5/10/2023 0 Comments Alien 1979 movieshareMaybe because it was attached to one of the most frightening movies ever made!Īlien really put Ridley on the map. It was incredibly simple, but it struck a chord. Richard: It’s probably a slight variation on Futura, but it wasn’t custom. When the bits finally resolve into a word, I think people weren’t prepared to read it as a title because of the spacing.Įditor's Note: The typeface used was actually Helvetica Black. We wanted to break the type apart using that letter-spaced sans serif, which really hadn’t been done in film before. We wanted to set up tension and as these little bits come in, they seem very mechanical. So we abstracted the idea of the off-putting sound but in a typographic way. I think Steve Frankfurt once said to me that sound is 50% of a film and I agree with that. Richard: The titles came from the idea of something “unsettling.” It’s disturbing to people to see those little bits of type coming on. How did you go about designing those titles? Ridley had come out of British advertising and his work looked beautiful but he’d had no success with it. Richard: Then Ridley was doing this movie called Alien that was going to be a B-movie for Fox - he didn’t know how big it would be. Title Designer RICHARD GREENBERG speaks about his work on Alien in this excerpt from our feature article R/Greenberg Associates: A Film Title Retrospective. This usage of type, in which letters are simultaneously message and medium, a lens through which ideas are both displayed and distorted, as structure and as obstruction, is a motif to which Title Designer Richard Greenberg would return again and again. In this opening sequence, a disjointed version of Helvetica Black is used to instill a sense of foreboding, the letters broken into pieces, the space between them unsettling. The first, the teaser and opening title sequence to 1978’s Superman, gave them a start, but their second, Alien, established them as a creative voice. Ridley Scott's Alien was Richard and Robert Greenberg's second major film project as a company, R/Greenberg Associates. As the pieces come together, forming a word denoting, in the most basic of terms, The Other, we are enveloped in a steady and dark tension. That is where they come from – the middle of you. They work their way from the outside in, everything pointing to the centre. The door has been left open again! so I suspect we will see a 5th installment in a couple of years.We float over a planet as white forms appear, dismembered. There always has to be an “Antagonist” in these types of movies and he is it!! Michael Fassbender is such a “Butt”, but I mean that in a nice way. “Bloody, Edge-of-Your Seat Suspenseful and Intriguing” are how to best describe “Alien: Covenant”. Michael Fassbender reprises his role from “Prometheus”. This cast is way better than the “Life” cast and is on par with the 1979 hit “Alien” which starred Sigourney Weaver. What really makes “Alien: Covenant” work is the cast. “Alien: Covenant” is an epic Sci-Fi/Action/Adventure that has parts of “Prometheus”, but also gets back to its original roots of “In-gestation” and “Incubation”.īelieve it or not this 4th installment is fresh! It does pick up some parts of “Prometheus” to remind you of what transpired there over the past few years. Ok, Ok, Ok…I had not planned to see “Alien: Covenant”, especially after seeing “Life” back in March and having nightmares to boot! But my curiosity got the best of me plus, I have seen the other three “Alien” installments.
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