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Memory: The Origins of Alien

That really wasits strength, to be able to hold it backthat long before you really gave it...

That really was
its strength, to be able to hold it back
that long before you really gave it to the audience

Full Transcript

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That really was its strength, to be
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able to hold it back that long before you
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really gave it to the audience.
Duration
7 seconds
Views
25
Timestamp in Movie
00:46:06
Uploaded
Jun 11, 2025
Genres
documentary, biography, history
Production
Screen Media Films,Legion M,Dogwoof

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Movie Summary

An in-depth voyage into the sci-fi film "Alien" with the visionary filmmakers who created it. See how one of the most terrifying movies of all time came to life 40 years ago, inspired by ancient mythology and our universal fears.
They all found it very hard to cope with that. - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:04
They all found it very hard to cope with that.
Ian Nathan: Dan o'bannon had conceptualized very early - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:09
Ian Nathan: Dan o'bannon had conceptualized very early
And it did something brilliant in the sense - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:06
And it did something brilliant in the sense
You never quite understood what was creature what was chair, - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:05
You never quite understood what was creature what was chair,
It's another thing that Scott had to fight for. - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:04
It's another thing that Scott had to fight for.
Because fox just went, well, it doesn't have any plot function, - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:05
Because fox just went, well, it doesn't have any plot f...
You've got to suggest something. - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:04
You've got to suggest something.
In the chest of what was then the space - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:05
In the chest of what was then the space
Dallas: Bones are bent outward, like he exploded from inside. - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:06
Dallas: Bones are bent outward, like he exploded from inside...
So you get an instance of what is a hint, - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:09
So you get an instance of what is a hint,
Ian Nathan: And he sees in there this great sort of tableau - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:06
Ian Nathan: And he sees in there this great sort of tableau
When we got that onto that set and saw what they had done, - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:08
When we got that onto that set and saw what they had done,
So you were inside of these big huge caverns - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:07
So you were inside of these big huge caverns
I mean, everything had a sort of a very sexual orientation. - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:05
I mean, everything had a sort of a very sexual orientation.
Ian Nathan: So you've landed on the planet, - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:05
Ian Nathan: So you've landed on the planet,
Kane is almost guided via the signal, - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:06
Kane is almost guided via the signal,
And it's kind of wonderful to think that there's - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:07
And it's kind of wonderful to think that there's
We get finally to the belly of the derelict, - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:06
We get finally to the belly of the derelict,
That whole tactic of the beginning, the openness, - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:09
That whole tactic of the beginning, the openness,
Up until that point, the film has - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:11
Up until that point, the film has