Comments on: Danger Gal Friday: Ellen Ripley http://www.lisapaitzspindler.com/blog/2007/03/16/danger-gal-friday-ellen-ripley/ Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:10:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Lisa Spindler http://www.lisapaitzspindler.com/blog/2007/03/16/danger-gal-friday-ellen-ripley/#comment-83 Lisa Spindler Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:40:13 +0000 http://lisapaitzspindler.com/blog/?p=98#comment-83 I'll try to think of the Alien as a dragonfly and then maybe she won't freak me out so much. :) I can't even look at the carpenter ant thing without getting the heebie jeebies. I've seen some of Griger's drawings. He's amazing. I’ll try to think of the Alien as a dragonfly and then maybe she won’t freak me out so much. :) I can’t even look at the carpenter ant thing without getting the heebie jeebies. I’ve seen some of Griger’s drawings. He’s amazing.

]]> By: MC http://www.lisapaitzspindler.com/blog/2007/03/16/danger-gal-friday-ellen-ripley/#comment-82 MC Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:16:19 +0000 http://lisapaitzspindler.com/blog/?p=98#comment-82 Actually, it was the Swiss surrealist H. R. Giger who originally designed the aliens. http://www.hrgiger.com/ Actually, it was the Swiss surrealist H. R. Giger who originally designed the aliens.

http://www.hrgiger.com/

]]> By: MC http://www.lisapaitzspindler.com/blog/2007/03/16/danger-gal-friday-ellen-ripley/#comment-81 MC Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:15:14 +0000 http://lisapaitzspindler.com/blog/?p=98#comment-81 When making Alien, Ridley Scott found inspiration in the dragonfly, which opens its large outer jaws so that the retractable inner set of jaws can protrude from the mouth and capture prey at a distance. This all happens too quickly for the human eye to register - within milliseconds. It's is a true wonder of nature; it has been captured with slow-mo time lapse photography by David Attenborough. Unfortunately, I've searched the web high and low but can't find the clip anywhere. Regarding the scene where the alien bursts out of John Hurt's chest, check out the manipulative parasites: http://neurophilosophy.wordpress.com/2006/11/20/brainwashed-by-a-parasite/ PS. Thanks for thinking of me as a thinker! When making Alien, Ridley Scott found inspiration in the dragonfly, which opens its large outer jaws so that the retractable inner set of jaws can protrude from the mouth and capture prey at a distance.

This all happens too quickly for the human eye to register - within milliseconds. It’s is a true wonder of nature; it has been captured with slow-mo time lapse photography by David Attenborough. Unfortunately, I’ve searched the web high and low but can’t find the clip anywhere.

Regarding the scene where the alien bursts out of John Hurt’s chest, check out the manipulative parasites:
http://neurophilosophy.wordpress.com/2006/11/20/brainwashed-by-a-parasite/

PS. Thanks for thinking of me as a thinker!

]]> By: lisa http://www.lisapaitzspindler.com/blog/2007/03/16/danger-gal-friday-ellen-ripley/#comment-73 lisa Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:56:57 +0000 http://lisapaitzspindler.com/blog/?p=98#comment-73 I thought that I read this bit about Amanda somewhere, but when I sat down to write the article I couldn't find it. Thanks for filling in the blanks. I knew that you would know all about it. ;) I thought that I read this bit about Amanda somewhere, but when I sat down to write the article I couldn’t find it. Thanks for filling in the blanks. I knew that you would know all about it. ;)

]]> By: Scott Brewer http://www.lisapaitzspindler.com/blog/2007/03/16/danger-gal-friday-ellen-ripley/#comment-72 Scott Brewer Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:19:08 +0000 http://lisapaitzspindler.com/blog/?p=98#comment-72 :-D Now I'll smile. Ripley rocks. She most certainly has a maternal side. In the Director's cut of Aliens, she is visited by Carter Burke (Paul Reiser) who informs her that her daugter Amanda died just 2 years previous—at the ripe old age of 66. Ripley mentions she'd promised Amanda she'd be home for her 11th birthday. She then loses Newt in Alien 3, along with her new almost BF, Dwayne Hicks. Alien 3 was so hard to watch. Check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Ripley Lisa, you so rock. :-D

Now I’ll smile. Ripley rocks. She most certainly has a maternal side. In the Director’s cut of Aliens, she is visited by Carter Burke (Paul Reiser) who informs her that her daugter Amanda died just 2 years previous—at the ripe old age of 66.

Ripley mentions she’d promised Amanda she’d be home for her 11th birthday.

She then loses Newt in Alien 3, along with her new almost BF, Dwayne Hicks. Alien 3 was so hard to watch.

Check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Ripley

Lisa, you so rock.

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