Ian Holm

Everything I like about film in one spot, based on the great novel by Russell Banks.

It stars Ian Holm.

Bruce Greenwood, and Sarah Polly.

If you want to hear me talk about something very passionately besides the New York Jets, listen to this episode because I love the sweet hereafter, and you can clearly hear it in the way that I talk about the movie.

Can you tell us a little bit more about these kind of quite other things? significant props the red book is the thing this is the bit at the beginning right i want to say yeah the red book is

very significant um from a storytelling point of view it provides to the audience a a visual access to to what's going on so accompanied with a voiceover by um ian holm We have Bilbo writing and speaking as he writes his memoirs.

That way provide an introduction to the audience about what's going on in Middle Earth.

Who are the hobbits? What's their life like? What do they do? And in the case of the hobbit, who's Smaug? Why don't the dwarves like the elves? All these sort of things.

Write the story of The Hobbit as if you were Bilbo.

And I knew the material, so I went home.

Luckily, I had been writing this stuff using a quill because later on, unknown to me then, we were going to see both Elijah and Sir Ian Holm write in the book in their styles.

So I had tried it with a fountain pen and with calligraphy pens and with a quill and settled on the quill because essentially, if you want something to look as if it's written with a quill, the best thing to do is just write it with a quill.

And they're both kind of the blue collar maintenance type crew members on the ship.

And then finally, we have Ian Holm as Ash, and he is the science officer on the ship.

So there's a little discussion that's brought up by Brett and by Parker about how they want to make sure they get their bonus and proper shares from the mission.

And at this point, Dallas gets summoned by Mother, Mother being the control computer of the ship, and he ends up walking into a room in order to interface with Mother using a keyboard.

But in this film, we understand Kane's curiosity, which is also prompted by an unfortunate stumble when he lands next to an egg that opens startlingly.

And then the facehugger is upon his face faster than he can react to escape.

Ash, portrayed by Ian Holm, is the stereotypical cold and analytical science officer.

Hmm, could he have been modeled partly after Spock from Star Trek? Hmm, could be.

I'm not going to name everybody, but it's nice to have the whole list to pick everybody's name out.

Starring Johnny Depp, Heather Graham, Ian Holm,

Robbie Coltrane, Ian Richardson, Jason Fleming, the great Jason Fleming, a forgotten great actor.

I enjoy him in almost everything he's in.

Because there is more going on to that story than what's being told to us.

So after we get another couple murders, her friends just keep getting bumped off.

Abberline goes to consult with Dr. William Gull, who's played by the great Ian Holm.

I love Ian Holm.

Scott also said that when the group wakes up Ash actually takes longer because he's almost like a computer starting up and this very much mirrors the system on the ship turning on in the beginning.

When we cut to Kane we can also see Ash to the right and you might notice that Ian Holm isn't actually breathing at this point.

it isn't until much later that he starts to do this.

We also have the tubes themselves which are cylindrical in shape and also look a bit like an egg.

We then see his head gargle back to life.

Originally Ash's head was gonna be made using an animatronic however this looked really bad and was constantly cooking under the lights.

This is to the point that the head ended up looking deformed so basically they got this scene where they put Ian Holm under a table and stuck his head out the top.

We do see this scuff model in just a bit though when the crew burn the robot and I do kinda wish they'd cut around the model head being positioned before we cut to Home.