HIBERNATING ENGINEER SHOCKED AT SHAWS QUESTIONING

i doubt he was supposed to understand a word she was saying but her behaviour and the fact that unlike david she was speaking a language foreign to him wouldve explained his sort of puzzled intent look. the fact he seems to care whats being said at all is interesting as though it could have gone differently if theyd just behaved civil also i totally get why he hunted her down after all first he lets her run away and the result is she has the ship rammed hes not going to risk her stopping him a second time! im sure theres deleted scenes will show him getting out to check the damage and seeing her run off into the lifeboat unit i doubt this was an intended plot feature but she does say the word why! emphatically a lot and in proto-indo-european (wai!) is an expression of woe like 'alas'

All of your guys' answers are very interesting and has definately got my attention regarding Shaw and the Engineer. I have always had a though about how much of his attention was on her and then annoying ass Weyland got his ass handed to him......or shall I say head. I agree with ForeverWar and Richie there has to be something that either he understood her or he just went crazy because of the Weyland circumstances with David.

I didn't think the Engineer was disturbed, as you put it, by Shaw's questioning but I agree he was focused intensely on her. listening, obviously understanding her words. And I dont't think he was angry by what he heard from her, but for the fact that Weyland ordered his goon to silence Shaw..THAT was when he started to realize just what the intent of these humans in his presence meant and who was who. I agree, Shaw was asking the right questions, but there was no vengence in seeking her out after the crash of his ship...he could have left in another ship..but he wanted to confront Shaw..I beleive he saw in her the opposite side of Weylands arrogance...but she freaked out..who wouldnt?..and took action that killed him.

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He seemed intrigued to me.... but then when he saw how the Merc at Weyland request hit Shaw and then i assume David kind of told him that Weyland wants to learn from the Engineers and wants secret to longer life. The Engineer realized that mankind are selfish and violent race. It does seem that after the Crash he went after Shaw and not just to have a chat but with intent on making sure no Humans remained.

I don't know how he could be understanding Shaw speaking. If he's been in hibernation for 2,000 years, the language she was speaking did not even exist when he went into cryo.

@forever War...good points and opinion and it is not hard to agree with you. I just saw the flick and the acting emphasized what I posted...of course subject to personal interpretation as your point proves... HH..I should have suspected that you had a thread. You always are one step of us all...I am going there now. thank you HH..ruler of all he surverys @big dave...Yes, once we have twhat David siad, this scenrio will be complete for us all. Until then, for a superior being to go after shaw instead of another ship bears some looking into...He could have contined the mission but he chose to get into it with her?

Alright..I went to Hadleys Hope and of course he has a thread on the whole movie....I still have trouble beleiving that the Engineer could lose his emtions and his focus and not get into another ship...And how David knew he was coming after her struck me when I seen it..How did he know?

I agree with Forever War, somehow I think him seeing a male gutpunch an already wounded female pi$$ed him off. However, I do not think he was going to spare her, I think he wanted to kill her as much as the others. They were buggin him LOL

the engineer didnt seem to understand shaw at all, but seemed intrigued that she appeared hostile toward him with her shouting. he was very passive until david spoke to him. after david spoke the engineer seemed to have made up his mind because if it was shaw that pissed him off, it took him till after david was done talking for the engineer to go Anakin on everyone....

The Engineer could have been out of there right away in another ship, yep, leaving Shaw to most certainly die on the planet..so why does he take the trouble to run her down?...and just grab her and pick her up and pin her against a wall? I think at this point before a DVD comes out, all I got is a guess...He recognized her as different from Weyland..and he wanted her alive, and he wanted something from her..what? Unknown, a big if. sukkai..another 'if' in regards to that particular Engineer hibernating for 2000 years...it was noted by Holloway and Shaw at the briefing that the Earth had been visited on and off for a very long time.

