Alien (1979)

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Re crystals, return to lizards... I recently learned that the central organising principle for ASNAC people (Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic) was "Frost and Fire".

Ie it was the central opposition, from which everything else derived.

From frost you get blue, crystal, brittle, sharp.

From fire, it's red, lava, soft, enveloping.
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Thats really good
 
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It makes perfect sense too if you live somewhere as awful as England. You're always trying to beat a chill or dry damp clothing.
 
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Rich in Portugal never once thinks of frost. Except in druggy expat dreams occasionally an image, a feeling, of frost will appear. But he's forgotten the word for it
 
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England is the soggy in-between, neither ice nor fire, perhaps that's precisely why they are mythologised and fantasised about.
 
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catalog said:
Not familiar with those, but in the abridged ladybird classic I had of journey to the centre of the earth, they go down through an extinct volcano in Iceland, and get to a beach, see dinosaurs. And the way that particular book is drawn, the rendering of figures is very vorticist. Strange book for kids!
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Also in Aquaman this happens
 
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Wilford Brimley was in The Thing and Cocoon

Always grumpy and belligerent slightly professorial characters with glasses and bushy tache. You don’t really see his kind on screen any more
 
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I talk about this a little in the Way of Water. Parasitoid wasps are like the most successful evolutionary strategy in the whole universe there are like half a million different species it's sick it's appalling Hobbes was right about everything suicide is sweet release from this samsara cycle of suffering
 
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I talk about this a little in the Way of Water. Parasitoid wasps are like the most successful evolutionary strategy in the whole universe there are like half a million different species it's sick it's appalling Hobbes was right about everything suicide is sweet release from this samsara cycle of suffering
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With respect to the theological view of the question: This is always painful to me. I am bewildered. I had no intention to write atheistically, but I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and as I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars or that a cat should play with mice... On the other hand, I cannot anyhow be contented to view this wonderful universe, and especially the nature of man, and to conclude that everything is the result of brute force. I am inclined to look at everything as resulting from designed laws, with the details, whether good or bad, left to the working out of what we may call chance.​

Charles Darwin, Letter to Asa Gray (22 May 1860)
 
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I watched that short documentary on Giger building the alien that @dilbert1 posted. Amazing the amount of work that went into the sets and costumes. They made these huge interiors for the derelict. I didn't realise how hands on Giger was in the production too. I thought he just designed the stuff, but he was actually on set painting things, putting them together, etc.



There are a couple of other documentaries on YouTube atm too. I think they were bundled with one of the DVD box sets.



 
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vershy versh said:
I watched that short documentary on Giger building the alien that @dilbert1 posted. Amazing the amount of work that went into the sets and costumes. They made these huge interiors for the derelict. I didn't realise how hands on Giger was in the production too. I thought he just designed the stuff, but he was actually on set painting things, putting them together, etc.
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Which is why it's not so dated as cgi stuff - I don't even blame people for using cgi cos at the time it sort of fools you (me anyway) and looks state of the art, i mean yo say it'snot just about ease of use and saving money... but a few years later it looks so plastic and fake.
 
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