From: jdliss@unix.amherst.edu (Jeff Liss)
Subject: List of Aliens Restoration Notes
Organization: Amherst College
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Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 21:44:25 GMT

These are the Restoration Notes from the Criterion boxed set of Aliens,
released theatrically at 137 min. and restored at 154 min.

--There is no mention of Ripley's daughter in the theatrical edition of the
film.  This story line is introduced in the scene where Ripley is sitting
on the park bench waiting for Burke, immediately following her stay in the
Gateway Station's hospital.  This entire sequence has been restored.

--After Ripley's outburst during the inquest, dialogue has been restored in
which Van Leuwen voice the council's final decisions.

--Immediately after the inquest is an entire sequence that takes place on
planet LV-426.  During this sequence, we are introduced to the Jorden
family.  The sequence runs almost six minutes and is not in the theatrical
edition.  The new special effects have been completed specifically for this
release.

--During the sequence in Ripley's aprtment, Burke's dialogue regarding "The
Company's" interest in the colony has been restored.

--Immediately following the first establishing shot of the Sulaco is a
restored introduction to the interior of the ship, eventually leading to
the frost-covered hypersleep chambers.

--During the drop from the Sulaco to LV-426 is a restored scene of Hudson
playfully boasting about the Marines and their weaponry.

--During the Marines' initial search through the colony, a sequence has been
inserted in which Hudson and Vasquez investiagate some motion they have 
detected ahead of them.

--The scene in which Ripley, Burke, Gorman, and Bishop enter the colony has
been restored.

--During Hicks' discussion of the equipment salvaged from the APC wreckage,
additional dialogue has been added in which he describes four remote sentry
guns and how they can be used.

When Ripley and the Marines examine the colony's blueprints, discussing
how they will barricade themselves inside the complex, there is some 
additional dialogue referring to the strategic placement of the sentry
guns.  The theatrical edition incorportates altered post-production 
dialogue to cover the abscene of the sentry gun subplot.

The sequence of Hicks arming the sentry guns, and Hudson and Vasquez testing
one of the sentry guns has been restored.  The theatrical edition only shows
Hudson and Vasquez sealing the tunnel, with slightly altered dialogue.

Before the scene where Ripley carries Newt into the infirmary, a single shot
of the sentry guns has been inserted.

--During the scene where Ripley puts Newt to bed in the medical center, the
dialogue about Ripley's daughter and the origin of babies has been restored.

--In the scene where Ripley, Bishop, Hudson, and Vasquez discuss the aliens' 
life cycle, there is some additional dialogue in which Hudson, Vasquez, and
Bishop offer their speculations.

--After Ripley's confrontation with Burke, the sequence involving the aliens
attempting to make their way past the sentry guns has been restored.

--After Vasquez and Ripley seal Bishop in the pipe, the aliens confront the
other two sentry guns that have been set up in the colony corridors.  At
the end of the sequence, when Hicks dispatches Hudson and Vasquez, some
of the shots have been rearranged from the theatrical eidition and Hicks'
dialogue is slightly altered.

--Before Ripley leaves the drop-ship to rescue Newt, there is some additional
dialogue in which she turns to Hicks to say goodbye, and the exchange their
first names.

--The characters new to this edition of the film, Newt's mother, father, her
brother Timmy, Lydecker, and Simpson, are now listed in the closing credits.


So that's what is restored.  I haven't seen it yet, and I don't know how
much of this was in the edition that was shown on TV.  But this is as much
as you're going to get.

Jef