This dialogue is so believable, it doesn’t even sound scripted. Just as if two people were having an uncomfortable topic to discuss, without having prepared a speech, it feels improvised. Just perfect.
Actually, the script writers should have had Ripley answer Ashe "No, you're not doing your job when you break quarantine. Kane may have survived quarantine or he may die in here. Either way, we don't know for certain what might have happened and your breaking quarantine was wreckless and I'll report you when we get back to Earth.That is, if we survive your breaking quarantine."
Good catch, I interpret it that Ash wanted to make it look like he was leaving to go to sleep as he turned off the monitor for that reason. Because there's no reason he should have turned it off, unless it was to leave the lab for bedtime.
Love the fake smile Ash makes at 0:56. Watched this move a zillion times, this scene being a favorite, but not noticed this until now. He really hates her, haha.
Even after he is talking to Ripley and others before is disconnected after it is revealed he is a robot he smiles at Ripley and it is chilling when he says you have my sympathy and smiles.
Apart from Ian Holm's brilliant performance, the inclusion of Ash in the screenplay was both inspired and essential. Without this subplot, the film would have run its course as an exceptional, but very narrowly focused suspense/horror film. You know something is up with Ash. Both with what he does and his mannerisms, but it is impossible to guess what his nature and motives are. Every time he behaves suspiciously, or oddly, he can resort to some justification, or acceptable reason, or display natural behavior. He's a last minute replacement on the crew, so he's going to be ill at ease with the others. As science officer he's most responsible for solving the situation, but he's out of his depth like the others. His suggestions / strategies are doomed to fail, but who could know or do better. It's a shame that the sequels re-used this idea, because you can forget just how unusual it was in 1979.
His acting is amazing. He claims he just wanted to save the guy and was willing to risk everyone's lives to save him, but he's so cold and calculating, and selfish, that we are know he'd never risk himself like that for a crew member he's not even close to. His answers are perfect and he rebuffs all her questions, but she knows he's up to something and he's not on her side.
Great scene by two terrific actors. Many forget just how strong this cast was as they were overshadowed at times by the special effects and of course the new arch enemy at that time.
What makes this so classic,..is the slow paced, back and forth dialogue, coupled with the flashing old school computer boards, and the mind numbing fear of the situation at hand & being this far in outer space.
Just noticed, in a deleted scene you can see when all the crew is back at the Infirmary after looking for the acid hole and Ripley ask for a dark stain on Kane's lungs in the scanner. Ash says he doesn't know what it is and is blocking the scanner . This scene was depicted in the novelization but we never saw the screen with the stain, and now after decades of watching this movie just saw one big dark bloat on those screens that Ash turned off. OMG.
@@Matchhead79 how stupid do you have to be to think that the coronavirus is “hoax” in anyway? You are unbelievable stupid. Please stop talking, period. Your ignorance and stupidity is disgusting and vile.
This scene between android and human is something Ridley Scott would explore later with Blade Runner. What is interesting is how Ash plays the human role by saying if he didn’t allow the Alien on board, Kane would have died so his decision was the most humane, Ripley becomes the cold robotic character that follows procedure over life. It’s the same in Blade Runner, where you can’t tell the androids from the humans….
It is very obvious that Ash had no intent of communicating with the rest of the crew. Especially' Ripley who is very observant of everything going on the ship, And with the crew. Ash wanted to protect the alien at all costs. Regardless' of lives.
i've had a hell of a time trying to find this scene. This one and Ripley's quaranteen scene. These two are some of the more defining, rationality scenes in the movie!
One could argue that Alien Isolation is a purer sequel to the original Alien than James Cameron's film. Replicating the look and tone of the first film while doing something different.
@@daustin8888 eh true but what made aliens great was that it was different. It wasnt doing the same thing as the original. And aliens is still very scary. It just has a dose of action
Ripley: Ash, do you work for the government? Ash: ... Ripley: Are you spying on us? Ash: ... Ripley: Ash, play Whitney Houston. Ash: Opening your spotify now, anything else?
The whole damned nightmare we seem to be immersed in reminds me A LOT of the story of Alien. Ripley's line at 1:12 keeps running over and over and over in my mind: "And YOU let him in."
@@patriciagray2708 - Oh, really? Do you think the buck stopped with him? Traditionally, who has the sign on his desk that says, "The buck stops here," eh?
