Alien: The Deleted Airlock Sequence - Explained
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- In this video I explore one of the most fascinating scenes omitted from Ridley Scott's 1979 film Alien. Piecing together the little footage that was filmed, and other visual aides, I go over the scene as remained in-tact in Alan Dean Foster's novelization.
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Back when Alien was first shown in theaters, I saw a calendar in a Walden's bookstore depicting pictures from the movie. I never forgot how one of the pictures showed the Xenomorph's head in a profile view with a well-lit white background which made its skeletal face clearly visible under the translucent cranial cover. When I finally saw the movie years later (when I was old enough to watch it), I was perplexed at never seeing the Xenomorph displayed like that in any scene. This video finally solved that mystery! It was a still image from the deleted airlock scene, the very existence of which I was unaware. Thanks for making this awesome video!
I remember being terrified of the TV and newspaper ads for it.
Never saw the skeletal face til later. Not a fan of it.
@@danieldevries3230 me either
I remember that calendar!
I love the alien design. It's what got me into SFX and film. I pestered my mum to take me to see Alien when I was 6. She knew the manager of the local Odeon and took me. I had nightmares for years about being chased along my dark school corridor that had steam spurts and strobing lights. When the alien caught up to me... to my 6 year old mind... it was a dolphin with no eyes and double rows of silver teeth that walked on spiny face hugger legs with hands for feet... all black and shiny. Also to me it was three aliens... the skin crab, the snake and the big dolphin headed spider thing. Haha
Anyway, when it finally became more popular and I older, it became what it is: the best alien creature design of all time.
I like the skull within the dome. It makes the xenomorph more weird and in-human. The skull is there purely as a vestigial useless shape. Merely a remnant of the human DNA it uses to mesh together with. There is even a fused useless spine structure running across the crest. It's truly creepy as hell. It's also biomechanical. Steel chrome teeth and nails.
Cameron's xenomorphs were amazing but were made insect-like. Cannon fodder. Less alien and something familiar.
I assumed Ripley's nose bleed had been induced by stress, which really amped up the tension in the confrontation scene with Ash. Thank you for your narration
in film, usually details like that would need to be explained, it can't just be random. but it's incidental enough that it worked without the cut sequence
She had not drank water for days!!!!
Really?
Even during Brett's death?
That scene would have been terrifying. What a great narration and summation of the details. Thanks.
I remember reading this is the novelization. What they never mention from the novel... Ripley and Dallas were banging each other...
2 years response, I know. But I completely agree. Audiobook material, free on UA-cam.
+1 ...
Although Alien is a work of art and the best sci-fi movie ever made, they cut a little too much, in order to leave it to our imagination...
I know!
"Would you like to see the scene restored in some way?"
I think I just did. Great work.
Aw thank you!
This is an awesome scene. It reinforces a few points that felt a bit lacking. 1, you cant kill it by making it bleed or you risk decompression and killing yourself. 2, Ash is the only one who could've set off the klaxon confirming he's helping it all along. 3, immediately before this scene they were discussing continuing with Dallas's plan to drive it in to the airlock, well the airlock is now damaged so not an option anymore.
The alien is an explorer, it's body resembles a space suit, with the tubes and vents. The massive helmet like head. It's exploration of the ship and its crew showed moments of pure curiosity only over shadowed by its hostility (and physical perfection lol). This scene fascinated my dad, who read the book. He was intrigued by the creatures curiosity in this scene.
Is the book worth reading?
In the book it turns out Ash actually activated the klaxon to futher protect the alien
it's a perfect organism as long as the company is there tho protect it...
I knew it!
He certainly does
Book came after the film, I think?
@@Justin-kv8iy I think the book was written before the film was released and the final version of the film decided. From what I remember, Alan Dean Foster used the full original scripts to write the novel before cuts were made to the final version of the film. Think the Dallas cocoon scene was also in the book
I'd LOVE to see this whole scene fully restored and inserted into a second director's cut!
Can't restore what wasn't shot. The scenes at the airlock pretty much do not exist, except in ALIEN: Isolation.
@@Xeno426 If Peter Jackson and a Russel McCulley can insert new footage into older movies seamlessly then it's possible.
Bleah, the theatrical cut WAS the ‘directors cut’ as Ridley got exactly what he wanted. The directors cut that Fox threw out was just marketing crap, cobbled together with poor pace ruining edits in of scenes that Ridley had already considered worthless.
No more versions. The painting is finished. It is hanging in the gallery. Leave it alone. Look at it, admire, then walk to the next work of art.
