The whereabouts of Nostromo and her crew remained unknown for the next 57 years; it simply never returned from its journey to Thedus, and was listed as missing and presumed destroyed.
The final fate of Nostromo would be learned in , when an off-course Narcissus escape ship returned Ripley, Jones the cat, and the Nostromo logs to civilization. Categories : Alien series Fictional spacecraft. Nostromo spaceship From Academic Kids.
The Nostromo models were originally painted yellow. However, after the model unit had spent several weeks filming the model, Scott decided to repaint the ship grey and reshoot all of the model work himself.
At one point, the refinery being towed by the Nostromo featured towering spires considerably higher than those that appear in the final film, but just before filming Ridley Scott personally removed the upper sections allegedly with a hammer and chisel.
To film the sequence, the Nostromo was pushed away from the refinery by the forklift — which was concealed under black velvet — causing the arm to extend out from the refinery, creating the illusion that the arm was pushing the ship forward. The interior of the Nostromo was designed by conceptual artist Ron Cobb. The set constructed for filming was all interconnected and largely sealed, meaning cast and crew had to walk through the various corridors and chambers to reach other areas of the ship.
Several crew members commented that the confines of the intricate set meant filming was more akin to shooting on location than in a studio, and that the interior's enclosed nature helped to create a feeling of claustrophobia appropriate to the film. To compensate, some of the roof sections were constructed of clear plastic that allowed natural light from the studio outside to filter through, but even so, sometimes actors had to resort to holding the flamethrower they were carrying close to their face so that the pilot flame would illuminate them for the cameras.
The Mother interface room was designed to mimic a niche in a cathedral, with the myriad of blinking lights representing candles. Much of the ship's interior was fully functional, in that many of the various buttons actually performed some function when activated.
The Nostromo bridge set contained some 40 video monitors, [21] all of which were fully functional — any footage seen on the various screens in the movie was played for real during filming.
Xenopedia Explore. The Queen Ripley Newt Cpl. Hicks Burke Bishop Pvt. Hudson Lt. Gorman Pvt. Vasquez Sgt. All in all, I think this is a good thing. It seems realistic enough for a retrofitted blue-collar, working-class ship.
Inadvertently, they may have also dodged the risk of dating the film with bygone design trends. I address this in the section that follows. Figure 3. April 26, Figure 4. Only one was available in , so it should be Pump Bold. But Demi looks closer to the proper weight.
And it is also used on name plates for the crew. Designed in the s by Philip Kelley at Letraset, Pump was based on geometry found in Universal — a typeface designed in by Herbert Bayer for use in Bauhaus communications. For instance, I've also found geometric sans faces like Pump, Burko, Blippo, etc. But like many geometric typefaces contemporary to Pump, it was also embraced by the pop and disco culture of the seventies, and I think that is what really dates it for audiences at present.
They likely see it as a product of another time — a past time when things were funkier. With that little history lesson behind us, we can now get back to how Pump was applied in Alien.
The exact weight we see used for the jackets is somewhat questionable. Every instance of Pump Demi Bold I could find on actual letter sheets, had it copyrighted in as well. So I decided to do a little test, comparing weights to footage from the film Figure 4. The Demi R seems a little narrow overall. And the counter space in the Demi O seems a little big. When I drop a T in there, the Demi Bold looks like the closer match by far.
My best guess is this was set in Pump Bold that was trimmed or redrawn by hand, and subsequently made lighter in weight. Or they time travelled to to bring back Demi. Believe what you want here. For the name plates, I found a larger image online Figure 4. All of the crew insignia can be seen in Figure 5. He was also an expert on the history of military wear, a subject he published a number of books on, and something that would inform his work on Alien and other science fiction films.
For instance, the Nostromo patches were inspired by military uniform buttons of the French Restoration Period Figure 5. After consultation with Ridley I experimented with some variations; some without the rainbow and finally, one with the rainbow that was eventually used.
For the registration number variantly on screens and in dialogue , it looks like he avoided any Pump reference there, and went with something less stylized. Outside of military references, I also wondered if it could have been inspired by insignia used in space exploration. It embraces man and extends to the tree and hydrogen atom, emphasizing man's pivotal role in the conciliation of technology with nature by a humanistic application of our scientific knowledge.
Beyond the biblical story of the flood, the rainbow appears as a symbol in other cultures, which could offer a clue to other possible meanings.
In Greco-Roman mythology, the rainbow was considered to be a path made by a messenger, between Earth and Heaven — and the Nostromo moves resources between Earth and Space, right?
Similarly, in Norse mythology, the rainbow is a bridge between Earth and the celestial realm of the Gods. Interesting to think about, but all speculation on how it could relate. There were also two different background colors used for the Nostromo patch — grey and dark blue. The dark blue version was available on a collectible cap though Figure 5. So it seems possible they were more concerned with justifying the design decisions they made for their Alien merch, than squaring things with the film.
And Brett may have accidentally had a dark blue patch for a fraction of a second — in his death scene, apparently the FX team used a prepared hat with a paper patch over a hole that could be easily punched through, and people have pointed out that it looks like they used the wrong version in that instance.
It also seems that Scott's Alien is influenced by other examples of Conrad's work in addition to the novel Nostromo. In Alien , the Nostromo's escape pod is named Narcissus, which is an Easter egg and reference to a Conrad novel, published in the United States as The Children of the Sea , in which a mate of the ship Narcissus brings an infectious disease aboard, much like Kane John Hurt in Alien. With the naming of the USS Sulaco, Cameron's Sulaco Easter egg in Aliens essentially continues something of a franchise tradition started by Scott: naming elements of each movie after elements from Conrad's works.
The ship Sulaco is named after the town of Sulaco in the fictional South American nation of Costaguana, the main setting of the novel Nostromo. While the Sulaco Easter egg in Aliens is definitely a reference to Alien , the connections to Joseph Conrad's work seem to be limited to the original movie. This is because while Joseph Conrad's influence has left a clear mark on Ridley Scott's Alien , the same isn't necessarily true of James Cameron's Aliens.
In Aliens , it's not clear that Cameron's Sulaco Easter egg is intended to reference Conrad other than via the themes already introduced by Scott in Alien.
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