The moment at 1:45 when the camera captures Sigourney Weaver's amazed, delighted grin ... How must that feel, to see something you did 40 years ago inspiring such devotion and creative energy? No wonder she was so moved. 🤗
Oh I totally did too!! All of those kids did such a amazing job!! And to have Ripley there to watch them!! What a great night for everyone involved!!!👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾💜💜💜
I know why: These kids are the best homage to the people behind Alien. They followed the exact same path of figuring out how to do what the story needed to be told. They're talented, they wanted to tell a story, they give their soul to this play, that's why it transcended. That touches us as audience.
It amazing how a film from 40 years ago still inspires people today and it's the same with me. I discovered it on video in 1993 when I was 12 and have loved Alien ever since.
@@robertobuatti7226It was a well timed movie release in 1979 too. The monster alien completely destroyed all the extra-terrestrial goodwill of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and made people afraid again. Ha!
This play... And Sigourney W's surprise appearance... AND Ridley Scott's generous patronage, HAS to be 1000% pure inspiration to the cast and crew. If any of them move on to bigger and better things, it's because they cared! God Bless them!
Wow how cool to have Sigourney Weaver attend your school play and show shes still enthusiastic about a film she did 40yrs ago and be very down to earth and not big headed. Awesome.
Yeah, it's the great work they made, with no sponsors, no other support from any studios, just them, with hand made stuff, own talent and inspiration! Perfect play, big experience! Good, guys! They have to create their own theatre, and go on tour, make new plays from other universes, I know they can and wish them only good luck and new creations! Alien rulezzz!
THIS IS WHY YOU SUPPORT THE ARTS IN SCHOOLS. BECAUSE ONE TEACHER HAD A CRAZY IDEA THAT BECAME AN AMAZING RESULT OF PASSION AND CREATIVITY!! THIS IS JUST SO FREAKING AMAZING! THESE KIDS ARE AWESOME!
Visiting these amazing kids to encourage and appreciate their work on Alien, not many actors and actress are willing to do so. Sigourney has lived up in Riley's name, a role model for those who dare to be explorer in space (in this case perform a show with zero budget). Bravo to her, the kids and their teacher!
Happy 40th anniversary of ALIEN the movie, and bravo to the students with the play at their school, they shown great talent. Also cheers for Sigourney Weaver for awesome guest appearance, even for her she still shows the female hero spirit.😊👏👏👏😎😌😌😌🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉💫🌟
Wow this is incredible! It’s amazing how they used recycled materials to create the costumes and sets. It looked incredible! I bet it was such a fun project to work on. Very cool that Sigourney gave those talented kids a visit! I wish I could see this play!
I think Ellen Ripley inspired a lot of young people, women especially, who saw the first two movies at impressionable ages. Sigourney Weaver was the perfect actor in the role since she was so different in appearance from others at the time (i.e. blondes like Kathleen Turner, Jessica Lange, Meryl Streep) and her eyes spoke volumes despite her seemingly calm voice & demeanor in the films. It's still amazing to think she was the first female action movie lead actor nominated for an Oscar in 1986 - far ahead of her time. I wish my high school drama club had been so creative! 👩🚀
Alien was the first R rated movie I had ever seen (I was 14 in Jr high school), my friends were all sneaking into to the theaters to see it so I managed to go too,, Alien scared the shit out of us and the entire country! It was a revolutionary horror movie in that it portrayed normal people trapped in their workplaces facing a terrifying situation,,, what would you do?? Alien scared everyone!!!! These kids and their director and behind the scenes crew deserve their own Academy Award Oscar for this wonderful production!!!
I love that they just got so much support and praise from the original creators and cast. I can just imagine another stage adaptation of a popular film getting a cease and desist.
Ridley Scott is 100% behind it. I think 20th Century Fox really wouldn't have a problem with it because, even though it might sell tickets, its advertising one of its products.
Now that Disney bought Fox they will ban it retroactively using Avengers time travel. They really would put in that kind of effort, just to fuck some kids over. The mouse gotta eat...
Movie studios often work with schools on things like this. The deal is the school makes no money and only does a limited run and they're allowed to do it. Also Ridley Scott's company owns the rights and he was on board.
