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Film review 5: Alien (1979)
Alien 1979 Following from the last few films we watched for the space oddities project is probably the best one I have seen yet being the original 1979 Alien film by Ridley Scot. This was the sci-Fi horror film that influenced every sci-fi or horror film that came after it to this day which includes blade runner that came was made after this film by the before mentioned Ridley Scot. Probably the most remembered parts of the film is the Alien itself due to its nightmarish design and even more disturbing concept that was assisted in no small part then by H.R Geiger’s designs for the Alien. For this review I will mainly talk about the set design and about the Alien itself. The crew of the Nostromo intercept a distress signal while in deep space that leads them to come into contact with a face huger that attaches itself to one of the crew members face. This leads to an infant form of the Xenomorph bursting out of his chest and later grown significantly bigger while it pro...
Film Reivew 4: Le Belle la bete (1946)
Le Belle la bete Le Belle la beast or beauty and the beast is possibly the strangest film I have seen so far in the space oddities program. Thanks in no small part to the special effects used at the time and the bizarre ending. The beauty and the beast wasn’t the Disney version of the fairy tail but the 1946 version by Jean Coteau based of the same fairy tail. Being from this time it is in black and white with voiced dialogue but is in a different language which required subtitles. Something that becomes very clear from the start is that this version of the classic fairy tail is very surreal and bizarre when compared for the Disney version. I am mainly going to talk about the set design and special effects as that what stood out to me the most in this film as well as a little about the costume design. If you have seen the Disney version, then the stories are fairly similar as they are both based of the same fairy tail. The film revolves around Belle that comes from a ...