Alien, in 1979, as the third work of Ridley Scott's directorial career, it showed the world a model of deep space horror and thriller. If you haven't seen an alien's work, then you must have seen this ugly-looking alien creature with a peculiar beauty... I believe you must have seen it.
With the success of "Alien" in 1979, the Alien series continued to ferment and promote, and the orthodox Alien had 2, 3, and 4. Although not Ridley Scott continued to direct, these works were by James Cameron. Three big-name directors, David Fincher and Jean-Pierre Gennet, came to take over the guide tube. I would like to ask, is there any film series that has so many big-name directors. Such a popular Alien IP, of course, cannot stop at these four works. Ridley Scott also returned to Alien, but he once said that he would not make "Alien 5" again. On the contrary, Ridley Scott thought It is necessary to dig deeper into the space jockeys who appeared in Alien in 1979.
Therefore, after 15 years from "Alien 4", the Alien Prequel series finally had "Prometheus" in 2012, and then "Alien: Contract" was released in 2017. Fortunately, these two works have been held in the hands of Ridley Scott, showing us a more original and charming alien world.
Today, we will start a long journey of classic movie series. The first series is my favorite "Alien" series. I will give you an in-depth explanation of the current orthodox "Alien" series of 6 works. Of course I know that Alien and Predator have many stories about falling in love and killing each other, but the "Alien" series will not explain the content of the Predator too much.
The most mysterious "Prometheus" of the Alien series, the film was released with mixed reviews. Because the film is about the origin of the Alien, and it adds a lot of Ridley Scott's personal life, philosophy, religion, beliefs, etc. Goods, so the film is more obscure in some places. In layman's terms, the film originally intended to explain the source of the alien, but in fact it is to fill the small hole and continue to dig the big hole.
Moreover, the said that the alien turned out to only show his face and walk through the scene at the end, which disappointed many viewers who watched the alien action scenes.
However, this does not mean that "Prometheus" cannot become a classic. On the contrary, in the entire "Alien" series, "Prometheus" is the most researched, deepest, and most topical work.
Nowadays, "Prometheus" has been nearly 8 years away. In these 8 years, there have been "Alien Contract", there have been a lot of extras, the pictures have been cut, and many alien fans have a lot of in-depth interpretation and analysis. There are also official interviews with the main creator, documentaries, conceptual design drawings, and even official comics and text novels related to aliens.
These are constantly supplementing the content of "Prometheus", which indirectly proves that "Prometheus" is a classic work that is very memorable and full of stamina.
Chapter 1: Review "Prometheus"
Chapter 2: Analysis of deleted scenes
Do you know that director Lao Lei has an unwritten tradition, that is, he likes to make director's cut version, because Lao Lei has a very personal explanation of life, history and civilization, religion and belief.
So you can see that Lao Lei's "Gladiator" release version is 155 minutes, and the director's cut version becomes 177 minutes.
The release version of "Black Hawk Down" is 144 minutes, and the director's cut version is 152 minutes.
The release version of "The Martian" is 144 minutes, and the director's cut version is 151 minutes.
The most famous (removed controversy) is "The Kingdom of Heaven", which was released for 144 minutes (amputation version), and the director's cut version was 193 minutes.
When it comes to "Prometheus", it is said that the first cut version of the film reached nearly 4 hours, but it was finally compressed to 124 minutes for the release version, and Foss had to reach 2 hours that was very comfortable for the audience.
After the film was released, everyone believed that "Prometheus" was bound to have a longer director's cut version.
But this time Lao Lei told everyone that there is no so-called director's cut version. He was very satisfied with the editing of the release version. In the interview, Lao Lei talked about the questions left by the film. It was he deliberately, including everyone. Lao Lei unilaterally insisted on closing the captions of the conversations of the engineers who needed to know.
So this also leads to another preference or characteristic of Lao Lei, which is that he wants to put some "free pens" in his work, leaving the audience to put the answers they want.
The so-called "free brush" is to deliberately leave out the plot in a literary and artistic work with a slight deviation from the core of the theme. Most of this approach is used in literature, which is the so-called illocutionary description.
This explanation is obviously not enough for movie fans, so there are more than 30 minutes of extra clips in the Blu-ray disc of "Prometheus".
After watching these more than 30 minutes of cuts and extra clips, we will have a more comprehensive and clear understanding of our deconstruction of "Prometheus."
Next, according to the time sequence of the feature film, let's take a look at the deleted scene content and make a corresponding analysis.
1 Sacrifice of the White Giant
The first is the beginning of the film. The release version is that after the cobblestone spacecraft arrives on the earth, only one white giant (engineer) comes down.
But in the clips included in the Blu-ray, there are actually 9 white giants in total. Except for the young white giant who died last, the other 8 seem to be older.
The eldest one of them handed the metal box to the young white giant. During the whole process, everyone was kind and bowed to each other and said goodbye, as if these white giants were performing their religious sacrifice ceremony instead of someone before. The guessed young white giant was tortured and sent to the earth.
Therefore, the young white giant drinking the black water in the jelly medium should be a voluntary act, voluntarily becoming a victim of the mysterious sacrificial ritual.
