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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Sci-Fi Wi-Fi > Alien (feat. Predator and David): as Chairman Mao teaches us
Do you like Alien 3 "Assembly Cut"?
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Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

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SuperMechagodzilla posted:


What makes Alien good is that every little nuance matters. When Ripley escapes in the shuttle, the shuttle is launched backwards - following the same trajectory as John Hurt's corpse. She sends the alien hurtling in the same direction.


I agree with you that the wee nuances are the things which make the 'Alien' films work, but how do you mean they 'go backwards'? Surely, they just... go away from?

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Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

I'm 😤 not a 🦸🏻‍♂️hero...🧜🏻



 But surely if that were the case, wouldn't the camera movement be the same with both Ripley and Kane? As it so happens, the the motions is in three different ways (if memory serves)

Left-to-right with Kane's body.

Backwards with the Narcissus leaving the Nostromo

Right-to-left with the Alien being ejected from the Narcissus.

Also, the shuttle doesn;t head towards the ringed planet - it goes away from the main ship - I admit, you might get some symbolism with the ringed planet with the resulting explosion, but you dinnae see LV246 after they leave it.

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