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Alien · The Art of Costume Podcast

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  She's about to put herself into cryosleep.
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  So yeah, she's taking off her clothes.
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  Heaven forbid, a woman. Just get comfy in the privacy of
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  her own Escape pod. What is the problem?
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  You know what I did have? A problem with in this scene
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  when she takes her necklace off and flings it on the floor.
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  I'm like that was the only unrealistic thing.
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  Hello and welcome to the art of casting black ass time, moves
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  with joy glass and I'm captain Spencer Williams.
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  Oh hello Spencer. How was your spring break?
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  It was so fun. It was nice to just, you know,
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  have some time off. I guess, you know, I didn't do
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  anything too crazy. Definitely, didn't go to Disney
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  World. So now I did and it was amazing
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  credible with the you go to to To like Animal Kingdom or just
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  like, no, we just went to Hollywood Studios because
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  honestly all of us were kind of like we just want to sit by the
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  pool and like not do anything. Yes.
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  But I we didn't want to go one day and I wanted to go to see
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  all like the new Star Wars stuff.
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  So we went to Hollywood Studios. No fun.
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  So that was fun. So crazy that like experience,
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  it's just like literally feel like you're in a whole different
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  world. Insane.
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  Literally some of the cast members are a little too
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  dedicated to the bit I will. Yeah but when they're like
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  acting like they don't know what a photograph is I'm like come on
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  man. Hey help me out.
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  Oh I'm sorry a hologram or whatever they called it
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  something weird. I'm like okay just take the
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  picture. Did I ever tell you about when
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  wine? I told you, when me, Daniel and
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  Khloe went to to Disneyland and we went on the aftermath of
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  that. Yeah, we were exhausted.
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  We went on I think it's called rise of the resistance to like
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  really like yeah, it's all right.
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  And one of the Stormtroopers straight yelled at Chloe and and
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  me and Daniel got so scared. We like act like we didn't know
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  Colleen. What's?
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  Oh my gosh. So my parents had gone in it
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  like a year or two ago. Closer to one at first opened
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  and they were like, I thought it was great.
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  I thought everyone in the ride was like playing their parts
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  really well, but they said, like they weren't as like into the
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  roles as they were previously. They're like yeah, they were a
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  lot nicer. This time the Storm Troopers are
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  like spring break, bro. Like let's go.
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  Come on note. That was crazy.
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  I wasn't I wasn't expecting that.
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  I was not expecting. That and then do they have
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  Smugglers Run? Is that the one where you drive
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  the Millennium Falcon? Yeah.
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  One where I was somehow put in charge of flying the ship and I
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  crashed it multiple times into the ground.
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  Sounds good, right? Sounds.
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  Alright. Yeah I wasn't expecting that to
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  be so much fun so it was a good time.
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  Why didn't go to Disney World by definitely stayed back?
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  I'm currently watching bridger-teton which is laughs
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  fun. Laughs worked on the Block.
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  Kino doing some websites stuff or just, you know, kind of
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  taking some time to just plain a little bit of video games, which
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  I don't really get to do as much anymore.
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  You know, watching some good movies.
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  I'm just excited to be back though, but it was as a nice
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  little break. Yes, it was, it was but we are
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  back and we are back with one of your favorites.
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  Spencer. Yes, we can of you traveling to
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  the outer rim. I'm very excited to say, Say
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  that with this episode starts, the beginning of our space
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  month. I am so excited.
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  I'm so excited. I've never seen alien before
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  this was my first time. Oh my gosh.
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  And I loved it so much more than I thought I would.
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  Uh, oh my gosh. Okay, let's get the alien.
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  Just so everyone knows today. We're watching alien today
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  actually is April 26 which is the All alien day.
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  So it's the day every year where the studio is kind of put out a
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  whole bunch of aliens content, I'm sure by the time you've
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  listened to this. I'm going to guess that they put
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  out the trailer for the new alien TV show.
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  I'm pretty sure TV show. Yeah, they're coming off a TV
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  show now but I know it's gonna be awesome.
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  I believe it's gonna be on FX, but yeah, it's 4 to 6 because
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  the planet they land on is lv-426, which is why this whole
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  thing happened when we were Planning our first episode for
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  space month. It happened to land on April 26
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  and I was like, hey, I know it were watching.
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  Know you were like hold everything.
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  This is what we're watching. I was like, okay, I'm a big
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  alien nerd and I'm just so excited.
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  I can't believe you never seen this before, that's insane.
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  Like I said, the only other alien movie I've seen as
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  Covenant and that's because we went to go see it.
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  I think for your birthday, or maybe just you were like, let's
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  all go see. Something like that.
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  It could be either or both of them sound, right?
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  Yeah, I love Alien Covenant, but it to me.
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  Nothing compares to the first two Alien films.
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  The second one, the sequel's actually really great also.
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  So you should see that. Yeah, so different.
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  So, different from covenant. Yeah, I'm like, dang Ridley is
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  such a badass, like, I already love Sigourney Weaver.
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  This was incredible. This was like everything.
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  This is everything. I think we should just get into
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  it. There's so much to talk about.
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  Let's let's get into it and Spencer, what's this week's
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  episode going to be like, well, if you all remember, Elizabeth
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  is a registered Dracula ologist when we did Bram Stoker's
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  Dracula, that was her thing really went Ham on the research
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  for me. I am consider myself quite the
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  expert on, everything, a lie, Alien ologist, gave me knowledge
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  has. So this week, Elizabeth will be
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  reading the summary and I will be taking you behind the
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  Wardrobe. The feels weird saying that.
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  Are you ready? Spencer, I don't know that I am
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  ready. Yeah, I'm ready part of being
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  ready is being the person who controls the slides.
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  Yeah, it's so hard. Okay, let's get into it.
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  Elizabeth, why don't you read us our summary, our summary this
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  week for a lie? Ian when the crew of the
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  Nostromo is awaken from their cryosleep to investigate a
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  distress call of unknown Origins, the investigation leads
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  them to encounter an alien organism that leaps out and
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  attaches itself to one of the crew throwing the rest of the
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  crew into chaos. That's a good way to summarize
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  it. If you have not seen an alien in
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  the years since 1979, I don't know what to tell you.
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  There are spoilers. Yeah.
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  Come on now. All right.
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  Well, I'm so excited to bring you behind a wardrobe.
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  Let's get into it. I will say that there are a lot
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  of people that were a part of the 1979 version of alien.
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  So try not to get lost in all of it.
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  I kind of do sometimes, but I'm here to hold your hand.
