@@trentdabs5245 it most certainly *is* available on Disney+ in Canada. Just checked it myself after seeing your comment. What kind of access do you have on your Disney+ account?
When I first saw Alien, the Nostromo looked like a cross between an air force bomber and a submarine. It totally revolutionised the idea of a spaceship, because up until then, the spaceship interiors most people were familiar with was Star Trek which looked too clean and sterile an environment for a group of people supposedly inhabiting for years on end.
Star Wars' Millenium Falcon had this look two years prior, so it wasn't quite brand new. 2001 was super clean a la Star Trek. Looking at footage from real spacecraft like the Apollo and Space Shuttle it's kind of a mix. They start out super clean at the start of a mission, but they are cluttered up quickly once the astronauts have been working in the tight cabins for a few hours and various equipment gets moved around. There are very few large, blank spaces on the walls like we see in Star Trek.
The Enterprise is a Navy Ship. So you would expect it to be clean and orderly. The Nostromo is a merchant ship and is expect to haul stuff and not look pretty.
_When I first saw Alien, the Nostromo looked like a cross between an air force bomber and a submarine._ One of Scott's inspirations for the interior of the Nostromo was the inside of the B-52 bomber from Kubrick's _Dr. Strangelove._ If you watch the bomber segments from the latter and then watch _Alien,_ the similarity is apparent.
I always loved that the set of Alien felt so realistic and not too far fetched. Like you could believe that we might have spacecraft that look like that someday. I never knew it’s because it was basically real aircraft parts.
It did help that the USA has such a sprawling military-industrial complex and all of that glorious discarded techno-junk, which can be re-used for lots of things. Survival Research Laboratories (SRL) is another manifestation of this availability of high-tech waste.
@@pancakelens75 Why are you comments here? No one is going to see that if you want to share it other than the few super nerds and occasional random who get lost here.
"Why rely on a movie crew to design a chair, when you and just use a chair that was designed by a chair designer who has devoted their entire life to designing chairs." Wise words. Very wise.
🫠AH! ...please allow me to answer that question for you... Q: WHY rely on a MOVIE CREW to design a chair for you, when you can just use a chair that was designed by a chair designer etc...? A: One word... UNIONS!
I went to the Stanley Kubrick exhibition in London and one of the most interesting parts was explaining that when it came to designing the sets for both 2001 and A Clockwork Orange, Stanley reached out to already established furniture makers and sculptures
Although, you do have to be careful that you don't accidentally use something that is already a cliche in real life and pulls the audience out of the movie setting.
Along with the realness of the set design, I LOVE all the stickers and masking tape anywhere, with tags and notes. That's such a lovely realistic touch. Another one I never realized until I saw Alien in theaters, during a rerelease, was that in Mother's room *every single light* has a label beneath it, marking its function. That's an insane attention to detail.
What really amazes me is that we can still analyze and dissect and discuss this move all these years later and never get tired of it, Just shows what an incredible work of art it is.
As a side note - the switches and switch guard used to blow the Pod hatch in 2001 are actually some kind of a pressure interface from the ejector seat of a surplus Lightning fighter plane.
Love the analogue aesthetic, some of the best production design ever …..John Mollo did a great job on the uniforms too. I always wanted one of the emergency helmets!
The control deck of the Nostromo looked like a bigger version of the flight cabin of a commercial airliner circa 1970's. It was so easy to believe that a spaceship would genuinely look like that.
Alien was nominated for almost a dozen Oscars and walked out the door with special effects and art direction nods. That's a pretty strong pedigree. Yeah, having Trumbull on board would have polished up the external ship shots, but the interior work is what made the film and is still an industry icon of production design.
Many years ago I watched the some double feature in a movie theatre. Probably the coolest double feature you can think of. Whatever the size your telly has, this movies were made for the big screen. Enjoy!
@@telekommandantthank you! always grew up thinking how amazing it would have been to see these films in the cinema and now I can experience it! I think the music/sounds of the film will blow me away!
The set still feels fresh decades years later. Very few sci-fi movies could achieve this: the original Star Wars, Space Odyssey, and that's pretty much it off the top of my head.
