Why Does Ripley's Nose Bleed? - Explained
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- In Alien, Ripley's nose bleeds during her confrontation with Ash. Is this because of a deleted scene, or has it taken on other meanings within the series?
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I think the nose bleed was meant to be a subtle reminder that Ellen Ripley is human and vulnerable compared to the android.
Some of us get it.
Ripley's recurring nose bleeds are meant to be an omen, good omens at that..... ** _"If Ripley's nose bleeds, we can kill it!"_
An in universe explanation could be a stress bleed. I get them all the time, they suck.
Exactly. While a small, nearly insignificant detail, its most definitely a contrast between her and Ash.
@@WheezingCheetah sorry to hear, I'm a lucky git never had a nose bleed.
I always felt that the nose bleed in Alien 3 was more of a sign of the queen inside her having a damaging affect to her body.
I always thought that too. And also a consequence of Ripley's crash landing.
In the fourth movie her clone has red acitic blood
I always thought it was just the temperature from the lead works.
@@Dualbladedscorpion7737 i always thought it was from the barbell hitting her face. But its just a permanent nosebleed
@@Dualbladedscorpion7737 acidic, not acitic.
I just always put it down to a stress/trauma nosebleed.
It's unbelievable what extreme stress and anxiety can do to the body.
@@Yuurei21 I believe it.
Me to
It makes the most sense
I think so too. Imagine the stress!
Should ask the badass herself, long live Ripley the slayer of the xenomorphs
If you Google "Saint Ripley Our Lady of Survival", there's some pretty cool stuff...
She wouldn't be such a bad ass on Earth or planet with an atmosphere, she can only kill Aliens by sucking them out into space using airlocks or molten lead bath's.
Uhhh.....
@@TheIndulged1 The whole scene where Ripley descends into the alien hive in aliens shows she can kill aliens quite effectively with the flame thrower and pulse rifle
I always thought that in this scene, Ash did something to the air pressure in the area of the ship they were in, which caused the nose bleed and Ash's sweating. Ash, knowing he was an android, knew he could survive with low or no air where Ripley would have difficulty if she chose to get in a physical conflict. That was always my theory anyway.
I always thought it was stress related
To paraphrase a famous line from the great film, Repoman, "Sometimes noses just bleed. Natural causes." :D
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Man, a theater in my city played the original Alien in 4K last week, it was an amazing experience
KlarWieApollinaris:- That sounds terrific , I've waited 20 years for my kids to be old enough to view the one and only 'horror' film that drew me in when I first saw it. I watched my audience's reaction more than the film; the acting/storyline/effects all reminded me that the original Alien film has the power to shock a first time viewer. I wish my local cinema did the same as yours.
I’d like to know how the crew recovered Kane’s body without causing any of the other eggs to hatch?
Maybe they did some sort of grappling cable
That One Boi But they’d still have to attach it to his body.
Adam Blaize not if it was like a claw machine
He still had the cable attached to him. They would just have to wind him back up to them.
They pulled him up by his cable to which he was still attached, Lambert mentions it in a deleted scene.
This would be a great AMA question to ask Sigourney Weaver
Or you could listen to the commentary track on the DVD where these subtleties are explained.
Here in Japan, people getting nosebleeds when seeing others naked or some other stressful happening is a bit of a trope. I thought it was a superstition until one day I got out of the shower to find my Japanese girlfriend had called her female friend over to tea without me knowing. The visitor got a nosebleed from seeing her first hairy foreign body (mine), so the Ripley scene isn't so far-fetched. More significantly, horror movies from the late 70s and early 80s like Alien and The Thing have all these little throwaway touches that give them depth and verisimilitude. Go watch Rob Ager's analysis of the sabotaged blood bank in The Thing, and how the audio cue of the dropping of a set of keys sets this up almost subconsciously in the viewer.
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No one:
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I never really though much about this. It seemed more like a natural occurrence during the film due to injuries that Ripley has suffered. But now that you mention it, there could be a deeper meaning attributed to them that works better with the plot of each film. By that logic, if Ripley ever returns in another film, maybe they should make that a part of it.
Alien 1 - Explainable with the Deleted Scene / Novelization.
Aliens - Having fought, the fall + airlock.
Alien 3 - Can be associated through a connection to the Alien through the Alien Queen. Or just symbolism.
Alien 4 - Duh.
I've always wondered about that. Her nose starts bleeds in Alien 3 right as Hicks and Newt are going into the furnace. 🤔
Foreshadowing,. The Queen's Connection to the dog's Xenomorph that will Guard her...
