ALIEN (The Perfect Organism) EXPLORED
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2023
- Hey guys, what’s happening? Niyat here with film comics explained, and as requested, in the lead-up to Halloween, today we’re finally doing a deep dive of 1979’s Alien.
Directed by the venerable Ridley Scott, the film is a harrowing odyssey into the abyss of deep space, unfurling a tale steeped in suspense and primal horror.
The narrative unfolds aboard the USCSS Nostromo, a commercial space tug returning to Earth, whose seven-member crew is inadvertently thrust into a nightmarish crucible of extraterrestrial terror.
The saga begins when the crew, nestled in hyper-sleep, is prematurely awakened by the ship's computer, Mother, in response to a cryptic transmission emanating from a distant, uncharted planetoid. Obligated by corporate decree to investigate potential signs of intelligent life, the crew, albeit reluctantly, descends upon the barren, windswept landscape, unwittingly setting the stage for an encounter with an entity as hostile as it is unknown.
This alien life form, a predator of unparalleled cunning and lethality, soon infiltrates the Nostromo, precipitating a desperate struggle for survival. As the crew grapples with the alien menace lurking within the ship's shadowy confines, they are also ensnared by the machinations of their employer, Weyland-Yutani, a corporation with sinister, undisclosed intentions concerning the alien organism.
The resulting conflict weaves a tense, atmospheric web of psychological and body horror, exploring themes of isolation, corporate malfeasance, and the inexorable, haunting fear of the unknown.
In this video we’re going to explore the story, the xenomorph, the characters and the amazing production of the film that launched one of my favourite franchises of all time.
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It won Best Visual Effects.
It made $200 million dollars at the box office.
It put Sigourney Weaver on the map.
It spawned 3 sequels, 2 spinoff films, 2 crossover films, toys, comic books, video games, graphic novels.
Its been regarded as one of the scariest motion pictures ever made.
The scariest? Sadly this is half right.
I think the original Exorcist is widely considered to be the scariest movie of all time.
And rightly so....pure quality.
@oxtailsoup6493 I'd give it scariest sci fi horror though for sure.
I agree maybe back then but nowadays its more or less a cartoon@@oxtailsoup6493
A masterpiece like 79 alien doesn't come around often enough. The writing, cast, design, atmosphere, music and effects all aligned perfectly like the planets and created one of the best horror movies ever
And even the sequel was solid, shame they stopped there.
@benf6822 aliens was a great movie too but for different reasons than alien. Alien 3 and 4 are fun movies but can't compete with the greatness of 1 & 2
@maggs131 oh I agree. Aliens was way more sci fi than horror
The others were basically slightly dark popcorn flicks, not bad but not worth acclaim. They do get unfairly shit on though.
@@benf6822Except the prequels. **Those** are noncanon bullshit invented by a man who never should've been given creative control.
@aisutistoto5771 the messed up thing, I'd have actually enjoyed Prometheus if the scientists had half a brain. Too much reaching in that movie.
I really loved the first movie because they all acted competent and believable unlike 70% of horror films where the protagonists have the survival instincts of lemmings.
It's the best formula. Very competent people up against impossible odds. The Terminator and The Thing are great examples too
Yeah because going back for a cat is survival 101.
The crews in both prequel films were deliberately handpicked to be incompetant unstable labrat lemmings by WY to gather data and xeno assets through cleanup crews salvaging 'accidents', rather than the Nostromo gang who were a random crew of relatively level-headed and able miners who just stumbled on xeno contact.
Kind of, a crew wouldnt be that stupid not to put the facehugger guy into stasis so he wont compromised the life of others
@royalecrafts6252 *spoilers*
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The infected in Prometheus are deliberately kept unfrozen as overseen by David acting on Weyland's orders, then the first infected in Covenant is made so by a pathogen rather than facehugger, which the few remaining crew members who discover him barely have time to even realise before shoving him into the medical quarantine room. You don't just instantly freeze any patient showing any kind of symptom upon visiting an unknown alien planet, and the Covenant crew had absolutely no awareness of xenomorphs or how to deal with them. They don't know what the Prometheus crew learned. Then the pathogen breeds so quickly that within minutes of being put in the room and before being able to be assessed by the skeleton crew trying to contact the scouts, it's already prime to burst. The rest of the crew didn't even have time to get far from the ship, before scrambling back. Then the priest doesn't even make it back to any crew members before bursting.
