The Alien Queen and Terry Gilliam's Giant Samurai?

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James Cameron's alien queen
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Terry Gilliam

 

giant metal Samurai with flags and fan of blades sticking out from its back

Myself having made the connection between Cameron's Alien Queen and HR Giger's The Spell with its transformed Japanese imagery, on 30th July 2014,  I am asking myself if Cameron recognised the Japanese influence there and took the sides of the Alien Queen head curving downwards slightly in the manner of a samurai helmet and added the spikes on the back in the manner of flag poles stuck on the back of the giant samurai as in Terry Gilliam's Brazil which was released back in 1985. No one is expecting the influences particularly obvious on the screen.

close up of the head of the Samurai, the demonic angry face is on top of the helmet.

Aliens' alien queen puppet (https://www.screenused.com/)

Armor of domaru type.  With black leather lacing in katatsumadori style.

(source Tokyo National Museum www.tnm.jp)

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James Cameron's Alien Queen

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Aliens

Ripley encounters the Alien Queen (Alien Blu-ray)

Terry Gillam's Giant Samurai from "Brazil" imprint on The Alien Queen?

From Giger's The Spell 3 To Jim Cameron's Alien Queen

 

HR Giger's Spell III   
a) HR Giger's The Spell 3, b) its connection with the Heike Crab,
c) as a homage to Takeda Shingen's head dress helmet

Giger talks about Aliens and Poltergeist 2

Fom Zig Zag Devil via Delville & Giger to Cameron's Alien Queen 

1. Finding the pieces,   2. The Zigzag Devil,  3. Jean Delville's Treasures of Satan, 

 4. Alien Monster IV,  5. The Alien Queen 

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Giger's "The Spell III" and the alien queen from Jim Cameron's Aliens

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James Cameron's Alien Queen, 

Giger's The Spell III as found in Giger's Necronomicon

The head of the Alien queen here is from a Halcyon model of the Alien queen painted by "Guyver1" (source: http://th06.deviantart.net. The painting is the head details from the multilimbed demon from The Spell III. The face patterns highlighted in yellow to form an impression very similar to the general form of the head of the Alien Queen. If Jim Cameron had used this picture for inspiration, then he reworked the impression he got from the image to make it more stylised.

Ripley comes face to face with Aliens Queen (from Aliens blu-ray, made from merged together stills on Photoshop)

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