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#myfavouriteedits ALIEN is a masterpiece - and it includes this cut, there in plain sight. They had the coverage - so why didn't they cut around this? I admire its purity, a survivor, unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality. (Alien, 1979, Terry Rawlings)
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I saw it again last night and thought the same thing! A cut that I would normally try to avoid but it is imperceptible there. The scene is so good that absolutely nothing matters!
But also - it was definitely deliberate - they could have cut around this - it's not just that it doesn't matter, it's that this was a conscious decision - Like Penn and Teller explaining how they are doing their magic tricks as they do them. 🤯
I'd love to the earlier versions of the scene where they probably did try inserting a cutaway only to think "nah, remove it - it feels like a cheat with it but it feels convincing without it".
I think the unlimited, multiple versions of edits is a newer thing ... ALIEN was cut in 1979 on Hollywood Moviola and Steinbeck ... it's a different process which sometimes results in cuts like this.
Terry Rawlings is one of the unsung heroes of ALIEN. I was fortunate enough to correspond with Terry when working on Isolation. He was very generous with his time and insights. Lovely guy, sadly no longer with us.
The absence of a cut bothered me since I watched it for the first time as a teenager. Ripley could have gotten in front of the scene for a second and it would have worked
Thr way it's cut it almost looks like a silent jump scare and his neck supports just kicked in as his head reanimates.
I might be a bit dense but is there a specific cut I’m missing that you refer to? It’s a well cut scene but not sure if I’m missing something
Point proven. It's in that first shot ... they cut from the prosthetic to real head, right there in plain sight.
It's almost as if it's a documentary-like jump cut. Like it's telling you "Alright, we rebooted his systems now, let's skip that boring part. Now he looks human again"
![Sigourney Weaver on what she loved about her character in "Alien" (1979): "Interviewer: Ripley is now seen as this feminist action hero. Did you think about that or the politics of your representation at the time? Weaver: What I loved about Ripley in the first one, thanks to [producers] Walter [Hill] and David [Giler], and in the second one, thanks to Jim Cameron, was that I didn't really feel like a badass heroine ever. What I felt was like you or me in this situation, [wondering] what the f**k you were going to do. It was an everyman character that could be any of us. That was very unusual at the time that a character, a woman character, went through a whole film, doing difficult things by herself, a lot of the time, and didn't have some scene where she bursts into tears and cries in a corner for a while. Because I'm telling you, in those days, they really wanted women to be sympathetic. And that meant that either you had to be in a little skirt and run around, or you had to have these scenes where you cried and broke down because they thought if you didn't that you would seem unfeminine. So I was so lucky that I avoided all of that because I was doing science fiction, because I was in the future. And I was just playing this character who was put in this situation. And it was written like a man. It wasn't written like the way they wrote women in those days." ("At 28, Sigourney Weaver Was Thrust Into An Alien World", Zosha Millman, Bustle, 2021) P.S: On this day, 47 years ago, "Alien" (1979) had its limited release in the USA.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2058991239111057408/amplify_video_thumb/2058987533217005568/img/NU4Gev0XV3p_BVjD.jpg)
