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[dracko]

The reason I love David Fincher is not because of Fight Club, but for the first minute of Alien³, where he mercilessly shreds apart the emotional chew-toy, Newt, of the last film, and with this act announces a return to the roots that Aliens would have liked to seen replaced with bullet-magnet ridicule - Which Joss Whedon much later figured was a

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[anonymous]

The reason I love David Fincher is not because of Fight Club, but for the first minute of Alien³, where he mercilessly shreds apart the emotional chew-toy, Newt, of the last film,

Sadly untrue. David Fincher had little or no input on the script for Alien³, and entered into the creative process relatively late and pretty much shot what he was given (His major contribution seems to be to shave Sigourney Weaver's head, and he doesn't like discussing the film anyway).

The idea for Newt's demise in the film originates from the terrible second proposed script (after William Gibson's unexpected non-cyberpunk offering) which killed off the entire cast and started from scratch, and is most heavily inspired in the finished film by Vincent Ward's third script (the one with the wooden asteroid), which killed everyone except Ripley off. Ward's script was the basis for the finalised script, despite the many changes made.

[dracko]

He directed it, didn't he?

[anonymous]

He did. but you can't praise Fincher for directing a film when you're praising something the writer did, and then lambast Joss Whedon for writing something when surely everyone involved with Alien Ressurection was at fault.

[dracko]

Ironically, Alien: Resurrection's only saving grace is its direction. I like the opening to Alien³ because it is shot brilliantly.

Though true, when it comes to lambasting Whedon one's hardly lost for choice material.

[dracko]

That'll learn ya.

[mr_mitts]

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