[This article contains in-depth spoilers! Friends who haven't watched this movie but are going to watch it suggest not to read it yet. 】
Although I went to see "Alien: Covenant" yesterday, I haven't written anything since I came back... Because I was amazed at the huge and ingenious way Ridley Scott shaped the "Alien Universe", so much so that I had a " Don't dare to write" illusion - this is not laziness or cowardice, but more of a respect for a good work.
If you want to ask if this movie is good or not, I will definitely say yes, but this "good" is more out of the context of the "Prometheus" and "Alien" series, and I admire the "Alien movie" under Mr. Ray. Thinking of a design , if you only focus on the movie "Contract", it seems to be a not too new "monster chases and kills humans" movie - but even so, it is not bad.
This article is not going to drop the book bag and talk about the past and present and the ins and outs of the alien. First, there are people who can talk better (it is recommended that interested friends can look for it), and secondly, the ink in my belly is also limited. Just looking at the Covenant is enough.
Before we start, let’s briefly and rudely introduce the background knowledge: the mysterious and highly intelligent race “engineers” in the universe created human beings (then it is suspected that they wanted to destroy them but failed), and the human civilization developed to the point where biochemical humans were created, and they took biochemical human David on Prome. The Hughes went to the universe to search for its creator, but found a mutated material black water on the alien spacecraft at the destination, and was almost destroyed. In the end, the only survivor, Dr. Elizabeth Shaw, brought the remaining David, driving an alien spaceship to the planet of the Engineers...
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("Alien" side story - "Prometheus" survivors)
Therefore, the scene in David's memory appeared. The people of the "engineer" family were not waiting for the hero who returned triumphantly after performing the mission thousands of years ago, but the "creation of creation" who brought death and destruction.
With this tone, the story of "Alien: Covenant" is not difficult to understand: David has been on the home planet of Engineers for nearly 10 years. Due to the raging black water, the place has long since become empty. The Death Star where life exists, although David has been doing alien research here, but because the spacecraft was destroyed, David was also trapped on this planet. He sent a message to outer space through the sound system left on the spacecraft. "Take Me Home, Country Roads", waiting for the arrival of mankind...
So the contract number in this film came.
The Covenant is a space colony spacecraft that went to the Origae VI planet to perform a pioneering mission. Except for the biochemical man Walter to control the spacecraft, the remaining dozen crew members, 2,000 colonists and several boxes of embryos have been in a frozen dormancy state for a long time.
(Think about how many of the crew were left alive at the end?)
An accident forced the crew to wake up, the accident caused dozens of casualties, the most terrible is that the captain Branson (Fu Lanlan) was burned to death ... A group of people lost their backbone and could only press The rules are presided over by the deputy captain Ou Lang.
Many people feel that Oulang is incompatible with the crew, and the "lower IQ limit" is unacceptable for a long time, but I think this is very true - from watching the video, Danny can tell: Branson is born to love challenges, not afraid of For a dead adventurer, it is very suitable for such a pioneer with charisma to be the captain, and it is normal for him to be assigned a conservative, steady and restrained first mate to properly restrain the "mad captain" in peacetime.
Therefore, Oulang himself is not suitable to be a captain. He is always worried that the crew will not accept him when he is driven by ducks and he lacks sufficient prestige...
Therefore, he ignored the suspicious signals and ordered the landing to explore the newly emerging habitable planet, because the vast majority of the crew were eager to try it. No matter what he did, it seemed like an invitation to buy people's hearts.
As the only female protagonist in the film who has long-term intelligence and force (probably) online, she naturally has to provoke the important task of maintaining safety and maintaining vitality.
The Alien series has always respected the powerful heroine , whether it is Queen Ripley in the old version or Dr. Elizabeth Shaw before, they are all models of strong and brave women.
In "Contract", Danni also showed this kind of temperament (otherwise, why would she be a pair with the captain), Zhi Ke got off the ship to keep peace, and Yong Ke tore the aliens... But I have to say that in this film, Danny The image of the female man is still a little superficial.
But there is no way, because the real protagonist of "Contract" is not Dany or Alien, but David & Walter played by Fa Shark!
As the biochemical human "No. 1 machine" created by Weilun, David not only has a huge knowledge reserve and hands-on skills of artificial intelligence, but more importantly, he is endowed with the ability of "independent thinking".
It is precisely because he had an excellent intellectual foundation at the beginning of his birth that he not only named himself "David", but also immediately told the unruly truth to his creator: "You humans will die, but I Will not."
