Quentin Tarantino on Alien
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- Quentin Tarantino discusses Ridley Scott's 1979 masterpiece Alien, including the early involvement of Walter Hill and Robert Aldrich.
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What made Alien work so well is that you pretty much don't see the Adult alien at all until almost the end. The malevolent darkness pervading the ship lets the imagination run riot, that and the growing sense of panic amongst the crew. It really is a perfect horror film and builds suspense marvellously.
Not only that, but the alien (xenemorph) is absolutely terrifying and more than holds up still. The space jockey reveal still gives me goose bumps.
What's wild is that when Ripley gets into the shuttle during the finale of Alien, you can see the xenomorph in plain sight in almost all of the shots, but it blends so well into the architecture of the shuttle you don't notice it. Even though I know where to spot it, it still shocks me how I can sometimes still miss it.
A perfect horror film, and a perfect science-fiction.
Also, no CGI... Looks more realistic to me
Yeah, we know.
Alien is a truly perfect film. Nearly 50 years old and STILL holds up on all levels
The perfect film. Ita structural perfection is matched only by its craftsmanship
Just rewatched it after nearly a decade. Smoked a joint and tried to forget everything I knew about the franchise and watch it for the “first time” again. It truly is perfect. The way it unravels and escalates and leaves the audience doubtful that anyone is going to survive this as the leading men keep getting killed off. A true masterpiece.
It was close to perfect... but studios just milked it and milked it until we ended up with a six-part pile of extraterrestrial excrement. Greed is the enemy of art.
@@glenmale1748 Meh, I feel you can separate films from a series quite easily. Nobody here's considering the sequels. I recommend trying it. I also do it with the Matrix, which I'm also convinced is an absolutely perfect standalone movie brought down by the sequels.
That said, Aliens is great, and I've a soft spot for Alien 3 which I also think is better than people give it credit for. Romulus is genuinely very good, too.
Alien 3 Assembly Cut is fantastic, only slightly let down by some CGI.
Tarantino: “Alien? Classic. Five out of five toes.”
Ha!!!
lol
Wow a Tarantino foot joke, brilliant
should of said 'six out of six' 'cause of the xenomorph fingers
It’s my sole foot joke, I swear.
Tarantino could narrate his grocery shopping for an hour and I'd still be fully invested in everything he says.
But do you know what a shaved orangutan looks like?
I don't.
But I bet it would be freaky!
Do you have any idea what a shaved orange would look like !?!
I don't know... Because I'm not a freak. I peel oranges like a normal person.
the NEW Alien: Romulus ,saw the Pre-show is really damn good , Loved it & i knew it great people behind this new one 🤘👍🙌
tarantino sucks
Nah he rambles too much.... most of the time he's correct.
Tarantino should have his own 2hours podcast weekly just talking about movies
... he does.
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Tarentino ia complete Douche, he is taped on Stern calling Polanski's victim a party girl.
MAYBE POLANSKI SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE ADULT IN THE ROOM WITH THE 13 YEAR OLD. SORRY THE HOT TUB, WHERE HE PLIED HER WITH QUALUDES.
THANKS HOLLYWOOD, OH AND THIS WAS AT JACK NICHOLSON'S HOUSE.
@@DaCarnival he does? holy f...
Would he make more than ten episodes?
Man, seeing those clips shows how superior practical effects from 40 years ago are to most CGI from today. Everything looks so much more realistic.
@angelsjoker8190 the human eye can discern it's CGI and not real. I think this is why you say it's "more realistic"
The xenomorph looks and feels like a living breathing thing, every thing today looks like an expensive cartoon
Romulus literally looks better LMFAO your argument is baffling when we have a way better looking alien movie that JUST came out you make yourself seem like an idiot
@@alanhoffar7770 Yep. Look at The Lord of the Rings trilogy with the Orcs played by life actors with silicone masks being f*ing believably scary vs The Hobbit where the Orcs were computer generated.
I'm old school, I love practical effects. CGI will never take it's place. Now at the CGI of Romulus, it was amazing at the end
I like how Tarantino gives us more info about the production than any of the making of docs I've seen
That's probably because you don't really watch the good ones.
All of this information is on Wikipedia. Tarantino’s got lots of the timeline wrong too
There's one on RUclips that actually tells you who some of the directors who turned it down were.
Check out memory: the origins of alien.
