Der Raumfrachter „Nostromo“ befindet sich auf dem Rückweg zur Erde … — Illustration: Jack Drafahl auf Pixabay [Vorschaubild: iulkata auf Pixabay]

Sigourney Weaver (2016)
Sigourney Weaver
(2016) — Foto: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America/Wikimedia

Lebensdaten

Sigourney Weaver (* 8. Oktober 1949 als Susan Alexandra Weaver in New York) ist eine US-amerikanische Schauspielerin. Seit ihrem Mitwirken in der Alien-Saga gilt sie als einer der ersten weiblichen Actionstars der internationalen Kinogeschichte. Weaver war bislang dreimal für einen Oscar nominiert. (Wikipedia)

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Der Film

Alien – Das unheimliche Wesen aus einer fremden Welt (Originaltitel Alien) ist ein amerikanisch-britischer Science-Fiction-Horrorfilm aus dem Jahr 1979 und der Beginn der gleichnamigen Filmreihe. Der Film startete am 25. Mai 1979 in den Vereinigten Staaten und am 25. Oktober 1979 in den deutschen Kinos. (Wikipedia)

Regie
Ridley Scott

Drehbuch
Dan O’Bannon,
Ronald Shusett

Produktion
Gordon Carroll,
David Giler,
Walter Hill

Musik
Jerry Goldsmith

Kamera
Derek Vanlint

Schnitt
Terry Rawlings,
Peter Weatherley,
Dir.’s Cut: David Crowther

Besetzung

Sigourney Weaver: Ellen Louise Ripley
Tom Skerritt: Captain Arthur Dallas Coblenz
Ian Holm: Ash
Harry Dean Stanton: Samuel Elias Brett
John Hurt: Gilbert Ward Kane
Veronica Cartwright: Joan Marie Lambert
Yaphet Kotto: Dennis Monroe Parker
Bolaji Badejo: Alien (Kostüm)
Helen Horton: „Mutter“ (Stimme)

Kinofassung: 117 Minuten
Director’s Cut: 116 Minuten

 

Nostromo Landing

Alien Nostromo Landing on LV 426 (Marcelo Arias; Premiere am 13.07.2023; 4:59 min.)

»One of my favorite movies with one of the most remembered spaceship designs from my childhood, yes, the use of Christmas lights and spotlights that appear meaninglessly at the end of the landing always caught my attention, I tried to give it a focus more modern to the landing including my 3D model in the landing shots in this sequence of the film, I do not detract from the incredible work of models that they did at the time without a doubt of very high quality. — Original footage from Alien 1978, TM & © Fox (1979) — Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation«

 

Ripley puts on pressure suit

Alien |4K-HDR| Final Fight 2/3 - Ripley puts on a pressure suit (1979) (4K Archives; 23.08.2024; 3:16 min.)

»As Officer Ellen Ripley prepares to enter stasis with the ship's cat Jones, she discovers the Alien has in fact stowed away aboard the shuttle Narcissus with her. She puts on a pressure suit and opens the exterior hatch, trying to blow the Alien out with the resultant explosive decompression, but it grips onto the doorway. Ripley shoots it with a grappling gun and the impact propels the creature out; in the process, the gun is ripped from her hands and catches in the closing door, tethering the wounded Alien to the shuttle. It attempts to crawl back inside though one of the engines, at which point Ripley activates them and incinerates it, blasting the creature into space. With the Alien destroyed, Ripley broadcasts a distress call before putting herself and Jones into stasis for the return journey to Earth. The Narcissus was a modified Lockmart Starcub light shuttle, that served as one of two lifeboats aboard the Weyland-Yutani commercial hauler USCSS Nostromo. Warrant Officer Ellen Ripley used the Narcissus to escape the destruction of its mothership, along with the ship's cat Jones. Alien, directed by Ridley Scott, is a science fiction horror film that follows the crew of the commercial spacecraft Nostromo. Upon investigating a distress signal on a distant moon, they discover a deadly extraterrestrial lifeform. The film stars Sigourney Weaver as Ripley and became a seminal work in both the sci-fi and horror genres, known for its atmospheric tension and groundbreaking visual effects.«