This mirrors our own relationship to Biblical events (i.e., around 2,000 years ago). Vickers is technically in charge of the ship – an authority so tenuous she has to downplay her femininity to hold on to it. Ridley … Support Wisecrack on Patreon! Did their supremacy end amidst internecine quarrels? The new movie's mysteries are there to be solved but are they the key to working out what comes next? After watching the opening scene however, you realize that this film is going to have way more mystery and subtle cues … Prometheus takes place around 30 years before the original Alien film, and provides some back story to the Xenomorph (i.e., the alien). We see this in the way Holloway opts for suicide when he’s ill. It’s there in the way Janek, Chance and Ravel become suicide bombers, killing themselves in the name of a greater good (yikes). This “little women” attitude is repeated in how Vickers is portrayed. The premise of the movie is heavily inspired by the “Ancient Astronauts” theory originally proposed by authors such as Eric Von Daniken and Robert Temple. April 26, 2012 10:07:09 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums. Either rejoinder goes a long way toward suggesting why the Engineers decided to pull the plug on us: either because they could/they changed their minds — a brutal take on divine whimsy — or because they decided humanity wouldn't align with whatever agenda they had in mind. Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror Prometheus is about aliens, androids, creation and … Christmas? As punishment for his crime, Zeus had Prometheus chained to a rock or as we see in this movie, a small island, and forced him to endure having an eagle eat his liver. The premise of the movie is heavily inspired by the “Ancient Astronauts” theory originally proposed by authors such as Eric Von Daniken and Robert Temple. Now if you’re like me, you probably had high expectations of this film. Tiny worms are shown in the earth in the mural room, but if there’s no other life on the planet, where did they come from? Prometheus Review: Spoiler Heavy Analysis & Theories. After all, the Engineers seem pretty damn engineered themselves. By Mike Bedard / Feb. 16, 2021 1:06 pm EDT. Though we sure can speculate. It's called Earth. What's it all about? But unmistakable hints are there. Yet her baby isn’t his – it’s a ‘miraculous’, non-human entity. The film opens in 2089 when Dr … When we consider the extent to which those myths feature gods with divine helpers, it leaves one wondering whether the Engineers were merely the servants of something greater. Spider-Man didn't officially enter the … David J. Williams, author of The Mirrored Heavens, The Burning Sky and the Machinery of Light, has a few theories that might just explain everything. Many of them can be found in the figure of the android David. After all, there are some clear parallels between them. Iron Man 2: Peter Parker is the little kid in the Iron Man mask. This is why the Engineers left in a hurry – they were running for their lives. What was taking place here was nothing less than a monumental program of experiments involving DNA accelerants, making it tempting to ascribe to that black goo a primordial/mythic status. Go away.") Tall, elegant, gray, muscular -- the Engineers in Prometheus look like chiseled Greek statues of gods and heroes. How Vaugh Stein's basement thriller flips the tables on power and gender. To add a different, unique theory to the mix, please add a new page to this section (do not Prometheus contains such a huge amount of mythic resonance that it effectively obscures a more conventional plot. However hard Vickers tries to be unfeminine, it’s never enough for her father. Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror Prometheus is about aliens, androids, creation and … Christmas? As Vickers, Charlize Theron was the leader of the expedition in Prometheus. This is exactly why they’ve come. Was the creation itself the transgression? Scott has said that 1981 caveman drama Quest for Fire was a big influence for this film, and one wonders how far to take that comparison. Or else were given it by their creators. Dr Shaw and Peter Weyland are religious zealots with a strong preconception that aliens created humans, hence the leap from "aliens visited us" to "they created us and will tell us all the answers.". Prometheus is a monumental tour de force that harkens back to the sweeping sci-fi of the 1970s, an epic that confronts Gauguin's Big Questions more squarely than anything in recent memory. Scott could have just given us a giant bug-hunt, but that's already been done. Scott and writers Spaihts/Lindelof have created an elaborate gameboard, and then devised a narrative that shows us only a small portion of it. In the film Prometheus, life on earth was created by a group of giant aliens, known as the engineers. Shaw feeds the final Engineer to her alien baby, thereby creating the xenomorph species familiar to the Alien franchise. His liver would regenerate every night, only to have the eagle return the next day, dooming the Titan to an eternity of agony. Prometheus puts women back into the equation, but with Shaw reduced to ‘carrying case’ for the new species. What is Prometheus about? In 2089, scientists discover ancient cave paintings on the Isle of Skye. If you have been studying the Anunnaki and the ancient astronauts theory and you happen to have watched the movie Prometheus, you might be wondering whether there is a connection between the two. Only this time humans are the ones being asked, rather than the ones asking. 