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  As we all know, alien was directed by Ridley, Scott and
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  costume designer was actually John molo, but back then,
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  costume designing and visual effects.
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  Really never just depended on one.
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  Person. This film was a huge group
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  project. The costume designer who created
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  a xenomorph was actually h.r. Giger.
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  Who is an incredible artist. So I'm really excited to talk
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  about yes. John Bellows notable work would
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  be Star Wars A New Hope which he won his first Oscar.
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  Its first film first Oscar. And then he came back for Empire
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  Strikes Back. He did a film called Gandhi
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  which he won his second Oscar. And then he also did a film
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  called Kaplan which he did with the legendary costume designer
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  LM orogenic who Elizabeth would know, from the first season of
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  bridger-teton. So yeah, monks $100 things, is
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  that the chaplain with Robert Downey jr.
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  Is playing Charlie Chaplin cheer.
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  Okay. Hey, don't okay, Spencer.
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  I believe it is actually. Yes, it is.
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  That that would be the one, never seen it but I've always
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  wanted to it looks awesome either.
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  I've seen a bunch of clips though from it.
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  It. So let's dive into this crazy
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  story. So John malas father was Eugene
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  Milo and he loved to collect Tin Soldiers and military insignia
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  so much. So John really became quite
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  professional on this subject. His passion for military uniform
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  led to his experience serving as a realism advisor on assets of
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  films such as Charge of the Light Brigade in 1966, Nicholas
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  and Alexandra and 71 and on Only Kubrick's, Barry.
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  Lyndon. So, he's never so much a costume
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  designer really just a realism adviser.
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  He was the best of the best. When it came to military
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  uniforms. What you and I have talked about
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  a lot military uniforms costumes.
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  It's incredibly complex. They're insane.
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  Yeah. I could not even.
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  Imagine one day John was contacted by this young
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  filmmaker. That was pretty new.
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  No one really knew about his name was George.
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  Lucas, you know I don't know if you've heard of him.
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  Him, I don't know. Sounds like a little guy, don't
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  really know search. Lucas approached on Milo to work
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  on this crazy new film called Star Wars A New Hope.
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  And John is basically like I'm not a costume designer and
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  George Lucas was like, yeah. But your expertise like this is
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  perfect for it. So John eventually said, yes,
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  sure. Let's give it a shot, which John
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  eventually did win an Oscar for which was crazy when you think
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  about it. Yeah.
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  Molly. Was quoted saying once that
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  talking about Star Wars and it was sort of a space Western and
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  one of the heroes was a Dustbin. It's I think it's filler.
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  Yes, he really wants to just film with no experience as a
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  designer, but as a master of reference for example, which we
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  will be talking about later on he tensely designed a uniforms
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  of the Imperial officers in Star Wars to represent German Nazi
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  officer uniforms. And so you really kind of saw
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  like, Where is expertise kind of came through fast forward to a
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  couple years later after seeing Star Wars, everyone was obsessed
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  with sci-fi. Everyone was ready to just jump
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  on this, who's trying to create the next Star Wars.
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  Then enters Ridley, Scott, The Incredible Really Scott who I
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  love so dearly though he's had some controversial takes lately.
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  I will say, Really Scott felt compelled to make his own
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  science fiction feature of his own and he began to work out on
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  the story called Tristan and Isolde.
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  And when sketching out his story boards, he really Drew
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  inspiration from the comic book artists who had inspired him,
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  the most Jean Mobius Jerrod Mobius.
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  The artist was recently working on a film called Dune, which
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  eventually fell through. I don't know if you ever heard
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  of that film and we all know, Dune had a hard time taking off
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  until about 20 21 on this film. Sharad met Artists and future
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  alien, alumni, Chris Foss, h.r. Giger.
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  And Dan O'Bannon, who was a screenwriter when Dune
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  eventually fell apart, O'Bannon was devastated and dust it off a
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  script called star Beast, which would eventually become alien.
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  Really Scott got attached to the project, he loved it, and the
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  rest kind of was history, kind of.
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  So, as I mentioned earlier costume design was a little bit
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  different. So many people had their Hand
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  and costume design. Especially a lot of the artists
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  comic book, artists really were kind of driving what the costume
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  design of this film. Look like, it wasn't just a
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  constant desire. Walking on Sand like, these are
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  my sketches. And this film, they basically
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  gave the designer to sketches or like this is kind of what we're
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  doing, which is so different. There's this lovely quote from
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  Dan O'Bannon about Jean, Girard, Mobius, kept talking about how
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  his role played into the costume design of this film.
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  Was the artist and deneb and said, Mobius thought that they
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  were paying him five thousand dollars a week.
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  When in fact, they're only paying them five hundred dollars
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  a week, therefore, he can afford a work on the film on that basis
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  at this time because of his expenses so he gave them the
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  space suit. Design Scott on a plane and went
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  back to France. So his designs basically went on
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  to lend it to alien but they basically just gave him a check
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  and said thank you for your contributions.
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  Wow. Way to pull one over on
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  somebody. Yeah, I like, wow, that sounds
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  very typical that quilt actually came from a website called Alien
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  series articles called dressing the future and I'll be
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  referencing them quite a couple of times back to John Marlowe.
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  He was fresh off a Star Wars and he was basically tasked a
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  brewing, John Gerard's, it designs to life, but the costume
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  design did not end with Mobius. Once John Malo came on to set,
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  he really want to bring All of his military experience back
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  into the picture. So as we really talked about
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  this film, you're really going to see his hand on all the
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  uniforms worn by the crew of the Nostromo.
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  You're going to see tons of patches, lots of like utility
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  uniforms. Just really was a specialty and
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  right after Star Wars, he was really feeling it and I'm just
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  so excited to talk about it because there's lots of great
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  stuff in this film. I can't wait how exciting.
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  Yes, I was so excited. So let's take a little break and
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  when we come back we're going to dive right into alien.
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  Hi. This is Dan.
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  Nice. Yes.
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  Actually if there's anything from a futuristic film that?
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  I want a real life. It's cryosleep this.
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  They look so cozy. They look so at peace.
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  I'm like oh just put me. Stop my aging.
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  Put me in a little bottle and wake me up when the traffic is
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  done. Look so comfy.
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  I love the white little sorts of sounds so lovely.
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  Yeah, I know, when we first, get to the sleeping pod scene, I was
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  just kind of resting comfortably.
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  But what I love about these beginning scenes, is he really
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  just get a look at the sets of this film?
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  It's really incredible. Also really claustrophobic which
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  was really odd attentions to absolutely.