It's so great to see this movie still inspiring people today. I first saw Alien and Aliens in the early 90s as a teen and me and my friends were amazed, and hooked! We were buying the comics and building the model kits. It's great seeing people reacting to it for the first time and experiencing what I experienced back then. That's a testament to a great story expertly produced with characters so believable we feel like they're real. I'm still amazed how well Aliens especially holds up to modern standards in cinema, that can't be said for a lot of the movies made today based on 90% CGI that's going to look terrible in just 5 years. Let's be real, how many of the massive blockbuster superhero movies being made today are going to even be remembered in 40 years, let alone loved the way this franchise is?
is it scarier if we are alone or not?, great job for the actors to give back to kids, fill their imagination with magic . we all need to be outside the box, we are the new aliens
@@lee.as.in.l.e.e.7394 Hmmm ... "2001: A Space Odyssey ... the School Play" Haha ... you would only need 4 or 5 lead actors, and a bunch of people dressed in chimp costumes .. If a school can present a dismally accurate vision of the future via Alien ... then 2001 is more than possible.
So delighted for these creative and innovative kids! Awesome too that Sigourney Weaver visited the cast and crew. Well done! (BTW, was there a Jonesey? I didn't see a Jonesey...)
So awesome that they were able to pull this off, and they were no sued into the can ground. You can see all the hard work this kids put into this. I hope they had a great time. Glad it will live on, for them.
Rewatching all of this. I’m proud to come from North Bergen high school. I haven’t heard from drama club since this play launched and idk if they will ever do another play again. I look up to the art teacher that created the suits and the xenomorph outfit. Mr. Defindini is highly talented he even worked on power ranger suits and all the iron man masks. Props to my friend who played the xenomorph tho, he had us all quaking in our pants lol
I saw this play in its entirety (thanks to somebody's mobile phone footage). It was superb! The chestburster scene was astonishing ... I can't believe what I saw! "Alien" has clearly stood the test of time. Sigourney has always been more level headed than her movie characters - and Ellen Ripley is the epitome of cool under severe pressure. I believe that "Alien" and "The Three Little Pigs" and "Cinderella" should all be taught to our children. All should be a school play.
First off these kids and the play and everyone who took part are amazing, next Sigorny is so classy, finally to the young people just seeing the alien franchise now do you see why we loved these movies and character's for decades its part of our mythology now.
We need more students in our schools like this and NO MORE SHOOTING EACH OTHER ! Stop the insanity! Get together and craft ideas and make something .... Thank you Teacher and you Mrs Weaver for doing this .....keep it up ! A++++++++
@JOSE CHUNG'S FROM OUTER SPACE! Maybe if teachers made more money you would see more things like this. But the people who love the guns don't want to cough up the money for the teachers. Conservative greedy tightwads.
@JOSE CHUNG'S FROM OUTER SPACE! Obviously they aren't making enough for however many months they are working, fool. Thanks for proving me right about being a selfish tightwad who doesn't give a shit about teachers.
Ad hominem point, that figures. Ok, even if that's true, and it's not always--charter school teachers earn less because they have less experience and no unions-- you still don't support paying teachers more. Because you're a selfish tightwad who only cares about his guns. It's all about you.
My god. I love this. I watched alien when I was probably 10 . I was terrified but loved it. I lost count how many times I've watched aliens. The best are first and second movie. My god just brilliant
Bonjour ! I am a French fan of Alien...I didn't know this original adaptation of Mr Scott movie...I say BRAVO ! For all the Students and Prof...and for the guest Star miss Weaver ...I give you my Award!.....Phil from Marignane...in the South of France...Salut !
This is what we should be doing with our tax paying dollars....to let kids be creative like this and the freedom to create there own universe while learning.
