The Derilict has wreckage strewn about the foot of the exterior of the 'crash /

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MemberOvomorphMay 26, 20121178 Views29 RepliesThere is long tubing and wreckage strewn around the foot of The Derilict prior to the three entering the craft.
See the top snap shot directly from the film... below with certain lightness added...
[img]http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/4093/67199702.jpg[/img]
... the circle indicates where the "tubing" appears to be...
[img]http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/4714/30647796.jpg[/img]
May 26, 2012
I don’t believe that Giger or Scott intended that those landscape features to be understood as ship wreckage. Rather, it’s supposed to be part of the biomechanical landscape of the planetoid…reflecting Giger’s style of artwork.
~N
May 26, 2012
I noticed this on other pictures, seems the Juggernaut somehow is connected to the plantoid. I will look for those pictures, but good post man.
May 26, 2012
Alright don't be so literal to quoet me directlyJdax but look at it... The use of the name "Tubing" is as good a choice of name to talk about it the any other. Don't split hairs! You know what I mean and what I am trying to convey over for inquiry! It seems as though you are being pedantic, common, I'm just making an even keeled observation.
May 26, 2012
Look at some of the designs along the "seams" of The Derilict and the n refer to the "TUBING" for want of a better word that I pointed out and you will see there is a direct correlation to their pattern and design.
May 26, 2012
Look at some of the designs along the "seams" of The Derilict and the n refer to the "TUBING" for want of a better word that I pointed out and you will see there is a direct correlation to their pattern and design.
May 26, 2012
I agree with Neurion...it's part of Giger's biomechanical style of the landscape..not part of the ship..
May 26, 2012
The landscape is essentially one big lump of rock in space - "Primordial" as Ash described it and the ship is just that "A" ship! So if it was forced to land or crash landed rolled a bit then stopped in its horixzontal position as it is seen in Allien, rthen by that rule of logic, some pieces would have probbably fallen off and got strew about the place. We never see the "front"the craft when they enter it in Alien, perhaps there is srtewn wreckage there too.
May 26, 2012
@Neurion is, without doubt, correct.
To, otherwise, see, "wreckage", is probably only to re-interpret history in order to force it to fit a present-day conclusion.
May 26, 2012
In your "under-expert" opinion he is Allinamberclad, as per-usual to your "contributions".
May 26, 2012
You should be aware that, "Under-expert", is actually meaningless in several important capacities?
Furthermore, you should note that, notwithstanding - and, "as per usual" - my, "contribution", is based largely upon rational observation and my, (naturally, limited - but nevertheless [i]actual[/i]), knowledge - as opposed to fantasy and invalid supposition.
May 26, 2012
DO NOT RESPOND TO ANY OF MY THREADS ALLINAMBERCLAD, AS I EQUALLY SHOULD NOT RESPOND TO ANY OF YOURS. I THINK IT IS BEST!
May 26, 2012
In any case Redleader thank you kindly for your polite comments, Much ablidged to you! Thanks! :- )
May 26, 2012
At best, Prometheus would be retconning Alien.
We're not even certain it's the same ship and even if it were, would you expect them to have to shoehorn every event into what we see in Alien? Even so far as to include a detail like what may or may not be wreckage in Alien?
Point being, there wouldn't be any point for them to make a set of a huge crash site back in '77, so why bother?
May 26, 2012
Go check out the documentary on the DVD of [i]Alien[/i] (you can see it sections on Youtube if you search "[The making of ALIEN]" (type it in like that).
Go to the section called "Nostromo and Alien planet." There's a part where Giger talks about what he was trying to do with the design of the surface of the planet. He wanted the [i]whole surface[/i] to be biomechanical - pipes, tubes, etc. But they didn't have the resources to do it right. To quote Giger:
[b]"They had not (the) money to do it like I designed it. The whole thing looks sort of art nouveau. It was not organic like - it looked like handmade, from artists... the scale was wrong, it was too big...we couldn't find tubes and things of this size, so that didnt' work very well... I want to have landscape which is very much organic-like, and I would like to have old motors from motorcycle or things like that, big things to make a wonderful landscape, but there was no time and no money for this - a real mixed-up, a real biomechanical landscape."[/b]
May 26, 2012
Yeah, a lot of people forget that these things are often just barely at budget–if not over budget–and are often pressed for time.
They don't have enough time or money to nitpick and scrutinize every single shot. Especially not when the guy with the money is hovering over them.
May 26, 2012
True, Xenetron! Very true! Poor Ridley! Just think... he had to actually go through that too! heh! lol! :- )
Many kind regards to you any way for contributuing towards my thread,
( IRBESE )
May 26, 2012
Neurion wrote...[quote]I don’t believe that Giger or Scott intended that those landscape features to be understood as ship wreckage. Rather, it’s supposed to be part of the biomechanical landscape of the planetoid…reflecting Giger’s style of artwork.
~N.[/quote]
Well said, I agree man !