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Ripley Clone 8
MemberOvomorphJanuary 14, 2012[img]http://latimesherocomplex.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/prometheus1.jpg[/img]
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NOTE THIS IS NOT A FAKE
Link to Article: http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2012/01/14/prometheus-damon-lindelof-ridley-scott-photos-alien-prequel/
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January 15, 2012
Dallas also had no idea what the hell he was looking at. He was speculating, like we are.
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January 15, 2012
The Three figures in gold look like what has happened to me and now that I am about to turn 50 ! You should Look forward to it guys !!! LMFAO.
January 15, 2012
[quote][b]suits or statues? hmmm
if they are suits how do you put them on...
why would a space jockey ship have space jockey statues..[/b].[/quote]
Unless, as speculated, it's a temple and not a ship, then statues makes sense.Why would a ship have a giant head?
January 15, 2012
The doorway in that picture is identical to the doorway leading into the jockey's chamber/star map room. It's most likely on the ship even if the "statues" don't make sense yet.
January 15, 2012
The picture looks authentic for a few reasons. If you super-lighten the pic, the graininess is consistent throughout the image. Look at the background and the dark parts of Noomi's suit and it blends nicely. If the question is: why does she stand out more starkly, it's just (IMHO) that she's lit from the front very well and reflects much more light than the black background which absorbs light.
The thing that still bugs me is the SJ suit size disparity. Are these creatures as large as the original SJ fossil seen in Alien (which was a [size=200]giant[/size] compared to Dallas, Kane and Lambert)? The two suits (if they are suits) seem to be not much bigger than a human being. Any ideas?[img][IMG]http://i733.photobucket.com/albums/ww333/TM-Maker/prometheus1Super-lightened.jpg[/IMG][/img]
January 15, 2012
The reason Noomi looks "pasted-on" could be due to 3D photography. They actually have to light up the set with more flood lights than they normally would because they have to brighten the movies to compensate for 3D glasses. I read somewhere they have to digitally darken the shadows in post to maintain good contrast. This is definitely not a typical Ridley's style of "available light" photography.
January 15, 2012
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January 15, 2012
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Posted 01/15/2012
@Spartacus: Coffee?
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Yea, after Parker takes a sip of his coffee in Alien, he farts.
This is true I am not making it up. Took me a long time of watching that same scene in Alien over and over again to Understand what Parker does right there and to realize the Ridley Scott left it in the fllm for everyone, the world, to discover.
so..."Coffee"...absolutely yes...see explanation above, I am still waiting for an acknowledgement from Neurion for a week that I am right and it is in fact there.
Either way, I have confirmed this for myself about 1,000 times now !!!
Just FYI.
January 15, 2012
Noise can be easily added to the layer as I did in my quickly doctored one that shows the expected scale.
I think the possibilities are
1. Shaw is standing on something tall very close in the foreground but that seems unlikely because she should still be small compared to the archway.
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2. The Spacejockeys are closer to human sized but that doesn't quite make sense because the large hall is probably the same size as the caves we see in the trailer and the humans are pretty small in comparison to those.
3. The filmmakers were doing some camera tricks with miniature sets and they allowed her to stand in front of one for the publicity shot.
4. The two shots were combined together to make for a more interesting picture.
January 15, 2012
Can you really tell if it fake? I know Scott said that they would have to go back and alter the captured video and darken it due to the filming in 3D.
January 16, 2012
Well, one thing seems pretty conclusive to me, especially after seeing that super-lightened picture - the thing in the chair from Alien is the same as those things in the corridor. They are suits, as Scott has mentioned somewhere previously. And what is in the suit is likely that big blue Smurf/Navi thing from the jockey chair clip in the Prometheus trailer.
Any other aliens/xenos in this film will take on a different appearance to anything we have seen before. There has been talk of 'skeletal monstrosities' so maybe we'll see some sort of proto Alien/Xenomorph created by God (excuse the pun) knows what process. Probably us Humans sticking our noses in where they shouldn't in all likely hood. Now, sit back and enjoy the ride ......... :D
January 16, 2012
I agree that this must be a publicity photo, and not a scene from the movie. It's been said when filming scenes with the jockeys they'll be using the same technique done in the Lord of the Rings, to make the actors playing the jockeys in those suits look much taller than the humans. As someone said, it looks like the 2 suits could be waiting to use the restroom.