She had a alien in her chest..thats why she bled
The bleeding was do to lice in alien 3. Ive read the book 😉
I always put it down to a side effect of the eev crash
I never gave in any thought. Just one more layer to a highly realistic film. This is why old films are always better. It's the level of detail from real craftsmen who worked unhindered by business administrators. They could construct a vision in their minds without having a committee meeting over every detail. Also practical effects always have more weight, literally and emotionally.
totally agree, old movies had visionaries, new movies have just cheap CGI (that in my opinion has killed the art of doing movies) and employees.
in alien 3 i though it was a side effect of having the queen in her
I thought it was the massive head trauma she sustained on impact
I figured it was symbolic of facing mortality and fragility of survival.
Another explanation. Did too much blow with Dallas.
I fucking love blow
Brett defo sold them the blow. Right
I think that even if it is a carryover from a former scene, it was left in to highlight just how mentally destructive the news she just got from mother was
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Another thing about the character of Ripley is the amount of time passed between the first three movies from her perspective. I would guess the total time lapse is less than six months from her perspective although actual story time was over 57 years. Not known how long it was since the hearing about the Nostromo destruction and accepting the offer to accompany the team to Acheron but more than a month for certain since she told Burke she already had her psyche evaluation that month. Just mention it because funny how years went by making the movies but character perspective so little time had passed yet Weaver managed to pull it off by not appearing to have aged hardly at all with accrued time to make the movies.......
When I was a child I suffered from nose bleeds and had to have my blood vessels in my nose cauterised.
I think just to make sure we know shes not an android unlike Ash. Later they used it as a reoccuring theme and in A R it comes to a full circle as u mentioned too.
Interesting catch, I've never actually taken note of the nose bleed myself in all the times i've seen these films
I didn't notice this before, but I'd guess it got hurt when Ash threw her around.
It is quite common for stress and (in Asian culture) heaty body (热气) possible from lack of water to cause nosebleed. I remember my piano teacher having this on almost a severe level. She always attribute it to stress and lack of water and too much oily food, she is ok btw. I also witness people doing strenuous physical work without rest or sports especially one of my female classmates after PE to have nosebleed, its rare but does happen. So that is what I thought Ripley was having - too much stress, couple with her running up and down without rest nor drink caused her to nosebleed without injury. Really love those details in Alien.
I know this is kind of literal but I've had nose bleed problems from allergies and other things but my high blood pressure would be the worst and she is in highly stressful situations really enjoy the chanel didn't even realize I wasn't subscribed I just watch it that much
You could simply ask Mr Scott the reason.
She was thinking of something hentai. That's why Ripley's nose is bleeding😂
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I always thought it was a pressure thing, something to do with the closed doors but Now that i know about a deleted scene that makes sense too.
She's secretly an anime character.
I always thought it was to imply she maybe be a carrier of a Xenomorph... Perhaps a Queen...
...But not actually have one spawned.
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in ancient eastern traditions, development f psychic powers is accompanied by a nose bleed. we know Ridley Scott used ancient indian and easter symbolism throughout the movie. this might be one of those as well.
It does seem that Ripley's nose bleeds after an emotionally traumatic experience
I think the nose bleeds might just be symbolic and not have anything to do with actual plot points in the movie itself. The idea that nose bleeds are a signal of some sort of primal "connectedness" with another person/entity is an interesting one though.
And there's precedent for that in other works of science fiction. For instance, in the 1984 film adaptation of Dune, Paul Muad'Dib drinks the water of life and goes through the spice agony ritual. As this happens, we see his nose start to bleed. Then the scene cuts away to show Paul's mother, sister, and the Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, all located far away from Paul at the time ... and they all develop nose bleeds simultaneously. I can't remember if that's ever specifically mentioned in the original Dune novel or not, but just strictly from a film director's perspective it's a fascinating, visceral, and even mildly disturbing way of symbolically conveying the idea that all four of these people are now connected to each other in a way that is metaphysical and beyond our ability to rationally comprehend.
I know that obviously the Alien cinematic universe is very different from the Dune universe, but I like the idea that nose bleeds seem to have this vaguely agreed upon meaning to them, across multiple unrelated sci-fi films.
I think that's pretty cool, if you ask me.
If you have ever experienced an extreme adrenalin dump causing your blood pressure to spike you might have experienced this... I have in the past when I thought was going to die in an extreme situation and my body felt like it took over my brain 😐
Special order 937, the area code for Dayton is what? 9-3-7!
