Behind-The-Scenes Look At The Making Of The Opening Scene For PROMETHEUS

movie was a disappointment lets be honest, but the effects were prob the best i've ever seen, particularly the engineers- looked amazing. loved the way they used actors in suits mixed with forced perspective rather then cgi cartoon characters,lot of hacks in hollywood who need to start takin notes !

The movie needs Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett

Who IS The Albino?

Wait, "earth DNA?" Did he just confirm that the corrupted Engineer DNA falling into the water is how humanity was formed? Finally, a straight answer to one of the movie's questions.

I loved the movie. :/

@Grif: I loved this movie

@jj2112. Were we supposed to get all of that info from that scene? That's what I thought all along, but they made everything in this movie so vague, I really couldn't be sure of what anything was supposed to mean. I did actually enjoy the movie overall, but I hate it when movies substitute muddy plotting for actual mystery.

Yeah, what I get from the scene is that the goo is a DNA catalyst which breaks down DNA into the "building blocks" of life. I assume that, given that water contains no DNA (I am not sure what they mean by "Earth DNA") it creates unicellular organisms which eventually evolve into humans.

@ BlackAmerica, if that's what you want to call it...

Its like they set the movie up in away that would allow them to play the sequel off any one of the many confusing themes in Prometheus but they don't know which theme they wanna focus on... they're were wating on our reaction... then they'll plan Prometheus 2 accordingly based on our response.

@Thamorse answer to question No 1. to create or develop life; answer number 2. Cause humans are like cancer (quoting agent Smith- Matrix) in some point we start to Fvcking things up so they need to clean the house. that's My POV.

@ship i agree with what you're saying there. even i was smart enough to figured this stuff out during and after i saw the film. kudos for being smart dude. and by the way, ridley scott has intended this to be a two parter, so we're going to a second film of this that will definitely answer some questions that a couple of morons would have, lmao...

Ok, here we go. I've never, in my 28 years of life, gotten into an internet fight because it's kind of pathetic, and I'm not about to start now. Just to clear some things up, my all time favorite movie is Pulp Fiction, and I loved Inception, neither of which are straight forward, but they at least resolved major plot points during the movie. I wasn't confused, infused, diffused, or any kind of other "-fused" by Prometheus. I was able to follow the movie and figured out everything that everyone else did. It was just frustrating that the long build up won't pay off until the proposed sequel. Also, the whole "humans are a cancer" point is a) nonsensical, because the Engineers are from millions of light years away, so what happens on Earth isn't of such great importance to them, and b) if that truly is their sole motivation, that's pretty lame, as that angle was already used in a major sci-fi franchise within the past decade.

@ Ship, that really wasn't an attack towards you. I also figured that was the motivation when I saw the movie, and immediately thought it was lame while simultaneously hoping that a better motivation would be revealed. My comment was mainly directed to the guys who ironically gloated about how smart they were for understanding a big budget Hollywood movie while also displaying a command of punctuation and capitalization that is tenuous at best.

people asking and needing to know why he did it is just kind of confounding to me. why is that important? You talk about the film as if it's called Prometheus: The Answers, but if you fallow the film it clearly examines humanity's curiosity. It asks question for the sake of asking questions and David even brings up that sometimes the answers are not what you wanted. not as special as you want them to be. He himself understands that as a creation purely out of curiosity and perhaps humanities' creation and destruction is just more curiosity. Saying that yes we have a creator, but in a malicious and nihilistic way. We aren't special and we don't matter.

As for actual answers my theory is that since the Engineers are a people and an organization in some form they must have factions. I believe that the ones who created us are not the ones who wish to destroy us. Disagreeing factions of cousre. Perhaps they think creating life was an abomination and not their right or again perhaps it doesn't mean anything and our destruction is just another experiment.

Finally lets not forget the namesake of the movie. Prometheus the greek god who gave man fire or as the film put it, leveled the playing field. I think those engineers that came down to us tried to warn us. Remember that Prometheus was punished for helping man. I assume the Engineers that created us were also punished. At the end of the day though we discover their plan what they warned us about and we find out their effort to destroy us destroyed them. Man's curiosity and search for answers is leading us to our makers and perhaps they want to speak to us. Just our shit luck we find the ones who want to kill us.

I think the film does take some thought and patience, but at the same time it is not as tightly scripted as it could have been. It is not a complete package, but to call it shit because you want to know some meaningless fanboy question or want to see more xenomorphs is just missing the point. It is far from a master piece and yet i still feel like it's a fantastic film. It interested me on many levels and perhaps not every character was interesting or entertaining, but enough were to keep me going. At the very least with all the criticisms I expected the film to slow down or get bored, but I didn't. The film had excelling pacing and for what people call a "sloppy" plot and in several ways it is toward the end it still keeps going with my full attention. Thematically again it isn't as tightly woven as it should have been, but every idea it threw out there was fair game. It was a valid question whether its general philosophy or religion. It had a lot of ideas and a lot of questions and I could talk about so many things about the movie that I am baffled to hear people call it a stupid film. Something that makes me think so much and excites me of the possibilities and embraces science fiction in a way that is almost wondrous as it is dark and morbid. I loved the film flaws and all.

The sequel has potential to not only be the better film but make Prometheus a better film. I don't need answers to how something works or dealing too much in fixing the problems with Prometheus, but I do want some resolution to certain themes as well as motivations of the engineers. Those are important answers and even a clever non answer is fine with me. As long as they don't bend to the bitching fan boys and hap hazardly connect it to the truly tired Alien franchise and some how include more xenomorphs would just be a let down. This is set up as a new direction and I want it to go further from the Alien franchise personally. I can see this becoming bigger and and i love the scope and I want to see more not for answers because I think that shits on what will surely be an interesting journey.

I just thought it was a fun film, I enjoyed it!

The fact that it didn't answer the questions it asked didn't particularly bother me. Why did they create us? It doesn't effect the story that occurs on LV-223, so it doesn't matter. What matters is that they DID create us, and the characters make that important discovery. Why they created us is left for the audience to interpret. Why did they want to destroy us? Again it doesn't affect the events on LV-223 so it doesn't matter. That can be left for the sequel if they chose to do so...

The movie had other issues, the biggest 3 being:

1) The black goo was a weak and inconsistent plot device.

2) The alien abortion scene was horribly unrealistic and Shaw then proceeded to continue her action scenes, practically as if nothing had happened.

3) It needed fewer useless characters (and scenes), and more intriguing discussion/dialogue between the characters we care about.


Yes, I had some smaller quibbles about the motivations of the characters, contradictions with other movies in the series, etc. But those didn't really effect my overall thoughts on the movie. The big 3 problems however made this movie a 7/10 for me. Maybe even a 6. It could have been much better if the plot was stripped to its bones and the important ideas/scenes were expanded upon.