There are some great documentaries and they include these stories. I would stake Kamala Harris' open borders on it!
Alien finished filming in October of 1978, Empire Strikes Back began shooting in March 1979.
Yeah, Tarantino is passionate, but not perfectly accurate about stuff. You can't understand his oeuvre without understanding his swag comes before facts.
He also doesn't mention how alot of the people involved came out of the failure of Jodorowsky's Dune.
That what I thought. I was like, huh?
Thank you. I thought, huh?
@@barryschwarz he talks a lot about movies. He's bound to get a detail wrong once in a while.
19 years old, I was accidentally in Copenhagen, and walked by a cinema which had just premiered Alien "In space no one can hear you scream". Only knowing that it apparently was some kind of space horror movie, a friend of mine and I walked in. The rest is history.
The movie completely blew me away, and sparked a life long interest in movies. Thanks Ridley.
I wish Tarantino would get weird and give us a sci-fi horror of some kind. I think it would be gold!!
He's said he wants to do sci-fi. That's why he hired Mark L. Smith (The Revenant) to write a Star Trek script for him to direct. Still boggles my mind that Paramount turned it down.
It would be the greatest sci-fi ever
If you pick up a copy of the July, 1939 issue of "Astounding" magazine, it contains a short story by A. E. Van Vogt titled "Black Destroyer" where a spacecraft lands on an isolated planet and an almost supernatural killing animal gets aboard and starts killing every crew member. The creature is the last survivor of a predator species that has pretty much wiped out its primary food source. The parallels with "Alien" are very apparent. (That issue of "Astounding" also included Isaac Asimov's first story "Treads." The next issue included Robert E. Heinlein's first story, "Life-Lines," and the next issue Theodore Sturgeon's story "Ether Breather." This run of classic science fiction "first stories" by some of the most iconic writers of the genre is sometimes described as the beginning to science fiction's "Golden Age.")
This comment is way too intelligent for this comments section. We're here to talk about shaving orangutans bro...
It's been said that ALIENS borrowed from (RIPPED OFF) as many sources as STAR WARS. I'm sure that's true! As always, it's how you do it that counts.
@@henrykujawa4427not everything is “ripped off”. This is the problem now and the reason why we don’t have any good stand alone sci-fi. Everyone sees similarities and starts screaming about rip-offs and as a result, EVERY new sci-fi story now has to be set in the Star Wars or Marvel universe so the average person isn’t confused.
It’s sad.
The Creator was a love letter to science fiction novels and films but a lot of people just see a “rip off”. Inspiration is allowed.
It is the Ixtl creature in the “Discord in Scarlet” story which is similar to the Xenomorph from Alien. So similar that Van Vogt sued 20th Century Fox, and got an out of court settlement. The Black Destroyer creature was the inspiration for the Displacer Beast in Dungeons & Dragons. I have no idea why Van Vogt failed to sue Gary Gygax over that one.
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The way Ridley shot the creature was fabulous. All lighting and angles.
Just out of curiosity I googled "Shaved Orangutan". I ended up finding a news article with the headline: "Orangutan was shaved, made to wear jewellery and used as a prostitute"
bruh wtf !!!!! no for real wtfff , I thought i heard it all, but the internet wins again
But enough about MTG lolololol
I read that whole article. And that... was the most disturbing thing I've read in years. People actually do that?!
@@clinteastwood14896 People have done worse. Man died tried to have sex with a male horse in 2005.
I suppose it shouldn't be too surprising, Homo Sapiens are an Amalgamation from interspecies sex. Our ancestors mated with at least 3 Hominid species and 4th has been found more recently that we suspect is part of our gene pool. And those species in turn were likely doing the same.
And now has a lawsuit against Donald Trump for not paying the promised hush money.
My Mom was pregnant with me at the time. My parents saw this movie in the theaters and it freaked her out so much she was shocked she didn't go into labor.
Did you burst out of her chest or choose the more traditional exit point?
@@Wagoo The exit point lol
And some months later you were born.... What do you usually eat?
Why on earth would you not have the rest of this interview? It just got to the good part !!!!!
I know! I was on the vinegar strokes bruh!
I'm not even the hugest Quentin Tarantino fan, but I would love if he did a show talking about movies because he's got a lot of good stories and other knowledge about the film industry that I've never heard before and I think a lot of people would be interested in.
