She is more than perfect for that role I remember I saw the movie 40 years ago in Hollywood it was fantastic when I first saw her I knew she was special I just love her. Thanks for posting.
@@trhansen3244 I love Michelle I think she would do well in great drama. I don't think anything could come close to a remake of the original Alien IMO. Thanks.
Have you noticed that, often, videos about Alien will often claim that Ripley only steps in to looking like the leading character after Dallas dies? It's a myth - she's very forefront in asking important questions the whole movie and, far from being a big heroine, she just wisely stays with other people, in the lit areas, and out of forbidding looking rooms, as much as she can.
Ya while this is true, in that age of film, people were always thinking "the mans the hero" when watching the movie, and because Dallas isn't an idiot either, its very much assumed when first watching the film that hes going to be the hero. So when he dies people are like "WTF" and aren't sure whats going to happen. Even then, it was 50/50 Parker was going to be the hero.
I’ve never heard or noticed that. The only reason it was surprising was in that day and age women were not the hero’s. but it’s clear her character was forefront
If you look at a lot of the films of the sixties and seventies, they were mostly quite adult films. It was in the eighties they really reverted back to the white male hero. Maybe thats political, I don't know. But if you look at a LOT of the movies of those decades there were a LOT of good female roles. In american cinema there often seems a correlation in decades to whether women and minorities really get much movie space. The story from Keenan Ivory Wayans was that when he did "I'm gonna git you sucka" he told the execs to open it in as many theaters as possible because there hadn't been a single 'black movie' in well over a decade since the blaxploitation boom. So it is kind of surprising when we 'assume' there is just this natural progress that in cinema things often revert, again, that could be politics, but womens roles just dried up and disappeared. EVERY conversation about strong women in film has people ONLY talking about Alien and Terminator, not knowing that that essentially proves the point. But having women in strong roles and dominant roles was NOT that unusual for its time. It HAS become that way since. And now we're seeing it get politicized as they try to stick women in super hero movies.
It's time for me to take over the Alien franchise. Only I can save it. I know what story to tell. How to tell it. The characters. The actors. I will score the film myself.
They gave the Ellen Ripley part to the right woman Sigourney Weaver and she fits perfectly the bell enough said ridley Scott knew exactly what he was doing when he cast Sigourney Weaver as Ripley.
Watched it in 4k last night. The sets the direction everything is just top notch. Imagine seeing this in the cinena when it came out.must have been terrifying. Ripley is a great film character.
I recall seeing it as a teenager when newly released in 1979.Stunningly impactful and original.The movie poster was promotion enough to entice curiosity outside the cinema.That caption " In space no one can hear you scream".!.
I do remember another interview where her said I opened the door and Ripply was on the other side. Then I thought to myself, I hope she can act. If you dought it just watch her screen tests sometime.
@@MediaBuster An extra is someone in the background of the movie who usually doesn't interact with the main characters and is not directed by the director.
I think the point was they wanted the character who survived to the end to be a surprise. So they thought it was less predictable if a woman and someone who wasn't a big star survived. That sense of surprise is lost on anyone who only saw the movie after Aliens came out.
I saw the Alien when it came out 1979. Everyone in that theater cheered for Ripley through out the movie. It was the 1at movie I had seen w a woman as the shero! I cant even count how many times I went to see the movie again. As far as I'm concerned only the 1st & 2nd Alien films exist. 3rd was just awful & the 4th one was ok, going off what happens in 3. Weaver's films like "Gorillas in the Mist" & "Avatar". Continued to show what awesome actor she is.
I've often wondered who else could have played Ripley in 1979. The actors names come and go, some would have been great. Others not so much. They needed to be attractive, not necessarily beautiful. Gutsy, intelligent. And strong. Who could act. And were the Right age. Sigourney was thirty years old, I think. So between 30 and 40 years old, though not necessarily looking like it. It's still Hollywood and pretty wins. So a few who I might have wanted, were.... Jessica Lange. Ann-Margret. Candice Bergin. Jacqueline Bisset. Joanna Cassidy. Kathleen Turner. Veronica Hamel.
