Alien, le huitième passager
Ridley Scott
On board the Nostromo, a seven person crew is flying to Earth. A message whose content is as mysterious as its source, slows down the vessel's progress. Not without difficulty the crew lands and discovers a gigantic extraterrestrial spaceship, whose only passenger seems to have been killed in strange circumstances... "In space, no-one can hear you scream".
With : Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto
Screenplay : Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett
Image : Derek Vanlint
Decors : Ian Whittaker, Michael Seymour
Music : Jerry Goldsmith
Editing : David Crowther
Screenplay : Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett
Image : Derek Vanlint
Decors : Ian Whittaker, Michael Seymour
Music : Jerry Goldsmith
Editing : David Crowther
Production : Brandywine, Productions Ltd, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Gordon Carroll, David Giler, Walter Hill
Distribution: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Distribution: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Alien was produced and directed in the UK using American capital and actors. The move from The Duellists to Alien was a turning point in both Ridley Scott's career and his style. From a very European film Scott goes on to a "Hawksian treatment of a much more straightforward subject" (O. Assayas). "The question of nationalism is often raised, but for me a film is a film, I go where I get the most benefits", explained Scott. Scott was trained as a commercial artist and worked in advertising before making films. In Alien he used as few special effects as possible. For the most part all the sets are built. With Alien, he gained acceptance in the cinema of the use of graphic designers from graphic novels (H.R. Giger, Moebius, Ron Cobb). "When I start a film, I don't go and see the set designer, I first of all go to the illustrator who is the closest to the idea I have in mind".