{"id":18656,"date":"2017-08-28T05:10:01","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T09:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=18656"},"modified":"2017-08-28T05:14:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T09:14:41","slug":"23-things-we-learned-from-ridley-scotts-alien-covenant-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=18656","title":{"rendered":"23 Things We Learned from Ridley Scott\u2019s \u2018Alien Covenant\u2019 Commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2017\/z082817aliencovenant_commentary.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rob Hunter and Film School Rejects present <a href=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/23-things-learned-ridley-scotts-alien-covenant-commentary\/\">23 Things We Learned from Ridley Scott\u2019s <em>Alien Covenant<\/em> Commentary<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0Here are three of my favorites&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>9. \u00a0<\/strong> At 24:26 he acknowledges this is the \u201csame plot as the original Alien, there\u2019s a transmission, they go and find out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>11.<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0Astronauts and NASA scientists have told him that they sometimes get ideas from science fiction films because filmmakers have thought their way around problems in ways that they themselves don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p><strong>14.<\/strong> More than once Scott says he\u2019s going to hold back from saying something so as not to spoil it for listeners \u2014 as if people are listening to the commentary for their first watch of the film.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Hunter and Film School Rejects present 23 Things We Learned from Ridley Scott\u2019s Alien Covenant Commentary.\u00a0\u00a0Here are three of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horror","category-movies","category-trivia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18656"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18708,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18656\/revisions\/18708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}