If you like to hear Tarantino talking about movies, check out his book Cinema Speculation. He writes about all the movies he watched growing up that were influential to him. It’s a great read, I highly recommend it!
Its called 'video archives podcast with QT and Robert Avery'
It should be called ‘A Grain of Salt’ because as in this clip he plays loose with facts in favour of a good story.
He gets information wrong though
The enthusiasm Tarantino has talking about ‘Alien’ here sorta makes me wonder how he’d direct a sci-fi movie 💭
Also a horror.
@@swapnilrana2206 badly...he would directed it badly. Everyone knows their lane he's done lot of movies he could've done one by now. He knows its not skill set. He's good at creating the fast talking, slick, witty, cool protagonist stuff
@@chrismoiser6477 Depends on your definition of scary. He's the master of tense scenes, especially in Inglorious Bastards.
As if every film he's ever done isn't fictional enough.....
Dude, Walter Hill doesn't get enough props. Dudes a titan.
Legit, he is a titan and does not get enough respect or mentions these days.
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Has directed or produced or been involved with so many great movies, I like to say he makes movies for guys who love movies! So low key you never hear about him
Streets of Fire for life!!!!
Tarantino has sung his praises for Walter Hill many a time.
Quentin is an encyclopedia of film. I heard RZA from Wu Tang saying that he was telling Quentin about all the rare Kung Fu movies he had trying to impress him. Quentin answered back by saying he had the first cuts and the original film reels from the movies he was talking about ,and then Quentin went on for the rest of the night talking about his collection which RZA got to see . Rza thought he had a really good rare collection but said his was nothing compared to what Quentin had. Brilliant. 🙏
It's getting more and more difficult to believe stories you hear or read online, mainly because it is so much easier to verify things online. His one big error here is when he said the set / studio for Alien was basically set up already because The Empire Strikes Back had just finished filming. The problem is that Alien finished filming in 1978, and The Empire Strikes Back started filming in 1979. That's a little more than forgetting a date, that's getting the story wrong. Or it is embellishing his story.
Thank you for editing out Eli Roth.
Is he like, really obnoxious or something? Ngl seeing the source I was about to go check out the podcast this came from but if he's that unbearable i won't waste my time lmfao
@@genodianhe's alright. Much like Tarentino, he's a huge movie geek and really loves this stuff.
I mean, he sucks shit for other reasons but in isolation, he's fine.
@@aerthreepwood8021he cant direct for shit, thats for sure.
@@genodianHe's fine on it, check it out.
Actually, it seems Tarantino wasn't aware of this, but the art for Alien wasn't just Giger's art, but it was his art for the epic space opera that never came to be; Jodorowsky's DUNE.
Really?! Jodorowsky's Dune might be one of the greatest movies never made...
@@MitchellPorter2025yeah bro, actually that sounds liek a pretty good title too…
@@MitchellPorter2025 Yep, a lot of the conceptual art was an adaptation of concept art for Geidi Prime (the Harkonnen homeworld). O'Bannon had worked alongside Giger on that project, and was the one who suggested Giger to Ridley Scott.
Jean “Moebius” Giraud created concept art for both DUNE and ALIEN too (and later worked on some Jordorowsky graphic novels). He left ALIEN because he felt he wasn’t getting enough pay. Moebius’ spacesuit design was fortunately used in the movie.
The derelict space craft was partially based on Giger's designs for Dune, but the design for the Alien itself was from an unrelated work (Necronom IV) that he had published three years prior
This channel should be called “Tarantino on…”
Tarantino tends to talk way more in-depth about movies than most creators. It's no surprise that the majority of this channel's content is him.. If there was more actual interesting material from other filmmakers then I'm sure they'd be featured more often.
@@bagggers9796 exactly plus his take is always interesting
@@bagggers9796 Tarantino tends to talk way more
But what about james and his bake sale?
"And Sometimes Bill Burr"
This helps me understand why Prometheus was so different from Alien (1979). Ridley Scott directed Alien but he had nothing to do with its story concept or writing; he was a hired hand who got the job because other directors turned it down. But both Prometheus and Covenant were Ridley Scott projects from the beginning, and he used them to to explore his favorite existential themes that he takes up in his other films like Kingdom of Heaven, Noah, and Exodus: Gods and Kings. Ellen Ripley was just a woman trapped on a ship with a monster trying to kill her. But both Elizabeth Shaw and David are on religious quests to find out the purpose of existence. Unfortunately this shift in tone ruined the Alien franchise, I think. It moved the franchise away from the horror genre and closer to dark epics. I know Scott is good with epics but he should have kept this franchise strictly as a horror series. I think he understands that now. That's why he passed the baton to a new director who returned the franchise to its horror root in Alien Romulus.
