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that just might be the Best Documet on ALIEN I have ever seen !!!

Dirty. Frigging. Hack. Good read, but he's twisted the shit THEY pulled around to make it look like O'Bannon was the bad guy. But Dan and Ron Shussett were just so humble and likable in the interview on my DVD box set, Giler, Hill and Carroll all seem vaugely threatening and hostile the whole way through. I know which version of events I believe.

agreed ! incredible reading and amazing Pics man, the true story revealed behind the railroading of O'Bannon. Plus the GIGER stuff man, OMG, Never have I seen such an amazing Alien Article, blows all the other PDF's away just about. well, just about.

This really [i]is[/i] "Fantastique"!... I've never seen, "Wee Dog", creature - or any of it, before... Thank you.

i had never ever seen that as well and am sill freaked we were never even told about half that stuff...and that interview with Giler seems like it was done not long after Aliens Run so I think it really shows that man's greed and selfishness. The again it;s not the first time I heard that stuff about O'Bannon..but It sure likes he was railroaded completely.

"H. R. Giger climbs aver the full-size model of the "Space Jockey" he built on the soundstages of Shepperton Studios, making any last-minute final touches prior to filming. Giger built this fossilized space traveler, who has become part of his chair, out of fiberglass and plasticene, with a base of plaster." That is a winner

so glad you like David 1 it is a remarkable item. and the interview with Giler done not long after the release of Alien is astounding !!!

@Sparty: An amazing gift, bro!!! : ) [quote]"[i]What elements in the film did you design?[/i] I designed the alien planet, the landscape, which I made out of a mixture of bones, tubes, technical stuff, in order to achieve what I call my biomechanics. I made the derelict spacecraft, interior and exterior, the cockpit, and [u]under this derelict ship, the egg silo[/u]. Originally, as I told you before, the story was different and the eggs were in a pyramid. But this was thought too close to the Egyptian myths, and [u]we had to combine the derelict ship and the hatchery silo[/u].[u] I thought we could place the egg silo under the ship, a bit like termites do[/u]. "[/quote] [quote][i]How many designs did you do for ALIEN?[/i] About thirty-five. But some of them were just guides for the matte artist [Roy Caple, who painted the matte element of the long shot of Kane (John Hurt) descending into the [u]mammoth hatchery beneath the alien ship[/u].[/quote] [b]Well [u]there[/u] we have it....debate about "the egg-chamber in relation to the ship" ended, no? It sounds like there were intentions of the ship being on-top of a "mammoth hatchery [facility]", but then incorporated into the ship last minute. This explains why the matte-painting curves differently from the exterior contours of the ship. Either that, or the SJs have "Tardis" 9th-dimensional "flat space" technology.[/b] [quote]The egg is related to my work insofar as it is an element essential to art noveau, of which, in a way, I am a representative. In O'Bannon's script, the top of the egg wasn't organic, but completely mechanical. I didn't like it that way. So I built up this [u]egg with a top like a vagina[/u]. But when the producers turned up in my studio, they exclaimed, '[u]Oh, that's too specific! We can't show such things in Catholic countries. Can't you change the egg just a little bit[/u]?" [u]So to satisfy Catholic audiences, I modified the egg, and made the opening a [i][b]cross[/b][/i] on the top[/u].[/quote] [b]A "[i][u]cross[/u][/i]" for the Catholics. This is AMAZING!!!! "Religious concerns" inspired the design of the alien egg's mouth. Don't Catholic's like vaginas? (I'm allowed to say that since I am a Catholic baptized in Italy). But here is the obligatory: "; ) j/k" to show that I'm being humourous here, although I actually am a Roman-Catholic according to the "records".[/b] [quote]That's why I wanted the landscape of the planet in the film to be biome chani c, a mixture of our technology and some kind of magma, so as to create the feeling that maybe something has happened before on that planet, maybe a technical civilization has been destroyed.[/quote] [b]A civilization on LV-426? The "derelict" not actually stranded on a remote planet, but docking with a hatchery? All intentions, I know, but at least we have someone, Hans Giger at that, stating on record that these things were intended, but got changed.[/b]

@Spartacus, you once again find the best gifts for all! Thank you!