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| Year: | 1997 |
| Rating: | 6.1(66052) |
| Listed in: | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller |
| Directed by: | Jean-Pierre Jeunet |
| Actors: | Dominique Pinon Ron Perlman Gary Dourdan Michael Wincott Sigourney Weaver Winona Ryder |
| "Witness the resurrection." | |
Cast
| Directed by | |
|---|---|
| Jean-Pierre Jeunet | |
| Actors | |
| Dominique Pinon | as Vriess |
| Ron Perlman | as Johner |
| Gary Dourdan | as Christie |
| Michael Wincott | as Frank Elgyn |
| Dan Hedaya | as Gen. Martin Perez |
| J.E. Freeman | as Dr. Mason Wren |
| Brad Dourif | as Dr. Jonathan Gediman |
| Raymond Cruz | as Vincent Distephano |
| Leland Orser | as Larry Purvis |
| David St. James | as Surgeon |
| Rodney Mitchell | as Soldier with Glove |
| Robert Faltisco | as Soldier Shot Through Helmet |
| David Rowe | as Frozen Soldier |
| Garrett House | as Soldier |
| Rod Damer | as Soldier |
| Mark Mansfield | as Soldier |
| Daniel Raymont | as Soldier |
| Cris D'Annunzio | as Soldier |
| Steven Gilborn | as Voice of 'Father' |
| Robert Bastens | as Sleeper |
| Rico Bueno | as Sleeper |
| Alex Lorre | as Sleeper |
| Ronald Ramessar | as Sleeper |
| Tom Woodruff Jr. | as Lead Alien |
| Archie Hahn | as Newborn Vocal #2 |
| Nito Larioza | as Sleeper |
| Brad Martin | as Soldier Shot by Johner |
| David Prior | as Alien |
| Eddie Yansick | as Soldier Who Stuns Ripley |
| Actresses | |
| Sigourney Weaver | as Ellen Ripley |
| Winona Ryder | as Annalee Call |
| Kim Flowers | as Sabra Hillard |
| Carolyn Campbell | as Carlyn Williamson (Anesthesiologist) |
| Marlene Bush | as Scientist |
| Nicole Fellows | as Young Ripley |
| Joan LaBarbara | as Newborn Vocal #1 |
| Regan DuCasse | as Surgeon |
Movie info
| Languages: | English |
| Filming dates: | 18 November 1996 - 24 April 1997 |
| Budget: | USD 70,000,000 |
| Gross: |
USA - 47,748,610 USD (15 February 1998) UK - 7,208,262 GBP (11 January 1998) Worldwide - 98,900,000 USD (3 May 1998) (except USA) Germany - 20,884,816 DEM (5 January 1998) Spain - 5,498,953 EUR (31 August 2002) |
| Plot: | Two hundred years after Ellen Ripley died trying to eliminate the Alien species, they brought her back from blood samples taken earlier. It took several tries, and un-fortunate failures to get it right, but they weren't interested in Ellen Ripley- they wanted the alien inside her; and they got it, but they got more than they bargained for. When the aliens grew smart, they broke out of their enclosures. When the crew tried to run, they killed them. And when the Queen's secret was revealed, it exposed a bizare DNA mix-up that left both Ripley and the queen's genetics intertwined; giving light to a new alien that could spell certain doom for Earth. |
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"I'm Popeye the Sailor Man" Written by Samuel Lerner (as Sammy Lerner) Whistled by Dominique Pinon "JuliusPriva son d'ogni conforto" From the opera "Julius Caesar" By George Frideric Handel (as Georg Friedrich Händel) Sung by Maureen Forrester Courtesy of BMG Classics |
Goofs
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Continuity: The blood disappears from the newborn's hand between shots when it caresses Ripley's face. FAIR: Ripley retains an inherited genetic memory, even though she's a newborn in some sense. Continuity: When the alien reaches up through the grating and they show Elgyn getting pulled down, there is a big hole burned into the grate in front of him that was not there just a second before. Continuity: The figure 8 on Ripley's arm is missing in some scenes. SYNC: In the nest, when the scientist says: "First everything was normal...", the movements of his lips clearly doesn't match the spoken words. Continuity: The look of the legs does not correspond between the practical and computer-generated Aliens; the CG ones have an extra joint at the ankle, while the practical Alien shot by Vriess is shown with human looking ankles (i.e. without an extra joint) as it is seen crouched on the grate from below. Also, it lacks the long toes of the CG Aliens, instead having more human-like feet. Revealing mistakes: As Vriess hangs from the ladder with Christie on his back you can see the harness tying him to the ladder. Continuity: When Christie draws his guns behind his back, the following shot shows his arms by his sides hanging casually with no guns. Continuity: When the guards discover metal on Johner, Call is looking up/down between shots. Continuity: When Ripley undergoes surgery, Gediman cuts her chest below her breasts. Later, Wren checks the scar which appears in the upper section of the chest, between her breasts. Continuity: When Call gets into Ripley's cell, she takes a stiletto from her left boot with her left hand. In the next shot, as she walks towards Ripley, she's holding it with her right hand. Revealing