The space jockey's story

leads from  The Space JockeySpace Jockey set and studio (video footage images merged together on Photoshop)What the Nostromo Crew knewFrom Primitive Culture to Biological War WeaponEnigma of the Egg Silo and The Derelict Squeezed Into OneLandscape with alien astronaut corpse Space Jockey fused to its chairVariations Of The Life Cycle TableauThe end of the line, and back to a connection in the distant pastThe doorway to the next chapterSee...

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What the Nostromo crew knew

leading from: The Space Jockey's StoryTo introduce the world of alien organisms into terms of how the humans know of them in the universe of Alien. We find from what Harry Dean Stanton said, the reality of the Alien take place in a part of outer space where mysteries surrounding ancient cultures and strange organisms might prevail like we have heard of the yeti and the Loch Ness monster and UFOs, and perhaps a lot of strange things have been discovered...

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From Primitive Culture to Biological War Weapons

leading from: The Space Jockey's Storya) Ron Shusett and Dan O'Bannon's Birth PyramidIn the original Alien story, an alien traveler landed on the planetoid and had investigated an old pyramid there and the traveler had been infected and killed by the creature that had been dormant for thousands of years. It had planted an organism in the traveler's chest through his mouth, that grew and exploded from it's ribcage. Dan O'Bannon in the script, had an alien race involved in a complex bloody birth ritual. He saw them as tought, primitive, and with...

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Giger's Egg Silo and the Derelict squeezed into one

leading from: The Space Jockey's Storyand   The design of the derelict a.) Wrecked Construction Of Non Human Manufacture Originally in the alien script, the men discover a crashed derelict spacecraft and they enter it and discover that the alien occupants are all dead. They return to their own ship to contemplate what may have killed the alien crew and then they discover a pyramid on the plant which appears to be indigenous and it's...

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The Design Of The Derelict

Dissecting the Derelict Ridley's Initial Ideaa) Ridley Scott : " I took the drawing of the space ship off a section of one of Giger'spaintings, 'cause we couldn't work out what the hell the spaceship was going to look like,  and so I was staring at his book, the Necronomicon, and he'd drawn something up that almost looked like a musical instrument, so I kind of drew around that, and said "what about this, it looks like...

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Variations of The Hieroglyphs painting

leading from: The Space Jockey's StoryandAlien Life Cycle Hieroglyphics  HR Giger painting the Hieroglyphs, (image taken from Giger's Alien)a) The original Space Jockey/Alien relationshipThe Space Jockey's history begins with the basic idea that O'Bannon had in mind, which Scott wanted to include evidence of in a prognosis scene, that involved the space jockey being an entity who landed on the planet in his ship and became infected by the...

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Placement of the Life Cycle Tableau

leading from The Derelictand Alien Life Cycle Hieroglyphics   Final version of  the Life Cycle Tableau a) There were debates going on about whether the hieroglyphs would be required or not. Giger was told at one point after he started working on them that they wouldn't be needed, and then he discovered that they would be needed. Ron Shusett was keen to include the hieroglyphs painting in the film and Giger talked to Ridley Scott...

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Space Jockey fused wth the chair

leading from:  The Space Jockey's Story The Space Jockey wrapped in his chaira) Where does biology end and technology begin?Ridley wondered if the fact it looks a part of its chair was a result of the ossification of the corpse and had transformed that way into something from Giger's mind which was where biology and technology fused together and one could not work out where one might begin and the other might end,  It looked to him as...

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Painting of the Planetary System

leading fromAliena) During the making of the movie, no one involved had any assumption that the planetoid was supposed to be in the Zeta II Reticuli star system. Dennis Lowe who actually painted the great scene of the ringed planets and the other moons was unaware of any connection between the planetoid and Zeta II Reticuli.b) Dennis original brief was from Nick Alder, and as far as he could remember decades ater, the brief was "We want...

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Saliva Story

leading from Ridley Scott's Alien monster Dennis Lowe: This afternoon Roger Nichols popped in (disturbed my meditation session - he said I was snoring) and stuffed a piece of paper in my hand. It's a brief description of the Saliva device that he made.Although designed by HR Giger the Alien costume was constructed by the American modeller Carlo Rambaldi and, because Ridley wanted the jaws to drip with saliva, Rambaldi had plumbed a tube into the outfit for this purpose through which liquid could be pumped.  When all was ready Ridley came...

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