@@garrybaldy327 That's a boring way to live. Creating a new interpretation of an art piece does not degrade the original. If you think the original was perfect, good for you, that doesn't mean you get to stop others from making their own version if they feel necessary. If the only way you are allowed to interact with an art piece is observe it and move on to the next one, that art looses any feeling of personal attachment from the viewers and becomes nothing more than just another in an endless see of art we consume for our entertainment without giving it a second thought. When something resonates with people, they tend to want to interact with it, like creating offshoot works and new versions. Denying them that is the same as denying them getting an attachment to that piece of art. After all, the most important thing about art is not what the creator wanted to tell, but what the audience got from it, as that is what decides it's legacy.
Actually nosebleeds can occur from extreme stress alone. I have this problem. Sometimes a capillary breaks in the nose from heightened blood pressure.
That's how I took it in the original film.
Knowing the cut sequence, though, it makes more sense that it was a reemergence of her injuries from the airlock sequence.
same happens to me if you stress me out and piss me off enough to have the tension create a nose bleed you're screwed cuz I am going to snap.
It was the blood rushing out of her body when the airlock broke and mostly depressurization. The blood froze/thickened cuz of the ice cold space Rushing in, then her argument n stress with mother n ash warmed the bloody nose to drip,
@@cyanyde4950 My best friend Niles Crane also has this problem anytime he lies
@@andrewcampbell2242 They are definitely a thing :)
I think nowadays it would be cool to see this completed scene, now that the Alien franchise has a solid foothold in pop culture. But back then, I understand why he dropped this sequence. It would have shown too much of the alien and Scott's vision was to show certain things but to let peoples own imagination scare them. Also, loved the Alien Isolation visuals. By far the best Alien game out there.
i assume ash was monitoring the situation and sounded the klaxon to draw the alien away
11:56 it was also done to reflect the difference between her and Ash. If you notice in that scene, as it goes back and forth between Ripley and Ash, she is bleeding _red_ blood from her nose, while Ash is bleeding _white_ blood from his forehead.
Until very recently, I didn’t notice Ripley’s nosebleed. I had a feeling it was because of a missing scene.
Thanks so much for this!
I'm always struck by just how truly bueatiful Sigourney is in this movie when I've not seen it for a long time
Still beautiful now ❤️🔥
@@markbarrett4440 yeah but-
Whenever i watch Alien
I can't take my eyes off her
Es una mujer atractiva...
I just realized this adds context to the scene where the alien stretches out its arm and waves it as it approaches like its testing out its new limb not just being weird and mysterious.
Do you mean where he stands before Lambert and stretches the appendage before killing her?
You're absolutely right about the George Lucas reference. Directors cuts, special editions and reworks are all fine but the availability of the original is paramount.
Agreed movies aren't just entertainment they are windows on a period of time and highlight social norms, acting styles and production styles of a given time so its cool to see that and preserve it.
I'm lost !
It's a good thing Lucas is no longer in control of Star Wars
@@MLennholm begone, his changes are harmless next to the Disney Trollogy.
Heaven Piercing Man Maybe, but he's also responsible for the prequels, which are *much worse* than the sequels
this is one of the most realistic explosive depressurization scenes i've ever heard of in a movie or any form of media. i've always hated that in so many shows, even the sequel to alien, aliens, there seems to be so much local air, and despite being decompressed, the people never suffer any side effects what so ever. im actually really upset this was left out of the film
Read the novel years ago. Great scene. Alan Dean Foster did a great job adapting the film. Still upset this scene & the Cocoon scene got cut. Also it blew me away how fast the alien healed. It's arm snapped off and regrew damn near instantly.
Just like the snakes head in Prometheus
Mannnn this channel gives me life. I love the Alien franchise and I get just that and more from this channel.
This is very interesting. But honestly I'm glad this didn't make it in the film. Part of what made the film so great is "less is more"
@rockn roll Less is more. The original release of Alien is a nearly perfect piece of Science Fiction horror. The director's cut is *not* the superior cut of Alien.
@rockn roll Band of Brothers is a mini-series, not a movie. It's one thing to have a 10 episode show, and another thing to have a nearly 11 hour movie. Your analogy is flawed.
@rockn roll I don't think you understood my point. I was exclusively talking about your analogy, not your point.
Your analogy to BoB is flawed, because BoB is a mini-series split into 10 episodes. Movies can't (well technically they could, but nobody would watch a 10 hour movie) last that long. You say that you've seen people say BoB is 10/10, but slam movies for their pacing, but you are ignoring the massive difference between a series and a movie. Pacing works differently in different mediums.
