"Alien vs. Predator", which is not a naked circle of money, has been 15 years since the last "Alien 4", and 33 years have passed since the last Ridley Scott's pure blood "Alien". Finally, in recent years, Ridley Scott, who was not too talkative about his work on the big screen, also thought of paying tribute to himself, trying to reshape his glory from the past. As a fan of "Alien", I naturally applaud his decision. What's more, this director who is good at conceiving big scenes in this "Alien" prequel presented us with an epic start that is still alien and grand enough. In the first "Alien", we just know that the earthlings tragically opened Pandora's box from a ruin, and the ins and outs of this ruin are indeed worth digging forward. As a result, Scott digs out the big scene as soon as he digs. The name of a spacecraft like "Prometheus" implies a religious metaphor that directly traces the origin of mankind. I like Scott's aura very much, so I just want to play with it, so that at the end of the film, a heroic woman is left to hit the end of Huang Long's arrest. Yes, it's a woman again. In the "Luckest She who I wrote before", I once lamented that the four directors were so cruel that Ripley was tossed by the aliens so cruelly, and I look forward to the next alien's change of men. It turned out to be a good one. This movie was still a woman who was charged and trapped. It was hard to see the appearance of a man with a high photogenic rate, but it turned out to be a robot. However, there is a reason for Scott to do this. Judging from his idea of shaping the alien story and constructing the aesthetic structure (of course, if you think this is "aesthetics"), it is largely a competition with the reproductive system and genitals. In the "Alien" series, related metaphors emerge endlessly. Therefore, letting a woman continue the entanglement between humans and aliens again is regarded as Scott's continuation of his clues about humans and life.
As the protagonist of "Prometheus," Elizabeth Shaw, it should be said that it is even harder than Ripley. One film has experienced many pains experienced by Ripley's four films, including being pregnant with a foreign species, accidentally becoming The mother of aliens. Compared with Ripley played by Sigourney Weaver, Elizabeth appears weaker, more helpless, and lonely. Ripley is actually more than a man in terms of combat effectiveness, from alien fighting to alien her mother, Vietnam War The more courageous, and Elizabeth is an intellectual, and her lover is committed to the study of the origin of mankind, with a beautiful desire for scientific discovery, the same group of people came to an outer planet, but suffered a lot of pain, but the essence of the pain that brought her was not Alien is not an alien, but his own kind. In "Alien", I once concluded that Ripley is not only the alien form of alien life, but also the "alien" of modern civilization with the same kind of greed and alienation. It is doomed to fall between the two alien forms. Tragic fate. The same is true for "Prometheus". For Elizabeth, on the road to uncovering the mystery of the origin of mankind, it was the same kind that brought him the most pain. A dying old man brought a group of people into a desperate situation and lost Elizabeth. The lover, conceived with a foreign species, and finally walks towards the unknown road alone. The further irony of this film is that not only humans are not good birds, aliens as higher civilizations are also assholes. An alien engineer “created” the earth’s intelligent civilization, but his peers tried to transform the earth’s creatures. Destroy, even after waking up for thousands of years, they still insist on carrying out the task of destruction. Perhaps in their opinion, human beings are an accidental "virus" that needs to be wiped out. From this point of view, the universe has been filled with aliens. They create alien creatures and are eventually destroyed by what they created. This is ironic.
In fact, the entire "Alien" series is a film filled with anxiety, with fear of life and unknown destiny. Aliens created human beings. In their view, this should be a kind of controllable creation experiment, which can be created or destroyed. However, when they further tried to create murderous weapons in a controlled way, they did not. Fall into an out-of-control chaos. And in subsequent alien movies, the same is true. There is always such a force in human beings, with "controllable" self-confidence, playing dangerous games, trying to use "alien" as a weapon, but in the end it still falls into a crisis of out of control. In this kind of out-of-control, aliens may also be worried about their genes being accidentally spread on the earth. The engineer seems to have left their civilized "illegitimate son" on the earth, which seems to make them hard to let go. And human genes and forms are also on the verge of losing control. Just like Elizabeth and Ripley, they were both pregnant with alien creatures. The boundary between human and alien creatures is blurred. In the bloody fight, the scientific level, the ethical level, the moral level, and the politics All levels of anxiety permeate this series of movies, and the alien gods who created humans can't control everything, let alone humans. The robot David is an interesting symbolic character. He is already very intelligent, but he still has to act under the control of the boss behind him. When he brought great pain to Elizabeth with his innocent smile and behavior pattern, this contrast gave Ben The film adds a layer of irony.
On the whole, "Prometheus" is a good science fiction film for the general audience. Scott's extremely imaginative and large-scale thinking height makes this film very eye-catching and nervous. However, Scott's strengths are also mainly in the details of the pattern and structure, such as modeling. In the plot details, he is not his strength. Therefore, after watching this movie, it seems that many places seem to provoke a clue, but it is not clear or explained. In my opinion, it is not Ripley's intentional intention, but a problem of his style and ability. It's not interesting to leave it to the audience to discuss it after watching it. Of course, for lovers of the "Alien" series, this movie is worth watching. A "nostalgic" plot is enough to make these audiences emotionally add points, not to mention that the story is quite epic. At the end of the article, Ripley left a tail that gives people a strong anticipation of a sequel. Perhaps Ripley did not have a clear plan at the time, but left it first. If the response is good, then two more, forming a trilogy. After all, although four of the "Alien" series have been filmed before, only the first is his work. As the orthodox director of this series, a trilogy that fully expresses his thoughts and styles is logical. What's more, the ending left by "Prometheus" is too appetizing, and it is known as the "Alien" prequel. The Alien Lord only showed his face at the end, which is not enjoyable enough. And this work is not connected with the following "Alien" series. At this point, the prequel to Star Wars can be used for reference, to the last part of the prequel trilogy, Revenge of the Sith, by Anakin Dai After the black helmet turned into Vader, he immediately integrated the six Star Wars series into one. Therefore, I look forward to Scott continuing to tell the story of the alien, not to mention that his old man has also expressed his opinion that after reshooting or reshooting "Blade Runner" (it seems that he has become addicted to looking for inspiration in the past), I hope to continue filming "Promi" If the wish comes true, there is no doubt that the lonely Elizabeth Shaw will continue the legend of Ripley’s hard life. Although she is the only survivor of the Prometheus, we know that in the "Alien "In the series, death is liberation; life is pain.
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