Alien (1979) - Jerry Goldsmith's 'Alien' Opening

Описание: This is my edit of the opening credits to 'Alien' as intended and envisioned by Jerry Goldsmith, the film's composer.
The score used is the original piece Goldsmith wrote for the opening sequence, which was later replaced by the more unsettling and distressing one used in the final edit of the movie.

"I always think of space as being the great unknown and not terrifying but questioning. There's an air of romance about it and I guess I approached Alien that way. There was this air of mystery but there was sort of a beauty to it." he says.
Goldsmith was inspired by the lyricism and romanticism of 'Alien' and wanted to transcribe that into his score. However, movie director Ridley Scott and film editor Terry Rawlings did not like Goldsmith's original main title piece, so Scott made him rewrote it as "the obvious thing: weird and strange, and which everybody loved and I didn't love. I kept getting kudos years after on the main title I wrote for Alien which was not exactly my choice and the original that I wrote took me like a day to write it and the alternate one took me about five minutes to write."

Overall, there were major disagreements between Goldsmith's vision and Rawlings and Scott's vision of what the score should be. They ended up using a piece Goldsmith wrote for an other movie (Freud, 1962) in the facehugger's acid scene without his consent and used an excerpt from Howard Hanson's Symphony No. 2 ("Romantic") for the end scene and credits instead of the End Title that Goldsmith wrote.

The original Main Title is 4:12 in length and the film's opening title is just 1:50 so feel free to go listen to the entire piece.