T. E. Lawrence References...

a couple things that might have been overlooked in the myriad references to T.E. Lawrence were: Yes, T.E. LAWRENCE (i.e. Lawrence of Arabia) enrolled as T.E. [b]Shaw[/b] into the RAF after WW1, but did you know [b]Elizabeth[/b] was the name of Lawrence's gran. [i]During the (first world) war, Lawrence fought with Arab irregular troops under the command of Emir Faisal, a son of Sherif Hussein of Mecca, in [b]extended guerrilla operations[/b] against the armed forces of the Ottoman Empire.[/i] and this: from the same article: [i]Contrary to later myth, it was neither Lawrence nor the Army that conceived a campaign of internal insurgency against the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East, but rather the Arab Bureau of Britain's Foreign Office. The Arab Bureau had long felt it likely that a campaign instigated and financed by outside powers, supporting the breakaway-minded tribes and regional challengers to the Turkish government's centralised rule of their empire, would pay great dividends in the diversion of effort that would be needed to meet such a challenge. The Arab Bureau had recognised the strategic value of what is today called [b]the "asymmetry" of such conflict[/b]. The Ottoman authorities would have to devote from a hundred to a thousand times the resources to contain the threat of such an internal rebellion compared to the Allies' cost of sponsoring it.[/i] Sound like (the WW1 version of) [b]ARAB SPRING[/b] (or Libya (or Syria)) to you guys, too? My theory here is that THE BLACK GOO is something akin to a valuable resource; e.g. Dune's [i]OIL[/i] or SPICE. Some asset that allows real power to those who 'possess' it. What we're seeing in Prometheus then, by logical excavation of this trail of thought, is that the ship is on a covert spy mission that nobody in either (the gigantic) Weyland or Yutani conglomerates knows about, yet. A COVERT (and dirty) WAR FOR THE BLACK GOO?

"..Seems that there is a lot of T. E. Lawrence references so far. I wanted to make a thread that listed out all that people could find. So far I have seen.. T. E. Lawrence enlisted in the RAF under the name "Shaw" After WWI. "big things have small beginnings" Direct quote from the movie. Ted Talk - Direct reference to T. E. Lawrence David Viral - he painting a T.E. Lawrence figurine Fifield - publisher of some of T.E. Lawrence literary works and also his fave author who he had it republished under Fifield publishing arm. David - David looks are almost a direct copy of the movie's T.E. Lawrence. Vickers - Vickers was a major WWI Machine gun supplied to the Arabs by T.E. Lawrence. T.E. Lawrence was very involved in archeological digs Anything else?

(Note . please ignore or delete muy previous post as I could not figure out how to properly edit it) "..Seems that there is a lot of T. E. Lawrence references so far. I wanted to make a thread that listed out all that people could find. So far I have seen.. T. E. Lawrence enlisted in the RAF under the name "Shaw" After WWI. "big things have small beginnings" Direct quote from the movie. Ted Talk - Direct reference to T. E. Lawrence David Viral - he painting a T.E. Lawrence figurine Fifield - publisher of some of T.E. Lawrence literary works and also his fave author who he had it republished under Fifield publishing arm. David - David looks are almost a direct copy of the movie's T.E. Lawrence. Vickers - Vickers was a major WWI Machine gun supplied to the Arabs by T.E. Lawrence. T.E. Lawrence was very involved in archeological digs Anything else?.." I recently watched about 1/2 of LoA and was struck by many similarities used in our movie. One that I had not seem mentioned was a charactor named 'Daud'. In LoA Closed Captiooned it showed the spelling of this name and it seemed the procunciation was close to David. A quick wiki check showed that Daud was a root name for David our robotic name. I have to admit that I was sort of looking for connections to our movie and spotted a few: *The landscape reminded me of the moon *The rounded shapes of the Prometheus pytamids were duplicates of several mountains. were almost a copy of the Pyraminds,,

I come back here and my old thread is still being discussed :)

@Zedwardson After I wached the movie I did a search and up popped your thread..and I was glad you started one. You pointed out several items trhat I had missed. After seeing Ptometheus the viewing of LoA was tainted by me comparing the two movies especially the David charactor. Your thread is a good thread that needed attention.