11:06 I was working in Yosemite National Park when they were filming a Wells Fargo ad. The scene being filmed was a stage coach passing by with El Capitan in the background. The stage coach had a couple of actors dressed in attire typical of such a scene. The stage coach was a real stagecoach, but it was mounted on a flat bed truck trailer. The director wanted more shaking on the stage coach so he asked a bunch of us spectators to climb on the trailer and help shake the stage coach. We must have spent 2 hours driving that trailer back and forth and later when I saw the ad, the scene we were filming hardly lasted 2 seconds. It was fun though.
Finally! The unsung star of the movie getting credit: The interiors. Vastly impressive at the time it just had the coolest look and made you think you were seeing inside a real ship. Thanks Tyler.
This approach to functional set dressing makes me so happy. Especially Kubrick's comment about using real rubble; nothing annoys me more about movie and video games ruins than looking at a random pile of rocks and thinking; 'Ok but WHAT is this supposed to be a ruin OF?'
Ridley had set crew behind the seats shaking them during the Nostromo's landing to simulate turbulance. He said the actors were getting a bit tired of it by the fourth take. Looks really authentic on screen though. Alien is an absolute stand-alone cult classic, everything after is just regular sci-fi to me.
Took me years to notice on the control panel on the Narcisus ,a bunch of empty model kits trees to add details to that console . :P You can see them when there is a close-up of Ripley's fingers touching the buttons .
In first Alien movie character Ripley did not smoke mutch but in my opinion it also made actress Weaver more sexy in her acting role in mister Scotts Alien movie.
Yeah - I loved this aspect. Feels very believable, almost truckers in space. Also the crew interactions are very normalised, not all Star Trek - its hard, dirty, difficult work that is a drag that the crew do to get paid.
My favorite character in that movie IS the ship. This movie and _Blade Runner_ are some of a handful that feel like that world actually exists, so much that I would enjoy a video game where exploration o such worlds is encouraged.
I went out five times before with another science officer-they replaced him two days before we left Thedus , with Ash-Captain Dallas to W.O. Ripley....
Damn. Usually whenever I see a cockpit on camera it usually is just cluttered with things that feel like doesn't have a purpose. HUDs everywhere, buttons and switches in seemingly random orders. It's as if they filled empty space with something to make it seem complex because it is. 2001 didn't have that. They did reuse graphics like the landing thing but it usually made sense. Alien was similar only that it seemed like it did so well that I didn't even think of it.
It's easy to watch this and feel resentful towards the evil movie producers complaining about time and money while the filmmaker is trying to work. I'm here to tell you: that pressure they create is just another part of a mysterious formula of events that SOMETIMES come together the right way to make a very special movie. No way to predict whats going to work until it works.
@CinemaTyler , I don't know if you check out video games. But would you consider checking out _Alien: Isolation._ Don't be put off by the fact that it's 10 years old. It still looks great today. Nearly all of the graphics and design was derived from the first Alien (1979) movie. Creative Assembly were even given resources from Fox with regard to set design, drawings, technical plans and allsorts to help with the design of the game. It would be great to hear your take on this amazing creative endeavour. Best regards.
All that went straight out the window with Mother's interface room. It was a SKIF, so they should have kept it plain, get shut of all the blinkenlights.
It's interesting how the designers managed to make it work by going through scraps and discarded equipment for the set. Also ironic since a high school in new jersey did practically the same thing with no budget after adapting the film script into a stage production. :)
The problem with the saturation of CGI & Green Screen in modern cinema today; is that acting (to be truly authentic) needs 'something' to react against. I would say that Alien worked and was the one sci film that drew you in to a truly believable world, because of that acting. Those actors were in a real believable space. To all intensive purposes, they were in a space ship. That is why Alien will last for generations, and none of it's immitators will (including the Cameron sequels and Prometheus).
Ron cobb was responsible for the interior and exterior design of the Nostromo. It was his countless drawings which became the template. A hallmark of his work is that everything must look functional and believable. I think he doesn't get enough credit here. But this is interesting nevertheless.
Aliens Spaceships were so real unlike the Spaceships of Star Trek, People are messy and unpredictable on Ships for a long period of time and it would show on the flight deck and in other parts of the ship
13:03...another Star Wars connection? This looks like a room in Empire Strikes Back. It looks like Bespin where Han is being tortured because Vader wanted Luke to sense the peril his friends were in and take the bait.
I think we should make a law prohibiting Fox from making Sci Fi anything. They always screw it up. Not enough budget, crappy time slots, running episodes out of order.