Moreover, when the old white giant gave the young white giant's metal box, the old white giant also said a paragraph, but that paragraph has not been translated, we will discuss this in detail when we leave it to the in-depth interpretation.
2 Peter Weilun's speech
This section is Peter Weilun’s speech at TED in 2023. It is an extra film. You should have watched it, but more people have watched it in the 3-minute version, but this speech actually lasts nearly 7 minutes.
In the speech, Weilun was equivalent to introducing his company's contribution to humanity, citing the myth that "Prometheus" passed to human fire, and also mentioned the content of the movie "Lawrence of Arabia".
After that, Weilun turned around and compared mankind or himself to gods, thinking that the achievements of mankind today can be compared with gods, and we are gods. Regarding such remarks, the audience whispered and questioned Weilun's somewhat blasphemous speech.
But in the end Weilun said that the great dream of mankind cannot stop at the status quo, but to talk to God and change the world. After that, thunderous applause and cheers were heard from the venue.
This is also the driving force behind Weilun's planning of the Prometheus project, because Weilun feels that the gap between humans and gods is that humans have not yet truly mastered their lives and cannot face death calmly.
3 Weilun Industrial Declaration
This paragraph is an introduction by a female employee of Weilun Industrial. The same paragraph is also a special occasion, allowing us to know more clearly what Weilun Industrial is doing in its biotechnology part.
This is also a very important R&D department that can be produced by biochemical people like David, and after David’s production, his fascination with and research on black water has a lot to do with the initial research and development of this biological R&D department.
At the end of the short film, we did not forget to release the slogan of Weilun Company, Weilun Company, changing the world.
4 The Manufacture of David
This short film produced by David is also an extra-special film. At the end of the short film, it was written that it was produced by Weilun Industry in 2078. Therefore, we can understand that the eighth generation of great hygienic people was successfully developed around 2078.
This short film introduces what David can do, to what extent he can be like a human being, can assist human beings in all aspects of work, and can learn and feel human emotions from it.
In particular, there is a section where the interviewer asked what can make you sad. David said war, poverty, cruelty and other mentality vocabulary of the Virgin's plot. It makes people feel that David is a kind and friendly biochemical person, but everyone sees After "Prometheus", I don't think so. This also reflects the hypocritical side of David.
5 Sean's Interview
The interview clips can be said to be extra or extra. In this short film, Sean uses video letters to continuously send Weilun requests to meet, because she has found evidence of human origin, but there is no funds to complete her. Research, so Sean found Wei Lun.
Everyone here would think that it was the beginning of the feature film in 2089, when Sean and the others went to find Wei Lun after discovering the remains of human civilization in Scotland, but this video is actually earlier.
Two time points are shown in the short film. One is 2074 and the other is 2079. I am more inclined to 2079.
In other words, Sean estimated that after discovering the first astrological map of human relics, she tried to contact Wei Lun. After that, she kept discovering that she possessed more evidence that attracted Wei Lun's attention.
The short film also mentions Sean's view of facing death. In fact, it has a lot of resonance with Weilun's facing death. This is also the key to Weilun's final agreement to support Sean to find the origin of mankind.
6 Physical training
The clips of physical training are also extra-fan movies. From the short clips, we also know that the Prometheus plan has been officially launched and the crew has been recruited.
Among them, the captain smokes during the test. It belongs to the type of old fritters. It also allows us to understand the captain's personality. He is the kind of person who is casual but has more independent opinions.
There is also the Harloway test. In the dialogue, we learned that Harloway has carried out missions to the earth and Mars. From this we also know that the earth’s technology has already set foot in the Martian realm.
Next is Sean’s conversation. Sean’s first interstellar mission, from which we learned that this video will be sent to the interstellar space, and Sean will talk to the engineers from the air, and kindly indicate that they are going to find an engineer. On the way.
On the contrary, the purpose of Halloway's trip was to witness the creator of mankind, and then to break religious beliefs.
From the short film, we can initially see that Sean and Halloway have contradictory views on religious beliefs. Let's talk about the in-depth interpretation of these two characters.
7 Christmas tree
After the crew of the Prometheus awakened in the feature film, the captain was playing with the Christmas tree, and the cut fragments lengthened the scene.
In the main film, Vics walked over and simply told the captain to let everyone have a meeting.
In the cut clip, the captain and Vickers had a few more conversations. The captain laughed at Vickers for taking part in an interstellar journey for the first time. Afterwards, Vickers asked the captain to lead everyone to a meeting. The captain said that he would have breakfast. And hang the little angel pendant.
There is nothing special about this cut screen, but it can deepen the interaction between the captain and Vix, which also makes the two flirting in the back 419 more basic.
8 "Little Loach"
In the feature film, Sean and the others enter the hole in the round valley bag, find that the air can be breathed, and take off the oxygen mask.
At this time, a scene was deleted, that is, they found a small loach-like creature in the hole. This is the first time that mankind has discovered a living thing much larger than monocytes in outer space. Everyone is very excited. From here, everyone has relaxed their vigilance, especially biologists.
This is also one of the reasons why biologists will be so nervous about butterfly snakes in the future.
