"Alien": something to remember before watching the new film

Who is this stranger?

Alien (aka dark, horse) - a representative of an alien race. Extremely aggressive, constantly thirsting to kill the creature, which was found by the crew of a space tug "Nostromo" on LV-426 planet.

Alien life cycle consists of several steps. First, the queen will lay eggs, inside which develops a parasite-Facehugger. He hatches when the next egg is suitable victim, pounces on her and the embryo implants in the media. Thereafter Facehugger dies and the embryo within a few days develops within the vehicle.

In this case, the embryo receives from the carrier of genetic information, affecting its appearance. For example, the result of the development of the embryo in the body of the animal - Alien quadrupedal form. The mature embryo emerges from the host organism, prolamyvayas his chest. Then for some time it is gaining strength and becoming an adult. They are about three meters in height, have a black color, and their blood - it is an acid.

How it all began?

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• Director: Ridley Scott.
• United Kingdom, United States, 1979.
• Duration: 116 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,5.

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Sci-fi, which was released back in 1979, not only became a cult picture of director Ridley Scott, but was able to prove that science fiction can be scary.

The protagonists of the film are the members of the crew of the ship "Nostromo". Intercepting strange signal from an unknown planet, they decided to go there to find out what and how, and eventually managed to bring the Alien ship.

The picture is not only launched the career of Sigourney Weaver, but also cemented the status of Scott directed the first magnitude. It is noteworthy that the film with the prosaic plot (closed location, within which one after the other killing crew members) impressed the spectators who came to the cinema then. Realistic scenery, eerie kind of I. raptus, created by Hans Rudolf Giger, and moderate for the genre cruelty made the audience a lasting impression. That is why after seven years, the world saw a continuation of the story of Ellen Ripley.

What does the second part of the franchise?

Aliens

• Director: James Cameron.
• United Kingdom, United States, 1986.
• Duration: 137 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,4.

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Ellen Ripley has managed to survive in a battle with the perfect alien killing machine and was found by rescuers in their capsule. They tell her that the planet LV-426 colonized. Ellen has to go back to where it all began, because the connection with the colonists posted on the planet was lost.

Change of director, according to many fans of the franchise, has not gone to her advantage, as Cameron did not quite understand the atmosphere of the universe and could not give the viewer a sufficient share of suspense and violence. In this case, the box office were good and were able to ensure the creation of the third part. She was released after six years and has become a failure.

The third film flopped. Something went wrong?

Alien 3

• Director: David Fincher.
• United States, 1992.
• Duration: 115 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,4.

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After saving the planet, the eyeballs populated ksenomorfov, Ellen Ripley falls into the not the most comfortable conditions. Her ship crashes on the territory of the prison, which contains universal dregs of society. Of course, with it gets there and our favorite dark, horse, which slowly begins to do what he comes out best - kill.

It is difficult to imagine that the first failure will overtake the franchise at a time when at the helm will rise by David Fincher, never had any problems with the atmosphere and history in his paintings. Trikvel was destroyed by critics and fans. Fincher was charged in a total lack of understanding of how the franchise, and his directorial handwriting is considered inappropriate in the universe.

However, a decent box office of $ 150 million has not stopped the studio, and five years later saw the light of the fourth part.

And what happened in the fourth part?

Alien 4: Resurrection

• Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
• United States, 1997.
• Duration: 109 minutes.
• IMDb: 6,3.

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Events fourth part takes place 200 years after the mess on prison planet. Group of scientists decided to clone Ellen Ripley to get help with her cub monster. But, as usually happens, everything goes out of control. And now the entire crew of the space laboratory becomes the object of the hunt, and once the calf is already beginning to give himself the offspring of a cross between a human and I. raptus.

Apparently, increasing the budget picture, and again changing the director, the studio wanted to revive the franchise, but nothing came of it. The fourth part of this day is considered to be the biggest mistake of the project creators. Neither the fans nor critics could not find anything out of order, for which at the time fell in love with the film by Ridley Scott. However, as it turned out, we were destined to plunge into the story again, even after 15 years.

What got the start of a new story?

Prometheus

• Director: Ridley Scott.
• US, UK, 2012.
• Duration: 124 minutes.
• IMDb: 7,0.

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Ridley Scott decided to return to where it all began. However, the original director's desire to make "Prometheus" prequel film 1979 has gone by the wayside - a picture can be regarded as an independent unit within the religious universe.

The film tells about a group of scientists who are sent to the remote corners of the universe in search of the sacred knowledge. That is, they are to approach the mystery of the alien and experience for yourself all the fear and horror.

The film was warmly received by critics with respect, he was praised for cinematography and visual component. However, the story itself, he said, had been convicted of excessive flatulence and excessive departure from the canons of the franchise. But this did not prevent the painting to collect $ 400 million worldwide.

Wait, forget about the movie "Alien vs. Predator"!

Alien vs. Predator

• Director: Paul WS FROM. Anderson.
• United States, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Canada, Germany, 2004.
• Duration: 101 min.
• IMDb: 5,6.

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This is the strange phenomenon associated with "alien". Scott's film with the universe brings only the presence of I. raptus. The painting, which was created exclusively to climb into our wallets, pitted in a battle two well-known character. However, this battle has turned ridiculous. The film is remembered as one of the key mistakes in the film industry of recent times, though his fees and over budget twice.

What to expect from the new film? Worth watching?

Alien: Testament

• Director: Ridley Scott.
• USA, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, 2017.
• Duration: 122 minutes.
• IMDb: 8,3.

As announced two years ago myself, Scott, "Covenant" - is not only a direct continuation of "Prometheus", but conditional start of a new trilogy with the universe, which in spirit will be as close as possible to the original picture.

The plot is built around a colonial ship's crew "Testament", coming to the planet, which is considered unexplored paradise. In fact, this is a dangerous world in which he lives a lonely synthetic android David. He is the only survivor of the mission of the expedition "Prometheus".

Critics, who happened to see the film, praised him for a decent level of drama and desire Scott satisfy the desires of fans of the original picture. Sounds more than inspiring.