God this movie still holds up extremely well even 44 years later
It's peak sci fi horror for sure
It really does, I watched it again recently and other than the Atari 2600 super computers its timeless
EPIC is the word you maybe looking for....👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
@@stunitech Nah the Atari Super Comps help add to the timelessness.
@@sonofagreatsouthernland This isn't 2011 so no it isn't
The xenomorph always seems scarier when theres just one when a whole hive should objectively be worse
It's always one versus noncombatants in cramp quarters of a ship. The hive was against the Colonial Marines, and to be fair, they would wipe the floor with the xenomorphs in a lot of situations. Turns out violence really is a pretty decent solution to this problem.
Especially since when it's one xeno it seems like it tries to be more careful and stealthy
Because a lone xeno will stalk and hunt
Alien and Aliens are both great, perfect movies! You just gotta know ones a horror flick and ones action.
@@merlintym1928 like T1 and T2
RIP, to those who made this project.
RIP, Jerry Goldsmith, Composer
RIP, HR Giger, Concept Design
RIP, Harry Dean Stanton, Brett
RIP, John Hurt, Kane.
RIP, Yaphat Kotto, Parker
RIP, Derek Vanlint, Cinematography
RIP, Terry Rawlings, Film Editing
RIP, Gordon Carroll, Producer
RIP, David Giler, Producer
RIP, Dan O'Bannon.
RIP Franchise.
May they all find peace in the journey beyond our current lives
RIP Bolaji Badejo….thanks for the memories
RIP Ian Holm, Ash
RIP Helen Horton, Mother
RIP Eddie Powell and Roy Scammell, stuntmen and also played the Xeno in a few scenes
Rip Stan Winston
What a movie!!!! It's that good, it can be watched 100 times and you'll still find things that'll enthrall you with it. Truly a SciFi masterpiece!
A dad taking his son to an R rated horror film.
Those were the days.
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This movie gave my mum nightmares since she watched it back in '84... she suffered with those nightmares until June last year
Parents seem most concerned with nudity. I’m a 40 year old man and watched this movie a few years ago and had to shut it off at won’t point it was so disturbing.
@@Ken-fh4jcI watch Aliens, Aliens, and Hellraiser in one night when I was 8.
It was an experience
@@Ken-fh4jc certain elements of the Xenomorph are found in our Nature from the inner mouth to using hosts to finish gestating.
The fact it was made in the 70’s is still insane to me , what a film!
I've been listening to this channel for as long as I can remember; just casually when I see videos pop-up in my feed. What I love most, is the fact that this channel hasn't tried growing out of its audience. It has retained the same theme, and feeling it had years ago. Too often do I see channels trying to grow into things that lose me as a viewer.
I understand why some do, like when they start to run out of material, but this is pretty much a bottomless pool of material. Hell he can even go into books if he wants and keep the same format.
One of my favorite behind the scenes things for this film is the chestburster scene, according to most sources the only cast member who knew exactly what was going on was John Hurt, so everyone else had a reaction like something was really going wrong when he started convulsing.
He had to be attached to the table so they had to have some clue as to what might be going on.
I’ve heard this too a very long time ago.
@@Ken-fh4jcit’s a myth. They had seen the script. But it was sorta vague. It just said “the alien emerges” or something like that. They didn’t know how visceral it would be and didn’t know they would be sprayed with blood. But the body double took a whole day to set up so they Forsure knew something along the lines of what would happen, but they didn’t get the whole picture ahead of time. So we got better reactions and more real reactions
Yup!
Yeah sure i love these fake stories lmfao, same with joker exploding hospital in dark knight 😂😂😂
As a kid in the 70’s I was lucky to see great films like this!❤
This one, Star wars, and Apocalypse now were the only good things to come out of the 1970's
I'm one of the weird people who actually loves the first 45 mins or so of Alien. The landing on LV426 and the discovery of the derelict and space jockey. The visual and audio design are perfect and beautifully haunting
dude yes, im the same. I adore the beginning
So do I. I really never understood people who weren't fascinated by it
It’s a bit slow for a lot of people but totally worth it. They give you just enough world building, character development, and tone. 90% of new movies front load everything in the first ten minutes.
