1. After sending black water to the Engineer's home planet, David constantly searches for the surviving organic creatures on this planet to study the aliens. There are specimens made by engineer children after mutation, and in David's laboratory there is also a peeled dry specimen of engineers.
His hand rests on his shoulder to the scene at the beginning of the film when the cyborgs are born, and Michelangelo's statue of David is very similar, which depicts the appearance of David before the expedition. David the Cyborg puts out this shape in the laboratory, suggesting that it is also ready to complete a big business, and later it improves and restores the alien shape created by the engineer.
2. The first frame of the covenant opening is David's eye, which is supposed to refer to the eye of God, which is described in Egyptian mythology and the Bible. The Eye of God is also described as the Eye of Horus, representing God's dharma eye for monitoring humanity. Old Ray begins with such a picture, implying that David will become the Creator and become a god, lurking in the human world, constantly monitoring the every move of human beings, seeing the essence of human beings, and laying the groundwork for its motivation to create alien forms.
3. David poured tea and water, and Whalen asked David to come over and pour the tea, which means that even if you are more advanced than me, I created you, and you are my servant after all, and you need to listen to me. This clip echoes several details in Prometheus, when David takes Shaw and Holloway to Vickers's separate cabin, Vickers directly orders David to pour three cups, which also clearly hints at David's servant status.
4. The lake in front of the floor-to-ceiling window is the same as the mountain peak and the scene of the wild earth at the beginning of Prometheus, which I think in addition to Ridley Scott's self-tribute, also contains the atmosphere of David's birth.
Many years ago, engineers created human beings in such a place, and many years later, human civilization developed to a certain extent, and David was created in such a place, and there is a profound hint that human beings, like engineers, will eventually die out. Because the engineers lost the ability to reproduce, they chose to create humans and ensure the continuation of the race. Humans, on the other hand, are trying to create cyborgs like David to explore the ultimate secret of seeking immortality.
5. Covenant's arrival on the Engineer's home planet was actually around Christmas, and prometheus arrived over LV223 on December 24, 2093, implying that humanity was about to visit its Creator.
Ten years later, covenants set sail again, and on December 4, 2104, while the spacecraft was charging its spacecraft, it encountered a neutrino burst and malfunctioned, and while repairing the solar flap, Tennessee received an unknown signal. After the spacecraft's advanced artificial intelligence identification, the specific location was detected, which is actually the engineer's home planet, which is described in the movie as long as a few weeks to arrive, December 4, 2104, and three weeks later, it is exactly December 25, 2104, that is, the home planet of the engineer, the planet of the human god, around Christmas.
6. David and Walter, two bionic people have a clear difference, the names are opposite, David is 26 letters, the fourth of the first 4 ABCD, walter is the fourth from the bottom of the 26 letters wxyz after 4. The Covenant specifically gives Walter a scene when he inspects the dormant crew, which echoes david's daily routine on the Prometheus, but there is a clear difference between David peeking into Shaw's dreams and having a curiosity about humans, while Walter does not have such a phenomenon, and has checked several times without peeking at the dream, which makes us obviously feel the difference between the two cyborgs.
7. Covenant's company is no longer a simple Veranda company, and after the Prometheus plan, Veranda company was acquired by Yutani Company. The full name of the merger of the two companies, Veranda Yugu Company, the logo is like a pair of wings, and here is also a tribute to Egyptian mythology.
8. The departed captain Jacob once told his wife Daniel that after arriving on Planet Origin 6, a log cabin would be built there, which is also a reference to mythology, and for a time during the course of Jesus' life, he worked as a carpenter.
9. The Fire of Prometheus, in the extended version of Peter Wellen's ted speech mentioned that Prometheus gave fire to humans, fire is equivalent to human technology, everything will have a double result, there are good effects and bad effects, just like Pandora's box. Fire can benefit mankind, and of course it can bring disaster to mankind. Holloway is burned down by Vickers, Captain Jacob's sleeping pod malfunctions, and a thick fire takes him away. The Covenant's landing ship exploded on the Engineer's home planet to create a raging fire, taking two people with it. When David threw a large amount of black water, the last struggle of the fallen engineer looked like a burnt mark.
10. The scene where David rescues the squad with an incendiary bomb to scare off the aliens should refer to the myths of the fallen angel Lucifer and the demon king Satan. The Bible records that the son of the bright heart in the morning, how did you fall from heaven, and David at this moment happened to be wearing the robe of the engineer, which has been explained before, and is a symbol of their faith.
After these people were rescued, David took them directly to the square where the engineer fell, just like the demon king Satan lured people to abandon life and the road to salvation and go to destruction, it is true that this place is full of dangers, after humans came here, they were deceived and used by David, encountered aliens, parasitized by face-hugging insects, and did not go to destruction?
11. The End of the Engineer, David throws black water on the Engineer's home planet, and the various struggling and frightened expressions of the Engineers in the square pay tribute to the scene of the disaster that occurred at the end of Pompeii.
12. Prometheus and the head of the Covenant, in the Temple of the Engineer, saw a huge stone statue of the head, which should be the ancestor of the Engineer, or that the creature Deacon was born after the primitive facebug parasitized him. In the covenant when David took the group to the lobby where the engineer lived, several huge heads also appeared, according to director Ridley Scott, these were the pioneers of all walks of life among them.
In fact, there are two hidden huge heads, not known to us, at the end of the covenant, when the spacecraft leaves the engineer's home planet, you can clearly see the stone sculptures of the heads of two engineers, these two heads I estimate most people have not found, I also watched for a long time to find by chance.
13. Severed heads, which may have something to do with Western culture, should be a punishment in their history, in the Promethean film, about 2000 years ago, an engineer's head was cut off by a stone door and received a box lunch. The last engineer clashes with the humans, and then takes off David's head and then takes the head that smashes into Peter Welen, and in the covenant, a female team member is directly bitten off the head by the new alien. Old Ray uses such a performance method to describe death, I don't know what other hidden meaning, welcome to leave a message to discuss.
14. When Tennessee drove the ship away, the fallen mother ship could be seen in the valley behind, and I reckoned that after David threw black water, the engineer's defenses and the entire system were paralyzed, causing the tarmac to fall.
15. Prometheus spacecraft and Covenant spacecraft, I think it should be the relationship between sister ships, the front half of the two spacecraft is exactly the same shape, the difference is in the power system and the cargo compartment, the Covenant load is more large with 2,000 people, so a large cargo compartment is added in the middle, its power system should be more powerful, and the range will be longer.
16. At the end of the film, daniels and David talk, a photo appears, in fact, this is a subtracted clip of the Last Supper, but also the promo before the covenant was not released, plus cyborg Walter A total of 15 people, because it is a one-way trip, so everyone brought a partner. Captain Jacob's robes bear some resemblance to Jesus' robes, and it is clear that the image is a tribute to Jesus' Last Supper and a hint that the future encounters of the Covenant will result in heavy losses.
There are still quite a few Easter eggs and hidden details in the Prometheus and Alien: Covenant movies, and for this series, there are more new discoveries to discuss in the comments section.
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