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the jurogan experience what are other sci-fi favorites of yours alien alien yeah that's why i was really excited when i heard that you were at least potentially at one point in time thinking about doing an alien yeah it would have been cool what happened it's just you know just studio politics and the um i do i do think that the way that chappie was received probably played a role in me not working on alien uh but you know it's it's ridley's world that he created and it's like it should be his to do what he wants with so it it's it's all good yeah i get that but still would have been fun yeah i would have been fun for me as well i mean the the thing that i i would have really enjoyed about it was sigourney weaver was really down for what i'd written and she that the main thing to me was even though i like alien 3 and i love fincher as a director i just wanted a version of of the continuation of what happened after aliens and for newt to be alive and for you know for ripley to continue that story um and it was sort of based on that idea is the kid who played newt how old is she now um i i mean in my story she was she was in her uh kind of mid-20s um i mean in reality i mean alien just aliens just turned 35 so she must be you know like 44 or something isn't that wild yeah it's wild when you find out that the movie the original was from the 70s 79 yeah like what yeah it seems so much more current yeah than in 1970 i mean that's one of the things that's amazing about it is is how timeless it is yeah you know and and also just i mean a lot of it i saw it in a theater a couple of years ago and i couldn't believe just the quality of everything you know it's really amazing how well it was filmed i accidentally watched the blu-ray version of aliens and it's kind of hilarious because in the blu-ray version things that were not meant to be hd are now hd so there's a scene where the spaceships are lined up and there's clearly a mural of spaceships in the background it looks
so [ __ ] fake oh you mean a matte painting yeah so when they're in the solaco when they're in the when they're in the the military ship the big one yes right i think i think i know what you mean it looks so corny i'm like no because there's you know there's like this physical ship yeah and then behind it it's just some [ __ ] it's like it's so clear that they used you know they expected like focus and you know the kind of graininess of film right mask that yeah matt paintings pre-computer graphics were done on panes of glass and so um i mean in a way aliens is like an using the technology that they had at the time is actually like totally incredible but i know i do know what you're saying though i mean for for audiences now weaned on the stuff that we're that we have access to you know these techniques are so dated but it would be a large pane of glass like a shower piece of glass and then they would paint what they want the set to look like and shoot through it with your other real environments as well that's why the shot's always locked off right they're always stable obviously you can't move right so yeah aliens was interesting by itself if alien didn't exist the problem with aliens is these creatures are so bumbling and easy to kill like in the first movie that thing was so clever pure terror yeah pure terror so clever and and so good at sneaking up on people i mean i think the thing that cameron did with the second film was pretty amazing though in the way that he was he made it he made it militaristic it changed the the context and so i think because of that and also there was the kind of vietnam war high technology low technology sort of parable at play yes um so it was two forces you know in which case it makes the aliens be more there's there's an abundance of them right um but i i i almost like both films equally i think both both approaches watch the entire episode for free only on spotify