Just about everything you always wondered about the 1979 sci-fi masterpiece Alien, but never searched the answers for... right here.One excerpt:
For the filming of the chestburster scene, the cast members knew that the creature would be bursting out of John Hurt, and had seen the chestburster puppet, but they had not been told that fake blood would also be bursting out in every direction from high-pressure pumps and squibs. The scene was shot in one take... When the creature burst through the chest a stream of blood shot directly at Veronica Cartwright, shocking her enough that she fell over and went into hysterics. According to Tom Skerritt: "What you saw on camera was the real response. She had no idea what the hell happened. All of a sudden this thing just came up." The creature then runs off-camera... The real-life surprise of the actors gave the scene an intense sense of realism and made it one of the film's most memorable moments.
An awesome, awesome read!
And btw, here's that scene (extended version):
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