Saturday, January 4, 2014

"Alien" Explorations Index

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Aliens

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Alien 3

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Alien Resurrection

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Alien vs Predator Requiem


The Evolution of the PredAlien
1) J. J. Booker's "Hy'brid" from the Facehugger fanzine 1993
2) Dave Dorman's Predalien mid 1990s 
3) Predalien in "Alien vs Predator duel"comicbook, 1995 
4) White hybrids in "Alien vs Predator: Deadliest of the Species" comicbook 
5) Alien vs Predator film's Hybrid Chestburster  
6) Marvel's Iron Spider: Inspiration for backspine concepts? 
7) Michael Broom's Predaliens
8) Farzad Varahramyan's Predaliens 
9) Justin Murray's Predaliens 
10) Chris Ayers' Predalien
11) Predalien with side teeth concepts
12) Green Predalien concept drawings
13) Predalien facehugging victim
14)The Predalien  
15) Joe Nizzi's Biomechanoid Predator style Decepticons for Transformers 3, 2011

Children of the Predalien
1)The AVP:R Alien warrior 
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Prometheus

1.) A New Beast, 2.) Prometheus' DNA,
3.) The name of the film,  
4.) The future as it evolves 5.) The New Weyland
6. ) Story of a man/"higher being" against the gods, 
7. ) Von Daniken's ideas, 8.) Pyramid in the Prequel, 
9.) The Doorway to the Next Chapter, 
10.) Pyramid in the Prequel, 11.) Origins of the Orrery 
12.) Planet Zeta 2 Reticuli 
13.) Questions about God and Paradise Lost


Cast and Characters
Noomi Rapace plays Elizabeth Shaw.  
Michael Fassbender plays an android,  
Charlize Theron plays Meredith Vickers
 
Scriptwriter: Jon Spaihts, Scriptwriter: Damon Lindelof, Production Designer: Arthur Max, 
Designer: Daniel Simon, Creature Designer: H. R. Giger, Concept designer: Alex Kzohanov / Gutalin ,
 Cinematographer: Dariusz Wolski,


The Space Jockey / The Engineers
a) Max's Headroom 
b) Engineer's Technology
c) The Engineer revealed to the public   
d) As Revealed In The Film
e) The Sacrificial Engineer
f) Ridley's design criteria for the engineers' world
g) Changes to space jockey's telescope viewer
 h) Engineer ships exterior designs 
i) Hammer shaped Primordial engineer ships 
ii)Alternate toroidal shaped engineer ships

Creatures
a) The Hammerpede 
1) introduction in the trailers 
2) The Facehugger Centipede

 b) Babyhead
1 ) Carlos Huante's Babyhead,  
2) Origins of Carlos Huante's Babyhead,   

c) The Development of Fifield

1) The Fifield Monster, 2) Ivan Manzella's Fifield Monster,  
3) H. R. Giger's Fifield Monster, 4) Alternate Fifield mutant, 
5) The final mutant Fifield,
6) Fifield found rolled up 
7) Question about a Huantes concept

Loose Ends
1) Star Map invitations and Mysteries of Planetoid Numbers

Afterthoughts
1)  Space Jockey as a suit origins
2) "Deacon Blues" and the blue Deacon ,
3) The Gerald Scarfe and Ralph Steadman influence?,
4) Gary Larson and the Deacon's pointed head 
5) Holographic Universe as a theme
6) Henry Moore's "Head of Prometheus"?, 
7) Alien Apocalypse: The Destroying Angels, 
8)"Alien Apocalypse" influence on Prometheus? 
9) Moebius' influence on Prometheus?
10) Exorcist: The Beginning & Dominion's influence on Prometheus?  
11) Max Headroom As Running Theme 
12) Ganesh with breathing pipe trunk 
13) Georgiou Tsoukalos of Ancient Aliens and Joe Rogan talk about Prometheus


1.Scott in the VIP room refering to the Space Jockey as a suit, 
2. The Beginning, 3. Films back to back, 
4. Introduction to Sci-Fi, 
5. How Alien Came To Be And Seeing Star Wars, 
6. The Fifth Man, 
7. Scott  in Hollywood, 8. Calling Moebius,  
9. Budget and Storyboarding, 
10. Reading, 11. Not asked, 
12. Prequel is much more interesting than a sequel, 
13. Resurrecting the Franchise,  
14. Floating "Carcass" Comment, 
15. Explaining the space jockey, 16. Legend and flops, 
17. The Old Dark House, Underwater research, 
18. Europa, Io and to Zeta II Reticuli, 19. Terraforming, 
20. Faster Than Light, 21. Casting Sigourney, 
22. Ridley Scott on Blade Runner: 
(i) Harrison Ford in Blade Runner,
 (ii) Scott on the Blade Runner script, 
iii) Friction between Harrison and Ridley) , 
 23. Scott and the Camera, 24. The director and team effort,  
25. Film education,  26. Ridley's knee, 
27.Tony Scott's Student Films, 28.The Forever War, 
29.Audience questions time: i. Setting up shots, 
ii. Rehearsing with actors, iii. Robin Hood,  
iv. Western In Development, v. Sequel to Alien, 
vi. Blade Runner's difference to its source material, 
vii. Blade Runner the title 


Resources
HR Giger interview with Zuritipp, 13th August 2012
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