"Areas of the Nostromo are reminiscent of various blue-collar workplaces, a counterpoint to the sleek spaceships imagined in much science fiction before Alien. In his article āThe set design of Ridley Scottās Alien, Christopher Aguiar explains that this approach had rarely been seen in science fiction before 1979, which adds to the quality of trepidation: āFear is built largely from the camera prowling around the empty spaces of the Nostromo ship ā a battered, truly ugly spacecraft, unlike the Death Star or USS Enterpriseā¦ instead of being outside and exploring the world as sci-fi often wants us to do, weāre largely stuck inside the rundown, twisted corridors of a ship. That immediately works as a way of Scott installing fear and uneasiness.ā"
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