Alien - H. R. Giger's Beautiful Monster 

When H. R. Giger stared into the abyss, the abyss stared back. Then, Giger started rubbing himself through his pants until the abyss became uncomfortable and looked away.

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Correction: Dan didn't contact Giger because of the book "Necromicon" but rather through the contacts of Alejandro Jodorowsky, the director of El Topo. Both Dan and Giger were working on a cancelled Dune adaptation that had Jodorowsky conducting, and through that production the two became closer friends.

The xenomorph itself may work in full light but similar to the shark from Jaws, Ridley Scott felt that they could never shake off the "man in a rubber suit" issue that hurt many horror films prior due to the limits of technology at the time. That's why they always had the Alien cast in shadow and barely gave the audience a clear full view shot of it. Working around this limitation payed off handsomely as it made for an engaging experience that allowed for the audience's own curiosity and fears to fill in the blanks.

When I was five years old, someone in my family took me along with several cousins to see Alien at the drive in theatre. Over twenty years of nightmares later, I finally came to terms with the thing and tend to think of it as an old friend now.

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I love how you mention that the Xenomorph's intentions and evolution is explained through actions and experiences and not dialogue. Unfortunately we ended up getting Prometheus and Alien: Covenant the do the exact opposite of what made the Alien films great

The 'Space Jockey' that Giger designed for the film Alien was completely ruined via the explanation given in Prometheus. Somethings are best left unknown.

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makes you glad that there are such inspired unique artists such as Giger that can bring such iconic designs to this world.

He should make one on akira

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Rest in Peace Mr. Giger

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I love the Alien Franchise. Especially the first film. The Alien has always intrigued me, and it's design is legendary. Excellent video my dude.

Best alien design ever.

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Wonderfully put-together video here. Thank you for an excellent compilation of some of the best information out there on Giger's Alien-specific work, and for your insightfully educated perspective.

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Great video. But I am disappointed you didn't mention Jodorowsky's Dune. Most of the Alien creative team (O'Bannon, Giger, Chris Foss) met during pre-production of that movie. When it was cancelled O'Bannon started working on the Alien script, and down the line convinced Ridley Scott to work with Giger. Btw, the documentary Jodorowsky's Dune is amazing.

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Dan O' Bannon actually met H.R. Giger during the production of "Dune" that was suppose to be directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky before it got cancelled. Salvador Dali showed Alejandro some of H.R. Giger's work thinking he could be useful for the "Dune" project. Dan O' Bannon was in charge of the special effects work.

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Thank you! Another beautifully narrated, and insightful look at art that set standards in both movies, and our lives. Well done, once again!

Dan O'Banon actually met Gieger while they were working on Alejandro Jodorowsky's Dune. When that movie was unfortunately not made, they continued working on the Alien.

Giger: They say I'm the father of the Alien.- It's ok!

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The xenomorph really is something special, and so is Giger's work in general. He basically created an entire genre of visual art, and a diverse one at that

Thank you for these videos Kristian! I never really thought about the aesthetics of Alien before and it is awesome to know about it. I hope to see more of your work.

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he wanted to make the alien A E S T H E T I C

The father of aliens. Perfect

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This is why I'm one of those rare individuals who prefers Alien to Aliens. Aliens basically made the aliens just dangerous giant bugs. Alien gave the alien a mystique that made it what it was; perfect organism.

Oh man, I wish you'd gone into the specific fears that the xenomorph dips into. I recently watched Children of the Corn and then looked up the background influences of the Alien movie.. CotC was awful by comparison. Useless, helpless "heroine," patronizing protagonist who saves the day while the women and children watch on, etc. etc. This came out in 1984. And then there's Alien. Badass, no-nonsense woman protagonist, an alien creature that prays on and inverts our primal fears of being "penetrated" and impregnated parasitically, the cold void of space... in 1979. Then I understood why this movie was so loved and vastly influential. It used and flipped so many tropes, tapped into such deep fears, and did it all so well.. Thanks for doing this video, this movie and creature design deserve it!

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Awesome video!

“The Father of the Xenomorph” that is a cool title

Seriously dude, your videos are some of the best on RU-vid, and I am so glad to have discovered you so early on. This was awesome. The first time I saw Alien all the way through, was only about 7 years ago. They played it at Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles during one of their movie nights. So yeah... I watched Alien in a cemetery with about 1,000 other people, and it was deathly silent until something moved and made you jump, then everyone screamed. It was phenomenal, and so was this video. Keep it up. Really looking forward to whatever you've got coming down the line.

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It really is true, the xenomorph is scary, but it's more than that, it's also beautiful. Monster designs usually go for the scare factor and that's it, but with the xenomorph it becomes scary because you have to admit that it is beautiful as well.

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Shame the man didn't get more press for his work. I only learned about him when I went into my animation degree

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I'm pretty sure H.R. Giger is an alien himself.

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First time I heard an American pronouncing Giger last name correctly

alien is better than predator, and i love predator...

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Design of the Alien is great. Its not some disease monster that people love to make (cause its so easy). Like i hated how the early Warhammer artists would make orcs appear horrifying by just painting their skin full of pus oozing pimples. Sure it makes them look horrifying. But its the same kind of horrifying as when you see a diseased rat. Its just lazy. When designing monsters or aliens, i would like designers to look at real animals and try to figure out what makes them look intimidating or scary. And not just try to figure how to use porridge and a bit of food coloring to make a monsters... Okay, im just sick of cancer monsters being the default type of monster that designers go to :(

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Btw. Most of his drawings were inspired by Pagano-Satanism, H.P. Lovecraft and his (Giger's) LSD trips (and nightmares too). So all the Alien fans - praise the LSD!

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