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  1. fun, about Alien: In the original Alien script Ripley was a man, and little changed for Weaver beyond Ridley Scott stripping her to underwear at the end.
    “Ripley was a man.”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:47:31 · Sean Fennessey (0.55 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage): Alien → Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. Ripley stripped to underwear at the end is a vulnerability beat that Miasma echoes.
    “Yes, it is echoed in Teenage Tech”
    The Big Picture · The Final Girl Film Canon and ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’ With Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, and Jane Schoenbrun! · 0:47:57 · Adam Nayman (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. industry (industry): Ridley Scott → Alien. Scott has never won Best Director, absurd for the maker of Blade Runner and Alien.
    “This guy made Plate Runner an alien.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 1:14:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. contrast (contrast): Outland → Alien. Outland tries to be Alien and does not connect; it is not as bad as The Black Hole.
    “it's not as bad as black hole, but it's it's trying, it's trying to be alien and it's not, it's just not connecting.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis · 3:16:53 · Brian Michael Bendis (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. industry (industry): Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope → Alien. In Star Wars' wake came Alien and Blade Runner rather than more 4-color space operas.
    “the Star Wars Halo effect are like alien.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:13:21 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. industry (industry): Alejandro Jodorowsky → Alien. Jodorowsky's Dune gathered Giger, Moebius and O'Bannon before Alien.
    “Like before Alien, before anything else.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Dune with John Hodgman · 1:33:21 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  7. lineage (lineage): Eraserhead → Alien. The gooey animatronic creature work in Alien and later films may trace back to Eraserhead.
    “I mean, the thought that comes to mind is, um, alien.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Eraserhead (Ad-Free) · 1:29:21 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  8. lineage (sequel / genre shift): Alien → Aliens. Cameron's sequel to Ridley Scott's film shifted the genre, which raised expectations for any follow-up.
    “some other fucking guy is coming in and making a sequel to Ridley Scott's movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 0:50:21 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  9. lineage (lineage): Danny McBride → Alien. McBride is also a return to Harry Dean Stanton: someone with the wrong energy for a sci-fi movie.
    “McBride's also trying to sort of get back to a Harry Dean Stanton, kind of.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:16:07 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  10. contrast (contrast): Alien: Covenant → Alien. Alien films usually give a calm before the storm in hypersleep; Covenant throws you straight into trauma.
    “rather than ever getting the sort of calm before the storm that you usually get an alien movies”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:17:42 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  11. lineage (lineage): Alien: Covenant → Alien. Each Alien film has a different workforce; the original had blue-collar miners.
    “Like that's, you know, blue collar minors.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:38 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  12. contrast (contrast): Neomorph → Alien. The white, goofier neomorph lacks the xenomorph's industrial-design camouflage.
    “You're not doing the trick of, oh, it's hiding in the shadows, it's blending in with the industrial design of its environment”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:59:05 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  13. craft (craft): Jed Kurzel → Alien. Kurzel's score uses Jerry Goldsmith's notes from the first Alien but is its own thing.
    “it uses a lot of the Jerry Goldsmith notes”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:47:50 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  14. industry (industry): Alien: Covenant → Alien. Covenant checks the studio boxes (sex scene, shower kill) in the weirdest way.
    “Watching Ridley Scott clearly coming out of a meeting with Fox where they're like, look, we'll give you $90 million, but you got to give us these 10 things.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:53:24 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  15. lineage (lineage): Alien: Covenant → Alien. David's closing log-talk to the ship echoes Ripley's.
    “talking to the ship in the way that Ripley did.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 2:01:39 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  16. people (people): Walter Hill → Alien. Hill and Dan O'Bannon keep getting checks for every Alien-related film.
    “Walter Hill and Dan O'Bannon just continue to get fucking checks anytime they make anything alien related”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 2:02:08 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  17. fun, about Alien: Walter Hill and Dan O'Bannon collect checks on every Alien product; the original was never based on a comic or book.
