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suddenly to be scared as being part of
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human nature simply by the beginning but
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alien says about us now are those fears
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that we have it's amazing experience
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that show up in her dreaming the
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nightmare I think he took a lot of
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techniques from Alfred Hitchcock in the
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sense that you don't really see
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everything the imagination is used and I
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think that's what made it so terrifying
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I think once you make a movie you better
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keep that pressure on all the way
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through on anything
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actually the God knows on a thriller or
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God Moses a marathon of tension
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I've gone to films my whole life since I
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was a kid I mean I loved movies and
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intuitive way I know that it was the
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thing I wanted to do more than anything
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but the raising I had my background
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didn't suggest that that was a practical
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thing to do for a living
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I was a theater arts major in college I
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wasn't a film major at UCLA and I did
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love theater but I realized after a
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while of producing a couple of plays
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that I had to stay in New York because
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that's where the investors are and I
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hated the weather so much the closest
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thing the theater was film and I grew up
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in LA so I decided the hell with that
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I'm living that breathing cold I'll go
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into film I applied to USC
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NYU UCLA NYU UCLA blew me off
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USC accepted so I came out there and I
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was a student in the USC department of
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cinema met up with John Carpenter John
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Carpenter started to do this master's
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thesis film science fiction movie I got
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involved in it and it grew out of hand
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it finally got too big for a student
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movie and so in the end we ended up
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finding a way to put it into theaters
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and instead of the the most impressive
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student film ever made we had the least
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impressive professional film ever made a
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lot of things bothered me about Dark
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Star we had a nail in it which was a
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beach ball it was our second try on that
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alien I went away from Dark Star really
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wanting to do an alien that looked real
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a couple years down the line I decided
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to do Dark Star as a horror movie
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instead of a comedy and that was the
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germ of alien we got to talking I
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realized that Dan was a cinema student
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at USC and it was in the process of
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making a kind of a spoof on 2001 a small
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film called Dark Star and and he was
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surprised to find that that was my
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secret love was this film and in
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particularly fantastic cinema always
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attracted me so basically I helped out
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on Dark Star I had heard about Dark Star
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and somebody was talking about these two
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brilliant young guys and sci-fi was my
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love really I like I also like suspense
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but I went to see Dark Star and I and I
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spoke to carpenter on the phone and I
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spoke to Dan on the phone but it seemed
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to me I just had a more rapport with Dan
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just for the phone conversations and I
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told him I had the rights to the what
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would became Total Recall which was the
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original story but Phil dick was called
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weak remembered for you wholesale so he
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knew the story said I love that yeah so
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you got the right side I said yeah he
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said okay and I got something like I got
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to discuss with you that I had been
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working on about a year and I need to
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make a breakthrough it maybe you're the
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guy that can make me have it happen and
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that turned out to be alien
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I had this opening I didn't know where
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it was going to go I knew I wanted to do
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a scary movie on a spaceship with a
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small number of astronauts like I say
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Dark Star is a horror movie instead of a
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comedy and I had this creepy opening and
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which astronauts awakened to find that
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their voyage home has been interrupted
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they're receiving a signal from this
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mysterious planetoid and alien language
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they go down to investigate they get
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stalled down there their ship breaks
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down Zagat 29 pages written but I don't
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know you I can't trust you to leave the
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house with this the story I of course
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know you have nothing written the story
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said no I just got the rights to the
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story I hadn't yet tried to write it yet
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and he said okay will you sit here and
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just read this this is what I got I'm
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stuck on it frankly but read this so I
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sat there and I read it and it was very
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close to what we ended up with on the
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screen those first 29 pages the threat
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at the center of the story
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whatever this monster or thing or danger
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was going to be it was not at all clear
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to me at this point the first act is
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fantastic
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I said I'll you know possibly maybe I
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can help you with and so can I help you
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in Toth recall so we decided however do
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we tackle alien first because Total
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Recall would be way more expensive
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because at that time we envisioned alien
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could be a Roger Corman
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just in one location you know several
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different rooms in an old warehouse a
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Chilean Vil member named Alejandro
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Jodorowsky telephoned me from Paris
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Paris France
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Paris Texas now Paris France he had made
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an art film called El Topo which was
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very well received and this man over
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this transatlantic phone line claimed
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that he had the backing and the rights
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to make a feature film of dune and he
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loved Dan's work that he did on
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designing special effects for Dark Star
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and he knew he had to do it at a budget
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with some creative people so he hired
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Dan to work on it helped him with a
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storyline and also with his special
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effects and Dan went off within a few
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weeks he went off to Paris and France
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and places and was working on the dune
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project there for six months and I
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wasn't the only person there he had gone
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to England and he had plucked up a an
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artist who did covers for science
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fiction books named Christopher Foss and
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for the first time I saw somebody whose
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stuff I liked as much as Ron cop stuff
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he had another artist he wanted me to
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meet the attendants guys work in a show
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that was in Paris at the time took me
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over to to one of the really fancy
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hotels in Paris not the one I was
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staying in where this artist named
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hunter Rudy Peter was staying while his
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show was on display in Paris Iger brings
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out this little tin foot said would you
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like some opium I said why did you take
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that I said I am afraid that my visions
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said it's only your mind they said that
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is what I'm afraid of
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he brings out a book art book his
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paintings in it I started looking at
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this and he and on our hundred go into a
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big discussion about dune I started
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looking at these paintings and it took a
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minute for it to register what I was
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seeing but time what I was seeing seem
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to be very disturbing oft Stoll story of
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that was down of course working on the
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Jodorowsky June in Paris for a year or
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two and it all collapse and he went you
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know he went home with no money and
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whatever it is and slept on raunchy sets
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couch and I was in desperation the only
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thing I could think to do I had to sell
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a script so he said now light up the
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board run I've got this first act and
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you like it and he says I know I know
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you have a good mind from these just
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weeks and weeks I've worked with you
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before I left and and we and what I saw
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you didn't Total Recall which you did
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the short story as far as you got it I
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know you can make the breakthrough for
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me
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well star beast is one of those titles
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that you you know you think of and then
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you you know you throw them away I was
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running through titles and they all
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stank and like any of them one morning
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at 3 o'clock
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Ronnie's apartment I'm typing away
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writing dialogue and the characters are
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saying the alien this and the alien that
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suddenly that word alien just came up
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out of the typewriter at me I said alien
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it's a noun and it's an adjective
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this is yes that's it I have the title
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it's simple it's one word and no one's
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ever used it and and never change from
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that moment on no one ever tried title
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stuck and that was amazing to us even
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that just that aspect it I went back to
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storage got my typewriter out took it
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over to Ronnie since that's living room
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and wrote it up over the days and nights
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in the next three months
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Ron keeping me alive by feeding me hot
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dogs dan said somehow the monster has to
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get on board the ship in a way that
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amazed everybody and so I wake up in the
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middle of night and I said Dan I have an
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idea and he said what and I said
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the monster screws one of the people he
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says what are you talking about
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I said he jumps in his face plants a
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tube down him inserts his seed in him
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and later comes bursting out of his
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stomach and then goes oh my god it's the
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most amazing thing I've ever heard
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nobody's ever seen like that and we just
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sat up all night and we wrote and in
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three weeks we had what would I would
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say which is 85% of the plot the
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structure we didn't write the screenplay
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right there of what you saw became
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mailing 85% on whether they drew from
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other moves they probably did like
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everybody they drew consciously or self
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constantly from things like their Patera
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from beyond space but they actually the
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ingredient of this thing being incubated
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in human being made the whole damn thing
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stand out
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Reilly wanted to be on board was I
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written a thing he saw it as a ax you
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know
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another viable thing he wanted to be
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involved with so we we made ourselves a
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little deal he would be on board as
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producer and we started trotting it
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around and showing it to various you
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know producing entities and we got
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pretty close to deals in a couple of
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time that a couple of times but they
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fell through well essentially because
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the people on the other end we were
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demanding too much you know they were
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trying to screw us so we went to Roger
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Corman's company but then I think we're
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dealing with Bob Rimi later became head
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of Universal crimes out of town and he
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said yes so right that looks like a
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pretty amazing success story he loved at
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Dan's movie was good even though it
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didn't make money he knew that I
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co-wrote this with Dan though I'd never
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made anything movie in my life as I took
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my name off the other and we were going
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to make a deal but we didn't get to
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signing the papers or alien would have
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been made as a low-budget Corman movie a
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friend of ours named Mark Haggard ended
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up with a copy of it in his hands he
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used to be an independent writer
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director Mark said can I read this great
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script they're all talking about you had
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and Dan said sure so you know we gave
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them the script you know I just said
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let's just wait a few days and then
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we'll we'll close our deal with Corman
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well he calls us of course the same
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night it's great it's not but I can get
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the money I gave them immediately so we
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looked at each other and we said okay
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well look we can't wait we don't want to
