The Soviet state, not Hollywood, originated today’s most stolen science fiction imagery.

Evidence

Meanwhile, films such as the aforementioned Tarkovsky’s Solaris and Stalker -plundered by Hollywood since as far back as Alien and Blade Runner – were produced in the ostensibly moribund conditions of the Brezhnevite Soviet state, meaning that the USSR acted as a cultural entrepreneur for Hollywood. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 159

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• CANDY: A neat, tweetable fact: Alien and Blade Runner quietly rebuilt themselves from Soviet state-funded Tarkovsky films.