed out the section of the <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/12/umbilical.html">Umbilical Cord</a>
slightly, suggesting that it was the name for the tale when it stuck
out of the alien's groin since this is the instance when Ridley has been
referring to it as an "umbilical."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Saturday April</b><b> 5th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Added quote from Walter Simonson from Alien: The Illustrated Story, The Original Art Edition to <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/04/organic-box-like-thing.html">Organic Box Like Thing.</a></span></span></div>
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<li><a href="https://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2020/08/alien-vs-predator-hybrid-concepts.html">Predalien Hybrid concepts list</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2003/06/michael-brooms-predalien.html">Michael Broom's Predaliens</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2003/06/michael-brooms-predalien.html">Michael Broom's </a><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2007/06/predalien-with-side-teeth-concepts.html">Predalien with side teeth concepts</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2003/06/farzad-varahramyans-predaliens.html">Farzad Varahramyan's Predaliens</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2003/06/justin-murrays-predaliens.html">Justin Murray's Predaliens</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2007/12/chris-ayers-predalien.html">Chris Ayers' Predalien</a></li>
<li><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2007/06/green-predalien-concept-drawings.html">Green Predalien concept illustrations</a></li>
<li><a href="https://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2007/03/alien-vs-predator-requiem-predalien.html">Predalien concept art without artists' names</a> </li>
<li><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2007/06/predalien-facehugging-victim.html">Predalien facehugging victim</a></li><li><a href="https://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2021/06/alien-vs-predator-requiem-predalien.html">Predalien maquette</a>
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<li><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2007/09/aliens-vs-predator-requiem-alien.html"><span style="font-size: small;">Alien Warrior Screen Used Head with Tongue</span></a></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"> <a href="https://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2018/12/aliens-vs-predator-requiem-alien.html">Alien Warrior Head</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2018/12/aliens-vs-predator-requiem-xenomorph.html">Hero “Tom” Mechanical Head</a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2018/12/aliens-vs-predator-requiem-battle.html">Battle Damaged Xenomorph</a> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://alienexplorations.blogspot.com/2019/02/alien-vs-predator-requiem-alien-dummy.html">Alien warrior dummy that turned up on Ebay</a> </span>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086941578419555377.post-65773291328512722572014-03-03T03:10:00.001-08:002023-03-21T12:21:09.075-07:00 HR Giger: The theme of Nut the Sky Goddess involved in Giger choice of grave stone<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>leading from</span><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/04/giger-s-alien-life-cycle-hieroglyphics.html">Alien: Giger's Alien life cycle hieroglyphics</a></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">Carmen </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Scheifele-Giger</span></span></span></span></span>,
the second and last wife HR Giger understood how the female figure
across the painting was Nut the Egyptian goddess of the night's sky with
the stars in her belly, and she thought it was very beautiful. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">It was one that HR Giger liked very much, and when he died in 2014, it was
actually being considered for his grave adornment, but since this was
rejected by the Commune de Gruyères. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Instead a tomb slab designed by Carmen
Giger inspired by Egyptian sarcophagi, utilising Giger's designs from
other projects, made from Galaxy natural stone from India, with gold
mineral inclusions resembling a star-scattered night sky was used to
evoke the idea of the Egyptian sky goddess</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
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<ol style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="color: #ea9999;"> </span><span style="color: #ea9999;">Dedication Of HR Giger's Memorial</span><span style="color: #ea9999;"> Following months of
planning, design, and sculpting work, the artist's closest friends felt
honoured to be able to commemorate the completion of HR Giger's grave
memorial with a small, nocturnal celebration on Saturday, November 19,
2016.</span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"> The memorial, a tomb slab designed by Carmen Giger and
inspired by ancient Egyptian sarcophagi, was sculpted from a Galaxy
dimension stone. Notwithstanding the challenges arising from the
requirements and restrictions imposed by the Commune de Gruyères, we
were determined to complete this monument true to HR Giger's unique
spirit. It was to be as if created by his hand.</span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"> Carmen Giger: "We
