John Mollo was a genius of sci-fi set design The Star Wars original trilogy also showcases his work You can see some similarities between the Nostromo and the Falcon in construction
@@347Jimmywhoa, i kinda slightly wondered if there was a connection, but i just thought it was because sci-fi spacecraft movie design just starting out and so as with a lot of this kind of thing, sets styles of objects and things sometimes end up looking similar, i never looked up the sharing of the same designer. Thats funny
You know I could watch hours and hours of the crew interacting and just doing their jobs (even mundane stuff) even without any scenes from the alien. I’ve never seen a film where I’ve been more invested in the characters……what a masterclass
Yes, ive always thought the original seemed more "real" or believable, maybe its just the look of the film back then, or something to do with the set of the ship that looked really grimey and well used and like real metal materials that weren't pretty and stylish, except in the crews habitat areas, but even there things looked dingey , kinda dirty and lot of miles on it.
Interesting detail I noticed. When the crew enters, they eerily look at the now cleaned table- which they associate with Kane's death- and keep their distance from it. But not Ash. Ash sits down right where Kane was, totally un-fazed. Even the scraps of this film are brilliant.
Great observation. I never noticed it until you pointed it out. It does point to Ash as being totally unfazed by what has happened thus far, thus hinting that's he not really on the crew's side.
I liked the way how Brett begins the argument on Ash. He sounds scared, yet pissed at the same time. Love it! I wish they kept this scene. Rest in Peace: Harry Dean Stanton, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto, and John Hurt!
@@leeperry295 That's exactly right. That's why I can't watch any modern movie anymore. I can't get over the fact that people simply don't act that way in real life. It's like everyone has become Tommy Wiseau in the movies.
I do think this scene should be in the film for one reason. I get that it slows things up, but frankly, this at least gives the alien a bit more time to grow up (off screen) of course. As it is, its only vague implied that hours of passed. This gives you the impression that they had the funeral, they cleaned up, they got the gear together, then they started the search. Giving the alien at least five or six hours to grow.
I like the extra depth this scene gives to Brett's character and the irony that he devised the "net and cattle prod" idea, little knowing that it would lead to his demise.
By making the hyper sleep comment, this scene hinted Ash's objective of getting the organism back to Wey-Yu. Throughout the film, Ash never provided an original idea or thought of how to get rid of it, he just reacted to others by somehow negating theirs in turn sticking to his top priority as commanded like a machine would. But in this scene, he hinted they should just sleep and take the (at that time) little creature with them as if it were a rodent.
Well he did suggest putting Kane into Hypersleep after Kane woke up from the facehugger but Kane insisted on eating. Ash expected the Alien to burst out of him hence why he was watching Kane closely during the 2nd meal they were having before going back into the "freezers".
Dallas: “We flush it out, room by room, quarter by quarter.” Ripley: “That will take months”. Gives you an idea how big the ship is! Great ensemble acting scene.
@@boblob2003 Not necessarily. The Nostromo itself wasn't that big, it was essentially a tugboat hauling a refinery attached to it, and it only had three decks. Plus there was no real way for the creature, as small as it was then, to navigate its way into the refinery, as the umbilicus, to the best of my knowledge, didn't have any dedicated piping or conduits for energy or fluid transfer. And even if it somehow did, the crew would have had the option of disconnecting from the refinery. Bada bing, problem solved. However, that was not in the nature of the Alien, its instincts at the time urging it to keep close to its prey.
Deletion of some scenes can be understood but when U watch them later as bonus on DVD most of time U notice that they were actually so necessary, not subsidiary at all. A lot of them give some essential details on the plot. For instance, here, some psychological elements are given... like indirect pieces of evidence shown more obviously later as Ash's specific behaviour. The android is the only one who sits down immediately at the table on which Kane died a few hours earlier like if nothing happened before. Moreover, this scene makes the characters be even more realistic: shocked, feeling upset, getting nervous & scared... to the point of arguing together. Well seen. I'm a clinical psychologist: this scene is really good. It's a shame that it was deleted.
I agree I'd love to see every single scene recut into it..,who cares if it's 3 hrs long? The fans love it. I just watched it again a few nights ago for what has to be the 75th tine and it still scares the shit out of me...it's a damn masterpiece.
This scene has many gems. First, Ash makes a joke by saying “Right” to Dallas saying that it will take the engineers time to build equipment- this is an echo to the previous conversation about Brett. Also, many of the characters have arcs. Parker starts off being greedy and selfish about his money, but then he heroically sacrifices himself trying to save Lambert. Dallas starts off as a laid-back Captain and states that he wants no heroics out of Parker, but when Dallas realizes that the creature has grown he steps up and volunteers to hunt the creature through the air vents. Ripley at first puts up with flack from Parker, but later she steps up a a leader. This scene would have provided an arc for Brett - he goes from being a monosyllabic flunky of Parker to brainstorming about ways to deal with the Alien and volunteering to build equipment to trap the Alien.
@@21stcenturyscots If you ever watch deleted scenes with director's commentary it is always the same -- "We loved this scene but we had to cut it for pacing."
Aside from the leader role, Ripley has an other arc you can see throughout the deleted scenes. She goes from being only by the book and stuck up to showing compassion towards the others. She was very dismissive of Parker and Brett, she denies Captain Dallas entry to save Kane. The right decision but not emotionally satisfying. Then later on in the deleted scenes, she comforts Lambert over everything. Then in the end she goes back for the cat even though that wouldn’t be the smart thing to do. If the writers wanted ripley to be the same from the start then she would have left Jonesy.
It really looks like the director briefed everyone on what was going on and what they'd seen so far, then chucked the screenplay away and said "ok talk. Action!" With basic directions on where to sit and walk etc.
"I don't think we are going to go to the freezers with that thing running around Ash" Reminds me of Hudson from Aliens "Sure! with those things running around... you can count me out" lol.
This scene could have been put in the movie with some zoom on each speaking character. It develops some interesting aspect of the character and gives to Brett a central position which is interesting : he is the next victim. The thing I also love is the way they put Ash in front of the shit he generated : in the official movie, I'm always surprised to see Ripley as the only person blaming Ash for the intrusion of the alien in the ship... when actually many of them should be angry at him to let the situation getting worse. For exemple, when the "birth" happend, Parker should have been angry at Ash to stop him from killing the creature. Dallas should be more angry at him for having no data about the creature he is the only one to study. This deleted scene shows how the scriptwriters thought about this aspect and the dialog is well written.
