Alien 3

Movie
German title	Alien 3
Original title	Alien³
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1992
length	Theatrical Version: 114 minutes Special Edition: 145 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	David Fincher
script	Vincent Ward David Giler Walter Hill Larry Ferguson
production	Gordon Carroll David Giler Walter Hill
music	Elliot Goldenthal
camera	Alex Thomson
cut	Terry Rawlings
occupation
Sigourney Weaver : Ellen Ripley Charles S. Dutton : Leonard Dillon Charles Dance : Jonathan Clemens Brian Glover : Harold Andrews Ralph Brown : Francis Aaron Paul McGann : Walter Golic Danny Webb : Robert Morse Lance Henriksen : voice of Bishop Pete Postlethwaite : David Postlethwaite Holt McCallany : Junior Peter Guinness : Peter Gregor Danielle Edmond: Rebecca "Newt" Jorden Christopher Fairbank : Thomas Murphy Phil Davis : Kevin Dodd Clive Mantle : Clive William Tom Woodruff Jr .: Xenomorph
synchronization
chronology
←  Predecessor Aliens - The Return Successor  → Alien - The rebirth

Alien 3 is an American science fiction film directed by David Fincher in 1992 and is the third installment in the Alien film series . As in the previous films, the main actress is Sigourney Weaver . The film opened in German cinemas on September 3, 1992.

Plot (theatrical version)

After Ellen Ripley, the little Newt, Corporal Hicks and Android Bishop of LV escaped 426 and with the starship USS Sulaco are on the way back to Earth, breaks due to the acidic blood of a Face Huggers ( "Gesichtsumklammerer" the people to hosts of Alien offspring makes a fire on a tween deck. An escape pod is detonated and crash-lands on the planet Fiorina, where only "Fury 161", a penal colony for serious criminals with the XYY syndrome , is located. Hicks is impaled by a security pillar and dies, Newt drowns in hypersleep and Bishop is destroyed to the point of inoperability. In addition to Ripley, only a facehugger survives the landing, who quickly looks for a new host in a Rottweiler . Shortly thereafter, an alien hatches that grows rapidly and begins to decimate the prisoners. These are followers of an apocalyptic religion and, since they live like monks , visibly irritated by the appearance of a woman. Ripley, for example, counteracts hostility that is intensified when rumors circulate that she has brought in an alien.

Only the attending physician Clemens seems to support Ripley in the alien hunt, and so a love relationship develops between the two in the eschatological seclusion of the high-security camp. After a short time, however, Clemens is killed by the creature, and so Ripley comes within range of the alien for the first time. In doing so, she realizes that the being does not touch her. This incident and her deteriorating health cause her to perform a body scan that reveals the reason why the alien spared her: an alien queen grows in her body, which in a few hours will pierce her chest and kill her . However, Ripley sees in her own demise at the same time the chance to rescue the surviving prisoners, who meanwhile show solidarity. Since the adult alien won't attack her, Ripley lures the animal into the colony's furnace. There the prisoners pour tons of liquid lead over the creature. But the alien breaks free from the glowing mass. Ripley can still destroy it by triggering the sprinkler system on the advice of a survivor . The lead-coated monster bursts due to the sudden cooling of the metal.

When a rescue team arrives minutes later, Ripley is given to understand that they want to remove the alien queen from her chest and kill them. But Ripley knows the real intentions of the company that sent the team: They want to capture the indomitable creature and use it as a biological weapon. Ripley sees only one way out to save humanity from an even greater catastrophe: It lets itself fall into the furnace. In the fall, the queen slips, but Ripley grabs her and pulls her with him to her death.

reception

Reviews

“A continuation of the 'Alien' series […], which is played against a sparse end-of-time backdrop and often gets lost in religiously disguised imagery; captivating by the main actress, who impressively conveys the agonizing fateful connection with a monster. In a gloomy setting, the film asks the question of people's chances of survival. "

- Lexicon of international film

"Despite some script inconsistencies," Alien 3 "is again an exciting film, mainly because of the performance of one of the most exciting female characters of the last decade in cinema."

- The chronicle of the film

Awards (selection)

• The film was nominated for an Oscar in 1993 for Best Special Effects ( Richard Edlund , George Gibbs , Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr. ).
• In the same year Alien 3 received seven nominations for the Saturn Award , u. a. as best science fiction film , but could not win a prize.
• Alien 3 is the winner of the Golden Reel Award in the category Best Sound Editing 1993.

backgrounds

Logo of the fictional Weyland-Yutani Corporation

• Director David Fincher is said to have been dissatisfied with many aspects of the production and especially with the collaboration with the 20th Century Fox studio . He is the only director who is not represented in the bonus material of the Alien Quadrilogy DVD edition. Allegedly, the only making-of in which Fincher appeared was deleted because he was critical of the producers. However, the Blu-ray of the Alien Box contained the making-of with Fincher for the first time.
• In the first drafts of the script, the film was supposed to take place on an artificial planet completely clad in wood, in which various monastic orders live.
• Originally, the figure of Ripley was not included in this part.
• It was agreed that the fee would be increased by $ 40,000 in the event that Sigourney Weaver should shave her head again for re-shoots. When it came to this, however, this sum was not paid to her, but instead a wig was made for $ 16,000 that made her look freshly shaved again.
• In the first drafts of the script, Newt survived the escape pod crash; however, one child was not considered to fit into the film's otherwise gloomy surroundings.
• The film with the subtitle "Die Wiedergeburt" was shown in German cinema and television; At the time, it was impossible to predict that this would be the title of the fourth film . The title was changed again with the release of the fourth film to avoid confusion.
• In the crossover films, the Weyland ( Alien vs. Predator ) and Yutani ( Aliens vs. Predator 2 ) corporations are introduced, which merge into the Weyland-Yutani corporation until the plot of Alien - The uncanny creature from a strange world . In Alien vs. Predator plays Lance Henriksen , who embodies the android Bishop in Aliens: The Return and in Alien 3 , the company founder Charles Bishop Weyland.
• HR Giger was involved in the development of the alien again in this film after he was not involved in Aliens - The Return .
• The budget was $ 50 million. The worldwide box office result was around 160 million dollars.