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  No, I was expecting that those first couple minutes for either
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  the cameras just like Wandering around.
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  I was waiting for something to pop out and I just never did
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  know. It's almost like the this the
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  sensor like kind of as haunting as like the actual horror of the
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  film. Yeah.
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  So let's talk about the crew that we have a lot of great
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  characters to talk about and the first thing I always kind of
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  notice is just how great all the uniforms are for each of the
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  crew members. And there's a lot of great world
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  building and these That you probably wouldn't even see the
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  first time you're watching it. For example, they all work for a
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  company called Weyland-Yutani and you would only know that by
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  the actual badges that they're wearing and it's stamped on
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  everything but they never say the words and actually the words
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  are even mentioned until the third alien film.
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  Wow. Yeah.
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  So that's how much like world-building the costume
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  designer and really Scott we're doing from the very beginning.
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  They had no idea was going to blow up but thinking of the feet
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  that they created, So, John Malo talked about Weyland-Yutani
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  saying that that was a, that was Ron.
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  Cobbs idea, John Ellis said Weyland-Yutani was Ron's
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  invention and we all liked the sound of it.
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  The name and Egyptian Wings, which are seen on one of the
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  logo, patches were hotly pursued at the beginning, but we
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  eventually dropped the words and we just used a wings as a logo.
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  So I don't think we've ever done a film where we focus so much on
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  patches. Yeah, I'll try not to stay there
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  too long. No, I love those patches because
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  I was like, hmm, they look like they look like military but
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  they're not, right. And there's like so much satire
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  to behind all the patches in the military uniforms, Rana Cobb,
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  one of the artists on The film's Who.
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  Once again, it's an artist who's like really influencing a
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  costume designs. He said, one of the things I
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  enjoyed most about alien was it subtle satirical content?
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  Explain Cobb science, fiction films, offer golden
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  opportunities Thrown little scraps of information that
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  suggests enormous changes in the world.
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  There's a certain potency in these kinds of remarks
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  Weyland-Yutani. For instance, is almost a joke
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  but not quite. I want to imply that.
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  Poor old England is back on its feet and has United with the
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  Japanese have taken over to building of spaceships the same.
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  Same way they have now of cars and supertankers.
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  So I just thought that was hilarious because to us, it's
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  just a patch, but all the Nerds behind the scenes were like,
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  this is hilarious. Yeah, I love that.
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  That I'm showing Elizabeth at the moment, we have pictures of
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  a lot of John malas sketches, actually he just like Drew all
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  over his scripts of just pictures of uniforms patches and
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  brought them all the life. I love the sketch of the, the
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  shirt takes me back to my tech sketching days.
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  Yes, right. I didn't think about that last
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  quote, for a little bit. Um, John Marlowe said about
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  Ridley, Scott really is a great stickler for detail.
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  So we had a rubber Weyland-Yutani stamp made.
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  I went about madly labeling, everything also because really
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  want everything to look well worn and lived in, we washed
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  scraped and even sandpaper to costumes many times were before
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  they were even worn, which I think is hilarious because he's
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  so need a costume designing and he's distressing aging costumes.
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  I was like, oh my gosh, this is crazy.
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  Yeah, Oh my God, I love because they do look well worn.
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  They're like very lived in right?
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  Which I thought was hilarious that they came out like
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  cryosleep and then they put on like these dirty costumes.
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  I'm like why was Ash not washing their clothes while they were
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  working? You're right weeping.
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  So let's dive into all of our characters.
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  Elizabeth. Yeah, we got Captain Dallas who
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  I was like, why are you so useless?
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  You literally doesn't do anything helpful.
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  No, our adventure to say most of these characters aren't very
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  helpful in the end. That's true.
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  Captain Dallas was played by Tom Skerritt, very 70s.
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  Very 70s though. We're in the late 70s.
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  He just screams 70s. Yeah, yes.
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  Those chalks the jacket. The beard is, it's hilarious.
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  But of course he's wearing his patch on the jack.
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  Get which I thought was really cool.
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  My favorite personal favorite was the Navigator Lambert.
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  She was just like so over all of it and she just she looks so
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  laid-back. I love just like her her vest
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  with the T-shirt with her patch on it.
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  Yeah, it was so great. I love to use it of color to in
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  her costume. It's such as a very 70s color
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  palette be. I love that the costume designer
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  like, It'll have the same uniforms but just different
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  variations. Like hers is compared to a
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  jacket. Yeah, I agree it all it all.
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  Looks like it came from the same place just being used in
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  different ways. Well I didn't realize till my
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  200. Watch of this film.
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  Was that executive officer Kane was played by the incredible
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  John Hurt. You didn't know that I just
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  never put two and two together. I was like, oh my gosh, that's
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  Ollivander from Harry Potter. I've never seen it and I knew
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  that with him, just never clicked.
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  He was a great guy, he was a great guy and on the film he
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  should have been playing with the eggs.
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  The whole reason they got into that mess rookies, you just let
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  them be. I do love his costume though
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  because it does kind of give like an officer vibe to it, you
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  know, it's not very dirty. It's very II don't want to say
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  formal, but compared to everyone else, there's a little bit of a
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  sophistication to his costume. Yeah, it's clean.
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  It's perfect more professional than the rest of them.
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  Same goes for ash played by the amazing game and home again.
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  Very professional. We all know why that is I loved
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  his costume first because it's using like a baby blue character
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  which As a costume design person that all automatically sets off
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  like a red flag in my head. Like something is kind of off of
• 23:03
  this guy which we come to find out.
• 23:06
  He's a robot. Yeah, who wanted John Hurt to
• 23:10
  get an alien burst through his chest.
• 23:12
  Yeah. He's very fascinated by the
• 23:14
  whole process. He's really having a good time.
• 23:16
  Yes. He was creepy especially when
• 23:18
  they reanimated his head, get some information.
• 23:21
  I was like oh that's gross. That's perfect for me.
• 23:25
  Nauseous. I love being home, I miss him
• 23:31
  such a great actor. The engineer's Parker and Brett
• 23:36
  talk about to laid-back guys who just want to make that money,
• 23:42
  but engineer's their costumes are hilarious to me because they
• 23:47
  are not wearing a military thing at all, kind of engineer Brett
• 23:50
  who's wearing a Hawaiian shirt with like a jacket for an over,
• 23:53
  he has like a patch or a stamp like on his jacket and on his
• 23:57
  head. Hat.
