Credited cast: | |||
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Bijan Aalam | ... | Self |
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Tim Boxell | ... | Self |
Axelle Carolyn | ... | Self | |
Veronica Cartwright | ... | Self | |
Roger Christian | ... | Self | |
Roger Corman | ... | Self | |
Mickey Faerch | ... | Greek-speaking Furie | |
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Henry Jenkins | ... | Self |
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William Linn | ... | Self |
Ben Mankiewicz | ... | Self | |
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Adam Egypt Mortimer | ... | Self |
Shannon Muchow | ... | Clytemnestra (voice) | |
Diane O'Bannon | ... | Self | |
Rhoda Pell | ... | Furies | |
Ivor Powell | ... | Self |
The untold origin story behind Ridley Scott's Alien - rooted in Greek and Egyptian mythologies, underground comics, the art of Francis Bacon, and the dark visions of Dan O'Bannon and H.R. Giger. A contemplation on the symbiotic collaborative process of movie-making, the power of myth, and our collective unconscious. Written by Production
It was quite a moment when the feminist explicitly implied that the aliens are payback for patriarchy, almost like a chest-bursting moment, except in this instance a massive Andrea Dworkin exploding out of her own rectum. I'm sure Francis Bacon would have been able to render that, and Giger too now that I think about it. How this is possible when the lead is played by a female, and one of the victims is female...? Oh well, it was nonesense, like most post-structural argumentation and pontification. But having said that there was a lot to enjoy if you are an admirer of the work. Lots of out-takes and interviews with actual people who were involved with the making of the film. You just need to be able to ignore the "teachers", you know, those who can't do, whom tower over all the poor toilers who created this masterpiece, and dispense their putrid self satisfied BS from their ivory towers - film studies professors and the like. It was easy enough to imagine the smell that the crew needed to tolerate during the chest burster scene, it being strewn about with offal under filming lights for a day, thanks to the presence in the documentary of these harpies.