H.R Giger made Alien weird and cool
*Alien made H.R. Giger weird and cool
And Tarantino pronounced Giger wrong, Sigouney never did.
@@volvos70t51 Tarantinto only understands Murican culture and has trouble acknowledging actual artists.
it is weird that is why love it, same reason that i love dumb ppl
Recognizing Alien's potential even without Giger's aesthetics is just amazing. Also at the time being described they haven't added an android yet either. They really had the eyes.
After it became a hit, they all declared themselves worthy of having seen the potential.
Don't believe a word of it.
That's why they tried to inhibit Scott.
giger was like the final piece that made it all work. honestly it kind of makes a ton of sense because everything was locked and loaded for ripley to hit it out of the park.
Also people keep calling him "Guy-Gur"which is so weird xD
@@catalinamelo9932 How is it pronounced???
@@peterkent5153 Gee-gur not Guy-Gur
O'Bannon and Shusett didn't write "Alien" for Corman: they simply sent the script to his studio because they were knocking on all the doors they could knock on and, at some point, they almost signed on with him.
Tarantino has a lot of his facts completely wrong. E.g., it was Scott who hired Weaver and turned Ripley from a male to a female character.
Additionally, the director of Empire Strikes Back visited Yaphet Kotto on the set of Alien to offer him the part of Lando!! So, Quentin was wrong in that Pinewood had already been utilized for that movie.
@doscojones6404 in the script, it had a line early on saying, "any of these characters could be played by men or women".
They didn’t write it specifically for Corman, like Corman didn’t go to them and ask for a sci-fi movie, but they were likely writing it in mind to be made with Corman. Alien is very much a play on AIP movies Corman put out in the 60s like Queen of Blood and Planet of the Vampires.
QT has brains, but he has passion more than anything else. Please let The Movie Critic or whatever the hell that final movie from him is going to be, send him out with a bang. I don’t want to remember his work as long-winded, bloated and pointless because RD, PF and JB still hold up.
Best interview ever. Please give the full version.
Top ten greatest films. Still looks beautiful & devastating.
"Shave an Orangutang?" Imaging showing up to work, being handed a pack of disposable razors, a can of shave cream, and being told to go shave an orangutang. That worthy of a Brett-level "Wait...whut?"
You mean "right, right..." 😉
I live in Manhattan Beach where he worked at Video Archives. I walked in and asked him about movies. He knew we everything about films. Simply an incredible person.
“Hello Mr. Aldrich. You have a call from someone named P.E.T.A. on line 2.” ☎️😂
and from "Planet of the Apes" on line 3. 😁
"Made Ripley a female" best move ever, Sorry "bloke in mind" but Sigourney smashed it ♥
Sigourney was a perfect casting fo Ripley idk who could’ve done it better tbh
As far as I know, the original script didn’t specify the gender of any of the crew members
@@CharlieQuartzCorrect. They hadn’t fleshed out the characters, and decided they would refer to each other by their last names, and never wrote first names or genders for any of them.
Hill and Giler got the script because Giler and O'Bannon had a mutual friend named Mark Haggard. Haggard read the script when visiting O'Bannon one day and begged Shusett and O'Bannon to hold off on signing with Corman because he thought he could get it better backing. Gordon Carrol--Hill's partner at Brandywine--was sitting in the office when Haggard came by with the script to show them. Carrol read it first and then told Giler to read it.
Giler, Hill, and Carrol rewrote it repeatedly and made it worse, but they did add the android spy and the corporate evil angle to it. And this was in 1976 probably because O'Bannon mentioned that the script didn't get much traction at Fox until STAR WARS hit it big. After that, ALIEN was the only major sci-fi script with any development that they had, so they had to have had it processed before STAR WARS came out, which was summer of '77.
O'Bannon later commented on how he hated that Walter Hill added the "evil corporation" political messaging. O'Bannon said that wasn't his intent.
