Alien Movies

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Alien (1979), a science-fiction/horror film, directed by Ridley Scott, kicked off a long succession of sequel films and related works set in the fictional world it depicts. The title of the film refers to highly-aggressive extraterrestrial creatures, but the plot's connecting thread becomes the saga of Ellen Ripley, played by Sigourney Weaver, a human woman who finds herself the principal opponent of the species throughout the series. The film launched the first major American film series with a female action hero.

H.R. Giger designed the film's visual imagery and won an Oscar for it.

In 2002, the United States Library of Congress deemed Alien "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.

The movie used the tagline which became famous: In space no one can hear you scream.

Alien

The USCSS Nostromo, a towing vessel hauling an enormous ore refinery and 20 million tons of raw ore, and with a crew of seven (including Captain Dallas and Warrant Officer Ripley) has set out from the mining colony Thedus on its return to Earth in the year 2122. During the return voyage, the ship’s computer (called Mother) intercepts a non-human transmission from the moon LV-426. Mother, according to Weyland-Yutani (“the Company”) protocol, alters course and wakes the crew from hypersleep in order to investigate the transmission.

Upon investigation of the transmission source, a derelict alien ship, Executive Officer Kane becomes infected with an alien embryo. On orders of Captain Dallas, Kane is brought back on board and treated by Science Officer Ash, an android. The crewmembers return to the Nostromo from LV-426, hoping to return to Earth as soon as possible. After a brief period, an alien emerges from Kane and proceeds to kill all crewmembers except Ripley. (Ash, the android, was terminated by the other crewmembers after his attempted murder of Ripley, an action he took in defense of the alien species.)

Ripley activates Nostromo's auto-destruct sequence and escapes in the shuttle. The Nostromo and its cargo are destroyed in a series of explosions, but Ripley soon discovers that the alien had also entered the shuttle. Half-dressed and nervously singing "Lucky Star", Ripley kills the alien by blasting it out of the shuttle's airlock and burning it with the shuttle’s jets. Ripley sets the shuttle's course for Earth and returns to hypersleep.
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Aliens

Found in the year 2179 after 57 years drifting in space, Ellen Ripley returns to human society. Upon recounting the events of the Nostromo and LV-426, she learns that a group of settlers has recently moved to LV-426 and set up Hadley's Hope, a space-colony. After dismissing Ripley’s claims as ridiculous, the Company (specifically Carter Burke) sends colonists to the derelict ship to investigate Ripley’s report of an alien species. Shortly thereafter contact with the colony ceases. In response, the Company sends Ripley, a group of United States Colonial Marines, and Carter Burke to investigate LV-426 aboard the vessel Sulaco.

Arriving at LV-426, Ripley and her companions soon discover that aliens have overrun the colony and that all settlers have died, except for a young girl nicknamed Newt. The rescue team becomes trapped in the settlement, where hundreds of aliens hunt them. Their mission is further complicated by Ripley's discovery that Burke has orders to bring one of the aliens back for the Company's bio-weapons division.

Eventually, the aliens kill all those aboard the Sulaco except Ripley, Newt, Corporal Hicks, and Bishop (an android who escaped LV-426 shortly before the thermonuclear meltdown of the facility's atmosphere processor destroyed the colony). The Sulaco sets a course for Earth and the crew enters hypersleep.

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Alien: Resurrection

Two hundred years later, around the year 2379, a United System Military (USM) scientist has cloned Ripley several times by using blood samples from Fiorina 161 rediscovered in the year 2356. Upon successfully cloning Ripley, whose DNA had intermingled with the alien species her body had hosted, the experiment successfully develops an intact alien and extracts it from her abdomen.

In the year 2381, a small ship called the Betty, manned by smugglers, brings several kidnapped space-travelers, still in hypersleep, to a secret USM research vessel called the USM Auriga. The smugglers do not realise the reason for the kidnappings, but they later discover that the USM scientists will impregnate the travelers with alien embryos. The experiment quickly runs awry when the aliens break loose and begin killing everyone on the ship. While chaos ensues, an android, Call, changes the course of the ship (previously heading to Earth as per default emergency procedures) to crash-land in an attempt at destroying the aliens onboard in the process.

The Auriga crashes into South America and explodes, presumably killing the aliens onboard. A few survivors: Ripley’s clone (#8), Call, and two members of the Betty crew (Johner and Vriess) manage to escape the Auriga before its crash-landing, using the Betty. As the Betty descends towards Earth, Ripley and Call contemplate their next move.

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* An urban legend saysthat Sigourney Weaver keeps one of the alien "egg" props in her house.[citation needed]
* Jon Finch, originally cast in the part of Kane, had to drop out of the project after falling ill during the first day of shooting. John Hurt replaced him.
* The thin layer of mist that "notified the eggs" was made possible using smoke and a pulsating laser, which was borrowed from the band The Who.
* According to the behind-the-scenes documentary The Beast Within: The Making of 'Alien', the film-crew built the spaceship set in one piece. To move around the set, actors had to navigate through the hallways of the ship. Toward the end of the shoot, many members of the cast and crew recalled walking inside the set alone as a very unnerving experience. Some surmise that such emotions come across on the screen.
* H.R. Giger's initial designs for the face-hugger were held by US Customs who were alarmed at what they saw. Writer Dan O'Bannon had to go to LAX to explain to them that they were designs for a horror movie.
* The scene where the alien Chestburster emerges from Kane conveyed such violence that it caused some people watching the movie to faint, and others vomited. [citation needed]
* According to the behind-the-scenes documentary The Beast Within: The Making of 'Alien', the film-crew kept the scene where the Chestburster emerges from Kane secret from all actors except John Hurt (Kane). The rest of the crew entered the scene with Kane already on the table and all cameras set. One cast-member later recalled feeling suspicious at finding all the movie-equipment covered with plastic film. In a brilliant move by Ridley Scott, none of the actors knew what they would witness, and as a result produced genuine reactions of shock, horror, and disgust.
* An alien chestburster appears in the 1986 Colin Baker Doctor Who story The Trial of a Time Lord as the Sixth Doctor looks at the chestburster in Dr. Crozier's laboratory. Also, an alien egg appears in a glass case in the 2005 Christopher Eccleston story "Dalek" in the underground museum of Henry Van Statten and remains visible as the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler leave the TARDIS and when the guards storm in past the TARDIS. Portions of the Nostromo set also appear in the 1983 serial Terminus.
* Ridley Scott reused the scene where the Nostromo separates from the rest of the refinery in Blade Runner on a computer-display inside a spinner.
* To save money on the very tight budget, Ridley Scott filmed his children in spacesuits on a smaller set (for the scene in which Kane, Lambert and Dallas walk over to the Bone Ship). Due to the lack of both oxygen and air-holes in the suits, both the adults and children fainted while dressed in the spacesuit costumes for that sequence. [citation needed]
* When the BBC sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf moved its production to Shepparton Studios in London, some of the Nostromo hallways sets from Alien still existed and did duty in Series 5, most notably in the episode "DNA" (as revealed on the DVD commentary).
* The BBC One series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy re-used some of the Nostromo hallways, as well as other parts of the Nostromo set.

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i diddnt think alien was a very good movie