I am not sure he understood Shaw.... But if we saw the movie for first time dubbed in say Russian or some other Language we would not understand her but we could maybe conclude things from her actions and tone and then the actions of the others. I think how close Weyland got to him and then what David said was what set him off... Mind you maybe he was half asleep at first, i am sure many of us have got up sometimes from good sleep and not fully woken up, where we may be a little groggy and not really pay much attention to stuff until like few seconds latter etc. Yes indeed one has to wonder why the Engineer could not just make it to another ship.... maybe the other ships do not have any Cargo on board that can complete the mission he set out to do? Maybe he was unaware that maybe the Lifeboat was out of action? who knows... seemed to me like he wanted to make 100% sure that no survivors was left before he set back off on another ship.... Then again he never knew that Prometheus was going to ram his ship and so would have know that not only was their survivors but they had a ship and so must have felt confident his ship would reach Earth and Deliver its Cargo before the Human Ship Prometheus could get to Earth or Warn us.

The engineer was out of emtional control. It didint look like he was trying to save her for a goo experiment either...He was ticked off at her when they met and definetly ticked off after the crash...the guy needs to calm down and act like an Adult Engineer here....

I think David knew the Engineer was after Shaw b/c his head was functioning and still on the bridge of that ship. He could see what the engineer was doing. And that was probably using all those fancy holograms and computers to watch her. I still don't understand how we know they created us. That planet in the beginning could have been any life supporting planet. How do 5 circles on a cave wall act as a star map? Just our galaxy is so big.. there's probably millions of such systems. Those ships they have obviously don't have weapons. It's like a stealth bomber. They can't do anything but drop their eggs. I'm sure if he could find and see Shaw he could see them trying to ram him.

The star map they claimed matched the star system they went too so I am okay with that... As to the rest of your questions...Yes, he had to be able to have outside montors...he cannot be flying blind. Our DNA matches theres and we did not create them so they must have created us is my thinking good input scifi 3d zoo

Can somebody tell me why the Engineer tried to destroy everyone to begin with, and why he was so livid? I mean, if somebody woke me up after 2,000 years of cryostasis I'd be pissed off, too. Also, were the dead engineers in the hallway about to set off on a mission to wipe out life on earth before something slaughtered them? That seems to be the general consensus between myself and others I've spoken to. Sorry if I seem a bit behind the times.

Great question...the guy who woke up swinging so to speak did it on purpose...Why is what has us all guessing. On your othyer comment, we dont know if they were going to destory earth...we do know they had an imprtant agenda...what that is makes for good discussion... The goo is the key to it all...in my opinion

Isn't it possible that Shaw, a human female being silenced in such an abrupt manner by Weyland's thug, just so a mechanical copy of his own race's creation could speak was what distressed the Engineer so much? Granted, that doesn't explain why he came at her in the survival pod in such an aggressive manner. Perhaps it was the 2,000 year stasis. Hell, Shaw was damn near barfing up her own feet after two years... The engineer certainly analysed David quizzically (My take on his body language) before he became aggressive. I think he was more dazed and confused than anything else. The other thought I had was that perhaps there were two groups of Engineers with different ideologies. One group had decided to wipe out the humans and the others were out to stop them. That could explain the running figures in the holo-vids. It also means our sleeping Engineer might have been from the 'wipe 'em out' club. That's my 2 cents, YMMV...

Talos63...The engineer was really listening to her and what she was asking. He understood her questions is my take...If she was closer, I think her head would have come off first...But then again.....? I wonder. On the rest of your comments...long live sci-fi, the effect it has on us and thank you Talos63 for sharing some good points

I think that sole surviving Engineer's reaction to individuals invading his ship - individuals coming from a species he was ordered to annihilate two millenia ago - could be a clue as to the possible motivation of the Engineer civilization to wipe Earth clean of humanity . . . OR . . . it could be (as has been suggested here) that particular Engineer's reaction to Weyland's megalomaniacal demands/goals and the humans' violent behaviour (bringing weapons into his hyper-sleep chamber, the beating of Dr. Shaw by one of the bodyguards).