OMG.... that should have been kept in... i know it kills the pace of the movie... but it was very well done... and ash at the end using Brett's "right" quote was pure gold
That's just the master shot too. I'm sure if the scene was cut right with close ups and inserts as well as some trimming here and there, plus music and sound it would of fit in just fine. However, the film was a product of its day and was two hours long to allow more screenings in movie theaters per day. Another thing too, it hints at Ash's duplicity a little too much and Scott didn't want to over cook that and spoil the surprise later I think.
Ripley: "How do we find it? We're blind on B and C decks. All the screens are out down there." (Dallas had said earlier that's "horseshit," that they can take off without them.)
i’ll never forget meeting yaphet koto at the Maryland Science Center in the inner harbor of baltimore with my little brother sako in 1994 or 95 when he was shooting his tv series in b’more. he was soooo nice and so exactly like he looks in film. Gentle Giant - RIP Parker 😎
Now that is great acting. Just one master shot. No need for close ups. It's basically a filmed stage play. I love great cinematography with all sorts of cool camera angles and I love a great music score, but if you have a good set, awesome actors and a decent script, you have a movie.
It was the acting that made this movie. It could have all been played in the usual Hollywood B-movie style of the woman screaming all the time, and the men acting all fake-macho, but instead, we get tension, nerves, paranoia and confusion.
It was the first *properly* "woke" movie -- instead of the guy saving the day, it's the WOMAN that turns out to be the ultimate bad ass warrior. And not by kicking improbable ass effortlessly but by surviving on her wits and sheer determination and effort. Of course now that's "problematic" in today's woke world.
@@darioinfiniFuck all that woke shit. It was a good story because of its unpredictability. Woke fiction is based on diversity quotas, virtue signalling, putting down males and making women Mary Sues. This doesn't do any of that.
The only one who had the most sensible idea was Parker when he shouted 'why dont the freeze him' regarding Cain when Dallas and Ash were examining him. This was in a separate scene.
One year after my last comment I'm back here still fascinated by this movie. Meantime I'm seeing more and more little cutting-room floor gems like this. Someone out there with the skills should do a three or even four hour fan edit. Anyone listening?
You know what makes the environment so believable? The varying sound levels. You can feel the space and volume of the room and the different positions of the crew. In modern film, the voice levels of all the actors are the same which ruins the immersion.
In fairness I believe this scene was unedited. It would have been evened out in the final cut, not completely but to audible levels. Some of the voices were barely audible and Dallas stepped on Ripley's line.
The last word of this video clip has Ash saying "Right" in exactly the same way as Brett has been saying "Right" to almost everything Parker says in the first half of the film. Ash picked up on this Brett 'trait/saying' and as an android was able to mimic and repeat this back to Dallas, which showed smugness and the ability to imitate human characteristics. The Bret "Right" saying is shown in the film, however 'book Brett' says "Right" in this exact same way a lot more...
2:30 it's funny how my initial thought was "No way it would take as little as 20 minutes to build a cattle prod and a net" and then Dallas immediately addresses it afterwards
I get why it was cut, it slows the movie a little too much after that chest-bursting: gives the audience too much time to recover but, as an example ensemble acting this is a masterclass. So, so realistic - it's like they're not even acting. I love that little scene within a scene between Parker and Lambert after she calls Brett an idiot at 2:22 - they all did, but Veronica Cartwright, in particular, turned in one Hell of a perfectly weighted performance on this flick. One Hell of a job.
Stupid time constraints imposed on directors by the distributors and the theater companies. It's all about how many times a movie can be played in a theater in a day. 1/2 an hour of a movie being cut could allow for an extra showing per day of the film if the film was 2 hours in length. :(
When Ash says that their supplies are based on them only spending a limited amount of time awake in space, he wasn't kidding. Their oxygen and food supplies were very limited indeed, a matter of hours either side of their destination. This kind of urgency was reason enough for having to hunt the alien down in jig time and get it the hell off the ship before the oxygen alone ran out! I wonder why they left any reference to this out of the final cut of the movie?
@@gordondavis6168 no the nostromo was just that little part they went down to the planet in, it was essentially just a space MAC truck hauling a massive trailer which was an ore refinery, although granted just a few hours of food and air is just absurdly low
@@Giles29 What? The Alien ate the Human Food?......I don't think it raided their kitchen or anything like that. That said, the Nostromo Crew likely had a week or two worth of Oxygen Supply in their ship.
2:32 I think Lambert & Parker might have had something going on, based on the way they gesture towards each other. Parker is the most fit guy on the crew.
Steve Rogers That was hinted at in the scene just before the chestburster, when they're all gathered for a meal. Somone says something about the food being terrible, and Parker says he knew something else he'd rather eat, as he looked directly at Lambert; who smiled and looked away.
Well in the original script, the whole crew was supposed to be polyamorous. At the time of the events in the movie, Lambert and Kane were sexually involved prior to his death and Ripley and Dallas were sexually involved. Parker and Lambert had slept together previously. There is a deleted scene that hints at this when Ripley who is becoming suspicious of Ash, asks Lambert if she had slept with Ash and she said no and that Ash never seemed interested.
Well, actually the scene is a bit loose, with a just few well timed moments in it. Also, the shot perspective is only a full frame that doesn't show any detail. Perhaps it didn't yet go through montage, it all felt very rough. The dialog in itself was not so bad it just wasn't so tight.
@@jac-e6y- Maybe at one time, as Sal Nal said above, but there's another deleted scene that makes it clear Kane is sleeping with Lambert. He's verbally abusive with her, as I recall, and she doesn't have a whole lot of backbone. Sal Nal was also right about the crew being polyamorous - except for Ash, who wasn't interested, and Brett, who probably couldn't get any.
Can we please have a updated version released with all these dam good & well acted deleted scenes reinstalled so it can be viewed in it's original form. Shit that scene in which Kane is being cocooned hanging alongside Brett should of never been deleted.
This scene shows precisely why the original is infinitely better than Prometheus. All these characters seem like real people. The cast of Prometheus looked and acted like exposition mannequins.
@@visionist7 lol for me the final straw was when the idiots all took there helmets off, Hello foreign bacteria or pocket of random mysterios oxygen goes away in the next area, bunch of idiots
Alien 1 has by far the best acting out of all the Alien series, even better acting than Alien 2 with those space Marines even though Alien 2 is also a great movie.
It was never filmed, but one draft of the movie suggests that if the alien dies onboard the ship it's body acid would burn a hole through the ship anyway. Hence the desperate to flush it into soace. It wasn't that even just killing it with a gun would be dangerous, just it being around would be so. They of course, cut that... Still, food for though. :)
For me this movie was Ridley Scott's painting the Sistine Chapel. Although a great flick, from an emotional stirring standpoint and era of release, it buries Gladiator..