I think a LOT could have done it. The big problem they say in Hollywood is finding good looking and FUNNY. Good looking and acting, not that hard. We see that in all kinds of movies. Go look at streaming shows and its clear there are a LOT of good female actors. I was looking at top movie lists, most of the actors we've never HEARD of since.
Actually the other actress (Lambert) was already cast for Ripley. The studio got pressure from Silvester Weaver who was the top exec at NBC to give his daughter the lead. The other actress only found out she was demoted to Lambert when she arrived on set. Sigourney comes from an influential media family. Ridley here says he asked Sigourney to see the bit part she played in the Israeli movie and she straight up tells him 'No'. LOL, what a daddy's girl. Hollywood is all about the connections.
@@JloveLamar Look at the Director's cut of Alien (or it could be in a cut scene) where the crew are gathering outside the Med Lab showing a 'facehugged' Kane and see the rather violent reaction of Lambert slapping Ripley around the face.
Veronica Cartright was coming off the back of the remake of 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers,' I believe, so her star was on the rise at the time. Having said that, Sigourney Weaver did a great job as Ripley.
I'd say its PARTLY about the connections, but nepotism is around all industries. I knew she had a pretty famous father, but the question is are you ASSUMING this, or do you KNOW it. What exactly is the relationship between NBC and production company, I saw a documentary on the production and it was Fox wasn't it? I can give you a pretty extensive list of pretty famous people and executives whose kids and family are actors and yet you've never heard of them. And I've heard several interviews with Sigourney where she points out that actors are pretty much a 'necessary evil' to the productino companies.
Love the misleading title. He was asked how do you feel about the switch to a woman not why did you choose her. As far as this video goes it says zero nor eludes to him even choosing her
The Duellists. The film from which all period films should be inspired from. No polish and gilding. Just the straight gritty and filthy reality of that age!
I don't care if a man or woman plays the role as long as they do right. The problem I have the moment is when these studios are doing history and change the character from white man to black man or man to woman. When we know what they looked like.
I think it was obvious from the beginning that Ripley was the heroine. I doubt people expected her to die and one or more bigger stars would survive, it was obvious it was her as a lead character from the beginning to me anyway.
@@anzaeria true. they still threw in the male policeman to “help” her in the end. But ya she was the first. Hitchcock sort of did it with tippi hedren in the birds and marnie.
Sigourney Weaver will be forever "RIPLEY" no one else could have pulled it off like her.Thankyou Ridley Scott for the best sci fi ever made.
ripley is one of the most badass women in movies
@@ExodusAttacKGR She really came out into her own on Aliens.
She is more than perfect for that role I remember I saw the movie 40 years ago in Hollywood it was fantastic when I first saw her I knew she was special I just love her. Thanks for posting.
Do you think a more modern remake should include a Ripley character but this time played by a transgendered female. Someone like Michelle Obama?
@@trhansen3244 I love Michelle I think she would do well in great drama. I don't think anything could come close to a remake of the original Alien IMO. Thanks.
Have you noticed that, often, videos about Alien will often claim that Ripley only steps in to looking like the leading character after Dallas dies? It's a myth - she's very forefront in asking important questions the whole movie and, far from being a big heroine, she just wisely stays with other people, in the lit areas, and out of forbidding looking rooms, as much as she can.
Yet she goes for a fucking cat and the alien sneeks up on her homies. Smh
She’s not Brett.
Ya while this is true, in that age of film, people were always thinking "the mans the hero" when watching the movie, and because Dallas isn't an idiot either, its very much assumed when first watching the film that hes going to be the hero. So when he dies people are like "WTF" and aren't sure whats going to happen. Even then, it was 50/50 Parker was going to be the hero.