@@batman.darthmaul Ron Shusett, however, feels differently. Weyland-Yutani is one of the all-time great Faceless Evils of human creativity.
@@Theomite I enjoy that angle myself and I think it organically fits alongside the other themes, but at the same time I understand O'Bannon's resentment at someone just stepping in and changing his intentions.
BTW, Alien was filmed between July 5th and October 21st 1978 so the period Quentin is talking about was literally right after Star Wars (May/June 1977) hit it big. It took that long to get the script nailed down, and find the director and the cast.
It’s my favourite film of all time. The world Ridley and designers created, the acting, the pacing and the rhythm of the thing… Impeccable.
My only complaint is that Ridley should have used the original pieces Goldsmith composed for the end crawl and the vent sequence.
He should have fixed that awful cut from real Ash head to fake Ash head too. All it needs is a quick 2 second insert of one of the other characters so the transition isn't so damned jarring.
The 4k transfer is the most impressive piece of physical media I own. Showed it to my 14 year old and he was blown away.
"Do you know what an orangutan without hair would look like?!"
Looks like I'm about to find out
The cast and the surroundings were BELIEVABLE.
Dan O’Banaon , the original writer of the script that apparently sucked, knew Geiger from his work on Jadowarski’s Dune. It was he that brought on Geiger.O’ Banon previously co-wrote John Caroenter’s great sci- fi comedy Dark Star. Give him his due.
Well it’s not entirely that simple that O’Bannon ‘brought on Giger’. He brought Giger’s book to Ridley Scott. Scott thumbed through it and found Necronom IV, which is essentially what’s now known as the grown Big Chap, given changes here or there. It was then Scott who convinced Giger to work on the movie and sold him and his concepts to the others.
@@tracyb64true. I just didn’t want to get too far into the weeds. I just hate that everyone dumps on O’Banon. I’m a fan of Dark Star.
@@b0tterman "Sgt. Pinback, it's time to feed the alien." "Aww, WHY DO I have to do it?"
@@henrykujawa4427 LOL
O'Bannon also wrote and directed the wonderfully cheesy Return of the Living Dead.
All elements of this movie were spectacular but let's not forget Jerry Goldsmiths incredible score . He also won the Academy Award for The Omen.
"It's a gorilla in a Haunted House movie, in space" -Pauline Kael
I don't even see this as a negative like she intended. Cult classics like The Gorilla (1939) and earlier ones that set the standard like The Monster (1925), The Bat (1926), The Old Dark House (1932), and later House On Haunted Hill (1959) are all great films with a similar concept. By her logic, putting a sci-fi spin on this sounds fantastic to me. Though I do know that Dan O'Bannon was inspired by the sci-fi cult film It! The Terror From Beyond Space (1958) and Ridley was partly inspired by The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974). At the end of the day, "Haunted House with Monster" movies are alright with me, outer space or otherwise. Alien is a masterpiece.
Yep the only thing actually new about it was Giger's aesthetic. But boy oh boy...
Even after 2001: A Space Odyssey and Star Wars, Alien most profoundly proved how the darker areas of SF films set in the space age could make even stronger headway.
Jack Gold directed The Medusa Touch: an underrated gem.
What makes Alien scarey is the horror you dont see. Thats how to make the audience scared. You had people leaving the Cinema in 1979 whilst watching the film. The trick worked.
I seen Alien way to young when i was about 11 in 1993. It done it's job to scare the hell out of me.
Best movie ever.
Nice to hear someone mention Walter Hill’s enormous contribution to this film. Hill’s rewrites to the O’Bannon’s original script were substantial.
If Tarantino had directed Alien, it would’ve been 2-1/2 hours long, and casual conversations like the one the crew has which introduced them to the audience would’ve happened twice more and taken up 1/2 the runtime.
Anyone not around in 1979 when Scott’s 2nd feature film hit the big screen has NO idea how huge that landmark film was; sci-fi and horror and a thriller, game changer galore.
I think you're doing Tarantino serious disservice. He does great dialog - punchy, memorable, believable. If Tarantino had done Alien the dialog between the actors would have been much more memorable than what we got. I don't know if that would be better than what we got, since what we got was very believable as regular shmoes doing work, as opposed to flashy, iconic and memorable dialog. Either would work.
He also doesn't make overlong movies. I have never watched a Tarantino movie and checked my watch.