mistakes: The barbell Christie swings at Ripley is bent, revealing it to be rubber (it's straight in the previous shot, where he punches it in her face). FAIR: In the first three films, it takes an extremely long time (long enough to require freezing of the passengers) to get between populated places in space. In this film, the ship is able to travel from "unregulated space" to Earth itself in as little as three hours. However, we have no idea what "unregulated space" is (it could be very near Earth for all we know) and there have been two hundred years of technological development since the first three films anyway. Continuity: After the operation, Ripley is held in a "staging area" in what looks like a thin sleeping bag. In the first scene her legs and her head clearly stick out. In the next scene, she is inside the bag and has to slice it open with her fingernails. SYNC: In the fight in the gym, Ripley hits Christie with the basketball, knocking him to the floor. As he falls, he is no longer holding the barbell, but there is no sound of it hitting the floor. Revealing mistakes: After Ripley falls into the Queen's nest, a pan out shot shows the Auriga heading towards Earth, however, as seen by the visible landmasses, the image is transposed (East Africa, Red Sea, and Arabian Peninsula have been flipped across a vertical axis). Continuity: The size of the blood splatter Ripley tosses to the floor of the gym changes between shots. SYNC: SPOILER: When Call is about to be shot, the doctor says "You really are way too trusting" but the movements of his mouth suggest he is saying something completely different. SYNC: When Ripley awakens in the Alien nest, the shot opens with one of the scientists speaking about evolution. Despite the speech delivered in his voice, the actor seems to just be making random movements with his mouth, as if he is literally saying "Blah blah blah". Fact errors: Shock waves travel very far in water. In the underwater scene, every human would have been killed instantly from the grenade launcher shot at the alien. Fact errors: SPOILER: Near the end just before when the newborn is sucked out into space, the hole in the window is just too small to create a suction of that strength as seen in the film, and one atmosphere of air pressure would be too little to squeeze the alien out of the ship regardless. Fact errors: With the release of this film, the Alien Trilogy VHS set became the Alien Saga. However on DVD, it was renamed to the Alien "Quadrilogy". Quadrilogy is not a real word. There is already a word for a series of four: "Tetralogy". Fact errors: SPOILER: In the scene, where Ripley's blood breaches the window in the Betty's cargo hold and the Newborn is sucked out, judging by size of the ship, a cargo hold of that size should've been decompressed in mere seconds. The time it takes for the ship to fully enter Earth's atmosphere would've been more than enough to decompress the entire ship, let alone the cargo hold. FAIR: When Ripley drives Call's knife through her wrist it does not get damaged by the acid in her blood even though it's soaked in it. In other scenes just a few drops of Ripley's blood burn through thick metal, which would suggest that the knife's blade should also get burnt. However, Call's knife may be made by some alloy, not just simple steel, but added with cadmium/vanadium/iridium that make it unassailable by acids. Crew: In the shot just before the clone lab scene, nine people walk past the camera. At that point in the movie there are only eight people. Fact errors: SPOILER: Near the end of the film after the human/alien hybrid had just been sucked out of the hull breach, the ship is shown to be entering Earth's atmosphere. Even though the entire ship is awash with flames reaching 3000 degrees, the only effect in the room with the breach is sparks and flame coming from the hole. In reality, the interior of the hull would have begun to melt, and the increase in drag from the breach would have thrown the ship wildly off course, or even into a spin. CHAR: Doctor Gediman and Ripley both refer to the planet on which the original Ripley died as "Fury Sixteen". However, the planet they are referring to, from Alien³ (1992), was actually "Fury 161". GEOG: SPOILER: In the first view of Earth from space, the image is reversed. The horn of Africa, with the Red Sea above it, is pointing west instead of east. FAIR: SPOILER: After Ripley falls into the Alien's Den and taken to the Queen, that is when she finds out her gift to the alien creature is a human reproductive system. The Queen gives birth to the new hybrid. However, if that alien was given a human reproductive system, how was the queen impregnated? The Aliens reproduce in an asexual way. The Queen fertilized herself and gave birth to the hybrid. FAIR: SPOILER: If Ripley's gift to the Alien Queen is a human reproductive system, why is she laying eggs? As a human female develops one ovum an a cycle, the Queen Alien does herself; the Eggs were the first cycle, the Newborn hybrid was the second. |
