Martin:Lads thanks for joining us.
Mike: No problem Martin.
Anthony: Thanks for having me
Martin: Which of the Aliens franchise was your favorite and why?
Mike: Has to be the original Alien for me. It is one of my favourite films of all time. It’s just a great horror story. It did a great job of creating a level of suspense that kept you on the edge of your seat. Plus I love the look of it, everything from the Jockey to the Nostromo still holds up today.
Anthony: This is gonna sound predictadable, but its gotta be Ridley's first movie,
the reason being that, the budget was so low (i think it was something like 4 million) that it forced Scott
to be inovative and adventurously artistic, kit bashing sets, hiring unknowns in major roles and even changing
those roles and even putting his faith in dodgy swiss surrealists.
where as when he was offered the budget of 130 million for prometheus he simply went down the road of
"eh...if its this expensive, IT MUST look good!" Which as we all know isnt always the case. Granted the scenery
and scale of prometheus is beautifull, but does it hold the tangiblity of the first film? i think not.
But putting visual effects aside for a moment "Alien" is simply the best film of the franchise because it is so inviting.
Its like that ghost train that you knew you shouldnt have gotten on as a kid, but it just looks so cool from the outside
that before you knew it you' were sitting in the carrage.
Every character has a pressence all to them selves, not one member of the crew silently falls into the background,
they subtly coax you to join them on this voyage of dark discovery, and without ever turning away you willingly offer
them your hand... and then you realise it... you're rolling through that dark tunnel where the monsters live, and although you
may want get off, you've already been strapped in for the ride.
Martin: Who's your favourite character from the movies?
Mike: Ripley is my favourite character. She is just a well written character. She has been through so much and just keeps going.
Anthony: i want to say Ripley because of her progression as a character, watching Sigourney's performance of growth
throughout the entire franchise is astounding, to see Ripley go from a shakingly terifed "you are m, m, my lucky, lucky s, s, star"
to the confident battle cry of "GET AWAY FROM HER YOU BITCH!" is nothing short of sheer perfection.
BUT! I wont say Ripley simply beacause everyone who loves the Aliens franchise, loves Ripley, and each for his or her own interesting
reasons.
No! the character i will mention for this interview is... ok so technically im cheating here because this is two characters,
but i think you'll agree that you cant have one without the other, the character 's are Brett, and Parker.
The reasons i choose Brett, and Parker are completely literary, besides Ripley, Brett and Parker are two of the characters that
carry allot of the wait of the universes explanatory responsibilities. If it wasnt for Brett and Parker constantly "griping" over "the bonus situation"
how would we ever know of the illusive "Company" that is "Weyland yutani industries" if it wasnt for Parkers insesent outburts of sheer panic
or Bretts incredibly tense death scene, imagine how much of a chunk of fear would disapear from the film, and speaking of Bretts
death and in all seriousness i actually think my favourite character
is the cute and lovable super survivor, Jones the cat. :-P
Mike: Alien’s started the sci-fi/horror genre. So I suppose there are set rules to it. A lone ship in space, detects a signal, bad things follow. What I tried to do with Salvage was keep those elements but add a few of our own too.
Anthony: for me it was the subtlety, taking a que from Ridley, a que which Jean Pierre Jeunet seemed to ignore, was the monster in the dark aspect, i didnt want
to show the monster until i truly had to, and even then obscure distent shots, sillouettes or shaded close up's still go a long way. I also wanted each character to (as iv said above)
carry his or her own pressence, i wanted each of them (at least from a visuale, manerism, sense of the word) to have there own personality. The ship also had to feel
like it was a practicle ellement i didnt want it to feel static or sterile like a C,G rendering i wanted it to be tangible, like you could walk every eerie corridor, peek around
the corner of every steam filled door frame and yet find nothing but more of the black broken metal maze in which you had lost yourself in. I wanted dirt, grime, dark
brooding detail, and a look of rusty derelict delapadation in short i wanted it to look ABANDONED!
Mike: Prometheus had some good ideas but I think it would have worked a lot better if it had been it’s own thing rather then try and make it apart of the Alien Universe. I am more interested in seeing what happens with the new game Alien Isolation.
people. Martin once gave me a book called Aliens labyrinth by Jim Woodring and Kilian Plunket which i think is a perfect example of this so if they ever made a movie out of it,
Thanks for having mecount me in, only who would you get to direct it? now thats a question for another interview.
Martin: Lads thanks for your time.
Here a link to Mr O'Neill's wicked work for those of you who want to check it out ((You should)) http://anthonylukeoneill.blogspot.ie/
and to Abandoned comics http://www.abandonedcomics.com/
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