@rockn roll People watch series with different expectations as to when they watch a movie, you can like a series of self contained well paced 1h episodes and dislike a 2.5h movie that decided that every character had to have its moment. The thing is, pacing is very important and a series like BoB does have a good pacing, you go in expecting a beginning and a end to that 1h pack, you are not supposed to load up on supplies and be eager to know the ending in one sitting. On a movie on the other hand we expect a complete experience in the time we dedicated to it and there are multiple cases of movies want us to be there for more than 2h with a good amount scenes that diverts from the main plot.
OpenMawProductions that’s your point of view not an absolute and definitive truth. I, for instance, like the egg-morphing scene that was cut and feel that it makes the « director’s cut » superior to the original. And though I love Aliens, in retrospect I feel that the whole Queen and hive principle makes the alien species a kind of space-ant, and that takes from the absurd and unthinkable aspect lifecycle of the alien we get to experience from the first installment of the franchise.
To me, the main thing this scene does is cast more suspicion on Ash. With Lambert and Ripley in the cockpit and Parker at the airlock, only one person could've thrown the klaxon switch at that point. The next scene would be Ripley rushing in to query Mother about Ash and discovering the secret order. It also finally shows the crew almost getting the upper hand on the alien. The alien was always a step ahead (thanks to Ash's assistance) and this shows the humans finally getting an opportunity to win.
I saw the film in New York , June 1979. I remember the cinema being almost empty. I also remember being exhaustively petrified. I ALSO recall never understanding what the monster really LOOKED like. This is the beauty of Ridley's masterpiece and genius. When the Alien burst out of Kane's chest, we saw a small, bloody phallus-like monster without legs screeching and racing off like a F1-car. As we came to understand it was growing, never did we envisage it growing bipedal legs. Maybe it would slither around like a snake, or crawl around on eight legs, spider-like.
It took many years for me to accept the Alien as a bipedal vertebrate.
"Empty"?
@@MrUndersolo Indeed. Middle of the day show, I think. I recall a mother with her baby...
@@kallekula1860 I also saw it in an almost empty theatre. It was the first day it opened in my city and it was the second only showing (first was 11.15am, and I saw the 2pm session). I knew next to nothing about it and it scared me too. But I was disappointed when you saw the alien in the final shots, when Ripley blew it out of the airlock, and it was just a man in an alien suit. I wish they could have found a way to keep it alien in its adult form and not have it been a humanoid with an elongated head.
Poor Parker...
All he wanted to do was go home and party. But as fate would have it he died..
Never receiving full shares n never resolving the bonus situation.
Party on in heaven Parker!!
R.I.P
A pulp fiction version of the original alien with title cards like "The Full Shares" and "The Bonus Situation Talk"
Daniel Gurule
Haha right on!!
yes... part on Parker...part on!
Parker is my favorite character. He also displayed the best character development. In the beginning he was obnoxious and whiny. Near the end, he showed some true heroics.
@@dajzilla haha why am I just seeing this now??? It's been corrected 😂😂😂
I think I would like to see this scene restored, even if just in special cuts. I'm a big fan of Yaphet Kotto after years of watching him as G on Homicide: Life on the Street so it'd be a thrill to see Parker get to try and take the thing out on his own, even if he's afraid.
The Alien audio book is on UA-cam...it is creepy as shit! Now I have seen Alien/Aliens so many times...i could probably recite lines in the movies, but I was listening to the audiobook at work and thay probably was not the best idea. Im listening to the book and saying...oh shit..you gonna get ate up! And that was on scenes that were not in the movie. Although the audio book doesn't go directly by the movie....it will still creep you out. It goes into greater detail of how the Alien stalked the crew, and what Weyland Corp. knew about the alien prior to the crew going to LV426...it just make you hate the company that much more....
I'm going to check it out. Thanks. I had no idea it was on here.
Now I gotta check this out!
Its impossible to make me hate the company any more..
I read the novels of all 3 movies backvthen and never wanna do it again. Much more terrifying than the movie.
So... can we talk about the bonus situation?
Hey man, I just forgot something...
I just want to go home and party!
Yes, but everybody else, uh, gets more than us
Yeah, but there's a clause in the contract.
Parker would you just shut up and listen to the man.
I absolutely love this scene and Your channel, great video!!! I would love to see this remade.
Remade?
Millennial.
I haven't read this since the late 80's - It's utterly amazing with the video splicing. Great job and well read. Cheers Bud.