selected this particular stone because its golden mineral inclusions
resemble a star-scattered night sky; they evoke Nut, the Egyptian
goddess of the sky, rendered by Hansruedi in his painting
«Hieroglyphics». Said painting, loved so much by him, was our original
choice for a grave adornment, but it was rejected by the Commune de
Gruyères.</span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"> The profile framing the stone was shaped in accordance
with the shape of a small, wonderful wooden table designed and built by
Hansruedi as a final exam at the Zurich Art and Design College."</span><br />
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We would like to extend our deepest gratitude to all those who helped in
realizing this ambitious project, particularly to sculptors Roli Graf
and Willy Sager, who worked on the stone itself.</span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"> HR Giger's grave
site is located Gruyères, Switzerland, a mere few steps from the Museum
HR Giger and the Giger Bar. It is open to the public.</span><br />
<span style="color: #ea9999;"> Atelier HR Giger<br /> Museum HR Giger </span>(<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/museumhrgiger/posts/10154823944754324"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">https://www.facebook.com/museumhrgiger/posts/10154823944754324</span></a>)</span></span></b></span></span></b></span></li><li><span style="color: #f4cccc;">Fertigstellung des Grabmals des Künstlers HR Giger (1940 – 2014)</span><span style="color: #f4cccc;">
Nach Monaten der Planung, Gestaltung und Ausarbeitung konnte die
Fertigstellung von HR Gigers Grabmal am Samstag, dem 19. November 2016,
im Kreise der engsten Freunde des Künstlers in einer kleinen,
nächtlichen Feier angemessen gewürdigt werden.</span><br />
<span style="color: #f4cccc;"> Das Grabmal, eine
von Carmen Giger entworfene Grabplatte nach antik-ägyptischem Vorbild,
wurde aus einem aus Indien stammenden Galaxy-Naturstein
herausgearbeitet. Trotz der eine ganz besondere Herausforderung
darstellenden Vorgaben und Einschränkungen von Seiten der Gemeinde
Gruyères, war es unsere feste Absicht, dieses Grabmal im Sinne von HR
Giger zu verwirklichen, so dass es sich auch um ein Werk aus seiner
eigenen Hand handeln könnte.</span><br />
<span style="color: #f4cccc;"> Carmen Giger: "Wir suchten diesen
Stein aus, weil er mit den goldenen Mineralien wie ein sternenübersäter
Nachthimmel aussieht, wie die ägyptische Göttin des Nachthimmels, Nut,
die Hansruedi im Bild «Hieroglyphics» darstellte. Dieses Bild, welches
er so liebte, war ursprünglich unsere erste Wahl, wurde jedoch von der
Commune de Gruyères verworfen.</span><br />
<span style="color: #f4cccc;"> Die Form des Rahmens ist einem
kleinen aber wunderbaren Tisch entnommen, den Hansruedi als
Abschlussarbeit für die Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich modellierte und
schreinerte."</span><br />
<span style="color: #f4cccc;"> Den Personen, die dieses anspruchsvolle Projekt
ermöglichten, gebührt unser tiefster Dank; ganz besonders gilt dies für
die Bildhauer Roli Graf und Willy Sager, die den Stein bearbeiteten.</span><br />
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Das Grab von HR Giger befindet sich in Gruyères/FR, nur wenige Schritte
vom Museum HR Giger und der Giger Bar entfernt. Es ist öffentlich
zugänglich.</span><br />
<span style="color: #f4cccc;"> Atelier HR Giger<br /> Museum HR Giger </span><br />(<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/museumhrgiger/posts/10154823944754324"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">https://www.facebook.com/museumhrgiger/posts/10154823944754324</span></a>)</span></span></b></span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #d9ead3;">Google Translation</span><br /><span style="color: #d9ead3;"><span id="result_box" lang="en"><span title="Fertigstellung des Grabmals des Künstlers HR Giger (1940 – 2014)">Completion of the tomb of the artist HR Giger (1940 - 2014)</span><span title="Nach Monaten der Planung, Gestaltung und Ausarbeitung konnte die Fertigstellung von HR Gigers Grabmal am Samstag, dem 19. November 2016, im Kreise der engsten Freunde des Künstlers in einer kleinen, nächtlichen Feier angemessen gewürdigt werden.">After months of planning, design and elaboration, the completion of HR
Gigers Tomb on Saturday, November 19, 2016, was appropriately
acknowledged in the circle of the artist's closest friends in a small,
nocturnal celebration.</span><span title="Das Grabmal, eine von Carmen Giger entworfene Grabplatte nach antik-ägyptischem Vorbild, wurde aus einem aus Indien stammenden Galaxy-Naturstein herausgearbeitet.">The
tombstone, designed by Carmen Giger according to the ancient Egyptian
model, was worked out of a Galaxy natural stone from India. </span><span title="Trotz der eine ganz besondere Herausforderung darstellenden Vorgaben und Einschränkungen von Seiten der Gemeinde Gruyères, war es unsere feste Absicht, dieses Grabmal im Sinne von HR Giger zu verwirklichen, so dass es sich auch um ein Werk aus seiner eigenen Hand handeln könnte.">Despite the specific requirements and limitations of the commune of
Gruyères, it was our firm intention to realize this monument in the
sense of HR Giger so that it could also be a work from his own hand.</span><span title="Carmen Giger: "Wir suchten diesen Stein aus, weil er mit den goldenen Mineralien wie ein sternenübersäter Nachthimmel aussieht, wie die ägyptische Göttin des Nachthimmels, Nut, die Hansruedi im Bild «Hieroglyphics» darstellte. Dieses Bild, welches er so liebte, war ursprünglich">Carmen
