July 19, 2012you guys are all stupid. And being the arch-nerd that I am, I'm tired of reading your stupid answers.
An analysis of Prometheus- from beginning to end. ****SPOILERS****
1. Why does the engineer in the beginning commit suicide to begin human life? The first thing to notice is how –ritualistic- his suicide was. Apart from the jedi robe and the goo being in a ceremonial container, later in the movie several things hint at the culture of the engineers- like the room with the giant human face monument and the murals reminiscent of those found in the Sistine Chapel, and the part where they awaken the surviving engineer himself, and he places a hand upon the head of the android David, before using it to kill his creator in turn. So this infers a society focusing on the transformation of death and rebirth, which is a very prominent concept in many western and eastern religions on earth.
2. Why is everyone on this expedition a complete dumbass? Weak writing; poor focus on the allocation of resources into making the movie; perhaps purposeful appeal to stupid audiences? I myself found it strange that a group of interstellar scientists are stupid enough to contaminate the interior of the alien craft by removing their helmets (the melting murals). And how the geologist and biologist become lost after their freak-out, when they are being monitored by the ship’s crew (complete with holographic display of their exact location) the entire time. They seem to be easily spooked by harmless holograms, but immediately wanna shove their faces into the first phallic alien they come upon, while knowing nothing about it. The captain of this expensive endeavor is a drunk, and is more pre-occupied with having sex than watching the two ass-hats who got lost in the ruin. Not to mention that the best thing to do when a circular spaceship is rolling after you is to run sideways.
3. Why do all the cave paintings / clues point to a star formation that turns out to be a military facility? This is a bit obscure, and could very well be the result of poor writing. However I have an idea. If you notice, there seems to be a lot of references to God in this movie. *hint hint* and how the engineers created us *hint hint* AND how these particular engineers seemed to be setting a course to earth precisely 2000 years ago. To apparently destroy it? What biblical event is proposed to have happened 2000 years ago? Well, Jesus being crucified by the Romans of course. I myself am not religious (im actually an atheist) and I’m not drawing this conclusion from any feverish visions. But it seems hilariously and obviously hinted that Jesus was an alien, an engineer emissary saying “we created you, worship us.” What’s a likely way to piss off any civilization? Crucify their emissary, thus they were preparing to destroy us. Perhaps this facility was simply assigned to monitor planet earth in case shit got fucked up, perhaps earth was part of the facility’s experiments involving the black goo (queue the beginning of the movie). But one thing is for sure, this place is fucked up.
4. Why did David contaminate Charlie? I honestly don’t know why everyone kept asking this. It’s more obvious than any other subtlety in the movie. If you notice, unless you are a complete asshole, David tries being courteous and nice to everyone for most of the film- and what he gets back are jibes and insults and references to how sub-human he is, and how GREAT –real- humans are. Well unless you think shit tastes like candy, I’d wager you’d get tired of it too. So David at a key moment in the film, decides to play god and put humanity in its place a little. He wasn’t instructed to do this, nor does he have some sort of superfluous agenda to the superficial plots in the film, he just got pissed off- and Charlie was being a colossal douche. What better candidate to see what the black goo does?! Besides this, he obviously is responsible for taking care of Weyland, and considering Weylands intentions, part of that job entails finding out what the fuck sort of aliens the engineers are, what the fuck does the black goo do, and what kind of shit are they all getting into?
5. The black goo, how does it work? Magnets! But no… all it appears to be is a high-tech mutagen, and there’s nothing saying that the goo in the ceremonial container in the beginning of the movie is the same as the stuff that appears to be weaponized in the alien bomber spaceship. Maybe there’s different goo that does different things? Maybe the goo reacts differently with engineers than it does with human beings, considering it turned the geologist into a hulking zombie mutant contortionist, and it turned the engineer in the beginning into a metaphorical tree of life. The weaponized goo seems to just mutate the fuck out of whatever organic thing it touches, which would be a fantastic weapon because of all the obvious chaos this would cause on a planetary scale. But how does it relate to the xenomorphs, and why all the absurd progression from goo to zombie to alien fetus to giant alien starfish to xenomorph? Well if you remember me illuminating some of the clues as to the culture of the engineers, you may find it beyond coincidental that they kept a lot of the goo containing vases in what is an obviously very ceremonial and perhaps religious chamber. ALSO if you were paying attention to the movie, one of the central murals in that chamber, is of a fucking giant alien queen. We are dealing with a civilization obsessed with the creation of life, death and resurrection- very much like the nature of the xenomorphs themselves. Perhaps the xenomorphs are some culmination between technology and idolatry. It’s not that xenomorphs require some dude to get contaminated and fuck a chic before he turns into a zombie to get the giant face-hugger to impregnate something else- because that’s not a very efficient way to get the desired result. Its more that no matter the origins and nature of contamination induced by the weapon (the goo), it all leads to one conclusion- as shown in the mural with all the mutating shit slowly becoming the alien queen in the center. But wait, what the fuck is the giant face-hugger? In the lore its actually called a “trilobite” and differs blatantly from the beloved facehuggers we all know from our youth. Also you will notice the weird non-traditional alien that pops out of the engineer. Well, if you remember every baby xenomorph from Christmas past, they were all tiny clumsy things. This one was man-sized when it was born, and fairly well developed (also very feminine in its movements). In the lore there are more than just queen aliens, there is also what’s called an Empress (I am not making this up, go play the games). The massive trilobite is like a buffed up version of the facehugger, and this “Empress” is like a buffed up version of a xenomorph queen. Savy? But there’s more to this, in the movie it is said at one point that the giant dome is actually hollow. But its soon revealed that the expedition isn’t spending time in some alien pyramid, they are in a ship- a ship which isn’t in the dome- it’s in some gigantic hangar beneath the flatland. So what the fuck is the purpose of the dome? If you think back to alien 2, the xenomorphs chose the huge powerplant for their hive- not the colonial compound. Why would engineers need a giant hollow dome on a planet they just happen to be creating a religious bio-superweapon that inevitably forms into xenomorph aliens that like building hives in grand open spaces? Hmmmm, maybe because… wait I think I said it already.
