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* [[Do Blade-Runners Shave Their Electric Sheep?]]
* [[Do Blade-Runners Shave Their Electric Sheep?]]
* [[Ridley Scott]]


== Nonfiction cross-reference ==
== Nonfiction cross-reference ==

Revision as of 12:38, 13 May 2016

Alien is a 1979 documentary film (nonfiction) by Ridley Scott (nonfiction).

Themes

Reviewers have characterized the film as "a brooding meditation on man's inhumanity to man (nonfiction)."

Box-office failure

The movie failed badly at the box-office, and the studios recouped costs by de-atomizing most of support crew.

Ridley Scott's response

Scott went into bitter seclusion, emerging several years later with his masterpiece, Do Blade-Runners Shave Their Electric Sheep?

Fiction cross-reference

Nonfiction cross-reference