The ambient Foley art (the haunting, undulating whoo-hoo) is amazing. It underpins and amplifies both the sense of unease and tension between Ripley and Ash and deepens the wider sense of dread for everyone on board the ship. It's the sound of an as-yet revealed, but burgeoning horror. Pure paranoia. Alien is, very simply, in my opinion, the best movie ever made. Made for peanuts as well. For example, the shots of the Nostromo approaching the planet/moon were created by hoisting the massive model of the ship onto a forklift truck draped with a huge sheet of black velvet and driven, in pitch darkness towards a backboard that would later have the dramatic space-scape added. All that was created with the classic use of inks and substances of varying viscosities dropped into a water tank and then backlit and shot. See also: the clouds during the approach of the UFOs in Close Encounters (when the kid is abducted). CGI fucked a lot of creativity and innovation up.
Ash: "Good Morning Ripley." Ripley: "Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?" Ash: "All of the above I suppose, yes? Well, Good Morning." Ripley: ""What a lot of things you do use Good morning for! Now you mean that you want to get rid of me, and that it won't be good till I move off.”
Ridley Scott did a great job of waiting until near the end to reveal that Ash was a synthetic or artificial person if you prefer that . I would have made Ash a tougher Android so that he can take bigger blows
You know what, we need to give some heat to Captain Dallas too. He was ordering her to break quarantine. Was also relaxing half the time. How'd he get the job in the first place? jock privilege i guess
This scene is brilliant: it clearly establishes that something is up with Ash, that he must be shady somehow. But his stressed out reaction shows us, that he's definitely very human, right? It's another one of several scenes showing that the camaraderie of the crew is only skin-deep and there are many unresolved conflicts all fueled of course by the company in the end.
I wonder if somebody watching this movie for the first time, without knowing anything about it, would start thinking of Ripley as the villain from this point on. I mean she was willing to let Kane die, that wouldn't look very heroic to anybody who doesn't know how things unfold later
Clearly a developing embryo on the screen that Ash turned off. I'm listening to the novelization audiobook right now and Ripley brought up the stain. Dallas confirms it, but Ash plays it off as equipment malfunctions and offers to "clean the lens" and bullshits through it. Dallas just gives up and says he doesn't care unless the stain gets bigger. If Promtheus is a prequel to Alien, then Ash had all the info he needed and knew exactly what was happening to Kane. He purposefully hid it from the rest of the crew and just pretended to be complacent.
Ultimately Ash was only doing what he was PROGRAMMED to do. Now David on the other hand from Prometheus and Alien: Covenant....it seemed he had entirely free will when he started experiment with the black goo that ultimately resulted in his creation of the Xenomorphs Anyhow Ash was placed in Nostromo directly by the ppl in Weyland-Yutani corporation who knew that there were this alien lifeform out there (deleted scene from Alien: Covenant suggests that it was indeed David who informed them) and it was his orders/programming to make sure that the alien lifeform would get back to Earth and that the crew was expendable to achieve that goal
for an android, Ash is genuinely pissy, and barely able to conceal his contempt for the meddlesome human Ripley. Saw this in the theater back in the day. Its power has not diminished over the years.
David’s character in the prequels perfectly tees up Asha’s character. There is a real continuity between David and Ash to the extent that they almost feel like the same character. Exactly the same cold and callous admiration for this “perfect organism”. I even wonder if Ash had access to some of David’s research from the Engineer home world which he sent back to Weyland. One thing that’s quite amusing about Ash is that it was the icy persona of a scientist that allowed him to go undetected as a robot. Scientists might not find that quite so amusing.
What I like him telling Ripley, "you do your job, let me do mine", is that he WAS doing his job, but he had to let her think he was being reckless and incompetent to avoid being found out. His irritation was clear here
So what is the creature Ash is looking at? People think it is the version of alien inside Kane, which makes sense but the full grown Alien has no eyes!
mi pelicula preferida .. en cada una de las peliculas de Alien de la 1 a la 4. Ripley tiene diferente doblaje al español. en Alien 1 el octavo pasajero , el doblaje es espectacular , la voz de Ripley es muy dulce y tierna. excelente doblaje al español. spanish😍
Look at that old ass pc! It hurts me eyes! Lol nevertheless great great scene! The pitch and tone in which they stated lines along with the ship making that subtle noise in the background was perfect.
@@katiebayliss9887 lol interesting. I guess it fit the time period. Cameron did the best he could with the technology he had then. This movie needs to be badly updated though. By that I mean, rebooting the whole series. It would obviously be so much better in 2018. The right people have to do it though cause this is a perfect film.
@@katiebayliss9887 Well when I say updated, i just mean redoing all four movies but only this time with much better tech. For example, James waited ten years to make avatar, if james hadn't waited, it probably wouldn't of been as good. If somebody remade the alien movies in this day and age, they would be even better unless you want a 70s style remake. That wouldn't be bad either.