The idea of a regenerating xenomorph is frightening and might have been cool to have seen.
well the protomorphs regenerate but we never get a whole scene of them getting damaged, altho the neomorphs get shot multiple times
David may have crated the queen we see in Aliens as well as the colony, that is my current theory as that would be a great way to save the prequels and would also explain the change in xenomorphs that we see take place between Alien and Aliens, Alien 4 ressurection's changes are from the cloning process and the newborn is a further mutation of that process, it's likely that the cloned xenos would ultimately just die off on their own and destroying the ship would have just saved a few dozen people at most if that is the case [we see multiple of them fused and melted together at one point when ridley is taken away]
Well the snake things from Prometheus had regeneration
The alien in 3 and 4 both spit acid.
will cosens alien colonial marines
@@silent_stalker3687 GTFO with your prequels garbage
I could listen to you read the entire book!
Same. Would be great to listen to before going to sleep.
Alien audiobook is available on Audible.
@@SCSRdotorg Thanks, I need to listen to this as I was gripped with the short clip. Brilliant narration.
Adding this scene would make sense of Ripley's claim in Aliens about the alien bleeding acid. In the original film she never saw the adult alien bleed.
Ripley knew the facehugger bled acid, it would be a safe assumption that the xenomorph would as well.
She also recognize the alien nest but in the cinematography cut she never saw it (she sees it in the also cutted scene when she found the captain cocooned)
One of the things this deleted scene explains is why the alien goes to the escape ship at the end, with the experience of the airlock and lost of its limb it runned to the only place of Notromo where there weren't blinking light and klaxons...
I thought this too. And It being injured would of also explained why the alien was alot more docile than all previous encounters when it when it finally confronted ripley in the escape ship,
I really wish this scene was filmed and kept in the movie but just with a more nuanced less clear imagery of the alien in the scene, than what is described here.
That scene was cut to make the Alien more intelligent. It knew Ripley was trying to escape.
Well, that theory is blown out of the water in regard to Lambert and Parker's death scene happened after the airlock and before the escape pod
@@catadjusterZ Well, maybe it wanted a little snack before the flight... :)
I think the Alien retains some of it's former host's survival-related knowledge. Kane would have known about the escape shuttle. Also, when they try to capture the chestburster with the net, before they discover Jones the Cat, they find that some of the lights in the corridors have been turned off/sabotaged (Parker says: "I thought we fixed this..."). That and hiding in the shuttle made me believe the Alien retained some basic survival instincts about it's environment.
Is this what has been made as the "Crew Expandable" DLC in Alien Isolation? I remembered that in the DLC player almost make it to lock the Alien inside the airlock, but the last door never closed regardless how hard the player pushed the button - it was Ash, he was commanded to bring Alien back. This is very similar with this deleted sequence.
Pretty much, yeah.
Yep. Ash stopped the door from closing I guess.
@@VV-lw8vb In a way, Ash himself was an alien. He was friends with no one, and he wasn't truly a part of the crew. Ash was simply Weyland-Utani's loyal instrument-- a mechanical means to an end.
@@Maldoror2112 Except that Ash did not have a choice. He was a programmed thing. Ash couldn't do anything against his programming. Ash is not to be considered as an Actor with free will.
I read the book a long time ago and remember the airlock scene and Ash prematurely setting off the warning klaxon.
If it had been kept in, Ripley's comment when they were reactivating Ash;s head would have made more sense. "He's been protecting it all along".
there’s also a hint that Ash tried to communicate with the Alien
I read the book in German and remember the last part of the dialogue between Ripley and Ash... Ripley asked him if he had managed to communicate with the Alien.
He answered: "Let me take this secret with my into grave..."
And then Ripley finally unplugs him.
@@timboland7767 he stood before the alien and had some understanding with it.
This was fantastic. Thank you, man...non-game-over levels of a precision overview, backstory, and quite excellently presented. Cheers :)
Nice use of the "Crew Expendable" DLC footage to recreate some of the scenes.
OMFG- how great is that? Isolation was genius.
@@planexshifter Ironic that one of my favorite games of all time is one I can't play for more than an hour or so without a good stiff drink
Oh man, this scene would be amazing to see. So intense. Absolutely loved your narration.
I have subbed you, I've Always been fascinated with this ommited Scene, even when I was a small boy in 1979, we used to play alien down our local allotments at night, using the grass paths between plots as corridors. One boy was the alien who would hide behind a shed and waited, it was truly scary
I think the Alien movies are why I'm creeped out going into unfinished basements as an adult. Long live Lt Ripley!
I thought this and other scenes that exposed the Alien's humanoid form were cut because they wanted to preserve the mystery of it's shape until the final scenes of the film. Scott says as much in the director commentary track on the DVD.
Lambert, the actress that played the part, made this film for me - i still get chills from her performance.
