THE PROMETHEUS CREW SURNAMES

we dont know the geopolitical alliances in that far future :) an alliance between USA and EUROPE ( maybe with russia ) can control the world economy for centuries ...but i prefer to think that everyone will live happy ,fishing and not caring about "economical power" ..everyone fishing and the Weyland getting fun making space expeditions :p

I think you should look at the names as complementary device to aid storytelling not a geopolitical commentary. David is obviously Biblical. And with all the Egyptian references in this movie, this is not too out of place. It also helps that David is an incredibly common name. What is Ridley saying we are all "Davids?" Elizabeth is derived from Eliza, sounds Hebrew to you, yes? Elizabeth means "Oath of God" Google "elizabeth etymology" Meredith is Celtic for "Guardian of Sea" or "Great Chief" That's why she is presumably the Chief Operating Officer on Prometheus. The "guardian" meaning is interesting too. Guardian of what? The Alien artifact? The knowledge? Holloway is most likely derived from the word "hollow." This character has been rumored to death as being taken over by alien virus, leaving him nothing but an empty shell of biological construct: Hollow Man. Janek is a Polish name, meaning "God is gracious." Derivative of John with the same meaning. Ravel is also a character in the movie. So you may expect this character either get physically tangled, "raveled" (with all the alien organisms expected to wreak havoc), or mentally tangled (ie. confused or gone mad, typical in the hard scifi genre).

@Engr101 › Hi, your answer was awesome!. Currently I am maintaining a blog with all this themes. Do you mind if I go deep on the post you made and I will give you credit? The blog is http://alienfactsandfiction.blogspot.com/ @Frantz › Hi, Probably this calm you mentioned came from the fact the future is envised with just only power being or not corporate OMHO as a projection of the current United Nations. In fact in Alien 4 it was called Unted System Military.

@Alejandro, no problem

@Engr101 Hi, would you like me to post your entire name, some personal web site you have or barely your nickname on this forum when I will post you as reference of the next "Article".?