Ridley Scott’s Top 4
The saga Alien back in the limelight this summer with Alien: Romulusseven years later Alien: Pact (2017). Directed by Fede Álvarez, the film introduces new characters, including Rain, the heroine played by Cailee Spaeny. Even if he left the direction to someone else, Ridley Scott remained close to the project (as a producer) and was content to give some advice to Fede Álvarez, before congratulating him for his work. This did not prevent him from participating in the promotion of the film. The opportunity to Letterboxd to ask him what they were his four favorite moviesand for the director to return to the works that have influence Alien.
In fact, in his list, Ridley Scott mentions 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) by Stanley Kubrick. A film from which he took inspiration by taking up the idea of a robot that believes that the mission is more important than the people involved. We find the same problem in Alien, the eighth passenger (1979) with the character Ash (Ian Holm).
The importance of Star Wars for the saga Alien
Ridley Scott then adds to his top A new hope (1977), the first part of the saga Star Wars. A film that had a strong impact on the filmmaker. So impressed by the work of George Lucas, Ridley Scott felt depressed for several months and abandoned a film project Tristan and Isolde.
I had just finished my first film, The Duellists. A very beautiful film that won me an award at the Cannes Film Festival. After that I would have done Tristan and Isolde. Only I went to see Star Wars at the premiere of the film. It depressed me for three months. I said to myself: “How can I do Tristan and Isolde when this guy can do it?” So I turned the page and was offered to make Alien in six weeks. It was an accident.
A “accident” which ultimately gave birth to one of the greatest sagas in the history of cinema. Released in 1979, Alien, the eighth passenger has become a reference. We can see a certain influence of Star Wars at the beginning of the film with the ship’s entry into the camera’s field of viewquite close to what we see at the beginning of Star Wars.
Finally, Ridley Scott offers another punchline that he has the secret to adding it to his top 4 one of his films. So, after praising his first feature film, The Duelists (1977), at the beginning of the video, places his Blade Runner (1982) in third place, before finishing with The War of Fire (1981) by Jean-Jacques Annaud.
Source: Cine Serie
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