You have FANTASTIC voice!!! Great effect on the narration! Can I please get the name of the music track from your deeply thoughtful movie "Does Brett morph into an Alien egg?" Please! I would like to use it for my writing sessions!
I'm very sorry I don't have the files near me right now but off the top of my head it might be called called "Hydra" by Huma Huma...? It's in RUclips's attribution-free library! :)
Stress can produce Nose Bleeding. Riplay had a Child and maybe her breakdown for realising maybe not getting home alive causes extrem Stress. Also that is maybe the explanation that Riply didn´t hear Ash.
It looks like she smacks her face against Ash's head when she pushes him against the wall 😂
Result of filming scene where Ash attacks Ripley before the scrapped airlock sequence and not enough time/money for a reshoot. More important question: Why is Ash "bleeding"? Is throwing him against the wall enough to damage him?
7 billion people on this planet someone had to make this. These are wild times we live in.
Alice Cooper put it best. "Only women bleed". Pretty sure he was talking about nose bleeds and Ripley's sinuses with that line. :-D
For within each seed, there is the promise of a flower. And within each death, no matter how big or small, there's always a new life. A new beginning...and a new nose bleed.
I honestly never wondered why until i saw this video.
I get nose bleeds when I inhale pollen from the trees
Just watched Alien 3 again and yeah I did wonder about the nosebleed there!
The Alien 3 nosebleed happens at the exact moment the dog/ox alien is born. I always thought it implied that there was some unconscious psychic link between Ripley and the alien.
Didn't you already cover this in the deleted airlock sequence video?
Ripley is most likely prominent to nose bleeds. Or it could be a side effect of the long term of being in cryo. But it can just be as simple as when she gets so pissed off and upset her body is just reacting to all the stress and angry in that way. But who knows it's just one big alien theory lol
I'm pretty sure it was supposed to be a point of reference for when Ash has his white fluid trickling down his head.
Basically visually confirming that Ripley is human and Ash is not.
Always pondered this!
Can you do a post about the Derelict space craft, what are those large openings where the crew climbs up into. Or can someone explains it to me in the comments?
We NEED Neill Blomkamp's Alien 3, NOW!!
damn , its time to watch it again
Maybe Ripley is actually 11 from Stranger Things, only in the future and having lost almost all her powers..only she still tries out of habit and the nose still bleeds.
One of the scene inconsistencies that bother me if I let it is how Ash suddenly looms over Ripley's shoulder. Shocking and disturbing but if you apply thought to it, it doesn't make sense. After all the effort it takes to get into that room -- only the designated officer can get in after a huge amount of hoop jumping -- flipping switches, shuffling data cards, pulling levers -- the door opens with a whoosh and you get a flutter of audio activity as things come alive. There's no way for Ash to have sneaked in there without her noticing.
Secondly more than the nose bleed, I've always been curious about the very obvious bruise on her cheek during the tense earlier meeting after Dallas' encounter with the Alien. Ripley assumes command and starts deciding procedures from there. The light on her face captures a raised bruise on her cheek that doesn't seem to have explanation either and I've always been curious about it because all attention is on her, specifically her face, and the bruise is inescapable.
Because Lambert broke something in her nose when she slapped her.🤚👃
But that was during the first half of the movie when they brought Kane in, well if it wasnt a deleted scene
What about special order 66?
'Why does Ripleys' nose bleed'? A gentleman doesn't discuss such things in public.
Make vid abaut xenomorph can regenerate limbs
was ripley already carrying an alien embryo from the beginning and the time spent in the sleep chamber slowed the hatching process?
TheJeremyevans *gestation* process
I actually never really noticed and I know she had a nosebleed, but I just went with it and didn’t really get into it
Nose bleeds ought to continue. Continuity is key.
Never really noticed the nose bleeds pretty cool actually, always thought the noise bleed in three was because the xeno queen in her chest if I recall it is a symptom of it.
It's a mandela effect. Her nose didn't bleed in the 1979 release.
Your voice sounds familiar. Maybe you have a channel that expounds on Dune and GoT?
I got so many nosebleeds in school just seem normal to me
because she thinks of alien sama ^.^
I used to get nose bleeds.... just thought it was a thing that happened....
OMG...I never noticed that in all 4 she has nose bleeds
I think it was to show the difference between ash and Ripley, Ash's fluid leaking in contrast to Ripley's bloody nose shows a clear difference between them.
this was already discussed way back in the early 80's, she was thrown around during scenes by the actor playing ash, she got hurt, and she had multiple takes for other scenes. her wounds just carried over into different final takes that were chosen for the final scenes in the film. there is no other meaning about it. grow the hell up people. lol
Geez... way to overthink it.
