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Memory: The Origins of Alien

The chestbursterchanges the complexion of the film from a kind ofepic to a kind of...

The chestburster
changes the complexion of the film from a kind of
epic to a kind of horribly, horribly intimate and sort
of claustrophobic and inward

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The chestburster changes the complexion
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of the film from a kind of epic to a kind of horribly,
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horribly intimate and sort of claustrophobic and inward.
Duration
11 seconds
Views
24
Timestamp in Movie
00:49:04
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.
It's kind of an inward movement, even though the creature - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:04
It's kind of an inward movement, even though the creatu...
Suddenly, the spaceship is small and confined, where before, - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:06
Suddenly, the spaceship is small and confined, where before,
And what the film does is make that hyper leap jump - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:09
And what the film does is make that hyper leap jump
Ridley always says that this... this - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:08
Ridley always says that this... this
It was just some craziness that came out of Ron shusett - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:09
It was just some craziness that came out of Ron shusett
When you read it in the script, there's so many different ways - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:06
When you read it in the script, there's so many differe...
And Ridley was so constrained with the scene. - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:05
And Ridley was so constrained with the scene.
The idea came from a painting from Francis bacon. - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:05
The idea came from a painting from Francis bacon.
Ridley Scott told me that this painting, it's just - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:19
Ridley Scott told me that this painting, it's just
Francis bacon: I've always been very moved - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:08
Francis bacon: I've always been very moved
And I like the, you may say, the glitter and color - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:07
And I like the, you may say, the glitter and color
When I was first went to Paris, I found in an old bookshop - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:08
When I was first went to Paris, I found in an old bookshop
The plates were hand-colored, and that it - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:07
The plates were hand-colored, and that it
Michael peppiatt: The three studies - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:10
Michael peppiatt: The three studies
He thought of that picture as his first picture. - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:06
He thought of that picture as his first picture.
He was 35, and that's late, of course, for an artist - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:07
He was 35, and that's late, of course, for an artist
And it's full of contradictions, full of paradoxes. - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:05
And it's full of contradictions, full of paradoxes.
How did suddenly this enormously challenging, - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:11
How did suddenly this enormously challenging,
And bacon, even by then, was a very violent atheist. - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:08
And bacon, even by then, was a very violent atheist.
You get the crucifixion in the title, - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:09
You get the crucifixion in the title,