Django was 100% too long
Hey, Dallas, you know what they call a Wayland-Yutani Noodle Burger on Titan?
Someone on the team had read A. E. Van Vogt "Voyage of the Space Beagle" fixup novel. The similarities to one of the stories in that book are obvious.
1) The crew "stumbles" on the creature
2) The creature is unstoppable (almost invincible)
3) It puts its eggs in the body of crew members
4) It is a genetically engineered creature (we learn this is a sequel of the movie)
I guess after the out of court settlement they felt safe to add number (4) in a sequel
There are subtle differences.
The original creature (named something like Ixtle) has the power to manipulate the atomic structure of matter and can go through wall. Alien has acid blood that can burn through any wall (has seen in a sequel)
It is well worth reading the original. It is a golden age novel so you get atomic cannons (vibrators I think they are called) firing inside the spaceship. Great stuff ...
0:35 - That might be the Greatest, and most terrifying shot-in the history of the Genre.
Wrong but OK nerd
@@ThebourbonsAreback-kb5go Lick my face.
Dusk till dawn in the cinema without any idea of what's to come was a cinema experience ill never forget it, plus the old lady on the bed scene was again something ill never forget
A shaved Orangutan in low light would actually look fucking terrifying. It was a really great idea tbh.
Yea, I think they could have make it work somehow. I guess the only trouble would have been to make the orangutan to act like a terrifying monster lol.
I wish this happened instead of giger
Like many kids at the time I went through my “space madness” phase during the late 70’s. Star Wars, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, and of course Alien. The one that has stayed with me is Alien. I appreciate it more now than I did years ago. So many have tried to imitate it and they can’t come close. It really was ahead of its time and is a touchstone film for similar stories. I hate the concept of having a “favorite” film because I have seen so many good movies, but if I have to choose one it would be Alien.
Greatest sci-fi movie ever made.
Behind 2001.
Yes and Blade runner is up there too and Aliens as well.
Also the first ghost in the shell movie imo
IMO, John Carpenter's The Thing is the greatest sci-fi horror movie, follow by Predator, The Blob '88, and then Alien "79.
The moment you hear Quentin speak, you know you are up for some pulpy spicy story and not a second will be squandered without keeping you on the edge of the seat waiting to hear what happens next. This guy is a supernatural born story teller. I think he could narrate the phone book in such a fun way that you would give up movies and turn to audiobooks just from this experience.
Ridley Scott's prime years his work was amazing, the last 20 years or so not so much. Feels like Scott lost the passion & his intense strive for perfection & detail that he had in his early years, the quality of his work hasn't been of the same level. A number of filmmakers who were masters in the age of practical filmmaking fell off in this digital age, I feel that played a part in the decline in the quality of their work too.
After Thelma and Louise things changed.
It's the times that got worse. The screenplays got worse, the producers got more lazy, making movies is a team effort, and the director just executes.
Nah you look at the like of Spielberg and Scorsese to see their almost effortless transition to the modern age, and how modern directors like Nolan and Villeneuve has used the digital era as a masterful tool, it's literally that Scott has gotten lazy and is just smashing out by-the-numbers production line work to fit a deadline now, ironically becoming more like a Robert Aldrich type
@robbo_96 Well, there's an argument Scorsese has fallen off too tbh. His films are still good but I wouldn't say they've been great in a long time. Barring Silence, I think Silence is outstanding. Carpenter, Cronenberg, De Palma, Coppola etc., are certainly not what they were.
@NoirFan84 hm? Wolf of Wall Street, Silence, The Irishman, Killers of the Flower Moon is an amazing run, like it's night and day with what Scott is producing right now; I don't like all those 4 movies equally but there's no doubting his prowess is as strong as ever and adapted to modern cinema
I really want his last movie to be a sci-fi film. It would be so cool to see his spin on the genre
The Star Wars movies weren't shot at Pinewood, they were shot at Elstree and Shepperton. Alien was partially shot at Shepperton.
And HR Giger's last name is pronounced "Gee-ger."
Ah, so rhymes with "wiener." All is right with the world now.
They also shot TESB AFTER Alien was shot not before. I think Quentin is off on his timeline here a bit too.
Agreed@@shanerjedi1138 ALIEN also came out before The Empire Strikes Back.