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blow the deal with Corman
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uh it's got to be a limited time see two
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weeks give me two weeks
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mark Haggard new Walter Hill a director
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of tough-guy movies gave it to Walter
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Hill Walter Hill showed it to his
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partner David Guyler and then they
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showed it to their third partner Jordan
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Carroll the three of them had just
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formed a new production company called
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Brandywine films we had offices at the
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then golden studios now Warner Hollywood
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and Walters office was on the first
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floor ground floor and after lunch one
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day he was sitting in his chair
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ruminating and with the window open and
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a friend of his was walking down the
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alleyway and he stopped and said Walter
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Scott handed in the script to the window
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and and he read it and he said we may be
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out of my mind he said I because he's
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just but I mean the script is terrible
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but it has one great scene in it and
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read it tell me what you think I read it
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I thought it was absolutely terrible
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and I call her up and I said well you
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are nuts this is crazy kind of the big
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scene I see yeah anything jumps out it's
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on his faces that's not as you look I'm
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already on page 90 I said he should keep
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reading and I came to the chest burster
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and I called him back and said well I
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see what you mean they brought it to me
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I thought it was interesting a nice
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horror picture it's outer space I mean
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what could sound better and
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they then completely rewrote the script
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from top to bottom what I didn't
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understand when we made the deal was
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Brandywine Guyler and Hill was a gallery
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he'll wanted more than to produce this
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film they I didn't figured this out into
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in fact after a principal photography
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but they targeted my script since they
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decided they wanted all the credit for
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the screenplay and they didn't want me
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to have any right from the beginning
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David Walter took up I did several
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drives and and it was the whole
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character of the film not the spine of
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it in terms of story even though that
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was changed quite a bit but the whole
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character of the film changed from
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Walter and David took it over as Walter
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himself said and one of his speeches he
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gave us during pre-production he said he
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said the greatest thing I have to bring
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to this project is I don't know anything
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about science fiction and I don't like
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it and that was certainly reflected in
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the various drafts as they did they took
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several cracks at drafts and they from
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all consensuses they were getting worse
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not better because that wasn't their
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Forte
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they did recognize it was great but they
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weren't good at making it better or in
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fact they're not making it even worse
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degree I'm going to modify that with one
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exception they made a huge contribution
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but in many drafts they did most people
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felt it was losing its but that happens
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sometimes because you take a shot and
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then you sometimes come back to what
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attracted you in the first place and
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they did radically they did eight
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different drafts for some reason I
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couldn't figure out Walter Hill
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immediately started doing a rewrites of
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my script I remember walking into
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Gordon Carroll's office and seeing a
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script on the desk and lifting up the
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page and it said alien by Walter Hill
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Gordon walks and I said Gordon what's
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this
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Gordon looked very embarrassed he said
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oh you're not supposed to see that but
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they concluded one thing which is one of
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the best things in a movie and I will
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return we be thankful them not only for
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starting the ball for financing but to
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contributing this to the movie what they
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invented was the robot that was not in
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the movie when the robots ashes a row
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but his head comes off that whole idea
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and scenario was theirs we rewrote it
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top to bottom I mean all the dialogue
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all the characters the whole sense of
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truck drivers in space the whole you
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know plot with the robot the whole was
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being home with all the rest that's
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that's that's all in the new script the
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only thing I could see he was doing was
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just stirring around the elements first
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thing he did was change the names of all
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the characters one early discussion
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Walter walks into the offices are at
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20th Century Fox's he said he said I
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hate all those names in your script he
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hates all the names when how do you hate
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a name oh I hate all those names he
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changed them all Kurt he didn't hate him
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at all but he had the naive idea that
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he'd changed all of the characters names
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this would would count somehow as being
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a substantial rewrite of the material
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with a story that is often told as this
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kind of story is you have to do it in a
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special way in order for it to be
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special I mean this was was our argument
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with we're you know about the movie in
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general with with Fox all the time and I
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think they agreed which was that you had
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to treat this kind of be monster movie
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as though it were in a movie that script
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did not excite Fox enough for them to
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say we want to go ahead and we want to
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make it
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you must be remembered that this was pre
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Star Wars and we were confident although
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he had other places we could set the
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film up we were confident that Fox would
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ultimately with another rewrite and
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whatever would ultimately do it we
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certainly hope so
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and when Star Wars came out and was
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extraordinary at that it was and
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suddenly science fiction became the hot
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chiara I don't know that there was
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consensus one way or the other about
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science fiction I mean since I was
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responsible party for making Star Wars
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and it was such a hit concerns about
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science fiction went away very quickly
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they wanted to follow through on Star
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Wars and they wanted to follow through
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fast and the only spaceship strip they
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had sitting on their desk sale yet so
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they green-lighted Wham
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I was using dune as my model of how to
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design a science fiction movie the idea
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of getting great artists together in a
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room and having them all work now we
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were doing that on a Liana weighs me in
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charge instead of Jodorowsky and we had
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the walls full of these dazzling designs
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for everything in the movie he had a
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kind of a wish list of people he wanted
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to work on this film
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one was haunt through deed eager myself
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and Chris Foss the British science
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fiction illustrator anyone that he just
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he always had this dream project that
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all three of us would work on this one
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film and he he got he got his way and
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even before there was a director Chris
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and I had a series of little little art
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department above an old soundstage when
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Fox for a long long time drawing and
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drawing and and meeting directors as it
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would come in and look at the drawings
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and try to find out who was going to do
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what when and where and if it would ever
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go and Iran is a political cartoonist
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from the Los Angeles Free Press
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everybody who loved his cartoons and I
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had the gall to actually call him on the
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phone and go visit him his apartment in
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Westwood and became friends that way and
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I discovered something at that time was
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not known about him that he did science
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fictional paintings and they were
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incredible then came to me was strictly
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the original script that he and Ron she
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said had written for alien and had me
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read it and uh and was quite amazing
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that was quite and and and he wondered
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if I could help him visual do some
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visualizations a series of paintings
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that he could send around with the
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script and I did I did
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Oh quite a few and but we were still
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groping as to what the thing should look
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like but I was very very interested in
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astronautics space flight and aerospace
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design and ideas of the future and also
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science fiction as a kind of future
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mythology so all this just clicked with
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me and I was very very excited about it
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we all contributed all kinds of things
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for the different verb
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of the script and that was Chris Foss
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just turned out tons and tons of
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exterior drawings of what the ship
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should look like and we kind of differed
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in that he he was very metaphorical and
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and sort of fantastic and I was very
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interested in tapping the idea of what
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things could look like if they were
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drawn from a more realistic
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consideration of what a spaceship should
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be without going NASA create the sense
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of confined space spaces that a premium
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inside that the idea that it was with
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all the pressure doors that it was
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pressurized all those things I thought
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would contribute to the tension of the
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film and they weren't particularly there
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in the in a lot of the early versions
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and visions of what it should look like
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so I had to do a lot of persuading Ron
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Cobb was going to do the monster he had
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some dry as long as that's how it runs
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real talented guy and ended up doing a
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lot of this the ship but as must it was
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not - he kind of designed the sort of
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spaceship interiors and thing I think
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the sort of Austria and a narcissus he
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did those kind of designs because he had
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I mean he's rather like Syd Mead was - -
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Blade Runner he just had that expert
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they were founded in logic you know in
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reality this guy thinks like something's
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engineered he's got a mind that he
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designed something that really seems
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like it'll work of functioning Lalli so
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believable he can make him so accurate I
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was more concerned with the Nostromo
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because I knew that was going to be my
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ultimate contribution would be to bring
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the Nostromo to life when finally we
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would get Gieger on board and not just
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having email things in he would be
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involved with the alien planets and we
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all knew that that's what dan wanted you
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know Chris bas was to sort of take care
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of the exterior of the ship and I was
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going to do the interior sets there
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would be a production designer but but
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Dan wanted all our inputs to be very
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very much noted I used to be very into
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the methyl how long the heavy metal
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comics from from
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and all the Mobius and people like that
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and I think I've managed to infect
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Ridley with that enthusiasm etc he could
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treat sci-fi in the same way that he
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treated history you know like the
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duelists he before that he was he was
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the sort of um he was the expert at
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00:22:44,639 --> 00:22:48,769
everything he just he put a different
544
00:22:46,019 --> 00:22:52,259
slant on on shooting historical things
545
00:22:48,769 --> 00:22:54,389
he just because it was a I guess it was
546
00:22:52,259 --> 00:22:58,019
his eye for detail railing I was steeped
547
00:22:54,389 --> 00:23:00,029
in heavy metal comics of those in a
548
00:22:58,019 --> 00:23:02,460
particular time like Metal Hurlant and
549
00:23:00,029 --> 00:23:05,730
and you know a lot of Mobius stuff
550
00:23:02,460 --> 00:23:08,039
actually and I was very impressed by
551
00:23:05,730 --> 00:23:09,960
that not just at that and does this kind
552
00:23:08,039 --> 00:23:11,639
of wonder how do I apply this to movies
553
00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:14,970
you know how do I apply this kind of
554
00:23:11,639 --> 00:23:20,190
really fresh and beautiful visual
555
00:23:14,970 --> 00:23:22,549
thinking to film and here it was you
556
00:23:20,190 --> 00:23:26,909
need a hook understanding something and
557
00:23:22,549 --> 00:23:28,679
my hook was my boards I drew the boards
558
00:23:26,909 --> 00:23:31,139
through the corridors drew the space
559
00:23:28,679 --> 00:23:32,399
suits when you're drawing boards and