9 Shaun's speech
In the positive film, Sean and the others obtained the results of the first stage of exploration and got the head of the engineer.
There is a section of the deleted fragment. It was Sean and the others in the lounge. Sean gave a staged research victory speech. The content of the speech was roughly that Sean shared her and her father's experience in Africa with everyone, and in the African tribal mythology, It was the sun that created humans. Afterwards, people asked why the sun created humans. The sun said, because my sunlight has nothing to shine, so if there are human beings, my sunlight will have meaning, otherwise only the sun will be lonely.
With these words, Sean tells everyone that human beings are no longer alone.
But there is a key point here. Halloway and Sean’s opinions are getting bigger and bigger. Halloway thinks that human beings are still alone, because they have researched and found that the engineer is dead, but Sean still thinks this voyage is valuable. of.
10 "Leather"
After the geologists and biologists got lost, in this deleted segment, they found halfway through the skin resembling a snake shed.
The snake skin here is very likely to be the evolution of the butterfly snake they met later.
Of course, there is another understanding, that is, what they discovered was that the creature's skin peeled from the engineer's head on the day of the engineer's accident may be a close relative of the alien.
In "Alien" in 1979, Alien has a similar skin that has faded, which is somewhat similar to this skin.
11 Quarrel
Before Sean and Harlowy had sex, they actually filmed an alternative scenario at the time, which intensified the conflict between Sean and Harlowe’s views on engineers, and Harlowy also indirectly told the whole film. More important hidden secrets.
Drunk and drunk, Halloway began to express his thoughts madly. Halloway believes that engineers are not gods. Even if they create humans, they will die. Humans are even the experimental products of engineers, and the earth is the experimental ground.
Then Harlowy pointed the anger towards Sean and satirized Sean's purpose of this trip, which was to redeem his sins and to find out the "truth" of the death of Sean's parents.
After that, the two began to squabble together, and then the two quickly stopped the quarrel.
If I were to choose, then the release version would be the best. Frankly speaking, the character trend of the feature version of Harlowway was too excessive.
The most important part of this tidbit is that the humans mentioned by Halloway are experimental objects, which will be interpreted in detail later.
12 Eyeworms
After the one-night Spring Supper, Halloway woke up first and found that his eyes were red and his mental state was extremely bad. At this time, he looked in the mirror and found that nematodes appeared in his eyes.
In the cut clip, Sean was added and held Harlowway, but found that Harlowway was in bad condition and said that Harlowway had a high body temperature.
These conversations have more clearly expressed the symptoms before the Harlowe black water poisoning outbreak.
13 David and Vics
In the feature film, Sean and the others enter the Tsuburaya bag for the second time, while David goes to the control room alone and cut off Vickers' video communication.
The content of the screen was deleted. After David discovered that another engineer was hibernating, he reconnected with Vickers. David lied that the signal was bad and the signal was interrupted. Of course, Vickers didn’t believe it but didn’t want to pursue it. Vickers asked. David rushed back. Because of Harlowe's poisonous attack, Vics simply asked, did you find what he wanted? David said it was almost done.
He here is Peter Weilun.
14 The Captain Comforts Vics
The content of this deleted scene is that after Vics burned Halloway, he was a little bit self-blame and afraid. Vics appeared depressed in the cabin, and the captain came to comfort him.
The captain said that such cruel things happened frequently in his sailing career. The captain gave an example of a mission in which thousands of people were infected in a laboratory, and in the end he could only blow it up, and this time Vics burned it. Halloway, she just had to do it.
After that, the whole ship vibrated, and the source of vibration and hot spots came from the previous control room. Vickers said it was time to wake him (Wei Lun).
I need to explain here that the vibration from the control room is not logical, because the engineer in the control room is hibernating, and then David wakes up, so it stands to reason that there will be no abnormal phenomena in the control room, unless the engineer lost the timing at that time. It happens that the control room enters a cold start and the like at that time.
But this time pinch is too coincidental to appear unreal, which also caused this clip to be deleted.
15 The Geologist Runaway
In the feature film, the geologist returned to the spacecraft and killed many crew members, but was burned to death by the captain.
Here is another alternative shot, showing the more varied forms of geologists. The geologists here have longer heads and slender fingers that look more alien.
The feature film deliberately avoids the geologist's side head shape. It is estimated that the audience does not want to think too much of the alien. After all, the final form of the alien is a relatively complicated evolutionary process. At least the alien can be obtained after breaking the body.
16 Weilun Father and Daughter
Before Wei Lun was about to set off to contact the engineer, Vics had a private conversation with Wei Lun.
Here is a longer alternative shot, which is similar to the one in which Shaun and Haroway quarreled before.
This unused alternative segment of Vicks is that Vicks still has a touch of affection for Wei Lun. One of the purposes of Vickers’ involvement this time is to try to prevent Wei Lun from meeting with the engineer in the end, because of that. It's like going to die.
Vics also discussed the natural laws of life and death with Weilun, and the dialogue between the two was much richer than the feature film.
These two passages show the different personalities of Vickers. In the feature film, Vickers hates her father even more, wishing that the old man would return to the West soon so that he could inherit the family business.
