What Is the Symbolism of Heads?

Don't lose your head!

Did you just want to give us a heads up?

Hold on to your heads! :) Just a discussion about the head-thing. I suppose it symbolizes man's loss of reason . . .

Chli,

Is it me or does fassbender look like he is wearing a suit to match the floor at his beheading?

Rick

Sure does, Rick. :)

This head looks distinctly European, more so than the head in the ampule room.

Chli- that shot of David- was that a shot during filming? Pretty interesting.

Gibster are you referring to the oversized British Shnoz and grouper mouth?  You know what, I think its a dismembered Walter head.  Poor guy, Walter was my boy.

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@Gibster distinctly European? you do know that Europe is a continent and not a country right? 

LOL, Watch out Neomorph heads be a roll'n around here.

I just couldn't 't wrap my head around that comment.

Thanks for the heads up.  I'll try and bring my comments to a head that make sense.  I don't want to blow your head up too fast. 

Easy now, that's not where the direction of my comment was heading, unless you had a pothead approach, thinking the HEADer the better. 

Depends...

Heads are used to showcase a State of Power...  both to showcase the Worship of a Character be that God, or King... but also used to represent the Power and Knowledge of something.

The other side to a Head (not Tails ) is to show Sacrifice and also to showcase a Token, Reward and Gain... so as in the form of Hunting....   you keep the Head to provoke Fear in those hunted...but also to showcase as a Trophy.

FYI Gonzo is stuff and mounted on my wall at home right next to Kermit and Ms. Piggy

I think you have a point there BD. It's about power and submission?

Chli your heads topic is over flowing into other topics like the black goo

This topic has given me a right headache! ;)

The top pic here, the skull on the facility, have you noticed how it slopes back like the head of the xeno?

My guess is one or a combo of vanity, self worship or possibly the head(s) of a great engineer(s) from by gone days.  

And being English, and having a rather normal sized shnoz, I take offence at the wild and unfounded racial stereotyping lol ;) (best read with plummy, condescending English accent!)  

Looks more classical Greece to me . . .

I agree, Deep Space. It's probably the head of an engineer from the beginning, but 2000 years of wind and weather has turned it into a grinning skull (symbol of decay and fall?).