@@postmodernrecycler No, it rhymes with "peeper" - it's pronounced "Gee-Gr"
@@shanerjedi1138 Yeah - people think QT knows everything about every movie ever made, but in truth his knowledge is superficial and full of holes at best.
This guy is so entertaining and he knows what everybody likes. Many people will not admit to liking what's in his mind but they really do
3:44 (orangutan)
According to the docs of Alien, what really got the attention of David Giler was the chestburster idea.
"It still holds up!" you don't say.
We don't need anyone let alone Quentin what's his name how good these films are 😢
The only disappointing thing I always felt about the Alien lifecycle is that it ceases to no longer be interesting one the alien is fully matured and it’s especially boring when Cameron made the Aliens into a bug hive. I always felt that in a similar way to the Thing the Alien should be constantly adapting to its environment and we keep seeing new and strange ways in its evolution. To me the most frightening thing about the original Alien is that you can’t understand how the creature works, it’s completely unpredictable that and the fact its defence mechanism makes it extremely hard to kill. It’s such a shame that the sequels really scrapped with the mystery of the Alien because to me that is why it was frightening, you should never have all the answers when it comes to that creature.
Good point, I do find The Thing more effective when it comes to that. The less-is-more aspect when it comes to explanations really works better for these sci-fi monsters. All these years later, we still don't know a lot about the alien species from John Carpenter's The Thing(not counting other media like comics or video games that feel too far removed from the John Carpenter movie, in my opinion), and that's what makes it even more effective as a horror film today.
You wouldn't have a franchise if you didn't expand on the creature AT ALL. Aliens didn't ruin a thing imo; we still knew nothing of their homeworld or how they arrived on the planet or their evolutionary history. Cameron just allowed us to see more of how they operated as a species and used that as strength in the context of the story and character development and stakes.
@@robbo_96 I don’t mean to sound like I am being too harsh on Aliens as I also love that movie and Cameron is an incredible director but it was just one minor criticism of mine that yes he maintained the mystery of where they came from but in terms of expanding on how they operate all he did was design a Queen Alien which by proxy immediately associates the Aliens with more earth like creatures such as insects which to me defeats the purpose of it feeling “Alien” what Giger and Ridley did with the original was that they give the creature an almost supernatural aura about it, everything about that creature and the way it operated was telling the audience “you have no idea what you are dealing with here” and that what makes it frightening. Soon as Cameron turned them into bug like creatures that can be killed with a few shots from a pulse rifle he inadvertently stripped away some of the threat.
@@artofsam I agree, and it's worth noting that James Cameron was heavily inspired by Them! (1954), with the giant ants in it basically being the precursors to the xenomorphs and the hive aspect with the queen and flamethrowers used as well. There's interesting frame by frame comparison videos of the two movies, actually.
You know whats funny…the aliens toy line had an interesting concept….the aliens would become a version of whatever animal they came from ala gorilla
Alien, snake alien, panther alien…i always thought that would have been a cool idea
That whole clip was worth it to hear Tarintino talk about a hairless ape. Awesome!
Tarantino is excruciating to listen to.
Yes, he is passionate, but he is also close to overwhelming.
😂So true. Once you get him going, he's the guy at the party who holds court til the host says: "alright its getting kinda late and I got work in the morning!"
I imagine Tarantino would hate it. But I love the idea of the idea of a movie flowing through different minds, like it's travelling through alternate minds looking for it's final form.
The shaved orangutan idea was later used to create the female cast of sex and the city
It's great to see so many classics coming out of Pinewood Studios London 👍
The first two Aliens are unmatched in the franchise. I loved Resurrection tho for what it was.
In the end, the actor on Alien suit is the same actor on Predator suit.
not so smart there QT. Aliens was made before Empire Strikes Back. (1:18)
*Alien ....but you're right
@@Quadzilla99 oops... your right.
It's just incredible what Quentin knows about film. He has a memory like an elephant. So great.
An orangatang without hair would look like Trump.
Tarantino's love of film comes through every time.
All those directors who turned it down HAD to be kicking themselves when this became such a huge hit and a classic sci fi film.
@@theinvisibleman2070 Agreed.
But you know some of those other directors wish they hadn't turned it down.
not necessarily. I mean good directors, even those who turned it down, know their limitations. So if they are not comfortable with the genre/vfx or not invested enough in the story...the end result would have looked different.