560
00:23:31,139 --> 00:23:34,919
corridors and spaces
561
00:23:32,399 --> 00:23:37,350
you're also sucking yourself into the
562
00:23:34,919 --> 00:23:38,610
story because I'm literally doing it you
563
00:23:37,350 --> 00:23:40,950
know chapter-by-chapter
564
00:23:38,610 --> 00:23:43,379
scene by saying you get ideas as you're
565
00:23:40,950 --> 00:23:45,029
drawing them and the ideas fall into
566
00:23:43,379 --> 00:23:46,980
place not just as ideas but there's
567
00:23:45,029 --> 00:23:49,950
technically logical possibilities and
568
00:23:46,980 --> 00:23:52,610
when that first idea comes I tend to go
569
00:23:49,950 --> 00:23:52,610
with it and follow it
570
00:23:52,970 --> 00:24:00,830
when I read alien initially I wasn't
571
00:23:57,440 --> 00:24:03,169
drawn to the project really wasn't
572
00:24:00,830 --> 00:24:06,229
attached it was mine Stan was going to
573
00:24:03,169 --> 00:24:07,519
be a two or three million dollar budget
574
00:24:06,229 --> 00:24:11,090
and I thought well you're not going to
575
00:24:07,519 --> 00:24:13,340
make it effective so for that and you
576
00:24:11,090 --> 00:24:14,960
know it's a nice piece of material has
577
00:24:13,340 --> 00:24:18,849
potential but you're not giving it that
578
00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:21,669
potential and that I thought was that
579
00:24:18,849 --> 00:24:25,429
and about a month later got a call from
580
00:24:21,669 --> 00:24:28,009
England one of the producers at the time
581
00:24:25,429 --> 00:24:30,919
and told me that Ridley was going to be
582
00:24:28,009 --> 00:24:33,619
directing it and that there was a budget
583
00:24:30,919 --> 00:24:35,320
that would realize the potential and
584
00:24:33,619 --> 00:24:37,429
then it became something else it became
585
00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:42,710
working with really scared learning
586
00:24:37,429 --> 00:24:45,049
about filmmaking what Ridley's vision as
587
00:24:42,710 --> 00:24:49,309
far as the axes are concerned was he
588
00:24:45,049 --> 00:24:53,389
wanted it very much to be not at any
589
00:24:49,309 --> 00:24:56,119
time or any world so it was important
590
00:24:53,389 --> 00:24:58,570
there was a mixture of nationalities I
591
00:24:56,119 --> 00:25:01,549
cannot remember if yeah that kowtows
592
00:24:58,570 --> 00:25:04,340
character was written as such but he was
593
00:25:01,549 --> 00:25:07,759
obviously perfect for that part because
594
00:25:04,340 --> 00:25:10,849
he so did a wonderful actor when I first
595
00:25:07,759 --> 00:25:12,710
went Ridley first meeting we had I said
596
00:25:10,849 --> 00:25:16,749
I don't like science fiction films or
597
00:25:12,710 --> 00:25:20,479
monster pictures I opened with that
598
00:25:16,749 --> 00:25:23,239
which is obviously a good opening and he
599
00:25:20,479 --> 00:25:24,700
said well actually I don't either but I
600
00:25:23,239 --> 00:25:29,059
think I can make something in this one
601
00:25:24,700 --> 00:25:31,450
the casting of John Hurt I think it's
602
00:25:29,059 --> 00:25:33,499
his name that it there was another actor
603
00:25:31,450 --> 00:25:36,769
originally playing that part
604
00:25:33,499 --> 00:25:39,289
John Finch who became ill and we had to
605
00:25:36,769 --> 00:25:41,539
recast probably identified at that
606
00:25:39,289 --> 00:25:42,499
moment very strongly by playing Macbeth
607
00:25:41,539 --> 00:25:44,119
for Polanski
608
00:25:42,499 --> 00:25:47,830
I'd been impressed by the Lansky's work
609
00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:50,239
anyway but detective also by Finch and
610
00:25:47,830 --> 00:25:52,789
so he said yeah sure I'd love to do this
611
00:25:50,239 --> 00:25:55,700
he came on board the first day first
612
00:25:52,789 --> 00:25:59,539
shot he starts to look as yellow as this
613
00:25:55,700 --> 00:26:01,009
pencil and I thought what's wrong and we
614
00:25:59,539 --> 00:26:03,799
did a couple of takes and he seemed an
615
00:26:01,009 --> 00:26:06,070
absolute lackluster no energy he's
616
00:26:03,799 --> 00:26:08,590
sagging a ceiling
617
00:26:06,070 --> 00:26:10,090
cut and I've got up one of them so
618
00:26:08,590 --> 00:26:10,660
what's up your right said no I'm
619
00:26:10,090 --> 00:26:13,060
terrible
620
00:26:10,660 --> 00:26:15,730
so if you look terrible so how do I look
621
00:26:13,060 --> 00:26:17,820
I said terrible and we had to lift him
622
00:26:15,730 --> 00:26:20,740
out of his seat and he was carried away
623
00:26:17,820 --> 00:26:24,850
and it turns out that he was a diabetic
624
00:26:20,740 --> 00:26:27,160
I was had being asked if I'd like to do
625
00:26:24,850 --> 00:26:29,800
a lien but I had already committed in
626
00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:31,660
South African film so that was dropped
627
00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:35,200
and the actor that was going to play
628
00:26:31,660 --> 00:26:38,020
cane later for one reason or another had
629
00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:41,230
to drop out that night so we had a quick
630
00:26:38,020 --> 00:26:44,230
regroup in the office and that night I
631
00:26:41,230 --> 00:26:46,840
drove to Hampstead village and that was
632
00:26:44,230 --> 00:26:49,690
John Hurt then they heard that I was
633
00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:53,440
then free so Ridley Scott came to me and
634
00:26:49,690 --> 00:26:55,890
we talked to gong midnight say on the
635
00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:59,200
monday prepared him of course
636
00:26:55,890 --> 00:27:01,210
what is what it was and he said so when
637
00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:02,890
do I start the cert or a morning and on
638
00:27:01,210 --> 00:27:07,390
the Tuesday morning I was on the set at
639
00:27:02,890 --> 00:27:09,490
7:30 so it was not a usual film for me
640
00:27:07,390 --> 00:27:11,080
the script didn't arrive and I didn't
641
00:27:09,490 --> 00:27:12,730
Mull it over and I didn't decide this
642
00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:14,830
that and the other I had a long pitch
643
00:27:12,730 --> 00:27:18,130
from Ridley and a very interesting one
644
00:27:14,830 --> 00:27:20,140
too and I by the end of it I said okay
645
00:27:18,130 --> 00:27:22,330
really uh be better so in the car around
646
00:27:20,140 --> 00:27:25,960
now to take up studio
647
00:27:22,330 --> 00:27:28,540
I think license acting and everything is
648
00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:30,520
so full of those things what if it
649
00:27:28,540 --> 00:27:32,110
hadn't happened like nobody knows if I
650
00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:33,940
think John Hurt would probably still
651
00:27:32,110 --> 00:27:36,400
have exactly the same career because he
652
00:27:33,940 --> 00:27:38,980
done he's done so much varied and
653
00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:41,560
wonderful work that really brings us to
654
00:27:38,980 --> 00:27:43,210
Ian Holm who I think it's the most
655
00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:48,100
wonderful action hadn't done anything
656
00:27:43,210 --> 00:27:51,070
like that at all before and literally
657
00:27:48,100 --> 00:27:51,310
was really thrilled that he wanted to do
658
00:27:51,070 --> 00:27:52,900
it
659
00:27:51,310 --> 00:27:55,240
and in those days he done very little
660
00:27:52,900 --> 00:27:57,220
film he's done a bit of television but
661
00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:57,880
he was a really very much a theatre
662
00:27:57,220 --> 00:28:00,490
staff
663
00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:02,170
casting was extensive and even though
664
00:28:00,490 --> 00:28:03,130
it's only for seven people the end of
665
00:28:02,170 --> 00:28:06,220
the day I think is pretty definitive
666
00:28:03,130 --> 00:28:09,910
caster the casting is enormous Lee
667
00:28:06,220 --> 00:28:12,160
important to the whole making of the
668
00:28:09,910 --> 00:28:15,400
film to the directors concept of the
669
00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:18,430
film because it does so much work for
670
00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:19,700
the director just innately in who you
671
00:28:18,430 --> 00:28:23,090
cast
672
00:28:19,700 --> 00:28:26,330
gives the director so much to work with
673
00:28:23,090 --> 00:28:27,440
or not if it's not properly cast so it
674
00:28:26,330 --> 00:28:30,499
is an extrordinary
675
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:32,419
is sort of subtle skill it's difficult
676
00:28:30,499 --> 00:28:36,440
to explain but people know about
677
00:28:32,419 --> 00:28:38,480
filmmaking understand it and audiences
678
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:40,460
who don't know about it appreciates it
679
00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:43,450
without always understanding what
680
00:28:40,460 --> 00:28:43,450
they're appreciative
681
00:28:43,710 --> 00:28:49,469
[Music]
682
00:28:49,619 --> 00:28:54,009
everything was so claustrophobic on that
683
00:28:52,090 --> 00:28:56,950
set I mean that is one of those sets
684
00:28:54,009 --> 00:28:58,629
where you walked in and there's the
685
00:28:56,950 --> 00:29:00,009
engine room well that's fine but
686
00:28:58,629 --> 00:29:01,929
connected to that is the corridor
687
00:29:00,009 --> 00:29:03,850
connected to that was the cafeteria
688
00:29:01,929 --> 00:29:07,629
connected to that was the hospital
689
00:29:03,850 --> 00:29:09,970
it was all connected the ship so once
690
00:29:07,629 --> 00:29:11,679
you were on you were on you had to go
691
00:29:09,970 --> 00:29:13,600
through everything in order to get off
692
00:29:11,679 --> 00:29:15,700
so you could actually walk around the
693
00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:16,570
set and come out in different places and
694
00:29:15,700 --> 00:29:20,289
they believe it
695
00:29:16,570 --> 00:29:22,659
and that's in a way how riddley lighted
696
00:29:20,289 --> 00:29:25,269
and shot it and you couldn't see out so
697
00:29:22,659 --> 00:29:27,070
you didn't know where you were and it
698
00:29:25,269 --> 00:29:29,940
was almost like shooting on location and
699
00:29:27,070 --> 00:29:32,019
that really did contribute to the
700
00:29:29,940 --> 00:29:33,779
claustrophobia and the realism I know it
701
00:29:32,019 --> 00:29:35,799
really affected the actress because they
702
00:29:33,779 --> 00:29:37,779
no matter where they look they saw
703
00:29:35,799 --> 00:29:39,700
Nostromo you know long hauls and
704
00:29:37,779 --> 00:29:41,970
everything they never would live with
705
00:29:39,700 --> 00:29:44,759
practical lighting you know all inside
706
00:29:41,970 --> 00:29:49,389
because I was mostly off-off-broadway
707
00:29:44,759 --> 00:29:53,950
actor to be in this set there were these
708
00:29:49,389 --> 00:29:56,289
beautiful majestic sets where you could
709
00:29:53,950 --> 00:29:58,679
roam freely and see the whole world of
710
00:29:56,289 --> 00:29:58,679
the film
711
00:29:59,310 --> 00:30:04,770
I think when you're dealing with
712
00:30:02,610 --> 00:30:06,960
confined space is one of them very much
713
00:30:04,770 --> 00:30:10,500
used aspects of the thriller as well
714
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:13,290
it's the very center of the pieces like
715
00:30:10,500 --> 00:30:16,350
weak low and so you know it's there is
716
00:30:13,290 --> 00:30:18,960
no escape that is one of the bases of
717
00:30:16,350 --> 00:30:22,050
the real tension of the film there's a
718
00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:25,080
low key subject of every type areas
719
00:30:22,050 --> 00:30:27,660
quite difficult to light in places so
720
00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:31,380
unless you were going to swamped
721
00:30:27,660 --> 00:30:34,770
something with front light then it was a
722
00:30:31,380 --> 00:30:38,330
bit complex especially as so much of the
723
00:30:34,770 --> 00:30:41,330
movie was shot and held with Ridley
724
00:30:38,330 --> 00:30:43,830
though he did some form of blocking it
725
00:30:41,330 --> 00:30:47,300
didn't mean to say it was particularly
726
00:30:43,830 --> 00:30:51,360
where it was going to end up he also
727
00:30:47,300 --> 00:30:53,370
storyboards everything he does small
728
00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:55,470
sketches of brilliant you know you get
729
00:30:53,370 --> 00:30:58,410
the lighter shade the whole group
730
00:30:55,470 --> 00:31:01,230
caboodle that so there was his choice of
731
00:30:58,410 --> 00:31:03,420
lenses it was his choice of wear around
732
00:31:01,230 --> 00:31:04,560
that he was going with that particular
733
00:31:03,420 --> 00:31:07,560
camera
734
00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:10,560
I suppose my effort was more in towards
735
00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:11,220
that I covered most of it with a second
736
00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:14,490
camera
737
00:31:11,220 --> 00:31:17,790
tended to do the tighter shots when his
738
00:31:14,490 --> 00:31:20,280
camera wasn't in my shot really was
739
00:31:17,790 --> 00:31:22,380
really subjective he was operating a
740
00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:24,960
camera so I don't think he could really
741
00:31:22,380 --> 00:31:26,310
pull back we since read at the top that
742
00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:28,080
he wasn't able to pull back and be
743
00:31:26,310 --> 00:31:31,170
objective and come to us and talk to us
744
00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:33,420
about specific so being with an
745
00:31:31,170 --> 00:31:37,080
extraordinary group of actors allowed
746
00:31:33,420 --> 00:31:39,330
him to do what he was doing in terms of
747
00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:42,420
just composing this magnificent looking
748
00:31:39,330 --> 00:31:43,950
film looking through the camera he did
749
00:31:42,420 --> 00:31:47,250
something no direct has ever done before
750
00:31:43,950 --> 00:31:51,510
or since he had about five or six pages
751
00:31:47,250 --> 00:31:54,780
of each character and this is actors
752
00:31:51,510 --> 00:31:57,480
work usually but he had my back the
753
00:31:54,780 --> 00:32:01,410
whole background how many missions I'd
754
00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:03,580
flown my mother and father my family had
755
00:32:01,410 --> 00:32:05,230
my whole history written out on
756
00:32:03,580 --> 00:32:07,659
thankfully this is one of the things
757
00:32:05,230 --> 00:32:09,309
about Dallas of care again for the other
758
00:32:07,659 --> 00:32:11,679
characters too there was no history was
759
00:32:09,309 --> 00:32:14,169
hard to really it was about the alien
760
00:32:11,679 --> 00:32:16,360
its face it wasn't about these character
761
00:32:14,169 --> 00:32:17,860
building any one of these individuals
762
00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:18,460
there was something we had to realize as
763
00:32:17,860 --> 00:32:20,440
we went along
764
00:32:18,460 --> 00:32:23,230
I think we all discuss the bonus
765
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:25,299
situation right right not we think we
766
00:32:23,230 --> 00:32:27,999
deserve full shares right well we were
767
00:32:25,299 --> 00:32:32,860
doing the breakfast scene and it was a
768
00:32:27,999 --> 00:32:34,720
very low energy I remember and I could
769
00:32:32,860 --> 00:32:36,970
tell that really wasn't pleased but he
770
00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:40,389
was again behind the camera and as we
771
00:32:36,970 --> 00:32:42,570
walked away from the master with the
772
00:32:40,389 --> 00:32:44,859
group of all of us Ridley suddenly
773
00:32:42,570 --> 00:32:46,690
turned to me and he grabbed my and he
774
00:32:44,859 --> 00:32:48,070
said look I want to give you your
775
00:32:46,690 --> 00:32:52,690
motivation to pick up your [ __ ]
776
00:32:48,070 --> 00:32:56,619
teacup and I went and I burst into tears
777
00:32:52,690 --> 00:32:58,779
and I ran off um and he caught up with
778
00:32:56,619 --> 00:33:00,730
me he said oh I'm so sorry I'm really
779
00:32:58,779 --> 00:33:02,710
sorry he said it's what I wanted to say
780
00:33:00,730 --> 00:33:06,730
to John I couldn't say to him so I said
781
00:33:02,710 --> 00:33:08,619
to you it was his second film and and my
782
00:33:06,730 --> 00:33:11,320
first film and he always said you know
783
00:33:08,619 --> 00:33:13,299
is trial by fire for us over the years
784
00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:16,139
I've learned to communicate differently
785
00:33:13,299 --> 00:33:19,619
with actors on different subjects
786
00:33:16,139 --> 00:33:23,109
sometimes it's best to say nothing and
787
00:33:19,619 --> 00:33:25,149
let them evolve right and then instruct
788
00:33:23,109 --> 00:33:26,980
it was interesting we'd find ourselves
789
00:33:25,149 --> 00:33:28,960
going off and having lunch together and
790
00:33:26,980 --> 00:33:31,450
going down to the pub and talking and it
791
00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:34,269
actually became like these you know
792
00:33:31,450 --> 00:33:35,739
seven people on the ship it was it was
793
00:33:34,269 --> 00:33:38,169
kind of interesting and you sort of
794
00:33:35,739 --> 00:33:40,629
developed your own little character from
795
00:33:38,169 --> 00:33:44,350
that well you know I was from the
796
00:33:40,629 --> 00:33:45,970
theatre and I didn't realize that some
797
00:33:44,350 --> 00:33:48,450
actors really loved to improvise and
798
00:33:45,970 --> 00:33:52,600
yeah it was certainly one of those and
799
00:33:48,450 --> 00:33:54,940
and Ridley at that point I he was
800
00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:56,950
operating and I'm not sure how
801
00:33:54,940 --> 00:34:00,879
comfortable he felt with our little
802
00:33:56,950 --> 00:34:02,169
group and I remembered that one of the
803
00:34:00,879 --> 00:34:04,960
scenes where there was a lot of
804
00:34:02,169 --> 00:34:07,330
improvisation was seen which he used to
805
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:08,980
film the rehearsals so we never had
806
00:34:07,330 --> 00:34:10,960
rehearsals and everyone just sort of
807
00:34:08,980 --> 00:34:13,820
went for it which was actually a great
808
00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:16,640
learning experience but that's
809
00:34:13,820 --> 00:34:19,730
and it helps the film because I think we
810
00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:21,770
were on edge and we we were sort of you
811
00:34:19,730 --> 00:34:23,690
know into a survival mode
812
00:34:21,770 --> 00:34:26,510
so I think it works very well but at the
813
00:34:23,690 --> 00:34:28,580
time it was hard for me because I came
814
00:34:26,510 --> 00:34:31,250
from such a different discipline where
815
00:34:28,580 --> 00:34:33,500
you are very faithful to the words of
816
00:34:31,250 --> 00:34:38,090
the writer well yeah if it's a big guy
817
00:34:33,500 --> 00:34:41,030
I'm quite formidable and I think he
818
00:34:38,090 --> 00:34:42,470
tried to corner Ridley was a running
819
00:34:41,030 --> 00:34:45,919
joke where Ridley used to come up to us
820
00:34:42,470 --> 00:34:47,450
and say which stories yeah fates
821
00:34:45,919 --> 00:34:49,040
standing by this morning you know so
822
00:34:47,450 --> 00:34:50,510
that he could go into onto the set fire
823
00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:53,080
another door where yep it wasn't there
824
00:34:50,510 --> 00:34:55,970
waiting to corner him yeah it was always
825
00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:58,190
always evolving and in god bless him
826
00:34:55,970 --> 00:35:00,760
driving me crazy come to me with
827
00:34:58,190 --> 00:35:03,230
millions of ideas in a daily basis
828
00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:04,580
saying even to become the day he would
829
00:35:03,230 --> 00:35:06,440
die saying you know I'm not going to die
830
00:35:04,580 --> 00:35:08,570
today I'm going to kill this son of a
831
00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:11,480
[ __ ] you know and I think there was
832
00:35:08,570 --> 00:35:13,580
there a genuine tension between finally
833
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:16,070
enough tension in the film between the
834
00:35:13,580 --> 00:35:18,560
the blow Dex guys between yeah yeah it
835
00:35:16,070 --> 00:35:20,000
and and Harry Dean Stanton was sort of
836
00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:21,620
reflected to a degree actually in
837
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:25,220
reality because I think Sigourney found
838
00:35:21,620 --> 00:35:27,320
it quite lonely being that the heroine
839
00:35:25,220 --> 00:35:29,210
amongst all these kind of tough guys and
840
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:31,670
it's some certain parts of that
841
00:35:29,210 --> 00:35:34,540
atmosphere I think carried on a bit will
842
00:35:31,670 --> 00:35:34,540
you get off my back please
843
00:35:41,590 --> 00:35:48,410
Sigourney had certain nervousness
844
00:35:43,850 --> 00:35:51,830
because Ridley wasn't inviting her at
845
00:35:48,410 --> 00:35:54,740
all to rushes and it was nearly moving
846
00:35:51,830 --> 00:35:55,880
for her so she wasn't quite sure how she
847
00:35:54,740 --> 00:35:58,130
was coming over
848
00:35:55,880 --> 00:36:01,850
Sigourney was the new kid on the block
849
00:35:58,130 --> 00:36:03,680
and they all felt that she wasn't really
850
00:36:01,850 --> 00:36:06,590
doing that good a job in the scenes with
851
00:36:03,680 --> 00:36:08,720
her and they were grumbling among each
852
00:36:06,590 --> 00:36:11,090
other and felt that it might hurt the
853
00:36:08,720 --> 00:36:13,960
success of the film and she and Yaphet
854
00:36:11,090 --> 00:36:17,000
especially would argue a lot in between
855
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:21,560
scenes but that manifested itself in the
856
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:25,120
movie that was very convincing I'm
857
00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:25,120
thinking two things fast
858
00:36:27,980 --> 00:36:33,660
unless somebody can come up with a
859
00:36:30,300 --> 00:36:36,510
better idea we're going to proceed with
860
00:36:33,660 --> 00:36:38,040
Dallas's plan started that being very
861
00:36:36,510 --> 00:36:40,319
emotional in all of this stuff because
862
00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:44,819
of Dallas dying and he just kept pushing
863
00:36:40,319 --> 00:36:46,410
her and pushing in kind of the Offit and
864
00:36:44,819 --> 00:36:48,240
he goes alright what do we do now and
865
00:36:46,410 --> 00:36:50,339
she and then there's the st. in and she
866
00:36:48,240 --> 00:36:53,310
says I'm the captain is shipment hey hey
867
00:36:50,339 --> 00:36:55,890
look Tony goes gotta be kidding I'm not
868
00:36:53,310 --> 00:36:58,560
going to fire in stores until nothing
869
00:36:55,890 --> 00:37:00,960
like idea now that's what I'm talking
870
00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:03,420
about Parker if you will listen I'm
871
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:05,010
listening on it quite well the third
872
00:37:03,420 --> 00:37:08,160
time you comes and he goes you're the
873
00:37:05,010 --> 00:37:09,990
captain of the ship I'm 200 250 pounds
874
00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:13,140
black as can be I have a [ __ ]
875
00:37:09,990 --> 00:37:14,700
following [ __ ] so if you're the captain
876
00:37:13,140 --> 00:37:17,940
of this ship you better [ __ ] tell me
877
00:37:14,700 --> 00:37:20,910
I am well off he goes again Shh this
878
00:37:17,940 --> 00:37:22,589
time he comes on and I'm sure that
879
00:37:20,910 --> 00:37:25,440
Ridley was egging her up because she had
880
00:37:22,589 --> 00:37:27,180
to be really really strong and so now
881
00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:29,550
this time he comes into the thing and
882
00:37:27,180 --> 00:37:32,700
she goes I'm the captain of this ship
883
00:37:29,550 --> 00:37:34,980
and he says okay listen to me we break
884
00:37:32,700 --> 00:37:37,079