There's also a reason why, despite being set one hundred years in the future, the technology in these movies looks so outdated. Accordingly to lore of Alien universe, a group of fanatics (kinda like Amish) used a sophisticated computer virus to cripple and destroy everything enough advanced to be a carrier for the virus itself. In that way the whole market went down, stuff started to not working, spaceships remained disabled in space, air pumps stopped to give air to colonists on Mars and other colonies in Sol etc. So to avoid again risks like these, all the governments and corporations in Alien universe decided to use analogic technology that can not be affected by this virus. Cool.
I can’t wrap my head around why producers/stakeholders don’t try to understand what the artist ist doing and pressure them with uninformed questions about production speed. I can also see that happening in other industries. Plainly stupid and highly arrogant to me. Maybe you have to get arrogant to survive in business when you realize that you never put in the effort to learn how to bring value to the people and the world.
I remember sitting in the cinema marveling at how grubby the interior of the spaceship was. I nudged my girlfriend and said "Look at that coffee cup stain on the control panel!"
This is the best alien sci-fi horror movie ever made... and after alien 3 directors and producers have done everything in their power to screw up this masterpiece… even Ridley Scott doesn’t understand what the Zenomorph is..! It was Dan O’Bannon from alien and his buddy that came up with HR Geiger and the lifecycle of the alien ridley Scott already said he’s not into the alien he likes the robots.. The alien is not a bug & it’s not an insect , it’s more like Jack the Ripper.. Alien three proved that the alien doesn’t just take on the physical characteristics of the host , It also takes on the mental instincts if not some of the genetic memories. This is why the alien from the first movie rapes Lambert to death instead of tearing her apart & stocks Ripley & just kills the men.. and one more major problem after alien three every single Director every single producer has given the alien the extra dog leg joint which it should not have if it’s born from a human just like in 1&2
I always hate when spaceships have all this big rooms, just not feasible, oh those tight wades at fox just made a ton of star wars, and potential future ones, short sighted in seeing the potential long run of storyline,
I was a professional mariner for over 20 years. Some of the things I love so much about Alien, is that they got the dynamic between the engineers and officers so right in their dialog and actions. Especially when Ripley comes down to see what damage and how long for repairs. The set design and dressing seemed very real to me as well. Very few movies get these kinds of things right, but Alien does.
I haven’t been at it as long as you, but I love Alien for the exact same reason. Dallas, the young, cool Captain, Ripley, the confident upstart First Mate, Kane, the tenured and senile Second Mate, and Lambert, the nervous, green Third Mate. I love how comfortable they all seem with each other. Also, I love how Parker and Brett first ask Ripley about the bonus situation confidently, and bring it up to the Captain in the dining room carefully and quietly. Feels like a real blue collar crew, exactly what Dan O’Bannon was going for!
I have always enjoyed the dynamic among the crew for much the same reason, although my background is commercial aviation. Life and work aboard Nostromo lands pretty squarely in the overlap between those two fields, I would say, much more so than "truckers in space."
@@thomas1910 Great points. Someone sure knew what they were doing - Keen observers of working relationships between people stuck together for long periods in small spaces.
@@gilbertponder5307 I agree that "truckers in space" isn't totally accurate, but that is probably more relatable to more people. I would say "space freighters," but that's because I worked on freight ships. Either way, it makes me smile every time I see that dynamic playing out so familiarly on the screen.
I've also thought it was interesting how they had Ripley (correctly) trying to keep Dallas from bringing Kane back onto the ship by pulling rank as acting Captain, since Dallas was technically not onboard. That's also not something you often see, not unless the organizational rift is a central plot point, like movies about mutinies.
Great video. It is hard to overstate what an impact the depictions crew life aboard Nostromo had on me as a teenager. I know that sounds rather silly, but to me it is just a testament to the work done by everyone on this film to bring forth something 'real' as the backdrop of the story, and the effect for me was "That's a job I can see myself enjoying" - minus the whole part about being slaughtered by an alien, of course.
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Alien isn't available on Disney plus in Canada
Only the 2003 movie Alien vs Predator
@@trentdabs5245 it most certainly *is* available on Disney+ in Canada. Just checked it myself after seeing your comment. What kind of access do you have on your Disney+ account?
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When I first saw Alien, the Nostromo looked like a cross between an air force bomber and a submarine. It totally revolutionised the idea of a spaceship, because up until then, the spaceship interiors most people were familiar with was Star Trek which looked too clean and sterile an environment for a group of people supposedly inhabiting for years on end.
