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11. ALIEN^3 Frequently asked questions (Movies: Alien)




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This article is from the Alien Movies FAQ, by Darryll Hobsonand Eelko de Vos E.W.C.deVos@TWI.TUDelft.NL with numerous contributions by others.

11. ALIEN^3 Frequently asked questions (Movies: Alien)

Q: Why did it take so long for the chestburster to come out of Ripley?
It only took a few hours for it to come out of Kane in "ALIEN". Even
though Ripley was carrying a queen, the chestburster itself was STILL
the same size as the one that came out of Kane.
A: [possibly] Taking into account the parallels between the aliens and
an insect colony, two Alien hives will be in competition if they are
close to each other. Therefore the incubation period of queens is
higher to enable the unsuspecting host to move further from the
original hive.

Q: Why is that bloody autopsy necessary?
As we see later in the movie,
that nice diagnostic scanner in the EEV's cryo-tube is still working
quite fine (and Ripley knows about it). The autopsy is obviously very
unpleasant for her, so it is hard to see why she didn't figure out the
easier way?
A: [Possibly] The diagnostic machine works on the EM radiation emitted by
the human body and since Newt was dead and did not emit any radiation,
the scanner wouldn't have worked.

Q: What is the "dreaded" seven-dwarf concept for the "ALIEN^3" script?
A: One of the earlier stages of the "ALIEN^3" script received alot of
heat:

''...Back in New York, [Walter] Hill saw "The Navigator : An Odyssey
Across Time", a stunning but esoteric art film by an obscure New
Zealand director named Vincent Ward. But Ward said he didn't like
[David] Twohy's script. No problem, said Fox. "So I hopped on an
airplane," says Ward," and during the flight, I had an idea that was
totally different: Sigourney would land in a community of monks in
outer space and not be accepted by them." The monks would live on a
wooden planet that looked like something out of Hieronymus Bosch, with
furnaces and windmills -- and no weapons...
FINCHER : In the draft Larry [Ferguson, Beverly Hills Cop II] was
writing, she [Ripley] was going to be this woman who had fallen from
the stars. In the end, she dies, and there are seven of the monks
left --- seven dwarfs.

Q : You're kidding?

FINCHER : Seriously. I swear to God. She was like...what's her name
in Peter Pan? She was like Wendy. And she would make up these
stories. And in the end, there were these seven dwarfs left, and
there was this fucking tube they put her in, and they were waiting for
Prince Charming to come wake her up. So that was one of the endings
we had for this movie. You can imagine what Joe Roth said when he
heard this. "What?! What are they doing over there?! What the fuck
is going on?!" '' [PREMIERE magazine, May '92]

Q: How did the face-huggers get on the Sulaco?
A: The truly factual answer is that the audience wasn't supposed to
question it. Use your imagination. (several theories exist, some of
which are stated in section [13] frequently discussed topics)

Q: Did the little face-hugger critter actually do so much damage to
the Sulaco that the ship decided to EJECT the hypersleep capsules?
A: Shown at the start of the movie was a face hugger jumping on a
cryo-tube, cracking the glass and dripping some acid on the floor.
The acid manages to eat its way into the electrical system and cause a
fire. The Sulaco then ejected the hypersleep capsules (probably
because it couldn't put out the fire).

Q: I remember seeing a trailer for "ALIEN^3" that was really different
than the movie?
A: This is true. Quite awhile before "ALIEN^3" was finally released,
there was a "coming soon" trailer shown in several theaters. This
trailer indicated that some aliens made it to Earth and there was
going to be a massive encounter. Later on, the writers ditched the
movie idea upon release of Predator II (due to the similarity in plot)
and decided to find a new story for "ALIEN^3".

Q: There's a prison planet: is anyone really going to spend money on
hideously expensive space travel in order to send these guys to some
far-off solar system?
A: [possibly] Historically, extremely dangerous and/or
subversive-to-the- government criminals have been shipped off (at
great expense) to a new location quite often. England regularly
shipped off prisoners to one of the American colonies [Georgia? South
Carolina?] which was a designated prison colony, as well as Australia
-- a prison *continent*. The progression of the Western legal system
has been to appeal numerous times (at great expense) to avoid death
penalties. The Company in the Alien series is a reasonable outgrowth
from the rest of Western business, why not the legal system, too?
They avoid the massive cost of incarceration and court and lawyer fees
from appeals by not having a death penalty, but shipping the prisoners
off to a "prison".

 

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