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Memory: The Origins of Alien

This was just asmuch an exploration of the ancient past,of the repressed and forgotten...

This was just as
much an exploration of the ancient past,
of the repressed and forgotten that
the alien represents

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This was just as much an exploration
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of the ancient past, of the repressed
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and forgotten that the alien represents.
Duration
9 seconds
Views
31
Timestamp in Movie
00:39:25
Uploaded
Jun 10, 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.
When a story comes from multiple people - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:10
When a story comes from multiple people
"Alien" is a symbiosis of a few people - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:06
"Alien" is a symbiosis of a few people
If Dan had gone off and been in charge, - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:05
If Dan had gone off and been in charge,
It would have had more of the "dark star." - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:18
It would have had more of the "dark star."
The audience didn't ever question - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:09
The audience didn't ever question
There was "robby the robot," there was "barbarella." - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:09
There was "robby the robot," there was "barba...
There's something almost perennial about the way - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:15
There's something almost perennial about the way
I place the hub of the wheel at Ridley, - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:22
I place the hub of the wheel at Ridley,
Ridley shot, yeah, a good 80% of the film, - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:05
Ridley shot, yeah, a good 80% of the film,
He wanted... he wanted anamorphic on purpose. - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:05
He wanted... he wanted anamorphic on purpose.
We were contained in a space, and that wide-angle lens - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:08
We were contained in a space, and that wide-angle lens
The costume designer who worked with Ridley - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:07
The costume designer who worked with Ridley
He knows where to put the camera automatically. - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:07
He knows where to put the camera automatically.
When your hand-held, your breathing with the actors, - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:07
When your hand-held, your breathing with the actors,
I think that's one of the best operated films ever seen. - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:05
I think that's one of the best operated films ever seen...
Ian Nathan: There's a great opening sequences where - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:10
Ian Nathan: There's a great opening sequences where
Even though they're all in their cryo chambers, - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:05
Even though they're all in their cryo chambers,
But it's a haunted quality that flutter in the frame. - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:04
But it's a haunted quality that flutter in the frame.
And he talks a lot about the fact - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:10
And he talks a lot about the fact
And even around the scenes where they're kind of just - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:14
And even around the scenes where they're kind of just