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That's follows....

This is slightly off topic, but when I went to see The Village, halfway through I turned to the girl I was seeing it with and said, "I bet there are people driving BMW's using mobile phones outside of this village......" Sure enough, there were......... I do that a lot with movies. Maybe I should be a Hollywood "writer" :-P

Maybe......I did the same thing with both 'The Illusionist' and 'The Prestige'...figured both out at least 40 minutes before the climax...pissed me off it did...especially with 'The Prestige'.....I'm sittin' in my living room, it just clicked in my head and I was like...damn it...had to turn it off for a bit I was so mad...........I want a good movie to fool me. I hate when I figure it out early.

I was going to ask if this thread had anything to do with fire being a weakness of the creatures in this movie, just like in the Alien franchise. Looks like everybody beat me to it. I do wonder now if Space Jockeys are as flammable as the familiar xenomorphs.... ....oh snap now I'm thinking about how "fire" is symbolic due to this movie's name and the mythos behind Prometheus himself.....but I'm too tired to dabble into it, and I think you guys don't need to hear it when it comes to flamethrowers. Seriously; a flamethrower is what it is, plain and simple, no philosophical hullabaloo necessary. o_O

Nice thought CrazyDave. Snap indeed! That actually hadn't made any connection in my mind. Sometimes you can't see the forest from the trees as they say. Nice one indeed :-)

First I wanna comment an the question of why the crew are using flamethrowers instead of guns. When in space the last thing you would want is a gun, for the obvious reason that you could shoot a hole in the hull and thus vent atmosphere. Flamethrowers would therefore make more sense. Also flamethrowers seem to be a staple of the Alien franchise and could be another tentative link to that franchise. Yes, there is a scene were we see characters holding small firearms, but these are probably used as a last resort for the reason I have stated. Now onto this image... [img]http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzyh62jklS1qchn68o8_1280.png[/img] I have heard a lot of people referring to this image as being of the mohawk mutant escaping the flamethrower. I don't think it is, I think the person in this image is Noomi Rapace aka Elizabeth Shaw. The figure is definitively feminine and this individual seems to have dark ragged hair obscuring their face.

Mmmmmmmm.... I can definitely see what you're saying Snork, but it could also be argued that it is the chestplate on the suit that is making what looks like the outline of a breast, and I don't think Shaw's hair is.... I think it looks a little curled at the top maybe? And I don't think in any image we've seen of Shaw so far that her hair looks that short. I'm definitely seeing the mohawk. But I do concede that the form looks somewhat feminine. Photoshop job of Mohawk Man's hair and Shaw's bod to throw us all off? No that's taking it too far even for me :-P

Maybe he's not a 'infected human' at all.... Maybe he's a company robot that is all messed up looking from having a flamethrower used on him?

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@craigamore: I am not attacking 20thcenturybuick personally, I am attacking his ideas. Ideas are not people and they should be challenged when they are presented in a public forum like this.

@GreatBoosUp, I think people have a problem with the accusatory tone you took when you replied to 20thcenturybuick, and the fact that the idea you were "attacking" as being speculation is real and present in the trailers. All 20thcenturybuick did was "litter" the forum with a quality thread that got people talking.

funny, that in the original Alien script by Walter Hill and David Giler, fire has no effect on the alien : [i]The Alien drops Lambert. Parker lands a blow with the flamethrower. No effect. The Alien strikes him once. Killing him instantly. He now moves to Lambert.[/i]

@ Kane77 - The original Alien script was written by Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shussett. Hill, Gordon and Carroll are evil and deserve to be burned alive IMO

@Kane77..."struck" int hat context refers to Parker using the flamethrower as a club, because he can't use it properly knowing Lambert is in the way.

http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/alien_shooting.html ´´ "ALIEN" by Walter Hill and David Giler Based on screenplay by Dan O'Bannon Story by Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett REVISED FINAL JUNE, 1978 ´´

I bought the new issue of EMPIRE magazine; awesome holographic cover and great coverage of Prometheus. The cast give their perspective on the movie and Sir Ridley Scott answers all the questions you could ever ask! Definitely worth the cash: http://www.empireonline.com/magazine/