Sigourney Weaver is hands - down my favorite action actress. I admire the character Ellen Ripley because she's smart, capable, can think on her feet, and she survives the worst situation through perseverance and a bit of luck. And she makes sure to not leave the cat behind! That character served as a support and reassurance at a terrible time in my life when I was so frightened. I watched that movie over and over to hold onto courage until I could find the part of me that was Ellen Ripley. Even today, many, many years later I occasionally watch that movie and am struck by how solid that character is. It's my favorite sci-fi/ horror movie. That whole cast was magnificent. For me, Ridley Scott's best sci-fi movie (although I LOVED Prometheus and Alien Covenant, too. The special effects in those later films were jaw-dropping and Michael Fassbender was SO great as the android.)
Apparently i went to the WORST highschool ever!XDXDXD can i go back? THAT TEACHER IS THE BEST EVER!!!! I am literally obsessed with the movie, the creature most of all! In its time it was something so unique and amazing and the just perfect Organism! Ridley scott made something amazing and wonder full! And we cant forget Giger! Rip my man thank you for coming up with such a beautiful creature!!
The moment at 1:45 when the camera captures Sigourney Weaver's amazed, delighted grin ... How must that feel, to see something you did 40 years ago inspiring such devotion and creative energy? No wonder she was so moved. 🤗
I loved that part!! She was really watching that monster with such a great big smile.
It was very special for Sigourney to make an appearance for this amazing 40th Anniversary homage to Alien.
No idea why but I literally burst into tears watching this. It's so beautiful to see Sigourney there. What a true hero she is.
She is a great star, with much talent and a very big heart! Sigourney Weaver is great in every respect. She is bigger than life!
Oh I totally did too!! All of those kids did such a amazing job!! And to have Ripley there to watch them!! What a great night for everyone involved!!!👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾💜💜💜
So did I. It just means you have a heart.
I know why: These kids are the best homage to the people behind Alien. They followed the exact same path of figuring out how to do what the story needed to be told. They're talented, they wanted to tell a story, they give their soul to this play, that's why it transcended. That touches us as audience.
It amazing how a film from 40 years ago still inspires people today and it's the same with me. I discovered it on video in 1993 when I was 12 and have loved Alien ever since.
We love hearing stories like this. Thank you!
@@AlienAnthology No problem at all. I speak from the heart.
I was seven; stayed up late and watched it when my family thought I was sleeping.
Still can’t shake it...
@@MrUndersolo I watched it also very late at night to give me more of a scare.
@@robertobuatti7226It was a well timed movie release in 1979 too. The monster alien completely destroyed all the extra-terrestrial goodwill of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and made people afraid again. Ha!
Sigourney Weaver BEST OF. Fantastic action woman.
She’s the best action hero, period.
This play... And Sigourney W's surprise appearance... AND Ridley Scott's generous patronage, HAS to be 1000% pure inspiration to the cast and crew. If any of them move on to bigger and better things, it's because they cared! God Bless them!
Wow how cool to have Sigourney Weaver attend your school play and show shes still enthusiastic about a film she did 40yrs ago and be very down to earth and not big headed. Awesome.
1:20 that moment ...oh my god, the kid is like me. I love you Sigourney Weaver ! You are the best!
That kid is so cool.
Yeah, it's the great work they made, with no sponsors, no other support from any studios, just them, with hand made stuff, own talent and inspiration! Perfect play, big experience! Good, guys! They have to create their own theatre, and go on tour, make new plays from other universes, I know they can and wish them only good luck and new creations! Alien rulezzz!
THIS IS WHY YOU SUPPORT THE ARTS IN SCHOOLS. BECAUSE ONE TEACHER HAD A CRAZY IDEA THAT BECAME AN AMAZING RESULT OF PASSION AND CREATIVITY!! THIS IS JUST SO FREAKING AMAZING! THESE KIDS ARE AWESOME!
Love this franchise FOREVER!! 🔥🔥
Thanks, Arthur!
@@AlienAnthology Your welcome!!! Keep up the good work !!
Visiting these amazing kids to encourage and appreciate their work on Alien, not many actors and actress are willing to do so. Sigourney has lived up in Riley's name, a role model for those who dare to be explorer in space (in this case perform a show with zero budget).
Bravo to her, the kids and their teacher!
