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« on: March 19, 2012, 09:58:33 AM »
I remember watching the first Alien movie with my family when I was quite young. (I had to leave the room for part of it in the final act.) One of my most vivid memories of it is of the alien space jockey. I couldn't figure out where the pilot ended and the chair began and I found this unsettling.
I bought Giger's first art book a few weeks ago. The space jockey isn't in there, but man, you can see the lineage of it in his work. The book (the Necromonicon) starts with his earliest work and explains where it comes from and then you see those early pieces become recurring elements in his later work.
This movie will be one of my rare trips to the cinema.