Even more so, the uber clean atmosphere of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Star Wars' Millenium Falcon had this look two years prior, so it wasn't quite brand new. 2001 was super clean a la Star Trek. Looking at footage from real spacecraft like the Apollo and Space Shuttle it's kind of a mix. They start out super clean at the start of a mission, but they are cluttered up quickly once the astronauts have been working in the tight cabins for a few hours and various equipment gets moved around. There are very few large, blank spaces on the walls like we see in Star Trek.
@@RCAvhstape The ISS is just clutter everywhere.
The Enterprise is a Navy Ship. So you would expect it to be clean and orderly. The Nostromo is a merchant ship and is expect to haul stuff and not look pretty.
_When I first saw Alien, the Nostromo looked like a cross between an air force bomber and a submarine._
One of Scott's inspirations for the interior of the Nostromo was the inside of the B-52 bomber from Kubrick's _Dr. Strangelove._ If you watch the bomber segments from the latter and then watch _Alien,_ the similarity is apparent.
I always loved that the set of Alien felt so realistic and not too far fetched. Like you could believe that we might have spacecraft that look like that someday. I never knew it’s because it was basically real aircraft parts.
Not just someday. Look up the cockpit of the space shuttle. It has a very similar feeling to the cockpit of the Nostromo.
It did help that the USA has such a sprawling military-industrial complex and all of that glorious discarded techno-junk, which can be re-used for lots of things.
Survival Research Laboratories (SRL) is another manifestation of this availability of high-tech waste.
@@dj1NM3 In an alternative timeline, Russia re-used its stockpiled military junk to make military sci-fi movies instead of invading Ukraine with it.
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@@pancakelens75 Why are you comments here? No one is going to see that if you want to share it other than the few super nerds and occasional random who get lost here.
"Why rely on a movie crew to design a chair, when you and just use a chair that was designed by a chair designer who has devoted their entire life to designing chairs." Wise words. Very wise.
Words of wisdom, Lloyd. Words of wisdom.
🫠AH! ...please allow me to answer that question for you...
Q: WHY rely on a MOVIE CREW to design a chair for you, when you can just use a chair that was designed by a chair designer etc...?
A: One word...
UNIONS!
I went to the Stanley Kubrick exhibition in London and one of the most interesting parts was explaining that when it came to designing the sets for both 2001 and A Clockwork Orange, Stanley reached out to already established furniture makers and sculptures
Kubrick uses misery to achieve greatness, the only way he knows how to direct
Although, you do have to be careful that you don't accidentally use something that is already a cliche in real life and pulls the audience out of the movie setting.
Along with the realness of the set design, I LOVE all the stickers and masking tape anywhere, with tags and notes. That's such a lovely realistic touch. Another one I never realized until I saw Alien in theaters, during a rerelease, was that in Mother's room *every single light* has a label beneath it, marking its function. That's an insane attention to detail.
What really amazes me is that we can still analyze and dissect and discuss this move all these years later and never get tired of it, Just shows what an incredible work of art it is.
Lots of switches and lights - but none of them labelled! This always makes me groan when I see this in movies.
As a side note - the switches and switch guard used to blow the Pod hatch in 2001 are actually some kind of a pressure interface from the ejector seat of a surplus Lightning fighter plane.
My favourite RAF Jet.
Like one big puzzle.
Love the analogue aesthetic, some of the best production design ever …..John Mollo did a great job on the uniforms too. I always wanted one of the emergency helmets!
The control deck of the Nostromo looked like a bigger version of the flight cabin of a commercial airliner circa 1970's. It was so easy to believe that a spaceship would genuinely look like that.
Alien was nominated for almost a dozen Oscars and walked out the door with special effects and art direction nods. That's a pretty strong pedigree. Yeah, having Trumbull on board would have polished up the external ship shots, but the interior work is what made the film and is still an industry icon of production design.
I like how your content bounces around from one movie to the next, while staying consistently great. Keep up the good work.
Going to see Alien & Aliens back to back at my local cinema on Wednesday! can't wait!!!!!
Many years ago I watched the some double feature in a movie theatre. Probably the coolest double feature you can think of. Whatever the size your telly has, this movies were made for the big screen. Enjoy!
