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What a great genius. What a great loss. Celebrate his life today by watching Alien!

yuchi 12y ago
Good idea, but [ SPOILER ALERT!! ] remember to watch the original version, the one where you don’t see the alien till the last minute of the movie.
- olalonde 12y ago
  You might want to add a spoiler alert at the beginning of your comment. I'm sure most of HN has already seen the movie but for those who haven't, knowing that can ruin the suspense.
  - yuchi 12y ago
    Oooops!
  - gknoy 12y ago
    [Spoiler?] If the movie is called "Alien", is it really a spoiler to say that you see the alien by the end? I suspect that most of the movie is spent dreading the eventuality that we all expect. ;) Granted it's been a long time since I saw the movie, so I might have forgotten why it's a spoiler. edit: I suspect that I saw Aliens before Alien, and therefore already had an expectation of what it would look like. Thanks to the sibling/cousin comments for explaining that :)
- joel_perl_prog 12y ago
  Lol. Sure. I used to have the special edition DVD...before I let go of all my DVDs. I would just say: don't worry about that. Just soak in the beautiful ambience of a film which features prominently the art of Giger, both in set design, and creature design!
- ekianjo 12y ago
  > watch the original version You mean there is another version where you see it earlier? Whose stupid idea was that?
  - yuchi 12y ago
    As far as I remember the director’s cut has a lot of glimpses to it way before [ SPOILER ALERT!! ] the xenomorph get spit out of the ship.
    - joel_perl_prog 12y ago
      For the record, I like Ridley Scott's cuts. I guess I'm specifically alluding to Blade Runner here, as another example. Second note: I'm noticing already other comments focusing on how much knowledge we have outside of Alien, almost like punk rock posturing. It's okay to like something that's popular and beautiful! Watch Alien! This is not an underground punk band guys, a great genius has just died. =)
      - negativity 12y ago
        Speaking of punk rock, Mr. Giger can claim some significant cultural influence in that sphere too. Klaus Flouride, the bassist for the Dead Kennedys had mentioned in an interview from 2003 that personal differences between band members, regarding the "Work 219: Landscape XX (penis landscape)" painting, were the breaking point determining the band's breakup: ...the Frankenchrist thing was, say, a final straw as far as [Jello Biafra] going in a different direction than what we wanted to do. I felt that the poster itself was shock for the sake of shock value. We'd shocked people before, but we'd always tried to have a point behind it. I didn't see the point he was making. But we didn't quit after the lawsuit happened. We quit when he decided that that poster was gonna be in there one way or the other, and we could take a hike if we wanted to. So we said, "Well, why don't we call it 'Jello Biafra and Dead Kennedys?,'" since that's what it was becoming anyway at that point. [1] [1] http://www.markprindle.com/flouride-i.htm http://www.markprindle.com/flouride-i.htm And then... The poster was printed and inserted in the Frankenchrist album with an additional sticker on the outside shrinkwrap, warning buyers of the contents. The resulting trial for obscenity nearly drove the label into bankruptcy. [2] The artwork caused a furor with the newly formed Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC). In December 1985 a teenage girl purchased the album at the Wherehouse Records store in Los Angeles County. The girl's mother wrote letters of complaint to the California Attorney General and to Los Angeles prosecutors. In 1986 members of the band, along with other parties involved in the distribution of Frankenchrist, were charged criminally with distribution of harmful matter to minors. [3] [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penis_Landscape https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penis_Landscape [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Kennedys#Frankenchrist_and_obscenity_trial https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Kennedys#Frankenchrist_an... ...it provoked a legal offensive against the band beginning in April 1986. As well as having his flat torn apart by the police, Biafra was charged with "distributing harmful matter to minors," a charge which he repulsed on the basis of the First Amendment right to free speech and which was dismissed the following year. [4] [4] http://www.deadkennedys.com/history.html http://www.deadkennedys.com/history.html But there were lots of album covers, and not everybody who chose Giger's work stirred up quite the same shitstorm as the Dead Kennedys. Some of the other album covers Giger's artwork has graced, include the likes of Glenn Danzig, Debbie Harry, Carcass and Celtic Frost.
- user24 12y ago
  [SPOILERS] I'm not sure which I've seen.. in the non-original, when do you first see the alien, in the airducts?
  - yuchi 12y ago
    [SPOILERS] Yes, just at the end, so the thing you’ve been imaging in your mind for the whole movie is completely destroyed by the shape of a human being. All that monstrosity that gives life to a human-like. And that happens in the exact moment a human-like animal kills it expelling it into space from the ship. Genius. Edit: whoops, I didn’t read your comment correctly. I don’t remember where you see its full shape, the airducts is the most plausible place as far as I remember.

