Best pic of an Alien

[SiL]

https://i.imgur.com/xFGJnJl.jpg
I think the front portion looks disproportionate because it is all that remains of the dome.

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And it will at some point lose the whole thing and go full skull.

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We already know from  the other thread that the dome

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is intact, cracks aside, and is just a bit more bulbous at the front.

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[BlueMarsalis79]

Maybe you know but I am not clicking that spoiler.

[kwisatz]

It looks like a pus blister on some kind of structural different arc.

Hopefully it's just the angle/light.

[SiL]

Maybe you know but I am not clicking that spoiler.

My spoiler only addresses the non spoiler part of your post, we don't know about the interesting idea you had.

[BigDaddyJohn]

Yeah Mike confirmed the dome is there don't worry.

[Elmazalman]

The teeth don't look right, nor the jaws tendons

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- if this is supposed to be the original Alien?

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[BigDaddyJohn]

The teeth don't look right, nor the jaws tendons

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- if this is supposed to be the original Alien?

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It's not. New main xeno for the film. I agree on the tendons. I really like it besides that though.

[Elmazalman]

From the FANGORIA vault:



(This image looks good flipped)

[BigDaddyJohn]

The first one looks far bloodier than what's in the film, and the second one actually looks like a guy in a suit 

[Elmazalman]

The first one looks far bloodier than what's in the film, and the second one actually looks like a guy in a suit 

Still hoping for that de Lauzirika ALIEN supercut ...

[SiL]

The first one looks far bloodier than what's in the film, and the second one actually looks like a guy in a suit 

For the mid shot they had a tube under the hat pumping blood, but in the film they didn't use that angle and just went straight from a super tight close up of the impact to the shot from behind.

[Elmazalman]

That production still looks like it's from the deleted 'head crush' scene?

It could also be an earlier (far bloodier) version of the head-bite (ultimately, a quick insert shot in the finished film) - the way the Alien's face / mouth is close up against the baseball cap ...

Whatever it is, it's an incredible visual. The blood is so red ...

[SiL]

I've seen people describe it as a head crush, but the inner jaw and its use was decided by the time the suit was done and used in filming. I think rough cuts were done before the inserts and it just looks like the Alien is crushing Brett's head, but the blood was always meant to be from the bite.

Unless there's some BTS I've overlooked that confirms otherwise.

[Elmazalman]

I've seen people describe it as a head crush, but the inner jaw and its use was decided by the time the suit was done and used in filming. I think rough cuts were done before the inserts and it just looks like the Alien is crushing Brett's head, but the blood was always meant to be from the bite.

Unless there's some BTS I've overlooked that confirms otherwise.

The blood's coming from the Alien squeezing Brett's head open (Alien Ambience article from 1980). Scott, wanted the Alien to come in and gently caress Brett's head, before violently crushing it in its hands.

Walter Simonson, also described Brett's original death scene: first a head crush, then followed by a head-bite.

That's not to say the raw footage of the dripping blood couldn't also be edited to be a head-bite if needed.

[xeno_alpha_07]

I've seen people describe it as a head crush, but the inner jaw and its use was decided by the time the suit was done and used in filming. I think rough cuts were done before the inserts and it just looks like the Alien is crushing Brett's head, but the blood was always meant to be from the bite.

Unless there's some BTS I've overlooked that confirms otherwise.

While the head bite was part of the original plan, Ridley sought to enhance the scene by introducing the concept of head squeezing, etc:

Ridley brought me onto the stage and said: 'I want Brett to get it now, but I just don't want the creature to dart out and menace him to start with. I'd rather have it reach out and sort of caress his head -- almost kind of inquisitive at first. Then you see it squeeze up, and blood starts running down Brett's face, and it cracks his head open.' So we ended up doing it almost on the spur of the moment. We ran blood tubes up into Harry Dean Stanton's cap and through his hair. Then, when the alien started squeezing, we started pumping, and the blood ran out and down his face.

- Alien Effects Book

The presence of blood was initially intended due to the head being squeezed or crushed before the head bite occurred. 


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Wrote this before seeing Elmazalman's reply.