I've said for many years that I only need to see the film up to the discovery of the space-jockey. Everything that follows is just the icing on the cake. I find the Nostromo, both exterior and interior design, endlessly fascinating. The customised look to the crews outfits that convey a sense of individualism. As someone who plays a certain online multiplayer game Alien is a constant source of inspiration. I didn't ask for an in-depth look into the movie, there are many available, but I'm not sorry I watched this particular one, it was excellent.
You not weird, you just have taste.
The spaceship looks so real, it's simplistic and efficient, like the set was built by engineers.
I saw Alien on VHS when i was 7. It affected me. It's one of my favorite movies ever made. It's truly a masterpiece.
I never actually saw the deleted scene and extended version back then and, oh boy, these were so bone-chilling when I finally saw these
Back when I was a 7-year-old kid visiting my aunt, she let me watch her favorite movie Alien with her on HBO. Needless to say, as a small child, I was utterly traumatized by this movie. When I was a small child I did have some scary nightmares after seeing Alien at such a young age.
I had a similair experience with the sequel ALIENS lol
I had the same experience when I saw this film at a young age, kept me up at night.
An exceptional essay, suggestive of contemplation and care, particularly in the delightful writing, and delivered at speed though with fidelity to clarity. Great job!
Wow, thank you!
I have been hooked to these Alien analysis videos lately. The movie just leaves so much in your imagination in certain areas, its super scary...
And the fact that we are talking/analyzing this movie 40-50 years from its release, tells a lot how good it really is🔥
We really do need more movies like Alien in todays market.
The way it was made, acted and everything was absolute peak.
"Alien"(1979) is a science fiction horror movie masterpiece,and probably the best movie of all time for this Kind!The last part of the movie was inspiring,intense,scary,and very agonizing!
I’m honestly surprised this is just now happening. I have written this off as being a video from like 5 or 6 years ago at this point. I am exceedingly pleasantly surprised to see this. PLEASE do more Alien Franchise videos .
My thoughts exactly!
This is a re- upload.
@@mcapps1you’re joking…really? Man, what a bummer.
No its not a reupload. I covered alien in a 5-6 minute video when I first started the channel, but had not done a deep dive like this. @@joshXnovak1
I freaking love ALIEN. Even though I was introduced to the movie when I was 5 and had nightmares for years afterwards, I love the tension, characters and setting!
Yeah i saw it at age 7, had nightmares for years, but omg i love this franchise like none other and this movie did it right!
One thing I really liked with Alien/s and the original SW trilogy is the unkempt nature of the main protagonists and the well-used look of the spacecraft.
No
A master class in filming and a master class in making this video, Niyat.
It's a shame that Ridley has lost his edge and is no longer the masterful artist that he once was.
Gladiator, Black Hawk Down, Kingdom of Heaven, American Gangster, The Martian. You don’t know much about good movies 🤣
@@bobbyblitz2379 Naming those movies just proves his point. Ridley Scott's only two good films are Alien and Blade Runner, and he subsequently went on to ruin both of them with stupid unicorn dreams ten years later and ridiculous prequels.
@@group-music correct I just went my own way with Alien.
Love the content as always Niyat!
Appreciate it brother!
Love it as usual, thank you for the deep dive. I’m always really excited to see a new video from you.
More to come, my friend!
As an 80s kid loved the aliens movie saw it first saw this second but loved it just as much. Most of this franchise has progressed well compared to other franchises
Well put together video on what started a great franchise. I never get tired of hearing about Alien and how beloved the movie and people who made it still are.
I love these sorts of analysis videos esp of my favorite movies. And being lucky enough to have seen in theater in 1979, thanks to my school friend "You gotta see this!" type of reaction to it. And I want to emphasize how vastly different Alien was from all the movies that came before it during the uninspired '70's. Recall maybe 90% of movies pre-1980 were long, slow, full of inexpensive-to-shoot dialogue, boring filler and "the plot" - and "Alien" was as different from those films as chalk and cheese. As a result, for the first viewing I was a bit uncomfortable with the much faster pace and complete absence of filler so at several points I was unable to fully process story events as they happened. Being used to the slow pace of story-telling of the times, a movie like "Alien", where every single scene is significant, and needs to be put in context almost right away, took a little getting used to, and it wasn't until the 3rd viewing that I really was able to take all of it in.