I do wish they had kept this scene mostly because that it gives Brett more screen time and more of a role instead of standing around and partly as it gives the group more of a discussion on how to kill it as it is something they never dealt with before and showing how serious the situation is with Parker admitting how scared he is of it and telling off Lambert, Dallas and Ash for bringing the alien onboard which shows that Ripley was not the only one who disagreed on bringing the alien inside the ship which considering what happened later on just proves how right he and Ripley were on not bringing it onboard.
@stripped5 I know it's a late response but remember this thing has acid for blood. THey did not know what this thing is capable of. So barricading is not really a good idea.
But at any point you have full knowledge of whats going on as far as the characters know, most films are either too cryptic or too obvious. This movie kept you on edge because for the first time the monster is actually a threat to humans who don't have militaries or PMCs to look after them. These were a bunch of engineers and seat fillers floating around in space for their corporate overlords, you can only relate with them, not the company- unless you derive some pleasure watching them die one by one
The Director's Cut of Alien is actually slightly shorter than the theatrical cut. They each have scenes not in the other. I can't be the only one who wants an "ultimate cut" with all the scenes from both versions AND deleted scenes like this restored. That would be awesome
Bullshit. If you are aboard a ship and someone was to die in such a horrirfic manner, on your mess-deck table, you'd be making sure that table was thoroughly cleaned after the removal of a body. Trust me... Not forgetting this was an alien creature, I wouldn't want to eat off a table that had undergone such a traumatic event. Would you? And why would cleaning the mess table be impractical? Clearly you've never been to sea as a working crew aboard a ship. Besides, there was ample 'tension' in that scene anyway....
@@Deebz270 - I’m speaking from a fictional narrative POV. It makes the audience think it’s a different room, it’s so clean. It almost looks like they filmed this scene before the chestbuster scene was done!
@@Deebz270 But cleaning that room would not have a priotity would it? They would have hastily dumped or forzen the body but there priority was finding that Alien. Not getting the Mr Sheen out and polishing the table off
My idea for an Alien5 movie is as follows: It takes place after alien4 and takes places on an earth in ruins. TheRipleyClone has transformed into an entity that is producing eggs,and a lot of humans are affected,and a war breaks out.They have to use a nuke on the swarms of xenomorphs and decidedes to travel to the planet where they think the xenomorphs orginate from.There they find there are multiple forms of xenomorphs.They manages to form a clone of a xenomorph that is able to communicate with them. And a peace is established. But as allways Weyland-Yutani has spies that want the xenomorph for their biological weapon program. And it is a surprice who the spy is. And that Weyland-Yutami has a lab on a spacestation not far from the xenomorph planet. Where they finds forms of xenomorphs that noone has seen before.
Right? It felt like the biggest betrayal when he delivered his first stinking pile of manure. I thought this was the guy that was going to save the franchise. I lost faith in everything after that. In my mind, 1 and 2 are the only real Alien movies. Everything else is just a long slog to oblivion.
@@darioinfini I disagree. Whilst I feel that the plot should have expanded after Aliens, either on LV426/Hadley's Hope, or aboard USCS Sulaco (in other words no Aliens3 or 4 - perhaps more along the lines of the game storylinge - 'Colonial Marines), the later productions of Prometheus and Covenant represented a fairly good prequel, though again production cuts did most of the damage. . People who don't like those last two productions basically don't understand them.
@@Deebz270 omg, you remind me of those 90s pretentious critics that Beavis and Butthead made fun of. So fucking great that you understand how polished those turds were!
Ridley Scott is very much like Steven Speilburg in how lucky they get in the actors they work with. great acting can change a film. it can elevate a film. many if ridley’s post blade runner movies suck. Gladiator was great, but much of that was the score, cinematography and Richard Harris. Alien is a Classic. And Scott gets too much credit for its success.
@@penoyer79 It's somewhat redundant, but it reinforces why they can't kill it due to acid blood burning through the hull. This was demonstrated with the facehugger, but not the adult xenomorph. Cutting the scene was ultimately the right choice I feel, however it was cool hearing the additional panicky dialogue from Brett and Parker.
If I have ever had one criticism of this movie it is how Parker and Brett are thought of as dumb. Um, they are engineers on a goddamned space ship..I highly doubt you could be very dumb to do that job. In another deleted scene Parker actually asks Brett, sarcastically, "What engineering school did you go to?". There is NO WAY these guys could have been stupid. Perhaps some of the smartest on the ship...at least they should have been. I don't criticize this movie easily, it is my favorite movie...and no, I am not an all things alien nerd. Every one of the other movies are really bad, Aliens is decent, but very different from this and, to be honest, not in the same league. My opinion, anyway
It's just an Officer - Enlisted rank thing. Shuda seen me back in the day at attention in front of the Lieutenant's desk getting hollered at...he wouldn't listen to reason for one second...
It's not out of the norm. There's an arrogance built in to some industries. I used to have a friend who was a physicist at Lawrence Livermore. I was an engineer working in Silicon Valley. One time he was frustrated with some personal problem he was dealing with and he angrily insulted me when I suggested how to deal with it saying "Goddamnit that's an ENGINEERING solution! I want a PHYSICS solution!" I was hardly dumb but I suppose I wasn't in his "league".
@@darioinfini There are even jokes like the one where God tests a mathematician, a physicist, and an engineer, to determine the volume of a small orange plastic ball before letting them into heaven. The mathematician measures the circumference which is 2 pi times the radius and then calculates the volume as 4/3 times pi times the radius cubed, the physicist puts the ball in a graduated cylinder filled with some water and measured the displaced volume, and the engineer takes out his engineering handbook and looks up the volume in the table of little plastic ball volumes.
I wonder why there is just this one wide shot, camera angle -wise. Didn't they resolve the scene into different camera set ups? There must be footage of that.
Why was this scene deleted in both original and directors cut version of Alien. Sir Ridley Scott Should create a new version named Alien Ultimate version with all deleted or removed scenes of 1979 version of Alien.
no ash let it on board since the door could only be opened breaking quarantine from the inside. Can't really blame him for wanting to get off that rock as fast as possible though, lv426 is a dismal planet by any metric.
2nd that, it was Ash who punched the open door button, we all know now why. Dallas, yes, should not have tried to order Ripley to let them in, but perhaps that's forgivable, a writers conceit perhaps, because how else to build the tension during that scene? Maybe it would have worked if only the others locked out clamored to let them in, and Dallas disagreed, but having Dallas demand it, as the leader, it took focus off of Ash letting them in on his own. He was following orders... saved him from suspicion that early on in the film, so it could be built up later on.
Hmm this is really a good scene that I wish was added in the special edition. I always wondered why they didnt just go into hypersleep but they didnt want it running around being sitting ducks. However they could have baracaded the sleeping tubes.