Special edition

The 9-DVD edition “Alien Quadrilogy” and the Blu-ray release contain an extended 139-minute version of the film in which, among other things, the alien hatches out of an ox instead of a dog. Accordingly, the canine alien is alternatively referred to as the “cow alien” in fan discussions.

In the special edition, the convicts succeed in capturing the alien in a hermetically sealed pollution bunker. However, it is then freed again by a schizophrenic prisoner who regards the "dragon" as his ally.

Ripley's final jump into the furnace is also available in a more original version. She dies here "peacefully" without the alien queen breaking out of her at the last second.

Soundtrack

The film music of the later Oscar winner Elliot Goldenthal was released on CD in 1992 by MCA Records, Inc. Conducted by Jonathan Sheffer, produced by Matthias Gohl, directed for Twentieth Century Fox by Elliot Lurie. The playing time is 50 minutes and six seconds. "An uncompromisingly intellectual work that moves with surgical precision between traditional orchestral beauty and modernist dissonance [...]" ( All Music Guide )

1. Agnus Dei (4:29)
2. Bait and Chase (4:40)
3. The Beast Within (3:07)
4. Lento (5:48)
5. Candles In The Wind (3:20)
6. Wreckage And Rape (2:41)
7. The First Attack (4:18)
8. Lullaby Elegy (3:39)
9. Death Dance (2:15)
10. Visit To The Wreckage (2:02)
11. Explosion And Aftermath (2:19)
12. The Dragon (3:05)
13. The Entrapment (3:40)
14. Adagio (4:14)

synchronization

The German synchronization was for a dialogue book and the dialogue director of Joachim Kunz village on behalf of the synchronous company in Berlin .

role	Actress	German voice
Ellen Ripley	Sigourney Weaver	Hallgard Bruckhaus
Jonathan Clemens	Charles Dance	Reinhard Kuhnert
Leonard Dillon	Charles S. Dutton	Jürgen Kluckert
Harold Andrews	Brian Glover	Hans Teuscher
Francis Aaron	Ralph Brown	Tobias Master
Walter Golic	Paul McGann	Ingolf Gorges
Robert Morse	Danny Webb	K. Dieter Klebsch
Voice of Bishop	Lance Henriksen	Kurt Goldstein
David Postlethwaite	Pete Postlethwaite	Michael Narloch
Junior	Get McCallany	Bernd Schramm
Peter Gregor	Peter Guinness	Reinhard Scheunemann
Thomas Murphy	Christopher Fairbank	Klaus Jepsen
Kevin Dodd	Phil Davis	Wolfgang number
Clive William	Clive Mantle	Wilfried Herbst

Video game

Alien 3: The Gun (arcade game)

An official video game based on the film has been released by Acclaim Entertainment and Virgin Interactive for a number of different systems including Sega Mega Drive , Super NES , Game Boy , Amiga , C64 , NES , Sega Master System . It is a 2D platform game in which Ripley, contrary to the film, uses weapons such as B. a flamethrower against the aliens. In contrast to the SNES version, the Mega Drive version has a time limit and thus a higher level of difficulty. Sega also offers the arcade game Alien 3: The Gun , a lightgun shooter (see illustration on the right).

literature

• Alan D. Foster : Alien. The creepy being from a strange world / The return / Alien III. The three alien novels in one volume. - Official novels about the film
• Ludwig Gangkofer, Mona Mahmoud, Kathrin Zauner: Alien: A cult film series. Specialized publisher for film literature, Landshut 2007, ISBN 978-3-9809390-4-1 .

Web links

• Alien 3 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Alien 3 at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
• Alien 3 at Metacritic (English)
• Alien 3 in the online movie database
• Alien 3 in the German dubbing file
• Discussion of the film music
• Comparison of the cut versions Theatrical Version - Special Edition of Alien 3 at Schnittberichte.com
• Alien 3 in the German dubbing file

Individual evidence

1. ^ Alien 3. In: Lexicon of international films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .  
2. ↑ The Chronicle of the Film. In cooperation with the German Institute for Film Studies , Frankfurt / M. Chronik Verlag , licensed edition for Bechtermünz Verlag, Augsburg 1996, ISBN 3-86047-132-5 , p. 584.
3. ↑ Making of Alien³ for the first time unabridged on schnittberichte.com
4. ↑ Alien 3 (1992) - Box Office Mojo. Retrieved July 23, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Jason Ankeny: Alien³. In: All Music Guide . Retrieved on April 26, 2008 (English): "A rigorously intellectual work that navigates with surgical precision between traditional orchestral beauty and modernist dissonance [...]" 
6. ↑ Alien 3. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on April 17, 2020 .