Quote from: ThisBethesdaSea on May 25, 2012, 11:06:57 AM
OpenMaw.......Ridley just said it himself, it's a movie, not a science class. If the science is going to ruin the film for you,you're going to see it for all the wrong reasons.
Let me repeat back. I know it's not science class. I'm asking simply for basic scientific things to at least get some lip service. That's it. Especially if the movie is going to pretend it's smart.
Ya know, like that classic movie everyone loves about making
dinosaurs? How it addressed the
science behind it all in great, entertaining, detail, and played it out as a central theme of the movie? All the while asking big ass questions about playing God, nature, etc?
What I want, but I probably won't get. But, something like this:
INT. PROMETHEUS - BRIEFING
The holographic images of the glyphs flicker by, Holloway concludes his briefing. Milburn raises a hand.
MILBURN
Waitaminute, you two are full of shit! We have records going back thousands of years that show exactly where we came from. This "discovery" of yours sounds like a load of Von Daniken bollocks. This brings evolution, and just about every other fundamental scientific theory on biological and our own history into question. How do you reconcile that with what you're saying? Where's your proof beyond some vague cave paintings?
Holloway and Shaw exchange a look. There's more to their story. He pushes more buttons on his holocube. A strand of human DNA appears, rotating in the light beautifully. A small smile forms on David's face.
HOLLOWAY
"Using the new blah blah Weyland tech, blah blah, we discovered a series of things that indicate our evolutionary path may have been coordinated and calculated over the course of millions of years. We're talking macro science and engineering on a scale previously unimaginable. They left a signature in our genetic code. Something that up until a few years ago was undetectable. They planned everything, very carefully.
The group exchange breathless looks. The two young adventurours have rattled some of their most firmly held views about our origins.
"Oh God, it's science classs... Augh. Terrible." Please...
How silly of me to expect
science in a
science fiction film.
You cannot be high brow and intellectual and "f*ck it, it's a movie" at the same time. That's skitzo. Either you're going to research the background of what you're delving into, and be faithful to that, or you're just pulling shit out of your ass and there is no point in "asking questions." Because there never were any legitimate answers. The movie sets out with a farce agenda in that regard.
Quote from: Valaquen on May 25, 2012, 11:13:27 AM
Funnily enough, that's exactly why Ridley said he used it. And Star Wars... very dramatic and interesting. But yes, a movie, not a class, here. And Ridley has invoked myth just as numerously, if not more so, than he has 2001.
Ridley has evoked a lot of stuff, and frankly, he's gone to both ends of the bell curve. Brilliance, and silliness.
I'm not really sure of your point in saying "that's why he did it." I can think of a dozen examples of space based situations where no sound in space has produced one hell of a dramatic moment. That one is more down to choice, and i've never felt there was a right choice in that regard. Either way works from a
dramatic stand point. It's merely how you do it, and frankly it's rather irrelevant to Prometheus since they spend most of their time inside a planetary atmosphere anyway.
Also, that one doesn't bother me because everybody pretty much knows that there's no sound in space these days. It's one of those tropes that is simply understood and accepted. Evolutionary theory, Darwinism, the fossil record. Those kind of things are not necessarily nearly as well understood by the general audience, and it would be nice if this movie was used as an opportunity to at least throw the facts as they are currently understood in there, to contrast with what the movie is trying to say, so far, i'm not seeing that even the slightest.