What is the film Prometheus (2012) trying to say?

[Revolution Idol]

The film shows us that life on Earth was seeded by a race of "white gods" (aliens), who speak a reconstructed Proto-Indo-European language (formerly known as the Aryan language family).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDOj9XEezDQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN76-Thxiao

What exactly is Ridley Scott trying to say here?

[Adversary]

I just know that Blade Runner takes place in the same universe as Alien and that Indo-Aryan means Iranian or Pakistani.

[captainwiseass]

"People who liked Alien, please come see this movie."

[Revolution Idol]

Originally posted by Adversary:

I just know that Blade Runner takes place in the same universe as Alien and that Indo-Aryan means Iranian or Pakistani.

So it stands to reason that the replicants are full of marbles and noodles and ground beef and milk/cornstarch mixture.

[Kamiyé]

I’m a little more concerned with Giger’s living, breathing manifestations of sexual assault than that…

[Revolution Idol]

It should also be said that the way they find the white god's alien homeworld, a starmap carved into ancient ruins, is clearly a reference to artefacts like the Nebra Sky Disc, which depict the Pleiades (which is impossible to see fully with the naked eye btw).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebra_sky_disc

[Adversary]

Originally posted by Frey 💞:

Originally posted by Adversary:

I just know that Blade Runner takes place in the same universe as Alien and that Indo-Aryan means Iranian or Pakistani.

So it stands to reason that the replicants are full of marbles and noodles and ground beef and milk/cornstarch mixture.

It also stands to reason that multiple cultures and creeds thought of windmills as solar symbols, yet because of one man with a funny mustache laypeople think otherwise. Just saying,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu3nu6ue2qU
:DDDD

[Irene ❤]

I think it is "God made us, but don't try to cross that line, try to get knowledge of being God or question / surpass God.

[Affronter]

Originally posted by Frey 💞:

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What exactly is Ridley Scott trying to say here?

I've gone ahead and forwarded your query to the man himself. I'll post his answer once received.

[Faster With Feeling]

Ridley Scott was a gutless director. He did have an idea in mind for what he wanted to say in the film but chickened out at the last moment due to not wanting to offend people. If you have watched all the videos about the movie online you will know a lot of stuff was cut out of the film, especially the fact the Engineers were the race that gave us Jesus and taught him all they knew and sent him back to Earth, Back on Earth he was crucified. That whole part of the story was cut out.

[Irene ❤]

Originally posted by Cyanide Muffin67:

chickened out at the last moment

Haha so the whole movie message is "Ridley Scott is a chicken"

[Adversary]

Originally posted by Cyanide Muffin67:

Ridley Scott was a gutless director. He did have an idea in mind for what he wanted to say in the film but chickened out at the last moment due to not wanting to offend people. If you have watched all the videos about the movie online you will know a lot of stuff was cut out of the film, especially the fact the Engineers were the race that gave us Jesus and taught him all they knew and sent him back to Earth, Back on Earth he was crucified. That whole part of the story was cut out.

Considering who runs Hollywood, I wonder why he might've been pressured to cut that part out.

[Adversary]

Originally posted by Irene ❤:

Originally posted by Cyanide Muffin67:

chickened out at the last moment

Haha so the whole movie message is "Ridley Scott is a chicken" :erune:

Not everyone wants to wind up like Stanley Kubrick.

[Revolution Idol]

Originally posted by Irene ❤:

I think it is "God made us, but don't try to cross that line, try to get knowledge of being God or question / surpass God.

I think you're probably right. Weyland's arrogance and hubris, his desire to live forever. Shaw's eagerness and desire for answers. The android David's desire to usurp his own creators. It all kind of plays into that theme doesn't it?

Originally posted by Affronter:

Originally posted by Frey 💞:

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What exactly is Ridley Scott trying to say here?

I've gone ahead and forwarded your query to the man himself. I'll post his answer once received.

I know you're joking but I would honestly love for Ridley Scott to respond to this thread.

[L1qu1dator]

That we're a failed experiment.

[Revolution Idol]

Originally posted by L1qu1dator:

That we're a failed experiment.

Given the parallels to real life, like with the Nebra Sky Disc that I pointed out, do you think there's possibly a race of white gods hanging out in the Pleiades looking down on us with disgust right now as we speak?