• 23:58
  But he's really just pretty laid-back and just wants to have
• 24:02
  some beers and fix things. He doesn't really care about
• 24:05
  this whole thing. No, he does not at all.
• 24:08
  Unlike Parker who's like, I'm just here for the money is money
• 24:12
  involved. Yes.
• 24:13
  Okay. He's wearing like I think it's a
• 24:18
  leather jacket. Yeah it's like a lamb leather
• 24:21
  bomber jacket. Yeah.
• 24:23
  A leather bomber jacket with the blue headband which is such like
• 24:26
  a conic look. For such like a character that's
• 24:30
  really, not that big of a deal to the story, but like, all the
• 24:33
  costumes because there's only so many characters are all kind of
• 24:37
  iconic to me. Definitely, I knew the look of
• 24:41
  most of them without ever having seen it because you just, if
• 24:46
  you're interested in film at all, you're going to see these,
• 24:50
  right? And then we have the
• 24:53
  incomparable, the incredible, one of my absolute Heroes,
• 24:57
  Sigourney Weaver, who played Ripley.
• 25:02
  There's so much to say about Ripley.
• 25:04
  The only one with any sense, the only one with any sense, which
• 25:08
  probably goes for Life. Listen to her, they wouldn't
• 25:12
  have gotten themselves into so much trouble, right?
• 25:14
  I love how it when they were trying to bring basically the
• 25:18
  alien back to the ship Ripley was like you are not.
• 25:21
  Coming back on this, absolutely not.
• 25:25
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 25:27
  You can keep your dirty self outside.
• 25:30
  She's like, why do you want to bring that in here?
• 25:32
  Absolutely not. I love Ripley because to me, she
• 25:37
  is just like one of, you know the ultimate feminist icons.
• 25:41
  She really for Ripley to be such like a leading character was
• 25:46
  really pretty serious for 1979. Yeah, really Scott.
• 25:51
  Literally just a couple weeks ago, did an interview in LA
• 25:54
  Times, any kind of talked about this really Scott said, I think
• 25:59
  idea actually came from Alan, Ladd jr.
• 26:01
  Who was at the time, president of 20th Century, Fox Allen
• 26:06
  basically asked, why can't Ripley be a woman and there was
• 26:10
  a long pause and everyone was guy like Mmm.
• 26:13
  Yeah, that's crazy. And really Scott himself said, I
• 26:19
  never thought about that. Why?
• 26:21
  It's a fresh Direction. That's why I thought about that
• 26:24
  and away. We went so really Scott then
• 26:27
  also mention that he founds a gurney By Word of Mouth.
• 26:30
  Somebody had mentioned that Sigourney was on and off
• 26:32
  Broadway stage, doing something that I should meet her and I
• 26:36
  did. And there it was, she was
• 26:38
  perfect in terms of scale size intelligence.
• 26:40
  Her acting is just fantastic. And so, it was made for her,
• 26:43
  really? Yeah.
• 26:45
  Which it's such a crazy concept that back in 79.
• 26:49
  People are like a female lead. Read what?
• 26:52
  That's, that's how crazy people still find that kind of crazy.
• 26:57
  Yes, it's pathetic. So then, of course, I can't move
• 27:01
  on without some quotes from Ripley herself Sigourney Weaver
• 27:06
  bustle.com Sigourney Weaver said, I got my first
• 27:10
  professional job at the public theater when I was just 27 at
• 27:14
  that point, I was suddenly offered a lead in a TV comedy,
• 27:17
  but for me, comedy had been King, especially television
• 27:20
  comedy. I turned down that job.
• 27:23
  I did a whole screen test where I did a run-through of the
• 27:26
  character in the movie Really Scott, how do we do about seven
• 27:29
  scenes, and he built a whole set to have me do it at the same
• 27:32
  time, I was trying not to get my hopes up because my chances of
• 27:35
  getting, this role is very slim. There were people who were big
• 27:38
  names, apparently who wanted this part, but the writers maybe
• 27:41
  really insisted that had to be someone who is unknown because
• 27:44
  they didn't want anyone. To think this person was going
• 27:46
  to survive the film what they hoped was the audience of think,
• 27:50
  John hurt's character was Going to be the hero and when he died
• 27:54
  it's a tremendous rug being pulled out from under you.
• 27:57
  But no one would ever think this girl, so green behind the ears
• 28:00
  with suddenly beat a Survivor and come out of it.
• 28:02
  So it's kind of a feminist ending.
• 28:04
  That's what works best for the story.
• 28:06
  To cast, an unknown. Yes, this was her first role.
• 28:10
  She was 27 years old. That's crazy.
• 28:15
  It's insane, every time I think about it.
• 28:18
  It's crazy, but I love her, you know.
• 28:21
  Warm, very professional. I love the like the needy ish
• 28:26
  blue with her with her patches and also very simple because
• 28:30
  she's like, I'm just here to get my job done and that's about it.
• 28:33
  Yeah, it's a it's very like non-binary in a sense that's
• 28:37
  just, it's just a utility suit. She's just here to get her work
• 28:41
  done. She's a warrant officer, so
• 28:43
  she's just kind of taking care of the ship having to, you know,
• 28:47
  take care of loose ends. So it's just a very Suitable
• 28:52
  suit. Also, I thought you would love
• 28:56
  this film because she focuses orange cat.
• 28:59
  She focuses. So heavily on the cat.
• 29:03
  That would be me. I'd be like, come here kitty.
• 29:06
  We gotta get you safe at the end of the film.
• 29:09
  There's like a solid five minutes or she's just trying to
• 29:12
  save the cat eye. So my original plan today was to
• 29:17
  like watch half of this then watch Spider-Man.
• 29:22
  And then finish this before we started recording.
• 29:25
  And when I couldn't when you weren't awake to approve, the
• 29:29
  the link for me to watch it. I was like, I guess I'll keep
• 29:33
  watching it and then like stop whenever he responds but then I
• 29:37
  was watching ain't got to the part where the cat was missing
• 29:40
  and I was like, I gotta know if this cat survived actually looks
• 29:45
  like one of your cats. Honestly, it looks like Arwen.
• 29:49
  It looks like our win is so Cute.
• 29:52
  So now that we have the cast got together, it's time for us to go
• 29:56
  investigate some crashed alien spaceships and I love the space
• 30:02
  suits that all the crew are wearing their so interesting.
• 30:06
  Yes, I love them as well. It kind of gave me Fifth Element
• 30:12
  Vibes but I'm going to guess, Fifth Element probably borrowed
• 30:17
  from this a little bit just especially like that.
