Still full of questions after go through Ridley Scott ’s Prometheus ? So were we — so we require everyone we could get a hold of , from the actor who play scientist Charlie Holloway ( Logan Marshall - Green ) to screenwriter Damon Lindelof . And anything we could n’t take somebody , we found out online . It ’s the ultimate reply guide to all your pressing Prometheus questions . UPDATED .
Spoilers ahead …
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What was David ’s need for “ infecting ” Holloway with dim goop ?
Damon Lindelof : I ’d say that the unforesightful response is : That ’s his programming . In the scene preceding him doing that , he is talking to Weyland ( although we do n’t know it at the sentence ) and he ’s assure Weyland that this is a bust . That they have n’t found anything on this mission other than the material in the vials . And Weyland presumptively say to him , “ Well , what ’s in the vial ? ” And David would say , “ I ’m not entirely certain , we ’ll have to run some experiments . ” And Weyland would say , “ What would happen if you put it in inside a person ? ” And David would say , “ I do n’t know , I ’ll go find out . ” He does n’t know that he ’s poison Holloway , he asks Holloway , “ What would you be unforced to do to get the answer to your questions ? ” Holloway says , “ Anything and everything . ” And that basically overrides whatever honourable computer programing David is mandated by , [ allowing him ] to fortify his drinking .
Logan Marshall - Green [ The actor who played Holloway]:My definition of a robot , or at least a self - substantiate robot , is to put together information . As much information as possible and data . To build on data point . The only way they ’re going to spring up is to build on data point . You assemble David amass data instantly . I think he probably strike a wall ( so to utter ) with this mission . They all hit a wall , at first , with this mission . And going back to his Church Father , Weyland , and he ’s told to “ try hard . ” I think he realise that he will have to sacrifice a human life in order of magnitude to achieve that assemblage of information .
Why is Holloway such a jerk to David ?
Logan Marshall - Green : It ’s something that I wanted to implement and I really , really liked it . Michael and I had a blast with it . It ’s something I have n’t seen in scientific discipline fiction , which is a sense of racism or bigotry towards androids and synthetical biography . I think synthetical living is inevitable , and along that line bigotry and racism ( if you will ) will be inevitable as well . Although I ca n’t go up a theatrical role cerebration of [ my theatrical role ] as a racialist or a bigot . Certainly now I can look back and explain his patronage for Michael in that way . I kind of loved it … that social observation on a next being , a synthetic android .
David has been watching Lawrence of Arabia while the work party of Prometheus was in stasis for two year , why that movie ?
Lindelof : Ridley and I started babble about Lawrence of Arabia , for some cause , very early on on in our process . I ’m a huge David Lean fan — we were talk about The Bridge on the River Kwai and then Peter O’Toole etc . etc . we just go saying oh what if David was just obsess with Lawrence of Arabia ? Why would he be obsess with Lawrence of Arabia , and i think the short answer was : Lawrence is a unknown in a strange land . A lily-white man who is alone different , ultimately becomes the most polar figure in that movie , independent of his differences . That felt slightly analogical to what we wanted to do with David .
What is Lindelof ’s obsession with rich older man who break their tike lives ?
Lindelof : Well , I will say that I have n’t had any experience with rich old men who have ruined my life . Some less rich old men who have been wonderful role models . But I think that the Keynesian “ rich old man with nefarious spirit ” is a classic character in both even fabrication and both straight up genre . And just too delicious to resist .
On that same preeminence , we ’ve seen Lindelof harness childbirth before specifically women losing the ability to have tiddler or have it bastardized in some way in Lost . Why was it important to weave human maternity into Prometheus ?
Lindelof : I cogitate hardwired into the original Alien is this idea of fertility . This estimation of , for lack of a better room of wait at it , the spermatozoon and the orchis need each other to for make a new life . And in this gestational construct , the human being is the egg and the sperm is represent ( in the original Alien ) by a face hugger . And in Prometheus it ’s represented in a unlike way . I just sense like the idea of taking these three generations of creators ( so the Engineers who created us , then us , and our founding synthetic human being the golem David ) . We ’re going to take those three generations , we ’re gon na lock them in a way together , we ’re gon na watch them have sexual activity with each other . And then we ’re go to see what comes out . That was the experiment that Prometheus was die hard . And whether it was successful or whether it was a failure , it sure was fun to write .
Have they actually map out out a motivation for the Engineers , is it supposed to persist ambiguous ? Will they be mystic incessantly , or can we figure them out if we compensate enough attention ? Was it deliberate or if they matte like they offer enough lead to the consecrated witness , where we never really sleep with what the advanced outlander wanted ?
Lindelof : Ridley decidedly had very specific result to those questions and we talked a great deal about how we wanted to put those resolution into Prometheus . And whether or not we want to hold any of them back . It ’s a little bit obnoxious to say , “ well if you care this moving-picture show , we ’ll give that stuff to you in the sequel . ” So you have to have a fair shaft at being able-bodied to extrapolate based on the selective information in this movie . But I do experience like , embedded in this movie are the fundamental idea behind why it is the Engineers would need to pass over us out . If that ’s the query that you ’re need . The flick asks the question , were we make by these beings ? And it answers that wonder very definitively . But in the backwash of that answer there ’s a new enquiry , which is , they created us but now they desire to destroy us , why did they change their brain ? That ’s the question that Shaw is asking at the closing of this movie , the one that she wants do . I do recall that there are a lot of hints in this picture show that we give you quite and educated guess as to why . But obviously not to the detriment of what Shaw might find when she goes to talk to these things herself .
