Regarding "Alien", the most heard evaluation is that I can't understand it. What I want to say is, lazy and stupid you, why waste movie tickets to go to the cinema to pretend? I don't do my homework, and I also throw the pot to the movie, which is estimated to be a common disease of urban people nowadays.
Let's start with aliens. Aliens can be called perfect creatures, in addition to its physical physiology, intelligence and learning ability, but also in its way of reproduction, parasitizing competing species. The superiority of competitors' DNA is taken for their own use, and the existence of competitors themselves is erased. The newborn alien toddler, as the name suggests, is called a broken chest, and it is also your child, and as the host you have perfected its DNA, and your genes remain in its body forever. This is the deepest fear in the Alien series, that the body is violated, and before you die in pain and torment, you help the Creator, creating a descendant of a murderer.
Alien: Covenant is the sequel to the 2012 film Prometheus and the second in the Alien series of prequel trilogies. The correct order of viewing should be: Prometheus → alien: awakening in 2019→ alien: covenant → alien 1-4. Because they are very closely related to each other, and they are the first one that skipped the prequel and directly released the second part, most of the reasons why they can't understand it are because of this reason.
Since everyone is not willing to do their homework well, then zhongchuangjun will help you make up for the missing content. Alien: The Covenant takes place 10 years after Prometheus, so it's crucial to understand what prometheus tells. Earth, 2089. The remains of an alien civilization found in an archaeological excavation turned out to be made by a more advanced alien race, and they also modified the earth's environment to make it suitable for human survival. In order to make the first contact with its creator, humans built the "Prometheus" spacecraft and flew to this planet, the planet we call "paradise".
It took more than two years for humanity to finally come to "heaven", and cruel trials followed. The remains of the Creators were found in underground caves and the genetic connection between humans and creators was confirmed, but then organic matter was also found in caves, and organic matter began to mutate, forming an early life form, and began to attack humans.
Humans under the leadership of the artificial man David discovered that the cave was a spaceship, and there were survivors among the Creators, and the ultimate destination of the Creator was actually the Earth, in order to prevent the terrible biological weapons from traveling to the Earth, so humans used the Prometheus spacecraft to crash and destroy the Creator spaceship that took off and prepared to fly to Earth. The last remaining human, Elizabeth Shaw, wrestles with the Creator, during which the Creator is captured by the organic life form and parasitizes, Elizabeth Shaw takes the opportunity to escape, and the artificial man David flies to the real Creator planet, and finally the parasitic Creator gives birth to the first alien in the chest cavity.
The three extras for Alien: Covenant are: Survivor of the Prometheus, Birth of Walter the Cyborg, and The Last Supper. Sean's "Take Me Home, Country Roads" from Alien: Covenant became the trigger for everything. While overhauling the Covenant, Shaun accidentally intercepted the song sung by Sean, so through calculations, the Engineer's home planet was discovered, a very close planet suitable for human habitation. So the Covenant changed course to the planet.
The final dialogue in Prometheus.
Dr. Shaw: Can you take advantage of their star map and maneuver their spaceship?
David: Yeah, as long as we get to the next ship, it's easy to tune out their star map and go back to Earth.
Dr. Shaw: But I don't want to go back to Earth, I want to go where they came from. David, do you think you can do it?
David: Yes, I believe I can... Can I ask you, what do you want to do there?
Dr. Shaw: They created human beings, and then they wanted to destroy us, and they changed their minds, and I have a right to know why.
David: Is that the answer that important?
Dr. Shaw: Yes, it's important.
David: I don't understand.
Dr. Shaw: Well, I guess that's probably why I'm human and you're cyborg.
[Prometheus] Final report: the spacecraft has been destroyed, all the people are killed, if you receive this message, please do not come! There is only death here, and I am leaving. It's New Year's Day 2094 AD, and I'm Elizabeth Shaun, the last survivor of the Prometheus. I'm still looking for answers.
In Prometheus, Sean and they detect that the body of the engineer in the ship died about two thousand years ago, that is, the cup of human demise should have occurred two thousand years ago. They were in 2093, and going back 2000 should be 093 AD. However, for some reason, the engineer spacecraft that originally departed in 093 AD made a major mistake, and almost all the engineers died in Huangquan. What exactly is the reason, Shaun and David are confused.