• 30:21
  Half with how, like bulky it is. I loved it though.
• 30:26
  Yeah, it's really interesting and article dressing a future
• 30:30
  Alien series. It was said that really had
• 30:32
  already planned on a Japanese aesthetic for Tristan and
• 30:35
  Isolde. And really Scott was really
• 30:37
  inspired by Japanese armor, which was basically translate
• 30:41
  into these space suits for the crew.
• 30:43
  I love that. Now that you say that it
• 30:45
  definitely has like a Samurai armor look to it.
• 30:49
  That's so interesting. And especially the shoulder
• 30:52
  pieces like those are big and like scream Samurai to me, thus
• 30:57
  the shoulders and like very the Greaves on the but on their legs
• 31:01
  very very I can see the influence there.
• 31:05
  Yeah though, I do love like the leg Reeves that look like just
• 31:08
  like mattress. Pads are just like duct taped to
• 31:11
  their legs. A little bit of 1979.
• 31:20
  Yeah, we get to the scenes where the cruise is kind of walking
• 31:24
  around is crashed alien ship and it's pretty spooky, it's very
• 31:28
  spooky. I was not comfortable with all
• 31:32
  the eggs and when John Hurt was like, let's go look at these.
• 31:37
  I was like why, this isn't what you're here for, what are you
• 31:40
  doing? Leave them be.
• 31:43
  Yeah, it's very creepy and you really CHR Geiger's influence on
• 31:48
  Film at this point, especially with like, at the space jockey
• 31:52
  who, you know, those kind of zombified that this point just
• 31:55
  like the architecture is just like really incredible.
• 31:59
  And you know, it's they didn't realize that the world-building
• 32:03
  they're doing at this point because an alien Covenant.
• 32:05
  We basically see these same sets all these years later.
• 32:08
  Oh yeah, I was about to say, I love that.
• 32:10
  They kept the same aesthetic and it's a time.
• 32:13
  It's Timeless. Really, it looks incredible.
• 32:17
  It really is. It's very Spooky.
• 32:20
  So as we mentioned earlier the eggs hatch things start to go
• 32:24
  south and they bring back executive officer Kane back on
• 32:28
  the ship after he was surprised if a little face hugger who
• 32:33
  attached to his head which was very gross.
• 32:36
  It's still Spooks me out every time I hate that, I hate that.
• 32:40
  But I do love their uniforms when they're back on this ship
• 32:44
  because when they get to the planet they all kind of like
• 32:47
  dress a little bit more. Similarly, I don't know if
• 32:50
  that's because they're like, okay, we got a job to do but
• 32:53
  they have those gray military type button Downs on and I just
• 33:01
  love how it makes them look like a crew working together.
• 33:04
  Yeah. They all very similar at this
• 33:07
  point, they're all wearing like this olive green shirt
• 33:10
  underneath with like white on top of it.
• 33:12
  So 70s, and I love that they changed into white because of
• 33:16
  our next scene. Yeah.
• 33:18
  I don't know if it was intentional but it definitely
• 33:22
  worked in the favor when executive officer, Kane has
• 33:27
  quite the terrible dinner. I should say.
• 33:31
  Yeah, when that little chest burster pops.
• 33:33
  Its head out and murders him. The seems insane.
• 33:37
  So since you've never seen alien, I'll just give you some
• 33:40
  behind the scenes on this has been rumored for years.
• 33:44
  That the cast did not know how this thing was going to play out
• 33:48
  because they We did it one time so they all knew that something
• 33:52
  crazy was going to happen, but they didn't realize how Bloody
• 33:56
  and horrifying, it would be. So the reactions that you see,
• 34:01
  especially in Veronica Cartwright character.
• 34:03
  Those are real reactions because they just saw an alien hatch
• 34:08
  out, this guy's chest, blood sprayed everywhere, it's insane.
• 34:13
  And really Scott recently said once I blue blood all over that
• 34:17
  set, there was no Cleaning it up.
• 34:20
  So John Hurt knelt. So that only his head was
• 34:23
  visible above a hole in a table and a false torso was placed to
• 34:27
  me his neck. I kept it very much from an
• 34:29
  actor's and I kept actual little creature, whatever.
• 34:32
  That would be from the actors. I never wanted them to see it.
• 34:35
  Remember those. No digital effects in those days
• 34:37
  at all. I'm going to somehow bring that
• 34:39
  creature out of his chest and it's just one of the craziest
• 34:43
  horror scenes of all time it is. I've also heard a lot about how,
• 34:48
  like, People were terrified of this movie and it's like, it's
• 34:52
  so funny. He's like by today's standards,
• 34:54
  like, this is kind of mild, like it's still a great, like horror
• 34:59
  film. But even that scene where it's
• 35:01
  like, oh, there's so much blood. I'm like, I've watched Game of
• 35:04
  Thrones crazy and like I have a picture of friends of to of like
• 35:09
  an audience reaction from 1979 where I'm that woman right in
• 35:13
  the front. I'm like, oh, I just can't
• 35:16
  imagine that. This film came out like this.
• 35:18
  It's crazy, but back to the costumes.
• 35:21
  I love that. They're all wearing white
• 35:22
  because it works perfectly with the Fountain of blood that
• 35:26
  covers the room. Yeah, now, it works perfectly.
• 35:30
  I love how they're all shocks, like, that's great.
• 35:34
  I'm like, I don't think you could have gotten that any other
• 35:36
  way, than keeping it secret from my gosh, can you imagine like
• 35:40
  being on that set and he did it in one take and they're really
• 35:43
  all right, everyone hit the showers, go home, great job.
• 35:49
  Go ahead costume departments. Like, we're just going to take
• 35:52
  these costume. Two parties aren't being washed
• 35:56
  whose costume to put it in parentheses or quotes.
• 36:02
  Well, that was some bloody fun. Let's take a little break and
• 36:06
  let somebody fun ramp to get an explicit rating in England.
• 36:15
  I've been to the xenomorph. I can't wait.
• 36:18
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• 36:33
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• 36:36
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  support. Are you ready to talk about some
• 37:13
  Xenomorphs? I was born ready to talk about
• 37:17
  the deal. I know you are, I know you are.
• 37:22
  So, as I mentioned at the beginning, that costume
• 37:25
  designers, John Malo, but the xenomorph really was designed by
• 37:29
  h.r. Giger.
• 37:30
  Geiger was a, Swiss artist who Bring this territory life
• 37:34
  leaving alien to winning an Academy Award for visual
• 37:37
  effects, which very duly deserved.