That would have defeated the point of the movie's story. (eyeroll). And what would they have 'barricaded' the cryochamber with? Given the wider understanding of the xenomorph, especially its circulatory system comprising of 'molecular acid', that the queen in AvP used her own 'blood' to release her from her chained bonds in the bowels of the ancient pyramid... In addition to how the facehugger managed to gain access to Ripley's cryotube in - Aliens3 ... We can assume, that given its imperative (to procreate) - the first xenomorph would have found a way to access those bodies whilst in cryosleep... It would have had after-all, plenty of time...
@goback3spaces that net never worked.. and niether did the laser or the harpoon gun.. and definently not the incenerator.. or electric prod. you ever win that game by any othe rmeans than blowing up the ship?
I never knew how big the Nostromo was. Ripley saying it "would take months" to search the ship room by room. Da heck. How many thousands of rooms could it have? And perhaps a more important question: are they all connected? Wouldn't there be some parts that a chestburster couldn't reach - even if it went down the vents?
seems wierd. Nostromo is a small tug of the much larger refinery ship. Maybe she meant both ships? But is there even a way for the alien to get to the refinery?
USCSS Nostromo was originally a commercial freighter, that was later used to haul (as a 'tug') ore refinerys from the 'outer belt' systems. . Although she had a relatively small ship's compliment, with their associated living quarters, cryochamber and bridge/operations spread across three decks, she would have had many other compartments for storage, hangerspace (seen in the Brett/'Jonesy' scene...) and auxilliary electronics/engineering compartments, all likely linked via the main air-conditioning system and electrical conduits, all of which would have presented little problem for the xenomorph's access to those (off-screen) parts of ship, certainly during its early adult life cycle... . Thousands of compartments (...there are no 'rooms' aboard a ship....)? No... As can be seen in that (dripping) aforementioned scene, the ship was fairly cluttered, offering ample hideouts for the xenomorph. 'Jonesy' clearly understood this significance. . The 'umbilicus' that connected the Nostromo to the refinery was a farily substantial structure (it had to be, to haul its gargantuan load...), it may have afforded crew access to the refinery, but not necessarilly on a routine basis, as the refinery itself was fully automated, so any access would be limited to possible inspection/maintenance procedures, unlikely to be undertaken by the 'tugs' crew and one could argue, that life-support was probably disabled for the refinery itself. It is unlikely therefor, that Ripley was alluding to the time taken to search both the Nostromo and the refinery.
I love the interior look of the Nostromo. It's one of the best designed ships in any science fiction film.
John Mollo was a genius of sci-fi set design
The Star Wars original trilogy also showcases his work
You can see some similarities between the Nostromo and the Falcon in construction
@@347Jimmywhoa, i kinda slightly wondered if there was a connection, but i just thought it was because sci-fi spacecraft movie design just starting out and so as with a lot of this kind of thing, sets styles of objects and things sometimes end up looking similar, i never looked up the sharing of the same designer. Thats funny
The Discovery in 2001 is also amazing.
You know I could watch hours and hours of the crew interacting and just doing their jobs (even mundane stuff) even without any scenes from the alien. I’ve never seen a film where I’ve been more invested in the characters……what a masterclass
I reckon someone with the skills should do a 4 hour Fan edit
Yes, ive always thought the original seemed more "real" or believable, maybe its just the look of the film back then, or something to do with the set of the ship that looked really grimey and well used and like real metal materials that weren't pretty and stylish, except in the crews habitat areas, but even there things looked dingey , kinda dirty and lot of miles on it.
jesus even years later it still looks fucking amazing....fantastic sets.
7 years after your comment friend and yes I agree.
Interesting detail I noticed. When the crew enters, they eerily look at the now cleaned table- which they associate with Kane's death- and keep their distance from it.
But not Ash. Ash sits down right where Kane was, totally un-fazed.
Even the scraps of this film are brilliant.
Great observation. I never noticed it until you pointed it out. It does point to Ash as being totally unfazed by what has happened thus far, thus hinting that's he not really on the crew's side.
Look who's sitting at the table: Ash! Creeped yet? Yes, this film is genius.
great eye sir!
I liked the way how Brett begins the argument on Ash. He sounds scared, yet pissed at the same time.
Love it! I wish they kept this scene.
Rest in Peace: Harry Dean Stanton, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto, and John Hurt!
Is it the same table?...it's a big ship. I wonder who got to clean the table after that mess?
So this is what good acting looks like. I was beginning to forget. I love this movie.
You wouldn't think it was the same guy who made prometheous and covenant. No silly Hollywood play acting just how you would react in that situation
@@leeperry295 RIGHT
@@leeperry295 That's exactly right. That's why I can't watch any modern movie anymore. I can't get over the fact that people simply don't act that way in real life. It's like everyone has become Tommy Wiseau in the movies.
@@darioinfini Yes, ever since the 1990s Hollywood has been producing total garbage, its nice to see a time when it use to be making great movies.
Let's face it, I want more and more and more. I could sit and listen to this crew argue for hours.
A triumph of character development without even a hint of specific backstory
I do think this scene should be in the film for one reason. I get that it slows things up, but frankly, this at least gives the alien a bit more time to grow up (off screen) of course. As it is, its only vague implied that hours of passed. This gives you the impression that they had the funeral, they cleaned up, they got the gear together, then they started the search. Giving the alien at least five or six hours to grow.
OpenMawProductions good point
Great point
@@mikeydudek2885 And yet, no one would think something the size of a small dog would grow to something taller than most men in only a few hours.
I like how the room is divided. Those that let the creature on the ship grouped on the right and everyone else on the left.
ash is also the only one sits at the table
Symbolism... or coincidence?
Hm, Lambert's on the left though.
@@darioinfini that’s true but I feel like by this point Lambert has crossed the floor and regrets her actions...she’s terrified!
@@hilton5pos Indeed, I hesitated posting my comment because I conceded that point in my mind as well.
I like the extra depth this scene gives to Brett's character and the irony that he devised the "net and cattle prod" idea, little knowing that it would lead to his demise.
By making the hyper sleep comment, this scene hinted Ash's objective of getting the organism back to Wey-Yu. Throughout the film, Ash never provided an original idea or thought of how to get rid of it, he just reacted to others by somehow negating theirs in turn sticking to his top priority as commanded like a machine would. But in this scene, he hinted they should just sleep and take the (at that time) little creature with them as if it were a rodent.
Well he did suggest putting Kane into Hypersleep after Kane woke up from the facehugger but Kane insisted on eating. Ash expected the Alien to burst out of him hence why he was watching Kane closely during the 2nd meal they were having before going back into the "freezers".
