BRIGHTER/CLEARER IMAGE OF THE SPACE JOCKEYS AND NOOMI RAPACE

it's not a statue. why the hell would they need statues of their space suits on a space ship? use your head.

^exactly

@ walterhiller So do enlighten us....what do u think those are?.......your mother and sister?

Testing [url=https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4tSEja8RwlyYThlNjYwM2MtOGYxZi00ZjViLWEyMGItZmRiM2Y2MTU0MGNi]Noomi Tunnel Picture Brightened[/url] I think this link will work for everyone. My attempt to pull the SJ from the shadows as suggested by GRRRRRRR!!.

I'll say it again. STATUES...why? Because Rapace isn't even interested in them. She's a scientist, a suit built by an alien civilization would reveal untold information about them. She'd open it up look inside examine the material they were fabricated from, also the size and everyone is flickering back and forth, "Oh maybe there are small and large space jockey's." Rubbish. Stop thinking that an alien civilization that is able to create life from nothingness is going to THINK like you. What's important to you may not be important to them. Do you really think that something that looks like a human is going to don a suit that's so heavy, and cumbersome. and totally obscures their vision? What if the entire SJ is a fetishistic image. Like the fertility figures of ancient cultures. It represents something to the engineers race, has some sort of value to them. Frankly it doesn't really matter, in a few months everyone here will know exactly what they are.

Ridley Scott has said that they are suits, and I'm betting, when not worn, the suits stand on those pedestals just outside the chair/map room, as they seem to be needed to sit in that chair and would logically need to be close to it. The following is an excerpt from an interview Scott did for Filmophobia. Now the article was originally available at: http://filmophilia.com/2011/12/17/interview-ridley-scott-talks-prometheus-giger-beginning-of-man-and-original-alien/ Apparently, something about the interview violated the terms of an agreement the journalist made with 2oth Century Fox and they made him pull it down. Thankfully, he posted this link, where someone had copied most of the article and posted it before it was removed from Filmophobia: http://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/index.php?topic=41273.0 Here's the excerpt that clearly has Ridley state that the SpaceJockey we all know and love is actually a suit for something else: "I think one of the reasons why I’ve never gone back to science-fiction, even though I’ve often noodled around, thought about it, looked for story, looked for material, is that there’s a nice purity to the original Alien. It’s fairly pure. And this one does actually raise all kinds of other questions, because if someone could, a being, could be as monstrously clever to create something like we experienced in the very first one – I always figured it’s a weapon, and I always figured that [the ship in the first Alien] was a carrier of weapons. Therefore, who is that, inside that suit? That wasn’t a skeleton, that was a suit. And if you open up the suit, what do you get inside it? And why were they going, where were they going?" Incidentally, you should check the rest of the article out...lots of very interesting details. In fact, I think I'll open a new topic and post the whole article for all to enjoy.

This image still looks fake to me but who knows. If it is real it was probably never meant to be cleared up to the point that illustrates a VERY lazy suit design on a blank platform. epwhere is the organic "grown" feel. It would be more bio mechanical to have the suits almost look integrated into the wall,"grown" into the wall. I guess I'm just nit picking. But again in the film perhaps the darkness and haze of the scene doesn't seem as "lazy".

they are space suits dumbass..its one shot who knows if shes interested in them..who knows whats going on in that scene..

20thcenturybuick.....no need for the name calling. We have a pretty emotionally charged up group of fans here and up until recently we have bickered and debated but without the name calling.(IE Mature debating) I suggest you keep that kind of silliness out of your discussions, thank you.

I agree with Tattooedkoi: why make statues of your uniform? And we know it's their uniform because Sir Ridley has already said it. I hate this picture for the reason Juxtapose has already stated. I don't even think this scene is even in the film, I believe it's merely a publicity shot if anything. I don't think we will see those suits up there like that in the film. I think those are just props that get used on that set, and once they've been used around the set, where are they going to put them? Well let's just store them upright in that corridor section, out of the way. Anyway that's just me trying to salvage what I can from this picture.

Got to be honest, dont like "the suits" never liked the "suit" conept anyway, I wanted the SJ in Alien to be a fossilised skeleton - i.e in Prometheus we would see them bad boys with FLESH!! The worst part of "the suit" is the feet. Completely non alien. Fan boy artwork creates way more alien designs. This image of the SJ has got me very nervous - lets be honest - The feet suck ass!

one thing I cant understand in this thread is that nobody has notice Shaw's suit is different in both pics!!! Orange piping in the other one. Subtle differences to the suits in the original shot of the three explorers in ampule chamber. So that's 3 different suits so far for the science team.

Hey guys you should look at this picture and listen to the instrumental by NIN called " at the heart of it all". It totally captures a dark climactic mood.