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Memory: The Origins of Alien

We're looking at astory where there is a piece of materialprop that is now completely...

We're looking at a
story where there is a piece of material
prop that is now completely alive in our imaginations

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We're looking at a story where there
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is a piece of material prop that is now completely
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alive in our imaginations.
Duration
10 seconds
Views
36
Timestamp in Movie
00:05:36
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.
He was a wild man, unbounded by conventional reality. - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:05
He was a wild man, unbounded by conventional reality.
You couldn't call him an iconoclast, because he - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:08
You couldn't call him an iconoclast, because he
He could be very offensive, and was frequently - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:05
He could be very offensive, and was frequently
He was hot, you know, emotionally hot, emotionally - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:08
He was hot, you know, emotionally hot, emotionally
He was born and raised in rural Missouri and had no television. - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:05
He was born and raised in rural Missouri and had no televisi...
They didn't even have a telephone till he was 10. - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:04
They didn't even have a telephone till he was 10.
They lived in the middle of nowhere on 24 acres. - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:04
They lived in the middle of nowhere on 24 acres.
His mother used to send off for boxes of books, - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:08
His mother used to send off for boxes of books,
His mother always wanted him to read good literature. - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:05
His mother always wanted him to read good literature.
And his mother would always say, you - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:06
And his mother would always say, you
His father owned a curio shop, it was called odd acres. - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:05
His father owned a curio shop, it was called odd acres.
There was a sort of screwy Louie room, you know, - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:08
There was a sort of screwy Louie room, you know,
That was growing up in odd acres. - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:05
That was growing up in odd acres.
And Dan helped him, and then he had the press out there, - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:05
And Dan helped him, and then he had the press out there,
Reporter: Because in one moment of history-making violence, - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:08
Reporter: Because in one moment of history-making violence,
And he was always very frightened, in a way, - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:21
And he was always very frightened, in a way,
So these things really gave him the creeps. - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:04
So these things really gave him the creeps.
And he wanted to creep everybody else out too. - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:05
And he wanted to creep everybody else out too.
And when he was thinking of his monsters, - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:07
And when he was thinking of his monsters,
Before "alien," Dan had written a screenplay called - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:22
Before "alien," Dan had written a screenplay calle...