And he did support the idea to use fire against it.
Dallas: “We flush it out, room by room, quarter by quarter.” Ripley: “That will take months”. Gives you an idea how big the ship is! Great ensemble acting scene.
Pretty much what Burke was going to do to Ripley and newt in aliens if he was successful in having the facehuggers get them.
@@boblob2003 Not necessarily. The Nostromo itself wasn't that big, it was essentially a tugboat hauling a refinery attached to it, and it only had three decks. Plus there was no real way for the creature, as small as it was then, to navigate its way into the refinery, as the umbilicus, to the best of my knowledge, didn't have any dedicated piping or conduits for energy or fluid transfer. And even if it somehow did, the crew would have had the option of disconnecting from the refinery. Bada bing, problem solved. However, that was not in the nature of the Alien, its instincts at the time urging it to keep close to its prey.
I love the way Sigourney is back lighted in that door frame. The composition of that scene is grade-A.
Deletion of some scenes can be understood but when U watch them later as bonus on DVD most of time U notice that they were actually so necessary, not subsidiary at all. A lot of them give some essential details on the plot. For instance, here, some psychological elements are given... like indirect pieces of evidence shown more obviously later as Ash's specific behaviour. The android is the only one who sits down immediately at the table on which Kane died a few hours earlier like if nothing happened before. Moreover, this scene makes the characters be even more realistic: shocked, feeling upset, getting nervous & scared... to the point of arguing together. Well seen. I'm a clinical psychologist: this scene is really good. It's a shame that it was deleted.
They should just make the longest possible version. Call it a fan version. This is a great scene :)
Right!
@@goratgo1970 😂
I agree I'd love to see every single scene recut into it..,who cares if it's 3 hrs long? The fans love it. I just watched it again a few nights ago for what has to be the 75th tine and it still scares the shit out of me...it's a damn masterpiece.
@@goratgo1970 LMAO
This scene has many gems. First, Ash makes a joke by saying “Right” to Dallas saying that it will take the engineers time to build equipment- this is an echo to the previous conversation about Brett. Also, many of the characters have arcs. Parker starts off being greedy and selfish about his money, but then he heroically sacrifices himself trying to save Lambert. Dallas starts off as a laid-back Captain and states that he wants no heroics out of Parker, but when Dallas realizes that the creature has grown he steps up and volunteers to hunt the creature through the air vents. Ripley at first puts up with flack from Parker, but later she steps up a a leader. This scene would have provided an arc for Brett - he goes from being a monosyllabic flunky of Parker to brainstorming about ways to deal with the Alien and volunteering to build equipment to trap the Alien.
And then they all die
Why did they delete the scene?
@@21stcenturyscots 'cause
@@21stcenturyscots If you ever watch deleted scenes with director's commentary it is always the same -- "We loved this scene but we had to cut it for pacing."
Aside from the leader role, Ripley has an other arc you can see throughout the deleted scenes. She goes from being only by the book and stuck up to showing compassion towards the others. She was very dismissive of Parker and Brett, she denies Captain Dallas entry to save Kane. The right decision but not emotionally satisfying. Then later on in the deleted scenes, she comforts Lambert over everything. Then in the end she goes back for the cat even though that wouldn’t be the smart thing to do. If the writers wanted ripley to be the same from the start then she would have left Jonesy.
It really looks like the director briefed everyone on what was going on and what they'd seen so far, then chucked the screenplay away and said "ok talk. Action!" With basic directions on where to sit and walk etc.
It has a very adlib, real-talk vibe to it. If that's scripted, these people are freaking epic. All of them. Which they are, but like other level epic.
"I don't think we are going to go to the freezers with that thing running around Ash"
Reminds me of Hudson from Aliens "Sure! with those things running around... you can count me out" lol.
This scene could have been put in the movie with some zoom on each speaking character. It develops some interesting aspect of the character and gives to Brett a central position which is interesting : he is the next victim.
The thing I also love is the way they put Ash in front of the shit he generated : in the official movie, I'm always surprised to see Ripley as the only person blaming Ash for the intrusion of the alien in the ship... when actually many of them should be angry at him to let the situation getting worse.
For exemple, when the "birth" happend, Parker should have been angry at Ash to stop him from killing the creature.
Dallas should be more angry at him for having no data about the creature he is the only one to study.
This deleted scene shows how the scriptwriters thought about this aspect and the dialog is well written.
OMG.... that should have been kept in... i know it kills the pace of the movie... but it was very well done... and ash at the end using Brett's "right" quote was pure gold
That's just the master shot too. I'm sure if the scene was cut right with close ups and inserts as well as some trimming here and there, plus music and sound it would of fit in just fine. However, the film was a product of its day and was two hours long to allow more screenings in movie theaters per day. Another thing too, it hints at Ash's duplicity a little too much and Scott didn't want to over cook that and spoil the surprise later I think.
Ripley: "How do we find it? We're blind on B and C decks. All the screens are out down there." (Dallas had said earlier that's "horseshit," that they can take off without them.)
i’ll never forget meeting yaphet koto at the Maryland Science Center in the inner harbor of baltimore with my little brother sako in 1994 or 95 when he was shooting his tv series in b’more.
he was soooo nice and so exactly like he looks in film. Gentle Giant - RIP Parker 😎
If you go by the directors cut, you wanna realize that the cast of this movie has sadly pretty much been dying in the order they did in the movie?
Alien needs to return to it's roots: a claustrophobic horror story in space, instead of an action packed blockbuster.
Now that is great acting. Just one master shot. No need for close ups. It's basically a filmed stage play. I love great cinematography with all sorts of cool camera angles and I love a great music score, but if you have a good set, awesome actors and a decent script, you have a movie.
Lol this scene had 90% of Brett's dialogue for the whole film
Right...
Marmot J. Marmot lololololol
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@@mdcraig62 shape up, what are you some kind of parrot?
Actually, more like 60%. He does describe the cattle prods, and that made its way into the final cut.
It was the acting that made this movie. It could have all been played in the usual Hollywood B-movie style of the woman screaming all the time, and the men acting all fake-macho, but instead, we get tension, nerves, paranoia and confusion.
It was the first *properly* "woke" movie -- instead of the guy saving the day, it's the WOMAN that turns out to be the ultimate bad ass warrior. And not by kicking improbable ass effortlessly but by surviving on her wits and sheer determination and effort. Of course now that's "problematic" in today's woke world.
@@darioinfiniFuck all that woke shit. It was a good story because of its unpredictability. Woke fiction is based on diversity quotas, virtue signalling, putting down males and making women Mary Sues. This doesn't do any of that.