The alternative clips show Vickers' tenderness and love for his father.
17 Meeting with the engineer
This excerpted clip is a clip of Weilun and Sean meeting the engineer. In fact, David had a few back and forth conversations with the engineer, but these were all deleted in the release version by Lao Lei, which also caused the engineer’s emotions. The changes seem abrupt. This paragraph is also the most popular scene for everyone to discuss.
In the cut clip, after the engineer wakes up, David conveys Weilun's meaning and tells the engineer that humans have come all the way to see the engineer, as they wished.
Then the engineer said why you are here.
Weilun explained that the greatness of mankind can already be on the same level as engineers as gods. The ability of mankind to create a born human David is a perfect example. David can get immortal life. Why can't human beings do it? Human beings and engineers are gods. What can't get eternal life.
After that, just like in the feature film, the engineer pulled David's head and went on a slaughter.
Regarding this paragraph, of course, I will dig into it in depth in conjunction with the full-film engineer species.
18 Sean and the engineer
In the feature film, perhaps the end of the film is tight, so when Sean entered the rescue capsule, he soon met the engineer.
However, in the deleted clip, in this segment, Sean entered the rescue capsule first, took some items, and even drank a few sips of alcohol at the bar, and gave himself a shot of tranquilizing anesthetic, which also explains why Sean was so along the way. I can hold back my abdominal pain after surgery.
After that, the engineer entered the rescue capsule. At first, Sean hid. After the engineer entered, he looked at the books scattered on the floor and the little girl on the screen playing the violin. The engineer began to watch what he had built for humans. She became interested, and even played with the crystal lamp with her hands, and wanted to touch the screen with her hands to play the violin.
Soon the engineer discovered Sean. At first, the engineer didn't directly attack Sean, but continued to look at it. When Sean was about to run, the two men fought. Finally, Sean released the trilobite and the engineer died.
19 Sean and David
After Sean escaped, David continued to talk to Sean, and there was no difference in the plot direction of the release version and the cut clip.
It's just that the cut clip shows Sean's disdain for David's provocation. When Sean decided to save David, he directly grabbed David by the hair and put David in his bag.
In the meantime, David explained that in his dialogue with the engineer, the engineer said that their home is not LV223, but a place called heaven (the Garden of Eden).
Chapter 3: Deep Interpretation of Pull Sheets
Keywords: Prometheus
The title of this movie is Prometheus, of course, this is obviously connected to the ancient Greek mythology.
Prometheus is one of the gods of the Titans. In this mythology, Prometheus and Athena created humans, but the god of the universe Zeus forbids humans to use fire, and humans suffer from suffering, so Prometheus steals After giving fire to humans, Zeus was enraged, tied Prometheus to the cliff, and let the evil eagle peck at Prometheus's new liver every day, causing him to repeat the pain.
In the film, the name of the spacecraft is called Prometheus, which in the most direct meaning is the adventure story of the spacecraft named Prometheus.
The deeper meaning is to imply that human beings are looking for the god who created themselves and handed them fire.
Even Peter Weilun in the film wants to find the source of the fire and compare with God.
Speaking of this, do you think that I will use a lot of religious stories to interpret "Prometheus"? Wrong! I am not a religious lover, I can only click to the end, I believe this is what Lao Lei wants to express.
why.
Here I want to let everyone know that, in fact, the title at the beginning of the film is not called "Prometheus", but "Paradise".
In addition to the meaning of the title indicating that it is the name of the engineer's home planet, the source of inspiration is actually from John Milton's book Paradise Lost (Paradise Lost).
"Paradise Lost" is an epic created based on the foundation of "Genesis". One sentence summarizes the content of "Lost Garden". It tells the story of the fall of mankind. The fallen angel Satan tempts Adam and Eve, which leads to their expulsion from the Garden of Eden.
But why did Lao Lei not use this title later.
Lao Lei explained in the interview that he did not want to use Christianity to fix Prometheus alone, nor did he want to use religion to interpret his works. Lao Lei's ambitions are greater, and he hopes to use different human civilizations. His religion and beliefs can be incorporated into his works, and then he can draw his own interpretation of the universe and life.
For example, he used Greek mythology like Prometheus as the movie name, which is a good example. Ancient Greek mythology tells the origin and essence of the universe, which is also different from biblical stories.
There is also the waterfall at the beginning of the film. At first, Lao Lei chose the site of the Gods Waterfall in Iceland, but because the visual effects are not as turbulent as Dettifoss, he chose the latter in the end.
Everyone listens to the waterfall of the gods and gods, which is very religious. This waterfall was converted to Christianity in 1000 AD. The people of Iceland who believed in the Nordic pagans cast the statues of the Nordic gods at the waterfall of the gods. name.
Having said so much, you can see that, in fact, "Prometheus" is full of meanings of many different religions in the world, but what the film really wants to express is not only interpreted by Christianity and some other religion, Lao Lei is more What I want to convey to the audience is the philosophical issues between mankind and the universe, between mankind and himself, and between mankind and life and death.
Keywords: opening
At the beginning of the film, a tribute to Stan Lee Kubrick's "2001 A Space Odyssey". "2001 A Space Odyssey" was released in 1968. It can be said to be a revelation of the integration of human civilization and the future.
