The alien planet imagined by the director of Mysterious Planet
has reached the pinnacle in terms of geography, environment, atmosphere, light, shadow and light. There is a sentence I don’t know what the result will be. Personally, I think the Pandora planet presented by Cameron in “Avatar” is too colorful. , which may be related to the intention of the director to express. But you can say that the planet Pandora is a paradise, even a paradise, but if it is more real, the planet depiction in "Prometheus" is the closest to the real in temperament. She is dark, mysterious, icy, and changeable, and the feeling she brings to the viewer is repressed and closed. This is very similar in temperament to Lao Lei's first "Alien", but it is more open in space. This time, the protagonists walked out of the closed spaceship and came to an unfamiliar environment, but what followed was more cramped and depressed, and they did not relax much because of the open space, but brought more restrictions and fears .
Character setting
In this character setting, the director intentionally echoes the Alien series, especially the first two parts, which are deconstructed and integrated. Personally, I think the characters of the two female characters Vix and Elizabeth are decomposed from Ripley, the absolute female protagonist in the "Alien" series. Vix inherited Ripley's toughness and decisiveness, while Elizabeth has Ripley. The courage and tenacity in the character, but the fate of the last two characters is indeed a bright spot of the film. The setting of the character of David is an integration of the character of the biochemical man in the first two "Alien" movies. Compared with the single-character setting of the first two biochemical people, the character of David has a more positive and evil personality. Much more complicated.
open narrative
If you watch "Prometheus" purely in the mood of watching the "Alien" movie, then you will be disappointed. "Prometheus" is closer to "Blade Runner" in temperament, and much more atmospheric than the latter in narrative. This time, the director is not trying to make a sci-fi horror movie, nor is it just an epic drama with a sci-fi theme, but has given more symbols and details for the audience to think about for themselves. What is it, is the most worthy of consideration in this film. And the meaning to humans, like the dark humor in the movie, is not worth mentioning. Now Lao Lei no longer bothers to play with horror plots, although in the grasp of narrative rhythm, this is still his strength. Just like the scene where the protagonist took out the foreign object from his abdomen, the two scenes inside and outside the spaceship were cross-edited together to set off a climax. This is also a compensation for the fans of "Alien", but the intention of the director is obviously not in this tone. , but fill in a terrifying condiment without affecting the overall situation.
By comparing the first two episodes of the "Alien" series, the father
of Alien will find that Lao Lei and Cameron's movie characters are not the same at all. Cameron let fans know that "Alien" movies can be good-looking, intense and even It's sunny, and Lao Lei is naturally a gloomy and obscure spokesperson, making the audience's heart depressed is his forte. Whether it is "Alien" or "Blade Runner", if you want to choose who is the best director to shoot "dirty sci-fi", Lao Lei is definitely the best choice. This "Prometheus" is no exception. The film will not give specific answers to questions about "religion, belief, origin" and other questions to be explored, and it will give the audience the right to think and speculate on their own. If you want to find For the answer, you can pay attention to the details and symbols in the film. Maybe the fate of "Prometheus" will coincide with the fate of "Blade Runner". After many years, it is sought after by fans as another sci-fi movie. classic.
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