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Beautiful but im glad the scene got cut, it removes a lot of the mystery you get from the first time watching it. Not knowing the aliens stages or how it reproduces is part of the horror.
On an unrelated side note, I always bring up Alien as an example of how movies can use silence to build tension.
IMO if Alien 2 didn't go in the full-on action movie direction but rather dealt with the second discovery of the Derelict - a proper in-depth scientific mission to get as much alien tech as possible, without going down into the egg chamber, and maybe even discovering where the xeno that came out of the Space Jockey (it does have a big ole hole in its chest!), this would've been a great addition.
Think of it like Prometheus but instead of the installation you get the horror of the Derelict.
IMO it's still a potential movie possibility as the lore does state another ship finds the Derelict and turns off the beacon (which is why the settlers in Alien 2 don't find it on their own and only once Ripley tells WY the location do they go there to be infected). Have those people - hell, make them archaeologists of the worst kind, essentially grave robbers on a pirate ship, to explain why their disappearance is never really brought up - discover the Derelict a bit in-depth to add to the horror that the Space Jockey/Engineer race knew about the xenos, glorified them and the death they caused, self-sacrificed etc., maybe even throw in how this ship was actually targeting Earth (or some other known populated planet), and only due to the pilot being accidentally infected did it land where it did (maybe the same infection that wiped out LV-223, tying this nicely to Prometheus?).
Bam, you got a banger Alien movie. And at the end, the entire pirate-graverobber ship is directed into the sun when the crew realises they can't overcome the xeno they accidentally brought onboard (maybe it's the xeno that hatched from the Space Jockey, and it keeps infecting the crew one by one, or ovomorphing them even?). 2.5-3hrs, first half the discovery of the ship, without going down the hole, to the crew, seemingly meaningless wall decorations and holo recordings that to us, viewers, tell a lot, lore-wise.
Fuck, I should call Ridley Scott.
Love this idea so much more than what happened in prometheus
This is a great comment but the game Alien Isolation already covered the ship that found the Derelict between Alien and Aliens. Spoiler: it didn't go well.
You're right. It would've taken away too much from the movie. On the other hand, I think it would've worked if the story centered around the Derelict Ship instead of going back to Nostromo - but that would've been a completely different movie (somewhat closer to what Prometheus and AVP became)
I was about to say this is the tamest work of theirs I’ve ever seen, but then I realized the frame around it appears to be legs and the oval in the middle at the top is where the eggs are coming from, so its just slightly less obviously sexualized, rather than tame. Also distinctly lacking in penises.
The part on the right seems to be the upper part of a torso. Ss its a full body, not a splayed out cooch
Giger used to be more morbid earlier in his career (pre-Necronomicon). His Atomic Children series is straight up nightmare fuel and he also had a long-running series of dreamscape drawings post-Alien (circa when he worked on Poltergeist).
It's hit me now that his art style of blending organic sexual forms into structures; suggestive breathing apparatus, cabling for strange futuristic machines that resemble phalluses, etc. triggers my AI slop reaction. The double rib cage of the prone figure framing the epitaph, the egg blending into stomach, all the extra limbs, it's the sort of uncanny similarity blending AI generates all the time.
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