It is worth noting that at the beginning of "2001: A Space Odyssey", there is a sun in front of the earth. The sun means the life of all things. When the sun shines on the earth, all things on the earth grow and grow endlessly.
In "Prometheus", the sun does not appear in front of the earth, which also represents that the earth is in a barbaric, desolate state of life without intelligence at this time.
After that, the white giants of the cobblestone-shaped spaceship came to the earth. Of course, many people analyzed that these people are not engineers, because their clothes are different from engineers. We will talk about this later.
The first thing worth paying attention to here is the deleted dialogue of the 9 white giants. In the deleted scene, the old white giant has spoken their language to the young white giant, but the subtitles are not displayed, then, What did the old white giant say?
In the original script of "Prometheus," we got the answer.
The old white giant said: "Let your body turn into soil, let your blood melt into the water, and wish your soul back to us."
This line is indeed very poetic and religious. It can also be understood that this is not the young white giant being punished, but that he is receiving a great sacrifice, and he himself feels supremely honored.
Pay special attention to the last sentence here. May your soul come back to us. This also implies that the white giant at this time knows and predicts the birth of human beings in the future, and hopes that the human soul is generally moral. , IQ, words and deeds, it is best to be like them.
Keywords: Weilun speech
The next thing to talk about is the extra part of Peter Weilun’s TED talk in 2023. This speech runs through one focus, which is Weilun’s personality and ambition.
Before attending the speech, Weilun muttered to himself in the background. He said: "I am just the law that belongs to people like myself, and I am not the law of all people."
This is a quote from Weilun’s philosopher Nietzsche’s “So Zarathustra Says”. Zarathustra was the prophet of ancient Persian Zoroastrianism. This book is one of the most famous philosophical books. The core point of this is that he often satirizes the New Testament and then takes the opportunity to explore Nietzsche’s own views on the world and life.
This book was later inspired by Richard Strauss to compose the symphony of the same name. Among them, the magnificent background symphony at the opening of Stanley Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey is from the same name "Cha La Tustra said.
Weilun quoted this sentence, which also shows that he is very disdain to worship God and gods, because he feels that he is a god, Weilun is a little arrogant, and even unwilling to admit the passage of death, in the later TED Weilun The speech transcript further illustrates this point.
Wei Lun’s speech is mainly divided into three parts. In the first part, Wei Lun borrowed from the movie "Lawrence of Arabia". The protagonist calmly pinched the match. The trick is not to mind the pain of pinching the match, and then turn from the fire to the mythical story of Prometheus. Entering said that the real beginning of human civilization is fire.
In this paragraph, Weilun mentioned that he made some fuss about Zeus's punishment of Prometheus, first of all he showed his disdain for God.
And Weilun uses "Lawrence of Arabia" to pinch the matches to associate with the Prometheus myth, which is also to express that humans don't need to mind the feelings brought by fire, but to control it.
In the part of the speech, Weilun introduced the development history of human civilization and technology. We also learned that the degree of human development in the film is much stronger than our reality.
Therefore, the second part of Weilun’s speech summed it up as we are gods. At this time, many audiences in the audience raised doubts, because this is blasphemous words and deeds.
Wei Lun doesn’t matter. I continue talking about the third part. He will use the great wisdom of mankind today and use his own Wei Lun industry’s innate resource advantages to create a better future for mankind. But in this future, mankind has to break many religions and The constraints of regulations.
The third part of Weilun's speech, or this TED speech, is to make himself and Weilun Industry more tolerant in investment, public opinion, and all aspects.
According to the chronology of Weilun Industry, the development of the Davidic generation in 2025 requires certain ethical and moral support, and the subsequent Prometheus plan to find human gods, which also requires religious support.
Regarding Weilun’s industrial time chronology, I will resolve it and keep mentioning it throughout the Alien series.
Keywords: 36 hours
The next segment to talk about is that Sean and the others took the Prometheus to LV223. When they arrived, it was Christmas Eve on December 21, 2093. Christmas is the day when Jesus was born. Everyone knows who Jesus is. Come on, that is, the God who benefits mankind. The time point in the film is to imply that mankind will visit his master.
However, it is worth noting that this sailing time is that, according to the timeline of the Weilun company, the Prometheus project was launched in 2073, and Sean is still trying to meet Weilun in 2079. This seems a bit inconsistent and should not be Did you have the Prometheus project after talking to Sean first?
There is an almost overlooked detail that seems to explain this little bug. When Vics asked David how long he had been flying, David said: "2 years and 4 months, 18 days, 36 hours and 15 minutes."
David is talking about 36 hours, which is obviously more than 24 hours a day on the earth. Why doesn't David directly say 19 days, 12 hours and 15 minutes, and Vickers doesn't care.
There are two explanations here. The first is that the place where Prometheus departed is not the earth at all, but a 36-hour rotation of the planet. Sleep for more than 2 years).
The second is that David’s calculations have some interference from cosmic radiation due to long voyages, or he has already calculated according to the rotation time of LV223.
However, this movie is not a hard science fiction, so it doesn't need to be too real. This little detail is added here to add a layer of fun to the interpretation of the film.
