The last issue talked about the setting and origin story of the Creator, the Engineer, who appeared in the Prequel Story of The Alien Prequel, Prometheus. Many friends left messages in the comment area saying that they could not understand the behavior of the engineer who created the human in the movie and killed the human being, why did David and his party grunt at the engineer and then the engineer would be angry and directly destroy the human squad? In fact, behind this involves some of the deleted fragments of Prometheus, which explain in detail how humans approach the realm of the "gods" and what David and the engineer said to the engineer, so that the engineer suddenly attacked the killer.
"It's okay for the Creator to drink a drink."
<H1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Young Leader Peter Weilun: Changing the World</h1>
Different stages of Viren
In "Prometheus", Peter Weilun appeared in the old age of the dragon clock, and his role in the film can be said to be pitiful, except to explain the origin of the Prometheus plan and finally anger the engineer to attract the annihilation of the group, the audience's impression of him mostly stays in the plan to start the gold lord, nothing more.
However, in the deleted clips, Peter Wellen is almost the soul of "Prometheus" - the director uses Peter Wellen to explain the overall level of human technology, explain why Peter Wellen is on the ship and why he is so impatient when he finally faces the engineer.
In the cut plot, the director spends a considerable part of the story to tell the story of Peter Weilun when he was young. I don't know how many viewers recognized Peter Weilun's actor, Guy Pierce, the director was hesitant when casting peter Weilun, because the initial plan was to really select an elderly actor to play the elderly Peter Weilun, but then the crew decided to use Pierce, because he can play the elderly Weilun through makeup, but also show the leadership temperament of the young Weilun.
Gepils' age makeup
As an aside, Pierce revealed in the interview that it takes at least five hours of makeup time to dress himself up as an elderly Viren, and it takes more than an hour to remove makeup after shooting.
It turns out that the director is right, the actor Guy Pierce brings his own leader buff, and at the TED conference in the plot, he successfully interprets the advanced ambition and self-confidence of human beings. The young Pierce setting in the plot is quite brilliant, which can be described as the pride of heaven:
Peter Viren was born in October 1990 to a professor at Oxford University to a mother whose father was a highly accomplished engineer (an engineer in the sense of human society, not a space jockey engineer). The so-called tiger father without dogs, so the family grew up Peter Viren is more outstanding, at the age of 14 Peter Viren used stem cell technology to obtain the fourteenth patent, at the age of 22 Peter Viren founded the Viren company, the young Viren created his own myth, first invented a new type of solar cell to solve the energy problem, incidentally also solved the global greenhouse effect, almost you can think of the problem of binding human beings have been solved under his impetus, he even led the team to overcome cancer, At 26:00, Viren was knighted and won the Nobel Prize several times.
Ambitious Viren
The above results prove that human beings are infinitely close to the realm of "God", of course, the "God" here is not a god in the religious sense, but the creator of human beings in the alien cinematic universe - the engineer. Humanity has overcome the most stubborn diseases, created high-end cyborgs, opened up the exploration of the universe, and for Peter Weilun he almost became the god of mankind, as the Weilun company declaration he founded said - to change the world. Fame and fortune have long been unable to disturb Wei Lun's mood, and the dilapidated flesh and blood body can no longer support his never-ending ambitions, and when he is dying, Wei Lun decides to take his last step, which is also the most crucial step for all mankind - to transcend the boundary between life and death and seek the method of eternal life from the engineer who created mankind.
Obviously this is a very risky step, and Viren himself said that "the bondage of life and death is deliberately done by them (referring to engineers) who created us, because they are afraid that human beings are as omnipotent as the Creator, but I am not afraid of these, and if you allow me, I will change the world!" "Like the emperor who ruled everything for thousands of years, Viren has everything, but he can't have eternity. So he and NASA collaborated on the Prometheus project, and the name of this plan already revealed Viren's domineering ambition to steal fire for mankind and spy on the sky.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > trespass: what exactly David and the engineer said</h1>
In Prometheus, the language of the engineers is very strange, and Only David is able to communicate with him in the expedition team, so David acts as a translator between the expedition team and the engineers. For this mysterious dialogue, in the original script creation and film shooting, English subtitles were attached, so that the audience can also understand the content of the dialogue, but in the final version of the director Lao Lei chose to delete the subtitles, so that the audience can guess the dialogue content, which is also Lao Lei's consistent style - leaving room for the audience to imagine.
Through the deleted clips finally released by the studio, it is still possible to sort out the general dialogue content, and the content of the dialogue is actually very simple, mainly divided into three paragraphs.
"They come from Earth"
In the first paragraph, after receiving Viren's instructions, David opened the door and said that the expedition team came from Earth and came at the call of the engineer.
The engineer, who had just woken up from the cockpit, was obviously confused by what was in front of him, and he turned to David and asked, "What do you want?" Why are you here? ”
In the second paragraph, David points to the elderly Viren and explains to the engineer, "This man doesn't want to die, so he came here hoping you could continue his life." The engineer was obviously displeased, and he asked in a loud voice how the man, Ho Tak, could dare to come here in search of eternal life. Engineer means, in other words, is he worthy?
"We are all gods"
The third paragraph is a long monologue by Willen, who says to the engineer: "I created him [referring to David], and my company created this perfect existence from scratch, and the cyborgs do not live and die." So I deserve eternal life, because you and I are both Creators, both Are Gods, and God is immortal. In this dialogue, Viren compares himself to the Creator of the Engineer and claims to be a god, and directly confronts the Engineer, so that after touching David, the Engineer kills all the members of the expedition team, directly killing Willen and his party, leaving only Dr. Sean.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Prometheus and Covenant: not like Alien, more like Blade Runner</h1>
Many friends said that the mysterious atmosphere created by "Prometheus" was spread out with a big grin in "Covenant", which was really disappointing. In fact, "Pu" and "Covenant" directed by Lao Lei are no longer simply space thriller movies around aliens from the core, but a new direction to discuss the relationship between the creator and the created, and the prequel story is more like a continuation of "Blade Runner". When watching "Covenant", the audience can actually pay more attention to the actions and details of the cyborg David, so that they can better understand how David completed the awakening of consciousness step by step and even claimed to be a god.
In "Covenant", the focus of the story is no longer the relationship between the engineer and the human group of creators and the created, but to the human-David pair of relationships, while in the "Contract", the creator's perspective is changed to the human beings themselves, and the creator- the cyborg robot David is constantly conducting alien biotechnology tests on the planet, from this point of view, David's experimental behavior can actually be seen as trying to elevate himself to the identity of the creator. After being substituted into a human perspective, the viewer should feel a kind of anger and panic about David's creation. If you understand the human mood, you can understand why the engineer in Prometheus feels offended. After all, if your computer suddenly starts talking and wants to sit on an equal footing with you, everyone's first reaction is panic.