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Published: 2012-04-10 03:45:56 +0000 UTC; Views: 3101; Favourites: 82; Downloads: 95
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From Ridley Scott's 1979 classic A L I E N.The Narcissus shuttle makes a hurried departure from the Nostromo and it's refinery as Warrant Officer Ripley makes a last ditch attempt to escape the horror of the creature that was brought on board by setting off the self destruct.
(I don't need to point out that the shuttle launches backwards now do I?)
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Ripley, Jones, Alien.
Later, Ripley + Jones
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You've taught me something significant here 
Very great work you've done.
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Thanks, it's been suggested that the Narcissus doesn't properly launch at all, but merely ignites it's retros once dropped from the Nostromo, allowing the Nostromo and refinery to speed on their way (the forward braking engines are shown to ignite but this seems to get confused with forward lights coming on). Later when the alien attempts to enter through one of the nacelles and Ripley fires up the main engines the Narcisuss is set back on course for Earth - through the debris - such as it is - of the refinery. Which makes sense.
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you nailed the look of that old slit scan effect.
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All the shuttle had to do was slow down; the Nostromo was already going faster than light speed, so once the Narcissus slowed down even just a bit, the speed of the Nostromo would speed away.
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I still don't know why the thing was launching backwards.
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I reckon it might have been based on probably reality - in that a shuttle would launch with smaller rockets just to get away from the bigger ship (hopefully with more than 30 seconds to spare) and then once set on course for home go to the main rockets - a way to save wasting fuel. Or, could be to give Ripley a prime view of the destruction through the front view port. Or, so that when the alien tries to get back on board via the engine narcelle the main ignition is all the more dramatic.
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Either way, I always found that kooky
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