@@joneel1988 Agreed
Alien works so well because the human drama comes before the horror sets in. It's good all around, but it's so good because of the actors and how they get along.
they weaved something together and created a genre
In my head, I always think its an 80s movie.. but no.
The fact that it came out in 1979 just adds even more points to the overall score breaking excellentness of the movie Alien..
Everything about it...its JUST SO DAMN GOOD!!!
Story, EFFECTS, suspense, acting, kick ass hero chick, dystopian future, weapons, Ai/Robots, Space & Spaceships, quotable as hell ... And, Bill Paxton.
My brother in christ, Bill Paxton was in Alien 2(1986), not in Alien (1979)
Friend, Bill Paxton was in Aliens 1986, but not Alien 1979.
Also, don't forget the visceral (pun intended) impact of the music composed by Jerry Goldsmith and James Horner, giants in their own right. 🖤
this is the first time i'm hearing about this. thank you for uploading it.
love this, feels good to finally have another new alien in romulus that makes the original even better
id love to see Quentin's take on Back to the Future Trilogy.. Robert Zemeckis nailed that time honered set of films and no continuity was missed.
I'm guessing the 'shaved orangutang' idea might have comes from E.A Poe's story 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue'. If you read the script for Alien, I can see it popping in to someone's head, Alien dragging Brett into the ceiling vs the Orangutang in Rue Morgue shoving a victim up a chimney...
After 45 years, this first movie doesn't age to me. Even today it's still scaring the living shit out of people.
I am glad he mentioned that that others writers actually rewrote the script!!
Awsome video, saw this & Tarantino on Jaws too some minutes ago. Jaws & Alien are 2 of the MOST ultimate Monster-movies EVER! Hope we need Peter Jackson on Thunderbirds, Peter Jackson on Doctor Who, Peter Jackson on Jurassic Park & Peter Jackson on King Kong too, we need those videos too. 💙
well thank God, Ridley Scott did the film and gave us a classic and one of the most iconic monster in scifi-horror film history!
I love this stuff. Reminds me of that old science fiction film documentary called Watch The Skies. Just a bunch of famous directors talking about their favorite movies.
I didn’t know about the Orangutan, I’d just taken a mouthful of tea when Quentin mentioned shaving it………….. I’ve just finished wiping tea of my ipad👍🏼
Me 2.. unreal the information you pick up
It's funny hearing this backstory. It makes me wonder what reading the script would have been like. I bet far darker and scarier than the movie even was. I guess that's typical though. Original written sources that were later turned into movies are usually far more haunting or disturbing than the resulting film.
Giler and Hill bought into Dan O'Bannon's not-so-well-written-B-movie-screenplay on the strength of the Chestburster scene. They also added Ash. H.R. Giger is pronounced "gee-ger" not "guy-ger". Dan O'Bannon worked with him on Jodorowsky's Dune that didn't get completed. He showed the Necronomicon art Book by H.R. Giger to Ridley Scott. He said that's it. That's the Alien. Ridley Scott made Ripley a woman and the hero. The original script made it interchangeable whether the characters were male or female. It's always fun listening to Tarrantino's enthusiasm and interesting that he talked to Walter Hill. It's on the voluminous Blu-ray's and magazines of that period.
One small correction, Quentin--Star Wars was NOT shot at Pinewood but at Elstree.
From what I know about the production of Alien as an amateur, this sounds almost like the inverse of how it really went. O'Bannon and Shusett were the primary writers and Scott was the director who pulled it all together, Giler and Hill were the studio sleazeballs who made a host of awful rewrites that were nearly all rejected by Scott and the movie we got was pretty close to the original script barring a few minor details. But Tarantino of course is a creature of Hollywood so he probably only talks to people like Giler and Hill.
IMO Alien is the greatest monster movie ever made. Better than any of the classics, etc.
And look what 'Cinema' has become..
The featurettes have an interview where one man remembers Ripley going back for the cat.
While in the theatre he hears one man scream at the screen: "LEAVE THE FUCKING CAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Wowzers great interview where is the rest please?
Quentin is the only person in the world who could take up the Siskel and Ebert torch and review movies.
It’s up there as the best science fiction movie ever. Romulus was amazing, they need to give the keys to Alvarez moving forward. It was what we’ve been missing since aliens, but more horror than action.
Tarantino can find a captivating story in anything.
Isn’t it mind blowing to know that Alien is of the greatest films ever