@@telekommandantthank you! always grew up thinking how amazing it would have been to see these films in the cinema and now I can experience it! I think the music/sounds of the film will blow me away!
My local cinema is showing them as well in a month - $15 for a double feature is pretty good.
Love your work
the subtitles for this video are AWESOME! THANKS for the hard work!👍👍👍👍👍
The set still feels fresh decades years later. Very few sci-fi movies could achieve this: the original Star Wars, Space Odyssey, and that's pretty much it off the top of my head.
I vaguelly recall a film critic (Kermode??) describing the Nostromo as looking like a decommissioned channel ferry.
I’ve never been to your channel before, and I was so impressed with your research. I love everything Alien. Great video!
11:06 I was working in Yosemite National Park when they were filming a Wells Fargo ad. The scene being filmed was a stage coach passing by with El Capitan in the background.
The stage coach had a couple of actors dressed in attire typical of such a scene. The stage coach was a real stagecoach, but it was mounted on a flat bed truck trailer.
The director wanted more shaking on the stage coach so he asked a bunch of us spectators to climb on the trailer and help shake the stage coach.
We must have spent 2 hours driving that trailer back and forth and later when I saw the ad, the scene we were filming hardly lasted 2 seconds.
It was fun though.
Finally! The unsung star of the movie getting credit: The interiors. Vastly impressive at the time it just had the coolest look and made you think you were seeing inside a real ship. Thanks Tyler.
I've never got the impression it was an old bomber, the immersion was good enough to me that I didn't draw that connection after many watch throughs.
Big kudos for including citations and references. Seriously, gold standard content quality verification. 👏👏
That airplane junkyard really gets around. Alien, Blade Runner, and both Ghostbusters (ECTO-1's gear is derived from airplane junk).
i always watch your vids with my nightcap. can't wait!
Thanks for another excellent video.
I cannot state enough, thank you for citing your sources.
Really enjoying the ‘Alien’ vids! ❤❤
I'd say the helmet effect was spot-on. Seeing this as a kid, really creeped me out and until today, I couldn't have told you why. OUTSTANDING video!
This approach to functional set dressing makes me so happy. Especially Kubrick's comment about using real rubble; nothing annoys me more about movie and video games ruins than looking at a random pile of rocks and thinking; 'Ok but WHAT is this supposed to be a ruin OF?'
Great to see the set design process. Life-size kitbashing!
Wow! This is amazing! These are my favorite kinds of videos on RUclips. Great job! Fantastic Film!
Ridley had set crew behind the seats shaking them during the Nostromo's landing to simulate turbulance. He said the actors were getting a bit tired of it by the fourth take. Looks really authentic on screen though. Alien is an absolute stand-alone cult classic, everything after is just regular sci-fi to me.
great work tyler
Thanks for your awesome work Tyler. I’d love to see you do a video on The Thing 😅
Fascinating info, thank you! Frighteningly real!
Very well done! Looking forward to more
Outstanding presentation and breakdown! Great video.
Took me years to notice on the control panel on the Narcisus ,a bunch of empty model kits trees to add details to that console . :P
You can see them when there is a close-up of Ripley's fingers touching the buttons .
Great design, psychologically effective. A haunted house/industrial complex in space, familiar but full of dread.
Great episode on a great aspect of a brilliant movie!
Roger Christian's design work for Star Wars and Alien was what got him the job directing Battlefield Earth, though with much less success
Nice. I’m excited to watch this ! 🤗
“Necessity is the mother of innovation”
In first Alien movie character Ripley did not smoke mutch but in my opinion it also made actress Weaver more sexy in her acting role in mister Scotts Alien movie.
03:15 Anyone else hear the emergency sirens in the background? 😄 Great essay. Wish it was longer. 👍🏼
Let’s just say one of the busiest streets in NYC it right outside my window. 😉
Yeah - I loved this aspect. Feels very believable, almost truckers in space. Also the crew interactions are very normalised, not all Star Trek - its hard, dirty, difficult work that is a drag that the crew do to get paid.
Well… DS9 gets pretty gritty.
@@calvinnickel9995they did try. It’s about as gritty as Star Trek gets-not even Enterprise felt that gritty.
Also amongst the set dressing is Westland Widgeon helicopter in the cargo hold or maintenance area of the Nostromo.