Giger: "We looked for this stone because it looks like a star-studded
post-giant with the golden minerals, like the Egyptian goddess of the night sky , Nut, which Hansruedi depicted in the picture"
Hieroglyphics. "This image, which he so loved, was original </span><span title="unsere erste Wahl, wurde jedoch von der Commune de Gruyères verworfen.">Our first choice, but was rejected by the Commune de Gruyères.</span><span title="Die Form des Rahmens ist einem kleinen aber wunderbaren Tisch entnommen, den Hansruedi als Abschlussarbeit für die Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich modellierte und schreinerte."">The form of the frame is taken from a small but wonderful table, which
Hansruedi modeled and shouted as final work for the Kunstgewerbeschule
in Zurich. "</span><span title="Den Personen, die dieses anspruchsvolle Projekt ermöglichten, gebührt unser tiefster Dank;">The people who made this challenging project deserve our deepest thanks; </span><span title="ganz besonders gilt dies für die Bildhauer Roli Graf und Willy Sager, die den Stein bearbeiteten.">This is especially true of the sculptors Roli Graf and Willy Sager, who worked on the stone.</span><span title="Das Grab von HR Giger befindet sich in Gruyères/FR, nur wenige Schritte vom Museum HR Giger und der Giger Bar entfernt.">The tomb of HR Giger is located in Gruyères / FR, just a few steps from the Giger Museum and the Giger Bar. </span><span title="Es ist öffentlich zugänglich.">It is publicly accessible.</span><span title="Atelier HR Giger">Workshop HR Giger</span><span title="Museum HR Giger">Museum HR Giger</span></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Carmen Scheifele-Giger: </span></span></b></span></span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #ea9999;">Three
stages of the alien, now in the hold was put into a pyramid and on top
of it all was Nut the Egyptian goddess of the night sky with the stars
in her belly and I think that was really beautiful</span> <i><b>(Memory: The origins of Alien)</b></i></span></span></span></span></span></li></ol>
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1086941578419555377.post-9810118869858857802014-02-01T18:49:00.000-08:002015-12-04T15:31:34.795-08:00February 2014<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Friday February 28th 2014</b></u></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>a) </b>Further work on Zechariah Sitchin's quite possibly mistaken theory
about an mural in an Egyptian tomb depicting a space rocket. <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/zechariah-sitchens-space-rocket.html">Zecharia Sitchin's Space Rocket</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>b)</b> Added Zecharia Sitchin's name to the <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/p/people-index.html">People Index</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>c) </b>Added a part about the cylinder seal catalogued as VA/423 in the State Museum in East Berlin catalogued to <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/ancient-sumerian-engineer-star-map.html">Ancient Sumerian engineer star map</a> with the view of expanding it further </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Thursday February </b><b>27th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">added
a section about Zechariah Sitchin's quite possibly mistaken theory
about an mural in an Egyptian tomb depicting a space rocket. <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/zechariah-sitchens-space-rocket.html">Zecharih Sitchin's Space Rocket</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Sunday February 23rd 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>a)</b> Added Dan O'Bannon statement about Giger being able to paint Pickman's Model if he chose to, from Mediascene 35, p19 to <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/06/dune-and-gathering-of-foss-obannon.html">Dune and the gathering</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>b)</b> Added additional statement from Walter Simonson in <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/04/organic-box-like-thing.html">Organic box like thing </a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">from Ancient Astronaut Special Edition Star Wars vs Alien, fall 1979.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Saturday February 22nd 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>a) </b><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/02/erotomechanics-vii-continues-to-explore.html">Erotomechanics vii continues to explore Pakal Votan tomb lid</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>b)</b> Divided <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1996/02/4-treasures-of-satans-transformation.html">"Treasures of Satan"'s transformation into "Alien Monster IV" </a>into two sections so that <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/delvilles-influence-on-gigers-facehugger.html">Delville's Influence on Giger's Facehugger</a> has its own section</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>c)</b> Added a section for <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/02/h-r-giger.html">H R Giger</a> connecting from the People Index</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">d) Added <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/02/inspiration-behind-hr-gigers-passages-i.html">Dream Inspiration behind HR Giger's Passages I-IX </a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><br /></u></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Wednesday February 19th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>a)</b> Added monologue from<a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/02/palenque-rocket-man-from-chariots-of.html"> Mayan Rocket Man</a> section from Chariot of the Gods documentary.