That was one of the really good things about reading Alan Dean Foster's adaptation. -That, and Kane's thoughts as he descents into the egg chamber :3
In my opinion, space and the ship would become another antagonist, it would have taken away the isolation - clausterphobic factor and opened up the story to outside forces. We needed to feel trapped on the Nostromo with something we did not understand.
I love that scene, especially the shots of the Alien near the airlock vestibule and in the corridor. Scary as shit...
A great scene that adds more feel of danger aboard the ship. After those sequences, you can understand the Nostromo would end seriously damaged if the Alien hunt continues for more time. Also, this scene and the next one between Ripley and Lambert stablish both them are leaving behind their differences after all the plaanetoid and Kane issue.
Absolutely amazing scene. I wish it was completed. So many intense and just great moments here
The nose bleeding now makes a lot of sense. Of course, they eventually made it a part of Ripley's quirk in the series (as shown in Alien 3). By the way, the mention of that deleted scene where Ripley asks Lambert if she ever had sex with Ash also shows up in the comic illustration adaptation of 'Alien' in Heavy Metal. :)
They did film quite a bit of this. Turns out.
However, I don't think they filmed the part where Parker got "freight trained" by the Alien (ran over).
They also may not have filmed the moments Ripley and Parker were laying on the deck knocked out.
They had to be taken to the Auto-Doc.... for decompression syndrome sickness.
The continuity of this event was recorded in the final version ala... Ripley's bloody nose during the encounter with Ash (she had it before he attacked her).
This also explains why Ash chose to use a magazine to suffocate her... knowing she would gag on her own vomit and it would appear her decompression sickness caused her death ( to the others).
Loving this channel m8, especially the out of film stories. Your a great story teller. I’am a big Aliens fan but I don’t read the comics or books so it’s great to have them told by you. I play a lot of darts and I love having a throw and putting your channel on for something to listen too. Brilliant m8 👍
Hell, yeah. Bring this scene to completion, Ridley Scott.
I think they tried to do this scene, kinda, in a DLC for alien Isolation. Maybe they hoped to entice Ridley to do it.
VBSuper Yeah I remember playing that DLC. Now it makes more sense knowing of this deleted scene
Yeah, 'cause it was supposed to be in the movie, that DLC, and it wasn't.
Nodak81 Why? I appreciate what Ridley brought to the table with the original film, but I have to say I am less and less impressed with his overall vision for the franchise. The more "Ridleyverse" films we get, the more I think the overall success of Alien was due to the wonderful script by O'Bannon and Shusett. I can only imagine if he did a remake of the original film it would naturally follow the Prometheus, Covenant, etc. story line that he is currently working on. With the number of problems that exist in those scripts, I don't have any hope that a Ridley remake of the original would be any good at all.
O'Bannon and Shusett are the reason why Alien worked, yes Scott did a great job directing but it was O'Bannon and Shusett that created 90% of the universe and everyone seems to forget that and give sole credit to Scott. Now we are getting all of this space jesus engineer stuff from Scott who wants to do some weird origin of mankind stuff when the series is about people trying to survive against this alien threat that lerks in the dark corners of the universe.
If Ridley Scott made the scene today, he'd probably put the Alien in broad daylight and have the characters constantly slipping on spilled blood.
As always, way kickass information bro..would have been awesome to see on the BigScreen!! 👍👍
This scene would've been GOLDEN. This should be in the director's cut
Not seeing the alien till late in the film is paramount to creating the tension that only a few classics have Jaws being the best example - the airlock scene could be filmed without a frontal shot of the alien more like a flash shot of it disappearing into the lock hears the klaxon as it realises its situation and dives to a dark floor shot to escape with a reverse view of the door lock snapping onto its arm - love reading the comments and how the franchise is interpreted by everyone else cheers
as for Ripley's nose bleed I just took it that after discovering ash's betrayal her Blood pressure spiked so high at the betrayal it cased the bleeding.
A horror monster should never be seen, excepting in part and then in a flashing glimpse. Our imagination is always more frightening.
The best part about the movie is that we never got a straight, full on look at the alien...for good reason, it looked like a guy in a suit. Like the famous "crawl scene" that was cut...it would have been a buzzkill to keep it in there. Cutting the scene where she torches Dallas was the right call, too. The film is perfect as is.
I always wondered why she got the nose bleed in the scene when ash malfunctioned
Jason Meadough High stress. Happens to anyone.
i think the fight scene with Ash got edited, just like her altercation with Lambert and the scene with parker and the Alien, all got cut/edited, Ripley´s nose bleed from one take to another for no apparent reason and Ashs forehead bleeds white also for no apparent reason...
"Keep it down!" whispered Parker. "We need to talk about the bonus situation."