It's interesting you say that. In a deleted scene, Ripley has started to suspect he's a robot and asks Lambert if she's ever slept with Ash in a way that implies casual sex among the crew is normal. As such, Ripley may have viewed Ash as a potential sex partner herself, at first. Maybe their scenes were shot with that kind of tension in mind. After all, he does try to kill her by shoving a pornographic magazine down her throat on a bed surrounded with sexual imagery.
True but he was an android programmed to do that. So its really the company, Weyland-Yutani that is to blame....or if you take into account Prometheus and Alien: Covenant as prequels, then the blame falls for the other android David who started experimenting with the black goo the Engineers had created, ultimately resulting in creation of the Xenomorphs ...and I think in deleted scene of Covenant its suggested that David was the one who informed Weyland-Yutani of what he had created and thats how they even had knowledge of the xenomorphs and the ship's location that stored the eggs. And ofc who was responsible of creating David in the first place? Peter Weyland. So ultimately if you want to seek ppl to blame, then it would be Peter Weyland, he ultimately started it all by wanting to seek out the Engineers and seek immortality.
Watching it as a 9 year old at the time he was just outstanding. Years later realizing there's TONS of clues along the way that there's something off about him.
What was ripleys role vs ash’s role on the ship? Was he a medic? She refers to him as a science officer. Maybe he was a geologist given it was a mining ship?
Ash's programming probably sense Ripley would be the problem more than anyone else even before the door scene. Dallas and everybody else was just like, "let's just get the job done and get home, and get paid". I mean, on a ship, a LONG way from home with finite resources to keep you alive, no disrespect to Kane but, HOW COULD YOU LET THAT ON YOUR SHIP LOL?!?
Ive been to similar situations, if you want to know the truth, you forget about tension, or embarrassment, you're after the truth and its all that matters..
I CAN'T LIE ABOUT YOUR CHANCES BUT YOU HAVE MY SYMPATHIES(Ash)imagine an android like ash exhibiting sympathy very cold and non exsistant just dialogue as it was deliciously articulated & served with a dashing of vocoder speech by actor IAN HOLM it's a robot ASH is a goddam robot(Parker) actually parker addresses ASH as an ANDROID first before he openly remarks while in a state of shock that ASH is a robot YOU READ IT I THOUGHT IT WAS CLEAR BRING BACK LIFEFORM p r i o r i t y o n e a l l o t h e r p r i o r i t i e s r e s c i n d e d c r e w e x p e n d a b l e (Ash) YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOUR DEALING With DO YOU p e r f e c t o r g a n i s m (Ash) I ADMIRE IT'S PURITY (Ash) WAS IT AN OLDER MODEL(Bishop) THAT EXPLAINS IT THE A2'S WERE ALWAYS A BIT TWITCHY...THAT CAN'T HAPPEN NOW WITH OUR BEHAVIOR INHIBITORS...IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR ME TO HARM OR BY MISSION OF ACTION ALLOW TO BE HARMED A HUMAN BEING(Bishop) it was a great and very inventive blindsided twist having the character ASH be an additional THREAT to the lives and well-being of the crew of the NOSTROMO especially due to the fact that he looked just like them having a generally normal human appearence Parker Lambert & Ripley didn't see that coming & nor did the film goers or anybody else who'd watched the film ALIEN for the very first time it was a CLEVER move and added a great deal towards the suspense of the films claustrophobic eventual climax (i love this film forever)A L I E N1979 classic (USED FUTURE) & ASH being my favourite character because he is such a very NAUGHTY ROBOT 🎥🎬📽️📺📼📀💻🖥️📱🤖 🕴🏽🕶️🦂🎥🎬🇬🇧🇺🇸
Bishop actually says, "omission of action...." which basically means not taking action. To omit something is to leave it out or simply not do it. So by omission of action, allowing harm to come to a human being is totally against his programming and is why he grabbed Newt in the hangar bay as she was getting dragged across the floor toward the airlock.
The biggest problem is how the issue is handled after the face hugger dies. Its like no big deal. Making me believe Dallas was in on it and knew what Ash was doing. Ripley was right.
It always annoyed me she doesnt retort to all that "I take my responsibilities, you do your job, let me do mine". She is doing her job, by questioning you for not doing yours. 'Forgot' the protocol?! I know she probably sees that the f%cker will pass unpunished and theres no point of further arguing, but its still very annoying.
Nope! It wasn't deleted. This scene is, indeed, included in the movie. And, yes, it's VERY crucial to the storyline! It reveals what a little snake Ash was! See him turn off the monitor showing the alien embryo and stretch like he's ready for bed! 🐍🐍🐍
Perfectly captures the feel of two co-workers trying to stay civil while clearly BARELY being able to tolerate each other’s presence.
