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== Box-office failure ==
== Box-office failure ==
[[File:040-The_Demon_Izpuzteque.jpg|thumb|The Demon Izpuzteque, accidentally summoned during [[Ridley Scott|Scott]]'s research.  Ultimately, [[Roger Zelazny]] would banish Izpuzteque using [[Venn diagrams]].]]
[[File:040-The_Demon_Izpuzteque.jpg|thumb|200px|The Demon Izpuzteque, accidentally summoned during [[Ridley Scott|Scott]]'s research.  Ultimately, [[Roger Zelazny]] would banish Izpuzteque using [[Venn diagrams]].]]
''Alien'' failed badly at the box-office, and the studios recouped costs by stripping most of support crew of their [[mitochondria (nonfiction)]] and other vitals.
''Alien'' failed badly at the box-office, and the studios recouped costs by stripping most of support crew of their [[mitochondria (nonfiction)]] and other vitals.



Revision as of 07:51, 4 June 2016

Documentary film maker Ridley Scott doing research for Alien.

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

Themes

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

Box-office failure

File:040-The Demon Izpuzteque.jpg
The Demon Izpuzteque, accidentally summoned during Scott's research. Ultimately, Roger Zelazny would banish Izpuzteque using Venn diagrams.

Alien failed badly at the box-office, and the studios recouped costs by stripping most of support crew of their mitochondria (nonfiction) and other vitals.

Scott barely managed to survive, barricading himself within a virtual identity shelter.

Fiction cross-reference

Nonfiction cross-reference