April 22, 2012Yeah, I was watching my Alien DVDs (minus the 4th which is total excrement making the 3rd only partial excrement) and all of the extras plus I had primed myself with "Alien Makers" 1,2,4 (and even the removed 3) when I saw that footage of Ridley (@1999) saying stuff like "the pilot", "his pilot seat", "the bomber", "bio-weapon" and in the commentary the area under the spacejockey's platform (where Kane is lowered down into) is referred to by him as the ship's "cargo hold" (holding the payload). Of course, if those eggs were dropped from high-altitude, those facehuggers would need to hatch and sprout wings almost or go SPLATTT!!!
Another thing bothering me is the implausibility that the Narcissus was underneath (a part of) the Nostromo. Yes, Dallas listens to classical music while down on LV426 inside the Narcissus making this the absolute case, but whenever you see the Narcissus it really throws the scale of the Nostromo to be much larger than it is portrayed during the landing sequence (like when you see crew moving around in the bridge). Like I said, just something bothering me regarding some scale discontinuity, so I need no convincing that the Narcissus is underneath the Nostromo.
Watching Alien with the commentary, I have now altered my perception that the crew ever left the Nostromo (i.e. entered the refinery they were towing). I had only felt this way, prior, due to the rain scene which Ridley explains as condensation, but I had no clue that this interior rain scene (where the 2nd guy dies) is actually a bay where one of the landing feet is and what looks like something dangling in the middle of the set is actually one of the landing feet with all 4 talons pointing down.
In a search to show one of my sons some space-jockey pics because I want him to see Prometheus during opening night (he's watching Alien in THX as I speak), I found this:
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