quarantine we could old dog hop jump in
885
00:37:34,980 --> 00:37:40,260
the goddamn hatch we have to get him
886
00:37:37,079 --> 00:37:42,930
inside there is a scene in the UM the
887
00:37:40,260 --> 00:37:45,720
hallway when she won't loaded on to the
888
00:37:42,930 --> 00:37:49,170
ship after this whole treading along
889
00:37:45,720 --> 00:37:52,740
with the bloodsucker on John's face and
890
00:37:49,170 --> 00:37:54,329
we come in and then she starts getting
891
00:37:52,740 --> 00:37:55,890
upset and saying you know we shouldn't
892
00:37:54,329 --> 00:37:58,859
be there and then I slugger
893
00:37:55,890 --> 00:38:08,160
well um every time I went to hit her she
894
00:37:58,859 --> 00:38:10,380
was done duck the hit and so really came
895
00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:12,450
over and he said to me get her this time
896
00:38:10,380 --> 00:38:14,490
so I thought well what am I supposed to
897
00:38:12,450 --> 00:38:17,910
do I went like this she ducked and I
898
00:38:14,490 --> 00:38:20,119
came back and hit her that way she went
899
00:38:17,910 --> 00:38:24,829
right into it I didn't mean to hurt her
900
00:38:20,119 --> 00:38:24,829
she literally went right into it
901
00:38:28,620 --> 00:38:32,700
and she burst out crying and that's what
902
00:38:30,990 --> 00:38:37,830
pissed her off because she said that
903
00:38:32,700 --> 00:38:39,570
Ripley wouldn't cry so it wasn't too
904
00:38:37,830 --> 00:38:42,000
happy about that and she didn't feel
905
00:38:39,570 --> 00:38:43,800
that it was necessary to do that
906
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:45,320
but I guess readily felt that it was
907
00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:49,500
necessary to do that
908
00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:52,080
ash was the real masterstroke I think in
909
00:38:49,500 --> 00:38:54,240
that he was completely that was a
910
00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:57,690
one-off wasn't it that's the first time
911
00:38:54,240 --> 00:39:00,360
you know you have corporate paranoia
912
00:38:57,690 --> 00:39:04,590
right that in there you've got a
913
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:08,070
corporate a suit on the ship differences
914
00:39:04,590 --> 00:39:11,100
the suit as a robot as a humanoid
915
00:39:08,070 --> 00:39:16,920
so when ash suddenly became Takuya he
916
00:39:11,100 --> 00:39:18,570
goes peculiar on sigani and well he said
917
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:23,310
I can explain everything when he's over
918
00:39:18,570 --> 00:39:25,830
her shoulder only mothers and she
919
00:39:23,310 --> 00:39:28,260
suddenly a spook by him and reality's
920
00:39:25,830 --> 00:39:31,160
not what he seems to be many ghosts
921
00:39:28,260 --> 00:39:36,840
range from using sweat the milk here and
922
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:38,640
then he has to go go at it and I was
923
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:42,320
thought that was interesting that do
924
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:42,320
humanoids have sexual urges
925
00:39:44,390 --> 00:39:49,800
you know what be nice is that this is
926
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:52,770
the closest year it gets to sexual
927
00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:54,960
relationship then they come in and knock
928
00:39:52,770 --> 00:39:57,630
his head off then you go from - to a
929
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:58,800
very small person underneath running
930
00:39:57,630 --> 00:40:01,230
around with you watch it carefully
931
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:04,619
rather dodgy arms okay that's a dodgy
932
00:40:01,230 --> 00:40:06,530
moment but it's taken up by the shock
933
00:40:04,619 --> 00:40:09,540
the slack is taken up by the shock of
934
00:40:06,530 --> 00:40:21,450
Jesus the robot then getting bashed and
935
00:40:09,540 --> 00:40:23,910
bashed by effort then you've got Ian
936
00:40:21,450 --> 00:40:27,900
with his head stuck to the table lying
937
00:40:23,910 --> 00:40:30,180
in a sea of milk and caviar pasta and
938
00:40:27,900 --> 00:40:32,550
glass marbles on glass marbles are a
939
00:40:30,180 --> 00:40:37,500
funny like memory clear glass marbles
940
00:40:32,550 --> 00:40:40,050
and poor Ian had - every time I do a
941
00:40:37,500 --> 00:40:41,910
take I'd give him he hated milk as well
942
00:40:40,050 --> 00:40:47,130
I've given little bit of milks as you
943
00:40:41,910 --> 00:40:50,700
worry oh and then he started talk - boo
944
00:40:47,130 --> 00:40:52,080
boo and then that we then drizzled it up
945
00:40:50,700 --> 00:40:54,510
afterwards give it a little bit of
946
00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:57,180
effervescence on sound all the
947
00:40:54,510 --> 00:41:01,350
priorities rescinded and then
948
00:40:57,180 --> 00:41:03,390
incineration then it becomes really
949
00:41:01,350 --> 00:41:06,180
scary because he says that's a great
950
00:41:03,390 --> 00:41:08,520
speech that speech came later which sure
951
00:41:06,180 --> 00:41:11,369
I think Helen gana had to write we had
952
00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:12,210
to write that Ash is saying is not as
953
00:41:11,369 --> 00:41:17,940
indestructible
954
00:41:12,210 --> 00:41:22,190
you know life everything yeah the heads
955
00:41:17,940 --> 00:41:24,840
like like that and then you cut any lip
956
00:41:22,190 --> 00:41:26,850
but I thought the the head was a good
957
00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:28,650
was very beautifully articulated but I
958
00:41:26,850 --> 00:41:30,570
think something went and wrong in the
959
00:41:28,650 --> 00:41:34,560
drying process I think you know they've
960
00:41:30,570 --> 00:41:37,470
changed the level and quality of lay
961
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:39,960
Texas today but in those days it shrunk
962
00:41:37,470 --> 00:41:41,670
and he said it's shrunk so because he
963
00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:45,630
took a head cast how can I not look like
964
00:41:41,670 --> 00:41:48,300
in he said it shrank I said ah God gonna
965
00:41:45,630 --> 00:41:51,330
come back and redo it no we couldn't so
966
00:41:48,300 --> 00:41:53,700
we had to get on with it there was no
967
00:41:51,330 --> 00:41:55,290
coming back on that kind of budget you
968
00:41:53,700 --> 00:41:57,570
got to keep going
969
00:41:55,290 --> 00:42:00,060
at the end of the first week of shooting
970
00:41:57,570 --> 00:42:02,070
I asked to look at some dailies and
971
00:42:00,060 --> 00:42:05,520
Gordon Carroll said you're not allowed
972
00:42:02,070 --> 00:42:07,770
to come to dailies as I really mean he
973
00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:10,140
said those are privileged
974
00:42:07,770 --> 00:42:12,420
I said Gordon I said surely if anyone
975
00:42:10,140 --> 00:42:18,240
has a right to look at dailies it's me
976
00:42:12,420 --> 00:42:21,690
let's picture garden said sue me right
977
00:42:18,240 --> 00:42:24,210
garden did a much simpler thing in
978
00:42:21,690 --> 00:42:26,610
psyllium I went up in the projection
979
00:42:24,210 --> 00:42:31,050
booth with projectionists
980
00:42:26,610 --> 00:42:36,840
I stood and I looked and I looked and I
981
00:42:31,050 --> 00:42:41,760
saw it and I was impressed I was pleased
982
00:42:36,840 --> 00:42:44,910
I said oh yeah I said that looks good
983
00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:48,600
and for the first time I began to see
984
00:42:44,910 --> 00:42:50,610
the value of getting a director whose
985
00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:53,700
focus was so strongly on the
986
00:42:50,610 --> 00:42:56,040
photographic look of a film I think
987
00:42:53,700 --> 00:42:57,540
pretty soon we all knew you only got to
988
00:42:56,040 --> 00:42:59,790
see the Dale is it such a then know that
989
00:42:57,540 --> 00:43:02,120
something you know quite special is
990
00:42:59,790 --> 00:43:02,120
happening
991
00:43:02,869 --> 00:43:06,049
morning captain
992
00:43:08,260 --> 00:43:20,199
[Music]
993
00:43:22,900 --> 00:43:33,190
because I did some drawing so really
994
00:43:28,610 --> 00:43:38,780
scope I like to have the exterior
995
00:43:33,190 --> 00:43:42,110
landscape space chalky the exile or
996
00:43:38,780 --> 00:43:44,870
exterior interiors all the alien
997
00:43:42,110 --> 00:43:49,100
surroundings and that was what I happy
998
00:43:44,870 --> 00:43:52,760
to do that because I could I was not so
999
00:43:49,100 --> 00:43:55,430
limited they had not money to do it like
1000
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:59,060
I designed it you know the whole thing
1001
00:43:55,430 --> 00:44:03,620
looks a little bit like Art Nouveau it
1002
00:43:59,060 --> 00:44:07,180
was not organic enough organic like it
1003
00:44:03,620 --> 00:44:11,600
looks it looked like handmade from
1004
00:44:07,180 --> 00:44:14,000
artists the X the X have been very good
1005
00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:16,940
they look real organic
1006
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:20,540
yeah the X and the area where the XF
1007
00:44:16,940 --> 00:44:23,120
being and also the stables they have
1008
00:44:20,540 --> 00:44:27,080
been very good because this was planned
1009
00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:32,390
to go in the Exile oh there was a round
1010
00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:35,930
like Astro and it was very nice
1011
00:44:32,390 --> 00:44:38,240
I thought bones yet they are dried and
1012
00:44:35,930 --> 00:44:40,850
old but they brought is fresh from the
1013
00:44:38,240 --> 00:44:41,810
slaughterhouse and there was a smell
1014
00:44:40,850 --> 00:44:45,560
horrible
1015
00:44:41,810 --> 00:44:50,030
because the inside of the bones has been
1016
00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:53,450
that was just fresh and we had a big box
1017
00:44:50,030 --> 00:44:58,610
full of bones and there was such a such
1018
00:44:53,450 --> 00:45:01,100
a smell that we even myself every see
1019
00:44:58,610 --> 00:45:04,970
that please go away with this
1020
00:45:01,100 --> 00:45:09,470
I only use dried bones old went together
1021
00:45:04,970 --> 00:45:12,350
with plasticine to do it the scale was
1022
00:45:09,470 --> 00:45:16,790
not wrong it was too big we couldn't
1023
00:45:12,350 --> 00:45:20,710
find jokes and thing of this size so
1024
00:45:16,790 --> 00:45:25,670
that didn't work very well so really
1025
00:45:20,710 --> 00:45:28,430
always used smoke everything dark and
1026
00:45:25,670 --> 00:45:31,220
smoke and that makes the thing much
1027
00:45:28,430 --> 00:45:33,819
better than it is I want to have a
1028
00:45:31,220 --> 00:45:37,900
landscape who is very much organic
1029
00:45:33,819 --> 00:45:40,869
like and I would like to have old motors
1030
00:45:37,900 --> 00:45:44,079
from from motorcycle or things like that
1031
00:45:40,869 --> 00:45:46,779
big things to make a wonderful landscape
1032
00:45:44,079 --> 00:45:50,279
but there was no no time and no money
1033
00:45:46,779 --> 00:45:52,509
for this a real mixed up real real
1034
00:45:50,279 --> 00:45:53,279
biomechanical landscape that would be
1035
00:45:52,509 --> 00:45:57,819
good
1036
00:45:53,279 --> 00:46:00,699
diggers sets were so erotic and I mean
1037
00:45:57,819 --> 00:46:02,619
it's big vaginas and penises and I mean
1038
00:46:00,699 --> 00:46:06,400
it's like you know if the whole thing is
1039
00:46:02,619 --> 00:46:09,009
like you're going inside of some sort of
1040
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:11,319
womb or whatever I mean it's sort of
1041
00:46:09,009 --> 00:46:12,999
visceral and all of those things and I
1042
00:46:11,319 --> 00:46:16,420
think all those elements came into it
1043
00:46:12,999 --> 00:46:19,359
and and that's what makes it really work
1044
00:46:16,420 --> 00:46:21,400
on his so-called space jockey which
1045
00:46:19,359 --> 00:46:24,670
Gieger by the way designed that whole
1046
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:27,670
set the alien and he hand brushed the
1047
00:46:24,670 --> 00:46:29,799
alien airbrushed it himself and got on a
1048
00:46:27,670 --> 00:46:32,709
scaffold and airbrushed the whole set so
1049
00:46:29,799 --> 00:46:34,539
would look at that eerie texture and but
1050
00:46:32,709 --> 00:46:36,009
the thing was this they didn't want to
1051
00:46:34,539 --> 00:46:37,329
give us it was too expensive his set
1052
00:46:36,009 --> 00:46:39,279
didn't want to give it to us they said
1053
00:46:37,329 --> 00:46:40,839
well look you're only in here one time
1054
00:46:39,279 --> 00:46:43,390
it's different if you keep using this
1055
00:46:40,839 --> 00:46:45,670
set this is massively expensive this
1056
00:46:43,390 --> 00:46:47,559
whole big creature in this big back wall
1057
00:46:45,670 --> 00:46:49,479
there's a no we can't give you this it's
1058
00:46:47,559 --> 00:46:50,559
absolutely too expensive I think was
1059
00:46:49,479 --> 00:46:52,089
like four or five hundred thousand
1060
00:46:50,559 --> 00:46:54,190
dollars he said this is not your main
1061
00:46:52,089 --> 00:46:58,660
set you're just going to have to walk by
1062
00:46:54,190 --> 00:47:01,119
and see a skeletal imprint in the mud of
1063
00:46:58,660 --> 00:47:03,009
this 15-foot creature and then you'll
1064
00:47:01,119 --> 00:47:04,150
walk into this strange-looking building
1065
00:47:03,009 --> 00:47:06,699
it doesn't have to have these immense
1066
00:47:04,150 --> 00:47:09,400
walls it'll be a bunker or something
1067
00:47:06,699 --> 00:47:11,170
that's weird Leeds constructed at angles
1068
00:47:09,400 --> 00:47:12,969
and that's it we can do that cheaper and
1069
00:47:11,170 --> 00:47:15,339
that's where we got to stop you some of
1070
00:47:12,969 --> 00:47:16,569
these things you're just going wild but
1071
00:47:15,339 --> 00:47:17,949
the space chuck that was one of those
1072
00:47:16,569 --> 00:47:20,799
things I said look I can't cheat this
1073
00:47:17,949 --> 00:47:24,249
you know it's going to be real it's kind
1074
00:47:20,799 --> 00:47:27,759
of the cockpit or the driving deck of
1075
00:47:24,249 --> 00:47:29,380
whatever this craft was and and Giga had
1076
00:47:27,759 --> 00:47:33,670
done this drawing which I loved and I
1077
00:47:29,380 --> 00:47:35,349
said just go do it Ridley and I kept at
1078
00:47:33,670 --> 00:47:37,869
least look we need this because this is
1079
00:47:35,349 --> 00:47:39,640
our sessile B DeMille shot you've got to
1080
00:47:37,869 --> 00:47:41,890
have this so that when they see this
1081
00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:43,119
they know it's just not a little like we
1082
00:47:41,890 --> 00:47:45,339
were going to do a Roger Corman movie
1083
00:47:43,119 --> 00:47:46,940
you kind of have the people walking in
1084
00:47:45,339 --> 00:47:49,190
not miniatures
1085
00:47:46,940 --> 00:47:51,170
camera pulled back and they're on this
1086
00:47:49,190 --> 00:47:53,210
thing and it's the most amazing set
1087
00:47:51,170 --> 00:47:55,180
you've ever seen your jaw drops and you
1088
00:47:53,210 --> 00:47:57,799
know you're watching an a-level movie
1089
00:47:55,180 --> 00:48:00,349
really sort of us you know loves having
1090
00:47:57,799 --> 00:48:03,200
says you know so we were gone discussing
1091
00:48:00,349 --> 00:48:06,980
ideas of settings and things like and so
1092
00:48:03,200 --> 00:48:09,890
he would he would want something more so
1093
00:48:06,980 --> 00:48:12,980
I would get designed by storerooms and
1094
00:48:09,890 --> 00:48:19,579
other pieces of action and I kept
1095
00:48:12,980 --> 00:48:22,009
building says and the guy from Fox it
1096
00:48:19,579 --> 00:48:23,420
was kind of very concerned about fact we
1097
00:48:22,009 --> 00:48:27,529
were running over she edged up I liked
1098
00:48:23,420 --> 00:48:30,440
always was doing his best to stop that
1099
00:48:27,529 --> 00:48:33,200
happening so he would find out where I
1100
00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:34,400
was better than have them pulled down so
1101
00:48:33,200 --> 00:48:35,470
we never got to shoot them
1102
00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:38,269
I've happened on two or three occasions
1103
00:48:35,470 --> 00:48:41,480
this is set which I think was an Air
1104
00:48:38,269 --> 00:48:43,609
shark set or something and there was
1105
00:48:41,480 --> 00:48:45,559
this continuous castle was Ridley saying
1106
00:48:43,609 --> 00:48:47,569
I want that set I want to shoot on that
1107
00:48:45,559 --> 00:48:49,730
set when Peter bill would go round
1108
00:48:47,569 --> 00:48:51,710
knowing exactly what Brickley was like
1109
00:48:49,730 --> 00:48:53,690
he discovered over that over the weeks
1110
00:48:51,710 --> 00:48:56,089
of shooting and he would go he would
1111
00:48:53,690 --> 00:48:57,859
actually do a sort of like a martyr
1112
00:48:56,089 --> 00:48:59,900
round of the studio and looking all the
1113
00:48:57,859 --> 00:49:01,160
stages to make sure that all the steps
1114
00:48:59,900 --> 00:49:02,059
that were being built there was nothing
1115
00:49:01,160 --> 00:49:04,700
that was being built without his
1116
00:49:02,059 --> 00:49:06,950
approval and I think remember he it was
1117
00:49:04,700 --> 00:49:08,089
this tussle of him saying that is not
1118
00:49:06,950 --> 00:49:09,950
going to be built we're cancelling that
1119
00:49:08,089 --> 00:49:11,480
set and really saying no build it build
1120
00:49:09,950 --> 00:49:13,549
it I mean you know it's one of those
1121
00:49:11,480 --> 00:49:15,230
things that we could have gone on and on
1122
00:49:13,549 --> 00:49:16,789
and on you know I mean to build other
1123
00:49:15,230 --> 00:49:19,549
things and big I think it's more
1124
00:49:16,789 --> 00:49:20,869
spaceship and more hidden crannies I
1125
00:49:19,549 --> 00:49:23,660
mean there's old sequences which would
1126
00:49:20,869 --> 00:49:27,500
cut out the sequence where initially the
1127
00:49:23,660 --> 00:49:30,890
alien creature gets Skerritt being the
1128
00:49:27,500 --> 00:49:34,160
captain and then he cocoons him you
1129
00:49:30,890 --> 00:49:37,099
stuck a wall in one of the storerooms
1130
00:49:34,160 --> 00:49:40,130
and he's become sort of food for the
1131
00:49:37,099 --> 00:49:44,599
alien creature and he's just glued to
1132
00:49:40,130 --> 00:49:49,180
the war there's no way she can rescue
1133
00:49:44,599 --> 00:49:49,180
him so she burns him
1134
00:49:52,779 --> 00:50:00,770
walking on those sets walking on those
1135
00:49:55,369 --> 00:50:03,319
stages and seeing the richness of design
1136
00:50:00,770 --> 00:50:04,760
and texture it began to get to you
1137
00:50:03,319 --> 00:50:06,589
literally physically and then of course
1138
00:50:04,760 --> 00:50:09,170
when we started to shoot and really pump
1139
00:50:06,589 --> 00:50:12,859
the smoke in there you were now in in
1140
00:50:09,170 --> 00:50:14,660
ghostly surroundings what one realized
1141
00:50:12,859 --> 00:50:16,880
is that we were doing that really was
1142
00:50:14,660 --> 00:50:19,809
bringing this picture to the highest
1143
00:50:16,880 --> 00:50:23,750
possible creative level design level
1144
00:50:19,809 --> 00:50:49,809
acting lighting life
1145
00:50:23,750 --> 00:50:49,809
[Music]
1146
00:50:57,540 --> 00:51:01,890
[Music]
1147
00:50:58,720 --> 00:51:01,890
[Applause]
1148
00:51:02,760 --> 00:51:06,010
[Music]
1149
00:51:08,050 --> 00:51:11,150
even very strange-looking dressed all in
1150
00:51:10,700 --> 00:51:14,720
black
1151
00:51:11,150 --> 00:51:16,100
you know this Swiss accent and when we
1152
00:51:14,720 --> 00:51:17,750
were looking at his work before we met
1153
00:51:16,100 --> 00:51:22,100
him we weren't really sure we wanted to
1154
00:51:17,750 --> 00:51:26,840
be kind of disturbed about you really
1155
00:51:22,100 --> 00:51:27,770
going to be here yeah I like if they are
1156
00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:31,910
this
1157
00:51:27,770 --> 00:51:34,700
yes that's good I hate this day if they
1158
00:51:31,910 --> 00:51:37,610
don't look at the Doris Day I have
1159
00:51:34,700 --> 00:51:42,470
people they like my stuff or others they
1160
00:51:37,610 --> 00:51:44,740
hated this is a wonderful artist I think
1161
00:51:42,470 --> 00:51:48,400
there was a great move having M design
1162
00:51:44,740 --> 00:51:48,400
design the whole time
1163
00:51:51,970 --> 00:51:57,740
he was so strange most people it kept
1164
00:51:55,070 --> 00:51:59,900
them the creeps a they wanted his office
1165
00:51:57,740 --> 00:52:02,210
way across the room the other because he
1166
00:51:59,900 --> 00:52:03,620
was so he was like Dracula he was only a
1167
00:52:02,210 --> 00:52:06,080
Peter Lorre or something he was always
1168
00:52:03,620 --> 00:52:07,550
dressed in black he had very soft boys
1169
00:52:06,080 --> 00:52:08,930
but there was always these horrible
1170
00:52:07,550 --> 00:52:11,030
stories we heard that he had the
1171
00:52:08,930 --> 00:52:13,190
skeleton from his fiancee we committed
1172
00:52:11,030 --> 00:52:14,630
suicide and people who were gave him the
1173
00:52:13,190 --> 00:52:17,120
creeps I got along with him great Dan
1174
00:52:14,630 --> 00:52:19,730
and I and Ridley got long superbee
1175
00:52:17,120 --> 00:52:22,250
everyone else sort of thought he was old
1176
00:52:19,730 --> 00:52:23,810
so weird that they didn't work with him
1177
00:52:22,250 --> 00:52:25,130
too much and as a result that was good
1178
00:52:23,810 --> 00:52:27,440
it was great for dan and I because we
1179
00:52:25,130 --> 00:52:29,870
got so much input getting along with him
1180
00:52:27,440 --> 00:52:32,150
so well people would kind of shy away
1181
00:52:29,870 --> 00:52:35,030
from names Ava's obsessed in his work at
1182
00:52:32,150 --> 00:52:40,070
bones and of all kinds all over the
1183
00:52:35,030 --> 00:52:42,860
place the life Earth's mean if you have
1184
00:52:40,070 --> 00:52:45,440
too much Sun you like then just to be in
1185
00:52:42,860 --> 00:52:47,990
the shadow and I like always to be in
1186
00:52:45,440 --> 00:52:52,430
the shadow in the dark
1187
00:52:47,990 --> 00:52:55,760
I like to a lot I had a perfect of Mia
1188
00:52:52,430 --> 00:52:57,800
and they both dressed in black he was
1189
00:52:55,760 --> 00:53:00,970
very pale skinned as well and he was
1190
00:52:57,800 --> 00:53:04,070
sort of fun you're so spooky in a way
1191
00:53:00,970 --> 00:53:05,630
but I but I also kind of lightened and
1192
00:53:04,070 --> 00:53:07,430
there was a sweets item he called his
1193
00:53:05,630 --> 00:53:09,440
mother over you know it when smothered
1194
00:53:07,430 --> 00:53:10,820
had hip replacements and so he would
1195
00:53:09,440 --> 00:53:12,380
take care of him I remember having
1196
00:53:10,820 --> 00:53:17,480
dinner at one evening with him and his
1197
00:53:12,380 --> 00:53:20,390
mother and via the Giga was I mean we
1198
00:53:17,480 --> 00:53:22,700
did we spend long time together was the
1199
00:53:20,390 --> 00:53:24,620
exilim designed and obviously made and
1200
00:53:22,700 --> 00:53:26,840
there'd be the way up they were with the
1201
00:53:24,620 --> 00:53:28,880
aperture at the top with a hydraulic
1202
00:53:26,840 --> 00:53:31,220
opening which would open looking very
1203
00:53:28,880 --> 00:53:32,680
threatening with Jimmie shields great
1204
00:53:31,220 --> 00:53:35,230
sounds on it
1205
00:53:32,680 --> 00:53:38,650
I still want a great chance out there
1206
00:53:35,230 --> 00:53:42,750
opens and you hear that visceral viscera
1207
00:53:38,650 --> 00:53:45,910
and the strengthened notes strong the
1208
00:53:42,750 --> 00:53:49,480
detail that he looks at later will be
1209
00:53:45,910 --> 00:53:51,430
shot a gray when the film is finished so
1210
00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:54,279
we ship one of those eggs out to Bray
1211
00:53:51,430 --> 00:53:56,950
and to make it really strength as if you
1212
00:53:54,279 --> 00:53:59,920
watch carefully then the fluid on it is
1213
00:53:56,950 --> 00:54:01,960
going upwards so then you flip that over
1214
00:53:59,920 --> 00:54:05,020
and I was freaked about when I saw that
1215
00:54:01,960 --> 00:54:07,930
dripping upwards and then inside it was
1216
00:54:05,020 --> 00:54:11,020
semi-transparent like a large piece of
1217
00:54:07,930 --> 00:54:14,680