Best storyteller on UA-cam! Great delivery as always.
Why the hell didn't Alan Dean Foster write the screenplay for Covenant....not those shitty TV writers who know nothing of the Alien universe or give a damn about it's loyal fan base.....
Because he didn't write the screenplay for Alien or Aliens. He wrote the novelisation of the script, not the script or story. People need to realise that the novels were all tertiary forms of the media. The script -> movie -> book was how it went. Dan O'Bannon was the original story writer and David Giler/Walter Hill did Aliens and 3. Those are the only writers you want on the movies and I doubt Dan O'Bannon would want to be involved since his highly intelligent perfect organism has been turned into space ants by consistently degradingly bad writers.
HE DID
I read comic book stories that were better than any of the Spider Man Movies, that Iron Fist Series on Netflix made me cry
I loved this part in Foster's novelization. Subbed...
Yes I would love to see them bring the entire scene back.
Loved your reading of the scene. It'd be great if it was filmed.
ben stein It was partly filmed. They didnt have enough money to complete the rest - - either that or Herr Direktor Scott was too obsessed with pacing
Wow I wasn't aware of this deleted scene, should be put back in , would be a great scene. ....... narrated brilliantly by yourself in this video. Many thanks for the upload, good work 👍
I love the movie but I’m glad this wasn’t in the film. Above all this is a horror film. Keeping the alien out of full site is far more terrifying. The audience needs to feel like the crew has no control. Giving the crew the opportunity to fight back like this immensely takes away from the feeling of fear.
I always feel sorry for Lambert, she was terrified throughout, and when her time came and the Alien got her...well...what can I say?
Yes! Talk about a thankless role.
Thanks for the commentary on this much discussed missing scene. Ripley's nose bleed is completely believable as is...she was in shock learning about special order 937 which could have triggered the nose bleed.
11:24: The scene with Ripley and Lambert takes place before the airlock scene, not after. It's an extended continuous scene from the aftermath of Dallas being taken in the air ducts.
That's right,. There is a long dialogue between Lambert and Ripley that's very convincing. Cartwright and Weaver were amazing in this movie. To this day I consider this to be perhaps the best casting of any movie I have ever seen.
Hey man i just wanted to say thanks for taking your time to make these videos. Im a very big fan of the alien franchise. So I say keep it up buddy.🖒
Thanks Erick I really appreciate your comment. I love the series and I love doing these videos and it's so unreal to me that people enjoy them - it makes me very happy. And I always want to make sure I do a good job on them and I have no plans to stop any time soon! More to come! :D
Something I'd like to know is why in Aliens you see Hicks carrying Hudson out of the AP but moments later he's fine....?
Andrew Boyer concussion?
He was most likely in shock or had a slight concussion and regained consciousness quickly. Hudson was a tough Marine after all but I wouldn't be surprised if he had a mental break but came around when the chips were down.
As they are trying to close the APC door, an Alien appears and tries to force the door open. Hicks sticks his shotgun in the Alien's mouth and says "Eat this!" When the Alien's head explodes, some blood splashes on Hudson's arm. Hudson was likely still in some shock after having his arm severely burned.
Nicely done! Both the narration and the visuals look and sound great,separately, but together they work so damn well. I know this is from 5 years ago, but you did a really nice job man, congrats and thanks for sharing the scene.
Alien is a true sci-fi classic. It would've been great if deleted scenes had been included, but it still turned out great without them. I'm sure there are others who would disagree, but the original Alien is still the best of all of them IMO. It was nonstop tension and the urgency to kill that thing or get away quickly.
This narration is better than the whole of Covenant.
HazmaT
Ugh. Can you stop.
HazmaT
Now, now, we do not speak of it here. This is a safe place.
Nah, Covenant was pretty good.
Lighten up guys, I like Covenant too. Heck, I have a copy, which I watch at least once a week.
HazmaT - It's all cool bud. It's just that Covenant gets way too much hate so I feel the need to respond every now and then.
I'd like to see it but I do think it was a better idea not to use it, if the alien was visible for too long early in the movie it takes away the fear
Darin Johnson
It could’ve been almost completely in darkness with the green light being relatively dim and the alien not being very close to said light
I’ve been in a room that’s mostly dark with only one light it’s relatively easy to stay hidden while still letting people know you’re there if I can do it no problem a xenomorph can do it with even less problem
This was in Alien: Isolation correct? It was part of the alien preorder content.
TheClax123 I immediately thought of the same thing.
The "Crew Expendable" DLC was definitely inspired by this cut content from the original film.
