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Everyone keeps mentioning how in Alien 3, the first thing to get infected/eaten is a dog. I seem to remember this happening to a rottweiler. But I just saw Alien 3 and the facehugger killed a bull and the alien busted out of that. Did I watch a directors cut with a bull instead of a dog?

TheLethalCarrot
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  • perhaps this question belongs on the movies sight? I'm not sure, is is Science Fiction too... – AidanO Jan 10 '12 at 08:02
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    It belongs here, @AidanO – AncientSwordRage Jan 10 '12 at 08:34
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    @AidanO I asked a similar question on the movies site and they told me to come here – puk Jan 10 '12 at 09:57
  • @puk, strange, I thought it would be well received over there, it kind of fits in both I guess. Good question though. I look forward to checking out the Assembly cut soon :) – AidanO Jan 10 '12 at 10:12
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    Stack Exchange has many overlaps, I for example ask a lot math questions that border on the statistical and that I need to code... – puk Jan 10 '12 at 10:30
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    @AidanO: if you don’t think alien is science fiction I really don’t know how you sleep at night. – Paul D. Waite Jun 12 '14 at 14:56

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If you watch the Assembly Cut on the DVD/ bluray sets (the equivalent of the directors cut, however Fincher refused to be involved), it is a bull like creature that they farm on the prison planet that is the first thing to be a host. The dog was part of the studios considerable recutting .

It's worth watching the Assembly cut, it's far from the sequel you hope for, but a hundred times better than the release version.

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The Wandering Dev Manager
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  • I can't remember the original version but the "Assembly cut" seems to be a lot better at showing the world outside. I am not sure what other differences there are. – puk Jan 10 '12 at 10:00
  • Will have to track that down! – AidanO Jan 10 '12 at 10:06
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    The Special Edition DVD & Blu-ray section in the Wikipedia listing details the changes, over 30 mins, and generally the film makes much more sense. – The Wandering Dev Manager Jan 10 '12 at 13:38
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    My Alien quadrillogy DVD set has all the versions and I do recall the cow-like creature being first in one of the cuts. The dog was definitely in the theatrical version that I saw at the cinema. – Paul Gregoire Jun 21 '12 at 17:44
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It's always the pet dog in any version I've seen. The dog is a pet of one of the inmates. And when the alien busted out it was in one of the air vents, I can't see a bull wandering around the air vents!

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    lol it's not in the air vents. They bring the bull in from the outside after it died of 'natural causes', then one of the guys SPOILERS---- picks up a facehugger underneath the corpse and he's like "WTF is this?!?!?" – puk Jan 10 '12 at 10:32
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I am watching Alien 3 streaming and a bull is infected, but the first time I watched it I recall it was a Rottweiler.

I think they changed it to a bull because it more videogenic

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Bull vs Dog

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It was originally supposed to be a cow/ox, the cow was made & filmed but the studio then decided against it as the Xenomorph would have been too bulky and slow. That's the reason it was then changed to a dog (faster)

The whole idea was a mistake in my eyes as the CGI took a lot away from the film for me.

Alien 3 as a whole was a great concept 'Prison with no weapons etc' just poorly executed.

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