Communication breakdown. Very fun and intense moment to work with, as I made best with "working print" footage available in my precision edit. It was years before I found this deleted footage. 87K views! Nice.

Love the original theatrical sequence, and dared extending this long masterpiece take -- once finding the rare Lambert deleted scene (1:42 through 2:09) Red flash = Danger. Classic camera work.

After many attempts, this feels right in tone, without over-exaggeration. I wanted the new "27 seconds" edited in for the first time, to feel very natural and almost unnoticeable -- thereby breaking a long scene, showing more great footage worth meaningful arc.

I see this as a "monumental cut" waiting decades to be made. So, thank you Sir Ridley Scott and 20th Century Fox for letting me entertain fan audiences professionally. We have milestones to achieve. _c.

Edit time = 12 hours. Enjoy this new take, my fellow ALIEN geeks!

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