Keywords: Sean Dreamland
On the Prometheus, all crew members are sleeping, only the biochemical man David is left. There is a fragment of David snooping into Sean's dream.
For dreams, we understand more that dreams are people's inner subconsciousness, and interpreting dreams can interpret people's inner desires and true personalities.
From Sean’s dreams, we know that Sean is a devout Christian. When he was a child, Sean and his missionary father saw tribes leave in Africa and discussed where people lead after death. Sean’s father thought It's bliss, heaven, because Sean's father is willing to believe it. Finally, Sean’s father asked Sean what do you believe.
Since childhood, Sean’s expression, we have seen doubts. Sean, who lost his mother since childhood, followed his father to Africa and saw the beliefs of different regions and religions. The young Sean still can’t really believe that people live after death. The saying to heaven.
This is also equivalent to planting a seed for the truth in Sean's heart, and Sean wants to pursue the truth.
Keywords: David of Learning
After that, David studied the ancient languages of mankind alone. In our reality, the Indo-European language family is the oldest and most extensive language family.
Through learning and self-analysis, David can finally communicate with engineers. This is not to highlight that David is very powerful (of course for this reason), but to express the relationship between engineers and humans in ancient times. This Later, it will be unfolded in the chapter on engineer secrets.
David also has a favorite movie called "Lawrence of Arabia", which was also quoted by Peter Wellen's TED talk, so David's style can be regarded as Weilun's creation of his favorite movie protagonist.
The movie "Lawrence of Arabia" tells the story of the army officer Lawrence who assisted the Arab uprising and fought the Ottoman Empire after serving in the Arab tribe.
But the core theme of the characters in the film is the identity of the protagonist Lawrence in this experience. In summary, the protagonist cannot choose to be born, but can choose who he can become.
This is the reason why David is obsessed with Lawrence. David, a biochemical man who is learning and growing, has also been thinking about who he can eventually become.
The line of "Lawrence of Arabia" that David reads in the first line of the film is the passage that Weilun quoted in TED.
David repeatedly repeats Lawrence’s lines that he doesn’t mind the pain of pinching a match, combined with Prometheus’s fire, implying that David’s subsequent plots include "Alien Contract", he will not mind everyone’s pain and sacrifice others. Life, to obtain and control the fire, try to find the mystery of life.
Keywords: Vics
Vickers wakes up automatically. Obviously, Vickers' cabin is not under David's control, but has higher authority. After Vickers wakes up, she begins to exercise.
Here is a comparison, why Vickers wakes up to exercise, while the other crew members wake up and vomit more than that. My understanding here is that Vickers has passed the vomiting stage. David discovered that when Vickers woke up, it had already passed a period of time. Time is running out, the more important thing in the film here is to express that Vics is a proud and glamorous temperament.
In film and television works, the appearance of characters is very important. For example, Sean digs a cave to show her identity. At the same time, the expression from her looking into the hole also expresses her curiosity for the truth.
Someone here once analyzed whether Vickers is a biochemical person, and there have been very heated discussions. I guess this is also the result that the creator wants to achieve.
However, Lao Lei later admitted that he himself thought that Vix was a human, so that the debate stopped a little bit, and in fact, judging from many details, it is true that the setting of Vix as a human would be more reliable.
I personally prefer Vickers to be a human being, and the most important thing is the scene of the last escape. If Vickers is eager to save herself, it will not take so much time to wear a spacesuit, because the biohazard does not need to breathe.
It cannot be said that Vics is like "Western World". She doesn't know that she is a biochemical person. This is too far beyond the outline of the interpretation of "Prometheus", so I won't over discuss it here.
Keywords: Oath
After that, everyone gathered in the fitness room for a swearing ceremony. Peter Weilun appeared in the holographic imaging. By this time, he was already very old. The video was recorded in 2091.
What's interesting is that the construction scene behind Weilun is not on Earth, but on Mars.
In the alien world, according to Weilun Industry’s timetable, mankind will be the first to establish a lunar colony base in 2031. In the following decades, human’s interstellar colonization plan has been developed by leaps and bounds. In 2039, the first technology to build a gas-permeable atmosphere on an extraterrestrial planet will be completed, so Weilun Industry has also been greatly developed.
The Mars base behind the holographic presentation is that Weilun Industry is doing infrastructure projects, which also shows that Weilun is on Mars at this time.
Peter Welen was born in Mumbai, India in 1990. He claimed that he died around 2091, shortly after the video was recorded, but everyone knows that he actually entered a deep sleep and hibernation.
Calculated by time, Weilun’s lifespan was 101 years old when he recorded the video. Of course, it is possible that Weilun had hibernated during this process. For example, when he went from Earth to Mars, he would choose to hibernate to ensure that he could live longer. But I don't think that Weilun will have a lot of hibernation time. As the big boss of Weilun Industry, he has a lot of opportunities. Choosing to hibernate for a long time is dangerous to his status.
There is also a detail here that Weilun calls the biochemical man David his own son, and is particularly proud to introduce it to everyone. As an artificial intelligence, David is mixed with human beings, and he has more calculation methods and learning capabilities than humans. The most important thing is that David has achieved immortality in the true sense. This is what Weilun is most proud of.
