Alien
Alien - Das unheimliche Wesen aus einer fremden Welt
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Yaphet Kotto, Sigourney Weaver, Ian Holm
Alien | Alien - Das unheimliche Wesen aus einer fremden Welt by Ridley Scott
GBR/USA 1979, Retrospective
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Alien | Alien - Das unheimliche Wesen aus einer fremden Welt by Ridley Scott
GBR/USA 1979, Retrospective
© Courtesy of Park Circus / Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Sigourney Weaver
Alien | Alien - Das unheimliche Wesen aus einer fremden Welt by Ridley Scott
GBR/USA 1979, Retrospective
© Courtesy of Park Circus / Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
After receiving a distress signal, the commercial spacecraft Nostromo lands on an uninhabited moon, where the crew finds the wreck of an alien spaceship. When a creature attaches itself to a ship’s officer, the crew takes it back on board. The alien turns out to be extremely robust and aggressive. And it continues to grow. One by one, it decimates the crew until only the female officer Ripley survives ... Alien marked the start of modern, “adult” science fiction films. In a counterpoint to the “clean look” of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), the film envisaged a dingy, loud and “run-down” future. H.R. Giger’s Oscar-winning design for the armoured and slimy giant reptile was a decisive influence on future film creatures. Alien also broke the glass ceiling on female action heroes. That, along with Ripley’s phallic adversary, male “pregnancy”, and an all-knowing command computer dubbed “Mother” provided fodder for a psychoanalytic interpretation previously unknown in the genre. Since then, extraterrestrial onscreen villains have effectively been considered a reflection of human deprivation and repression. The film itself “gave birth” to three official sequels (1986 – 1997), two prequels (2012, 2017), and numerous unauthorized imitations.
With
- Tom Skerritt
- Sigourney Weaver
- Veronica Cartwright
- Harry Dean Stanton
- John Hurt
- Ian Holm
- Yaphet Kotto
Crew
| Director | Ridley Scott |
| Screenplay | Dan OʼBannon based on an idea by Dan OʼBannon and Ronald Shusett |
| Cinematography | Derek Vanlint |
| Editing | Terry Rawlings, Peter Weatherley |
| Music | Jerry Goldsmith |
| Sound | Derrick Leather |
| Production Design | Michael Seymour, Les Dilley, Roger Christian |
| Special Effects | Brian Johnson, Nick Allder, HR Giger |
| Costumes | John Mollo |
| Make-Up | Tommy Manderson |
| Producers | Gordon Carroll, David Giler, Walter Hill |
Produced by
Twentieth Century Fox
Additional information
DCP: Park Circus, Glasgow