Yes. I would like to see the scene made. BTW, I saw the original movie in the theater back in 1979 with my parents when I was 11 years old.
I thoroughly enjoy your narration style. Have you considered doing other readings for the channel?
Love the channel, keep up the good work :)
Am I correct in assuming your narration was primarily taken directly from the original script and screenplay? If so it (again) reinforces my complete respect for the quality of work that was assembled to make this movie. A longtime fan, (I snuck in at 12 to see the movie in 79) I always marveled at the technical realism and amazing visuals of Ridley Scott, H.H Giger's necro influenced art, set designs and creature designs, and Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett, David Giler and Walter Hill's excellent script. I have never read the Alien novel but after listening to your clip I think I will because the writing is so awesome. Thanks for your vid. Very sweet!
Oh yes the description of the scene is taken directly from the novelization. Alan Dean Foster's writing in the adaptations of the original 3 films (and recently Covenant) is so excellent. He writes with such detail and expert characterization you could almost think the films were adaptations of the novels. Great stuff. And thank you for your kind words about my video - I love hearing from fellow Alien fans and experiences of viewing the films.
Alien Theory -ahh yes! Alan Dean Foster. I forgot about his novelizations. I will definitely be reading his work! Thanks again for bringing this to my attention and for all your great work! I don't always agree but I really enjoy your insight and assembled imagery. I am a rabid fan of ANYTHING Alien since 79 and love parts and bits of every movie (even 3)....but the series certainly did not go where I imagined it would after #1 & 2. Would have liked humans and androids to NOT be the explanation of the zeno's origins and a more otherworldly vision of the space jockey race and their story. A great success in 79 Alien was the completely "Alien" and otherworldly feeling they created with the derelict, space jockey and the creature. It was so cool, so creepy and so not human in any way. It was wonderfully visceral and mysterious. I think we all left the movie thinking the next film would expand on those unanswered questions but for now those questions made the movie perfect. Well the genie is out of the bottle and can never be unseen now but yeah I still really mourn the loss of that cool sequel that never was. Although I do love Prometheus and Covenant, to me they are NOT the prequels to the 79 Alien story but an anthropomorphic twist heavily laden with religious symbolism and allegory. They are good movies that really make you think (which I love) but Scott really missed the chance to complete his genre setting non-human centric Alien space horror opera. It would have been a body of work for the ages!
Well written and narrated.
Only drawback from adding this scene is the demystification of the Alien’s form. From the snaps you show, we’d see it more clearly, potentially spoiling the fear/wonder that persists right to the final scene when we get a clear view of the creature and it’s human-like shape.
Man, you're the greatest, Thanks for this.... you do great works
Excellent, excellent narration, dude! You had me mesmerised.
By all means put the scene in the director’s cut !!! Love your videos !!!
I love how you break it down, just to build it back up, I been watching this for 2 years on how you talk about the people and the film, I hope you do more comic book review and talk about The Predator and Alien.
I would lie to see a director's cut that once and for all settled the debate if their were two life boats or one: the Narcissus.
Even as a child watching this movie, i always felt something was missing when you get to the Ripley engaging with Mother and then Ash scene. There is a bit too much of a continuity gap as you can clearly see something has just happened to Ripley that we (the viewer) didn't get to see. Great job on this video, thank you.
I liked the scene in the book and I thought the filler line, "Just what you've been doing, Ash. Nothing. I've got access to MUTHR and I'll get my own answers-thank you.," was a little too perfunctory and you can tell by the audio that it was looped in. It doesn't match the ambient noise or tone of the scene perfectly. At the same time, you don't need an additional reason for Ripley to talk to MUTHR. They'd established in that same scene that Dallas was presumed dead and Ripley was the acting ships Captain. She had senior level access.
Thanks never saw that before. A great scene. Amazed it was cut. Definitely worth re-inserting.
I remember reading this book back in 1980 and remember this part that was not in the movie. It showed that Ash was always protecting the Alien since he tripped the Klaxon. This sequence can be put in a newer Alien movie or possible reboot.
Yes, by all means restore this critical scene to the full movie. Your description leaves no doubt it tells us something about the xenomorph and the first hint about Ashe's strange behaviour.
Great description of deleted content. I would love to see the deleted scenes. Keep up the great work!!!!!!
Excellent reading, Alan Dean Foster very underrated Author -not known for his Original material, but building from other authors ideas.
Having seen that magazine cover before, I always wondered, was anything with the Alien ever shot for that scene? The picture looks like the creature is missing an arm. Or is that just wishful thinking on my part?
+Michael Miller part of me is absolutely convinced that there's more footage that hasn't been shared by fox and DVD special features. Look how long it took them to release the Burke cocoon scene!
