Quote from: Dreikopf on Dec 12, 2006, 03:33:25 PM
He did "drop to his knees briefly, took a few seconds to regain his composure and slowly got back up" and he also held his hand to the side of his head. He also grunted for a bit after the injury and made some grimaces while pleading with Ripley. He was only "fine and perky" before the injury.
Eh?
No, assuming we're talking about the same movie here, he never dropped to his knees, he bent forward a little from his waist due to the force of the blow and spun around, leaning against the fence. The moment he was hit he made an "uhh" noise just as 85 (I think it was) hit him, but other than that there are no noises, no "grunts for a bit after the injury", and there were no "grimaces while pleading with Ripley" either, unless you call a perfectly calm face, slightly excited perhaps from the situation of trying to persuade Ripley, a grimace of severe pain. I guess his personality wasn't "perky" either before or after, but he was obviously equally "fine".
The first thing he says after his injury is he very calmly starts talking to Ripley about all we could learn from them, etc etc, and even though sure, he grabbed his head with his hands at the instant he was hit, he never touches his head again. I mean he has a big flap of the side of his head sticking straight out to the side, exposing the side of his skull and flesh (which can't be seen of course since he's filmed from the front). The flap is palmsized for xenos sake, and he makes no effort to hold it back in, nothing to stop the bleeding, just calmly keeps talking to Ripley. And speaking of that bleeding too, well, there is none! Alien3 wasn't a stranger to showing blood, but except for whatever's right around the actual tissue flap, which can barely be glimpsed unless you look at a freeze-frame image, he's not bleeding at all. He may be human, but I just don't see the obvious evidence for it as clearly as you do apparently.
Don't mean to get all fussy about this but heck, if you enjoy quoting peoples words back to them to try to prove them wrong, maybe you should make sure you're actually correct in what you're saying first.