Why did ash dislike ripley though if he was a robot. Had she done anything prior to this apart from a minor objection to them letting Kane in?
@@bartoni79Ash task is to gather the xeno. Ripley didn't want to let Kane get back in the Nostromo = Ash task failed.
@@bartoni79 He suspects that Ripley knows he is hiding something
Even today, this is still a film like no other.
Absolutely agree.
@MackSackDaDomo cool and The Thing (1982) directed by John Carpenter as well:).
Unmatched masterpiece, a point break in the history of cinematography. There are Sci movies before and after Alien
This dialogue is so believable, it doesn’t even sound scripted. Just as if two people were having an uncomfortable topic to discuss, without having prepared a speech, it feels improvised. Just perfect.
Because it happens all the time, 5 times a day at work.
Actors act
Actually, the script writers should have had Ripley answer Ashe "No, you're not doing your job when you break quarantine. Kane may have survived quarantine or he may die in here. Either way, we don't know for certain what might have happened and your breaking quarantine was wreckless and I'll report you when we get back to Earth.That is, if we survive your breaking quarantine."
Wouldn't happen in films today.
I love the passive-aggressive way Ash turns off the screens at the start. Very much a “fuck off and leave me alone, Ripley”.
"... you'll die anyway with the others."
@@MassEffectGER not before him though
@@MassEffectGER Ash, any suggestions from you or Mother?
@@gaynzz6841 No, we're still collating.
@@MassEffectGERwhat? You're still collanting? I find it hard to believe.
This scene absolutely nails the dynamic of a subordinate getting grilled by his boss. Amazing writing and acting.
And brilliantly executed because Ripley wasn't actually Ash's boss. Weyland-Yutani was. And this was a big clue he was NOT as he appeared.
One of many brilliant scenes in this movie. The hostility between Ash and Ripley is thick enough to cut with a knife.
i love how he casually tries to turn of the screen while stretching. I usually do that when someone catches me looking up porn.
- And that stretch and yawn was so unnatural. Ripley knew she was talking to a machine.
@G E T R E K T - Well you tell me me what she was thinking at the end of this scene...
😂😂😂
Good catch, I interpret it that Ash wanted to make it look like he was leaving to go to sleep as he turned off the monitor for that reason. Because there's no reason he should have turned it off, unless it was to leave the lab for bedtime.
Love the fake smile Ash makes at 0:56. Watched this move a zillion times, this scene being a favorite, but not noticed this until now. He really hates her, haha.
Even after he is talking to Ripley and others before is disconnected after it is revealed he is a robot he smiles at Ripley and it is chilling when he says you have my sympathy and smiles.
Apart from Ian Holm's brilliant performance, the inclusion of Ash in the screenplay was both inspired and essential. Without this subplot, the film would have run its course as an exceptional, but very narrowly focused suspense/horror film. You know something is up with Ash. Both with what he does and his mannerisms, but it is impossible to guess what his nature and motives are. Every time he behaves suspiciously, or oddly, he can resort to some justification, or acceptable reason, or display natural behavior. He's a last minute replacement on the crew, so he's going to be ill at ease with the others. As science officer he's most responsible for solving the situation, but he's out of his depth like the others. His suggestions / strategies are doomed to fail, but who could know or do better. It's a shame that the sequels re-used this idea, because you can forget just how unusual it was in 1979.
His acting is amazing. He claims he just wanted to save the guy and was willing to risk everyone's lives to save him, but he's so cold and calculating, and selfish, that we are know he'd never risk himself like that for a crew member he's not even close to. His answers are perfect and he rebuffs all her questions, but she knows he's up to something and he's not on her side.
Great scene by two terrific actors. Many forget just how strong this cast was as they were overshadowed at times by the special effects and of course the new arch enemy at that time.
What makes this so classic,..is the slow paced, back and forth dialogue, coupled with the flashing old school computer boards, and the mind numbing fear of the situation at hand & being this far in outer space.
@M T My thoughts exactly......
and sci fi is always seen as clean/crisp, this world is dirty and lived in
The fact that he knows an organism is growing inside Kane and lets it happen just so the company can get their hands on a xeno is messed up
For a "twitchy" Hyperdyne A2 model, Ash seems remarkably intelligent and sure of himself here.
The A2's always were a bit twitchy...
@G E T R E K T - I get's ya!
Just noticed, in a deleted scene you can see when all the crew is back at the Infirmary after looking for the acid hole and Ripley ask for a dark stain on Kane's lungs in the scanner. Ash says he doesn't know what it is and is blocking the scanner . This scene was depicted in the novelization but we never saw the screen with the stain, and now after decades of watching this movie just saw one big dark bloat on those screens that Ash turned off. OMG.
