As requested by Dave, this week's greatest movie scene comes from ALIEN, a movie which changed our whole perception of what the science fiction genre could be when it opened at the back end of the 1970's.
As requested by Dave, this week's greatest movie scene comes from Alien, a movie which changed our whole perception of what the science fiction genre could be when it opened at the back end of the 1970's. Director Ridley Scott was the first storyteller to showcase real characters as passengers on a space ship, I believe this is the first movie that portrayed being part of a crew as just a job. The characters aren't members of the Starship Enterprise. These are the first working class passengers in space, and it made for some original viewing that allowed us to sympathise much more with these characters than we could with the Star Trek or even Star Wars crew. This scene is just one of the many great one's in the film. It's the dinner scene, which I believe has been tagged 'the last supper' and it's one of those that hit it note perfect. It works because it's so tense that ya know something terrible is going to happen because of the direction of Scott but you can't quite work out what it is and then when it arrives, your totally shocked. Still gets me everytime. I always think it's the great Ian Holm that makes this damn scene near the end. Such intense looks, such fear in his eyes.
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