Ridley Scott Interview - Comments that raise significant questions? Xenomorph is
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allinamberclad
MemberOvomorphApr-25-2012 11:28 PM"My theory is that, that..."Croissant", I've called it a, "Croissant", the Ship//and...I thought it was a Battleship. It was a [i]Carrier[/i] - I always thought it was a [i]Carrier.[/i] What is it? Why?...
People say, 'Is it a building?' I said, No. It's a vehicle..that [i]doesn't[/i] look like it crashed - it looked like it may have forced landing, but it [i]landed[/i]. And, um...[i]why[/i] did it land and [i]why[/i] was the Pilot, damaged?
Because [i]that[/i]...his [i]cargo[/i]...had - [i]something[/i] had got loose..in the cargo: had [i]evolved[/i] and had actually taken him, out.
And so, what could that be?..
And therefore - like, all that technology, in any technology, whether it's Millions of years past, or Millions of years in the future, they'll always have a Distress Signal.
[b]So, had he set up a Distress Signal, that, we - in our 20th Century/21st Century electronics - had caught up [with] technology which was a [i]Million[/i] years old,[/b] and said, "Gee, what's that, uh...thing? We should land...". OK?...
And; that was the genesis of Alien 1...“.
- Ridley Scott, [to Geoff Boucher], April 2012.
My questions are these:
If Ridley Scott's statement, [b]emboldened[/b], is the fact, would that statement not undermine every presently held conclusion, assumption and discussion regarding the origins of the xenomorph, for example?
Would it not, also, force a fundamental questioning of most current speculation about the order of events, the role of Humanity in those events and the likely sequence of events and history in the wider Story?
Would it not, with the economy of a single sentence, reset almost the entire discussion surrounding Prometheus and this Universe, practically back to zero - and also, effectively, slam the door closed on any direct link with what we saw in Alien, it's likely appearance in Prometheus, what we imagine is the role of the Space Jockey - and most of everything else, that, up until now, we may have thought we knew?
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allinamberclad
MemberOvomorphApr-26-2012 1:25 PM@Biehn_Bandit
He's a very interesting guy - and he's a spinner: the "confound expectations" stuff you're saying? He's all about it.
I agree once more with something you said previously: Scott is many things - and he is [i]not[/i] many things - but he [i]does[/i] know something about a good Story: and he has never been a fool. Ever.
He knows if gets a decent Screenplay he is one of a select group of people who can really maximally visualize the ring-piece out of it.
Spaihts is practically a nobody, right now: figure how and why a nobody has buzz? Figure how and why a nobody is even in the same Studio buildings as Ridley Scott, let alone in the man's office for months, working through draft, after draft, after draft - Ridley Scott has the time, or the need?
Spaihts has something.
Check him out.
Necrofan
MemberOvomorphApr-26-2012 2:15 PMI still propose, like some others here, that we are introduced to a process done by these engineers over millions and millions of years. Lots of derelicts all over the universe doing different things, bombing planets' atmosphere using directed pan-spermia, in a war over whether or not to seed the Universe with their own superior technology.
We never see the Derelict in Alien, but we understand how one could come to crash-land on LV -426.

allinamberclad
MemberOvomorphApr-26-2012 2:26 PM@Necrofan
For me, very much another, "purpose" - but, in general Method and Practice?
I totally agree.

abordoli
MemberOvomorphApr-26-2012 3:27 PMI must apologize for some of my comments on the first page. I too was tired, my PC went bluescreen, and I was typing on my Nook not allowing my thoughts to come across easily. I was also a bit frustrated with things that are obvious, made obvious in the Alien movie, being debated (although the exercise can be fun as long as we're not going too hog-wild with stretches that totally ignore what was presented to us).
The only thing I meant to add to the discussion was that, IMO, the derelict (and egg cargo, thus the xeno) are millions of years old whatever (technology). I will be dissapointed if, in Prometheus, we see anything laid down trying to make us think that the xeno is some brand-new toy of theirs (the SJs). That would ruin Alien for me where the derelict has obviously been there for a very, very long time (containing some very, very old (yet still viable) bio-weapons).
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