2. Once again, perhaps the inference … In 2089, scientists discover ancient cave paintings on the Isle of Skye. ", —Opponent1, from the Prometheus discussion board. As she reminds Charlie earlier in the film, Shaw can’t have children, and is amazed when David tells her she’s pregnant. But it teases at something more. This seems to be a way of impregnating Shaw with the alien foetus. And yes, there’s a take on the Bible’s virgin birth. But instead he gave us something far darker. Prometheus raises interesting questions about faith and existence, but falls short in its reliance on gender clichés. Neither a "bad" Ash nor a "good" Bishop, David is something much more complex, a synthetic who knows far more than what he gives voice to, and whose calm face belies everything going on behind it. Luckily, I've seen "Prometheus" and, in case you didn't already realize it, I'm a frickin' genius. (Note that this conversation occurs only after Vickers has threatened to cut out his core, which might have triggered a slipping of David's leash a la Hal in 2001's reaction to Bowman and Poole plotting to lobomotize him — more on this below. For the sadistic Peter Weyland, there’s nothing redeeming after death. Did Holloway's relentless baiting of David make that task more pleasurable? Which is pretty tough luck. Interestingly, when Weyland ‘meets his maker’ – quite literally, as he dies – his final words are “there’s nothing”. It is a film about ideas, concepts, theories, intellectual agendas (perhaps), and sly parallels to various archetypal deities (I will get to those in a moment). Prometheus (/ p r ə ˈ m iː θ i ə s / prə-MEE-thee-əs) is a 2012 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott, written by Jon Spaihts and Damon Lindelof and starring Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Guy Pearce, Idris Elba, Logan Marshall-Green, and Charlize Theron.It is set in the late 21st century and centers on the crew of the spaceship Prometheus as it follows a star map discovered … Another: to serve us. … The story takes place between December 21st 2093 (when the Prometheus crew wake up from crysosleep) and New Years Day 2094 (Shaw’s final sign-off). Humanity had already been to extrasolar worlds (all prettier) and encountered alien life (all cooler) which is why the Prometheus crew was so underwhelmed by their gravel planet full of dead space suits. One possible answer suggested by Holloway's failure to take the question seriously: because we could. Ridley Scott's Prometheus is cool, but man, is it confusing. Based on the movie’s timeline, it doesn’t look like Shaw ‘gives birth’ on Christmas Day, though it’s pretty close – probably December 23rd. But most damning are the film’s messages about masculinity. RELATED: 10 Hidden Details Everyone Missed In The Original Alien Fans believe that it's the "Deacon Alien" strain that would become a Queen Alien, and able to … Or he could delivered a another version of Mission to Mars in which we meet our benign makers and learn how they created us amidst the sound of much uplifting music and joyous epiphanies. Like Lady Macbeth, Vickers has to ‘unsex’ herself to be taken seriously, to the point that others suspect she might be an android. The Prometheus Theory That Has Horror Fans Scanning The Script . Its desolation suggests that a greater cataclysm befell the Engineers at some point. What comes after death is a primary concern to several characters, too. Interesting, the titan Prometheus was claimed to have “foresight.” In other words, he was someone that was always looking toward the future or always chasing the future, instead of living in the present. Vickers (Charlize Theron) is likewise driven by a lost father figure, i.e., Weyland. Somewhere in heaven, something went badly wrong. Despite Shaw’s Caesarean birth and the lack of food in the med bay, the alien survives and grows to phenomenal proportions. However, the deaths of Milburn and Fifield have nothing to do with the xenomorph, or the rest of the story development. In Greek myth, the god Prometheus created mankind from clay. By the time Milburn and Fifield are stranded, at least one worm has mutated into a deadly, snake-like creature (this may account for the ping Janek reports “one click West” of the trapped scientists). Our Theory: The casting of Guy Pearce was a move motivated by franchise building. Is An Officer and a Gentleman actually about a bromance? For a movie that Tarantino called “dumb” Prometheus sure has some deep philosophical elements and is full of symbolism, that once uncovered, allows the viewer to appreciate it on a whole new level. We can't say for sure. So David spikes his drink with the mysterious black goo, which clearly operates as some kind of DNA accelerant. But later, they change their mind and try to destroy the planet using weapons of mass destruction (i.e., the organic material). Weyland is one of several father figures who die during the movie. All that remains are hundreds of jars or an unknown organic substance. These appear to point the way to the alien creators of life on Earth (the ‘Engineers’). Nobody can answer them, can they? We're thus led down a disquieting chain of logic: just as robots can turn the tables on humans... just as the xenomorphs turned the tables on the Engineers, and just as the Engineers feared humans would do the same — perhaps the Engineers themselves were rebelling against a greater master, left off-screen (and possibly long dead.). But it’s likely they were also deliberately trying to create some kind of killing machine in the form of a xenomorph. Neither Dr Shaw or the lady doctor were competent enough to understand this. They all look the same, and their art seems no less religious than do the cave-drawings back on Earth (a la that wall-image of the xenomorph, to say nothing of the gigantic head). Shaw returns to Miss Vickers’ life pod, only to find her alien ‘foetus’ is now an enormous, tentacled creature. Prometheus, Halo, Movie, Cortana, Prometheus Project. There’s Shaw’s father, whom we only see via her dream. While the inference is that the head 'broke down' like the Engineer at the start of the film (due to exposure/ingestion of black goo), it may well have been the rapid decomposition of the head brought on by the electrode stimulation. It’s also the first of the prequel movies, with Alien: Covenant following in 2017. It is a myth that recounts 4. Prometheus is a commentary on Ridley Scott’s own personal beliefs regarding the Paleo-SETI