If you've seen other Sigourney flicks you'll see that it happens quite often. She is prone to nosebleeds when she gets overexcited, which is what happened in the scene when she attacks Ash in the first Alien movie. The same thing happens to a friend of mine when he gets overwhelmed or his temperature gets too hot. It's a common thing that happens to a lot of people.
It might be Biblical: the life of the flesh is in the blood. A consistent reminder of the three distinct beings having differing values towards life. One red: passionately human. One white: indifferent android. One yellow/green: acidic alien.
Ripley got her nosebleed in a deleted scene
Because she's actually an older Eleven from Stranger Things.
Either that or she's really an old anime pervert and a young blue haired girl accidentally flashed her V.
Yes include
Start again after 3
She must of been on the bash
More interesting: Why is her nose bleeding in Alien 3?
As you allude to early on, I always thought in Alien, it was something coincidental that was left in. Something else strange and somewhat morbid the audience is left to reckon for themselves.
Stress?
Personally, I think I have a similar personality as both Ellen and Amanda
It’s to show the difference between the two. It shows that ash is far from human.
Personal theory: Ripley's nose bleeds are sexual in nature. They are a reminder that the character, no matter how imposing and strong, is still a female. It represents fertility, vulnerability, maternity, and maturity. The scene in Alien with Ash is highly sexual. The white "blood" drips down from his "head" and Ripley's blood drips from an orifice. The juxtaposition of these two scenes is a very subtle, but very suggestive.
Yes, let there be blood. (Only one Ripley drop will do, please.)
Ripley, aka Sigourney Weaver is of course a Badass, and anyone who wants to knock her off her throne, good frickin luck! Like, Mary Sue Rae against Ripley??? Please!!!!!! The problem with the Alien Franchise is it decided to blow off Sigourney Weaver's legacy and continuity of time with the Weyland Corp. Folks, and just go insane over the barfazoid David, highly unlikely years younger thank God Weyland of yesterday times a thousand or whatever, and think anyone cared one ounce about the Engineers (oooh so cool so perfect so our Creators so killed one of the weylands for being a narcissistic ass, oooooohhh but then killed David oooohhhhhhh)
B.a.r.f.
It’s because she was smelling the shit that everything after Alien 3 would become…
I think it represents Ripley's vulnerability compared to the alien.
I believe extreme stress can make a person's nose bleed.
She is 11
That's IF they ( Disney ) decides to continue the story, but don't bet on ( the mouse ) doing anything THAT smart ... Ha ha !!
That wouldn't happen if she kept her finger out of there.
Ripley"s Bleeding Or Not.
Questions I didn't know I needed answers to.
@Randy Gonzalez alien theory?
My question has always been, how did Ash get into that tiny room without Ripley hearing the door open?
She was probably so overehelmed by the revelation of the mission's true objective that she didn't notice. Or, she did hear him enter and with her suspicions finally confirmed just didn't care anymore.
@@skylx0812 Unless he crawled through the air ducts like the Alien, she'd had to have heard the door open. It's a high security code lock door, also. Unless Ash has a sonic screwdriver.
Loud, old, hard disks.
@@hicknopunk Ripley, I just do what the company says....like installing those goddamned loud Wang computers and giant size floppy drives.
Au H2O the machine can step lightly and sneak better then any human. It knows the art of SNEAKING none better. A human would no doubt breath too much and cause noise. When Ash snuck up on her that way we knew we was not right prior to the White blood
I don't think making a fifth movie will be a good idea....
But they can make a movie based on Alien Isolation...
Cold Forge!
@@ashtonhartley2662 You mean that short movie?
@@SkyFly19853 I heard it's a new Alien book😀
@@ashtonhartley2662 Oh, I see... that sounds interesting... I think they can also make movies based on books...
But I hope they make a movie of Alien Isolation...
I bet it would be awesome...
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Incorrect. Neils vision now please.
It was the directors choice to show the obvious difference between human vs. android .
Later , Ash judges humanity for its hypocracy while admiring the Alien .
Yes, precisely.
What's hypocracy ?
“I admire it’s purity. A survivor: unclouded by conscious, remorse, or delusions of morality”
I used to suffer nosebleeds quite a lot as a child and some of them were as a result of anxiety or fear. People do suffer from this, so its possible that Ripley's nose started bleeding due to the stress and terror she was experiencing!
I wonder how many of us connected the nose bleeds? I never thought of it but it is a nice touch.