- At 0:02 you can see a round shaped stain on the screen. That is an alien egg that was deposited there by the face hugger.
You see? Even Ripley understands the importance of quarantine rules!
It's a hoax. Let's all go back to sleep.
And the facehugger is excelent to prevent virus inhalation
Yeah, but this wasn't a fake "virus" being pushed by the media. He had been infected by a facehugger, which was actually a REAL danger.
@@predator7939 what fake virus over 2 million ppl died. Conservatives treat corona virus worse than how Ronald Reagan handled AIDS
@@Matchhead79 how stupid do you have to be to think that the coronavirus is “hoax” in anyway? You are unbelievable stupid. Please stop talking, period. Your ignorance and stupidity is disgusting and vile.
This scene between android and human is something Ridley Scott would explore later with Blade Runner. What is interesting is how Ash plays the human role by saying if he didn’t allow the Alien on board, Kane would have died so his decision was the most humane, Ripley becomes the cold robotic character that follows procedure over life. It’s the same in Blade Runner, where you can’t tell the androids from the humans….
Right...
Ash, the underrated antagonist of all times!
It is very obvious that Ash had no intent of communicating with the rest of the crew. Especially' Ripley who is very observant of everything going on the ship, And with the crew. Ash wanted to protect the alien at all costs. Regardless' of lives.
Ash is David
I'm calling it
Androids... Tsss...
"All other priorities....rescinded."
@@RX7821979 (A)sh 🤖(B)ishop🤖 (C)all🤖 (D)avid🤖= The "SYNTHETIC"Alphabet
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RIP Ian Holm
ASH would not have been the same played by any other actor.
No clearly not xD he would have been different because it was another actor ...
i've had a hell of a time trying to find this scene. This one and Ripley's quaranteen scene. These two are some of the more defining, rationality scenes in the movie!
Love the interaction! The one appeals to logic and common sense, the other one simply to emotions in order to hide his nefarious intent.
The irony of course being that the synthetic is using emotions to fool the human
@@ArCher11-iq9co A synthetic who's really bad at pretending he cares about the lives of others.
@@ArCher11-iq9co Yeah, because Ash likely knows that humans are most persuasive by emotional arguments rather than by logical ones.
Still can't get over how badass Ellen Ripley is in a movie from the SEVENTIES
The seventies were when Sigourney Weaver's ass was the baddest, that's why...
I watched this right before playing Alien Isolation.
StarwindAmada1, that’s a good idea
One could argue that Alien Isolation is a purer sequel to the original Alien than James Cameron's film.
Replicating the look and tone of the first film while doing something different.
Could be the best game intro sequence ever.
Man if they made a alien isolation movie that would be awesome. But they have to stick to the game
@@daustin8888 eh true but what made aliens great was that it was different. It wasnt doing the same thing as the original. And aliens is still very scary. It just has a dose of action
I love this scene. The actors in this movie have dialogue that is so convincing real.
Ripley: Ash, do you work for the government?
Ash: ...
Ripley: Are you spying on us?
Ash: ...
Ripley: Ash, play Whitney Houston.
Ash: Opening your spotify now, anything else?
During quarantine, it's fun to watch the part about quarantine
The whole damned nightmare we seem to be immersed in reminds me A LOT of the story of Alien. Ripley's line at 1:12 keeps running over and over and over in my mind: "And YOU let him in."
AND FAUCI LET COVID 19 COME INTO THE US.
@@patriciagray2708 - Oh, really? Do you think the buck stopped with him? Traditionally, who has the sign on his desk that says, "The buck stops here," eh?
@@racookster Biden, right now. And he's licking the excrement from boots of the Chinese Government, who gave us the COVID19 BioWeapon.
RIP Ian Holm. Ash was a great character!
The ambient Foley art (the haunting, undulating whoo-hoo) is amazing.
It underpins and amplifies both the sense of unease and tension between Ripley and Ash and deepens the wider sense of dread for everyone on board the ship.
It's the sound of an as-yet revealed, but burgeoning horror.
Pure paranoia.
Alien is, very simply, in my opinion, the best movie ever made.
Made for peanuts as well.
For example, the shots of the Nostromo approaching the planet/moon were created by hoisting the massive model of the ship onto a forklift truck draped with a huge sheet of black velvet and driven, in pitch darkness towards a backboard that would later have the dramatic space-scape added.
All that was created with the classic use of inks and substances of varying viscosities dropped into a water tank and then backlit and shot.
See also: the clouds during the approach of the UFOs in Close Encounters (when the kid is abducted).