theory, which he developed out of elements taken from various ancient cultures and sources. It looked very exciting and action-packed from the trailers, with just a hint of mystery mixed in. The Stepford Wives nailed ‘feminist dystopia’ a decade before The Handmaid’s Tale, The Courage To Be Disliked, by Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga. (It's too bad that science-fiction actors don't receive Oscars for their work, because Fassbender certainly deserves one.). His DNA disperses through a river, causing the beginnings of life on Earth. Theory of the Prometheus Movie. Are the engineers trying to kill us? According to Prometheus and Covenant, if a Trilobite attached itself for oral implantation to an Engineer, a "Deacon Alien" would emerge.This is a prototype of one of the very first xenomorphs and shown to be rather large in Prometheus. Yes, Ridley Scott specifically said he and Damon Lindelof had the idea that Jesus (in the Prometheus universe) was actually an Engineer sent to humanity to elevate them above their war-like ways. Time and again strength in men is equated with sacrifice and stoicism. Prometheus concludes with Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) resolving to go “where they came from” – referring to the Engineers’ home planet. David takes a whole cannister from the Engineer’s stash when they first discover the mural room. It has been told and retold through the ages with several variations. The Courage To Be Disliked flips common beliefs about happiness and behaviour. This section collects theories about the meaning of Prometheus. Perhaps this matches what the Bible tells us about rich men and the kingdom of heaven (see also David Fincher movie The Game). According to those theories, humanity was either created or “helped” by visitors from another planet, who left lasting traces on human history. Four theories explain what the film’s about. Shaw believes the Engineers made humans, yet she wears a Christian cross in tribute to her [earthly] father. Here are the answers to the Prometheus secrets and mysteries that you crave. And like Covenant, Prometheus dwells on questions of faith and belief. 20th Century. Shaw was trying to avoid the big hole in the ground. For all the criticism that the movie is too opaque, it's almost clumsily in-your-face with David's musing about how every child's ultimate aspiration is to kill his/her parents. At the start of the film, we see one of the Engineers drink something that makes his body crumble apart. It is a tale of Prometheus, the son of a titan who was punished for playing his part as the benefactor for mankind. We can only presume so, just as we can presume that the actual result is a big surprise to everyone involved. And there’s a Christmas tree. by Marcus Doidge. The film doesn’t reveal why they changed their mind, only that they’re determined to destroy the life they created. If you saw Ridley Scott's latest sci-fi epic Prometheus this weekend, you already know it brings a lot more to the table than your typical space horror flick ala Alien. To hear some talk about Prometheus you would think that Ridley Scott went senile and proceeded to inflict on us a movie about as comprehensible as a Dada painting viewed on LSD. The Prometheus stops the Engineer ship from leaving the planet by crashing into it, and the pilot itself is killed by Shaw's Trilobite, which grows into a proto-facehugger and leads to the birth of the xenomorph-like Deacon. Both involve the idea that human life on Earth may have been created by aliens. It’s interesting that this is exactly what they find: yet another all-powerful male creator. So Prometheus is an origin story for humanity – a fairytale or ‘just so’ story about where we came from. Some of the material falls on the ground, interacting with tiny worm-like creatures. Prometheus: 5 Unanswered Questions & Sequel Theories. By using this website, you agree to our use of cookies. The digital recording of the Engineers’ last days, along with the gruesome remains Millburn and Fifield discover, suggest they weren’t able to contain the xenomorph and it destroyed them. Alongside this we have Vicker's subsequent speech to her father: "A king has his reign. ", he asks, to which Holloway says "Anything and everything." Like Mary in the Bible, Shaw has a human partner (Holloway). David J. Williams, author of The Mirrored Heavens, The Burning Sky and the Machinery of Light, has a few theories that might just explain everything. The Prometheus’ mission is to follow a star. This notion of the Engineers falling short of the status of unmoved mover — that they're not at the apex of the cosmic hierarchy—is given further weight by another tantalizing statement by Scott, namely, that he drew heavily on Sumerian myths in creating the universe of Prometheus. The story of Prometheus, Epimetheus and Pandora is a popular myth of ancient Greece. When Shaw analyses the Engineer’s DNA millions of years later, it’s an exact match for human DNA: we came from them. Charlize Lives! While this has led to many interesting theories and debates, Ridley Scott has gone ahead and ruined them for you, and as a result, taken some of the shine off “Prometheus” in the process. http://wscrk.com/PatreonWCJoin Wisecrack! My friend of mine told me that when Microsoft Gaming Studioes released a quote with Cortana saying something about the Prometheus Project, I found the trailer for the movie left clues. By TheHaughtyCulturist | Published: 23 November 2020 | Last updated: 8 May 2021, Published: 23 November 2020 | Last updated: 8 May 2021, creation in the hands of male scientists and aliens. About this movie, anyway. Big, huge spoilers for Prometheus ahead! The escape pod ruptured Vickers' eardrums, so every time she tried to turn sideways she kept running along the falling ship's path. Shaw is the film’s strong female lead, yet despite her science credentials, her role defaults to creation (with shades of the virgin birth, as described above).
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