Happy 40th anniversary of ALIEN the movie, and bravo to the students with the play at their school, they shown great talent. Also cheers for Sigourney Weaver for awesome guest appearance, even for her she still shows the female hero spirit.😊👏👏👏😎😌😌😌🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉💫🌟
Amazing what a skilled teacher can bring out in their students, I bet that they will remember doing this play for the rest of their lives.
The coolest thing ever!
I love you SIGOURNEY ! je suis de FRANCE , j'ai 53 ans et j'ai toujours aimé tes rôles dans ALIEN
Sigourney is, was and always will be bloody gorgeous. Great actress and an inspiration.
Wow this is incredible! It’s amazing how they used recycled materials to create the costumes and sets. It looked incredible! I bet it was such a fun project to work on. Very cool that Sigourney gave those talented kids a visit! I wish I could see this play!
What a treat! This is just too awesome. Love it!
Sigourney is amazing. ❤️
Theese amassing kids worked so hard and they were rewarded with attention of the Queen of Sci-fi Sigourney Weaver. Awesome
Absolutely Brilliant!
Fabulous and really gracious of Mrs. Weaver to show her support
Can't believe it's 40 years... Saw it at the cinema when it came out.
1:25 "You're my childhood hero"
But...THIS, right now, is your childhood.
what a little asswipe
He meant by is elementary years.
Sigourney is a national treasure. Love her 💚💚
I think Ellen Ripley inspired a lot of young people, women especially, who saw the first two movies at impressionable ages. Sigourney Weaver was the perfect actor in the role since she was so different in appearance from others at the time (i.e. blondes like Kathleen Turner, Jessica Lange, Meryl Streep) and her eyes spoke volumes despite her seemingly calm voice & demeanor in the films. It's still amazing to think she was the first female action movie lead actor nominated for an Oscar in 1986 - far ahead of her time. I wish my high school drama club had been so creative! 👩🚀
What a legend sigourney weaver is ...and well done to them brilliant young adults ...not wasting there time like most of the youth today
i know i'm very late to the party, commenting on this now, but these kids were awesome! Kudos to their teacher who gave them the idea.
holy cow this is a nice stage play, the type I would go to see.
It was amazing to be there and witness in person.
I haven't had time to watch it, but this play is on UA-cam in its entirety.
@@thudthud5423 where is the play on YT ?
@@davedogge2280 ua-cam.com/video/DX3VaFG7AvU/v-deo.html
@@thudthud5423 Thank u
I really hope they manage to put a recording of that show out there. I know so many people would still play to see that high school performance
Sigourney is still so beautiful
Shes attractive for a old woman, but beautiful? NO, respect the scale.
@@thanostitan5827 Nope. Shes the most beautiful woman Ive ever seen
She has the type of.bone structure that never gets ugly
@@helixmoore7636 when she wuz young she wuz pretty never beautiful, respect the scale.
@@thanostitan5827 met her. Sorry my jaw dropped and I was dumbfounded by her.
She is 70, but she looks so young. I am impressed!
Nice to see my all-time favorite actress Sigourney here. What an amazing and inspirational woman!
Congrat´s for this play!!!! and Sigourney Weaver great, great, great!!!
The way I would’ve bursted out crying-
This is incredibly magnificent ! The costumes are surreal and the fact the teachers support them gives me hope that true education isn't dead.
Alien was the first R rated movie I had ever seen (I was 14 in Jr high school), my friends were all sneaking into to the theaters to see it so I managed to go too,, Alien scared the shit out of us and the entire country! It was a revolutionary horror movie in that it portrayed normal people trapped in their workplaces facing a terrifying situation,,, what would you do?? Alien scared everyone!!!! These kids and their director and behind the scenes crew deserve their own Academy Award Oscar for this wonderful production!!!
So glad Sigourney Weaver came by to visit. Really great production for working on a shoe string budget. So awesome!!!!! Well done♥
The kids were pleasantly surprised!
I love that they just got so much support and praise from the original creators and cast. I can just imagine another stage adaptation of a popular film getting a cease and desist.
I'm so glad 20th century fox did not banned this project.
Ridley Scott is 100% behind it. I think 20th Century Fox really wouldn't have a problem with it because, even though it might sell tickets, its advertising one of its products.