jelly and all it was was a fiberglass
1218
00:54:11,020 --> 00:54:17,829
with mostly glass than fiber in it was
1219
00:54:14,680 --> 00:54:20,400
nearly transparent and I needed to
1220
00:54:17,829 --> 00:54:23,470
demand when we were in Brazil and
1221
00:54:20,400 --> 00:54:26,230
breaking we've got if dead so I've
1222
00:54:23,470 --> 00:54:28,270
sticks in poking of terrible so we
1223
00:54:26,230 --> 00:54:31,779
worked out a method of as it was about
1224
00:54:28,270 --> 00:54:34,270
to open it kind of went from like that
1225
00:54:31,779 --> 00:54:36,460
less a little bit and then I think he
1226
00:54:34,270 --> 00:54:38,859
looks at it again and inside
1227
00:54:36,460 --> 00:54:41,230
he's on my hands with two rubber gloves
1228
00:54:38,859 --> 00:54:46,569
on washing up cloths and all I'm doing
1229
00:54:41,230 --> 00:54:48,490
is going from like and so that's that
1230
00:54:46,569 --> 00:55:00,460
was how that was done
1231
00:54:48,490 --> 00:55:02,660
[Music]
1232
00:55:00,460 --> 00:55:05,630
and of course after that he comes in
1233
00:55:02,660 --> 00:55:10,490
looks into thee the aperture opens he
1234
00:55:05,630 --> 00:55:12,920
backs off we say don't go there he goes
1235
00:55:10,490 --> 00:55:14,930
there looks in and what he's staring at
1236
00:55:12,920 --> 00:55:18,970
is what they call nothing less which is
1237
00:55:14,930 --> 00:55:22,550
fundamentally cow's stomach at LaCie
1238
00:55:18,970 --> 00:55:24,410
fleshy stuff is a we called tripe and so
1239
00:55:22,550 --> 00:55:26,930
I got buckets of this in white plastic
1240
00:55:24,410 --> 00:55:28,640
bucket and I have to put on a white coat
1241
00:55:26,930 --> 00:55:31,670
and gloves in the handling this doesn't
1242
00:55:28,640 --> 00:55:35,300
I just dressed it on it and then I
1243
00:55:31,670 --> 00:55:38,180
couldn't find a whiplash effect or
1244
00:55:35,300 --> 00:55:40,850
anything that you may like a hose that
1245
00:55:38,180 --> 00:55:43,040
is delicate enough so I've seen this in
1246
00:55:40,850 --> 00:55:45,440
testing ships and tested ships and
1247
00:55:43,040 --> 00:55:49,490
testing which is actually beautiful
1248
00:55:45,440 --> 00:55:51,860
it's gossamer gossamer got little lines
1249
00:55:49,490 --> 00:55:53,480
in it well it was he in fragments
1250
00:55:51,860 --> 00:55:56,630
because all he do is cover the bits and
1251
00:55:53,480 --> 00:55:59,090
then so it's not enough to have him look
1252
00:55:56,630 --> 00:56:01,280
and it explodes you need every moments
1253
00:55:59,090 --> 00:56:03,980
of it and slow down so we slowed it down
1254
00:56:01,280 --> 00:56:06,350
because it was really fast he turned an
1255
00:56:03,980 --> 00:56:09,110
airline on it goes wash it happens in
1256
00:56:06,350 --> 00:56:11,420
less than a second but was I we stretch
1257
00:56:09,110 --> 00:56:14,390
that there maybe one and a half seconds
1258
00:56:11,420 --> 00:56:16,280
maybe and then he hits him as he goes
1259
00:56:14,390 --> 00:56:19,310
back I've already gone attached to his
1260
00:56:16,280 --> 00:56:24,080
face so you need that bridge between him
1261
00:56:19,310 --> 00:56:28,040
coming in to look him looking in what he
1262
00:56:24,080 --> 00:56:30,410
sees this is like that explosion up into
1263
00:56:28,040 --> 00:56:31,970
the camera and cut where I've got this
1264
00:56:30,410 --> 00:56:34,540
attached to his face as he falls
1265
00:56:31,970 --> 00:56:34,540
backwards
1266
00:56:37,070 --> 00:56:44,520
the face Hawker that was my first thing
1267
00:56:40,619 --> 00:56:47,390
I did for Dan O'Banion when he sent me I
1268
00:56:44,520 --> 00:56:51,410
think about thousand dollars to do some
1269
00:56:47,390 --> 00:56:55,380
paintings for alien and he gaves me
1270
00:56:51,410 --> 00:56:58,680
explanation and drawings and he said
1271
00:56:55,380 --> 00:57:01,860
that he's jumping on a big egg this egg
1272
00:56:58,680 --> 00:57:04,290
is about that so and I thought that must
1273
00:57:01,860 --> 00:57:09,450
be a quite a big monster so I did an
1274
00:57:04,290 --> 00:57:12,300
enormous face Hawk again and he was
1275
00:57:09,450 --> 00:57:16,290
jumping I thought he could jump when his
1276
00:57:12,300 --> 00:57:20,790
tail is like his curved like a spring
1277
00:57:16,290 --> 00:57:25,190
Stabler with a check in the box later on
1278
00:57:20,790 --> 00:57:28,380
he said I should do it smaller so I
1279
00:57:25,190 --> 00:57:31,680
think something with human hands is
1280
00:57:28,380 --> 00:57:35,730
always carry where it's carry so I I had
1281
00:57:31,680 --> 00:57:38,310
the thing of the long fingers what is
1282
00:57:35,730 --> 00:57:42,420
the most important part on the face
1283
00:57:38,310 --> 00:57:49,130
Hawker and then it's part there's a
1284
00:57:42,420 --> 00:57:54,270
little sexual like yeah and the tube for
1285
00:57:49,130 --> 00:57:57,390
that this piece has to to put in this in
1286
00:57:54,270 --> 00:58:01,520
the mouth and then later I had these
1287
00:57:57,390 --> 00:58:05,100
hangs in front and penned an Albanian I
1288
00:58:01,520 --> 00:58:07,340
draw them sighs sighs woods that was
1289
00:58:05,100 --> 00:58:07,340
better
1290
00:58:07,819 --> 00:58:14,479
I thought you can't beat this the real
1291
00:58:12,139 --> 00:58:16,069
things always better so then I had
1292
00:58:14,479 --> 00:58:17,659
orders coming from a very good
1293
00:58:16,069 --> 00:58:22,489
fishmongers in Shepparton village you
1294
00:58:17,659 --> 00:58:25,880
had oysters clams and other parts of
1295
00:58:22,489 --> 00:58:29,529
fish a little bit of sturgeon a little
1296
00:58:25,880 --> 00:58:32,659
bit of caviar I got him to make a cup of
1297
00:58:29,529 --> 00:58:35,389
with a container of in rubber which is
1298
00:58:32,659 --> 00:58:38,359
the face I covered the tear the stinger
1299
00:58:35,389 --> 00:58:40,880
the like ray manta ray tail and the
1300
00:58:38,359 --> 00:58:44,389
hands that was all articulated inside
1301
00:58:40,880 --> 00:58:47,239
this was just receptacle and I just put
1302
00:58:44,389 --> 00:58:50,449
in you know with a pair tweezers put in
1303
00:58:47,239 --> 00:58:53,630
for oysters one two three four and put
1304
00:58:50,449 --> 00:58:56,089
in large kidney and put in a salsa salsa
1305
00:58:53,630 --> 00:58:58,369
and that way you got he can't do better
1306
00:58:56,089 --> 00:59:02,929
than that so you then conquered it with
1307
00:58:58,369 --> 00:59:06,649
his it isn't his you know instrument and
1308
00:59:02,929 --> 00:59:11,419
the legs moving it gives you shock the
1309
00:59:06,649 --> 00:59:14,539
chest burster that was a very very heavy
1310
00:59:11,419 --> 00:59:18,769
scene I think the strongest thing in the
1311
00:59:14,539 --> 00:59:21,979
whole film the idea came from a painting
1312
00:59:18,769 --> 00:59:26,679
from from bacon Francis Bacon Ridley
1313
00:59:21,979 --> 00:59:31,269
Scott told me that this painting of 46
1314
00:59:26,679 --> 00:59:37,759
it's just a crucification and one of the
1315
00:59:31,269 --> 00:59:41,329
member is has just a piece and red flesh
1316
00:59:37,759 --> 00:59:43,609
and he likes to have two chest bursts
1317
00:59:41,329 --> 00:59:46,509
like that and that its own design they
1318
00:59:43,609 --> 00:59:50,029
look like chicken something like like
1319
00:59:46,509 --> 00:59:54,259
chicken without feathers but it was not
1320
00:59:50,029 --> 00:59:58,630
happy with and then build up the thing
1321
00:59:54,259 --> 01:00:02,829
and it looked like a small dinosaur and
1322
00:59:58,630 --> 01:00:05,959
that was awful I said cut their legs and
1323
01:00:02,829 --> 01:00:09,589
so finally we only had the head and the
1324
01:00:05,959 --> 01:00:11,839
tail and that was enough what I liked
1325
01:00:09,589 --> 01:00:15,769
about the film is that it was a very
1326
01:00:11,839 --> 01:00:18,829
logical film in many ways with a with a
1327
01:00:15,769 --> 01:00:20,369
thriller format and I thought that was
1328
01:00:18,829 --> 01:00:23,640
an excellent blend
1329
01:00:20,369 --> 01:00:25,259
but it was a perfect perfectly
1330
01:00:23,640 --> 01:00:27,539
reasonable it seemed to me that
1331
01:00:25,259 --> 01:00:30,479
something you should that that some
1332
01:00:27,539 --> 01:00:32,190
organism should incubate within the
1333
01:00:30,479 --> 01:00:35,130
warmth of another of another being you
1334
01:00:32,190 --> 01:00:37,380
know in that way I feel the strongest
1335
01:00:35,130 --> 01:00:40,259
thing is always if it happened in your
1336
01:00:37,380 --> 01:00:45,359
body or in someone's body that's
1337
01:00:40,259 --> 01:00:53,369
enormous a worm a worm in some yeah
1338
01:00:45,359 --> 01:00:56,609
vermin in a in a living body oh that's
1339
01:00:53,369 --> 01:01:02,099
just under the skin and you see how it
1340
01:00:56,609 --> 01:01:07,069
moves oh yeah I hate worms and snakes
1341
01:01:02,099 --> 01:01:07,069
and things like that I it's awful
1342
01:01:12,580 --> 01:01:17,380
we started off with the idea that the
1343
01:01:15,190 --> 01:01:19,810
monster would there be no scales no
1344
01:01:17,380 --> 01:01:21,010
fangs no claws you know it's going to be
1345
01:01:19,810 --> 01:01:23,950
something completely different to me
1346
01:01:21,010 --> 01:01:27,070
come once we've seen the head
1347
01:01:23,950 --> 01:01:30,310
the gigger head the candy alien we were
1348
01:01:27,070 --> 01:01:34,750
great shape on that and Rambaldi
1349
01:01:30,310 --> 01:01:39,160
actually built a separate head with 900
1350
01:01:34,750 --> 01:01:42,369
moving parts they are also two cubes
1351
01:01:39,160 --> 01:01:46,000
from an old rolls-royce from they are
1352
01:01:42,369 --> 01:01:49,390
from vertebrae's from snakes and was a
1353
01:01:46,000 --> 01:01:52,440
mixture from everything together
1354
01:01:49,390 --> 01:01:56,530
it was built up together with plasticine
1355
01:01:52,440 --> 01:01:59,200
that doesn't shrink much and so it holds
1356
01:01:56,530 --> 01:02:04,240
you can put things together normally
1357
01:01:59,200 --> 01:02:06,730
it's not possibly the creature design
1358
01:02:04,240 --> 01:02:09,700
was one of those things that just kept
1359
01:02:06,730 --> 01:02:13,180
on loom in the end that became I think
1360
01:02:09,700 --> 01:02:15,400
one of my sort of major sort of tasks
1361
01:02:13,180 --> 01:02:17,410
was to you know find people or to help
1362
01:02:15,400 --> 01:02:19,690
find people and I found Roger Dickian
1363
01:02:17,410 --> 01:02:21,369
who designed the face hugger chest
1364
01:02:19,690 --> 01:02:23,170
burster and all those smaller things he
1365
01:02:21,369 --> 01:02:25,690
wanted very much to design the creature
1366
01:02:23,170 --> 01:02:28,750
but and there were several sort of
1367
01:02:25,690 --> 01:02:31,090
attempts at that but until Gordon
1368
01:02:28,750 --> 01:02:32,440
Carroll the one of the three producers
1369
01:02:31,090 --> 01:02:36,220
but the main producer on the movie
1370
01:02:32,440 --> 01:02:38,020
bought in Carlo Rambaldi done Close
1371
01:02:36,220 --> 01:02:41,590
Encounters they brought him in to
1372
01:02:38,020 --> 01:02:43,930
actually put gigas designs into practice
1373
01:02:41,590 --> 01:02:46,030
I think we had one or two attempts at
1374
01:02:43,930 --> 01:02:47,320
tails and heads from various people at
1375
01:02:46,030 --> 01:02:50,020
Shepperton know where we had this
1376
01:02:47,320 --> 01:02:53,170
elaborate mechanical tail but that never
1377
01:02:50,020 --> 01:02:54,520
ever really quite worked so there were
1378
01:02:53,170 --> 01:02:58,060
several attempts before Rambaldi was
1379
01:02:54,520 --> 01:03:00,700
bought on quite a lot of you know over
1380
01:02:58,060 --> 01:03:04,020
the budget unfortunately to do it but my
1381
01:03:00,700 --> 01:03:04,020
god it did work from then on
1382
01:03:04,280 --> 01:03:07,989
[Music]
1383
01:03:09,540 --> 01:03:16,630
because the gigger is the outer number
1384
01:03:13,390 --> 01:03:18,580
one the creation of aging I don't
1385
01:03:16,630 --> 01:03:21,760
suggest anything about Buddha five
1386
01:03:18,580 --> 01:03:24,940
something decorative day the detail of
1387
01:03:21,760 --> 01:03:28,780
the devayne of the muscle of the face no
1388
01:03:24,940 --> 01:03:32,230
no in this case and on the Creator is
1389
01:03:28,780 --> 01:03:36,420
giggle when the alien the actual alien
1390
01:03:32,230 --> 01:03:40,750
creature which had been designed by Giga
1391
01:03:36,420 --> 01:03:44,170
and manufactured by Carlo Rambaldi and
1392
01:03:40,750 --> 01:03:46,240
his team arrived really had a few
1393
01:03:44,170 --> 01:03:47,800
problems with that he the mechanism the
1394
01:03:46,240 --> 01:03:50,650
dual mechanism actually had visible
1395
01:03:47,800 --> 01:03:52,750
Springs and things which were sticking
1396
01:03:50,650 --> 01:03:55,090
out and the head was wider than really
1397
01:03:52,750 --> 01:03:57,760
wanted it is paint
1398
01:03:55,090 --> 01:04:01,150
I think was too long the face must
1399
01:03:57,760 --> 01:04:03,900
reduce and too many too many detail we
1400
01:04:01,150 --> 01:04:07,120
conserve a lot of detail but I think
1401
01:04:03,900 --> 01:04:07,660
twenty percent of detail the movement no
1402
01:04:07,120 --> 01:04:11,890
need
1403
01:04:07,660 --> 01:04:15,850
Moodie five little the mechanism of the
1404
01:04:11,890 --> 01:04:18,730
mouth novice very complicated tribal
1405
01:04:15,850 --> 01:04:22,390
meant one cable for more open the mouth
1406
01:04:18,730 --> 01:04:26,320
second cable the tongue coming out from
1407
01:04:22,390 --> 01:04:30,370
the mouth and another cable for opened a
1408
01:04:26,320 --> 01:04:33,090
small mouth of the tongue is a general
1409
01:04:30,370 --> 01:04:41,890
making mechanical system for the tongue
1410
01:04:33,090 --> 01:04:44,410
it is drawing and the tongue then open
1411
01:04:41,890 --> 01:04:47,710
the mouth the tongue slide because it's
1412
01:04:44,410 --> 01:04:50,620
impossible clear diet or we use this
1413
01:04:47,710 --> 01:04:52,990
isthis mechanical system just for
1414
01:04:50,620 --> 01:04:56,130
control this movement but after this
1415
01:04:52,990 --> 01:04:58,810
mechanism vast reduce must be used very
1416
01:04:56,130 --> 01:05:00,580
being the actor is inside because this
1417
01:04:58,810 --> 01:05:02,760
is exactly position of the head of the
1418
01:05:00,580 --> 01:05:02,760
earth
1419
01:05:04,440 --> 01:05:08,239
[Music]
1420
01:05:13,710 --> 01:05:17,039
[Music]
1421
01:05:19,630 --> 01:05:23,840
[Music]
1422
01:05:21,130 --> 01:05:26,150
well it's gonna be a gun suit
1423
01:05:23,840 --> 01:05:31,160
you know and don't get technology today
1424
01:05:26,150 --> 01:05:36,320
easy first we try to do invent something
1425
01:05:31,160 --> 01:05:40,160
so Ridley asked for some people from the
1426
01:05:36,320 --> 01:05:43,970
circus and they tried to do the walk in
1427
01:05:40,160 --> 01:05:48,470
a specific way he wants to put two or
1428
01:05:43,970 --> 01:05:51,920
three people together bent them together
1429
01:05:48,470 --> 01:05:54,380
and and to put something over and it was
1430
01:05:51,920 --> 01:05:59,090
always a little ridiculous the whole
1431
01:05:54,380 --> 01:06:02,359
thing and it wasn't scary and so we
1432
01:05:59,090 --> 01:06:06,590
decide I think it's the scariest thing
1433
01:06:02,359 --> 01:06:08,480
is to be very close to a human being in
1434
01:06:06,590 --> 01:06:11,480
those days I couldn't even get latex
1435
01:06:08,480 --> 01:06:13,280
thin enough that wouldn't break you know
1436
01:06:11,480 --> 01:06:16,670
quickly and it would also take
1437
01:06:13,280 --> 01:06:18,920
sculptural elements of sinew and because
1438
01:06:16,670 --> 01:06:22,150
gotta lay the sinews into the rubber
1439
01:06:18,920 --> 01:06:24,859
suit so something the rubber suit isn't
1440
01:06:22,150 --> 01:06:27,770
like should be as thin as a
1441
01:06:24,859 --> 01:06:30,320
contraceptive and as strong as my lon
1442
01:06:27,770 --> 01:06:32,540
right then I can crush this person to
1443
01:06:30,320 --> 01:06:34,460
suit and have all kinds of things built
1444
01:06:32,540 --> 01:06:35,869
and stitched into it I need someone
1445
01:06:34,460 --> 01:06:38,060
extraordinarily thin because whatever
1446
01:06:35,869 --> 01:06:40,670
you did there's a Sun and a pretty thin
1447
01:06:38,060 --> 01:06:43,670
we put him in he cannot write funny of
1448
01:06:40,670 --> 01:06:46,970
that weak on the cutting dress had been
1449
01:06:43,670 --> 01:06:49,940
standing in a pub and stared at this guy
1450
01:06:46,970 --> 01:06:54,530
who looked like probably close to 17
1451
01:06:49,940 --> 01:06:58,430
right and very slender very thin kind of
1452
01:06:54,530 --> 01:06:59,900
elegance and his name was Balaji so the
1453
01:06:58,430 --> 01:07:02,089
guy got over to him in the pub said you
1454
01:06:59,900 --> 01:07:04,880
know you know they all like to be in
1455
01:07:02,089 --> 01:07:08,330
movies and the guy had a kind of North
1456
01:07:04,880 --> 01:07:08,800
London accent and he was a graphic
1457
01:07:08,330 --> 01:07:12,050
designer
1458
01:07:08,800 --> 01:07:14,359
so he turned up with great vegged amuse
1459
01:07:12,050 --> 01:07:16,280
and curious and he was then in touching
1460
01:07:14,359 --> 01:07:18,410
some of the next tendons and so he did
1461
01:07:16,280 --> 01:07:23,150
all the stuff we had to like coming up
1462
01:07:18,410 --> 01:07:25,160
the war in the shuttle at the end in the
1463
01:07:23,150 --> 01:07:26,839
corridor con another corner whence
1464
01:07:25,160 --> 01:07:29,320
agonies trying to get out with a cat
1465
01:07:26,839 --> 01:07:31,640
when he approaches Veronica Cartwright
1466
01:07:29,320 --> 01:07:34,520
with his tail and we get this
1467
01:07:31,640 --> 01:07:38,090
of something really hideous because he
1468
01:07:34,520 --> 01:07:42,140
hear her off-camera they built the suit
1469
01:07:38,090 --> 01:07:44,870
to him which was I was just unbelievable
1470
01:07:42,140 --> 01:07:46,940
I mean his hands when were below his
1471
01:07:44,870 --> 01:07:48,890
kneecaps when he would just stand
1472
01:07:46,940 --> 01:07:52,010
normally so they just literally put
1473
01:07:48,890 --> 01:07:54,350
gloves on him with elongated hands and
1474
01:07:52,010 --> 01:07:58,070
they put that head on him and they sent
1475
01:07:54,350 --> 01:08:01,970
him to Taichi and to mine classes so
1476
01:07:58,070 --> 01:08:06,050
that he could learn to slow down and
1477
01:08:01,970 --> 01:08:09,800
manipulate you know roll up and he when
1478
01:08:06,050 --> 01:08:12,770
he first gets me he's in the down
1479
01:08:09,800 --> 01:08:16,990
position and he comes up and rolls out
1480
01:08:12,770 --> 01:08:16,990
and oh he was just so creepy
1481
01:08:19,890 --> 01:08:26,490
I also keep it really tight and only see
1482
01:08:23,940 --> 01:08:28,620
the bits you want to say because this is
1483
01:08:26,490 --> 01:08:30,510
always stronger than anything else so if
1484
01:08:28,620 --> 01:08:31,980
you think you've seen something and so
1485
01:08:30,510 --> 01:08:34,380
is going to be probably more horrific
1486
01:08:31,980 --> 01:08:36,930
and horrifying I asked to read why you
1487
01:08:34,380 --> 01:08:41,550
shooting very little out of alien
1488
01:08:36,930 --> 01:08:44,910
everyda said Carol the audience of
1489
01:08:41,550 --> 01:08:48,720
terror they don't see nothing and see
1490
01:08:44,910 --> 01:08:51,210
the dark area because expecting the demo
1491
01:08:48,720 --> 01:08:55,580
step possible here possible here it is
1492
01:08:51,210 --> 01:09:00,150
maximum the level of the day the
1493
01:08:55,580 --> 01:09:03,300
suspense say no no it's cool the isit is
1494
01:09:00,150 --> 01:09:06,380
little Carol required your movie your
1495
01:09:03,300 --> 01:09:09,060
monster I people so but very little
1496
01:09:06,380 --> 01:09:10,920
actually we see we see quite a lot on
1497
01:09:09,060 --> 01:09:11,880
taste and you certainly get a good ol
1498
01:09:10,920 --> 01:09:13,920
look at chestburster
1499
01:09:11,880 --> 01:09:16,560
you know a terrific look in the air you
1500
01:09:13,920 --> 01:09:18,510
get a great look at me um the other
1501
01:09:16,560 --> 01:09:20,640
elements in the evolutions and darting
1502
01:09:18,510 --> 01:09:22,620
to get enough hunting you get a great
1503
01:09:20,640 --> 01:09:24,030
look at the head which is beautiful how
1504
01:09:22,620 --> 01:09:26,970
he didn't start the things hanging there
1505
01:09:24,030 --> 01:09:28,800
now that was a gymnast they got and put
1506
01:09:26,970 --> 01:09:31,170
in that suit and he was up curled up in
1507
01:09:28,800 --> 01:09:32,700
the change the amazing thing was if it
1508
01:09:31,170 --> 01:09:35,580
was they when they shot up you couldn't
1509
01:09:32,700 --> 01:09:38,340
even tell that he was up there the way
1510
01:09:35,580 --> 01:09:40,260
he uncoiled and came down and then put
1511
01:09:38,340 --> 01:09:44,130
his arms out and I mean it did it look
1512
01:09:40,260 --> 01:09:46,290
like you know that crucifix them Christ
1513
01:09:44,130 --> 01:09:49,560
is ascending I'm going to take your life
1514
01:09:46,290 --> 01:09:51,900
now it was like very bizarre and very
1515
01:09:49,560 --> 01:09:56,630
sort of Gothic which goes a lot with
1516
01:09:51,900 --> 01:09:56,630
what the whole season gothic things
1517
01:09:59,560 --> 01:10:05,710
poor guy couldn't sit down you know so
1518
01:10:02,980 --> 01:10:07,420
they made a special swing for him tom
1519
01:10:05,710 --> 01:10:09,370
skerritt said to me this guy can't walk
1520
01:10:07,420 --> 01:10:11,290
around like this this is ridiculous do
1521
01:10:09,370 --> 01:10:13,480
something for this purpose they hadn't
1522
01:10:11,290 --> 01:10:14,980
even thought of how he was going to sit
1523
01:10:13,480 --> 01:10:17,140
down because you have that kale in that
1524
01:10:14,980 --> 01:10:20,080
rubber suit I mean that poor thing was
1525
01:10:17,140 --> 01:10:22,660
in that suit all day long I came to work
1526
01:10:20,080 --> 01:10:24,850
one day right at the Bret lunch break so
1527
01:10:22,660 --> 01:10:29,170
the big doors are open and out of the
1528
01:10:24,850 --> 01:10:31,330
soundstage came the crew and the alien
1529
01:10:29,170 --> 01:10:35,170
monster still in the suit but with the
1530
01:10:31,330 --> 01:10:40,170
head off thin as a nail and he's walking
1531
01:10:35,170 --> 01:10:42,880
with the Wardrobe lady who's 5 feet and
1532
01:10:40,170 --> 01:10:45,370
they're talking politics with a very
1533
01:10:42,880 --> 01:10:45,940
intense conversation as I've walking off
1534
01:10:45,370 --> 01:10:49,120
to lunch
1535
01:10:45,940 --> 01:10:55,270
and he's got these tennis shoes on that
1536
01:10:49,120 --> 01:10:58,540
a bright blue Adidas and the tail is
1537
01:10:55,270 --> 01:11:01,900
being carried by another wardrobe guy he
1538
01:10:58,540 --> 01:11:04,840
was a rather flamboyant guy who had this
1539
01:11:01,900 --> 01:11:07,510
white Ascot blowing in the wind it
1540
01:11:04,840 --> 01:11:08,670
wasn't one of those I wish I could have
1541
01:11:07,510 --> 01:11:11,800
photographed a lot
1542
01:11:08,670 --> 01:11:14,380
we used to have a dresser his name was
1543
01:11:11,800 --> 01:11:16,780
mother we called her mother and he was
1544
01:11:14,380 --> 01:11:18,239
in charge of doing the alien of course
1545
01:11:16,780 --> 01:11:21,760
there was always supposed to be a lot of
1546
01:11:18,239 --> 01:11:24,489
slime and stuff on him KY jelly was very
1547
01:11:21,760 --> 01:11:26,380
much in fashion at the time and I think
1548
01:11:24,489 --> 01:11:29,199
that was put on everything that moved
1549
01:11:26,380 --> 01:11:32,080
that in front of the camera on the alien
1550
01:11:29,199 --> 01:11:34,800
on stripping from everywhere I have
1551
01:11:32,080 --> 01:11:38,290
never seen bigger tubes of KY jelly on
1552
01:11:34,800 --> 01:11:40,930
they were like gigantic sizes and then
1553
01:11:38,290 --> 01:11:42,790
he should have mother going I'll do it
1554
01:11:40,930 --> 01:11:46,000
and he would come running out of this
1555
01:11:42,790 --> 01:11:49,660
usually supers of KY and start caressing
1556
01:11:46,000 --> 01:11:51,850
this poor aliens ass rubbing it and
1557
01:11:49,660 --> 01:11:55,680
making it glisten and I thought it was
1558
01:11:51,850 --> 01:11:55,680
hysterical we did have some good times
1559
01:11:57,730 --> 01:12:03,070
[Music]
1560
01:12:09,800 --> 01:12:12,899
[Music]
1561
01:12:13,100 --> 01:12:19,220
I was a sound editor for 17 years and
1562
01:12:15,920 --> 01:12:21,560
the last film that I did it sounded was
1563
01:12:19,220 --> 01:12:24,230