When Wei Lun introduced David as his son, Vics showed disdain. Finally, we knew that Vics was David's daughter. The father and daughter were full of repulsion and contradictions on all levels. Compared with David, who completely obeyed Weilun's orders, this also shows that Weilun is more willing to regard himself as a king. He only wants his people to bow to him instead of opposing him.
After that, it was Sean and Haroway's turn to appear. The relics of ancient human civilization they displayed were all real. I mean these ancient human civilizations really existed, not the astrological chart.
After the collective meeting was over, Vics met with Sean and the others individually, and asked them to report that if they really met human creators, they could only report that they could not contact. Sean asked why, Vics said that Wei Lun was very superstitious and needed to have it on board. believer.
This again named Sean as a devout religious believer.
My understanding here has two meanings. Although First Weilun himself does not believe in religion or belief, note that not believing here does not mean that he is not superstitious, so Vicks said Weilun is very superstitious.
As for Wei Lun’s life experience, his mother was a professor of comparative religious theology at Oxford University, and his father was an excellent engineer. This also led to Wei Lun’s being deeply influenced by religion and obsessed with industrial technology, so he needed to have Sean on board. Devout to religion, but also a scientist of academic research school.
Subconsciously, Sean is actually a combination of Weilun's parents' influence on his (Weilun) own life.
And when Sean tried to get in touch with Weilun, he mentioned the topic of death, where death would take humans, and where humans came from in the first place, all of which deeply attracted Weilun.
The second reason Sean and the others are on the ship is that Weilun considers the future, because Prometheus explores the origins of mankind, there is more or less ethics and blasphemous meaning, in case they really find creation It may subvert the religious theory that God creates all things in Christianity, so Weilun needs a devout believer on the boat, so that he really meets the creator afterwards, and can give a good explanation to the religious school.
Keywords: Nothing?
After that, the spacecraft descended and prepared to land on LV223. During the show, the topography of LV223 was displayed. There was a picture. Between the valleys, there seemed to be a green river. Please remember this detail. Please remember this detail. Please remember this detail. , I'll talk about important things three times, and I'll talk about it later in the chapter about engineer secrets.
During the descent, they did not find any signs of life. At this time, David recalled a line from "Lawrence of Arabia": "There is nothing in the desert, and nothing is desired."
In "Lawrence of Arabia", the scene takes place between Lawrence and Prince Faisal. They talked about the relationship between Arabs and the desert. Prince Faisal said: Arabs don’t like deserts, and we like them too. There is nothing in the desert with water and green trees.
The meaning of this sentence in "Lawrence of Arabia" is that Prince Faisal clearly told Lawrence that human desires and needs are the same, and no one wants to survive in an empty desert and cannot survive.
David quoted this sentence in response to the previous crew members’ disappointment at the empty LV223, which indirectly shows that David learned a little bit from observing human behavior patterns. It is true that people’s desires and needs are the same. When I am more willing to explore a new world, I find water and green trees.
Keywords: round valley bag
Soon, the spacecraft discovered the round valley bag on the canyon plain. The design of this round valley bag was actually designed to follow the shape of the pyramid and the Mayan temple, and also designed into the shape of the pyramid concept, but later it felt too much like a human relic. I chose the shape like a bun.
And in the script, the name of Tsuburaya Bao is called Pyramid.
If you are a fan of HR Giger, the shape of this round valley bag is designed according to the inspiration of "Dune", and of course it also combines the storage warehouse of the alien egg in the previous concept of "Alien".
After that, Shaun and the others drove to Tsuburaya, and soon they went to the water curtain hole in the hole, where they took off their helmets, and then went to the temple of the giant head. But in their first expedition, they did not go to the path of the spacecraft that went alone later.
In other words, the places where Sean and the others first explored were roughly in the center under the round valley bag.
I carefully sorted out the shape map structure of the Tsuburaya bag, so that everyone can see its working principle more clearly.
From the hologram scanned by the spacecraft, and from the concept map of the meal system of foreign netizens in the future, we can see that 90% of the space of the round valley bag is used to transform the external air structure. After the transformation, the interior of the round valley bag Good for breathing.
So what principle does the round valley bag use to transform the air structure, most likely through photosynthesis, the sun shines through the skull on the top of the round valley bag, and then filters through various layers to change the air structure inside.
And the orientation of the skull on the top of the round valley bag is also very important.
After Sean and the others had completed their first exploration, they encountered a storm. At that time, the sun was still shining on the skull of Tsuburaya, which indicated that the head of the skull was facing the direction of the sun setting. On the second day, the sun rose from behind the Prometheus, to the left of the skull.
For this reason, I drew a simple map of the direction of the sun. The direction the sun shines throughout the day can basically be captured by the skull, and don’t forget that LV223 is still a satellite. It has a giant parent star orbiting it. It can reflect a lot of sunlight, and the direction of the parent star is exactly the direction the skull is facing.
In summary, the role of the skull is basically to absorb sunlight.
