Quote from: Elmazalman on Oct 24, 2021, 02:33:12 AM
I remember you posted this ALIEN outtake a few years back. Thank you very much for sharing. I haven't seen this anywhere else. It should've been part of the Anthology set.
I couldn't remember if I had posted that clip before sorry. It would have been brilliant if that included that scene and various others as part of the deleted scenes for the Anthology set. When I used to have Facebook, if memory serves,
Charles de Lauzirika mentioned while looking for negatives he found some footage for Alien that had been lost which he wanted to show Ridley but none of that footage was used for either boxset. If I'm remembering that wrong someone please correct me
QuoteNo reason to think Lambert didn't get her head squeezed (offscreen) like the others. There is outtake footage of the Alien, about to deliver a head-bite to her, just before Parker intervenes, saving her life (for the moment). It's a lovely, tight head-and-shoulders shot of the creature.
The Alien then strikes Parker into the wall before picking him up and slamming him into the wall and squeezing his head. Again, footage that should have been added in my opinion. Those shots of the Alien about to head bite Lambert would have also been a nice inclusion in the scene. However, as you said what we got, in the end, was way more terrifying.
QuoteI find it interesting and curios that the two "troublemakers" (as Ridley Scott refers to them), Parker & Brett, are the only characters to be seen having their brains graphically smashed onscreen. It's almost as if Ridley Scott were punishing them for being "blue-collar."
I never thought of that
Maybe the Alien was tired of hearing the endless complaints about the 'bonus situation'.
QuoteIt's a pity the storage locker footage wasn't filmed (to my knowledge), but if it was, I doubt it would've benefited the film. What we got was much more terrifying.
In an interview with
thespectrtum.com Veronica Cartwright mentions the original storage locker plan with the Alien pulling her out of it and that she was disappointed about her death scene not being filmed as
SiL mentioned. She also mentions the meat hook.
Quote"I was a bit disappointed they never did shoot my actual death scene – I was supposed to hide in a locker and be pulled out by the alien. So all you see is the alien's tail moving up my body, which was actually Harry Dean's in the scene. Later, they filmed me hanging from a meat hook, but you just see my legs hanging down covered in blood."
I wonder if Lambert hanging from a meat hook was inspired by The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.