In article <3fb96626$1_1@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com>, "psilojoe"
<joe_infinity@(REMOVETHIS)tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
<< This is something my girlfriend recently pointed out to me and i cant
believe i never thought of it before, from the first encounter with the
xenomorph in alien it is made very clear that once the xenomorph hatches
from its host it grows VERY FAST, so that in a matter of hours it has grown
to full size, wityh apparently no food to fuel its growth, therefore say you
could capture the chestburster and observe it you would very clearly SEE it
growing, and changing colour as it did so, the same way as a you can see a
snail making progress as it walks along. It seems odd that in 4 Alien films
this was never shown, or even hinted at, on camera, despite the fact that in
'ressurection' they do actually capture a chestburster (queen no less) and
contain it in a confined space until it grows to full size. Instead we see
the burster immediately after it is removed from Ripley and the 2nd time we
see it it has already reached full size in all its royal glory, dont know
about you but i would LOVE to see a sequence in an alien film where we
actually witness this rapid growth,as im sure it would look awesome, still
it may never happen, just a thought though........ >><BR><BR>
I don't know how it finally went in the view of what Giger expected, but when
he designed the vomit creature for Poltergeist 2, that suddenly grows into a
crawling humanoid limbless midget, Giger's intension was that this was a way
for himself to express the way the creature in Alien grows.
Indeed, nothing is said about the reason for the creature to grow so fast, but
Ridley's view about the monster in the first one was that it grew to a vast
size quickly and would also quickly burn out, because it was a product of
genetic engineering. I don't know if this would explain anything to anyone
really anyway, but I suppose the creature's body structure was pretty unstable.
He also thought that the dark colouring was due to bruising, as if the creature
was already starting to die as soon as it matured. I don't know if he has the
same views about the creature in this light anymore though, he might have
thought something different.
But well really, James Cameron didn't give much thought to that and I supposed
just went with the idea that the creatures were growing in a strange alien way
that didn't need explaining despite their oddity. He never was interested in
giving good explanations, it looks.
Dom
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