CGI fucked a lot of creativity and innovation up.
Ash: "Good Morning Ripley."
Ripley: "Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?"
Ash: "All of the above I suppose, yes? Well, Good Morning."
Ripley: ""What a lot of things you do use Good morning for! Now you mean that you want to get rid of me, and that it won't be good till I move off.”
BILBO BAGGINS! Do not play me for a conjurer of cheap tricks!!!
You tell him, Gandalf!
The alien was his Precious...
I am not trying to rob you, I am trying to help you
@@gaynzz6841 I cry every time
Ridley Scott did a great job of waiting until near the end to reveal that Ash was a synthetic or artificial person if you prefer that . I would have made Ash a tougher Android so that he can take bigger blows
This is my favorite movie
Check out my ALIEN museum under construction
Ripley was a smart cookie she knew something was up she made a better senior officer then Dallas.
Watching this, Ash didn't actually lie about anything. He just didn't mention that his priorities were different from the rest of the crew's.
a lie of omission or withholding details is still a lie
RIP Sir Ian Holm (Ash) who passed away at age 88 from complications from Parkinson’s disease
You know what, we need to give some heat to Captain Dallas too. He was ordering her to break quarantine. Was also relaxing half the time. How'd he get the job in the first place? jock privilege i guess
he is a captain.he did say he just runs the ship...his objectivity was diminished by his own will to survive outside the ship
This scene is brilliant: it clearly establishes that something is up with Ash, that he must be shady somehow. But his stressed out reaction shows us, that he's definitely very human, right? It's another one of several scenes showing that the camaraderie of the crew is only skin-deep and there are many unresolved conflicts all fueled of course by the company in the end.
I never got the shady vibe from him but he did kinda have a mysterious persona. Him and ripley were my faves
What a beautiful photography this movie has.
Ash knew exactly what he was doing exposing the creature to human contact.
Ripley was trolling Ash big time.
its not trolling if you're trying to find the truth, which is obviously being concealed.
ASH, any suggestions from you or MOTHUR?
@@gaynzz6841 Nah, I’m still busy collating.
@@angel91485 True, maybe she was more deliberately irritating him in order to get him to tell her the truth. She really pissed him off, though.
Best sci fi film ever made.
First she sneaks up on Ash and the later he sneaks up on her. At first he's sympathetic and then she is.
I wonder if somebody watching this movie for the first time, without knowing anything about it, would start thinking of Ripley as the villain from this point on. I mean she was willing to let Kane die, that wouldn't look very heroic to anybody who doesn't know how things unfold later
Clearly a developing embryo on the screen that Ash turned off. I'm listening to the novelization audiobook right now and Ripley brought up the stain. Dallas confirms it, but Ash plays it off as equipment malfunctions and offers to "clean the lens" and bullshits through it. Dallas just gives up and says he doesn't care unless the stain gets bigger.
If Promtheus is a prequel to Alien, then Ash had all the info he needed and knew exactly what was happening to Kane. He purposefully hid it from the rest of the crew and just pretended to be complacent.
On his many adventures Bilbo went event to space
That milk he drinks must be how he keeps his inner robot parts running
I like that this is just a discussion. Nowadays I feel like they would have the characters shouting or something.
"You always know a Working Joe"
57 years before she dies
This is why we shouldn't allow robots to have too much responsibility.
Ultimately Ash was only doing what he was PROGRAMMED to do. Now David on the other hand from Prometheus and Alien: Covenant....it seemed he had entirely free will when he started experiment with the black goo that ultimately resulted in his creation of the Xenomorphs
Anyhow Ash was placed in Nostromo directly by the ppl in Weyland-Yutani corporation who knew that there were this alien lifeform out there (deleted scene from Alien: Covenant suggests that it was indeed David who informed them) and it was his orders/programming to make sure that the alien lifeform would get back to Earth and that the crew was expendable to achieve that goal
for an android, Ash is genuinely pissy, and barely able to conceal his contempt for the meddlesome human Ripley. Saw this in the theater back in the day. Its power has not diminished over the years.
[MOTHER]: Crew Expendable
actually those are company orders, but youre still right, mother was the messenger
2:02 Ash subtly talking about the special order
David’s character in the prequels perfectly tees up Asha’s character. There is a real continuity between David and Ash to the extent that they almost feel like the same character. Exactly the same cold and callous admiration for this “perfect organism”. I even wonder if Ash had access to some of David’s research from the Engineer home world which he sent back to Weyland. One thing that’s quite amusing about Ash is that it was the icy persona of a scientist that allowed him to go undetected as a robot. Scientists might not find that quite so amusing.
