What do you think of when you see this poster for Alien: Covenant? Many aliens are entangled with engineers. These former creators are just flesh and blood in front of aliens. The reliefs in the dark are full of endless fear, pain and death, and in this oppressive picture. A beam of light shone on an alien body. This is clearly the "door to hell" carved by Rodin, and "Alien: Covenant" is Ridley Scott's conception of the door to hell in Dante's "Divine Comedy" - "From me into The city of distress, walk from me into the abyss of sin, you walk in, and leave all hope behind."
Ridley Scott finally took over the "Alien" series that he started with one of his first songs. The chance to bring the story back on track and infuse the soul of this "perfect organism" that has already shown its horrors countless times on the big screen. "Prometheus" as the opening of the prequel trilogy shows a grand picture and great ambition. Science fiction and horror elements have become the carrier of many philosophical propositions and ultimate human thinking that Ridley Scott tries to explore. However, due to its implication, the film greatly reduces the entertainment while emphasizing the sense of ritual and mystery. The numerous pits have also attracted polarized evaluations. For audiences who only expect screams and blood, such a work is too much. Difficult to chew.
"Alien: Covenant" draws on the lessons of the previous work, and improves the entertainment of the film while maintaining the hard sci-fi color and ultimate thinking. This may be the most terrifying work in the series after the first "Alien". The horror style of the film perfectly continues the first work's ability to control the audience's psychology, but it goes further beyond the scope of claustrophobic space. The planet became hell. When I wrote this article, I didn't know how much the mainland had deleted, but the bloody level in the original version is directly proportional to the overall darkness of the work. In comparison, the R rating of "Prometheus" is like a PG-13. harmless.
The film's setting of colonial ships also provides the possibility for the film to draw on the war style of "Alien 2" in its entertainment style. At the same time, the film also successfully expands the concept of aliens with excellent settings, giving a shocking and ironic answer to the old question of "where do they come from" in traditional monster movies. Ridley • Scott is trying to make the alien a bigger monument in sci-fi film history, and obviously this step is very solid.
The setting of the role of Denise played by Caitlin Waterston is also close to Ripley, continuing this series of pioneering shaping of powerful female images. The female warrior with a gun is obviously More business than a stubborn female scientist. The film shows its tough side as well as its soft side, and Denise will obviously be more intimidating than the rest of the crew compared to the average character in Alien Rising, which was inspired by Alien. People worry, this is the same way that Sigourney Weaver can become the benchmark for the series.
As for some other characters, due to space and ambition, there is no way to describe too much, among which the relationship between lovers and husband and wife effectively makes up for this emotionally, and at the same time, it also makes people see the so-called powerlessness of human emotions in the killing.
Today's "sequel movies" are seen by many critics as a sign of the decline of Hollywood's overall creativity, and the eagerness of major brands to create a movie universe has also become a target. But Ridley Scott not only escaped the curse of quality decline, but also broke the conclusion of the critics' "sequel movie" with "Alien: Covenant", although we can still see "Jurassic" in it. Park” or “Jaws” and other classic monster movies, but the story structure of the film still reveals the planning and rigor of the entire layout, and the ingenious connection with “Prometheus” provides surprises at the same time. It also makes people shudder. This is the spirit that Mr. Lei has always adhered to in the science fiction theme. "Having enough attractive stories to tell" is the only condition for the series of films to survive.
In "Alien: Contract", Mr. Lei obviously did not forget the hole he dug before, and he did not completely pin the answer on the picture when filling the hole. The film's depiction of "death" is rooted in the most primitive "creation", which is the most brutal black humor in the process of showing the picture of the universe. Even the gods will die out, and those religions and beliefs will begin to dissolve in the face of the weak and the impermanent fate, but they are just "spiritual talismans" in the face of the most primitive laws of the universe.