My favorite is them using professional ice hockey gloves from the era as part of their space suits lol.
this movie was so good
My favorite character in that movie IS the ship. This movie and _Blade Runner_ are some of a handful that feel like that world actually exists, so much that I would enjoy a video game where exploration o such worlds is encouraged.
One of the greatest interior of a space ship
Hands down alien had the greatest sets and atmosphere
I went out five times before with another science officer-they replaced him two days before we left Thedus , with Ash-Captain Dallas to W.O. Ripley....
Thanks!
That's $39 million in today's money. You can't even pay for Craft Services with that on a modern set.
The mess area is the slickest set that and the flight deck.
That was AESOME!
Stay Frosty!
I didn't remember Sigourney Weaver having the big hair.
They should bring that back.
Damn. Usually whenever I see a cockpit on camera it usually is just cluttered with things that feel like doesn't have a purpose. HUDs everywhere, buttons and switches in seemingly random orders. It's as if they filled empty space with something to make it seem complex because it is.
2001 didn't have that. They did reuse graphics like the landing thing but it usually made sense. Alien was similar only that it seemed like it did so well that I didn't even think of it.
It's easy to watch this and feel resentful towards the evil movie producers complaining about time and money while the filmmaker is trying to work. I'm here to tell you: that pressure they create is just another part of a mysterious formula of events that SOMETIMES come together the right way to make a very special movie. No way to predict whats going to work until it works.
@CinemaTyler , I don't know if you check out video games. But would you consider checking out _Alien: Isolation._ Don't be put off by the fact that it's 10 years old. It still looks great today. Nearly all of the graphics and design was derived from the first Alien (1979) movie. Creative Assembly were even given resources from Fox with regard to set design, drawings, technical plans and allsorts to help with the design of the game. It would be great to hear your take on this amazing creative endeavour.
Best regards.
All that went straight out the window with Mother's interface room. It was a SKIF, so they should have kept it plain, get shut of all the blinkenlights.
' drinking plastic birds ' made of glass ! That of using perpetual motion and designed in the 1910's , though these from the late 60's
Ridley nailed it.
It's interesting how the designers managed to make it work by going through scraps and discarded equipment for the set. Also ironic since a high school in new jersey did practically the same thing with no budget after adapting the film script into a stage production. :)
The problem with the saturation of CGI & Green Screen in modern cinema today; is that acting (to be truly authentic) needs 'something' to react against. I would say that Alien worked and was the one sci film that drew you in to a truly believable world, because of that acting. Those actors were in a real believable space. To all intensive purposes, they were in a space ship. That is why Alien will last for generations, and none of it's immitators will (including the Cameron sequels and Prometheus).
Ron cobb was responsible for the interior and exterior design of the Nostromo. It was his countless drawings which became the template. A hallmark of his work is that everything must look functional and believable. I think he doesn't get enough credit here. But this is interesting nevertheless.
Excellent video.
2:42 fast forward to Avatar and Sigourney hacking butts lol.
Aliens Spaceships were so real unlike the Spaceships of Star Trek, People are messy and unpredictable on Ships for a long period of time and it would show on the flight deck and in other parts of the ship
Great video!
Now I have to see the movie again...
Hollywood used to do so much with so little. Now they do so little with so much.
13:03...another Star Wars connection? This looks like a room in Empire Strikes Back. It looks like Bespin where Han is being tortured because Vader wanted Luke to sense the peril his friends were in and take the bait.
It's looking like that because that was the tech of that age back when the movie was made, easy as that.
I came here because I'm hyped for Starfield. And the ships and tech look like this movie a bit.
I love the movie 😍
Imagine HOW MUCH even greater the movie would have looked if they had more money and time...
I always thought that the ship seemed like an old prototype version of the ship from Prometheus design wise
I think we should make a law prohibiting Fox from making Sci Fi anything. They always screw it up. Not enough budget, crappy time slots, running episodes out of order.
There's also a reason why, despite being set one hundred years in the future, the technology in these movies looks so outdated.
Accordingly to lore of Alien universe, a group of fanatics (kinda like Amish) used a sophisticated computer virus to cripple and destroy everything enough advanced to be a carrier for the virus itself.
In that way the whole market went down, stuff started to not working, spaceships remained disabled in space, air pumps stopped to give air to colonists on Mars and other colonies in Sol etc.
So to avoid again risks like these, all the governments and corporations in Alien universe decided to use analogic technology that can not be affected by this virus.