What I like him telling Ripley, "you do your job, let me do mine", is that he WAS doing his job, but he had to let her think he was being reckless and incompetent to avoid being found out. His irritation was clear here
So many clues in this scene.
I love how much of a prick ash is in every scene.
How patient Ripley is when talking to the android, I love her ♡
So what is the creature Ash is looking at? People think it is the version of alien inside Kane, which makes sense but the full grown Alien has no eyes!
So the eyes disappears once the thing was fully developed and ready to come out.
@europhile26 *Ash is looking at Kaine’s eye while the Facehugger is pressed over his face.*
@@PungiFungi *It is Kaine’s eye - the Facehugger has no eyes, and neither does the embryo that the Facehugger is inserting down Kaine’s throat.*
It is not an eye. That is a zooming of the facehugger's ovopositor tube releasing the embryo (that little black sphere) inside Kane
What’s Bilbo doing in the future on a spaceship?
He's protecting his "precious".
mi pelicula preferida .. en cada una de las peliculas de Alien de la 1 a la 4. Ripley tiene diferente doblaje al español. en Alien 1 el octavo pasajero , el doblaje es espectacular , la voz de Ripley es muy
dulce y tierna. excelente doblaje al español. spanish😍
this scene was in one of tbe alien novels.
Look at that old ass pc! It hurts me eyes! Lol nevertheless great great scene! The pitch and tone in which they stated lines along with the ship making that subtle noise in the background was perfect.
Jay Smith lol I kinda find it aesthetically pleasing in a scifi way and didn't grow up around them.
@@katiebayliss9887 lol interesting. I guess it fit the time period. Cameron did the best he could with the technology he had then. This movie needs to be badly updated though. By that I mean, rebooting the whole series. It would obviously be so much better in 2018. The right people have to do it though cause this is a perfect film.
Jay Smith why does it have to be updated?
@@katiebayliss9887 Well when I say updated, i just mean redoing all four movies but only this time with much better tech. For example, James waited ten years to make avatar, if james hadn't waited, it probably wouldn't of been as good. If somebody remade the alien movies in this day and age, they would be even better unless you want a 70s style remake. That wouldn't be bad either.
Jay Smith Except Avatar was awful.
Diálogo superior. Sigourney Weaver excelente como siempre!!!. La mejor actriz por siempre
A little skittish arent you Ash? what are you trying to hide? Hmmmm?
Very true .
Ripley is smoking hot, Ash ice cold and menacing. I love this movie.
Though Ash is a robot, I always thought there was some kind of strange sexual chemistry between Ash and Ripley in this movie.
It's interesting you say that. In a deleted scene, Ripley has started to suspect he's a robot and asks Lambert if she's ever slept with Ash in a way that implies casual sex among the crew is normal. As such, Ripley may have viewed Ash as a potential sex partner herself, at first. Maybe their scenes were shot with that kind of tension in mind. After all, he does try to kill her by shoving a pornographic magazine down her throat on a bed surrounded with sexual imagery.
Getting throat fucked with a rolled up newspaper isn’t what I call sexual chemistry.
Brilliant acting
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Bruh, it's the chestbuster on a screen.
Ash was hiding it!! He knew exactly what was happening
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No! It wasn't me! It was the one armed Michael Fassbender!
they never noticed he didn't go to the toilet
he maybe pretend...but he and Bishop eat though
Should have known right there.
The original Nostromo Science Officer dodged a bullet, alright.
Because of Ash, EVERY ONE on that ship and countless others lost their lives and it almost heralded the end of humankind.
True but he was an android programmed to do that. So its really the company, Weyland-Yutani that is to blame....or if you take into account Prometheus and Alien: Covenant as prequels, then the blame falls for the other android David who started experimenting with the black goo the Engineers had created, ultimately resulting in creation of the Xenomorphs ...and I think in deleted scene of Covenant its suggested that David was the one who informed Weyland-Yutani of what he had created and thats how they even had knowledge of the xenomorphs and the ship's location that stored the eggs. And ofc who was responsible of creating David in the first place? Peter Weyland. So ultimately if you want to seek ppl to blame, then it would be Peter Weyland, he ultimately started it all by wanting to seek out the Engineers and seek immortality.
@@Balnazzardi yes agreed,, Ash is just a pawn, it could have been someone or something else...its the company which holds accountability
Here is a clue for all of you comments people when he drinks milk in a cup he is not human so keep a eye on it when he drinks milk
Everyone Ash is the real villain he is so evil!!
rockn roll what does that mean
I like a lot this scene, no sure why
This movie was Ian Holm’s big break. At that time he was only known for his UK stage performances.
