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Memory: The Origins of Alien

When we got that onto thatset and saw what they had done, I mean, it was just...It was...

When we got that onto that
set and saw what they had done, I mean, it was just...
It was mind-boggling

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When we got that onto that set and saw what they had done,
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I mean, it was just... It was mind-boggling.
Duration
8 seconds
Views
28
Timestamp in Movie
00:47:48
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.
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
It's kind of strange sort of hauntingness. - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:05
It's kind of strange sort of hauntingness.
It's not, strictly speaking, entirely realistic - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:07
It's not, strictly speaking, entirely realistic
The chestburster changes the complexion - Memory: The Origins of Alien 00:11
The chestburster changes the complexion
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