Origins of the acid-blood?

[Hankerson]

Over a thousand years ago (eighth century A.D.), in the first epic poem ever written in English, "Beowulf", a monster with acid-blood was first depicted. In the story, the hero Beowulf cuts a she-monster, called the Seahag, in half. The Seahag's blood is so acidic that it completely melts the blade Beowulf's sword and eats a large hole in the cave floor. The concept was rather unique for its time, don't you think? I think that the acid-blood in "Alien" owns its origins from the epic "Beowulf". What do you think?

[SiL]

The acid blood came from a suggestion by Ron Cobb as to why the crew of the ship don't just shoot the Alien.

Whether or not he was inspired by that, dunno. It's possible.

[SM]

Beowulf has been mentioned in relation to Alien, but not by anyone who worked on the film.  As SiL said, it was Ron Cobb's idea to overcome a plot problem.

[SiL]

It was either acid blood, or your typical monster that can't die no matter what you hit it with.

Thank goodness they didn't do the latter.

[Newsfop]

Save for Alien3, the acidic blood has been consistently detrimental, which is why the idea for it was so innovative. Whether it came from Beowulf or Cobb, I think it's some nasty stuff.

"Wonderful defense mechanism," Parker.

[Vader the White]

Weird, because Beowulf is simular to the 1st Predator movie.

[scarface]

I knwo this for sure because in the directors cut of alien there one part on disk two where they say " well why cant they just stab it with a knife ", so some one, cant remember who said well lets put something in the way of just stabbing it so thats how they came up with the acid blood.

[Hankerson]

I think he said "Why can't we just shoot it with a gun?"

[scarface]

I cant remember but ill jsut watch the thing again.

[frosty_141]

thats really cool i love beowulf, which by the way there making a game for on the ps3 lol!!!!