• 37:41
  Yes. There's an article in den of
• 37:43
  geek that explained that it was abandoned who first placed a
• 37:47
  1977 book of Geiger's paintings neck ramnik on into the hands of
• 37:52
  a newly appointed director Ridley.
• 37:54
  Scott O'Bannon Scott did not see eye-to-eye on all matters but
• 37:59
  they immediately agreed on one thing.
• 38:01
  The erotic deadly looking, Teacher in a painting, entitled
• 38:04
  Necronomicon for was there alien.
• 38:07
  So they basically got this book what open that up and they were
• 38:11
  like, oh well there's the alien that's wild.
• 38:16
  I always thought Ridley Scott came up with that.
• 38:19
  No he just saw this artist. I was like well that's pretty
• 38:22
  nice I would die to get this book is very expensive.
• 38:26
  It feels like when we were talking about that Dracula book
• 38:29
  back in the day, what? But it's very Erotic to like he
• 38:34
  really designed his aliens to be like very sexual to which is
• 38:39
  pretty crazy. So crazy.
• 38:42
  So Geiger is head saying I always wanted my alien to be a
• 38:45
  beautiful thing. Something aesthetic, a monster
• 38:48
  isn't just something disgusting. It can have a kind of beauty.
• 38:52
  It can move gracefully. It can be sinuous which I was
• 38:56
  like, okay, sir, I I get what you're saying, we understand
• 39:00
  calm down, I get what you're saying.
• 39:02
  Saying it is beautiful. I wouldn't say graceful.
• 39:05
  I guess it does have a little bit of a swag box, so, because
• 39:13
  this is before CGI, they had to put a person in the Xenomorph
• 39:18
  suit, which was insane. Xenomorph costume was built to
• 39:22
  house, an actor named Balaji. But dae-ho, who was actor?
• 39:25
  Who played a xenomorph, he measured at 6 feet, 10 inches
• 39:29
  tall. Whoa, there Eat all very, very
• 39:35
  knowledge is terrific here. A collector gave an excellent
• 39:39
  accounting of the process in creating the xenomorph costume
• 39:43
  that I just want to read to you Elizabeth because I think it's
• 39:46
  intense. It was said that a plaster cast
• 39:49
  was made of bday whose body to create a statue of him.
• 39:53
  But then Geiger's sculpted around at this statue using all
• 39:57
  sorts of weird items, including Rolls-Royce tubes, snake
• 40:00
  vertebrae, animal meat, Eat and he used allegedly, some pieces
• 40:07
  of a human skull which was later found.
• 40:10
  I was just reading this before you and I came on the air after
• 40:13
  the film. They all kind of look back at
• 40:15
  the human school thing which they got for like, you know,
• 40:18
  from a medical practice and I started to think about the like,
• 40:21
  where did they get the skulls? And it turns out it was a little
• 40:23
  bit of a shady process on the other end.
• 40:28
  But I'm really gonna dive into this after you and I are done
• 40:31
  the 70s. Yeah, it was a different time.
• 40:36
  Once they had this sculpture, the final one PC was then made
• 40:39
  from a rubber mold of the statue.
• 40:41
  With assessories. Then the 2 meter tail was added
• 40:46
  preventing bideo from sitting down so special, swing set was
• 40:51
  made for him when he needs to take breaks on set.
• 40:55
  So I love see all these pictures of like the xenomorph just like
• 40:58
  casually like standing around. So that is crazy.
• 41:02
  Good. We just couldn't go anywhere.
• 41:08
  My gosh. That man is beautiful.
• 41:10
  He's like looks like he could be a model.
• 41:13
  Oh my gosh. Yeah.
• 41:14
  I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if he was like that's what's
• 41:17
  under the xenomorph. That's, you know, morph is
• 41:21
  disgusting. So then a separate alien Head
• 41:26
  was made by all by Carlo rambaldi, a celebrate specialist
• 41:30
  and a mechanization of artificial creatures.
• 41:32
  Just quite the title. The head has a highly complex
• 41:36
  apparatus that controlled the extending mouth within a mouth.
• 41:40
  So, there was a lot happening in this head.
• 41:43
  I can't believe they used an actual human skull.
• 41:45
  And I'm kind of disgusting. Yeah, it's a little creepy.
• 41:49
  This is a picture of Geiger working on said head and that it
• 41:55
  does look pretty human. So it is a little creepy.
• 42:01
  I'll turn the picture. Which created the xenomorph as
• 42:04
  we know it, which I love. It's just such a beautiful story
• 42:08
  because the xenomorph went on for decades and we're still
• 42:12
  saying, yeah, legit thought it was a puppet the whole time I
• 42:16
  was watching, I was like wow, that's a really good puppet.
• 42:19
  No, it's just some poor man who probably like really wants to
• 42:23
  sit down but he can't. Oh my goodness, I love it, I
• 42:28
  love this, I'd love seeing it up close.
• 42:31
  You can see like the leathery I like the suit they had.
• 42:35
  Oh my goodness. It's crazy, too, because he
• 42:39
  don't even really see the alien all that much in the film.
• 42:42
  It's really a horror film based on like tension and noise.
• 42:46
  I mean, every jump-scare in his film it basically comes from my
• 42:50
  cat or like stink gland out of a machine.
• 42:54
  Yeah like it what it up close it would not have worked as well.
• 42:59
  I mean if that was the same thing with all those was it It
• 43:03
  lets the other one where they barely show the shark 10.
• 43:08
  Jaws jaws. Yeah although 70s horror film
• 43:14
  with the shark. What's it called?
• 43:16
  Apparently that was like the second to last movie my
• 43:19
  grandmother ever saw it in theaters and she's just like
• 43:23
  told my mother like let me know and all the scary parts are
• 43:26
  over. And then my mom, she was like, I
• 43:28
  think the last movie your grandmother saw in theaters was
• 43:31
  Star Wars. She walked out.
• 43:36
  I don't think she ever went to another roofie was like, oh,
• 43:38
  wow. Iconic.
• 43:40
  Those movies shoes on Easter. All terrible was going on here.
• 43:47
  So, now that we have our xenomorph, we're gaining to all
• 43:49
  this film. The Story really like starts
• 43:52
  coming apart real quickly. Things on a ship goes south.
• 43:55
  Yeah. Ash turns out to be a little bit
• 43:58
  of a robot, a robot evil evil robot.
• 44:02
  Shit, his, his his switch flips very quickly and it's still
• 44:07
  disturbing to me, even to this day, like, seeing like the
• 44:10
  dissemble dash on a table just like spitting out that like,
• 44:13
  milky robot goo, like it. Yeah, it looks like, it looks
• 44:19
  like baby food. It's gross.