There has to be more. I remember the Cocoon sequence, after seeing the Anthology Blu-Ray set, there was more of the scene that was removed than the Deleted/2003 versions show
+Alien Theory did the Burke scene feature in a box set? I've only seen cam footage on UA-cam, I remember reading newts tale as a kid and the novel always wondering why it never featured in the special edition
Yes, that was the first time it had ever been released in the Blu-Ray box set. It was deleted because Cameron thought that when Ripley would find Burke, he would still have a Facehugger attached to his face.
+Mr. Xenomorph makes sense for the time I always wondered if it had been a case of the unlikeliness of Ripley running across Burke in a massive complex, I feel the egg morph scene from scotts original would have been interesting to explore and would lend it self well to the established life cycle, I have a fan story in my mind that would incorporate it into the cycle
Give us all of the Alien content!!! Ridley Scott STOP RATIONING OUT CONTENT!!!!
The initial Klaxon warning before Ripley could hit the toggle, was most likely initiated by Ash who was listening in communication between Parker and Ripley and succeeded in warning The Alien to move out of the airlock. Just a hypothesis.
I always thought Ash sets the alarm off, cause the com system was an open system, and heard Parker talk about trapping it
Personal opinion on that last question....yes, I would like to see a version of Alien with this scene restored. Furthermore, if editing software ever reached a level of realism that was widely available to anyone/everyone to use, much like editing software and game and app creation software is now, I think it would be interesting to see a new age of fan edits where fans could make their own edits of popular and classic movies and such, compare old VS new. Such a thing is already possible in animation if the animating editor has the right software(s) and skills and time, so live action fan editing that could create new realistic scenes (and maybe some voice acting to add to the mix) could lead to something interesting, with any and every movie having various edits to choose from to watch. Something like this has been done now, with the original Star Wars and Hobbit trilogy. Fans took the best of the Star Wars special edition(s), blended with the best of the old (Han shot first), then added their own SFX, editing and footage updating to make the older footage blend in seemlessly with the newer HD footage. As for The Hobbit, the fan edit I meant took out the scenes that were not from the book, and tried to make the film(s) as close to the original books as possible.
I remember the scene clearly when I read the book in 1980, before ever seeing the film, an exciting moment of suspense and sudden action and jeopardy. The bridge was among the first Nostromo sets to be finished so principal photography likely began with shooting as many bridge scenes as could be completed one after another. Since the bridge shots with Lambert and Ripley were photographed it was definitely intended to be finished, but it's reasonably likely the budget and schedule didn't permit it to be finished. Other possible reasons for its omission could be Ridley not liking the shots of the alien itself, looking too much like a man in a suit despite everyone's best efforts to disguise that trick. This was a scene where the alien couldn't be hiding in the shadows ready to jump out but had to be seen much clearer, not briefly glimpsed. Lastly, the alarm sounding to warn the alien is a bit too obvious a tip-off that someone onboard is protecting it, which isn't confirmed (and in the released cuts, discovered) until Ripley extracts answers from Mother five minutes later.
speeta just your opinion.
Mannix Flinn Yes, my opinion, based on thinking like a filmmaker and visualizing what kind of shots would be needed to complete the sequence. It would be a treasure to review Ridley's storyboard for the intended scene.
I agree on all this. It would have diminished the horror to see the Alien standing out in the open, and we don't need more clues about Ash before his reveal. I do like the scene in the book though.
Excellent scene in the book, but I am fine with the original version. Great job describing the scene, btw. The book also described how the incident got Ripley suspicious of Ash pulling the alarm.
I am still amazed at how well they duplicated the aesthetics of the Nostromo set for the Alien Isolation game, the room Parker moves through at 1:18 is represented in the game at different points with perfect detail.
Yes, I think it'd be very nice to see a recut complete version of this.
The closest to this scene restored is the DLC for Alien Isolation where you crawl around opening the airlock, and the Alien, curious as it is, walks inside, with the claxon starting before the door can open and it runs straight over the chosen player character ( _since you can pick one of the many for that moment_ ), only to then wake up with Ash standing above you, commenting on it.
there were a lot of little things in the novel that really made the novel Alien excellent, the "Professional Dreamer" as a profession concept was brilliant, and the room where couples could make love in a weight-less room covered in mirrors mentioned back in 1977 was astounding, true science fiction brilliance.
The Pro-Dreaming is intriguing. I imagine Ash's 'dreams' to be much like Replicant 'implants' to avoid suspicion. The free-fall cat house was one of Parker's dirty stories he tells Brett.
Man I love your channel so much!