Al Jazeera lets rip on Prometheus

Interesting. Do you know if this is a translation or if it was originally in english?

Al Jazeera BROADCASTS in English, like Russia Today (if you get my drift).

Wow...didn't know that.

That last paragraph relates specifically and exclusively to the one preceeding: [i]"But here Sir Ridley has become nostalgic and self-referential, for if the Chinese taikonauts proceed to do what they are doing, neither Greek mythology, nor Christian theology, nor indeed the Enlightenment absolutism of science or Renaissance humanism will determine the philosophical terms of outer space explorations, or inform the visual vocabulary of our future cinema - if Zhang Yimou or Chen Kaige were to make a space odyssey, they might be looking where Buddhism and Taoism come to shape the Chinese bureaucratic party politics and their globalised capitalism coming together to replace Sir Ridley Scott's Peter Weyland". [/i] - where Scott is baseing his story on Western idealogies... I think to find yourself in a place where you are saying that Scott is, "nostalgic", in that pre-occupation is to declare that you have allowed yourself to wander very, very far from the trail... China's economic progress notwithstanding, I'd say we're a long way from looking at a wholesale revision of the visual vocabulary of Cinema based on Eastern Idealogies?! Good God! Talk about, "propaganda"!... I think, not one second before there is a, literal, Eastern equivalent to, or, actual, effective, successor and replacement for, "Hollywood", and, "Such as Hollywood" - in practice and in notion - does anyone need to worry about not having made any preparations. Of course: that isn't to say that the day may not come - I just don't think it's today.

allinamberclad, but whether you like the taste or not, don't you appreciate this 'food for thought', this out-there thread-connecting? :)

Not really... This, "food", seems a particularly poor meal. This piece seems to have simply spun what seems a slight, "contra-Western", position around Prometheus - in order to rush to its predetermined and terribly invalid conclusion on the basis of it. I don't find much to sustain me, there.