The only one who had the most sensible idea was Parker when he shouted 'why dont the freeze him' regarding Cain when Dallas and Ash were examining him. This was in a separate scene.
I kinda feel sorry for Brett in this part of the movie. Everyone makes fun of him, then he dies. LOL
first they ignore you, then they laugh at you, and then you die
Can we talk about the sound in this movie? It sounds like the ship is breathing around them
One year after my last comment I'm back here still fascinated by this movie. Meantime I'm seeing more and more little cutting-room floor gems like this. Someone out there with the skills should do a three or even four hour fan edit. Anyone listening?
First time seeing this deleted scene today. Epic. Should have been left in!
You know what makes the environment so believable? The varying sound levels. You can feel the space and volume of the room and the different positions of the crew. In modern film, the voice levels of all the actors are the same which ruins the immersion.
Yeah I picked up on that too.
Makes modern films all the more fake and soulless.
In fairness I believe this scene was unedited. It would have been evened out in the final cut, not completely but to audible levels. Some of the voices were barely audible and Dallas stepped on Ripley's line.
Another clip that should've be left in..
By this time the alien is already almost fully grown.
The last word of this video clip has Ash saying "Right" in exactly the same way as Brett has been saying "Right" to almost everything Parker says in the first half of the film. Ash picked up on this Brett 'trait/saying' and as an android was able to mimic and repeat this back to Dallas, which showed smugness and the ability to imitate human characteristics. The Bret "Right" saying is shown in the film, however 'book Brett' says "Right" in this exact same way a lot more...
Ash at the end to Dallas.... "Right" mimicking Brett :D
2:30 it's funny how my initial thought was "No way it would take as little as 20 minutes to build a cattle prod and a net" and then Dallas immediately addresses it afterwards
Would have hated to be the person who had to clean that area up after what happened. 😖
@́ ' We gotta talk about the bonus situation first. You want me to clean up? Gimme more money, I'll clean up.
Maybe the Nostromo had cleaning robots, like Roombas,, off screen. These cleaning bots could keep the ship clean while the crew is in hypersleep.
Jones was thorough.
They used raspberry jelly.
@@minicle426 you win one internet LOL
Harry Dean Stanton what a Fuckin actor !
I get why it was cut, it slows the movie a little too much after that chest-bursting: gives the audience too much time to recover but, as an example ensemble acting this is a masterclass. So, so realistic - it's like they're not even acting.
I love that little scene within a scene between Parker and Lambert after she calls Brett an idiot at 2:22 - they all did, but Veronica Cartwright, in particular, turned in one Hell of a perfectly weighted performance on this flick. One Hell of a job.
Who could have ever known they had a Hobbit onboard!?
It was an important aspect of the film. It should have been included. I'd be planning what do do as well if that thing was on board.
Stupid time constraints imposed on directors by the distributors and the theater companies. It's all about how many times a movie can be played in a theater in a day. 1/2 an hour of a movie being cut could allow for an extra showing per day of the film if the film was 2 hours in length. :(
To be fair, it's not like they could have known they about to literally redefine the science fiction movie genre with the film they were making.
There was once a 3 hour cut that was shown in texas apparently , these must have been in it
Waaay better than Alien: Covenant. I mean - I just farted and frankly that fart is better than Alien: Covenant.
When Ash says that their supplies are based on them only spending a limited amount of time awake in space, he wasn't kidding. Their oxygen and food supplies were very limited indeed, a matter of hours either side of their destination.
This kind of urgency was reason enough for having to hunt the alien down in jig time and get it the hell off the ship before the oxygen alone ran out!
I wonder why they left any reference to this out of the final cut of the movie?
I would have need the explanation you just gave to get it. part because I couldn´t hear shit of what ash was saying
The Nostromo is so big, they could live off the ship air for weeks.
@@gordondavis6168 no the nostromo was just that little part they went down to the planet in, it was essentially just a space MAC truck hauling a massive trailer which was an ore refinery, although granted just a few hours of food and air is just absurdly low
If I recall another deleted scene, it also ate a lot of their food to fuel its growth spurt
@@Giles29 What? The Alien ate the Human Food?......I don't think it raided their kitchen or anything like that.
That said, the Nostromo Crew likely had a week or two worth of Oxygen Supply in their ship.
Best cast. They could've done everything
It's good to see this bonus scene; thank you. 👍
I kinda wish they'd done this scene with Kane's sprawled and bloody body still on the kitchen table.
2:32 I think Lambert & Parker might have had something going on, based on the way they gesture towards each other. Parker is the most fit guy on the crew.
Steve Rogers That was hinted at in the scene just before the chestburster, when they're all gathered for a meal. Somone says something about the food being terrible, and Parker says he knew something else he'd rather eat, as he looked directly at Lambert; who smiled and looked away.
Well in the original script, the whole crew was supposed to be polyamorous. At the time of the events in the movie, Lambert and Kane were sexually involved prior to his death and Ripley and Dallas were sexually involved. Parker and Lambert had slept together previously. There is a deleted scene that hints at this when Ripley who is becoming suspicious of Ash, asks Lambert if she had slept with Ash and she said no and that Ash never seemed interested.
Well, actually the scene is a bit loose, with a just few well timed moments in it. Also, the shot perspective is only a full frame that doesn't show any detail. Perhaps it didn't yet go through montage, it all felt very rough. The dialog in itself was not so bad it just wasn't so tight.
@Sauron Merciful Lol! Parker and Lambert were definitely a couple. Same with Ripley and Dallas.
@@jac-e6y- Maybe at one time, as Sal Nal said above, but there's another deleted scene that makes it clear Kane is sleeping with Lambert. He's verbally abusive with her, as I recall, and she doesn't have a whole lot of backbone. Sal Nal was also right about the crew being polyamorous - except for Ash, who wasn't interested, and Brett, who probably couldn't get any.
Can we please have a updated version released with all these dam good & well acted deleted scenes reinstalled so it can be viewed in it's original form. Shit that scene in which Kane is being cocooned hanging alongside Brett should of never been deleted.
You mean Dallas. Kane was already dead as he gave birth to the Alien.
@@LUCKO2022 RIght.
The cocoon scene is in the Director's Cut
This scene isn't, however
20 minutes to get the net and cattle prod, another hour to play DOOM on the computer.
LOL, not when a real life monster is running loose on the ship making them play for their very lives...
Won't be eating breakfast on that table anytime soon 😆
Right!
This is some good acting man I feel real
This scene shows precisely why the original is infinitely better than Prometheus. All these characters seem like real people. The cast of Prometheus looked and acted like exposition mannequins.