There was lots of great and exciting movies pre 1980
My favorite horror film
Its such a masterpiece!
It's a beautiful movie. Even down to the music.
@@filmcomicsexplainedyou should think about making a video exploring the movie Halloween
Classic horror and nostalgic on every level. An unrelenting enemy for any foe be it mankind or the venerable Predator. But in the comics Batman did a good job battling them.
We learned just how sketchy Android could be from this movie. This Android was definitely no Bender.
I love seeing the succes of this channel, don't remember the first video I watched, just that it had that intro with comics and a song, and as always an amazing narration and production value
Hey champ! Thanks for sticking around for so long. Really appreciate you fam :)
@filmcomicsexplained No thanks to U to keep making such amazing content and dedicating hundreds of hours to give us quality content
This is a classic that absolutely holds up.
Awesome video like always, the writing of this episode is as good as the content being covered. Keep killing it man!
Alien, the perfect movie
My sole criticism is the speed with which the newly "born" alien grows bigger than a man
Agree!
@@drewgoin8849How is this a criticism? The Chestburster disappeared hours after it killed Kane, during a funeral of his death and when they try to search the parasite as it hides, cocooning itself and hatch into an adult like a butterfly, because the Xenomorph gained a whole lot of biological matter from the host when impregnating and the emergence is when it’s time to grow.
This was really well done. I’m hoping you’ll do the sequel too.
This IS the single greatest deep dive review out there on Alien. The way you do your videos just fits with the Alien itself and reviewing it, going into the biggest points to the movie, characters, production background, etc. Perfect!
I will agree this probably the most comprehensive review of the film and the best one I've seen. I dunno if yr subbed to alien theory but u should check his stuff out too.
@@TheDevilinThePaleMoonlight Oh yea, I am. Thanks for the suggestion, regardless.
I'm always amazed at the high quality of your analyses. Thanks Niyat, this is my #1 favorite spooky franchise. 👾
This boutta be lit 🎉
Alien (1979) is my favorite horror movie of all time and the original Xenomorph is my favorite design of the franchise. Ridley Scott did the impossible and he nailed it back in 1979.
The year I was born lol!
I am playing Alien Isolation Crew Expandable and Lone Survivor DLCs this Halloween...
Yes I love this channel. FIRST !
The vid I’ve been waiting for you to do for years, I’m here for it💯
I remember when I saw this I was about 7. At a birthday party, I went to use the bathroom right after the Alien popped out of the stomach.
The light switch was outside. Needless to say, somebody turned off the light while I was in there and it scared the crap out of me! 😂
RIP, Ian Holm, Ash.
The perfect sci-fi motion picture that gave us the perfect (and now highly iconic) sci-fi creature ever seen.
A masterpiece. A work of art in writing, acting, directing and all aspects of the film production. Congratulations on all the many persona who made that beautiful work possible.
And the video is excellent!
In my opinion The Queen Alien is and always will be the most intimidating, yet majestic design of the AvP universe.
The scene were Ripley and Us as the Audience first see The Queen Alien is Bad Ass Awesome.
Probably why the Queen is a skin for the Xenomorph in Dead by Daylight.
Alien and Predator are two very separate universes.
When I was a kid, the commercials/trailers for this movie when it was to be shown on HBO, scared the sh*t out of me!
Since then, it’s been one of my favorite movies, and i always watch it before or on Halloween.
There are so many documentaries on this as well.
The video game, ‘Alien: Isolation’ is the only game that truly captured the horror and was the only game that came close to giving me a heart attack.
Alien showed a very believable sci-fi universe, with ‘space truckers’ and dirty tech, which is a nice contrast to the clean sterility of Star Trek.
Sigourney Weaver's acting prowess is simply unmatched. Jaw dropping performance.
Excellent video! You really knocked it out of the park.
Thankyou
I love these reviews. Alien has to be among the top 5 SF movies of all time.
I have 4 original HR prints, limited edition, signed and numbered. Cost me a bit but well worth it in my opinion, he’s a incredible artist
Alien is that movie you saw as a kid that gave you nightmares for years, only to later in life become your favorite film. Almost like you triumph over your own fears and learn to admire the beast.