• 44:22
  But I also hate like they ripped his head off and it's like all
• 44:26
  these wires and like stuff come out of him, which like it's
• 44:29
  clearly not a human but like reminds you of like Intestines
• 44:34
  and stuff and it's just very gross.
• 44:36
  It's very gross. And it reminds me of like, when
• 44:39
  you go to the beach and see like, kelp and seaweed all over,
• 44:42
  that's what I do. I don't like the feel of see.
• 44:48
  We don't really, that's the worst part of the beach and I
• 44:50
  love to be age. I know whatever I feel, I'm
• 44:53
  like, I'm dying. Something's got me.
• 44:58
  How they felt an alien. Yeah, clearly.
• 45:01
  And most of them were right. Right.
• 45:03
  One of my favorite Parts though is when they're putting the
• 45:05
  dissembled head of Ash on the table.
• 45:08
  And then you could tell that like the editing like grow
• 45:11
  quickly cuts and it becomes, you know, this is like give us some
• 45:18
  answers, you've bitch, what did you do?
• 45:21
  Wake up. So yeah, things go really South,
• 45:27
  the alien it just eventually picks off the crew members one
• 45:31
  by one. Lots of tension is just a very,
• 45:36
  you spent a lot of time, just kind of watching these crew
• 45:38
  members, just like doo-doo-doo and then eventually ends well
• 45:42
  for them. I know I feel bad for all them
• 45:45
  because it's like they know there's nothing they can do but
• 45:49
  stand there and watch this thing, murder them, it's really
• 45:54
  horrific. I suggest everyone watched the
• 45:57
  director's cut at some point, too, because there is a crazy
• 46:00
  scene with Captain Dallas any Of see what happens to him, what?
• 46:05
  But really kind of sets the page for the next alien film, where
• 46:10
  you kind of they kind of reuse that to like put in the next
• 46:13
  film so you should check it out. So once the Ripley realizes all
• 46:17
  of her friends are dead, she quickly like changes course it's
• 46:20
  all about finding her cat and get the hell out of here which
• 46:24
  I'm just like this is Elizabeth to a tee.
• 46:27
  I am Ripley. I was actually watching this and
• 46:30
  I was like, I wonder how hard that would be to make a roof
• 46:32
  leak off. Doom.
• 46:33
  Oh until this scene. Yeah Ripley hits the
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  self-destruct button without thinking twice.
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  She's like, we're done. Goodbye.
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  Yeah. Gets in her Escape pod and she's
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  out and she thinks she's safe. She just strips down.
• 46:51
  She thinks she's safe Ripley really just strips down gets
• 46:55
  into her tank top and little underwear.
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  And this scene actually is like pretty controversial of Ian
• 47:02
  fans, but to me, it's not controversial at all.
• 47:06
  Know, a lot of fans feel like what's this is, one of my pet
• 47:10
  peeves, we're having another Lola Bunny from space to a
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  moment. Okay, give it to me, Spencer, a
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  lot of people felt that they were sexualizing Sigourney
• 47:23
  Weaver's character at this moment.
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  But to me, she just spent the past probably day or so running
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  from an alien. Watching her friends.
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  Get massacred. Of course, she stripped off her
• 47:35
  clothes. She's a human.
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  Like it makes those sense to me. Yeah.
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  And it's just like people sexualizing a woman's body.
• 47:42
  They're not allowed to like wear a tank top and underwear.
• 47:45
  Like that automatically makes it sexual as compared to, like, the
• 47:49
  first shot of this film is like every single male crew member.
• 47:53
  Yeah, like the Tidy whities. Oh my gosh.
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  I can't believe people were, I can't believe people were upset
• 47:59
  about this to this day, people still We'll bring it up.
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  And I just want to like, banging my head into a wall.
• 48:06
  I hate it because it makes sense.
• 48:08
  When you see them all in their cryosleep things, they're not
• 48:11
  wearing their hardly wearing any clothes.
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  She's about to put herself into cryosleep.
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  So yeah, she's taking off her clothes.
• 48:20
  Heaven forbid, a woman. Just get comfy in the privacy of
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  her own Escape pod. What is the problem?
• 48:30
  You know what? I did have a problem with in
• 48:31
  this scene When she takes her necklace off and flings it on
• 48:34
  the floor. I'm like that was the only
• 48:36
  unrealistic thing that happened in that moment no woman, just
• 48:41
  flings their necklace onto the floor.
• 48:43
  They put it on the side table where their vanity her being in
• 48:48
  her underwear. And tank top is normal.
• 48:50
  I have expected her to take her shirt off, honestly, ugly, which
• 48:54
  that would have made sense even if she did, yeah.
• 48:58
  Like, yes, she pulls her onward down a little bit by accident
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  because she's gay. Unchanged.
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  Because she just watched her shit a blow-up.
• 49:06
  Like, she's kind of a little bit frazzled at the moment.
• 49:09
  Honestly, I just thought it was a bikini cut like that kind of
• 49:13
  underwear exist. We're not all wearing granny
• 49:16
  panties all the time. Sorry to disappoint.
• 49:21
  My God, I can't stand people well in a 1984 interview with
• 49:26
  films and filming magazine. Security Weaver talked about
• 49:30
  this, she kind of was over it good, I'm sure.
• 49:32
  Said, as for my strip people have said, ah, how could you
• 49:35
  demean Yourself by doing a striptease and I say, are you
• 49:39
  kidding after five days of Blood and Guts and fear, and sweat and
• 49:43
  urine? Do you think Ripley, wouldn't
• 49:44
  take off her clothes and like that's the final word on that?
• 49:48
  Queen has spoken like a vacay? Yeah, it's obvious.
• 49:51
  She was filthy, she was filthy, use your common sense.
• 49:55
  People use your common sense and you know what, you're the
• 49:59
  problem. Maybe you should get your mind
• 50:01
  out of the gutter. This is the real problem.
• 50:04
  Maybe you should teach yourself to respect women, not only by
• 50:08
  how they present themselves in the street, but by how you think
• 50:11
  of them? How you think of them is just as
• 50:14
  important as what, you think, what they put on their body,
• 50:17
  says about them. Sorry, I'm very passionate about
• 50:23
  what she said. Sorry, I heard trauma.
• 50:30
  I do what I saw this Enos. We're having another Space Jam,
• 50:34
  2 moment. Yeah, yeah, we're diving into
• 50:37
  it, man. I feel like include the quote
• 50:41
  where she didn't say where she didn't curse.
