Quote from: Omegazilla on May 07, 2013, 09:15:39 PM
The curious thing is that the Deacon seems to have the same kind of holes in its internal jaw too.
Yes indeed, and I might ask if this was carried over from what they came up with for the trilobytes tongue/ovipositer and so I might say this came from the same image in The Wall but less directly. It certainly hasn't been explained or even talked about at all , we know where the idea for the jaw came from because Huantes talked about the Goblin shark but he mentioned nothing about the eyes on this inner jaw like thing.
Going back to influences behind Ridley's creativity, I think
I think though that the background of the thoughts Ridley has found himself talking about in relation to developing Alien have almost come off as obvious, such as back during the time of his chats about an Alien sequel on the Alien laserdisc, he sounded as if he were someone who had been watching Quatermass and the Pit and reading too much Erich Von Daniken and there was no one back then to ask him to be more specific about this, and well it later turned out that he was talking in terms of those as inspiration.
Alien the movie had Giger's Necronomicon as a source that inspired Giger, and there were the roots in Ancient Egyptian mythology to dig for because of his work.
I don't really think that the illustrators in Prometheus had the opportunity to be anything more than cogs in the wheel and I suppose they're not really asked to come up with strange personal ideas, they just seem to boast about finding everything in nature and they certainly didn't have people such as Switzerland's grand mythologist Sergius Golowin feeding them strange esoteric things either. So I think that iconic ghosts of 70s hallucinatory pop culture were the pervading dark spirit, and one can be quite specific about what led to what.