Now that Disney bought Fox they will ban it retroactively using Avengers time travel. They really would put in that kind of effort, just to fuck some kids over. The mouse gotta eat...
Movie studios often work with schools on things like this. The deal is the school makes no money and only does a limited run and they're allowed to do it. Also Ridley Scott's company owns the rights and he was on board.
i remember living in NYC as a kid i used to see everywhere a lot of subway station billboards with the Alien movie. I like this must be big.....
WoaaaooW! What a brave and bold group of people!
They need to bring this to Broadway...
Serious, mature science fiction - even the harder kind - has a place on the stage. There needs to be more such plays.
It's so great to see this movie still inspiring people today. I first saw Alien and Aliens in the early 90s as a teen and me and my friends were amazed, and hooked! We were buying the comics and building the model kits. It's great seeing people reacting to it for the first time and experiencing what I experienced back then. That's a testament to a great story expertly produced with characters so believable we feel like they're real. I'm still amazed how well Aliens especially holds up to modern standards in cinema, that can't be said for a lot of the movies made today based on 90% CGI that's going to look terrible in just 5 years. Let's be real, how many of the massive blockbuster superhero movies being made today are going to even be remembered in 40 years, let alone loved the way this franchise is?
is it scarier if we are alone or not?, great job for the actors to give back to kids, fill their imagination with magic . we all need to be outside the box, we are the new aliens
Arthur C. Clarke?
@@lee.as.in.l.e.e.7394
Hmmm ... "2001: A Space Odyssey ... the School Play"
Haha ... you would only need 4 or 5 lead actors, and a bunch of people dressed in chimp costumes ..
If a school can present a dismally accurate vision of the future via Alien ... then 2001 is more than possible.
So delighted for these creative and innovative kids! Awesome too that Sigourney Weaver visited the cast and crew. Well done! (BTW, was there a Jonesey? I didn't see a Jonesey...)
@JOSE CHUNG'S FROM OUTER SPACE! Jonesey was stuffed with someone doing "Meow!" sound effects. It worked in the context of the play.
This is fantastic 👏
The theatre is a temple to practical effects!! BRAVO 👍🎯
This is wonderful! So happy for this cast, that Sigourney Weaver came and joined them
Love you Sigourney !
What an achievement. Wish i couldve seen it
That play was so good thank you to the students teachers and the original cast and crew of the alien series
So awesome that they were able to pull this off, and they were no sued into the can ground. You can see all the hard work this kids put into this. I hope they had a great time. Glad it will live on, for them.
What an incredible job. I watched the play. Kudos from Toronto Canada! Keep it up!
Rewatching all of this. I’m proud to come from North Bergen high school. I haven’t heard from drama club since this play launched and idk if they will ever do another play again. I look up to the art teacher that created the suits and the xenomorph outfit. Mr. Defindini is highly talented he even worked on power ranger suits and all the iron man masks. Props to my friend who played the xenomorph tho, he had us all quaking in our pants lol
I am so envious I couldn't be back in school helping them with this. We never did anything as exciting.
Amazing! What a great story!
I saw this play in its entirety (thanks to somebody's mobile phone footage).
It was superb!
The chestburster scene was astonishing ... I can't believe what I saw!
"Alien" has clearly stood the test of time.
Sigourney has always been more level headed than her movie characters - and Ellen Ripley is the epitome of cool under severe pressure.
I believe that "Alien" and "The Three Little Pigs" and "Cinderella" should all be taught to our children.
All should be a school play.
First off these kids and the play and everyone who took part are amazing, next Sigorny is so classy, finally to the young people just seeing the alien franchise now do you see why we loved these movies and character's for decades its part of our mythology now.
I was pleasantly surprised to discover how good the play is. Made me wanna watch the movie all over again. Excellent job! Well done!
Can't wait to see Aliens!
New movie coming or what?
@@alexvieira7945 lol
What about AvP: Requiem The Play?
@@davidjames579 oh christ what could go wrong?......