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>b)</b> Added the fact that <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1997/02/matthieu-kassovitz-was-considered-for.html">Matthieu Kassovitz was considered for Alien Resurrection</a> even if it was brief.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Tuesday February 18th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Created a page for<b> </b><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2004/02/von-daniken-inspires-alien-vs-predator.html">Von Daniken concepts in Alien vs Predator </a>first adding a question and answer the now closed AvP Xtreme Desktop website retrieved from<span style="color: #ea9999;"> <a href="http://www.avpgalaxy.net/avp-movies/avp-movie/paul-anderson-qa/">www.avpgalaxy.net</a>.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><u>Monday February 17th 2014</u></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Added section on <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/02/carl-sagan-and-alien.html">Carl Sagan's response to Alien</a>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Sunday February 16th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>a)</b>
Trying to sort out the sections dealing with Eric Von Däniken and
related ideas because it was just a group of half formed statements
chucked together hoping that I'll come back to it later and give it some
clarity. So the page for <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/pakal-votan-tomblid.html">Pakal Votan</a> leading from the People index has been turned into a list of links, and <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/another-mayan-rocket-man.html">Jade Sky</a>
which is a name of another Mayan ruler who had his own relief with a
rocket ship like structure has been given his own page from the people
Index, and <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/02/carl-sagan.html">Carl Sagan</a>
has been given his own page as well which is where I'll post links to
pages on the sight relating o him. The sections dealing with <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/erich-von-daniken.html">Erich <b>von Däniken</b></a> have been broken down tidied up into sections as well, and summaries have been written for the <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/skeptics-in-for-attack-on-von-daniken.html">Ron Story'</a>s
attack on Von Daniken's Mayan Rocket Man idea. The whole matter is very
very convoluted because this whole matter is about a mass of blurred
perceptions and those who are inspired by them, are trying to attack
them or a bit of both</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>b) Transcribed </b><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/02/mayan-rocket-man-segment-from-case-of.html">Mayan Rocket Man segment from "The case of Ancient Astronauts</a>" program from 1977 found on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=The+Case+of+the+Ancient+Astronauts+BBC+Horizon+PBS+NOVA&sm=3">Youtube</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Saturday February 15th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">1) Added a page for links related to the subject <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/pakal-votan-tomblid.html">Pakal <b>Votan</b></a> that links from the <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/p/people-index.html">People Index</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">2)
Added information from Empire magazine November 2009 to Lance
Henriksen's statement about the confusion over the Bishop 2 scene to <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1992/08/havent-clue-about-bishop-2.html">Haven't Clue About Bishop 2</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Thursday February 13th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Added information from "Alien: The Special Effects", to <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/landscape-with-alien-astronaut-corpse.html">Landscape With Alien Astronaut Corpse</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Sunday February 9th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>a) </b>Wrote the synopsis for <b><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/06/b-space-jockeys-remains.html">The Space Jockey's Remains</a></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>b) </b>Updated <b><a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/creating-nostromo.html">Creating The Nostromo</a></b>
with information by Martin Bowers such as recounting the moment that
they used the engine towers for additional thrusters on the back of the