I’ve never heard or noticed that. The only reason it was surprising was in that day and age women were not the hero’s. but it’s clear her character was forefront
If you look at a lot of the films of the sixties and seventies, they were mostly quite adult films. It was in the eighties they really reverted back to the white male hero. Maybe thats political, I don't know. But if you look at a LOT of the movies of those decades there were a LOT of good female roles. In american cinema there often seems a correlation in decades to whether women and minorities really get much movie space. The story from Keenan Ivory Wayans was that when he did "I'm gonna git you sucka" he told the execs to open it in as many theaters as possible because there hadn't been a single 'black movie' in well over a decade since the blaxploitation boom.
So it is kind of surprising when we 'assume' there is just this natural progress that in cinema things often revert, again, that could be politics, but womens roles just dried up and disappeared. EVERY conversation about strong women in film has people ONLY talking about Alien and Terminator, not knowing that that essentially proves the point. But having women in strong roles and dominant roles was NOT that unusual for its time. It HAS become that way since. And now we're seeing it get politicized as they try to stick women in super hero movies.
Sigourney is absolutely amazing in Alien, her acting is insanely good, she creates a character and persona, as Ripley, that shines through the screen.
It's time for me to take over the Alien franchise. Only I can save it. I know what story to tell. How to tell it. The characters. The actors. I will score the film myself.
@@trhansen3244 Alien belongs to H.R. Giger, the man who created it.
@@lifewriter7455 H. R. Tiger died on May 12, 2014.
She was even better in the sequel "Aliens".
They gave the Ellen Ripley part to the right woman Sigourney Weaver and she fits perfectly the bell enough said ridley Scott knew exactly what he was doing when he cast Sigourney Weaver as Ripley.
During this interview, he does not give a single reason why he picked Weaver for the role of Ripley.
she was good actress, and hot. thats all, what you were expecting?
Watched it in 4k last night. The sets the direction everything is just top notch. Imagine seeing this in the cinena when it came out.must have been terrifying. Ripley is a great film character.
I recall seeing it as a teenager when newly released in 1979.Stunningly impactful and original.The movie poster was promotion enough to entice curiosity outside the cinema.That caption " In space no one can hear you scream".!.
I do remember another interview where her said I opened the door and Ripply was on the other side. Then I thought to myself, I hope she can act. If you dought it just watch her screen tests sometime.
She was actually in Annie Hall before Alien, al beit a small part at the end scene playing woody's date.
.....so an extra then.
@@miamitten1123 Exactly .. she was Woody's date at the end at the movies.. 🤣
@@MediaBuster An extra is someone in the background of the movie who usually doesn't interact with the main characters and is not directed by the director.
@@anzaeria She was not in the background. She was the lead's date, which is referred to as a featured actor. And guaranteed she was directed by Woody.
@@MediaBuster Yea she certainly wasn't an extra in that movie.
I think the point was they wanted the character who survived to the end to be a surprise. So they thought it was less predictable if a woman and someone who wasn't a big star survived. That sense of surprise is lost on anyone who only saw the movie after Aliens came out.
I saw the Alien when it came out 1979. Everyone in that theater cheered for Ripley through out the movie. It was the 1at movie I had seen w a woman as the shero! I cant even count how many times I went to see the movie again. As far as I'm concerned only the 1st & 2nd Alien films exist. 3rd was just awful & the 4th one was ok, going off what happens in 3. Weaver's films like "Gorillas in the Mist" & "Avatar". Continued to show what awesome actor she is.
ripley was supposed to be veronica cartwright. the interviewer didn't know that?
Yes Veronica mentions that in the making of film.
I've often wondered who else could have played Ripley in 1979. The actors names come and go, some would have been great. Others not so much.
They needed to be attractive, not necessarily beautiful. Gutsy, intelligent. And strong. Who could act. And were the Right age. Sigourney was thirty years old, I think. So between 30 and 40 years old, though not necessarily looking like it. It's still Hollywood and pretty wins.
