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In space no one can hear you scream.
Alien is an influential science fiction series that began with the film Alien, which was released on May 25, 1979. The film became a pop culture phenomenon and spawned three more feature films and an extensive collection of licensed books, comics, video games, toys, and other products — all of which are set within a fictional future era. In 2004 the film series was officially crossed with the Predator series with the release of the film Alien vs. Predator (based on an earlier comic book), which was set in the present era. That film spawned a sequel and merchandise line of its own, merging the fictional storylines of the two franchises into a single continuity.
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- Winona Ryder wanted to use a body double to film her parts in the underwater scene of Alien Resurrection because she suffered anxiety from nearly drowning at age 12 and had not been in the water since? She agreed to film the scene because the body double would be too obvious to audiences due to the difference in hair length, but suffered from anxiety on the first day of filming.
- Roughly 70% of the creature effects shots in Alien vs. Predator were created using suits, puppets, and miniatures rather than computer-generated imagery (CGI), as director Paul W.S. Anderson wanted the monsters to be "there in the frame"? CGI tails were added to the Aliens and the queen, as they were difficult to animate using puppetry.
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Ellen Ripley is the chief protagonist of the Alien series of films, played by actress Sigourney Weaver in all four movies of the series. The character debuted in the 1979 film Alien and was Weaver's first leading role in a motion picture. Ripley serves as the Warrant Officer on the spaceship Nostromo, which faces a serious threat when an Alien is accidentally brought onboard from planet LV-426. Ripley defeats the creature and is the only survivor. She returns in Aliens (1986) to lead a group of Marines back to LV-426, and has a climactic fight with the Alien queen. Alien 3 (1992) finds her on a prison planet battling yet another Alien, only to discover that she has an Alien queen growing inside her. Ripley commits suicide in order to keep her employer, the Weyland-Yutani corporation, from using the Aliens as biological weapons. In Alien Resurrection (1997) Ripley is cloned on a spaceship by the military so that they can extract the queen from her and raise Aliens of their own, which quickly escape. The clone Ripley uses newfound abilities such as enhanced strength and acidic blood to prevent the Aliens from reaching Earth. In the end Ripley finds herself back on Earth, over 250 years after she originally set out on the Nostromo. The character does not appear in either of the subseqent Alien vs. Predator films, which are set hundreds of years prior to Alien. In 2003 Ripley was named by the American Film Institute as the eighth greatest hero in American cinema history.
- "In space no one can hear you scream." - promotional tagline from Alien
- "Get away from her, you bitch!" - Ripley to the Alien queen in Aliens
- "This is Rumor Control. Here are the facts!" - Andrews in Alien 3
- "She'll breed. You'll die. Everyone in the company will die." - Ripley to Dr. Gediman in Alien Resurrection
- "We have to consider the possibility that we might not make it out of here." - Alexa in Alien vs. Predator
- "Fuck this Titanic bullshit, no women and children first!" - Drew in Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem
- "This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off." - Ripley in Alien and Alien 3
- "My mommy always said there were no monsters. No real ones. But there are." - Newt in Aliens, Ripley in Alien Resurrection
- "You've been in my life so long, I can't remember anything else." - Ripley to the Alien in Alien 3
- "Earth, man. What a shithole." - Johner in Alien Resurrection
- "You are one ugly mother..." - Alexa to an Alien in Alien vs. Predator
- "People are dying. We need guns!" - Dallas in Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem
- "Bones are bent outward, like he exploded from inside." - Dallas in Alien
- "That's it, man. Game over, man. Game over!" - Hudson in Aliens
- "When they first heard about this thing, it was 'crew expendable'. The next time they sent in marines. They were expendable too. What makes you think they're gonna care about a bunch of lifers who found God at the ass-end of space?" - Ripley in Alien 3
- "I'm the monster's mother." - Ripley in Alien Resurrection
- "They're not hunting us. We're in the middle of a war. It's time to pick a side." - Alexa in Alien vs. Predator
- "We're not gonna make it out of town without weapons, dickhead. You're too stupid to talk, Dale. Shut up!" - Dallas to Dale in Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem
- "Bring back life form. Priority One. All other priorities rescinded." - Ash in Alien
- "I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." - Ripley and Hicks in Aliens
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