Alien (translated before by Alien, the eighth passenger ), is a British film carried out by Ridley Scott, left in 1979. It is the first film of the saga of Alien.

Film hangs is “In space, nobody does not intend you (ruffle) to shout”.

Synopsis

The Nostromo , vessel of trade carrying a crew of seven people and a cat, fact road towards the Earth charged with an ore cargo. With half of the voyage, it must stop its race to answer a mysterious message coming from an unexplored planet. After a perilous landing, the crew discovers the remainders of gigantic a extraterrestrial vessel whose single passenger, the pilot, seems to be killed in strange circumstances. Exploring more before the compartments of the vessel, one of the members of the team, Kane, discover a kind of cave filled with eggs and, wanting to inspect one of them, are made attack by the gossamer-like creature that it contained. This creature is clutched with the face of Kane which is brought back inanimate to the Nostromo urgently… Once returned on board, it is placed in quarantine with the parasite always fixed on its face: fortunately, at the end of a few hours, this last is detached and Kane returns to him. But at the time of the meal which follows its re-establishment, Kane is suddenly taken violent convulsions and its rib cage explodes, releasing a monster which will threaten all the crew… In turn, the members will be killed. Until the last?

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  • the computer of Nostromo is called Maman ( Mother in anglophone version).
  • a certain number of graphic materials of H.R. Giger used in this film are recyclings of the fallen through project of Dune by Alexandro Jodorowsky.
  • Nostromo is the name of a masterpiece of Joseph Conrad.
  • the model used to film the vessel when this one moves in space measured more 2m40 length. As for the interior decorations, they were carried out with the studios Shepperton.
  • This film takes again the broad outlines of Terrore nello spazio (1965) of Mario Bava.
  • the idea of film rests on Dark Star , first film of John Carpenter, which is its project of end of study. The Co-scenario writer and actor of this film, daN O' Bannon, will take part a few years later in the drafting of the scenario of Alien . To note that the principle even film rests on an ancient legend, that of the Minotaure.
  • the character of Ripley was a man in the beginning.
  • Meryl Streep had been approximate to interpret Ripley
  • It is Veronica Cartwright which was to interpret the role of Ripley in the beginning but it is Sigourney Weaver which was finally retained by the producers because its physique was more androgyne.
  • an unexpected and discrete bond was created by Arthur C. Clarke between Alien and 2010 . The curious reader will find it in the Chapter III-18, the rescue .
  • It is the Swiss artist of origin H.R. Giger which carried out only the design of the creature, considered today as a work of Article the model was designed with truths bones assembled with plasticine on pipes and parts of engine. It is what it calls the biomechanical . It is not credited with the credits.
  • In Psychoanalysis, one can identify Alien with the that (the animal impulse) and the computer -   Mom   - with the Super-ego (the interdict, the law). Nostromo, pulled about between the two, but including them all at the same time, would perhaps represent the Me .
  • a version Director' S Cut left to the cinema in 2003 (then in DVD). It presents only light differences with original work: certain plans were pruned in order to improve the rate/rhythm. In addition, two scenes were added: an argument between Lambert and Ripley and the discovery of the Dallas captain locked up in a cocoon.
  • In the version Director' S Cut, one learns that Ridley Scott wished that the actors not be with the current what was going to do without when Alien leaves the belly of Kane (except for the actor which interprête Kane). He wanted to see on their faces stupor and the anguish in front of this situation.

The monster

The success of film and those which will follow is due mainly to Alien, the monster of the saga. It is interesting to note that one sees it little in the first opus what makes it still more worrying and threatening. Its system of reproduction and the various phases by which it passes, before reaching its adult “stage”, are one of the strong points of the mythology of the series: all starts with eggs laid by a queen of which spout out gossamer-like parasites which are clutched with the face of a being passing in the vicinity. They lay then inside the body of the victim then are detached and after a short amount of time, the established embryo violently perforates the rib cage of its host to escape. The alien can then grow with its own way. It is interesting to note that according to the host who carried it, the alien will have a different morphology: humanoïde generally but also animal as in Alien ³ where the monster, left a dog, goes to four legs (it exists however two versions of this " naissance" , to see the article Alien ³ for more detail), in Alien vs Predator at the end of film, one sees a suddenly dead prédator one sees his green blood fluo squirting and Semi-Alien Semi-Predator in fate. The alien has a very particular physique which, on many points, has a phallic aspect: its cranium first of all lengthened then its “language”, massive and powerful body, with which it perforates the body of its victims and with the end of which is located one second mouth and finally a long tail of which it makes use of the sharp-edged end like lance. Its defense system includes/understands a kind of thick carapace as well as an effective genetic characteristic: its blood, extremely acid, corrodes metal and burns the skin of those which attack it, thus making any wound inflicted dangerous for its author.

With the wire of various films, the monster will keep with few things close the same aspect. One will however note in each episode a particular alien: a powerful and massive queen in the second, an animal alien in the third and a alien semi-man semi-monster in the last episode.

Catalog of films of Alien

See too

External bonds

  • the detailed Card of film on Sf-Story.com
  • Introduction to film by Jean-François Tarnowski
  • analysis of film on Dvdclassik

Simple: Alien (Film)

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