    “Walter Hill and Dan O'Bannon just continue to get fucking checks anytime they make anything alien related”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 2:02:08 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  18. craft (craft): H.R. Giger → Alien. The franchise's iconography relies on Giger.
    “I do not know if this franchise would have stuck without that iconography.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 2:02:31 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  19. theme (theme): Alien Resurrection → Alien. Ridley Scott's Alien is sexual in a Freudian way; Resurrection is the overtly sexual one.
    “This is also the most overtly sexual of the alien movies.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:04:14 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  20. industry (industry): Alien → Kon-Tiki. Franchises now hand big movies to foreign directors; you make Kon-Tiki and get Pirates of the Caribbean.
    “Yeah, now it's you make kantiki and you get to make pirates of the Caribbean.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:12:52 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  21. industry (industry): Alien → Jean-Pierre Jeunet. The Alien series was already a franchise for early-career filmmakers.
    “Alien was one of the few franchises that already kind of functioned like that, where it was a franchise for early filmmakers.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:12:56 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  22. contrast (contrast): Winona Ryder → Alien. Call is asked to do what Ripley does in the first movie, but Weaver makes it sing and Ryder punches the clock.
    “what call is being asked to do here is not that different than what Ripley does in the 1st movie, except fucking Sigourney makes it sing.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:06:02 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  23. what-if (what-if): Alien → Neill Blomkamp. A Neill Blomkamp-type director might some day talk the studio into an Earth-set Alien sequel; Disney will do something.
    “I live in fear of the sort of Neil Blonde camp-esque director”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:51:35 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  24. industry (industry): Alien → Die Hard. Alien will be remade without its original star the way Die Hard will without Bruce Willis; the xenomorph design is too powerful to leave dormant.
    “In the same way, they'll make another diehard without Bruce Willis.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 1:52:06 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  25. industry (industry): Alien Resurrection → Alien. The first three Alien movies were summer releases; this one opened at Thanksgiving.
    “The 1st 3 are all summer releases, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 2:01:13 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  26. lineage (callback): Alien → Alien 3. The Bishop remains scene echoes the original film's reactivated-android scene.
    “And just kind of a fun throwback to the, uh, original alien thing where you like take the puppet, you kind of get it ready.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 0:58:26 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  27. lineage (callback): Alien → Alien 3. The ending coda replays Ripley's tape from the first film.
    “You play back her tape from the end of the 1st movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 2:07:28 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  28. people (people): Dan O'Bannon → Alien. O'Bannon, the writer of the number-two 1983 film, is described as co-creator of the Alien franchise.
    “Dana Bannon, co-creator of the Alien Franchise, correct?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Return of the Jedi · 2:11:58 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  29. lineage (inspiration): The Texas Chain Saw Massacre → Alien. Chainsaw is what inspired Ridley Scott to make Alien.
    “Texas Chainsaw Basker is what inspired Ridley Scott to make alien.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:51:40 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  30. craft (craft): Species → Alien. H.R. Giger, who designed the creatures in the Alien films, also designed the creature in Species.
    “Who designed the creatures in the alien films?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:12:34 · Bill Simmons (0.35 sure it was them)
  31. lineage (lineage): Species → Alien. Giger thought Species ripped off too many other alien movies, such as the chest-burster.
    “He thought the movie ripped off too many other alien movies”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Species’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan · 1:12:56 · Bill Simmons (0.30 sure it was them)
  32. lineage (lineage): Sigourney Weaver → Alien. Both the Working Girl role and the Alien role were originally written for a man.
    “the screenwriter said that her role was originally written as a man, which is true for her role in alien as well.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ With Bill Simmons, Amanda Dobbins, and Joanna Robinson · 0:27:04 · Joanna Robinson (0.60 sure it was them)
  33. unmapped (ensemble setup): Mission: Impossible → Alien. The Prague team is set up like Alien, a crew that knows each other, before being killed off.
    “they kind of set it up like Alien, where they're like, oh, these people like actually know each other and get along”
    The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' With Chris Ryan, Sean Fennessey, and Jason Concepcion · 0:28:43 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)