Quotes
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Elgyn: She is severely fuckable, ain't she? Annalee Call: You're a thing, a construct. They grew you in a fucking lab. Johner: Right, you're the "new model" droid. You can access the mainframe by remote. Annalee Call: No, I can't. I burned my modem. We all did. Ripley: Why do you care what happens to them? Annalee Call: Because I'm programmed to. Ripley: You're programmed to be an asshole? You're the new asshole model they're putting out? Ripley: Who do I have to fuck to get off this boat? Johner: I can get you off. Maybe not the boat. Johner: Don't push me, little Call. You hang with us for a while, you'll find out I am not the man with whom to fuck! Johner: Earth, man. What a shithole. Johner: Hey, Vriess, you got a socket wrench? Maybe she just needs an oil change. Can't believe I almost fucked it. Vriess: Yeah, like you never fucked a robot. Purvis: God, I'm so tired. Johner: Sleep when you die, man. Annalee Call: Jesus Christ, Johner, what do you put in this shit, battery acid? Johner: Just for color. Johner: Hey, Ripley. I heard you, like, ran into these things before? Ripley: That's right. Johner: Wow, man. So, like, what did you do? Ripley: I died. Purvis: [shouting] What's in-fucking-side me? Ripley: There's a monster in your chest. These guys hijacked your ship, and they sold your cryo tube to this... human. And he put an alien inside of you. It's a really nasty one. And in a few hours you're gonna die. Any questions? Purvis: Who are you? Ripley: I'm the monster's mother. Distephano: I thought you were dead Ripley: Yeah, I get that a lot. Elgyn: Hey, son, I'll give ya my authorization code. It's E-A, T-M, E. Johner: What's the big deal, man? Fuckin' waste of ammo. Christie: Let's go. Johner: Must be a chick thing. Johner: I'm not the mechanic here, Ironsides! I mostly just hurt people! Dr. Wren: I think you will find that, uh, things have changed a great deal since your time. Ripley: I doubt that. Annalee Call: He is breeding an alien species. More than dangerous. If those things get loose, it's gonna make the Lacerta Plague look like a fucking square dance! General Perez: Ellen Ripley died trying to wipe this species out. For all intents and purposes, she succeeded! [when the Betty hits Earth's atmosphere] Johner: What's burning? Vriess: Us! Johner: Shit! You're right! [when the Alien "baby" emerges from the Queen's womb] Dr. Gediman: You are... a beautiful, beautiful, butterfly. Johner: [to Call] Kill you! Does that compute? Johner: You can't fly one of these things too, can you? Ripley: Are you kidding? This piece of shit is even older than I am. Ripley: Does it grow? Dr. Gediman: Yeah. Very rapidly. Ripley: It's a queen. Dr. Gediman: How did you know that? Ripley: She'll breed. You'll die. Everyone in the company will die. [General Perez offers Elgyn a drink] General Perez: Drink, Elgyn? Elgyn: Constantly. [first lines] Ripley: [voiceover] My mommy always said there were no monsters. No real ones. But there are. [last lines] Annalee Call: [about the Earth] It's beatiful. Ripley: Yeah. Annalee Call: I didn't expect it to be. What happens now? Ripley: I don't know. I'm a stranger here myself. Dr. Wren: Distephano, take the weapons. Distephano: Begging your pardon, sir, but FUCK YOU! Dr. Gediman: [after watching the massacre in the mess hall] Security! There is a serious problem in the mess hall! Annalee Call: Father's dead, asshole. Intruder on level one. All aliens, please proceed to level one. Annalee Call: [about leaving Ripley, who has just been sucked into the alien lair, behind] It's not right! Purvis: I've been saying that all day. Ripley: You did it. You saved the Earth. Johner: I thought synthetics were supposed to be all logical and shit. You're just a big ol' psycho girl! Johner: Well, I say if we wanna make any decent time, I say we ditch the cripple. [to Vriess] No offense, man. Vriess: [giving him the finger] None taken! [a soldier prods Johner in the back with a rifle. Johner spins and snatches it away in an eyeblink] Johner: Don't ever touch me! [returns it just as fast] Ever! Dr. Wren: Then this little synthetic bitch is gonna plug into the Auriga, and she is gonna take us right back to home base, according to the standard emergency procedures. Annalee Call: No, she's not! Distephano: Are you crazy? You still wanna bring those things back to Earth? Johner: Haven't you been payin' attention today? Dr. Wren: Ah, the intellectual speaks. Vriess: [Strapped to Christie's back, about to traverse the flooded kitchen] Hey Christie, do me a favour. When we hit the surface on the other side, no backstroke, okay! |
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