the duelists so that's where I met
1564
01:12:21,560 --> 01:12:27,380
really and we got on extremely well I
1565
01:12:24,230 --> 01:12:29,810
thought and I got a call from his office
1566
01:12:27,380 --> 01:12:31,400
to find out if I would be free to do the
1567
01:12:29,810 --> 01:12:34,370
sound on a new film he's gonna do called
1568
01:12:31,400 --> 01:12:35,270
alien so I phoned back and said thank
1569
01:12:34,370 --> 01:12:38,180
you very much
1570
01:12:35,270 --> 01:12:41,180
but I cut it but I'm not going to do the
1571
01:12:38,180 --> 01:12:42,530
sound so he phoned up and he said well
1572
01:12:41,180 --> 01:12:44,750
you better come with me the producers of
1573
01:12:42,530 --> 01:12:47,750
this film so I did and I met David
1574
01:12:44,750 --> 01:12:49,250
geyser and Gordon Cowell and after
1575
01:12:47,750 --> 01:12:51,980
spending half an hour with them and
1576
01:12:49,250 --> 01:12:55,190
Ridley and stuff I said well can I do
1577
01:12:51,980 --> 01:12:56,690
the film or not I said of course which I
1578
01:12:55,190 --> 01:12:59,060
tell you was one of the great thrills of
1579
01:12:56,690 --> 01:13:01,070
my life because it was going to be a
1580
01:12:59,060 --> 01:13:02,570
fantastic film you knew reading the
1581
01:13:01,070 --> 01:13:05,810
script was going to be interesting and
1582
01:13:02,570 --> 01:13:08,390
to work with Ridley who I admire from
1583
01:13:05,810 --> 01:13:10,760
the duelists I did know him apart from
1584
01:13:08,390 --> 01:13:13,400
now I knew II did commercials and did
1585
01:13:10,760 --> 01:13:16,850
different plastic commercials but Julis
1586
01:13:13,400 --> 01:13:18,410
was wonderful and I felt Willy what he
1587
01:13:16,850 --> 01:13:21,080
made that look like was he going to make
1588
01:13:18,410 --> 01:13:30,779
a science fiction movie
1589
01:13:21,080 --> 01:13:30,779
[Music]
1590
01:13:35,090 --> 01:13:42,960
anything was in a trailer in EMI and
1591
01:13:39,780 --> 01:13:45,570
then finding it break the editing
1592
01:13:42,960 --> 01:13:47,730
process on this + mix set music and
1593
01:13:45,570 --> 01:13:52,200
mixes as Jerry Goldsmith's score I think
1594
01:13:47,730 --> 01:13:55,500
probably was maybe 20 weeks now I can
1595
01:13:52,200 --> 01:13:58,230
post them 12 to 16 weeks but I think
1596
01:13:55,500 --> 01:14:00,230
it's partly you know the avid is faster
1597
01:13:58,230 --> 01:14:03,680
don't forget in those days are using
1598
01:14:00,230 --> 01:14:07,290
Hollywood movie Allah and CEM right
1599
01:14:03,680 --> 01:14:11,220
Osteen back I used to like they star
1600
01:14:07,290 --> 01:14:11,970
like have hands-on and Terry Rawlins
1601
01:14:11,220 --> 01:14:14,730
would go on
1602
01:14:11,970 --> 01:14:17,400
you have the films brought from the
1603
01:14:14,730 --> 01:14:20,760
shove you right on the Hollywood movie
1604
01:14:17,400 --> 01:14:22,020
choose a moment then cut it in put it on
1605
01:14:20,760 --> 01:14:25,020
the steam back then check it and then
1606
01:14:22,020 --> 01:14:28,410
there do it again now it's like press
1607
01:14:25,020 --> 01:14:30,180
pardon the bangbang when I read it I
1608
01:14:28,410 --> 01:14:32,040
thought myself this is going to be one
1609
01:14:30,180 --> 01:14:35,580
of the scariest things if we can get it
1610
01:14:32,040 --> 01:14:39,720
right and I think the way we did get it
1611
01:14:35,580 --> 01:14:41,490
right is by keeping it slow vanilla
1612
01:14:39,720 --> 01:14:45,060
which is a completely different than
1613
01:14:41,490 --> 01:14:49,470
what they do today and I think the
1614
01:14:45,060 --> 01:14:53,220
slowness of it made the moments that you
1615
01:14:49,470 --> 01:14:54,900
wanted people to be sort of scared then
1616
01:14:53,220 --> 01:14:58,590
we could go as fast as we like because
1617
01:14:54,900 --> 01:15:00,600
you sucked people into a corner and then
1618
01:14:58,590 --> 01:15:03,900
attack them sensible and I think that's
1619
01:15:00,600 --> 01:15:06,030
how it worked I mean I like to go on the
1620
01:15:03,900 --> 01:15:07,230
set as much as I can in the moments I
1621
01:15:06,030 --> 01:15:09,780
could get away from the cutting room
1622
01:15:07,230 --> 01:15:11,490
because I like to be there to hear what
1623
01:15:09,780 --> 01:15:14,040
he's talking to the actors about and
1624
01:15:11,490 --> 01:15:16,170
then I can talk to myself about what
1625
01:15:14,040 --> 01:15:18,240
does he want out of this scene and he
1626
01:15:16,170 --> 01:15:20,850
would tell me what his plan is a why
1627
01:15:18,240 --> 01:15:23,310
shooting a certain way I just couldn't
1628
01:15:20,850 --> 01:15:25,380
get over the look of it you know the
1629
01:15:23,310 --> 01:15:29,190
sets were fantastic the lighting was
1630
01:15:25,380 --> 01:15:31,350
great and performances and it was just
1631
01:15:29,190 --> 01:15:33,390
like I think I said once before working
1632
01:15:31,350 --> 01:15:36,930
with him I did Legend and Blade Runner
1633
01:15:33,390 --> 01:15:38,640
with him and it was like when you get
1634
01:15:36,930 --> 01:15:40,620
his rushes he's like walking through an
1635
01:15:38,640 --> 01:15:44,940
art gallery everything is great you want
1636
01:15:40,620 --> 01:15:46,110
to dwell on everything so it's deciding
1637
01:15:44,940 --> 01:15:48,050
what are you going to use out of all
1638
01:15:46,110 --> 01:15:51,270
this material because it looks fantastic
1639
01:15:48,050 --> 01:15:54,000
you know what you've got to achieve from
1640
01:15:51,270 --> 01:15:56,340
it but how you achieve it
1641
01:15:54,000 --> 01:15:59,489
after all these is very difficult to
1642
01:15:56,340 --> 01:16:03,150
sort of pin down I did that because of
1643
01:15:59,489 --> 01:16:05,940
this or because of that the thanks I got
1644
01:16:03,150 --> 01:16:09,150
when it flies out of the egg well I have
1645
01:16:05,940 --> 01:16:12,750
various angles on the stuff coming out
1646
01:16:09,150 --> 01:16:15,300
including it and what you try to do is
1647
01:16:12,750 --> 01:16:18,239
to get it like trying to get it to
1648
01:16:15,300 --> 01:16:19,980
unwind come out like it's unwinding so
1649
01:16:18,239 --> 01:16:21,360
you'd use a few frames of this and a
1650
01:16:19,980 --> 01:16:25,520
couple of friends of that and few
1651
01:16:21,360 --> 01:16:25,520
friends so that you had this thing well
1652
01:16:27,350 --> 01:16:31,800
when you look at that first cut up the
1653
01:16:29,550 --> 01:16:33,900
film like alien you've really got to use
1654
01:16:31,800 --> 01:16:35,940
your imagination because there's no
1655
01:16:33,900 --> 01:16:37,830
sound for one thing lots of those scenes
1656
01:16:35,940 --> 01:16:42,060
were shot with all these noisy machines
1657
01:16:37,830 --> 01:16:44,280
or effects working on the stages so used
1658
01:16:42,060 --> 01:16:46,260
to run all these things silent you sit
1659
01:16:44,280 --> 01:16:49,610
there and look at him creeping around in
1660
01:16:46,260 --> 01:16:51,750
the rain room silent and it's boring
1661
01:16:49,610 --> 01:16:53,250
till you've got to imagine what it's
1662
01:16:51,750 --> 01:16:56,400
going to be like with all this jingling
1663
01:16:53,250 --> 01:16:57,989
chains and the frame sounds like all
1664
01:16:56,400 --> 01:17:00,000
those things creeping around corridors
1665
01:16:57,989 --> 01:17:02,040
with nothing happening but when you've
1666
01:17:00,000 --> 01:17:04,260
got the music affects everything so you
1667
01:17:02,040 --> 01:17:06,930
that was one of the things you had to
1668
01:17:04,260 --> 01:17:09,620
sort of combat okay put that on the
1669
01:17:06,930 --> 01:17:09,620
screen for me
1670
01:17:13,600 --> 01:17:19,070
get closer it was three hours and twelve
1671
01:17:16,970 --> 01:17:20,690
minutes the first cut of it and I knew
1672
01:17:19,070 --> 01:17:23,060
it was going to be great but oh no I
1673
01:17:20,690 --> 01:17:24,500
just hope that people don't get carried
1674
01:17:23,060 --> 01:17:26,180
away with potentials because I remember
1675
01:17:24,500 --> 01:17:28,580
Ridley's words I want this to be
1676
01:17:26,180 --> 01:17:30,560
unpretentious so I had no input other
1677
01:17:28,580 --> 01:17:33,050
than to beg them to say please cut an
1678
01:17:30,560 --> 01:17:34,670
hour out no matter what you think it has
1679
01:17:33,050 --> 01:17:36,770
to be close to a two hour movie that you
1680
01:17:34,670 --> 01:17:37,880
think you're losing because everything's
1681
01:17:36,770 --> 01:17:39,590
there you'll have to cut out any big
1682
01:17:37,880 --> 01:17:41,780
moments it shouldn't move this slowly
1683
01:17:39,590 --> 01:17:43,610
and they said don't worry we know we
1684
01:17:41,780 --> 01:17:45,080
know we know we know we can nobody wants
1685
01:17:43,610 --> 01:17:47,180
to lose an extra screening and we'll get
1686
01:17:45,080 --> 01:17:48,470
at that and the next time I saw it was a
1687
01:17:47,180 --> 01:17:51,710
perfect length it was two-hour movie
1688
01:17:48,470 --> 01:17:54,260
boots length wasn't issue and we had
1689
01:17:51,710 --> 01:17:56,750
obviously shot the sequence where Dallas
1690
01:17:54,260 --> 01:17:59,630
is found in the ship as an egg still
1691
01:17:56,750 --> 01:18:02,030
alive when she torches him and I know
1692
01:17:59,630 --> 01:18:05,800
that we I seem to remember we had to
1693
01:18:02,030 --> 01:18:09,170
take about 11 minutes out the movie and
1694
01:18:05,800 --> 01:18:10,730
finally something that it in furnished
1695
01:18:09,170 --> 01:18:13,010
that scene never ever really worked
1696
01:18:10,730 --> 01:18:14,690
quite as well as it should be because it
1697
01:18:13,010 --> 01:18:17,270
just didn't really look realistic enough
1698
01:18:14,690 --> 01:18:18,620
him in the egg I didn't think they were
1699
01:18:17,270 --> 01:18:22,130
going to be able to use it because of
1700
01:18:18,620 --> 01:18:25,010
the II when I read in the script it was
1701
01:18:22,130 --> 01:18:26,540
sort of it slowed the pace of the exit
1702
01:18:25,010 --> 01:18:28,430
at the end of the picture it had to
1703
01:18:26,540 --> 01:18:29,600
picture how to have that piece there
1704
01:18:28,430 --> 01:18:31,340
trying to get the hell out of there
1705
01:18:29,600 --> 01:18:32,810
we're all ruling flooring it out of
1706
01:18:31,340 --> 01:18:37,160
there and for her to slow up and have a
1707
01:18:32,810 --> 01:18:40,100
conversation with Dallas was not
1708
01:18:37,160 --> 01:18:42,800
appropriate the last 17 minutes of film
1709
01:18:40,100 --> 01:18:44,990
is Sigourney with no dialogue
1710
01:18:42,800 --> 01:18:46,390
and we are wrecking around those
1711
01:18:44,990 --> 01:18:50,380
corridors
1712
01:18:46,390 --> 01:18:52,510
I remember when I first saw alien I was
1713
01:18:50,380 --> 01:18:53,860
sitting the projection all by myself
1714
01:18:52,510 --> 01:18:56,260
and of course everything was much over
1715
01:18:53,860 --> 01:18:58,150
length I remember to this day that the
1716
01:18:56,260 --> 01:19:02,920
ones seeing where he was looking for his
1717
01:18:58,150 --> 01:19:04,630
cat and it was in this dark chamber and
1718
01:19:02,920 --> 01:19:07,900
the ship and then I remember this
1719
01:19:04,630 --> 01:19:10,030
changing down water dripping and he
1720
01:19:07,900 --> 01:19:12,970
hadn't cut it and went on and on and I
1721
01:19:10,030 --> 01:19:14,470
was absolutely terrified yeah I just
1722
01:19:12,970 --> 01:19:16,570
kept saying it's just a movie it's just
1723
01:19:14,470 --> 01:19:18,220
a movie and it really scared the [ __ ]
1724
01:19:16,570 --> 01:19:21,870
out of me it's pretty honest I mean I
1725
01:19:18,220 --> 01:19:21,870
was terribly frightened with it and
1726
01:19:22,080 --> 01:19:26,770
which is good because that helps when I
1727
01:19:25,240 --> 01:19:28,570
have to sit down to write to music for
1728
01:19:26,770 --> 01:19:30,820
it because I like to go see a film
1729
01:19:28,570 --> 01:19:32,770
anything I'm doing I try to see it first
1730
01:19:30,820 --> 01:19:37,390
as an audience and reactive the audience
1731
01:19:32,770 --> 01:19:38,710
and try to distance myself from what I
1732
01:19:37,390 --> 01:19:41,410
have initially have to do Jerry
1733
01:19:38,710 --> 01:19:44,860
Goldsmith's chorus on one of my
1734
01:19:41,410 --> 01:19:48,280
favourite schools seriously threatening
1735
01:19:44,860 --> 01:19:51,630
but beautiful and I mean has Beauty
1736
01:19:48,280 --> 01:19:51,630
darkness and
1737
01:19:52,460 --> 01:19:59,150
seems to plan a DNA of some distant
1738
01:19:56,030 --> 01:20:01,550
Society which you'd have to call it you
1739
01:19:59,150 --> 01:20:03,349
know that space jockey would be from
1740
01:20:01,550 --> 01:20:06,349
somewhere and they would have some kind
1741
01:20:03,349 --> 01:20:08,540
of order social order or disorder I
1742
01:20:06,349 --> 01:20:14,020
always think of spaces being the great
1743
01:20:08,540 --> 01:20:16,040
unknown in India not as terrifying but
1744
01:20:14,020 --> 01:20:19,639
questioning and it's sort of an air of
1745
01:20:16,040 --> 01:20:21,800
romance about it and that's like doing
1746
01:20:19,639 --> 01:20:24,139
Star Trek because it's very romantic and
1747
01:20:21,800 --> 01:20:26,480
it paints space that way serve all the
1748
01:20:24,139 --> 01:20:28,489
weird things and all that and I guess I
1749
01:20:26,480 --> 01:20:30,380
approached alien that way there was this
1750
01:20:28,489 --> 01:20:33,170
air of mystery but there was sort of a
1751
01:20:30,380 --> 01:20:36,020
beauty to it and the unknown I thought
1752
01:20:33,170 --> 01:20:38,840
well let me play the whole opening very
1753
01:20:36,020 --> 01:20:42,590
romantically and very lyrically and then
1754
01:20:38,840 --> 01:20:44,570
what the shot come as the story evolves
1755
01:20:42,590 --> 01:20:48,230
not in other words don't give it away in
1756
01:20:44,570 --> 01:20:51,469
the main title so I wrote this very nice
1757
01:20:48,230 --> 01:20:55,780
main title it was this sort of this
1758
01:20:51,469 --> 01:21:01,699
mystery but it was a lyrical mystery
1759
01:20:55,780 --> 01:21:05,809
[Music]
1760
01:21:01,699 --> 01:21:08,780
I didn't go over too well and really I
1761
01:21:05,809 --> 01:21:10,489
had major disagreements over that so
1762
01:21:08,780 --> 01:21:12,769
then I subsequently wrote a new main
1763
01:21:10,489 --> 01:21:15,619
title which was the obvious thing weird
1764
01:21:12,769 --> 01:21:18,079
and strange and which everybody loved
1765
01:21:15,619 --> 01:21:20,659
and I didn't love and it's variants and
1766
01:21:18,079 --> 01:21:22,280
consequently I kept getting kudos four
1767
01:21:20,659 --> 01:21:24,050
years after I'm the main title I wrote
1768
01:21:22,280 --> 01:21:26,360
for alien which was not exactly my
1769
01:21:24,050 --> 01:21:28,699
choice and the original one I wrote took
1770
01:21:26,360 --> 01:21:32,079
me like a day to write it and we also
1771
01:21:28,699 --> 01:21:34,789
had one for about five minutes to write
1772
01:21:32,079 --> 01:21:38,090
let me just say to start with I think
1773
01:21:34,789 --> 01:21:42,469
the man is a genius I think he's done
1774
01:21:38,090 --> 01:21:45,380
the greatest scores I admire but I also
1775
01:21:42,469 --> 01:21:50,269
feel he's very stubborn like I am myself
1776
01:21:45,380 --> 01:21:53,150
I think and when it came to alien I
1777
01:21:50,269 --> 01:21:54,889
tempt the film myself with as much Jerry
1778
01:21:53,150 --> 01:21:56,630
Goldsmith music as I could because I
1779
01:21:54,889 --> 01:22:01,459
knew I was going to do the film he's an
1780
01:21:56,630 --> 01:22:03,590
absolute master of like doing a you know
1781
01:22:01,459 --> 01:22:04,729
a rough temporary soundtrack at search
1782
01:22:03,590 --> 01:22:06,829
or you know just he's just got this
1783
01:22:04,729 --> 01:22:08,269
great eye and ear and he says I know
1784
01:22:06,829 --> 01:22:09,979
what piece of music you know will be
1785
01:22:08,269 --> 01:22:11,630
great in there and so he always put the
1786
01:22:09,979 --> 01:22:13,699
most thing which is a real problem
1787
01:22:11,630 --> 01:22:15,320
sometimes because you know you put you
1788
01:22:13,699 --> 01:22:17,239
have this free range of you can choose
1789
01:22:15,320 --> 01:22:21,619
any we want and whenever I do these
1790
01:22:17,239 --> 01:22:23,780
temps myself I obviously know by that
1791
01:22:21,619 --> 01:22:25,969
time who's going to be the composer and
1792
01:22:23,780 --> 01:22:27,380
I bend over backwards to find stuff at
1793
01:22:25,969 --> 01:22:29,090
they're done in various other films to
1794
01:22:27,380 --> 01:22:31,760
see if I can make it work obviously you
1795
01:22:29,090 --> 01:22:34,909
can't always make it work so you have to
1796
01:22:31,760 --> 01:22:37,519
use material from other sources but I
1797
01:22:34,909 --> 01:22:40,340
just think it's invaluable and I must
1798
01:22:37,519 --> 01:22:42,769
say at times there's areas you can get
1799
01:22:40,340 --> 01:22:45,860
to work better than they do later and
1800
01:22:42,769 --> 01:22:49,159
that's not degrading anything composers
1801
01:22:45,860 --> 01:22:51,139
do but I don't think anybody is closer
1802
01:22:49,159 --> 01:22:53,929
to the film than the director on the
1803
01:22:51,139 --> 01:22:56,389
editor will ever be I mean we live with
1804
01:22:53,929 --> 01:22:58,699
this it's ours and the thing is when
1805
01:22:56,389 --> 01:23:00,920
you're trying to create a temp score and
1806
01:22:58,699 --> 01:23:06,619
if you're interested in music which I
1807
01:23:00,920 --> 01:23:08,449
love it's a cover mine then you know the
1808
01:23:06,619 --> 01:23:11,300
mood you want to create you know what
1809
01:23:08,449 --> 01:23:13,670
you want to try and say musically and I
1810
01:23:11,300 --> 01:23:14,570
don't think you should try and influence
1811
01:23:13,670 --> 01:23:17,150
the composers
1812
01:23:14,570 --> 01:23:19,460
you must but if you get a mood correct
1813
01:23:17,150 --> 01:23:21,590
that's the mood I feel they should go
1814
01:23:19,460 --> 01:23:23,840
with they can change the theme change
1815
01:23:21,590 --> 01:23:26,300
the orchestration but keep in mind the
1816
01:23:23,840 --> 01:23:29,270
mood that we created I remember when the
1817
01:23:26,300 --> 01:23:32,150
pods open you know the hypersleep they
1818
01:23:29,270 --> 01:23:34,010
did eventually tempt racket and in that
1819
01:23:32,150 --> 01:23:36,110
particular scene the attempt tracked it
1820
01:23:34,010 --> 01:23:39,710
with a piece of music I'd waited for
1821
01:23:36,110 --> 01:23:41,630
Freud and everyone thought that oh look
1822
01:23:39,710 --> 01:23:45,410
how wonderful that music works I said it
1823
01:23:41,630 --> 01:23:47,390
stinks it's all wrong I mean hit me it
1824
01:23:45,410 --> 01:23:50,990
was of a little lullaby die and written
1825
01:23:47,390 --> 01:23:53,900
for Freud so I wrote a piece I wrote I
1826
01:23:50,990 --> 01:23:56,600
wrote a piece for that it was very
1827
01:23:53,900 --> 01:24:00,350
impressionist peaking very mysterious
1828
01:23:56,600 --> 01:24:02,050
but pretty bit mysterious and after I
1829
01:24:00,350 --> 01:24:08,039
worked brilliantly
1830
01:24:02,050 --> 01:24:11,199
[Music]
1831
01:24:08,039 --> 01:24:13,209
came out with the Freud music in it
1832
01:24:11,199 --> 01:24:15,539
County where they I got this more
1833
01:24:13,209 --> 01:24:17,649
letters saying sorry repeat yourself a
1834
01:24:15,539 --> 01:24:20,829
they had bought the music from Freud
1835
01:24:17,649 --> 01:24:23,139
included in that spots with you can see
1836
01:24:20,829 --> 01:24:27,129
that I was sort of like going it did
1837
01:24:23,139 --> 01:24:29,199
opposite ends of the the pole with the
1838
01:24:27,129 --> 01:24:32,139
filmmakers on a picture and I don't
1839
01:24:29,199 --> 01:24:33,820
think he ever forgave me for using by
1840
01:24:32,139 --> 01:24:38,019
Howard Hanson for the end of the film
1841
01:24:33,820 --> 01:24:42,820
and and keeping the music he wrote for
1842
01:24:38,019 --> 01:24:45,459
Freud for the film though that was that
1843
01:24:42,820 --> 01:24:47,139
was Fox's decision you know they could
1844
01:24:45,459 --> 01:24:50,559
have said well using the muses written
1845
01:24:47,139 --> 01:24:52,629
but I do think that what we did on our
1846
01:24:50,559 --> 01:24:54,789
temp in those areas was better than what
1847
01:24:52,629 --> 01:24:56,800
he did and I'm taking nothing away from
1848
01:24:54,789 --> 01:24:59,769
the rest of the film because what he did
1849
01:24:56,800 --> 01:25:02,530
was perfect for it well you know this is
1850
01:24:59,769 --> 01:25:05,800
always a tricky part because you know
1851
01:25:02,530 --> 01:25:08,289
finally no matter how much of a deal the
1852
01:25:05,800 --> 01:25:10,780
composer hums for you or plays on the
1853
01:25:08,289 --> 01:25:12,789
piano or does anything like that you
1854
01:25:10,780 --> 01:25:14,949
know you don't really hear his score on
1855
01:25:12,789 --> 01:25:18,249
this you know recording stage really
1856
01:25:14,949 --> 01:25:20,979
Lucido where Houston and his score when
1857
01:25:18,249 --> 01:25:23,320
he when it found it was way too lush and
1858
01:25:20,979 --> 01:25:26,820
way to more like his patent score you
1859
01:25:23,320 --> 01:25:29,229
know and which was not really what
1860
01:25:26,820 --> 01:25:33,869
anybody could if they wanted he wanted
1861
01:25:29,229 --> 01:25:33,869
it more auditing and weird strange
1862
01:25:34,479 --> 01:25:40,030
and it wasn't really any of that so
1863
01:25:37,860 --> 01:25:42,070
actually what happened was we bought a
1864
01:25:40,030 --> 01:25:47,019
couple of the Goldsmith's pieces that we
1865
01:25:42,070 --> 01:25:49,630
had in the temple and then in the in the
1866
01:25:47,019 --> 01:25:51,999
dub and the mix you know we really
1867
01:25:49,630 --> 01:25:55,659
played down a lot of this stuff played
1868
01:25:51,999 --> 01:25:57,340
up some weird sounds we had and all the
1869
01:25:55,659 --> 01:25:58,929
rest of that stuff was this really
1870
01:25:57,340 --> 01:26:03,130
really a time when I say us here I
1871
01:25:58,929 --> 01:26:05,679
really mean really and you know and he
1872
01:26:03,130 --> 01:26:07,690
did an amazing job in the dub but mr.
1873
01:26:05,679 --> 01:26:10,150
goldsmith was quite unhappy when he saw
1874
01:26:07,690 --> 01:26:11,920
the movie and in fact went to the studio
1875
01:26:10,150 --> 01:26:14,019
he'd done a lot of movies for Fox and
1876
01:26:11,920 --> 01:26:15,820
you know announced that we were going to
1877
01:26:14,019 --> 01:26:17,139
be a disaster it was horrible we ruined
1878
01:26:15,820 --> 01:26:20,099
his core and we'd done all the rest of
1879
01:26:17,139 --> 01:26:24,190
that stuff they released it as an album
1880
01:26:20,099 --> 01:26:25,630
and I bought the album and there were a
1881
01:26:24,190 --> 01:26:27,249
couple of tracks on the album that
1882
01:26:25,630 --> 01:26:31,719
weren't in the movie and they were
1883
01:26:27,249 --> 01:26:35,170
tracks in which Goldsmith used horns to
1884
01:26:31,719 --> 01:26:38,610
personify the a again and it was very
1885
01:26:35,170 --> 01:26:42,519
effective this is creepy distant honking
1886
01:26:38,610 --> 01:26:44,979
that comes in that is clearly meant to
1887
01:26:42,519 --> 01:26:50,499
be the aliens theme and it's very
1888
01:26:44,979 --> 01:26:54,219
effective it's not in the movie but then
1889
01:26:50,499 --> 01:26:56,229
I can't really see anyplace in the movie
1890
01:26:54,219 --> 01:26:58,650
that you could use it without it being
1891
01:26:56,229 --> 01:26:58,650
intrusive
1892
01:27:00,120 --> 01:27:06,090
really is a brilliant filmmaker is a
1893
01:27:02,280 --> 01:27:09,060
brilliant visual assist a second film
1894
01:27:06,090 --> 01:27:10,610
and he wasn't as articulate then about
1895
01:27:09,060 --> 01:27:16,580
what the music should do I think he
1896
01:27:10,610 --> 01:27:19,890
thinks so much in visuals and music
1897
01:27:16,580 --> 01:27:22,230
cannot replicate the visuals that was
1898
01:27:19,890 --> 01:27:25,170
supposed to do and I think he was
1899
01:27:22,230 --> 01:27:27,630
thinking more in terms the message I was
1900
01:27:25,170 --> 01:27:29,670
getting for him is he wanted me to be
1901
01:27:27,630 --> 01:27:30,930
visual with the music I can't be visual
1902
01:27:29,670 --> 01:27:33,210
with the music that's not what I'm
1903
01:27:30,930 --> 01:27:34,800
supposed to do let the director and a
1904
01:27:33,210 --> 01:27:38,070
cinematographer put the visuals on the
1905
01:27:34,800 --> 01:27:40,260
screen let me do the emotional element
1906
01:27:38,070 --> 01:27:42,570
