Prometheus Chronicle

Elton 2022-04-22 07:01:02

When Xiangxiang returned to China for vacation in June, we planned to watch this new work by Mr. Ridley Scott. During this period, Xiangxiang also seriously completed the first part of Alien, which was full of anticipation. I was frightened by my brother when I was a child. At that time, he was always proud that he had seen the Alien series of movies, and then told me vividly how scary and disgusting it was, and it brought a lot of shadows to my young and innocent heart. The only thing is that I haven't watched it myself, and because of this crux, when I grew up, I didn't get involved in this classic series.
But obviously we overestimated a certain general bureau a little bit, and we naively thought that it would be released at the same time as North America, but the fact is that there is no news after that. So this movie is like something in my heart, and I still think about it from time to time. Until the film was released in China in September, it was rumored that 20 minutes were cut, then 8 minutes, and finally 2 minutes were cut. This made my anger gradually subside. Considering that Chinese films have not yet been rated, many parents are also It will be very advanced to bring the babies into contact with the great film art (Waterfall Sweat) in advance. It is indeed inconvenient for some thrilling scenes to be released. It's okay for us heavy-hitters to fill in the missing pieces afterward.
On September 2, the first day the movie was released in China, I faithfully took Xiang Xiang's doll to the cinema. The macro feeling is that the tone of the movie is very dark, and the subtitle translation is a bit tricky. The most hateful thing is that the hard subtitles at the beginning were translated, so it took your attention away from the magnificent scenery, and it was too late to react... … Curious babies like us have always liked sci-fi movies, but in fact, the golden age of sci-fi movies was in the 1970s and 1980s. Now, I don’t know if technology has developed to the point where humans are too lazy to imagine the future. It is a great work of people's worldview, so it seems to be a step backwards in a sense to treat superhero films like Avengers as science fiction films. When the movie came up, a tall, handsome and white engineer was hired. I don't know whether he was forced or voluntarily drank a black liquid similar to canned food, and people were decomposed into DNA... and then, there were human beings. This topic is very grand, almost exploring the high-level philosophical questions of "Who am I, where did I come from, and where do I go?", so I was shocked all of a sudden.
The plot and characters of the movie are actually a little naive. Everyone disdains how a group of 290 scientists can cause trouble everywhere in the name of looking for their ancestors? Yesterday, I was chatting with classmate Xiangxiang, and she was still sighing that, you see, all this is due to a small experiment with the black-bellied biochemical man David, and it was to avenge the disrespect of human beings to him. Robots can’t afford to offend him. ...It is true, the huge sense of reincarnation of this butterfly effect makes people fascinated and dizzy. In fact, to sum it up, this group of people investigated for a long time, except that they activated some terrible protists and then were infected and killed, but they did not gain anything, and only what David did seemed to be quite technical. The method created new life (that is, the monster that Elizabeth gave birth to, this part is not broadcast), and also revitalized a legendary creator, that is, the taller, more handsome and whiter engineer. He got two words right, and we don't know what he said. Anyway, the engineer turned his face and broke David in half, punching his master to death. The most exciting thing is that these two David The two works were happily combined at the end, although it seems a bit too much to say that, it is obviously a taller, more handsome and whiter engineer who was raped (this part of the release version was also pinched and not broadcast)... So, the ancestor alien baby was born , At that moment, I was really moved. It was at that moment that I decided to go back and make up four Alien films.
The four Alien films spanned from 1979 to 1997, and the directors of each of them were big names. It took me about half a month to complete it until I finished watching the fourth film yesterday. First of all, we have to admit that these four films are actually wonderful in their own way, but from a sci-fi point of view, only Father Scott's first film has more science-fiction colors, paving a large pattern, and the remaining three films, They are all thriller and adventure films. The color of science fiction is gradually fading. It is really good to look good, but it is gradually being modeled by people, which is a pity.
After reading these four parts, I feel that if Prometheus is used as a prequel to Alien, the hat will be very big. In fact, the Alien can be just a branch of the story development. The part about Elizabeth and David's departure to explore the origin of engineers is completely Another story can be developed, but it is very uncertain whether it will be wonderful or not.
But I like that this movie gives us a lot of room for thinking and fantasy. In fact, even at this moment, I still have a lot of things that I don’t know, such as what kind of material the black primordial body is, and why different creatures come into contact with it in different forms. It has different effects (in fact, the birth of the alien baby seems to be just an accident), why did the engineer self-destruct at the beginning, whether he wanted to create a new life or was forced to do it (so it would be better to explain if he was forced to create a new life). Humans feel that this species is too difficult to deal with, so they have to eliminate them), how did they get eliminated by themselves later? …………………… There are many, many, many things like this, I feel very excited when I think about it (nerd Yan) This is definitely the best thing this movie has brought us. People who don’t like this movie are probably because they are too lazy to think about it. Some are not, haha.
And I also noticed a more interesting point, that is, each film in this series has a biochemical person, why is Uncle Fa's performance in Prometheus so wonderful, he played a very flesh-and-blood robot, that is, he Although it is very human-like, it is still a robot. This subtle feeling is too good to grasp! The biochemical people in the Alien series should theoretically be upgraded versions of David, which are closer to humans and are no different from humans. When watching a movie, you will not find that they are robots, so there is nothing special in their acting skills.
PS: I complained about the alien species with classmate Xiangxiang. There is no pursuit. There are only two things in life, one is killing and killing, and the other is OOXX... There is no such thing as even enjoying food. It's so unhappy to live in such a dark and sticky place to live in a haze all day long...

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  • Gloria 2022-03-23 09:01:08

    2 points for the plot and 1 point for special effects.

  • Douglas 2022-03-23 09:01:08

    Q1: Why should I quote Lawrence of Arabia? Q2: Why did David imitate Henry Fonda? Q3: Why does David wear a tunic suit? Q4: Why did David poison Charlie, just because it is not a human being to be laughed at? Q5: Is the last stage of heavy-tasting mating only divided into attacking and receiving, regardless of male and female?

Prometheus quotes

  • Young Shaw: [on the ship, Prometheus, David checks on the crew who are in hypersleep, he gazes upon Shaw and sees what she's dreaming of, which is from her childhood when she is with her father in a foreign land looking at a funeral procession] What happened to that man?

    Shaw's Father: He died.

    Young Shaw: Why aren't you helping them?

    Shaw's Father: They don't want my help. Their God is different than ours.

    Young Shaw: Why did he die?

    Shaw's Father: Sooner or later everyone does.

    Young Shaw: Like mommy?

    Shaw's Father: Like mommy.

    Young Shaw: Where do they go?

    Shaw's Father: Everyone has their own word; heaven, paradise. Whatever it's called, it's someplace beautiful.

    Young Shaw: How do you know it's beautiful?

    Shaw's Father: Cause that's what I choose to believe. What do you believe, darling?

    [at that point David comes out of watching he dream]

  • Elizabeth Shaw: [to the Engineer] Why do you hate us?