In this black fairy tale about the "Creator", the shadows of sculptures are everywhere, and the imprints of civilization are outlined on the boulders, whether it is "Prometheus" or "Alien: Covenant", giant human-faced statues Just like the totem of the race of engineers, it reveals illusory majesty all the time. Now they have become one of 187 desperate and hideous faces in "Gate of Hell". The name of the biochemical man David began with sculpture, but in this film, David has become the "thinker" standing above the gate of hell, and his "thought" is one of the most interesting thinking points in the film. one.
The film focuses on the biochemical man David, in which it is not difficult to see the shadow of Mr. Lei's "Blade Runner", but what the film shows is a biting unease. It also discusses the relationship between artificial intelligence and human beings, but "Alien: Covenant" boldly places it in a larger chain of creation. After all, the revolutionary thinking of "oppression and resistance" is simply and rudely applied in the new era. It looked a bit entertaining. Whether it's Byron's poem or Wagner's "Gods Entering the Hall of Valor", the director borrowed David's irony for human ignorance. Following in the footsteps of our ancestors, he started his own creation.
Like Terminator or Jurassic Park, Alien: Covenant attempts to explore the disastrous consequences of human intrepid attempts in a story. Prometheus gave fire to human beings, but he is a god after all, and human beings, like Icarus, fell into the sea in blind yearning and self-confidence. Unfortunately, there is no god in the world view of "Alien". Only cruel and merciless cause and effect. What David did after discovering that his creator was only flesh and blood is enough to explain why in "Prometheus" the engineer tried to bring death to the earth. Advanced technology did not allow the engineer to escape the fate of mankind. The giants symbolize the future of mankind. From this, it can be seen that a primitive "patricide complex" and a pessimistic argument about the fate of the race are hidden in the film.
Although Elizabeth Shaw herself did not appear in the film, she played a key role in shaping David. David's outrageously twisted love for Shaw provides a legitimate motivation for his perverted behavior. He loves Xiao deeply, but he can't change the positioning of human beings in his eyes, that is, this is a race that is dying. So using Xiao as the carrier of the so-called "perfect creature" is his way of expressing love. Fa Shark's performance has reached his best state in recent times. His deep eyes are full of complete emotional spectrum. The contradictory role of David has raised the emotional expression of artificial intelligence to an unprecedented height, but has retained the same relationship with normal. Human distance.
In Rodin's "Gate of Hell", the sculpture named "Kiss" is listed as the three most outstanding representatives of "Gate of Hell" along with "The Thinker" and "Three Shadows", the kissing gesture of a naked man and a woman Behind it is the endless desire of human beings, and it is desire that brings human beings into the abyss. The most iconic elements in the Alien series are the ubiquitous sexual cues and the fear of reproduction, which is a step further than the process of incorporating sexual intercourse into the alien generation in "Prometheus". The reproductive fear of "Alien: Covenant" is in the original Based on the foundation, it is more endowed in David's extreme thinking.
David's quest for "the most perfect organism" in the universe is seen by this twisted "thinker" as the beginning of the process, he kisses Walter, he kisses Denise forcibly, which is He paid a nasty tribute to his creator's means of creation. Perhaps in his thinking, these "perfect creatures" are the children of him and Dr. Xiao, and the original sin of "desire" is elevated to the extreme in this film.
"Prometheus" photographer Dariz Woski continued to shoot for the film, combining the sci-fi sense of "The Martian" with the ritual sense of "Pharaoh and the Gods". Daritz's gloomy imagery for the film perfectly fits the core of the film, creating just enough mystery, perilous yet attractive. This is exactly the texture that a space epic needs, and the cool tones all the time are just like Mr. Lei's calm and serious thinking about life. Maybe I need ten colorful space operas to soften the blow from Alien: Covenant.
"Alien: Covenant" satisfies the audience's expectations of "Prometheus". The rich ideology is perfectly integrated with the unique sense of horror of "Alien". For me, it is basically scheduled for the best sci-fi in 2017 (in In my concept, Mr. Ray's "Prometheus" in 2012 and "The Martian" in 2015 are both regarded as "Science Fiction of the Year"). The old man has more things to do. (I've already started to obsess about if I let Mr. Lei shoot the "Three-Body Problem" series, this style is really a bit similar!)
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