Nostromo.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Friday February 7th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>a) </b>Have broken the section about <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/06/early-development-of-alien-script.html">Early Development of the Alien Script</a> into two so that the part about <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/selling-script.html">Selling The Script</a> has it's own section.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">b) Fleshed out the section <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/06/alien-title.html">Alien the title</a> on the moment of the naming of the Alien film with information from Ron Shusett from the interview with for Alien Evolution</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Thursday February 6th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>a) </b>Dating first references to the "box" by Dan O'Bannon and Walter Simonson in <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/04/organic-box-like-thing.html">Organic box like thing</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>b)</b> Adding a <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUTUNwcgURz-z7g4Pz6wZw-fwNkVWnb4BI77cc2mvT0-8hqDhF57xxsAbUPkmD4kEWK9hGpHse29zAjnZbQkVNdm7Ym_MZtfVliU7rwZAtHI0LttLqqV6dlJoSxQXBfOd3NXwlYWryjHog/s1600/sokar_jockey.jpg">sketch</a> by myself to explore how Giger adapted the drawing of the Henu Barque to become the Space Jockey to <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/evolution-of-space-jockey-from-egyptian.html">Evolution of Space Jockey from Egyptian book of the Dead</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Wednesday February 5th 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><b>a)</b></b> Added information from interview for DixiemePlanete #31 about transparency problems with the Alen suit to <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/04/sculpting-alien-costume.html">Sculpting The Alien Costume</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>b) </b>Added
information from interview for DixiemePlanete #31 about Francis Bacon
painting inspiring earlier version of the Chestburster to the source
quotes in <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/2009/06/f-creating-alien-lifeforms.html">The Chestburster</a> but unfortunately the references in the information are so stray as to appear meaningless. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>c)</b>
Added information from Cinefex #1 / Alien: The Special Effects about
Ridley Scott's intended idea for the egg silo placenta wall and how he
replaced it with a sheet of light from laser beam to <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/12/the-laser-placenta.html">The Laser Placenta</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><b>Saturday February 1st 2014</b></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".i.1:3:1:$comment10203180063121846_8093760:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:3"><span data-reactid=".i.1:3:1:$comment10203180063121846_8093760:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:3.0"><span data-reactid=".i.1:3:1:$comment10203180063121846_8093760:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:3.0.$fragment0:0:$0:0"><b>a)</b> </span></span></span><span class="userContent">This is about the scene where Fifield in
Prometheus is found folded up with his legs hideously bent and Ridley's
past ideas that led to it. I briefly mentioned my assumption about how
it was inspired by the alien as a box scene as seen in t<span class="text_exposed_show">he
Alien the Illustrated Story in the discussion at AVPGalaxy and so since
the blog Strangeshapes has written a <a href="http://alienseries.wordpress.com/2014/01/30/the-box-alien/">summary of that discussion</a> , I
thought I had better express my point of view further on my blog.</span></span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".i.1:3:1:$comment10203180063121846_8093760:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:3"><span data-reactid=".i.1:3:1:$comment10203180063121846_8093760:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:3.0"><span data-reactid=".i.1:3:1:$comment10203180063121846_8093760:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:3.0.$fragment0:0:$0:0"><a href="http://this%20is%20about%20the%20scene%20where%20fifield%20in%20prometheus%20is%20found%20folded%20up%20with%20his%20legs%20hideously%20bent%20and%20ridley%27s%20past%20ideas%20that%20led%20to%20it.%20i%20briefly%20mentioned%20my%20assumption%20about%20how%20it%20was%20inspired%20by%20the%20alien%20as%20a%20box%20scene%20as%20seen%20in%20the%20alien%20the%20illustrated%20story%20in%20the%20discussion%20at%20avpgalaxy%20and%20so%20since%20the%20blog%20strangeshapes%20has%20written%20a%20summary%20of%20that%20discussion,%20i%20thought%20i%20had%20better%20express%20my%20point%20of%20view%20further%20on%20my%20blog./"> Fifield found rolled up </a></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".i.1:3:1:$comment10203180063121846_8093760:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:3"><span data-reactid=".i.1:3:1:$comment10203180063121846_8093760:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:3.0"><span data-reactid=".i.1:3:1:$comment10203180063121846_8093760:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.0:3.0.$fragment0:0:$0:0"><b>b)</b> I've
now added information about what Walter Simonson thought he was seeing
in the box alien scene because he just answered a question on his
Facebook page for his Alien Graphic novel to <a href="http://alienexplorations.blogspot.co.uk/1979/04/organic-box-like-thing.html">Organic box like thing</a> since he answered a question on Facebook about it. </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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