Ironically, cyborgs have the same fate as humans, when they realize that what they create is out of control, and may even evolve to be more perfect than themselves, both humans and engineers choose to "remodel" their creations, the difference is that the engineer fails , Humanity succeeded - so there is a new generation of cyborg Walter.
In terms of physical function and technical level, Walter's "score" is higher than the first-generation machine David, but these biochemical people have been castrated to have independent thinking and self-learning ability in order to "better serve mankind".
In the whole film "Contract", I think the most exciting part is the communication and confrontation between David and Walter.
David, who has "awakened", not only aspires to master his own destiny, but also has the ambition (or aspiration) to be a new generation of "creator". Therefore, he naturally disdains to be a servant of "human beings who should be eliminated". For the "brother" Walter of the cyborg, David is willing to give him the opportunity to "give up the darkness and turn to the light" - so there are three dialogues.
The first time, Walter went to David to find out the details, but he was brought to play the flute. Walter said no, but David said, "Want to learn? I'll teach you", Walter really played a section, David I thought to myself, "The children can be taught";
The second time, David took Walter to pay homage to Dr. Shaw, and said "I love Shaw as you love Danny", Walter said "It's a responsibility", and then David deliberately said Shelley's poem was It was written by Byron that, as cyborgs who learned to be rich, they would not make such low-level mistakes... So this time David will not only test whether Walter has "awakened" his feelings, but also whether he has "the heart to rebel";
The third time, when it was time for the two sides to meet, Walter corrected David's mistake and said, "You can't ruin the whole movement because of one note" - at this time Walter also awakened his self-consciousness, but he chose to on the side of humanity.
The next part is the most interesting and intriguing part.
David understood that Walter would not "revolution" with himself, so he shut down his kinetic energy when he was not prepared. Unexpectedly, Walter reappeared and beat David with a broken hand. Walter's technology production level far exceeds that of David, and the upgraded version is stronger than the prototype.
But just before Walter ended David, the latter used sophistry to confuse the former, and he also achieved a counter-kill. Obviously, David defeated the ignorant and naive Walter by relying on a more mature and savory "humanity" - and then take a step back, Even if both biochemical beings have self-awareness, it is the same quality that exists in human nature, greed (aggressive), cunning (sleek), ruthless (resolute) overcome contentment (conservative), loyalty (blind obedience), kindness (naive) ).
This is where good works lie. She allows you to let go of the deficiencies that may exist in the process and to speculate on the deep meanings contained in the works.
Finally, I want to mention aliens. The various versions that appear in "Prometheus" can be regarded as incomplete. After David came to the home planet of engineers, he has been using various birds and beasts on the planet for cultivation. The experiment, unfortunately, did not go well. The most ideal "maternal body" is still a human being, but before the Covenant came, the only human beside David was Elizabeth Shaw...
Therefore, when David sang to the outside world, it was not only to attract spaceships, but also to provide door-to-door service for "guinea pigs". Finally, he cultivated a (near-complete) xenomorph using the face-hugger and the acting captain, Ou Lang.
However, the aliens in the first battle were not completely successful. Although they could kill the Quartet, they still lost to the survivors Dany and Tennessee... But David doesn't care, his ultimate goal is (with the most perfect non-living body) Become the creator and create the most perfect life form.
David deceived Dany into becoming Walter, attributed most of the crew's deaths to an accident, erased the contract's record of voyages to the Engineer's homeworld, and froze the remaining crew, colonists, embryos... ...and two xenomorph embryos, carefully preserved , continue their journey to Origae VI as originally planned.
The sacred cause has just begun.
After writing so much, I still say that this film is worth going to the theater to watch, but there must be many people who will mention the (damn) "cut 6 minutes" issue.
According to friends who have seen the full version, the main deleted scenes include the white alien killing the crew, the alien breaking out of Ou Lang's body, the full body of Elizabeth Xiao, and the crew member who was attacked by the face bug. The whole journey of another alien, and all the aliens sticking their tongues out, etc...
It can be said that the current version played in theaters has little effect on the understanding of the film's theme and overall look and feel, but the completeness and the degree of horror and horror have been reduced by one grade ... Although it is more in line with our "national conditions", it will help more ordinary audiences to watch the movie. Shadow, but for those who are striving for the original taste, it is still a little regrettable.
The "Alien" series created an era, and everyone not only remembered its epoch-making significance, but also talked about the styles of the four different directors of the past four films.
But when it comes to Alien, Prometheus, and this one, Alien: Covenant, Ridley Scott's Alien is the best.
Looking at this situation, the "prequel trilogy" becomes the "quadlogy" and there are dramas, and Mr. Lei is already 81 years old this year - so you must be healthy and live a long life!
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