I was heartbroken within a few minutes of Prometheus starting when I realised the entire cast were playing mongoloids
@@visionist7 lol for me the final straw was when the idiots all took there helmets off, Hello foreign bacteria or pocket of random mysterios oxygen goes away in the next area, bunch of idiots
Alien 1 has by far the best acting out of all the Alien series, even better acting than Alien 2 with those space Marines even though Alien 2 is also a great movie.
Amazing job the crew did in cleaning up the mess in the previous scene! 😳
It was never filmed, but one draft of the movie suggests that if the alien dies onboard the ship it's body acid would burn a hole through the ship anyway. Hence the desperate to flush it into soace. It wasn't that even just killing it with a gun would be dangerous, just it being around would be so. They of course, cut that... Still, food for though. :)
For me this movie was Ridley Scott's painting the Sistine Chapel.
Although a great flick, from an emotional stirring standpoint and era of release, it buries Gladiator..
Another good scene that should not have been cut. Intense interaction between the characters.
Listen closely and you can still hear the thrumming of the engines in the bowels of the ship.
The spaceship was awesome,I like it a lot
I do wish they had kept this scene mostly because that it gives Brett more screen time and more of a role instead of standing around and partly as it gives the group more of a discussion on how to kill it as it is something they never dealt with before and showing how serious the situation is with Parker admitting how scared he is of it and telling off Lambert, Dallas and Ash for bringing the alien onboard which shows that Ripley was not the only one who disagreed on bringing the alien inside the ship which considering what happened later on just proves how right he and Ripley were on not bringing it onboard.
No way in hell this would be included. There must have been more dynamic takes, like closeups and focus on whoever is talking at each moment.
I wish someone would combine all deleted scenes like this one into one extended version of the movie.
@stripped5 I know it's a late response but remember this thing has acid for blood. THey did not know what this thing is capable of. So barricading is not really a good idea.
ever noticed how this movie is structured so much like a play?
But at any point you have full knowledge of whats going on as far as the characters know, most films are either too cryptic or too obvious. This movie kept you on edge because for the first time the monster is actually a threat to humans who don't have militaries or PMCs to look after them. These were a bunch of engineers and seat fillers floating around in space for their corporate overlords, you can only relate with them, not the company- unless you derive some pleasure watching them die one by one
Great scene Brett shines
The Director's Cut of Alien is actually slightly shorter than the theatrical cut. They each have scenes not in the other. I can't be the only one who wants an "ultimate cut" with all the scenes from both versions AND deleted scenes like this restored. That would be awesome
THIS ALIEN MOVIE RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ash should have said, "right.." at the end. Haha
I would believe it if someone told that was not acting but a real meeting.
dallas "20 min to an hour...more like 2 or 3 with them."
ash "rIgHt..."
''Great!''
to be fair to Lambert she didnt want to invstigate the signal either, though she didnt object as much as Brett, Ripley and Parker did...
“Right!”
Knowing what we know today, a cattle prod ain’t gonna do it.
They shouldn’t have cleaned up the room so perfectly. It’s both impractical and lessens the tension...
Bullshit. If you are aboard a ship and someone was to die in such a horrirfic manner, on your mess-deck table, you'd be making sure that table was thoroughly cleaned after the removal of a body. Trust me... Not forgetting this was an alien creature, I wouldn't want to eat off a table that had undergone such a traumatic event. Would you? And why would cleaning the mess table be impractical? Clearly you've never been to sea as a working crew aboard a ship.
Besides, there was ample 'tension' in that scene anyway....
@@Deebz270 - I’m speaking from a fictional narrative POV. It makes the audience think it’s a different room, it’s so clean. It almost looks like they filmed this scene before the chestbuster scene was done!
@@Deebz270 But cleaning that room would not have a priotity would it? They would have hastily dumped or forzen the body but there priority was finding that Alien. Not getting the Mr Sheen out and polishing the table off
Blind on B and C decks...well thats where he is then, go turn those cameras back on and wait.
lol @ "Great" at he end.
If only they knew to get the ship back in orbit as quick as possible, dock with the mother ship, board it, and jettison that ship straight away.
ASH REALLY GETS HIS ASS CHEWED OUT BY BRETT!!!
My idea for an Alien5 movie is as follows:
It takes place after alien4 and takes places on an earth in ruins.
TheRipleyClone has transformed into an entity that is producing eggs,and a lot of humans are affected,and
a war breaks out.They have to use a nuke on the swarms of xenomorphs and decidedes to travel
to the planet where they think the xenomorphs orginate from.There they find there are multiple
forms of xenomorphs.They manages to form a clone of a xenomorph that is able to communicate with them.
And a peace is established.
But as allways Weyland-Yutani has spies that want the xenomorph for their biological weapon program.
And it is a surprice who the spy is. And that Weyland-Yutami has a lab on a spacestation not far from the xenomorph
planet. Where they finds forms of xenomorphs that noone has seen before.
Ok so they removed Brett's entire dialog in this movie.
... right!
This is one scene they should have definitely left in the original.
Remember when Ridley Scott was awesome? There's more cinematic value in this one deleted scene, than any of his modern Alien movie so-whats.
Right? It felt like the biggest betrayal when he delivered his first stinking pile of manure. I thought this was the guy that was going to save the franchise. I lost faith in everything after that. In my mind, 1 and 2 are the only real Alien movies. Everything else is just a long slog to oblivion.
@@darioinfini I disagree. Whilst I feel that the plot should have expanded after Aliens, either on LV426/Hadley's Hope, or aboard USCS Sulaco (in other words no Aliens3 or 4 - perhaps more along the lines of the game storylinge - 'Colonial Marines), the later productions of Prometheus and Covenant represented a fairly good prequel, though again production cuts did most of the damage.
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People who don't like those last two productions basically don't understand them.
@@Deebz270 There is no defense of Prometheus and Covenant. If you like those movies, you're not really a fan of the original two movies.
@@Deebz270 omg, you remind me of those 90s pretentious critics that Beavis and Butthead made fun of. So fucking great that you understand how polished those turds were!
Ridley Scott is very much like Steven Speilburg in how lucky they get in the actors they work with. great acting can change a film. it can elevate a film.
many if ridley’s post blade runner movies suck. Gladiator was great, but much of that was the score, cinematography and Richard Harris.
Alien is a Classic. And Scott gets too much credit for its success.
Brett talking? Holy shit😂 Riiight😛
This is a critical scene that should have stayed in the movie. Ash was the one to blame ultimately. Ripley was right to question his motives.
That scene was totally solid, why didn’t they leave it in the theatrical version? Time constraints?
it's redundant. the audience doesn't need them to explain to us what we're going to see them do anyway.. even though the performances are good.