So a few who I might have wanted, were....
Jessica Lange.
Ann-Margret.
Candice Bergin.
Jacqueline Bisset.
Joanna Cassidy.
Kathleen Turner.
Veronica Hamel.
I think a LOT could have done it. The big problem they say in Hollywood is finding good looking and FUNNY. Good looking and acting, not that hard. We see that in all kinds of movies. Go look at streaming shows and its clear there are a LOT of good female actors. I was looking at top movie lists, most of the actors we've never HEARD of since.
Actually the other actress (Lambert) was already cast for Ripley. The studio got pressure from Silvester Weaver who was the top exec at NBC to give his daughter the lead. The other actress only found out she was demoted to Lambert when she arrived on set. Sigourney comes from an influential media family. Ridley here says he asked Sigourney to see the bit part she played in the Israeli movie and she straight up tells him 'No'. LOL, what a daddy's girl. Hollywood is all about the connections.
Has the other actress ever spoken up about this??
@@JloveLamar Look at the Director's cut of Alien (or it could be in a cut scene) where the crew are gathering outside the Med Lab showing a 'facehugged' Kane and see the rather violent reaction of Lambert slapping Ripley around the face.
Veronica Cartright was coming off the back of the remake of 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers,' I believe, so her star was on the rise at the time. Having said that, Sigourney Weaver did a great job as Ripley.
interesting didnt know that..thats how Gwyneth Paltrow became a big star too. Daddy. And Tori Spelling (not that big a star but a big break).
I'd say its PARTLY about the connections, but nepotism is around all industries. I knew she had a pretty famous father, but the question is are you ASSUMING this, or do you KNOW it. What exactly is the relationship between NBC and production company, I saw a documentary on the production and it was Fox wasn't it? I can give you a pretty extensive list of pretty famous people and executives whose kids and family are actors and yet you've never heard of them. And I've heard several interviews with Sigourney where she points out that actors are pretty much a 'necessary evil' to the productino companies.
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I worked with her when she was a restaurant manager in Ct. 1974. She tried to get me fired.
she seems to be consistent in being a good human being. so you must have deserved that haha.
Did she manage to? If she didn't you were tougher than Alien was :D
Two minutes of inscrutable talk that reveal nothing except a game-playing director who will not be pinned down by an interviewer. Ugh.
How she did not win Best Actress for Aliens will go down as one of the worst oversights in motion picture history.
no one who knows cinema cares about the oscars
Love the misleading title. He was asked how do you feel about the switch to a woman not why did you choose her. As far as this video goes it says zero nor eludes to him even choosing her
The Duellists. The film from which all period films should be inspired from. No polish and gilding. Just the straight gritty and filthy reality of that age!
he didnt exactly 'reveal' anything
IKR
who cares
Credit to casting director Mary Selway (RIP)
I don't care if a man or woman plays the role as long as they do right. The problem I have the moment is when these studios are doing history and change the character from white man to black man or man to woman. When we know what they looked like.
I think it was obvious from the beginning that Ripley was the heroine. I doubt people expected her to die and one or more bigger stars would survive, it was obvious it was her as a lead character from the beginning to me anyway.
not when watching 1979. There was no such thing as a female lead /hero in a movie, especially an action movie
@@johnspence8141 I guess one exception is John Carpenter's Halloween. Though yea it was almost unheard of back then - 'the final female.'
@@anzaeria true. they still threw in the male policeman to “help” her in the end. But ya she was the first. Hitchcock sort of did it with tippi hedren in the birds and marnie.
She just banged perfecly for her role
Whatever!
look, a reporter being WOKE 7 years ago. It's been around longer than we thought.
Chgy said he would have to be the
the what?
he's a sick individual
because?
she probably gave him some during audition
I thought so too. Maybe there was a fling
This is fake..not a mention tomwhy he cast her