Keywords: broken head
Sean and the others carried out the exploration in the Tsuburaya bag. We will talk about the temple in detail later in chapters. It is worth mentioning that after Sean and the others opened the temple, the black water from the metal tank gushed out, and there seemed to be something on it. The creature is twitching.
To answer what this is, let’s first look at the butterfly snake encountered by geologists and biologists. The butterfly snake was similar to earthworms in the soil that mutated when they encountered black water.
Therefore, the creatures that twitched on the metal cans at that time were some bacteria that could only be seen with a microscope on the metal cans at that time, but they quickly mutated and grew up after encountering black water.
In this temple, Sean and the others got the head of the engineer, and David got the black water.
After returning to the spaceship, Sean stimulated the engineer's head to awaken it deceptively, but then the engineer's expression was painful and his head split.
At the same time, geologists found more dead bodies of engineers, with their heads broken open.
This shows that the engineers were encountering an unknown and mysterious object invading the body, causing the head tissue to be damaged and broken open. At that time, they were trying to run into compartments to isolate themselves from the unknown.
After the engineer broke his head, whether something resembling an alien came out, the film did not explain, and the dead engineer's head was cut off prematurely, and nothing came out of the laboratory after his head broke.
But when we look back at the time when they were watching the holographic imaging in Tsuburaya, first they heard a cry resembling an alien, and then the engineers rushed to take refuge from a distance, so here I am more inclined to have engineers break their heads. Things came out, but because of the long time, those things that broke their heads did not appear in the film, and I don't know whether they live or die.
Do you still remember the hole where Sean and the others came in at the beginning? Maybe the creatures that broke out of the engineer made a hole and slipped out.
Keywords: Sean and Halloway
The first exploration also led to the unhappiness between Sean and Halloway. In fact, the purpose of the Prometheus project was different between the two.
When the spacecraft found the Tsuburaya bag, Harlowway was more excited than anyone else. On the way to the Tsuburaya bag, Harlowway told Sean that this was the first person (ridiculously) to land on the moon like "a small human step". Rhetoric.
All these reflect that Halloway is biased towards people who are very happy. He prefers to see a living engineer, exchange interviews with them and show it to the world, instead of running to the distant LV223 and just discovering a pile of graves.
The reason is that Halloway has no faith, and Halloway is more like a representative of human desire. He wants to get what he expects.
Sean had a different view. She came to LV223 with the question of the ultimate human soul torture. She regarded engineers as gods, so when they first went to explore the Tsuburaya bag, Sean would question the security that accompanied them. Bring a gun, she said it was just a scientific investigation.
But Xiao En felt in his heart that since engineers created humans as gods, there is no threat to human beings when they come back to visit as the children of engineers.
It's like a child who has been wandering for many years going through the vicissitudes of life outside, and finally returns to his mother's embrace one day, but at the same time he brings too many mysteries of his own life experience to be answered.
Later, in the alternate clips, Halloway and Sean quarreled even more. At some point, Halloway helped Sean tell the truth in her heart that she didn’t want to face. It was the engineer, not in the eyes of Sean. Of god.
Engineers whose DNA is consistent with human beings will be afraid and die.
At that time, Halloway said, you see the engineer's dying face, they are not gods. Harlowy went on to mock the religion Sean believed in, and even mocked the life-long beliefs of Sean's dead father.
Of course, this paragraph revealed too much information about the engineers, and at the same time, the ambivalence between Halloway and Sean was too excessive, so that they were not selected for the feature film in the end. There was friction in the feature film against them, but it was relatively minor.
However, since this is a comprehensive analysis, we also have a clearer understanding of the characters from these alternative fragments.
Keywords: David's experiment
On David's side, when Sean was studying the head of an engineer, his head exploded. David said that it was just a mortal.
The meaning of this sentence is very similar to that of Halloway, that is, they seek to find the creator. In fact, they are just a physical body with a life cycle. This is especially true for the immortal David.
After David got Blackwater, this paragraph was actually a parallel montage editing with Sean’s discovery that the engineer’s DNA is consistent with humans. This parallel editing scene ended up when Sean looked at the data screen and said who killed them (engineers). The next picture shows David holding black water in his hand. The implication here is very obvious. The death of the engineer is directly related to black water.
David looked at the drop of black water. At this time, David said the lines of "Lawrence of Arabia" for the third time. He said: "No matter how big things are, they start from the smallest."
This sentence occurred shortly after the beginning of "Lawrence of Arabia". The British ambassador tried to persuade the general to appoint Lawrence to Arabia. Then the British ambassador said this sentence. As a result, Lawrence did a great job in Arabia and affected the Arab revolution.
The quote by David here is actually implying a revolution of biological evolution and adventure. After combining "Prometheus" and "Alien Contract", look back at David's words, all these huge events The change really started from a small black water.
Afterwards, David gave Harlowy a drink with black water. David asked Harlowy how much you are willing to pay for the purpose of this trip. Halloway said he could give everything.
Obviously the purpose of the two is different. David's purpose is to verify the efficacy of black water, while Harlowe wants to communicate with engineers. But from a deeper level, the two people's goals are the same, because their ultimate goal is to research engineers, and Heishui is a bridge.
Keywords: spacecraft control room
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