Cool.
I can’t wrap my head around why producers/stakeholders don’t try to understand what the artist ist doing and pressure them with uninformed questions about production speed. I can also see that happening in other industries. Plainly stupid and highly arrogant to me. Maybe you have to get arrogant to survive in business when you realize that you never put in the effort to learn how to bring value to the people and the world.
2:46 Is that why she smokes nonstop in Avatar? Is that some goofy character easter egg?
I think it turned out pretty good for a 'low budget' movie.
I remember sitting in the cinema marveling at how grubby the interior of the spaceship was. I nudged my girlfriend and said "Look at that coffee cup stain on the control panel!"
Nowadays it would be squeaky clean CGI and everything would be bright as hell
Five by five
This is the best alien sci-fi horror movie ever made... and after alien 3 directors and producers have done everything in their power to screw up this masterpiece… even Ridley Scott doesn’t understand what the Zenomorph is..! It was Dan O’Bannon from alien and his buddy that came up with HR Geiger and the lifecycle of the alien ridley Scott already said he’s not into the alien he likes the robots.. The alien is not a bug & it’s not an insect , it’s more like Jack the Ripper.. Alien three proved that the alien doesn’t just take on the physical characteristics of the host , It also takes on the mental instincts if not some of the genetic memories. This is why the alien from the first movie rapes Lambert to death instead of tearing her apart & stocks Ripley & just kills the men.. and one more major problem after alien three every single Director every single producer has given the alien the extra dog leg joint which it should not have if it’s born from a human just like in 1&2
To me it felt like a old ghost ship at sea.
The studio executives sound like such meddlers!
What music in background?
You should look into Event Horizon 1997
Except… it doesn’t feel like an old bomber at all.. unless you have absolutely no idea what an old bomber is like inside.
I always hate when spaceships have all this big rooms, just not feasible, oh those tight wades at fox just made a ton of star wars, and potential future ones, short sighted in seeing the potential long run of storyline,
That is the best part of the show but they never duplicated it in any of the following versions. It just never looked as good
I was a professional mariner for over 20 years. Some of the things I love so much about Alien, is that they got the dynamic between the engineers and officers so right in their dialog and actions. Especially when Ripley comes down to see what damage and how long for repairs. The set design and dressing seemed very real to me as well. Very few movies get these kinds of things right, but Alien does.
I haven’t been at it as long as you, but I love Alien for the exact same reason. Dallas, the young, cool Captain, Ripley, the confident upstart First Mate, Kane, the tenured and senile Second Mate, and Lambert, the nervous, green Third Mate. I love how comfortable they all seem with each other. Also, I love how Parker and Brett first ask Ripley about the bonus situation confidently, and bring it up to the Captain in the dining room carefully and quietly. Feels like a real blue collar crew, exactly what Dan O’Bannon was going for!
I have always enjoyed the dynamic among the crew for much the same reason, although my background is commercial aviation. Life and work aboard Nostromo lands pretty squarely in the overlap between those two fields, I would say, much more so than "truckers in space."
@@thomas1910 Great points. Someone sure knew what they were doing - Keen observers of working relationships between people stuck together for long periods in small spaces.
@@gilbertponder5307 I agree that "truckers in space" isn't totally accurate, but that is probably more relatable to more people. I would say "space freighters," but that's because I worked on freight ships. Either way, it makes me smile every time I see that dynamic playing out so familiarly on the screen.
I've also thought it was interesting how they had Ripley (correctly) trying to keep Dallas from bringing Kane back onto the ship by pulling rank as acting Captain, since Dallas was technically not onboard. That's also not something you often see, not unless the organizational rift is a central plot point, like movies about mutinies.
It's sort of gratifying to know that the Nostromo felt real because most of it was real stuff.
The sets for Alien are one of the most atmospheric that filmmakers ever did!
And then Scott did it again in 1982 with Blade Runner.
@@jblackjack exactly!
Pure perfection
Great video. It is hard to overstate what an impact the depictions crew life aboard Nostromo had on me as a teenager. I know that sounds rather silly, but to me it is just a testament to the work done by everyone on this film to bring forth something 'real' as the backdrop of the story, and the effect for me was "That's a job I can see myself enjoying" - minus the whole part about being slaughtered by an alien, of course.
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Pros: Great benefits and perks.
Cons: crew expendable