Alien 1 Director's Cut (German) - Where the Eggs come from

Scary scene from the Director's Cut that was omitted in the cinema version. The original Alien lifecycle did not rely on a Queen.

From Wikipedia: "One scene that was cut from the film occurred during Ripley's final escape from the Nostromo: she encounters Dallas and Brett who have been partially cocooned by the Alien. O'Bannon had intended the scene to indicate that Brett was becoming an Alien egg while Dallas was held nearby to be implanted by the resulting facehugger. Production Designer Michael Seymour later suggested that Dallas had "become sort of food for the alien creature", while Ivor Powell suggested that "Dallas is found in the ship as an egg, still alive." Scott remarked that "they're morphing, metamorphosing, they are changing into...being consumed, I guess, by whatever the Alien's organism is...into an egg." The scene was cut partly because it did not look realistic enough and partly because it slowed the pace of the escape sequence."

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• alien
• eggs
• ripley
• xenomorph
• disgusting
• director's
• cut

[kamalamasama]

I allways thought the people were hung up on the walls, so that the baby aliens could use them as their host. But in this scene it seems like the people are the one's being made into eggs. Strange.

[lilbrothaaa]

@kamalamasama That was Cameron's idea.

[Blackhound192]

Is brett still alive at this point like dallas?

[lilbrothaaa]

@Blackhound192 Since the Alien burst his skull with its jaw I'd say he's clinically dead but maybe his other body parts are still technically alive at that moment.

[ojideagu]

@narcoman2 I found 1982 "The thing" just as interesting as Alien in terms of characters suspense and dialogue, combating an unknown Alien and the distrust all the characters have of each other. Yet also a nice slice of action and gore.

A interesting direction for Alien would have been to make it as grotesque as the artwork that inspired it. The sense of rape and violation of the creatures sexually violating, impregnating and abusing their host. The sense of physical invasion and disgust

[TheCreature81]

I would argue that discussing a deleted scene from the original film and citing a sequel by a different screenwriter as evidence doesn't make a lot of sense. I'm assuming that the person or persons who wrote the sequel did not see this scene at all. As for the idea, there is a bit of dialogue in the space jockey scene: "I wonder what happened to the rest of the crew." The implication (made absolutely glaring in the novel) was that the "rest of the crew" were discovered by Executive Officer Kane.

[UgyvanPlancsiznakEgy]

Still, even if human bodies could have been turned into eggs, the Xenomorph still needs to lay "something", which will eventually spawn a facehugger. A standard Xenomorph can't lay any kind of eggs, so it could not reproduce itself, no matter what. Their only task is to get new hosts for the facehuggers the Queen spawns, but the Xenomorph doesn't give a damn about whether or not there is a Queen present - it just does what its instincts tell.

[Nighscout]

@kamalamasama No, You're right, the Xenomorphs (aliens) hang them on the walls so the facehuggers can get them easier. I know the queen wasn't there, but I think was just acting on a capture prey instinct.

[slightlyoutofreach01]

@NexCarnifex You'd have to refresh my memory as to what parts of Alien 3 didn't make much sense, I haven't watched in ages.

And Resurrection... I like to pretend that movie never happened. ._.

[NexCarnifex]

@slightlyoutofreach01 do you think the alien 3 movie and Resurrection movie are canon despite parts of them making no scientific or continual sense?

[500krg]

@slightlyoutofreach01 "turning human bodies into eggs? It's implausible and silly." just imagine that the facehugger egg feeds on the body of its host and gets progressively bigger to the point that all of it is consumed. it's not that far from what happens in nature...

[TheFaisalano]

@maypakialam Thats just disturbing...xD

[slightlyoutofreach01]

@MrLotus2035 "This Alien was not supposed to be a naturally occurring creature but something completely artificial."

I don't know about that. The impression I got wasn't that the Space Jockeys 'created' the creatures, but instead they discovered it and attempted to take samples back with the, which backfired on them(the way it did several times for Weyland-Utani).

I like the idea of the universe hiding dangerous horrors such as these aliens more than the idea of other aliens creating them.

[MrLotus2035]

@slightlyoutofreach01 Implausible and silly? It really depends on how much of an imagination one has. If the "space jockeys" were bio-engineers then who knows what they were capable of. The process of a human mutating into an egg could have been assisted by some form of bio-nano-technology designed as a part of the Aliens DNA. This Alien was not supposed to be a naturally occurring creature but something completely artificial. The queen idea took something truly alien to us and made it familiar.

[terracearts]

@slightlyoutofreach01 I agree, glad it came out how it did.