Quote from: ikarop on Sep 18, 2012, 06:13:51 AM
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He asks Weyland why he wants to live forever. Before that he asks David why they are there.
Which disproves the 'they invited us' theory speculated by some of the characters.
Quote from: Snowdog on Sep 18, 2012, 02:51:31 PM
He didn't speak english but maybe he understood it well enough to be pissed about some lower being, being able to create "life". Just like the predator does minus the mimicing.
I'm not seeing how.
Like others have said, he/she/it has no way to understand English and there are no indicators in that scene for it to comprehend that David's artificial, let alone that Weyland's personally responsible for creating him.
And even if there were, it
still doesn't make sense. Weyland's pointing out they're both representative of creators, which is meant to be true in this context. Why the hell would the Engineer take exception to us being able to create robots?
Quote from: ikarop on Sep 18, 2012, 03:12:56 PM
Just listened to more of the audio commentary and Ridley Scott mentions that the Engineer was "maybe insulted that a non-human was talking to him" and hence why he decapitates David.
1: "Maybe" strongly indicates this is one of those things he just added in there for the sake of mystery, without having a clear idea, himself. Shame.
2: That explanation makes no sense... The Engineers expect us to personally have learned their language? If we're considered as inferior, wouldn't the Engineer be insulted at humans, themselves, speaking to them, too?
This is confirming to me just how hand-wavey and nonsensical this scene ultimately was, sadly.