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Once more, since I can't find anywhere where I posted this

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EMPIRE: You made Alien and Blade Runner consecutively. Were you a sci-fan at that time? SCOTT: No. Blade Runner and Alien were more by accident than plan. I had done a film called The Duelists, so I was baffled why some bright spark would ask me to do a science-fiction movie. The Duelists won Cannes, but Paramount didn't know how to release a film about two guys in bizarre breeches, waving swords around. I actually think it's a pretty good Western. But the idea of science-fiction came out of the blue. I'd seen Star Wars and that had knocked me sideways with all my plans. I was planning to do Tristan And Isolde in France, and I thought I would try to convert it into another arena. So I sat down for about five weeks and redrew a plan to do Tristan And Isolde as futuristic. When I was doing that, I was already carrying myself forward into science-fiction, partly to do with the imspiration from Jean Giraud Moebius and his marvellous original illustrations in magazines such as Metal Hurlant, and all those publications which I used to look at and hide from my children, because they were so violent and sexual. They were adult comic strips, but they didn't pull any punches,. I thought, that's the way to go. You should not have 'pulled any punches' with Prometheus, Mr. Ridley Scott, it's too late now, but for the sequel, you should abide by this, it will give your story that vitality. Thank you.
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Svanya
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*challenges you to a duel that will last over 40 years*

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in a lot of ways, prometheus doesnt pull any punches. the direction they chose for prometheus was not the safest of options. i think its just not what some people wanted. i would like to have seen a few aspects handled differently, but taken as a whole, im satisfied and impressed. Having said that, i would like to see ridley push the envelope even further in the sequel.
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@ Joeyjoe: I agree with you. I definitely did not want another James Cameron treatment. And I most definitely am enthralled by the harvest of Sir Ridley Scott and it's yield. I wait for the sequel....
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Subsume- it is strange, I posted on you previous thread last night and the whole thing vanished! So.. Here we go again: There are certainly more horrific films than Prometheus, but was Alien really any darker or more violent? RS didnt pull any punches, don't forget, Spaiths' script was much darker, and Fox intervened. Ridley is a perverse man, I'm sure he would have gladly produced a $300,000,000 nightmare if he could have. But this is Big Budget Blockbuster Sci Fi, it's going to be toned down. But that's ok! It's still so bizarre, so singular. Frankly, I can't believe it got made. All the influences cited above were portrayed with love and brilliance, and many more as well. A sci fi lovers nirvana. All that said, I do hope someone with authority is monitoring this site. The passion and creativity here is humbling. And I wouldn't mind something darker. I'm just glad I got what I did.
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Joey, I missed your post and basically said the same thing! We really ARE the same person! Sorry everybody, I am possessed of epic dorkiness.
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Well, for instance, Major Noob, and this has been mentioned before, the moment where Fifeld shows up at Prometheus main entrance. The decision made , by Ridley Scott, to allow Fifeld to retain his human characteristics, for what? That the audience would not understand this if he were to go full on alien assimilated? C'mon, don't you think that's patronizing? When I saw Fifeld in the weird resting position but still human, I thought that was odd but accepted it. Later, when I bought The Art Of The Film, I was stunned to discover the concepts for the Fifeld tranformation, very disturbing and unsettling, especially that transparent texture of the creature, do you know what I'm referring to? And, even more so, here on Prometheus, more concept art is revealed and I just went bananas, in being convinced that the still-human Fifeld, is indeed, Ridley Scott, doubting himself in not going full on from the doubts.
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I thought the horror here was more cerebral, more intimate and David and Weyland were as much of monsters as as what the Black goo created. The monsters from the black goo are pure Instinct with no remorse. At least David and Weyland made choices.

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