"Try Harder" - Explained

That line from Prometheus where Vickers confronts David and asks "What did He say?" and David replies "He says.. Try Harder" This is the result of a scene which was never shot in Prometheus, where David delves into Weyland's dream and meets with Weyland and says "All the Engineers are dead, mission failure" and Weyland replies with "Try Harder". This is taken from a recent interview with Ridley Scott, Damon Lindelof and [url=http://www.slashgear.com/ridley-scott-talks-prometheus-with-slashgear-candid-uncut-02231334/]slashgear[/url] recently. Below is an excerpt from the interview where Damon clarifies this for us. [i]" Right, so, originally in the draft there’s a scene in the movie where we see David and he’s got his headset on and he’s talking to someone, and we don’t know who it is, and he gets confronted by Vickers. There’s a scene in the script that we decided not to shoot, where we see the inside of that dream, and basically David takes a jetski out with a beautiful woman in a bikini, to a yacht, and on the yacht is Weyland. Played by Guy, without old-age make-up: this is his dream. And they have a scene together, and in that scene David says “the engineers are dead, they’re all gone, mission failure” and Weyland says “go back and try harder.” And we rewrote it so that we were going to play Weyland’s identify closed, give the audience a sense that [David] was talking to someone on the ship but not view them. But we had already shot the scenes with Guy in the old-age make-up. So we were, like, people are going to wonder why we cast Guy Pearce to play an old man, unless we represent him as Guy Pearce. And that basically tapped into a piece of viral we had already been talking about, which is… I said it would be really cool to introduce the title of the movie – because people were asking “Prometheus, what is that?”, “how does the myth have context in the context of this movie?” So I was, like, we should write this TED talk, and then Ridley basically handed it off to Luke, his son, who is an incredible director, and we got together with TED – this guy Tom Rielly over at TED – we called him up and said “can we use your branding?” because if we can’t call it a TED talk we’ll have to call it a “FRED talk” or something, and everyone will know, it’ll cheapen it."[/i] - Damon Lindelof [url=http://www.slashgear.com/ridley-scott-talks-prometheus-with-slashgear-candid-uncut-02231334/]Read the rest here[/url] Thanks to [b]Seeasea[/b] for the link!