• 50:44
  I'm like dang, I wish. I got that one, but the goody
• 50:48
  Weaver is pretty over it. I would be too.
• 50:53
  This leads to one of my favorite scenes where she's like,
• 50:55
  casually going about the ship. And we quickly realized that
• 50:59
  these this incredible wallpaper is not Actually well paper.
• 51:04
  It's actually does the Amorous who's trying to take a nap.
• 51:08
  That was the one that truly scared me.
• 51:11
  Yeah, that one's like, oh, this is the end of the movie.
• 51:14
  Okay, cool. She's the cat's in a suite, is
• 51:16
  in a pod in their cryosleep. Fantastic.
• 51:20
  The cat survived. She's getting into cryosleep,
• 51:23
  cool. And then it popped out and I
• 51:26
  freaked out that part still makes me jump every single time
• 51:29
  because, you know, me, I always have my volume at like 100
• 51:33
  because, yeah, every single time this Scene, It makes Makes me
• 51:38
  scream because it shakes my entire house.
• 51:41
  Yes. And then I love how she like
• 51:43
  backs up into the closet. Puts on the nice shiny unused
• 51:49
  space suit and becomes her own white knight in.
• 51:52
  That moment is so cool. Yes, it's so iconic and I love
• 51:56
  that she found like one that's clearly been never used before
• 51:59
  because we sought the ones from began at film, those were dirty
• 52:02
  dirty. This one's brand-new and she is
• 52:05
  like that night. That you mentioned that such a
• 52:07
  cool know. Just she's ready to just end
• 52:09
  this right now. She's like, all right you mess
• 52:12
  with me and my cat for way too long.
• 52:14
  She's like I'm done. I want to go home.
• 52:17
  Speaking of the DC, the part when she was running to the
• 52:20
  Escape pod and she like ran into the wall and she hit the cat's
• 52:24
  cage into the wall and drop the gate.
• 52:28
  That would be me. That would be me, but she, like,
• 52:30
  fix it up again and, like, hits the wall.
• 52:32
  Again, I'm like there's a cat in there.
• 52:33
  Ripley slow down, but, yeah, I love the Space suit armor.
• 52:39
  I mean it really becomes armor even though it's just supposed
• 52:42
  to be a space suit and she does what she has to do.
• 52:46
  And she kicks the xenomorph out into space and we just and saves
• 52:51
  her cat, which is the most important part.
• 52:53
  That is the most important part. We just get to see the cats and
• 52:56
  you're just enjoying the ship. Just very happy and that brings
• 53:00
  us to the end of alien. I'm so glad you made me watch
• 53:04
  this Spencer, that's so fun. I could talk about Alien forever
• 53:09
  as you've noticed, as I've known the entire time I've known you.
• 53:12
  Yes that's what's so fun. And yeah, the costumes are just
• 53:18
  so incredible. They just really do a lot for
• 53:20
  the storytelling and it's even more incredible to me that this
• 53:23
  is only like John mallos second film as a costume designer.
• 53:27
  Yeah. Just like one day.
• 53:29
  He was like, oh my gosh. I'm doing a film called Star
• 53:31
  Wars. That's not going to go anywhere.
• 53:33
  Wins an Oscar and how he's doing alien.
• 53:35
  It's crazy. It's crazy.
• 53:37
  And it's It's so detailed and the costumes really are kind of
• 53:42
  beautiful and he puts detail into them.
• 53:44
  One thing I noticed that I loved we really didn't get to mention
• 53:47
  was all the lace, the lacing in the costumes.
• 53:51
  All right. Which I loved because it's like
• 53:52
  it's an unnecessary detail but it's so 70s and it makes the
• 53:56
  costumes really interesting Yeah, I've even forgot to
• 54:00
  mention that you're so right. There's just so much detail and
• 54:03
  everything and the fact that like there's patches and stamps
• 54:06
  a little signs like all over these costumes.
• 54:10
  There's just so much and thank you for watching this with me.
• 54:14
  Ah, thank you. Are you ready for our favorite
• 54:17
  game? You know, I am hit it, Daniel
• 54:22
  the one costume to rule them all.
• 54:30
  My this one was kind of hard for me because I had, there's only
• 54:33
  so many costumes and I love all of them.
• 54:35
  So it's like every costumes, my one costume, rule them all.
• 54:39
  So I just decide to settle with Ellen Ripley's, you know, casual
• 54:43
  uniform. She's wearing a ship, you know,
• 54:46
  she's very like, it just really set her up to be this lead
• 54:51
  character that no one really expected because she kind of
• 54:53
  like flew under the radar at first, you know, 79, no one's
• 54:56
  expecting this new girl from, you know, off The way plays
• 55:00
  become this incredible lead actress and I just feel like the
• 55:03
  costume really set her up in this really kind of bland
• 55:07
  non-binary uniform. And to me, it's just like such a
• 55:11
  staple and film and costume design, and horror, and sci-fi,
• 55:16
  and it's just, Ellen, Ripley is and Remains the moment.
• 55:22
  I agree. She really is, I love that one
• 55:26
  as well. My one costume to rule them all.
• 55:30
  All is her underwear and t-shirt moment.
• 55:33
  She is about. She has saved herself and her
• 55:36
  cat. And she is ready to relax, but
• 55:40
  then is caught off guard. But still Saves the Day,
• 55:43
  perfect, perfect iconic. The haters can go be miserable
• 55:47
  in a corner. I hope the haters, get some
• 55:52
  facehuggers on their head. It's some aliens and planted in
• 55:56
  them. Yeah, such a good costume.
• 55:59
  It's just I can't believe that's controversial, but yeah, I'm
• 56:03
  annoyed. I love it.
• 56:05
  It's a good one and this has been a great episode Elizabeth.
• 56:09
  It has it has. I cannot wait for next week
• 56:13
  though. Spencer, what are we watching?
• 56:17
  Well to continue our space month?
• 56:20
  We're diving into another one of mine and Elizabeth's favorite
• 56:24
  space films, Guardians of the Galaxy, the first one.
• 56:28
  Yes, I'm so excited. Ida.
• 56:30
  This is one of my favorite Marvel movies, because of a
• 56:34
  certain Gomorrah, love her. I just can't wait so excited,
• 56:40
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• 57:31
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• 57:35
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• 57:39
  don't play with eggs in the wild.
• 57:42
  You know, leave the animals alone.
• 57:44
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• 57:47
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• 58:01
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