Cinefex magazine is featuring a new image of the unused Fifield creature design seen in concept art pieces and trailers. According to the article:
“To mutate Fifield beyond what was possible using practical makeup effects, Weta Digital generated a digital character with elongated limbs and an engorged, translucent head, incorporating a semblance of Harris’ face. Scott filmed the sequence both with the actor in makeup and without, providing clean plates that would allow for the insertion of the digital character. The final cut featured mostly makeup effects, which Weta enhanced with digital wire removal, bullet hits, and one shot of the digital creature’s body blended to the actor.”
Thanks to MrSpaceJockey for the news.
I would've liked more of the Fifield mutant, but him dropping in and out like the ninja from The Pink Panther (who would constantly reappear to attack his boss to 'keep my skills up') would be hilarious.
This is... f**king brilliant! Like Nemesis. God this movie whhyyy!?
Go roll your astro-turf somewhere else Damon.
Kidding. Good on you for loving the film.
i thought the film was perfect the way it was personally im a huge prometheus fan.june 1st 2012 pretty much the most anticapated day of all time for me and prometheus is my favourite film of all time nothing negative to say about it whatsoever
we should be thankful we even get to see this stuff becauase the cinema cut was the ultimate cut of the film everything else we will get to see (dvd special features) will be awesome and is a gift for the fans
Not an incitement for people to moan about stuff
Yep - I could see that being interesting...
And we do see him fall into the black goo, so...
As the film stands nothing really happened in the ampule room beyond him getting his face burned and falling over. Even when he inexplicably returns to the ship there is not much about him that suggests that anything 'alien' has happened - he still looks like someone who just got burned and fell over (apart from the crazy yoga pose).
If he had returned as a monster it might of been worthwhile IMO.
I liked how the scene came right on the heals of the med pod sequence. The pace of those two scenes together was what I would have preferred for the whole last act. No time to catch your breath. Alas ... it just wasn't written that way.
Fifield just happening to show up as the team is about to go the temple with Weyland might have been too little too late and forced.
Him showing up earlier without crossing paths with Shaw and Weyland makes the scene feel more hectic and out of nowhere. Which is more in line with a scene that is dealing with 'side effects' and supporting characters. Plus I like the feeling that all hell is breaking loose inside and outside the ship. Again ... too bad they couldn't continued that feeling.
It's starts off well with him in his weird position outside the ramp and is effectively violent, but you just know from trailer stuff that isn't in the final film that the whole scene was planned to be bigger. Janek calls to 'kill everything!' so we might assume the infection is spreading to the anonymous mercenaries and Shaw possibly crushes Fifield to death with the RV. Those extra scenes might have been dependent on the Weta Fifield though.
As it is it comes across as a good scene but at a stage where the flow of the story is suddenly rushed. It has some suspense, but not enough to be as effective as it could have been. IMHO.
And that it has no purpose whatsoever. A balls-out monster might of lifted the scene a bit.
I've seen her at Walmart.
The problem with the scene is more to do with the fact that it takes place just after the editing of the film goes all minimalist.
Apart from the fact that it's a real actor performing under the makeup, which is rather horrific, rather than CGI Gollum...
Exactly. There is no justification for making him look like road kill.
I'm pretty sure this would've come across as much the same, too.
Way too intense for PG13 (wich was the original rating target but they ended up having an R).
Because this effects were used in the initial cut of the scene, where you can see Weyland and his team leaving to meet the Engineer.
Can't wait to see all the deleted scenes and the fanedits thats will put them all back in.
Janeck say's Fifield's camera is responding outside. We already know it's him.
I like both versions personally.
I believe that's the case, yeah.
But those are two different types of confusion you're talking about there. There's a diffidence between confusing the audience about who a character is (when they should recognize it) and by purposefully leaving some questions open ended.
Surely a few shots of a tattered space suit could have fixed that. Maybe they could have left the damaged, melted helmet on him... All I know is that I would love to see this version.
Especially given how they eventually cut up the set piece in the end.
A triple human/xenomorph/predator cross from some mental AVP comics. The avatar's of the thing that spawns them.
https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimages4.wikia.nocookie.net%2F__cb20100529033617%2Favp%2Fimages%2F5%2F54%2FAliens_vs_Predator_-_Deadliest_of_the_Species_-_hybrid_king.jpg&hash=ae09424e6bd12b03289c811bd94230cd224437e4
That's the Kothoga in your avatar, or Predator?
Alien aggression + good old pot induced paranoia. I will watch the scene again with these things in mind...
I personally really liked both, however. The Deacon especially.
Took awhile for the pot to purge from his system. Plus ... who knows what type of newly forming senses he was experiencing. Perhaps a budding xenomorphic instinct.
Yep. Pretty much a burn victim with some cranial swelling ... and bad teeth.
So the alien DNA made him smarter and got him un-lost. Makes perfect sense...
I thought he resembled a hairy pizza with teeth, myself!
His brain was breaking down. Being 're-made'. But his fragmented memories probably propelled him towards the ship ... the closest thing to 'home' the old Fifield knew.
Even before the contamination, Fifield was unhinged and probably a time bomb. Add the resentment of being 'left to die' by his shipmates and the painful reconfiguring of himself at a molecular level ... I'd say he had an axe to grind with his shipmates ...
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