yuchi 12y ago

Good idea, but [ SPOILER ALERT!! ] remember to watch the original version, the one where you don’t see the alien till the last minute of the movie.

olalonde 12y ago
You might want to add a spoiler alert at the beginning of your comment. I'm sure most of HN has already seen the movie but for those who haven't, knowing that can ruin the suspense.
- yuchi 12y ago
  Oooops!
- gknoy 12y ago
  [Spoiler?] If the movie is called "Alien", is it really a spoiler to say that you see the alien by the end? I suspect that most of the movie is spent dreading the eventuality that we all expect. ;) Granted it's been a long time since I saw the movie, so I might have forgotten why it's a spoiler. edit: I suspect that I saw Aliens before Alien, and therefore already had an expectation of what it would look like. Thanks to the sibling/cousin comments for explaining that :)
joel_perl_prog 12y ago
Lol. Sure. I used to have the special edition DVD...before I let go of all my DVDs. I would just say: don't worry about that. Just soak in the beautiful ambience of a film which features prominently the art of Giger, both in set design, and creature design!
ekianjo 12y ago
> watch the original version You mean there is another version where you see it earlier? Whose stupid idea was that?
- yuchi 12y ago
  As far as I remember the director’s cut has a lot of glimpses to it way before [ SPOILER ALERT!! ] the xenomorph get spit out of the ship.
  - joel_perl_prog 12y ago
    For the record, I like Ridley Scott's cuts. I guess I'm specifically alluding to Blade Runner here, as another example. Second note: I'm noticing already other comments focusing on how much knowledge we have outside of Alien, almost like punk rock posturing. It's okay to like something that's popular and beautiful! Watch Alien! This is not an underground punk band guys, a great genius has just died. =)
    - negativity 12y ago
      Speaking of punk rock, Mr. Giger can claim some significant cultural influence in that sphere too. Klaus Flouride, the bassist for the Dead Kennedys had mentioned in an interview from 2003 that personal differences between band members, regarding the "Work 219: Landscape XX (penis landscape)" painting, were the breaking point determining the band's breakup: ...the Frankenchrist thing was, say, a final straw as far as [Jello Biafra] going in a different direction than what we wanted to do. I felt that the poster itself was shock for the sake of shock value. We'd shocked people before, but we'd always tried to have a point behind it. I didn't see the point he was making. But we didn't quit after the lawsuit happened. We quit when he decided that that poster was gonna be in there one way or the other, and we could take a hike if we wanted to. So we said, "Well, why don't we call it 'Jello Biafra and Dead Kennedys?,'" since that's what it was becoming anyway at that point. [1] [1] http://www.markprindle.com/flouride-i.htm http://www.markprindle.com/flouride-i.htm And then... The poster was printed and inserted in the Frankenchrist album with an additional sticker on the outside shrinkwrap, warning buyers of the contents. The resulting trial for obscenity nearly drove the label into bankruptcy. [2] The artwork caused a furor with the newly formed Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC). In December 1985 a teenage girl purchased the album at the Wherehouse Records store in Los Angeles County. The girl's mother wrote letters of complaint to the California Attorney General and to Los Angeles prosecutors. In 1986 members of the band, along with other parties involved in the distribution of Frankenchrist, were charged criminally with distribution of harmful matter to minors. [3] [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penis_Landscape https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penis_Landscape [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Kennedys#Frankenchrist_and_obscenity_trial https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Kennedys#Frankenchrist_an... ...it provoked a legal offensive against the band beginning in April 1986. As well as having his flat torn apart by the police, Biafra was charged with "distributing harmful matter to minors," a charge which he repulsed on the basis of the First Amendment right to free speech and which was dismissed the following year. [4] [4] http://www.deadkennedys.com/history.html http://www.deadkennedys.com/history.html But there were lots of album covers, and not everybody who chose Giger's work stirred up quite the same shitstorm as the Dead Kennedys. Some of the other album covers Giger's artwork has graced, include the likes of Glenn Danzig, Debbie Harry, Carcass and Celtic Frost.
user24 12y ago
[SPOILERS] I'm not sure which I've seen.. in the non-original, when do you first see the alien, in the airducts?
- yuchi 12y ago
  [SPOILERS] Yes, just at the end, so the thing you’ve been imaging in your mind for the whole movie is completely destroyed by the shape of a human being. All that monstrosity that gives life to a human-like. And that happens in the exact moment a human-like animal kills it expelling it into space from the ship. Genius. Edit: whoops, I didn’t read your comment correctly. I don’t remember where you see its full shape, the airducts is the most plausible place as far as I remember.