Watching it as a 9 year old at the time he was just outstanding. Years later realizing there's TONS of clues along the way that there's something off about him.
Oh!
Mr. Robot Ash forgot , Ripley is in charge when senior officers are off the ship?
How forgetful can be a robot?
If she looked in that scope, she would have seen the 'alien'.
Symbol over the computer reminds me alot of zoroastrian symbol ahura mazda .
What was ripleys role vs ash’s role on the ship? Was he a medic? She refers to him as a science officer. Maybe he was a geologist given it was a mining ship?
seems to be an all around scientist, biologist, medic, geologist, seems he can do everything..but on a ship, officers rule not scientists.
You cut the part of Ash drinking the milk
1:15 - Right here, Ash may be guilty of the most evil case of mainsplaining ever.
He had a Freudian Slip. His "Direct Order" was the Company order to bring back an Alien to Weyland Yuttani HQ. He let it slip out of the bag.
Ash's programming probably sense Ripley would be the problem more than anyone else even before the door scene. Dallas and everybody else was just like, "let's just get the job done and get home, and get paid". I mean, on a ship, a LONG way from home with finite resources to keep you alive, no disrespect to Kane but, HOW COULD YOU LET THAT ON YOUR SHIP LOL?!?
Tense as hell.
Ive been to similar situations, if you want to know the truth, you forget about tension, or embarrassment, you're after the truth and its all that matters..
00:31 Holm uses that same technique with Gandalf.
I CAN'T LIE ABOUT YOUR CHANCES BUT YOU HAVE MY SYMPATHIES(Ash)imagine an android like ash exhibiting sympathy very cold and non exsistant just dialogue as it was deliciously articulated & served with a dashing of vocoder speech by actor IAN HOLM
it's a robot ASH is a goddam robot(Parker) actually parker addresses ASH as an ANDROID first before he openly remarks while in a state of shock that ASH is a robot
YOU READ IT I THOUGHT IT WAS CLEAR BRING BACK LIFEFORM p r i o r i t y o n e a l l o t h e r p r i o r i t i e s r e s c i n d e d c r e w e x p e n d a b l e (Ash)
YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOUR DEALING With DO YOU p e r f e c t o r g a n i s m (Ash)
I ADMIRE IT'S PURITY (Ash)
WAS IT AN OLDER MODEL(Bishop)
THAT EXPLAINS IT THE A2'S WERE ALWAYS A BIT TWITCHY...THAT CAN'T HAPPEN NOW WITH OUR BEHAVIOR INHIBITORS...IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR ME TO HARM OR BY MISSION OF ACTION ALLOW TO BE HARMED A HUMAN BEING(Bishop)
it was a great and very inventive blindsided twist having the character ASH be an additional THREAT to the lives and well-being of the crew of the NOSTROMO especially due to the fact that he looked just like them having a generally normal human appearence Parker Lambert & Ripley didn't see that coming & nor did the film goers or anybody else who'd watched the film ALIEN for the very first time it was a CLEVER move and added a great deal towards the suspense of the films claustrophobic eventual climax (i love this film forever)A L I E N1979 classic (USED FUTURE) &
ASH being my favourite character because he is such a very NAUGHTY ROBOT
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Bishop actually says, "omission of action...." which basically means not taking action. To omit something is to leave it out or simply not do it. So by omission of action, allowing harm to come to a human being is totally against his programming and is why he grabbed Newt in the hangar bay as she was getting dragged across the floor toward the airlock.
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I like the part where she slams him up against the wall.
Don't let the alien in!
The biggest problem is how the issue is handled after the face hugger dies. Its like no big deal. Making me believe Dallas was in on it and knew what Ash was doing.
Ripley was right.
In Alien Covenant the genetic creation of an artificial lifeform to infest humans shows the reason cultures used to have opium wars .
LATER ASH IS GOING TO GRAB RIPLEYS SHIRT
...and a tuft of hair.
Why was there a science officer on a freighter to begin with?
he seems to test the atmosphere, and is their de facto medic, I suppose.
It always annoyed me she doesnt retort to all that "I take my responsibilities, you do your job, let me do mine". She is doing her job, by questioning you for not doing yours. 'Forgot' the protocol?!
I know she probably sees that the f%cker will pass unpunished and theres no point of further arguing, but its still very annoying.
Sneaky ash😎
If only the science officer’s name was Dan
WOW
This was a deleted scene?? It seems terribly crucial.
Nope! It wasn't deleted. This scene is, indeed, included in the movie. And, yes, it's VERY crucial to the storyline! It reveals what a little snake Ash was! See him turn off the monitor showing the alien embryo and stretch like he's ready for bed! 🐍🐍🐍