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Aliens: storyboard showing Ripley and Newt first encountering the Alien Queen references Salvador Dali's The Painter's Eye (1942)?



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storyboard showing Ripley and Newt first encountering the Alien Queen


Salvador Dali's “The Painter’s Eye” (1942)


You might notice that in the conception of the idea of the Alien queen, various references to things resembling a cyclops in one form or another might be noticed, and here is a significant one, but what there is to note is how the character's outstretched arms have become the alien queen's upper legs  and the hanging skin beneath the eye has become the ribbed pipes and the connecting part to the egg sack


details from Salvador Dali's “The Painter’s Eye” (1942) 
and the storyboard showing Ripley and Newt first encountering the Alien Queen




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  1. "Aliens: storyboard showing Ripley and Newt first encountering the Alien Queen references Salvador Dali's The Painter's Eye (1942)?" was posted on June 20th 2019

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