20th Century Fox has released a few seconds of a new deleted scene from Prometheus in order to promote the digital release of the film on iTunes. In this brief video we can see the Engineer reply to David 8. Make sure to click below to watch it.
Update: Fox has released another excerpt from this scene via IGN here.
If you're talking about the Sacrifice Engineer, that was Daniel Twiss at the beginning....if not just ignore me!!
It was Rick Grimes playing the engineer. His penis is so huge that it would've meant zooming out to get the whole thing in, or a whole shit ton of prosthetics to reign the puppy in.
As is, a loincloth with a tie-back is the cheapest option. That or sling it over the shoulder, but Rick only does that on weekends, and they shot that scene on a Monday.
You aren't seriously suggesting that they wrapped a towel around the actor's waist in order to hide his rude bits from the camera? Of course you aren't, that would be stupid.
The DNA of the magic goo precedes ours, not the DNA of the Engineers, but whatever.
The Engineer at the beginning of the film wears a loin cloth, which means that he has junk that he wants to cover for modesty. You don't get any less alien than that; he's on an alien world about to sacrifice himself and he still wears a nappy to protect his privacy.
And furthermore, if he is a he and he is cultured then there are cultured shes which means that their society is based around pretty similar core values to our own. Perceived 'morality' is merely a function of making that setup work.
So my equation is thus: Alien Loin Cloth = Human-like Morality.
Think about it.
Hey, I've seen those before.
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But "They are us"?
It was hand-wavey from the point of story-telling, IMO. So were Lucas' ewoks and they had a language especially thought up for them, too.
The Engineer was only told of some of that, via David 8, though.
And even if he/she/it could have understood the entirety of what Weyland says, the reaction is completely over the top and nonsensical. Could've just gone, "No." Instead, it turns into the Hulk - which makes any inference of moral superiority a mockery. By contrast, Weyland's being sensible, not smug.
As others have said, the Engineer tries killing everyone, but regardless of that, I really can't agree.
What's so special about synthetics which made them some form of cultural red line? This is what I don't understand and the 'Alien' films, themselves, make it clear that they don't really lead to anywhere special. The entire industry apparently just falls apart, economically. Anyone trying to apply Skynet-like philosophies to this film is contradicted by the continuity.
Lest we forget.
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I'd also better chip in on this topic somewhat constructively before I disappear to giff hell. Personally I don't think the Engineer speaking is really needed, though I really do enjoy Weyland's piece of dialogue towards him. I'm pretty sure there's a middle ground that can be reached if anybody a) feels the same way and b) is making a fan edit.
If he opens his mouth again, shoot him.
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OMG! Aliens vs Androids!
I think the Engineer thought: "You created this fragile android and you thought were a God? *Rips David's head off* I created the freaking xeno! *Smacks*"
That was entirely facetious and not an incitement for argument. I apologise (for your sake, not god's).
Nope, David isn't in the same place. When Shaw runs he is on the platform near the chair. When Shaw returns after the ship crashes, David's head and body are between the platform and the wall. And weyland body is missing
If this is in reference to ford, even if he didnt kill her she is probably pretty f**ked up.
Every try to walk off a massive concussion? Yeah....that works super well. Or broken ribs if you have never encountered that sort of pain before [most people haven't]. It is more realistic that if she isnt dead she just lays there delirious and dies from the impact of prometheus hitting the ship and it rolling and crashing.
You mean the bigger story planned to be told in 2 or 3 movies? If so... yes probably. Broad brush stroke ideas with nothing more. I think they probably had a clear vision of a tight 1st act movie which introduces the concept of the engineers (Prometheus) with some tonality of Alien, and a sketchy 2nd/3rd movie which is more to do with engineer home word and technological warfare (lots of fighting and stuff a la Aliens/Avatar).
I think at the end of the day Ridley Scott pussied out to Tom Rothman.
He cut all the good character stuff out of his movie and thought that he was going to make a ton of money and be hip with the kids like his buddy James Cameron.
We actually don't know if she died or not, but she got knocked off for sure.
If she is not dead from a broken thorax then she died in the spaceship crash, because she was unconscious and there is no way she had time to get out.
-Well, on the other hand, notice that David was in the same room and after the crash he seems to be in the same place near his body, like nothing has moved during the crash...
Well all the inconsistencies in the movie makes me feel that way, like there is not a big plan they are following.
I'm almost certain that R.Scott doesn't even know how the story will end.
I might be wrong, but it feels that way.
I didn't say compasion, although pity is close, you are correct. Poor wording on my part; I mean't the engineer saw David as something which shouldn't exist, like a greek god seeing a man weilding fire, something ''wrong'' which had to be erased. I see some significance in the fact he only kills David ... do you?
you forget the fact that the engineers visited earh many times and are shown in various cultures around people. surely they teached the people their language. also the language they are using in the film was indo-european or something like that, a real reconstructed language. there is nothing ''hand-wavey'' about that.
my belief is that the engineer get's insulted because he comes from a culture that welcomes death, doesn't run from it, in a way similar to tibetan monks-they love live, but don't try to live forever,they welcome their death. weyland was just a smug human, who thinks he has the right for longer life just because he created something, and even called himself a god. and because of his arrogance and his demand he gets punished for it.
is the full engineer scene available somewhere, the full 4 min?
Vickers & Janek scene seems to me the only necessary scene for now.There are some elements that could be involved in the final cut.
Firstly, the Engineers must have been making stuff without sacrifice, before they got to the level they're at. Secondly, how does it know Weyland didn't make sacrifices to create David?
Wouldn't that be contradictory? If you feel compassion for something, why would you then act violently aggressive toward it?
The big ''why did the engineer go apeshit'' question ... well, I think he just pitied David and Weyland, he doesn't have anger in his stare until he decides to erase this abomination. He only ''kills' David.
Anyway, looking forward to the
BRRipbluerayReally, it's sad but I really think he/they don't have a clue where the story is going.
R.Scott doesn't have a plan in mind, they just put the story together as they go.