Egg on Sulaco

[SiL]

Both things can be true. His reworking of the draft seems to be the one used, but none of his actual ideas are in there -- just massaging existing ideas.

[HuDaFuK]

Having read Pickett's script (a long time ago), I mostly seem to remember him making all the dialogue worse and the subsequent script(s) reverting to what they had before.

[Wweyland]

Also, just noticed when I uploaded that last picture of the production prop, that if you rotate it to match the scene on screen as closely as possible...

...then in fact we are not looking at one egg, but potentially two (checkout the lighting on the object below the egg on screen when brightened vs the production prop)giving credit to the "two face huggers in the theatrical cut" debate 😊👍

Now that's a goddamn revelation!

https://i.imgur.com/CjfYUHi.jpg
@Local Trouble

A clutch of eggs developing under the flooring?

Thats very interesting, there is something dark developing behind the egg.

[SiL]

It doesn't look like there's enough space between the egg and the division for a whole egg, but who knows.

They certainly didn't want the audience to think there were two eggs, or they would've lit the other one.

[Wweyland]

The "roots" of the egg(s) are also slightly visible

[BlueMarsalis79]

"Lit the other one?"

I am sorry I am not familiar with that turn of phrase.

Having read Pickett's script (a long time ago), I mostly seem to remember him making all the dialogue worse and the subsequent script(s) reverting to what they had before.

"No! I took what I wanted from them and made it my own." -Rex

[Stitch]

"Lit the other one?"

I am sorry I am not familiar with that turn of phrase.

As in lit it up so the audience could see it, instead of keeping it in shadows.

[SiL]

Yeah not sure what else that could have meant.

[BlueMarsalis79]

I thought it might be an Australian slang for torches and pitchforks or something.

[Acid_Reign161]

I thought it might be an Australian slang for torches and pitchforks or something.

I'm now reading the original quote in an Australian accent... and I can't unhear it as slang 

[SiL]

I thought it might be an Australian slang for torches and pitchforks or something.

But how would that make any sense in context?

[BlueMarsalis79]

I thought you were saying essentially "We brought out torches and pitchforks over the one Egg, if there were two, oh lord." in a cheeky way.

[Acid_Reign161]

Another piece of evidence to support multiple eggs; an original document scheduling reshoots, describes the shot as "eggs" (credit to Strange Shapes for the image) 😊👍

[SiL]

It's been known for a long time there were multiple eggs made and on set, the question is if they actually used them both on set and if they consciously decided to only make one visible.

[Corporal Hicks]

We asked Tom and Alec about this a couple of years back and unfortunately there was no conclusive answer from them.