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A However, in this scene the alien moved like a cat that was hunting, and we could see it.
B It’s a shame that when they show Alien on television you miss it because it’s on the edge of the wide screen.
C I think seventy per cent of Alien’s success is owed to him, even though he complained to Twentieth Century Fox that all the best shots of the alien were eventually left out of the film.
D And the look has stuck; it’s even got into Star Trek: The Next Generation.
E It seemed to have so many.
F It was just the first of many battles with the creature.
G It’s like ballet.
H This was in the days before video-recorders, so I was a serious fan of Alien for probably three or four years before I even saw it.

Alien

Chris Jones remembers being fascinated at the age of 13 by a film that he still admires,
You have to understand the way I first saw Alien. When it was released I was 12 or13 and it had an ‘X’ certificate, as it was then. My brother saw it and came home and told me the story, which I thought was terrific, and then I got the photo-book and fell in love with the pictures. 0 H
It was the first film I saw in Dolby stereo. I knew a lot of time and care had been taken to give it that strange sound that you find even more in Blade Runner, the film Ridley Scott made after Alien. It was just lovely to hear the sound of next-millennium machinery in space.
Every science-fiction film that has come after it seems to have that dirty, wet, steamy look, that kind of blue light and green darkness. It has totally changed this type of movie, when you consider that only two or three years previously Star Wars was it as far as sci-fi was concerned. 1______ Without doubt, it has to be the most influential film of my life.
There’s one scene in particular where I thought: I wish I had shot that. They’re hunting down the alien after it’s got away – they believe it’s only the size of a small dog at that point. They send Harry Dean Stanton off on his own to look for the ship’s cat, and we all know that in the meantime the alien has got bigger…
The bit that for me was really dramatic is where Harry Dean Stanton is leaning down to pick up the cat, and the alien’s tail just drops down into view. 2______ And it’s so understated: you know just from the tail that this creature has immense power and is going to get him.
There was no attempt to shock, no violence. The audience knows something bad is going to happen and everyone is expecting the alien to jump into the shot in some way, but it does the opposite: it moves slowly and smoothly in. 3______
It was the first time I’d ever seen on film a creature that was a real killer. It’s purely a special effect, nothing that couldn’t have been done before with just a little technical knowledge: there’s no Jurassic Park-style computer graphics. But up until then, whenever I saw a movie monster, it would be a guy in a rubber suit; it would always have that falseness about it. Or the film-maker would rely on editing but you would never really see the creature. 4______ Even though we couldn’t quite make out what it was, which added to the terror. That in itself was very interesting.
One of the other things that’s really effective is the teeth of alien. 5______ When it opened its mouth there was another mouth inside it, which was a stroke of genius by H.R. Giger – his design is genuinely shocking and inventive. 6______ That may be true, but I also think that the director realized that no matter how good your special effects are, if you leave them too long on screen, people will spot that they’re not real. Fortunately, that didn’t happen in Alien.
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