and I think that's where became a big
1907
01:27:40,260 --> 01:27:44,370
problem with me and for Cle had a lot of
1908
01:27:42,570 --> 01:27:48,120
time to do it and I went back and redid
1909
01:27:44,370 --> 01:27:51,000
music and somehow it all worked out
1910
01:27:48,120 --> 01:27:53,280
finally in the end but there was a
1911
01:27:51,000 --> 01:27:55,200
problem and I think I think the biggest
1912
01:27:53,280 --> 01:27:57,660
problem just in communication between me
1913
01:27:55,200 --> 01:27:59,340
and the independent and the director it
1914
01:27:57,660 --> 01:28:03,450
would be interesting that that film had
1915
01:27:59,340 --> 01:28:05,220
been made day and Gridley had now the
1916
01:28:03,450 --> 01:28:06,900
benefit of having made so many other
1917
01:28:05,220 --> 01:28:08,730
pictures and work with a lot of
1918
01:28:06,900 --> 01:28:10,800
different composers how he would have
1919
01:28:08,730 --> 01:28:13,650
approached it you know with me musically
1920
01:28:10,800 --> 01:28:16,860
the real challenge of composing music
1921
01:28:13,650 --> 01:28:19,200
for film is to write a score that works
1922
01:28:16,860 --> 01:28:22,020
brilliantly in the film and also has a
1923
01:28:19,200 --> 01:28:24,870
life of its own that stands by itself I
1924
01:28:22,020 --> 01:28:28,050
think maybe the great scores of the past
1925
01:28:24,870 --> 01:28:31,790
were greatly in the film but taken by
1926
01:28:28,050 --> 01:28:31,790
themselves they don't stand a little
1927
01:28:32,440 --> 01:28:36,949
this is a sketch that I did at the time
1928
01:28:35,060 --> 01:28:40,570
which was really just a doodle of the
1929
01:28:36,949 --> 01:28:43,610
refinery showing the the spire light
1930
01:28:40,570 --> 01:28:46,219
design it was just really for personal
1931
01:28:43,610 --> 01:28:49,100
use to get a kind of a feel of how it
1932
01:28:46,219 --> 01:28:51,350
would look as an overall design with the
1933
01:28:49,100 --> 01:28:52,940
NOS Romo right down here at the front
1934
01:28:51,350 --> 01:28:56,510
the domes underneath and then these
1935
01:28:52,940 --> 01:28:57,980
massive spired pieces going up these are
1936
01:28:56,510 --> 01:28:59,860
the pieces which show Ridley Scott later
1937
01:28:57,980 --> 01:29:02,090
knocked off with his hammer and chisel
1938
01:28:59,860 --> 01:29:05,150
the NOS stroma model
1939
01:29:02,090 --> 01:29:06,800
Wade somebody said of course I heard
1940
01:29:05,150 --> 01:29:08,000
somethings that quarter of a ton but if
1941
01:29:06,800 --> 01:29:10,219
I did that quarter of a tumbler it was
1942
01:29:08,000 --> 01:29:12,409
incredibly heavy it needed to be lifted
1943
01:29:10,219 --> 01:29:14,390
on a forklift truck so the model had a
1944
01:29:12,409 --> 01:29:17,030
huge metal framework built inside it and
1945
01:29:14,390 --> 01:29:19,640
then Australia the Nostromo was plugged
1946
01:29:17,030 --> 01:29:21,469
into by a forklift truck with a couple
1947
01:29:19,640 --> 01:29:23,000
of sort of prongs on it which actually
1948
01:29:21,469 --> 01:29:25,520
fitted into the side of the model and
1949
01:29:23,000 --> 01:29:27,409
the way they achieved the the the
1950
01:29:25,520 --> 01:29:29,929
Nostromo being pulled away from the
1951
01:29:27,409 --> 01:29:32,449
refinery was that the the arm itself
1952
01:29:29,929 --> 01:29:34,850
wasn't actually motorized at all it ran
1953
01:29:32,449 --> 01:29:37,400
freely and it was about 30 feet long was
1954
01:29:34,850 --> 01:29:39,560
a really massive thing again clad with
1955
01:29:37,400 --> 01:29:41,780
thousands and thousands in this case of
1956
01:29:39,560 --> 01:29:43,969
Hornby railway piers and all these
1957
01:29:41,780 --> 01:29:47,270
crisscross girder pieces went into model
1958
01:29:43,969 --> 01:29:48,710
shops about 150 of these kits and when
1959
01:29:47,270 --> 01:29:51,370
we told the guy what we would do with
1960
01:29:48,710 --> 01:29:54,350
them I don't think they believed us and
1961
01:29:51,370 --> 01:29:56,390
this is a shot this is achieved by
1962
01:29:54,350 --> 01:29:59,000
they're not the forklift truck being
1963
01:29:56,390 --> 01:30:01,340
covered in black velvet plugged into a
1964
01:29:59,000 --> 01:30:03,800
nostril and just driving away from the
1965
01:30:01,340 --> 01:30:05,870
refinery dragging the Nostromo with it
1966
01:30:03,800 --> 01:30:08,750
because as it as it pulled the Nostromo
1967
01:30:05,870 --> 01:30:10,100
away it dragged the arm with it so that
1968
01:30:08,750 --> 01:30:11,659
shop where you sit going out and coming
1969
01:30:10,100 --> 01:30:14,300
away it's just the forklift truck
1970
01:30:11,659 --> 01:30:17,630
driving away on nice smooth on a nice
1971
01:30:14,300 --> 01:30:20,900
smooth surface originally the Nostromo
1972
01:30:17,630 --> 01:30:22,640
had three huge arms which opened but
1973
01:30:20,900 --> 01:30:24,830
Ridley Scott came up with a side here in
1974
01:30:22,640 --> 01:30:27,500
an actual conversation where it would be
1975
01:30:24,830 --> 01:30:29,900
like a great of a giant hand push the
1976
01:30:27,500 --> 01:30:32,390
lost romo away so I did a very very
1977
01:30:29,900 --> 01:30:34,219
quick sketch of this and showed it to
1978
01:30:32,390 --> 01:30:36,940
him and we needed to detail it really
1979
01:30:34,219 --> 01:30:39,050
quickly we found that the legs of r2d2
1980
01:30:36,940 --> 01:30:40,760
just happen to have this really nice
1981
01:30:39,050 --> 01:30:44,300
shape and you can actually see them
1982
01:30:40,760 --> 01:30:45,170
quite clearly clad on this thing I think
1983
01:30:44,300 --> 01:30:47,480
we had two or three
1984
01:30:45,170 --> 01:30:50,120
different scales we had one that was
1985
01:30:47,480 --> 01:30:54,380
about four feet long and we had another
1986
01:30:50,120 --> 01:30:56,480
one which was 12 14 15 feet long and
1987
01:30:54,380 --> 01:30:58,190
that one was very heavy and it was can
1988
01:30:56,480 --> 01:31:01,640
to leave it out honor with a like a
1989
01:30:58,190 --> 01:31:03,680
forklift truck device so that on a beam
1990
01:31:01,640 --> 01:31:06,050
which was covered in black velvet and
1991
01:31:03,680 --> 01:31:08,920
because of all the dust and stuff that
1992
01:31:06,050 --> 01:31:11,510
was around you couldn't see any of the
1993
01:31:08,920 --> 01:31:13,640
mechanism because we kept it lined up so
1994
01:31:11,510 --> 01:31:15,740
the models in front of it and like
1995
01:31:13,640 --> 01:31:17,690
camera couldn't see it and that was
1996
01:31:15,740 --> 01:31:20,270
pretty difficult I mean that took a lot
1997
01:31:17,690 --> 01:31:23,780
of effort and lots of wind machines
1998
01:31:20,270 --> 01:31:26,690
going and plenty of NICU light which is
1999
01:31:23,780 --> 01:31:28,480
a insulation for roofs and things being
2000
01:31:26,690 --> 01:31:31,160
blown around everywhere everybody had
2001
01:31:28,480 --> 01:31:34,460
masks and goggles and everything else on
2002
01:31:31,160 --> 01:31:36,410
and here plugs and a lot and in those
2003
01:31:34,460 --> 01:31:38,420
days we didn't have radio communications
2004
01:31:36,410 --> 01:31:39,680
the way you have now with everybody has
2005
01:31:38,420 --> 01:31:41,450
got their own little set they can go
2006
01:31:39,680 --> 01:31:43,850
join in and over lots of shouting and
2007
01:31:41,450 --> 01:31:48,050
screaming going on thumping people on
2008
01:31:43,850 --> 01:31:50,120
the back okay could we do that in if we
2009
01:31:48,050 --> 01:31:51,620
start level or we start and they put the
2010
01:31:50,120 --> 01:31:53,210
light you know stick some lights on
2011
01:31:51,620 --> 01:31:54,530
etcetera we shoot an event he kind of
2012
01:31:53,210 --> 01:31:56,510
created in front of the camera and it
2013
01:31:54,530 --> 01:31:58,340
though there wasn't always huge logic to
2014
01:31:56,510 --> 01:32:00,620
it I just think the actual the landing
2015
01:31:58,340 --> 01:32:04,460
of the ship Matt being a huge drama is
2016
01:32:00,620 --> 01:32:05,840
very exciting and I think you know Jerry
2017
01:32:04,460 --> 01:32:08,840
Goldsmith's music and everything worked
2018
01:32:05,840 --> 01:32:21,420
great at that particular point
2019
01:32:08,840 --> 01:32:23,580
[Music]
2020
01:32:21,420 --> 01:32:26,160
we couldn't be burned off anything he
2021
01:32:23,580 --> 01:32:28,800
had a passion about and so we all got
2022
01:32:26,160 --> 01:32:31,920
five of the same enthusiasm it was so it
2023
01:32:28,800 --> 01:32:35,190
was a labor of love we did as much as we
2024
01:32:31,920 --> 01:32:37,560
could to increase the production values
2025
01:32:35,190 --> 01:32:39,990
on each of the shots and and Ridley was
2026
01:32:37,560 --> 01:32:47,100
the key to us doing that he pushed and
2027
01:32:39,990 --> 01:32:49,290
pushed and pushed us all the time this
2028
01:32:47,100 --> 01:32:52,250
is the sketch that I did of the
2029
01:32:49,290 --> 01:32:54,840
narcissist shuttlecraft the original
2030
01:32:52,250 --> 01:32:57,090
back section here having been built as a
2031
01:32:54,840 --> 01:32:59,550
set and having been done as a drawing by
2032
01:32:57,090 --> 01:33:01,140
Ron Cobb the conceptual artist I then
2033
01:32:59,550 --> 01:33:03,270
came up with this idea of what the nose
2034
01:33:01,140 --> 01:33:08,170
would look like and it was from this
2035
01:33:03,270 --> 01:33:13,840
that the final model was constructed
2036
01:33:08,170 --> 01:33:16,489
[Music]
2037
01:33:13,840 --> 01:33:18,889
and also just a very very quick sketch
2038
01:33:16,489 --> 01:33:21,289
showing the rear rear section this was
2039
01:33:18,889 --> 01:33:24,739
to enable me to work out the release
2040
01:33:21,289 --> 01:33:27,889
clamp and which I also built which drops
2041
01:33:24,739 --> 01:33:30,590
the nut the narcissus down from up from
2042
01:33:27,889 --> 01:33:33,860
the nostril and in releases as it did so
2043
01:33:30,590 --> 01:33:35,749
the word purge came up when I went to
2044
01:33:33,860 --> 01:33:38,149
see Blade Runner there's a shot where
2045
01:33:35,749 --> 01:33:40,939
the car takes off and you see a screen
2046
01:33:38,149 --> 01:33:43,070
and there's the clamp on from alien on
2047
01:33:40,939 --> 01:33:45,800
there which I'd actually designed and
2048
01:33:43,070 --> 01:33:47,630
purged come up and I thought that isn't
2049
01:33:45,800 --> 01:33:51,610
a key thing on how many people noticed
2050
01:33:47,630 --> 01:33:53,989
that we had a shot which required the
2051
01:33:51,610 --> 01:33:57,229
burial shroud where John Hurt's
2052
01:33:53,989 --> 01:34:01,130
character cane has died to be fired out
2053
01:33:57,229 --> 01:34:02,869
of the Lost Romo's hatch now many people
2054
01:34:01,130 --> 01:34:05,239
would think all the sort of computerized
2055
01:34:02,869 --> 01:34:08,479
ways of doing this but not another tool
2056
01:34:05,239 --> 01:34:11,389
I mentioned Nick alder there this became
2057
01:34:08,479 --> 01:34:13,789
the special effects director we had a
2058
01:34:11,389 --> 01:34:16,219
very very large section of lost romo
2059
01:34:13,789 --> 01:34:18,199
built about 40 feet long which was
2060
01:34:16,219 --> 01:34:21,860
supposed to be kind of and the underside
2061
01:34:18,199 --> 01:34:24,559
like a trench on the underside of NOS
2062
01:34:21,860 --> 01:34:26,599
trova very reminiscent of the trench in
2063
01:34:24,559 --> 01:34:28,909
Star Wars I'm sure there was a cross
2064
01:34:26,599 --> 01:34:31,669
over there and what we actually did was
2065
01:34:28,909 --> 01:34:33,800
I carved and again I give a very short
2066
01:34:31,669 --> 01:34:36,409
period of time to carve Kane's burial
2067
01:34:33,800 --> 01:34:39,439
shroud in wood and I made a burial
2068
01:34:36,409 --> 01:34:41,149
shroud about eight inches long and Nick
2069
01:34:39,439 --> 01:34:44,329
Halden got hold of the fisherman's
2070
01:34:41,149 --> 01:34:46,699
catapult for firing baits out into the
2071
01:34:44,329 --> 01:34:48,829
pond where you're fishing and he just
2072
01:34:46,699 --> 01:34:50,539
just put a flat right down at the end of
2073
01:34:48,829 --> 01:34:53,419
the studio and he just pulled the
2074
01:34:50,539 --> 01:34:56,360
catapult back and fired my little model
2075
01:34:53,419 --> 01:34:58,010
knee went down the trench
2076
01:34:56,360 --> 01:34:59,959
and because they filmed it at high speed
2077
01:34:58,010 --> 01:35:01,459
so they came out in slow motion and he
2078
01:34:59,959 --> 01:35:02,630
just did this over and over again and
2079
01:35:01,459 --> 01:35:04,489
what they did was because it would drop
2080
01:35:02,630 --> 01:35:05,959
eventually as it flew away when she's
2081
01:35:04,489 --> 01:35:07,880
trajectory like an arrow it would drop
2082
01:35:05,959 --> 01:35:09,409
down but I cut it before he did that and
2083
01:35:07,880 --> 01:35:12,679
I just thought that was just the most
2084
01:35:09,409 --> 01:35:14,780
amazing hits a super simple way to get
2085
01:35:12,679 --> 01:35:16,280
round a shot and just seeing him firing
2086
01:35:14,780 --> 01:35:18,169
this thing of the fisherman's cafetalk
2087
01:35:16,280 --> 01:35:21,050
he then started firing it at people
2088
01:35:18,169 --> 01:35:23,749
where that's another story later he
2089
01:35:21,050 --> 01:35:24,989
needed a shot where you saw Ripley right
2090
01:35:23,749 --> 01:35:27,360
at the end of the film
2091
01:35:24,989 --> 01:35:28,890
inside the shuttlecraft moving around so
2092
01:35:27,360 --> 01:35:31,140
we then had to make a foreshortened
2093
01:35:28,890 --> 01:35:33,989
version of the shuttle graph that had a
2094
01:35:31,140 --> 01:35:37,590
TV monitoring sighting and that was had
2095
01:35:33,989 --> 01:35:38,910
pre-recorded film of a goal not actually
2096
01:35:37,590 --> 01:35:41,400
Sigourney Weaver but her standing
2097
01:35:38,910 --> 01:35:46,410
running around inside and that was built
2098
01:35:41,400 --> 01:35:48,300
into the model of that I think the only
2099
01:35:46,410 --> 01:35:51,870
dodgy old thing was always the marriage
2100
01:35:48,300 --> 01:35:54,780
between matte painting and model and the
2101
01:35:51,870 --> 01:35:58,560
screen so it was tricky very tricky but
2102
01:35:54,780 --> 01:36:01,200
you know even today in CGI still seeing
2103
01:35:58,560 --> 01:36:03,540
a whole foot in that and I always like
2104
01:36:01,200 --> 01:36:05,820
to good for wherever you can build a
2105
01:36:03,540 --> 01:36:09,960
model then photograph it with a light
2106
01:36:05,820 --> 01:36:13,980
that's on the shot then graft it onto it
2107
01:36:09,960 --> 01:36:17,670
CGI has probably in my in my personal
2108
01:36:13,980 --> 01:36:19,170
opinion as a model maker its decimated
2109
01:36:17,670 --> 01:36:25,080
much of the model making
2110
01:36:19,170 --> 01:36:27,660
I don't think myself that CGI will ever
2111
01:36:25,080 --> 01:36:28,560
completely replace models I don't care
2112
01:36:27,660 --> 01:36:31,830
what anybody says
2113
01:36:28,560 --> 01:36:34,620
I I think you can tell there was a great
2114
01:36:31,830 --> 01:36:37,020
deal of fun going on some of the people
2115
01:36:34,620 --> 01:36:38,340
involved in the film we had Nick older
2116
01:36:37,020 --> 01:36:39,660
who was the special basically the
2117
01:36:38,340 --> 01:36:43,200
special effects director after Brian
2118
01:36:39,660 --> 01:36:45,750
left he's a real prankster I worked with
2119
01:36:43,200 --> 01:36:49,290
him on space 1999 and know what he was
2120
01:36:45,750 --> 01:36:52,260
like so the the relationship was
2121
01:36:49,290 --> 01:36:53,340
actually very good I got on very well
2122
01:36:52,260 --> 01:36:55,530
with the guys I'd worked with them
2123
01:36:53,340 --> 01:36:57,570
before with the actual crew itself it
2124
01:36:55,530 --> 01:36:58,890
was a very happy relationship that we
2125
01:36:57,570 --> 01:37:01,460
had bearing in mind we worked together
2126
01:36:58,890 --> 01:37:03,750
for like I said about 14 months
2127
01:37:01,460 --> 01:37:05,550
technology advances you can think of new
2128
01:37:03,750 --> 01:37:07,170
ways of doing things there were lots of
2129
01:37:05,550 --> 01:37:08,580
things we could have probably enhanced
2130
01:37:07,170 --> 01:37:10,950
the production of anyone we could have
2131
01:37:08,580 --> 01:37:13,530
done huge moves through the vehicles and
2132
01:37:10,950 --> 01:37:14,700
things which we didn't do but in actual
2133
01:37:13,530 --> 01:37:17,520
fact because the script was so
2134
01:37:14,700 --> 01:37:19,110
beautifully written and so tight and
2135
01:37:17,520 --> 01:37:21,090
because Ridley was really clever with
2136
01:37:19,110 --> 01:37:22,750
the way we didn't see alien but we sort
2137
01:37:21,090 --> 01:37:24,820
of saw the alien
2138
01:37:22,750 --> 01:37:26,110
we were just there to sort of remind
2139
01:37:24,820 --> 01:37:27,880
people that there was a bit of space
2140
01:37:26,110 --> 01:37:29,950
outside and they were billions of miles
2141
01:37:27,880 --> 01:37:31,480
from anywhere we didn't need to do any
2142
01:37:29,950 --> 01:37:34,420
more than that you know the production
2143
01:37:31,480 --> 01:37:37,420
values enhance what was going on in
2144
01:37:34,420 --> 01:37:40,930
terms of the drama but it didn't have to
2145
01:37:37,420 --> 01:37:43,510
be a visual effects extravaganza as such
2146
01:37:40,930 --> 01:37:45,580
to save a movie I mean we just enhanced
2147
01:37:43,510 --> 01:37:47,680
what was already there as opposed to
2148
01:37:45,580 --> 01:37:49,990
other movies some recently that have
2149
01:37:47,680 --> 01:37:52,480
come out which are visual effects Turner
2150
01:37:49,990 --> 01:37:54,510
forces but no story I mean the key to
2151
01:37:52,480 --> 01:38:10,170
this was been amazing story
2152
01:37:54,510 --> 01:38:10,170
[Music]
2153
01:38:22,730 --> 01:38:27,450
the Gloria the cinema is that it is an
2154
01:38:25,620 --> 01:38:29,250
audience that is seeing it and therefore
2155
01:38:27,450 --> 01:38:30,240
it is a collective understanding which
2156
01:38:29,250 --> 01:38:34,830
is quite different than watching
2157
01:38:30,240 --> 01:38:38,370
something on tape it has a blend of the
2158
01:38:34,830 --> 01:38:41,970
actual of theatre itself even though
2159
01:38:38,370 --> 01:38:45,510
what you're going to see is always
2160
01:38:41,970 --> 01:38:47,840
exactly the same it can vary from
2161
01:38:45,510 --> 01:38:50,100
audience to audience according to the
2162
01:38:47,840 --> 01:38:50,870
whatever collection of people you have
2163
01:38:50,100 --> 01:39:03,859
there
2164
01:38:50,870 --> 01:39:03,859
[Music]
2165
01:39:08,000 --> 01:39:13,040
[Music]
2166
01:39:10,090 --> 01:39:16,400
the first screening of the movie which
2167
01:39:13,040 --> 01:39:20,870
ran I think about four hours long from a
2168
01:39:16,400 --> 01:39:23,030
78 page screenplay and we're supposed to
2169
01:39:20,870 --> 01:39:26,840
go out to lunch afterwards I was with my
2170
01:39:23,030 --> 01:39:28,340
ex-wife and she was so traumatized she
2171
01:39:26,840 --> 01:39:31,430
couldn't leave the room for day and a
2172
01:39:28,340 --> 01:39:33,950
half it was more violent and more
2173
01:39:31,430 --> 01:39:38,140
frightening actually at the long cut
2174
01:39:33,950 --> 01:39:40,370
that ended up to be Brad
2175
01:39:38,140 --> 01:39:43,840
we never really previewed it till we
2176
01:39:40,370 --> 01:39:47,960
finished the film which was interesting
2177
01:39:43,840 --> 01:39:50,960
but we we finished it and we had a 70 ml
2178
01:39:47,960 --> 01:39:53,210
print and we took it to Fox and then
2179
01:39:50,960 --> 01:39:54,740
insisted today we arrived we just
2180
01:39:53,210 --> 01:39:57,710
arrived that afternoon that they wanted
2181
01:39:54,740 --> 01:40:01,220
to run it that night in their dubbing
2182
01:39:57,710 --> 01:40:04,880
theater the zanuck theater and they
2183
01:40:01,220 --> 01:40:06,770
invited all the science-fiction sort of
2184
01:40:04,880 --> 01:40:09,620
people who had come in dressed up as
2185
01:40:06,770 --> 01:40:12,890
most of the creatures you'd ever seen to
2186
01:40:09,620 --> 01:40:15,560
see the film and it ran terribly because
2187
01:40:12,890 --> 01:40:17,600
the sound was so bad in there and we
2188
01:40:15,560 --> 01:40:18,980
never could understand it because we had
2189
01:40:17,600 --> 01:40:21,080
a great soundtrack we've never changed
2190
01:40:18,980 --> 01:40:25,490
it we wanted to say Louis where the
2191
01:40:21,080 --> 01:40:28,460
sound wasn't quite right and it's just
2192
01:40:25,490 --> 01:40:30,410
it was those okay really went crazy
2193
01:40:28,460 --> 01:40:31,910
because he went down checked theater
2194
01:40:30,410 --> 01:40:33,530
before the screening and two of the
2195
01:40:31,910 --> 01:40:35,210
speakers were out and then he didn't
2196
01:40:33,530 --> 01:40:37,640
want to screen the picture and by this
2197
01:40:35,210 --> 01:40:41,720
time they are completely convinced that
2198
01:40:37,640 --> 01:40:44,000
we made a bad soundtrack in England and
2199
01:40:41,720 --> 01:40:45,860
the wrong thing had arrived but we were
2200
01:40:44,000 --> 01:40:51,590
all quite worried after once it was and
2201
01:40:45,860 --> 01:40:53,680
then in in Dallas next night we had to
2202
01:40:51,590 --> 01:40:58,970
sound absolutely right in the theater
2203
01:40:53,680 --> 01:41:01,760
here we must go on we arrived in this
2204
01:40:58,970 --> 01:41:03,290
theater which was run by these guys you
2205
01:41:01,760 --> 01:41:06,230
could have eaten off their floor the
2206
01:41:03,290 --> 01:41:09,200
theater was fantastic the sound was
2207
01:41:06,230 --> 01:41:12,020
great it was the most incredible preview
2208
01:41:09,200 --> 01:41:13,370
I've ever been in I mean people were
2209
01:41:12,020 --> 01:41:15,780
screaming and running out of the theater
2210
01:41:13,370 --> 01:41:18,570
for what I remember Ridley and
2211
01:41:15,780 --> 01:41:20,310
uh evil power were holding down Alan
2212
01:41:18,570 --> 01:41:24,720
that junior who was trying to get out of
2213
01:41:20,310 --> 01:41:26,640
the cinema the usher keeled over and not
2214
01:41:24,720 --> 01:41:28,530
with a chest burster seen strange you
2215
01:41:26,640 --> 01:41:30,720
know people were just too stunned at
2216
01:41:28,530 --> 01:41:32,610
that particular moment that they did
2217
01:41:30,720 --> 01:41:34,470
react this was it through the roof
2218
01:41:32,610 --> 01:41:37,080
pretty good this is what we knew we
2219
01:41:34,470 --> 01:41:39,510
really really had something factor was
2220
01:41:37,080 --> 01:41:43,470
it one of the ushers faded and it's
2221
01:41:39,510 --> 01:41:45,390
Nicole you know they were worried about
2222
01:41:43,470 --> 01:41:46,830
violence in the theaters and all of us
2223
01:41:45,390 --> 01:41:47,820
is kind of stuff said oh my god this
2224
01:41:46,830 --> 01:41:49,950
incident here what's happening
2225
01:41:47,820 --> 01:41:54,270
apprentice the usher had fainted when
2226
01:41:49,950 --> 01:41:56,250
that robots head came off at the
2227
01:41:54,270 --> 01:41:58,470
management saying you know this is
2228
01:41:56,250 --> 01:42:01,590
terrible we do you know people have been
2229
01:41:58,470 --> 01:42:04,460
sick everywhere and it's in a state we
2230
01:42:01,590 --> 01:42:04,460
thought this is great
2231
01:42:04,640 --> 01:42:09,660
first-ever stands the back of the
2232
01:42:06,390 --> 01:42:12,900
theater soon it was going to be low a
2233
01:42:09,660 --> 01:42:14,280
lot of walkouts and what it was is that
2234
01:42:12,900 --> 01:42:17,220
people were sitting close to the screen
2235
01:42:14,280 --> 01:42:18,450
or walking back to stand and watch it in
2236
01:42:17,220 --> 01:42:20,340
the back of the theater didn't want to
2237
01:42:18,450 --> 01:42:25,920
be that close to the screen you know
2238
01:42:20,340 --> 01:42:26,460
because it is the scary some of the most
2239
01:42:25,920 --> 01:42:28,140
exciting
2240
01:42:26,460 --> 01:42:29,640
I think moments of my life because
2241
01:42:28,140 --> 01:42:33,990
there's no greater buzz than being
2242
01:42:29,640 --> 01:42:35,130
involved in a movie and suddenly not
2243
01:42:33,990 --> 01:42:36,480
only was I going to the state for the
2244
01:42:35,130 --> 01:42:37,710
first time in my life but I was actually
2245
01:42:36,480 --> 01:42:39,150
being flown around with Ridley and
2246
01:42:37,710 --> 01:42:41,670
letting the twentieth Century Fox
2247
01:42:39,150 --> 01:42:44,360
exactly a jet from preview to preview we
2248
01:42:41,670 --> 01:42:47,580
never had a premiere for this movie and
2249
01:42:44,360 --> 01:42:50,520
I played for my own ticket down at
2250
01:42:47,580 --> 01:42:53,160
