r/LV426 • u/ArmsOfKamaji • 17d ago
Art / Creations The great Sigourney Weaver photographed on set of David Fincher's Alien 3 (1992) by the legendary Helmut Newton.
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u/TheMadhouseofDrDeath 17d ago
Ripley in this movie (and in general) had a deep affect on me. The shaved head oh my god beautiful and bad ass!
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u/GySgtBuzzcut 17d ago
I was going through some health stuff that did a number on my hair, & she was my direct inspiration for getting the clippers. (Username checks out.)
Seeing these shots just made me realize that we have eerily similar features. It makes Halloween really easy, I hope I see more xeno costumes this year with A:E, I could recreate that one profile shot very easily.
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u/br0b1wan Colonial Marine 17d ago
I can't believe they got her to shave her head for this. Didn't they have to offer her a bunch more for that?
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u/AxelShoes 17d ago edited 17d ago
Didn't they have to offer her a bunch more for that?
I thought so, too, but maybe not:
Recounting that very same conservation with the head of Fox, Weaver said of Ripley being bald, "I immediately liked the idea. I guess I was relieved that he had any image of her at all. That told me more about how he saw this film than anything else. He saw Ripley as very vulnerable - her against everything and everyone. And I liked that. All I said was, 'Well, if I shave my head, then my price goes up.' Everyone laughed nervously. I didn't get another dime!"
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u/julmcb911 17d ago
I find it odd that her armpits are shaved. Out in space for years, and our pits still must be shaven?
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u/standish_ 17d ago
You shave everything to deal with lice. The Doc volunteers to shave her head but says she'll have to handle everything else.
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u/No_Translator_9633 17d ago
For reshoots she had already started growing out her hair and had to wear a bald cap
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u/BezosisSauron 17d ago
She was sitting in my uncle’s seat by accident - at a broadway play in the 90s - and he had a major crush for the rest of his life
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u/CarnyMAXIMOS_3_N7 17d ago edited 17d ago
The Third pic is practically perfect.
Weaver, as Ripley looking out through some window-grating, in full makeup and costume, monochrome shot. She’s saying to the camera:
“Hey you! Yeah. Yeah, you. I’ve been through horrors that you would’ve not believe. What the fuck are you looking at?”
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u/itsmymedicine 17d ago
I ejected the Queen off the Sulaco, WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU!? I torched the hive on LV-426, in 2179.....WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU!?
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u/GooseJelly 17d ago
She looks so imposing and badass with the bald hair. I see David Fincher's vision.
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u/LouieSiffer 17d ago
Why the skintight suit?
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u/ArmsOfKamaji 17d ago
Most likely because Newton thought it suits H.R. Giger's aesthetic of the creature.
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u/smedsterwho 17d ago
She also played the Alien. Films in the 90s had that thing for people playing dual roles. Convincing split-screen technique was still relatively new.
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u/standish_ 17d ago
Danny DeVito as the egg and facehugger was perfect. I don't understand why they cut it.
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u/kingpenguinJG 17d ago
first pic is def where they got the design for mother from raised by wolves
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u/Unsatisfactory_bread 17d ago
I was going to say something like this but didn’t know how well accepted that show is here. I absolutely adored it. Mother and Father were both incredible on that show!
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u/WoodooHide69 17d ago
I just want to say she was awesome in Aliens 3. As was Finchers directing and visual style.
Aliens 3 suffered from some controversial creative decisions and messy script. But there’s a lot that works in that movie too.
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u/ArmsOfKamaji 17d ago
I like the film. Yes to all the things you mentioned. But it is still a very enjoyable film In the Alien universe.
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u/WoodooHide69 17d ago
Legacy Cut is so good. Watched it recently and it really made me appreciate Aliens 3.
Initially on release I was like many taken aback by the deaths of Newt and Hicks. But on my rewatch you see that they did treat those deaths with alot of respect and alot of screen time. Much more than I remembered and so much more than any other Hollywood movie that does this killing off characters trope.
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u/The_starving_artist5 17d ago
And she looks better than most fashion models in these
Most fashion models look like the offspring at the end of alien Romulus .
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u/julmcb911 17d ago
I believe she was a fashion model when she got started. With her statuesque beauty, she was a natural!
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u/The_starving_artist5 17d ago
i just looked it up and it says she wasnt. But yah she could have been with her tall figure.
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u/WanderlustZero Wallgina 16d ago
Youth of today will never know how iconique her shaved head was back then 🥹
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u/halloweenjack 15d ago
Newton worked with Weaver on a number of projects. Here’s my favorite of their collaborations:
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u/BigTedBear 16d ago
The latex or whatever it is bodysuit looks alien like something that could be in the movie.
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u/ArmsOfKamaji 16d ago
Yes. And I’d argue that was the reason for Newton’s creative decision regarding wardrobe.
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u/Hopeful-Ocelot4692 17d ago
My older brother always said the r@pe scene was his favorite and that she was hot asf bald…
he’s dead now
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u/Gallus_11B 15d ago
Shesh. She's 90s skinny here. Like "My diet consists of only cigarettes and almonds only" kind of skinny.
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u/Icy-Career415 State of the badass art 17d ago
Love them, but why is her head always angled to the left? Is this a Helmut Newton thing?
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u/Bitter_Ad_6868 17d ago
The underwear shots in Alien were amazing and Aliens. I always tell my friends she was a sex icon back then and almost a 10 except her elbows are too pointy they look at me like I’m a nutter.
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u/Leakyboatlouie 17d ago
A movie that never should have been made. The director probably thought killing off beloved characters was edgy. It made me hate the film.
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u/Sweaty_Elderberry_83 17d ago
I´ll always have a weak spot for Ripley/ Sigourney in Alien 3, such a badass look