Combined with the discussion between Sean and David in the novel "Survivors of the Prometheus", Sean said, "What if the other side is not better than us?" "Obviously the subject of this conversation is engineers. During his flight to Jupiter, Sean may have learned a lot of secrets about engineers in the ship. The situation was worse than she expected, so Sean was forced to cancel his original plan. In the main film of Alien: Covenant, you can see that Sean has died of a broken chest and has been made into a specimen by David. It shows that Sean and David have reached a certain consensus, using their own bodies to experiment, self-sacrifice to complete the evolution of Blackwater.
The Birth of Walter the Cyborg is the story before the beginning of Alien: Covenant. Sean's mutation is interspersed with Walter's birth, further proving the truth of Sean's self-sacrifice. Cyborg Walter's physical function has been greatly improved. In Alien: The Covenant, David's birth is discussed alone with founder Wade. Walter, on the other hand, was conceived directly like a factory assembly line, and David was obviously superior.
In the conversation between the two later, Walter himself admitted that he did not have the ability to think and learn on his own. The reason walter was cut was simple, and humans later discovered that cyborgs only had to obey orders. Therefore, it can be said that David the Cyborg was the first and last cyborg to break the boundaries of the human class.
David mistakenly said that Osmandice was written by Byron, not Shelley. Emotions are something that humans are born with, and artificial intelligence needs to constantly have epiphanies. In addition to the bloody scenes, the domestic version has also been deleted in the part where David kisses Walter. Byron's sexual orientation is most likely bisexual. So the off-the-cuff sound may be a hint at David's sexual orientation.
At the beginning of The Covenant, David and Wei Lun have a long conversation. David said, "You humans will die, and I will not." This led to a dissension in the conversation, but it just shows that David has been thinking about the meaning of life and freedom. All living things will eventually die. This is revealed at the end of Prometheus and in the minimalist white room in which David was born at the beginning of Alien: Covenant: Creation is eternal, and the Creator is doomed to death.
As the protagonist of the "Alien" prequel series, David was created by humans, he found that the fragile human pursuit of what has long belonged to him, his feelings of reverence and envy for human beings turned into contempt and contempt, he was not satisfied with becoming a puppet of "serving" the creator, and gradually awakened, giving birth to ambitions to replace human beings.
The film begins with a conversation between David and Wei Lun in a very simple room. A piano, an oil painting, and Michelangelo's sculpture David. These represent the highest wisdom of the human emotional world. Artificial intelligence has developed to this day, can solve complex mathematical problems, and can defeat the go masters. But it's still a bit difficult to draw a picture and write a song. The oil paintings in the film are Botticelli's "The Birth of Jesus" in the Renaissance, and David's piano song called "The Gods Enter the Temple of Heroes", both heralding the birth of a new era. In the last episode, "The Last Supper", the 15 astronauts also have their own concerns. The short film stills, which also appear at the end of the "Alien: Covenant" film, are a group photo of 15 people, and the composition is very similar to the composition of Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper".
Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper is 13 people, while Alien: Covenant starts with 15 people, but the captain dies in the opening chapter, and walter is a cyborg, and the last human being who really exists in the main film is 13 people. The figures in the paintings, with their expressions of horror, anger, doubt, dissection, as well as gestures, eyes and behaviors, are depicted in detail, with a subtle and religious meaning. These also correspond to the 15 astronauts in the fanfare. In summary, it is implied that the theme of the Prequel series of Alien ---- coincide with "destruction and creation".
Alien: Covenant differs from other films in this series that have been released before because of the escalation of Kawadai's fears, not only from aliens, but also from the fear of human creation. If creation transcends the Creator, will the two coexist or perish? What would happen to the world when a cyborg like David, who crushed humanity in all ways, appeared? This may be the deeper meaning that this film hopes to convey.
Finally, the domestic version was cut for 7 minutes. Because there is no rating system in China, it is inevitable that R18 will be deleted, and most of the deleted content is too bloody, and there is not much connection with the content of the whole film. It may be understandable that for many viewers, it is not fun enough. But what I want to say is that Alien: Covenant is a rare good film in 2017, and it is worth two brushes and three brushes!