Egyptian theater to go and I stood in
2251
01:42:50,520 --> 01:42:55,260
line to go see this movie I mean it was
2252
01:42:53,160 --> 01:42:56,820
like so totally bizarre I wanted to see
2253
01:42:55,260 --> 01:42:59,430
it with a you know with an audience
2254
01:42:56,820 --> 01:43:01,320
people were getting up and leaving the
2255
01:42:59,430 --> 01:43:04,770
theater and going out and barfing in LA
2256
01:43:01,320 --> 01:43:07,950
Lobby I mean I guess it was just such a
2257
01:43:04,770 --> 01:43:11,100
shock to me we knew how it was made but
2258
01:43:07,950 --> 01:43:13,830
you know our friend on the little dolly
2259
01:43:11,100 --> 01:43:15,750
being squidgy dunder Neath the chair and
2260
01:43:13,830 --> 01:43:19,349
stuff but boy I tell you when it was cut
2261
01:43:15,750 --> 01:43:22,989
together really was pretty amazing
2262
01:43:19,349 --> 01:43:24,340
when we open the film I was staying at a
2263
01:43:22,989 --> 01:43:26,679
friend's house in the Hollywood Hills
2264
01:43:24,340 --> 01:43:29,889
they're looking down I could see the
2265
01:43:26,679 --> 01:43:33,099
Egyptian theater where I was and they
2266
01:43:29,889 --> 01:43:34,149
opened it and they run it for 48 hours
2267
01:43:33,099 --> 01:43:36,639
non-stop
2268
01:43:34,149 --> 01:43:39,280
it was just running like a loop for 48
2269
01:43:36,639 --> 01:43:41,019
hours there was never a moment in that
2270
01:43:39,280 --> 01:43:45,189
48 hours of the queue was around the
2271
01:43:41,019 --> 01:43:49,389
clock I got up that day I was a complete
2272
01:43:45,189 --> 01:43:53,229
nervous wreck I was angry I was angry at
2273
01:43:49,389 --> 01:43:56,229
the world I had not been shown proper
2274
01:43:53,229 --> 01:43:57,760
respect on this movie I wasn't even
2275
01:43:56,229 --> 01:44:00,099
going to go to the old thing
2276
01:43:57,760 --> 01:44:01,869
the hell with them I'm not going to go
2277
01:44:00,099 --> 01:44:04,809
to the opening of this thing then
2278
01:44:01,869 --> 01:44:05,829
somehow and had a bad experience I
2279
01:44:04,809 --> 01:44:08,349
remember the sticks out of my mind
2280
01:44:05,829 --> 01:44:10,570
because of darkstar he remembers coming
2281
01:44:08,349 --> 01:44:12,820
and thinking oh my god David and nobody
2282
01:44:10,570 --> 01:44:14,169
laughed and nobody responded and nobody
2283
01:44:12,820 --> 01:44:15,489
came and they did they didn't laugh
2284
01:44:14,169 --> 01:44:17,679
tainted jokes in Sweden said to me I'll
2285
01:44:15,489 --> 01:44:20,050
never try another company again so he
2286
01:44:17,679 --> 01:44:22,689
kept on feeling this fear that was gonna
2287
01:44:20,050 --> 01:44:24,789
fall on its face by Dark Star get a jump
2288
01:44:22,689 --> 01:44:27,909
mat karna is drove around streets I
2289
01:44:24,789 --> 01:44:33,039
drove around la crazily nowhere I just
2290
01:44:27,909 --> 01:44:35,919
drove hey where's man no show I'm Aldous
2291
01:44:33,039 --> 01:44:37,239
how bad I guess he was got drunk or
2292
01:44:35,919 --> 01:44:39,189
something because he almost didn't want
2293
01:44:37,239 --> 01:44:43,510
to come he said I can't take it I'm not
2294
01:44:39,189 --> 01:44:46,360
going with that at 7:55 I suddenly
2295
01:44:43,510 --> 01:44:48,610
turned the wheel in RAM well I drove
2296
01:44:46,360 --> 01:44:52,599
like a rocket into Hollywood I drove up
2297
01:44:48,610 --> 01:44:56,349
Knight park somewhere I got out I saw
2298
01:44:52,599 --> 01:44:58,629
this huge line people down the block and
2299
01:44:56,349 --> 01:45:01,629
around the block and I said he's after a
2300
01:44:58,629 --> 01:45:07,329
onion and I got and I walked the whole
2301
01:45:01,629 --> 01:45:09,969
like line I walked all this long I and
2302
01:45:07,329 --> 01:45:13,840
they were all end up seeing in my movie
2303
01:45:09,969 --> 01:45:17,409
now what and I sort of walked up and I
2304
01:45:13,840 --> 01:45:20,949
drifted up towards that opening the
2305
01:45:17,409 --> 01:45:24,099
entrance there of the Egyptian I got up
2306
01:45:20,949 --> 01:45:27,099
there and there was Ronnie she said and
2307
01:45:24,099 --> 01:45:30,070
a couple of people he was like a man
2308
01:45:27,099 --> 01:45:32,169
possessed I mean he was just like
2309
01:45:30,070 --> 01:45:34,329
terrified and so where you been coming
2310
01:45:32,169 --> 01:45:36,429
honey they took me in and we went inside
2311
01:45:34,329 --> 01:45:39,099
I floated in and the theater it was
2312
01:45:36,429 --> 01:45:40,719
every seat was floating out it put me
2313
01:45:39,099 --> 01:45:47,760
down at a seat somewhere and i sat there
2314
01:45:40,719 --> 01:45:47,760
I was kind of Numb I'm going to dream
2315
01:45:48,300 --> 01:46:01,780
the house lights went down the 20th
2316
01:45:59,289 --> 01:46:06,999
Century Fox law guy came up and the
2317
01:46:01,780 --> 01:46:10,119
whole audience cheered and he heard
2318
01:46:06,999 --> 01:46:11,739
these tremendous shrieks and cheers and
2319
01:46:10,119 --> 01:46:13,539
applause it and I've bought the third
2320
01:46:11,739 --> 01:46:17,050
scare hit and damn this thing behind me
2321
01:46:13,539 --> 01:46:20,019
and he started weeping and my eyes
2322
01:46:17,050 --> 01:46:24,129
flooded with tears and the tears ran
2323
01:46:20,019 --> 01:46:28,719
down my face and I just sat there and
2324
01:46:24,129 --> 01:46:31,300
watched the movie I said Dan I damn it
2325
01:46:28,719 --> 01:46:33,550
and he says I can't believe it it's real
2326
01:46:31,300 --> 01:46:36,459
that's real you know he was just got
2327
01:46:33,550 --> 01:46:40,530
crying through the hears everybody sees
2328
01:46:36,459 --> 01:46:43,989
this guy behind me cry limp as a rag and
2329
01:46:40,530 --> 01:46:45,909
I had expected there of course to be
2330
01:46:43,989 --> 01:46:48,280
moments where they would scream at the
2331
01:46:45,909 --> 01:46:49,959
shock and I'd expected a lot of nervous
2332
01:46:48,280 --> 01:46:53,379
muttering and tittering all that stuff
2333
01:46:49,959 --> 01:46:57,789
when what happened at all the audience
2334
01:46:53,379 --> 01:47:00,729
set in absolute silence unmoving just
2335
01:46:57,789 --> 01:47:02,320
staring at that screen like all of us we
2336
01:47:00,729 --> 01:47:04,929
can't be objective about our own work
2337
01:47:02,320 --> 01:47:06,579
even when he went to the previews he
2338
01:47:04,929 --> 01:47:09,249
just wasn't treat that oh maybe it's
2339
01:47:06,579 --> 01:47:11,109
just those audiences or they're prone to
2340
01:47:09,249 --> 01:47:12,999
love it and nobody else is going to like
2341
01:47:11,109 --> 01:47:14,889
it not maybe not the masses aren't the
2342
01:47:12,999 --> 01:47:16,780
science fiction lovers but you could
2343
01:47:14,889 --> 01:47:18,459
tell that that crowd they went wild and
2344
01:47:16,780 --> 01:47:20,889
they were just standing and cheering at
2345
01:47:18,459 --> 01:47:22,710
the end of the movie I saw at the
2346
01:47:20,889 --> 01:47:25,830
Egyptian
2347
01:47:22,710 --> 01:47:28,409
first time I saw it in its entirety a
2348
01:47:25,830 --> 01:47:30,719
lot would come up I was standing in
2349
01:47:28,409 --> 01:47:33,840
front they walked out on the movie I
2350
01:47:30,719 --> 01:47:38,040
thought cool can't be that bad right
2351
01:47:33,840 --> 01:47:40,440
so going man watch the movie and I'm
2352
01:47:38,040 --> 01:47:42,810
claimed excited by what I can
2353
01:47:40,440 --> 01:47:46,140
I thought of pacing cutting that's
2354
01:47:42,810 --> 01:47:49,679
brilliant and then we win Sigourney goes
2355
01:47:46,140 --> 01:47:52,949
back to pick up my cat I had it's
2356
01:47:49,679 --> 01:47:57,630
wonderful african-american voice Shanna
2357
01:47:52,949 --> 01:48:02,909
leave that [ __ ] guy and at that stage
2358
01:47:57,630 --> 01:48:05,400
I knew Ridley a guy here and then I had
2359
01:48:02,909 --> 01:48:08,070
that whole the space jockey in front
2360
01:48:05,400 --> 01:48:10,170
I understand somebody tried to set fire
2361
01:48:08,070 --> 01:48:12,050
to it or something so I thought it was
2362
01:48:10,170 --> 01:48:16,020
the work of the devil
2363
01:48:12,050 --> 01:48:17,909
great by then we had already had the
2364
01:48:16,020 --> 01:48:19,560
night before I've been to the Academy
2365
01:48:17,909 --> 01:48:21,540
and that's a tougher audience because
2366
01:48:19,560 --> 01:48:24,210
they're filmmakers it takes a lot to
2367
01:48:21,540 --> 01:48:27,360
impress them but when I that went so
2368
01:48:24,210 --> 01:48:29,250
amazingly but sitting behind me was Jack
2369
01:48:27,360 --> 01:48:31,320
Nicholson Warren Beatty and they kept
2370
01:48:29,250 --> 01:48:34,170
screaming like two little boys every
2371
01:48:31,320 --> 01:48:35,909
scare and they came up to Dan Leiter to
2372
01:48:34,170 --> 01:48:37,739
all it's amazing guys in with them the
2373
01:48:35,909 --> 01:48:39,390
gods were bidding Jack Nicholson you
2374
01:48:37,739 --> 01:48:41,880
know and they scared the [ __ ] out of us
2375
01:48:39,390 --> 01:48:45,300
so we were just beaming and that that's
2376
01:48:41,880 --> 01:48:49,050
a tougher audience it was so new in its
2377
01:48:45,300 --> 01:48:49,679
concept of horror I think it was more of
2378
01:48:49,050 --> 01:48:52,350
a thriller
2379
01:48:49,679 --> 01:48:54,480
because problem those were the odds hard
2380
01:48:52,350 --> 01:48:57,020
moments that things happen it was a
2381
01:48:54,480 --> 01:48:59,270
thriller when's he going to happen next
2382
01:48:57,020 --> 01:49:01,890
[Music]
2383
01:48:59,270 --> 01:49:03,870
my reaction was right with them I was a
2384
01:49:01,890 --> 01:49:05,790
wave we were like a tidal wave bill
2385
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building up and crashing on the shore
2386
01:49:05,790 --> 01:49:10,890
with apprehension I do remember a story
2387
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that really told me about meeting with
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some theater honors one eye after the
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picture had been released and one guy
2390
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came up to his idea you know that at
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01:49:18,659 --> 01:49:21,179
once seen where that thing comes out of
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the stomach
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I tell you really messed up our
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01:49:22,650 --> 01:49:26,790
bathrooms and I'm take great deal pride
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in our bathrooms but we took care of
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01:49:26,790 --> 01:49:31,469
that took care that that he says well
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how did you take care of that
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or we just do cut it out of the picture
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there could bathrooms and fine after
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there I've often wondered in Hailey and
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how many eyes closed at the moment that
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01:49:43,860 --> 01:49:50,370
I gave birth as I'd like to put it but
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01:49:46,650 --> 01:49:52,560
tan and I'm sure that it's over 50% and
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01:49:50,370 --> 01:49:54,180
the first time seeing it and I'm sure
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01:49:52,560 --> 01:49:56,790
that some people that took four times
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01:49:54,180 --> 01:50:00,390
before they actually saw it women of a
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01:49:56,790 --> 01:50:01,860
certain age probably childbearing and
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01:50:00,390 --> 01:50:03,030
upwards age or certainly women in their
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01:50:01,860 --> 01:50:04,739
thirties and forties for some
2410
01:50:03,030 --> 01:50:08,070
extraordinary psychological reason were
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01:50:04,739 --> 01:50:10,320
very very put off by the the
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01:50:08,070 --> 01:50:12,420
chestburster by the birth scene I think
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they found it you know deeply Freudian
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ly disturbing and I think that stopped
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01:50:16,350 --> 01:50:20,790
it actually being an even bigger hit the
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01:50:19,020 --> 01:50:23,670
chest bursting scene certainly worked
2417
01:50:20,790 --> 01:50:25,560
and it was and you just hear this dead
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01:50:23,670 --> 01:50:27,530
silence from the artist he couldn't
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01:50:25,560 --> 01:50:30,600
believe what he was seeing you know I
2420
01:50:27,530 --> 01:50:32,670
didn't realize you know how how
2421
01:50:30,600 --> 01:50:35,820
effective it was on an audience you know
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01:50:32,670 --> 01:50:37,020
and people still people won't won't you
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know we've heard so much about they
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01:50:37,020 --> 01:50:41,520
won't even see it they're terrified to
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01:50:38,790 --> 01:50:43,739
see it and people have seen it regret it
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01:50:41,520 --> 01:50:45,810
you know and others just can't get
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01:50:43,739 --> 01:50:47,730
enough they were so terrified I mean
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even I was terrified because they'd
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01:50:47,730 --> 01:50:55,350
added it has the most amazing sound and
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between the water and the steam and the
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01:50:55,350 --> 01:51:02,880
smoke and our performances and the music
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01:51:00,140 --> 01:51:04,500
you're terrified the entire time I think
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01:51:02,880 --> 01:51:05,070
I watched it through my cable net
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01:51:04,500 --> 01:51:07,380
sweater
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01:51:05,070 --> 01:51:09,300
like that because once you added all
2436
01:51:07,380 --> 01:51:12,350
that I wasn't and I was in Ripley you
2437
01:51:09,300 --> 01:51:13,919
know who doesn't get afraid
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01:51:12,350 --> 01:51:16,619
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01:51:13,919 --> 01:51:19,579
they were terrified they'd never seen a
2440
01:51:16,619 --> 01:51:22,919
movie like this it just came out them
2441
01:51:19,579 --> 01:51:26,519
relentless claustrophobia and the power
2442
01:51:22,919 --> 01:51:31,800
of this movie is any horror film you get
2443
01:51:26,519 --> 01:51:33,840
inside the psychology of fear which
2444
01:51:31,800 --> 01:51:35,669
those are inherent certain amount of
2445
01:51:33,840 --> 01:51:39,809
things that are in people things growing
2446
01:51:35,669 --> 01:51:42,599
inside you and the way that robots are
2447
01:51:39,809 --> 01:51:46,679
are as humans and you're not quite sure
2448
01:51:42,599 --> 01:51:48,840
who is who and the claustrophobia of a
2449
01:51:46,679 --> 01:51:51,300
setting where you're enclosed and can't
2450
01:51:48,840 --> 01:51:55,949
get out of I went to seeing it
2451
01:51:51,300 --> 01:51:58,769
imprisonment in a huge cinema and I was
2452
01:51:55,949 --> 01:52:00,630
terrified I can't remember the audience
2453
01:51:58,769 --> 01:52:03,929
reaction because I can only remember my
2454
01:52:00,630 --> 01:52:06,479
own and I screamed and I I was
2455
01:52:03,929 --> 01:52:08,280
absolutely and I knew of course I knew
2456
01:52:06,479 --> 01:52:09,869
the scripts I knew that the creature was
2457
01:52:08,280 --> 01:52:13,639
going to burst forth but it made no
2458
01:52:09,869 --> 01:52:16,499
difference I was petrified people were
2459
01:52:13,639 --> 01:52:18,899
so into it it was the first time we'd
2460
01:52:16,499 --> 01:52:23,189
shown space to be a real place
2461
01:52:18,899 --> 01:52:26,070
you know filthy greasy grimy with real
2462
01:52:23,189 --> 01:52:28,979
people in it you know certainly the
2463
01:52:26,070 --> 01:52:30,630
opposite of 2001 which is movie I've
2464
01:52:28,979 --> 01:52:33,510
always found it hard to sit through
2465
01:52:30,630 --> 01:52:36,449
frankly because it's so sterile and
2466
01:52:33,510 --> 01:52:39,439
still and this was you know and it was I
2467
01:52:36,449 --> 01:52:44,880
have to say so much of Ridley in it his
2468
01:52:39,439 --> 01:52:46,800
no [ __ ] kind of approach exciting
2469
01:52:44,880 --> 01:52:49,619
opening had broke all the house records
2470
01:52:46,800 --> 01:52:53,610
it was a very good ad campaign I thought
2471
01:52:49,619 --> 01:52:55,469
simple and but creepy at the same time I
2472
01:52:53,610 --> 01:52:57,599
think the team of thought would
2473
01:52:55,469 --> 01:52:59,880
peoplefox at that point in time none of
2474
01:52:57,599 --> 01:53:03,030
which are there anymore I really got
2475
01:52:59,880 --> 01:53:03,599
behind the picture and sold as hard as I
2476
01:53:03,030 --> 01:53:06,329
could
2477
01:53:03,599 --> 01:53:08,459
believed in it very strongly the
2478
01:53:06,329 --> 01:53:11,429
graphics we brought in were two great
2479
01:53:08,459 --> 01:53:14,059
guys as Steve frankfurter was you know
2480
01:53:11,429 --> 01:53:18,449
pretty formidable advertising man and
2481
01:53:14,059 --> 01:53:20,880
Richard Greenberg who came in with first
2482
01:53:18,449 --> 01:53:23,760
of all coming in to poster work and then
2483
01:53:20,880 --> 01:53:25,110
they came up with a great log line you
2484
01:53:23,760 --> 01:53:27,480
know in space no one can hear you scream
2485
01:53:25,110 --> 01:53:29,880
and then the
2486
01:53:27,480 --> 01:53:32,250
paag Rafi wide space to the top of that
2487
01:53:29,880 --> 01:53:34,470
look great and then they readapted that
2488
01:53:32,250 --> 01:53:35,790
to go in the film's the opening title
2489
01:53:34,470 --> 01:53:38,430
sequence was a kind of form of
2490
01:53:35,790 --> 01:53:42,440
paralytics really or a read out you know
2491
01:53:38,430 --> 01:53:42,440
what it is thence graduates buzzing
2492
01:53:44,810 --> 01:53:51,810
alien fulfilled a genre and therefore
2493
01:53:48,960 --> 01:53:53,340
thereby put a cap on alien to me is very
2494
01:53:51,810 --> 01:53:55,140
special it's not just because I worked
2495
01:53:53,340 --> 01:53:56,760
on it I think Ridley did such an amazing
2496
01:53:55,140 --> 01:53:59,310
job on it and I think it's got a
2497
01:53:56,760 --> 01:54:03,090
mythology to it until they start making
2498
01:53:59,310 --> 01:54:05,790
feature movies in IMAX or in or in
2499
01:54:03,090 --> 01:54:07,290
virtual reality I don't think it's going
2500
01:54:05,790 --> 01:54:12,110
to be possible to do anything it's that
2501
01:54:07,290 --> 01:54:15,540
novel in the scary sci-fi monster vein
2502
01:54:12,110 --> 01:54:16,770
the thing that made aliens scary was the
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01:54:15,540 --> 01:54:18,630
fact that you weren't quite sure what
2504
01:54:16,770 --> 01:54:21,480
you're receiving so the audience could
2505
01:54:18,630 --> 01:54:24,120
participate it was quite a milestone it
2506
01:54:21,480 --> 01:54:26,489
was sort of like Howard Hawks the thing
2507
01:54:24,120 --> 01:54:28,650
which is the first really the first film
2508
01:54:26,489 --> 01:54:31,410
I can remember where where they used a
2509
01:54:28,650 --> 01:54:33,810
science fiction element as an element of
2510
01:54:31,410 --> 01:54:37,440
heart to really frighten you and this
2511
01:54:33,810 --> 01:54:40,050
was the next ultimate step the alien is
2512
01:54:37,440 --> 01:54:42,720
frightening in a context much larger
2513
01:54:40,050 --> 01:54:46,110
than outer space science fiction beings
2514
01:54:42,720 --> 01:54:49,320
its fearsome in the way of child's
2515
01:54:46,110 --> 01:54:52,080
nightmares is frightening it's becoming
2516
01:54:49,320 --> 01:54:53,160
more difficult to fighting people trying
2517
01:54:52,080 --> 01:54:54,660
to keep on a nice level on the
2518
01:54:53,160 --> 01:54:57,750
entertaining level on a rollercoaster
2519
01:54:54,660 --> 01:55:00,030
ride I think it's really one number the
2520
01:54:57,750 --> 01:55:03,180
science-fiction be between Blade Runner
2521
01:55:00,030 --> 01:55:07,560
and less I fit I thought I hit space in
2522
01:55:03,180 --> 01:55:10,950
the urban side of the world and sci-fi
2523
01:55:07,560 --> 01:55:12,900
and so in a funny car way is good
2524
01:55:10,950 --> 01:55:14,760
because I'll only do another science
2525
01:55:12,900 --> 01:55:17,010
fiction if I've got a really good script
2526
01:55:14,760 --> 01:55:19,440
so it really finally it's about the
2527
01:55:17,010 --> 01:55:22,350
story it's almost worth the trappings
2528
01:55:19,440 --> 01:55:26,040
the dressing is not insignificant its
2529
01:55:22,350 --> 01:55:29,670
importance and art form in itself but
2530
01:55:26,040 --> 01:55:32,770
it's it's not parented Riddler's alien
2531
01:55:29,670 --> 01:55:34,660
is actually of a different song from the
2532
01:55:32,770 --> 01:55:37,510
how come on but it is a realistic
2533
01:55:34,660 --> 01:55:40,270
approach as I say a logical approach
2534
01:55:37,510 --> 01:55:42,280
using the Thrilla format which I think
2535
01:55:40,270 --> 01:55:43,720
was terrifically successful and I think
2536
01:55:42,280 --> 01:55:45,520
you can follow that whole the whole
2537
01:55:43,720 --> 01:55:47,530
possibility is that particularly is it
2538
01:55:45,520 --> 01:55:49,630
more and more we know about a universe
2539
01:55:47,530 --> 01:55:52,090
and so on the more possibilities it
2540
01:55:49,630 --> 01:55:54,670
becomes all the time it's not going to
2541
01:55:52,090 --> 01:55:56,380
get unfashionable the other aliens I
2542
01:55:54,670 --> 01:55:57,760
would put into a different genre and so
2543
01:55:56,380 --> 01:55:59,860
that there are more action-adventure
2544
01:55:57,760 --> 01:56:01,990
comes it's one of the great franchises
2545
01:55:59,860 --> 01:56:04,090
that we have in today's cinema and I
2546
01:56:01,990 --> 01:56:05,920
think it would be not very hard and not
2547
01:56:04,090 --> 01:56:08,590
very difficult to turn it back into
2548
01:56:05,920 --> 01:56:11,050
where it came from I would go back to
2549
01:56:08,590 --> 01:56:13,840
the roots of where the first one was
2550
01:56:11,050 --> 01:56:15,610
which is the scary monster in the dark
2551
01:56:13,840 --> 01:56:18,040
that is it going to jump out on you is
2552
01:56:15,610 --> 01:56:19,480
it going to get you I would have gone
2553
01:56:18,040 --> 01:56:20,680
before but that's what I find
2554
01:56:19,480 --> 01:56:22,510
interesting I want to know who that
2555
01:56:20,680 --> 01:56:23,680
space drop is you know what are the
2556
01:56:22,510 --> 01:56:25,030
aliens doing in the silo
2557
01:56:23,680 --> 01:56:27,100
are they armaments are they shipping
2558
01:56:25,030 --> 01:56:30,580
them somewhere all that and I think that
2559
01:56:27,100 --> 01:56:33,730
for me is fascinating I mean that's what
2560
01:56:30,580 --> 01:56:35,290
we are meant to do you can you know end
2561
01:56:33,730 --> 01:56:37,510
it and bash it on the head and bury it
2562
01:56:35,290 --> 01:56:42,750
but I think an easy just as easily
2563
01:56:37,510 --> 01:56:42,750
invent the end of one the beginning one
2564
01:56:43,770 --> 01:56:47,029
[Music]
2565
01:56:48,770 --> 01:56:50,830
you
2566
01:56:59,070 --> 01:57:04,500
- can you see this
2567
01:57:02,189 --> 01:57:07,960
I've never seen anything like it
2568
01:57:04,500 --> 01:57:07,960
[Music]
2569
01:57:15,910 --> 01:57:19,319
[Music]
2570
01:57:49,740 --> 01:57:51,800
you
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