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Lindelof : It ’s definitely not anti - science . In fact , if anything I think it ’s pro - science because it advances the idea that part of our own programing as human beings , we ’re many ways just as governed by our programming as David is . We have to seek out the answer to these questions , even though we jazz we ’ll never get satisfying answers . We ’re curious about what happens as we die . We postulate to have it off where we descend from . What the significance of living is . What variety of life we ’re supposed to lead . These are all sort of nonscientific , philosophic , spiritual , and spiritual question . But the idea that we can find some comfort in science , that science can sort of give us a track to observe in sympathize our base . I think we ’re proficient off from understanding that we ’re descended from aper than we are looking at some book that was save 2000 years ago that devote us an explanation for our own roots .
I ’m most definitively pro - science , but I guess that the moving picture promote the approximation that , can the two live along side each other ? Is it potential to be a scientist and uphold some fungible trust in the unknown ? And are you reinforce for having blind faith ? I do think that the movie is making the meta - comment in say well Shaw is the true worshiper on board , and she ’s the one who outlive . So what are we trying to say by distinguish that narrative ?
Do the Engineers want us to travel to them ?
In an interview withIGN , this interrogation is turn to — but Lindelof only answers with more questions .
Lindelof : That ’s an excellent enquiry and one that I ’m not start to answer . But I will say that there ’s something fascinating about human beings where we perceive it as an invitation . You look at a cave rampart , there ’s somebody pointing at some distant planets , and one interpreting is “ This is where we fare from ” another is “ We require you to get here . ” Where are we draw off that from ? I think another thing that ’s interesting about the organization that they bring down is that the lunation the demesne on in Prometheus is LV 223 . And we know LV 426 is where the action takes place in Alien , so are they even in the right home ? And how near are they to the place that these aliens on cave walls were train them . Were they just extrapolating “ This is the system that has the sunlight with the sustainable life . ” So there ’s a lot of dead reckoning . There ’s a low demarcation in the movie where David and Holloway are talking about David ’s deconstruction of the language based on Holloway ’s thesis , and he says “ If your dissertation is correct ” and Holloway say “ If it ’s correct ? ” and David says “ That ’s why they call it a thesis Dr. . ” And the reason we threw that in there is that we ’re deal with a highly hypothetical area in terms of who these beingness are , what , if any invitation they issued , and who is creditworthy for making those cave paintings . And did something happen in between when those cave paintings were made — tens of thousands of years ago — and our arrival now , in 2093 , 2,000 year after these things have expire . Did something bechance in the intermediate period that we should be thinking about ?
What is David saying to the technologist ?
MTV Newsgot this answer as part of a lengthy e-mail rally with Lindeloff , which also bring out whether Meredith Vickers is a robot or not ( she ’s not ) .
When David communicate with one of the Engineers recently in the film , what the hell does he say to get them so angry ? Did you in reality script what that dialogue would have been in our speech ?
Yes . David ’s dialog with the Engineer has an English displacement , but Ridley experience very strongly about not subtitle it . I spoke at length about this on my DVD commentary
Was David ’s basketball toss a nod to Alien Resurrection ?
thirst Onlinehas the result :
Lindelof : I do think that there are a lot of tips of the detonator in Prometheus to all of those movies and I think it ’s so promiscuous to sit back and rag on misunderstanding made or incorrect paths turned down . But at the end of the day , every single one of those movies I feel had salutary things in them and an joint of fancy . All I ’ll say in reaction to your interrogative is , nothing is an accident in Prometheus . Every single determination that is made by Ridley Scott is made for a very specific reason and aim .
Is that first planet in the prologue Earth ?
Movies.comgot director Ridley to serve this one :
Ridley Scott : No , it does n’t have to be . That could be anywhere . That could be a planet anywhere . All he ’s doing is act as a gardener in space . And the plant life , in fact , is the dissolution of himself .
Did the Engineers want to kill human race because of Jesus ?
A uproarious hypothesis , that almost made it into the script . Also come in from the great Movies.com interview ( seriously go read it ! ) . Here ’s Ridley ’s answer :
You throw faith and spirituality into the equation for Prometheus , though , and it almost acts as a hand grenade . We had heard it was script that the Engineers were targeting our planet for devastation because we had crucify one of their representatives , and that Jesus Christ might have been an extraterrestrial . Was that ever considered ?
Ridley Scott : We emphatically did , and then we think it was a little too on the olfactory organ . But if you look at it as an “ our tyke are misdemean down there ” scenario , there are moments where it reckon like we ’ve gone out of command , run around with armour and skirts , which of course would be the Roman Empire . And they were given a longsighted run . A thousand yr before their radioactive decay actually get down to materialise . And you’re able to say , “ LET ’ institutionalise down one more of our emissaries to see if he can stop it . approximate what ? They blast him .
What was cut from Prometheus ?
A lot . According toColliderthere is about 20 to 30 minutes of deleted scenes Ridley want to include in the DVD waiver . And Logan Marshall - Green also disclose to us that his grapheme had been considerably toned down in reshoots . We ’re assuming 30 minutes is an understatement .
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