@@penoyer79 It's somewhat redundant, but it reinforces why they can't kill it due to acid blood burning through the hull. This was demonstrated with the facehugger, but not the adult xenomorph. Cutting the scene was ultimately the right choice I feel, however it was cool hearing the additional panicky dialogue from Brett and Parker.
Probably. It was fairly long movie right? Just under 2 hours. They cut about 20 minutes out. So something had to give.
If I have ever had one criticism of this movie it is how Parker and Brett are thought of as dumb. Um, they are engineers on a goddamned space ship..I highly doubt you could be very dumb to do that job. In another deleted scene Parker actually asks Brett, sarcastically, "What engineering school did you go to?". There is NO WAY these guys could have been stupid. Perhaps some of the smartest on the ship...at least they should have been. I don't criticize this movie easily, it is my favorite movie...and no, I am not an all things alien nerd. Every one of the other movies are really bad, Aliens is decent, but very different from this and, to be honest, not in the same league. My opinion, anyway
It's just an Officer - Enlisted rank thing. Shuda seen me back in the day at attention in front of the Lieutenant's desk getting hollered at...he wouldn't listen to reason for one second...
It's not out of the norm. There's an arrogance built in to some industries. I used to have a friend who was a physicist at Lawrence Livermore. I was an engineer working in Silicon Valley. One time he was frustrated with some personal problem he was dealing with and he angrily insulted me when I suggested how to deal with it saying "Goddamnit that's an ENGINEERING solution! I want a PHYSICS solution!" I was hardly dumb but I suppose I wasn't in his "league".
@@darioinfini There are even jokes like the one where God tests a mathematician, a physicist, and an engineer, to determine the volume of a small orange plastic ball before letting them into heaven. The mathematician measures the circumference which is 2 pi times the radius and then calculates the volume as 4/3 times pi times the radius cubed, the physicist puts the ball in a graduated cylinder filled with some water and measured the displaced volume, and the engineer takes out his engineering handbook and looks up the volume in the table of little plastic ball volumes.
@@FredPlanatia LOL good one.
I wonder why there is just this one wide shot, camera angle -wise. Didn't they resolve the scene into different camera set ups? There must be footage of that.
Why was this scene deleted in both original and directors cut version of Alien. Sir Ridley Scott Should create a new version named Alien Ultimate version with all deleted or removed scenes of 1979 version of Alien.
Very interesting they just need to put the whole movie together
Everything was Dallas's fault. He let the facehugger on the ship and had the ship take off before repairs were completed.
no ash let it on board since the door could only be opened breaking quarantine from the inside. Can't really blame him for wanting to get off that rock as fast as possible though, lv426 is a dismal planet by any metric.
2nd that, it was Ash who punched the open door button, we all know now why. Dallas, yes, should not have tried to order Ripley to let them in, but perhaps that's forgivable, a writers conceit perhaps, because how else to build the tension during that scene? Maybe it would have worked if only the others locked out clamored to let them in, and Dallas disagreed, but having Dallas demand it, as the leader, it took focus off of Ash letting them in on his own. He was following orders... saved him from suspicion that early on in the film, so it could be built up later on.
@@FRACTUREDVISIONmusic it was Dallass orders that let the facehugger on the ship
If this was a game,” the great unknown...”?! Your probably better off playing “dig dug!”!
Lol, did Ash say 'Right' at the end?
Hmm this is really a good scene that I wish was added in the special edition. I always wondered why they didnt just go into hypersleep but they didnt want it running around being sitting ducks. However they could have baracaded the sleeping tubes.
That would have defeated the point of the movie's story. (eyeroll).
And what would they have 'barricaded' the cryochamber with? Given the wider understanding of the xenomorph, especially its circulatory system comprising of 'molecular acid', that the queen in AvP used her own 'blood' to release her from her chained bonds in the bowels of the ancient pyramid... In addition to how the facehugger managed to gain access to Ripley's cryotube in - Aliens3 ... We can assume, that given its imperative (to procreate) - the first xenomorph would have found a way to access those bodies whilst in cryosleep... It would have had after-all, plenty of time...
for 6 months? Really want tio go to sleep with Alien running around? Then what? Wake up...land no propblems?
They should have kept this
I can see why the scene was cut. The camera looked too far out while it was a closer in the rest of the movie. It just looks like stock footage to me.
@goback3spaces that net never worked.. and niether did the laser or the harpoon gun.. and definently not the incenerator.. or electric prod. you ever win that game by any othe rmeans than blowing up the ship?
I never knew how big the Nostromo was. Ripley saying it "would take months" to search the ship room by room. Da heck. How many thousands of rooms could it have?
And perhaps a more important question: are they all connected? Wouldn't there be some parts that a chestburster couldn't reach - even if it went down the vents?
seems wierd. Nostromo is a small tug of the much larger refinery ship. Maybe she meant both ships? But is there even a way for the alien to get to the refinery?
USCSS Nostromo was originally a commercial freighter, that was later used to haul (as a 'tug') ore refinerys from the 'outer belt' systems.
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Although she had a relatively small ship's compliment, with their associated living quarters, cryochamber and bridge/operations spread across three decks, she would have had many other compartments for storage, hangerspace (seen in the Brett/'Jonesy' scene...) and auxilliary electronics/engineering compartments, all likely linked via the main air-conditioning system and electrical conduits, all of which would have presented little problem for the xenomorph's access to those (off-screen) parts of ship, certainly during its early adult life cycle...
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Thousands of compartments (...there are no 'rooms' aboard a ship....)? No... As can be seen in that (dripping) aforementioned scene, the ship was fairly cluttered, offering ample hideouts for the xenomorph. 'Jonesy' clearly understood this significance.
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The 'umbilicus' that connected the Nostromo to the refinery was a farily substantial structure (it had to be, to haul its gargantuan load...), it may have afforded crew access to the refinery, but not necessarilly on a routine basis, as the refinery itself was fully automated, so any access would be limited to possible inspection/maintenance procedures, unlikely to be undertaken by the 'tugs' crew and one could argue, that life-support was probably disabled for the refinery itself. It is unlikely therefor, that Ripley was alluding to the time taken to search both the Nostromo and the refinery.
The nostromo was something like 900 feet long without the platform...that ship was HUGE
@@davidw5993 imagine seeing the tug on the landing pad for the first time... size of an ocean liner
My god did you hear Ash mock Brett with "right" at the very end of the scene?? F'ing awesome!
what did ash said ? the thing about going to cryo sleep and provitions?
I believe he said that the amount of provisions available to sustain the crew were based on them spending a limited amount of time out of hypersleep.
OhmSweetOhm thank you mah man.