They should've cast some of these folks for the upcoming TV Series on FX. Feels like a missed opportunity there
We need more students in our schools like this and NO MORE SHOOTING EACH OTHER ! Stop the insanity! Get together and craft ideas and make something .... Thank you Teacher and you Mrs Weaver for doing this .....keep it up ! A++++++++
@JOSE CHUNG'S FROM OUTER SPACE! Maybe if teachers made more money you would see more things like this. But the people who love the guns don't want to cough up the money for the teachers. Conservative greedy tightwads.
@JOSE CHUNG'S FROM OUTER SPACE! Obviously they aren't making enough for however many months they are working, fool. Thanks for proving me right about being a selfish tightwad who doesn't give a shit about teachers.
Ad hominem point, that figures. Ok, even if that's true, and it's not always--charter school teachers earn less because they have less experience and no unions-- you still don't support paying teachers more. Because you're a selfish tightwad who only cares about his guns. It's all about you.
@@unknownindividualReality's a real bitch. And things sucked in the 80s too.
This made me so happy, how on earth could anyone press the thumbs down?!
Because they are the Gormans of this world!
Awesome!
How fun..you guys are blessed to have those moments about my favorite picture
Love, love, love it! True Alien Fan. Never before and never again. Great Job!!! So many kudos to you all...
These kids deserve the budget to make a play of Aliens.
AWESOME !
My god. I love this. I watched alien when I was probably 10 . I was terrified but loved it. I lost count how many times I've watched aliens. The best are first and second movie. My god just brilliant
Bonjour ! I am a French fan of Alien...I didn't know this original adaptation of Mr Scott movie...I say BRAVO ! For all the Students and Prof...and for the guest Star miss Weaver ...I give you my Award!.....Phil from Marignane...in the South of France...Salut !
So awesome in so many ways!
This is a student-produced accomplishment to be TRULY-TRULY proud of. Very well done Bergen HS! Make more film plays :)
amazing Sigourney Weaver !
I have some dust in my eyes... dammit
Very very cool.
Sigourney is such a class act.
Iam loooking @ aliens tonight salute to Sigourney Weaver
That moment at 1:42 makes me so damn happy to see.
I watched the play. It was done so well!
Sigourney Weaver man. All class.
happy alien day everyone.
This is what we should be doing with our tax paying dollars....to let kids be creative like this and the freedom to create there own universe while learning.
Reminds me of "Rushmore" and the plays Fischer would put on...
They should take it on the road ‼️👀😇
And what an amazing surprise!!!!!
She is legend 🤘🏻👌🏻👏🏻
これは嬉しいサプライズだわ✨
Ridley Scott actually donated so they could do an encore performance a third night fun fact..I'm so proud of these kids.
I wished to be there....LOVE ALIEN FILMS.....MY AMERICA
Sigourney Weaver is hands - down my favorite action actress. I admire the character Ellen Ripley because she's smart, capable, can think on her feet, and she survives the worst situation through perseverance and a bit of luck. And she makes sure to not leave the cat behind! That character served as a support and reassurance at a terrible time in my life when I was so frightened. I watched that movie over and over to hold onto courage until I could find the part of me that was Ellen Ripley. Even today, many, many years later I occasionally watch that movie and am struck by how solid that character is. It's my favorite sci-fi/ horror movie. That whole cast was magnificent. For me, Ridley Scott's best sci-fi movie (although I LOVED Prometheus and Alien Covenant, too. The special effects in those later films were jaw-dropping and Michael Fassbender was SO great as the android.)
Apparently i went to the WORST highschool ever!XDXDXD can i go back? THAT TEACHER IS THE BEST EVER!!!! I am literally obsessed with the movie, the creature most of all! In its time it was something so unique and amazing and the just perfect Organism! Ridley scott made something amazing and wonder full! And we cant forget Giger! Rip my man thank you for coming up with such a beautiful creature!!
Weaver is fantastic!
Sigourney Weaver looks fantastic. She looks completely natural in the face.
Would love to see a High school play of The Thing or Reservoir Dogs...
Okay, that alien costume is fantastic, I need to get that build for Halloween
This shit gave me goosebumps.
I wish I was there. YOu guys are amazing
Awesome badass dedicated and committed job!!!!!
I love you Ripley