This is one of MY favorite franchises too. ‘Freakin love Alien.
This was the first horror film I ever saw. At around 8 or 9 years old. It simultaneously brought me into loving sci-fi, horror, film, and story telling. This may well be what put me on my path. Cannot express how much I love and owe this film. Thank you to everyone involved, you're all legends and should be held far and above the mediocrity of today.
Facehuggers when your Seafood fights back.
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Never seen peeps eat live baby squids ?effin throathuggers.
That was a brilliant encapsulation of what Alien is about!
Well done mate. Another class video.
Truly can't express how grateful I am that you produced a video on this masterpiece of a movie.
Such movies may never be reproduced given the requirements of this production.
My all time fav. Thanks for posting chief ❤
😭 I can't wait for all these October spooky lore videos
I just live how enclosed and trapped we all feel watching this film because there's nowhere to run and it just makes it that much better! And the fact that Semiotic standard was created for this and is now used in many different sci fi films now
I know how important Aliens was to you during that time in your life. So, it’s great to see you do the first one, Alien. Great job as always. Keep up the outstanding work!
Love the introduction and explanation of this masterpiece. Especially the in-depth look of the characters and how plausible they were.
A wonderful start to my weekend Niyat, thank you 👌
You are welcome!
It's a shame they don't make films with this kind of quality and originality anymore. Movies like this are like finding a diamond buried in the desert these days
Nearly a hour - fantastic video 🫶
I just wanted to say your writing is beautiful. Amazing work
Most realistic part of the movie: Coroporations see the most deadly orgasm known to man kind and think "So How can we profit off this?"
Love your channel. :-) thank you for these videos.
Wow, what a great review of this film. The best I’ve seen.
Our favorite Movie.... thank you Niyat 🤗
Great Video. Thanks for so much artistic inspiration🎉
This is almost as sad as Geoffrey the Toys R Us Giraffe. Icons of the past. Great video as always minty I almost shed a tear when you mentioned how Ronald was us.
Your videos will never cease to entertain me.
Alien is my all-time favorite horror film!
I don't just know their names, I know the characters. I care about them. Which makes the tension palatable and their deaths all the more painful. That's some great writing and acting.
This was my issue with the newer movies. I just didn't care what happened to most of them.
Wonderful writing on this video script!
Great video!!!
Niyat uploads a ALIEN video *
ALIEN is back in the menu boys !!
Also great work once again thank you 😊
I'm glad you're doing this one
Perfect video on this iconic/classic sci fi horror movie that has stood the test of time.
Ripley: How long for repairs?
Brett: Seventeen hours.
Parker: At least twenty-five hours.
Scotty: Aye, that's the ticket lad!
I have the DVD and rewatched it many times. That, and John Carpenter's "The Thing" are masterpieces of the art of movie making.
Great video as always!! Please do the Aliens from No One Will Save You!!!
Love this channel
you know you've enjoyed a film review when you spend most of it going..oh yeah..Great job!
As a kid i discovered my love for horror when i saw the balrog from lord of the rings (it was genuinely terrifying to 4 year old me) and 5 years later my dad let me watch this. Easily one of my favorite movies of all time, and my first exposure to cosmic horror and dread.
Seeing this movie for the first time (I saw it just before Aliens came out), is one of my favorite childhood memories. It was and still is amazing. I got to see the alternate cut on the big screen too!
It went off the rails with resurrection to me.
Prometheus is a cool movie and could have been a great standalone film to explain it all as a prequel...
Thanks for the video!! See you later!! Stay safe.😊
I admire its purity
You still don't understand what you're dealing with, do you? A perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility
I carnt lie about your chances but you have my sympathys
@@filmcomicsexplained and the perfect errors made by the Engineers to make it a monster.
You guys don’t miss🙏🏾
My man Parker, never got to talk about that bonus situation. 😂😂
All of the actors in this movie were amazing! This movie is a masterpiece. Love this and the second movie.
My mom recently got a grey cat and decided to name her Ripley after one of her favorite characters from one of her favorite movies.
Sir Ian Holm RIP
A game changer, just stunning :)