"Alien: Covenant" was finally released on the mainland, and the film has slots and highlights, but the most unfortunate thing is that it was cut for 6 minutes.
Helplessly, Alien: Covenant became Open: Big Spoon.
However, to be fair, the deletions are all some bloody pictures, although it is a bit addictive for fans like the sea who like heavy taste, but it does not affect the understanding of the plot.
But you may not know that in addition to the 6 minutes that were deleted for review, director Ridley Scott himself also deleted some of the content that had been filmed from the main film, and these deleted content also contained a lot of important information.
This isn't the first time Ridley Scott has done this.
Five years ago, Alien director Ridley Scott directed Prometheus with the intention of making a prequel series to fill in a hole he had buried more than 40 years ago.
"Prometheus" is 124 minutes long, which is 122 minutes when it is released in the mainland, and it has been cut by 2 points, which is not much.
However, in the Blu-ray disc released later in the film, a 30-minute deletion clip was appended, some of which were directly deleted and some useless, and some candidate shots that were different from the original plot of the release version.
Nima! Exactly 30 minutes! (A station search for "Prometheus 3 hours of tidbits + 30 minutes to delete" there is)
Among them are several clips that have been circulating in the fan base for a long time.
For example, the scene at the beginning of "Pu" in which the white-skinned alien (referred to as "engineer") drinks black oil and dies. There is only one dead engineer in the release version, and there are actually nine in the deleted clip, and one of them hands the black oil to the dead engineer.
There are also several conversations between the crew of the Prometheus, although slightly lengthy, but also very important for understanding the characters' personalities and laying the groundwork for the relationships between the characters.
And when the company's founder, Peter Wieland, asked the awakened engineer about the method of immortality, the engineer had a brief conversation with david the cyborg; when the engineer hunted down the heroine, Dr. Shaw, the alien species became interested in the human books and decorations in the spaceship.
However, these passages that allow the audience to learn more about the alien race of "engineers" were all cut by director Ridley Scott himself! fall! finish!
Why？
The story of "Covenant" takes place ten years after "Pu", as a sequel, what happened in the intervening decade, the film is very vague, especially the cause of Dr. Shaw's death.
At the end of Pu, Dr. Shaw leaves with the decapitated cyborg David, intending to take another ship to find the Engineer's home planet.
In The Covenant, the human expedition discovers that Dr. Shaw was used by David as a vehicle for cultivating aliens, and his death was tragic.
The jump of this plot is too big, and I didn't expect that the heroine of the previous part didn't even have a line in this part (except for singing).
That's right, Ridley Scott has cut the scene again.
However, in the "viral marketing" in the early stages of "Covenant", Ridley Scott posted a two-minute "fan-outside sequence" (on Douban), telling the story of What happened between David and Dr. Shaw during the decade.
After the story of Pu, Dr. Shaw goes to an engineer's ship and takes David's head.
David then taught Dr. Shaw how to fly the Engineer's ship (or teach part of it), so that the humans on the Covenant received a mirror image of Dr. Shaw singing on the Engineer's ship.
The two set their destination to the Engineer's home planet, and Dr. Shaw enters the Hibernation Chamber to wait for arrival (humans can even use the Engineer's Hibernation Chamber), while David remains behind to operate the ship and learn the Engineer's techniques.
At the end of the series, followed by the clip in "Covenant" where David destroys engineers with blackwater weapons, David not only destroys the engineers of the entire planet, but also constantly conducts alien experiments, turning the planet into hell.
Such an important plot, why not put it into the main film!!
There's more than one short video, including a video called "The Last Supper, about a party of the Crew of the Covenant; an advertisement for Walter the Cyborg man shot by the Wieland Company; and a video diaries of the last video of the Crew of the Covenant before hibernation.
Many audiences who go to the theater may not know the existence of these "extraterrestrial".
The most pitiful is the engineer family, which is obviously the key clue of the entire "Alien" series, but it was cut down by the director to become a dragon set role.
But perhaps director Ridley Scott deliberately deleted the engineer's lines and redundant scenes in "Pu" and exterminated him in "Covenant", just as in the reasoning story let the witnesses who know the truth hang up early, deliberately creating a sense of suspense.
But there is a little bit of skepticism in the sea.
Long before humans evolved into civilized societies, the engineers had the technology to travel through the universe. The planet where the human expedition landed in Pu also has more than one engineer's spaceship. (Ends with one destroyed by a human spaceship, and David and Dr. Shaw drive away one)
So did David really destroy all the engineers in the universe?
Perhaps this race has long been distributed throughout the universe, and the ones that David eliminated seem to be only low-level characters from the point of view of clothing.
It is said that two sequels will be made after "Covenant", so that the plot will continue 1979's "Alien 1", and in the next film, the engineer family may appear.
Another "Last Supper", the content is not so high, mainly some daily conversations of the crew on the Contract, but in the dialogue, we can also learn some information. (In the film, Fu Lanlan, who was burned to death in the hibernation warehouse, finally had a few more lines)
The most important of these is the setting of the level of human technology in the film, which also leads to a slot in the film.
"This is the first large-scale (interstellar) colonization operation by mankind."
But for the first time, do you dare to leave the landing module on a strange planet without a helmet?
The sea must admit that seeing this is the most disappointing passage in my heart.
Originally thought that it was the progress of human technology in the past ten years, so that the expedition team from the "Pu" with a helmet, to the "Contract" without any protective equipment confidence, did not expect that the video just told us that this is the first interstellar colonization of mankind.
The first time you don't wear any protective measures, you are really dead. (Serious face, don't want to be crooked)
In contrast, the hard science fiction of "Advent" is better handled, and even if it is in contact with aliens on Earth with no malicious intentions, scientists have to go through a strict disinfection procedure.
The recently released "Alien Awakening", the astronauts in it also have higher IQs, at least comparing alien creatures to anthrax viruses, and the reverse ending of alien awakenings really surprised the audience, and could not be predicted until the last second.
The reversal of the "Covenant" ending is less shocking.
I believe that many people, like the sea, discovered very early that the last cyborg Walter was pretended by David, but the heroine did not find out for a long time.
Many people complain that the heroine is "ugly", and the personal attack is not right, but the heroine in this film has a really weak sense of existence.
If the previous "Alien" series used strong heroines against Aliens to celebrate feminism, then the heroines in this "Contract" can only make people feel "stupid".
Not to mention the various other pig teammates: the male team member who saw the alien egg and was curious to get close to it; the female team member who fired randomly to detonate the entire landing module; the acting captain who was scared silly and had no opinion when he encountered things. How did humanity send such an "elite" to carry out the first interstellar colonization plan?
Of course, this problem is very serious in "Pu", the crew tears each other apart, coupled with a black cyborg secretly trickstering, the total annihilation is really a very reasonable ending.
Therefore, the two prequels, the most brilliant role is the cyborg played by the law shark.
The Covenant begins with Peter Wieland having just created David the Cyborg, playing the piano gracefully in a spotlessly clean white room.
However, in conversation with the Creator Peter Wieland, David said, "You humans will die, and I will not." ”
The seeds of rebellion (or "betrayal") of humanity were planted long before the moment of his birth.
In a thriller science fiction film with "Alien" as the main selling point, although the cyborg David has a beautiful appearance of the "World Husband", the inner darkness makes the audience shudder, and his mad alien experiment is simply more frightening than the Alien itself.
In "Covenant", he killed an entire planet of engineers, and in the thriller's standard bad end to control the fate of more than two thousand humans on the Covenant, will he come to Earth with a ship full of aliens?
No appointment, uncle we do not date.
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