The creature is never filmed directly facing the camera due to the humanoid features of its face. Ridley Scott, determined at all costs to dispel any notion of a man in a rubber suit, filmed the beast in varying close-up angles of its ghastly profile, very rarely capturing the beast in its entirety.

Ridley Scott

Sir Ridley Scott (born 30 November 1937) is a film director and producer. Following his commercial breakthrough with the science-fiction horror film Alien, his best known work is the neo-noir dystopian science fiction film Blade Runner .