Similarities in great movies.

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i think weyland was saying that there was nothing to prevent him prebent from death on that planet. eh was expressing his dissapointment in everybody right before he died

I think Weyland never believed he was not gonna get eternal life. And was coming to terms with their being "nothing". As for David, it was probably the one time he made a mistake for weyland and it cost him his life, so David was being sincere and not knowing what was going to happen next to his head and body.

We're not really putting Prometheus on the same level as Citizen Kane....are we? I mean...I liked Prometheus, but no...nooo...nooooo way does that do Citizen Kane any kind of justice. It's insulting. I respecfully disagree with you friend...respectfully.

I assumed that Weyland meant 'there is nothing on the other side?' Nowhere to go when we die? No heaven, no hell, nothing?

necronom I think he meant there were no answers about the Derelict on LV426.

@craigamore IMHO Citizen Kane is not a great movie. When I saw it, I kept thinking about The Emperor's New Clothes, and that I really should like it, because lots of other people say it's great. But I didn't. The big revelation about a childhood sledge: yawn. @Cerulean Weyland's line is an answer to the question that he himself posed in the movie during his big speech: "What happens when we die?". When he says "There's nothing", David actually replies "I know. Have a good journey, Mr Weyland" [not pleasant journey]. They are hollow words because they both know that the journey is a trip to nowhere. David knows how to deliver a placebo, and that's what his programming makes him do here..

I took the 'There is Nothing' as Weyland admitting that everything he strived for(immortality) was not attainable and he was empty giving up his dream and his life. Was the head bopping scene a fatal one or did Weyland just give up, let himself die because there was nothing or no one to live for? I had not thought of David's comment as being a robotic, programmed response. By this time in the movie he had concined me he had a will of his own. You comment makes more sense.

I'm pretty sure that the hefty whack on his skull dealt Weyland a fatal blow. He was almost dead anyway before the sucker punch. We'd better not get into the business of what is free will here, or it could be a never-ending debate! But I'll say, as I've mentioned obliquely before, that any "will" David has can't really be compared with yours or mine. He's a robot, and his mode of "thinking" won't be human. It's far too easy to imagine things like David is evil, or happy, or resentful. But that's projecting our own way of thinking onto him. We do it with animals as well, anthropomorphising on a regular basis.

@ Freeze! - I Love it! @ zzplural - I agree we need to be careful about assumptions we can make regarding Alien & Robotic behavior as 'Good' or 'Evil'. These assumptions are what will keep us from seeing things as they are meant to be seen. @necronom 4 - I also thought Weyland could have made his 'nothing' comment, because where he was going, there was nothing that would stop it! I am also reminded of the Lawrence of Arabia line, "There is nothing in the desert, and no man needs nothing."

I think that the Citizen Kane and Prometheous similarities are very little and vague @Cerulean Blue. The last few words both men speak at the end of their lives mean two totaly different things. Weyland at the end comes to the reliazation that after physical life there is nothing else. Its the eternal sleep. In his opinion immtortality is what represents god status. When Weyland and the rest of the group enter the sleep chamber he realizes that these so called gods are not immortal as he notices that three out of the four crypts contain dead humanoids. When he is bashed in the head his dream dies with him. But those few seconds before his death are shocking to him and very painful. At least that is what I percieve in those events. Now the last few words Kane speaks are of past happiness. The only true innocent happiness he ever knew in his life before he was removed from his grandparents and evolved into a proper gentlemen, business man, tycoon, newspaper baron and so on. Rose bud is the name of his sled, and it represents the happiness he once knew. The only time he was ever happy in his life. So both men are in reality thinking about two different things. Kane is thinking about the beautiful past. While Weyland is thinking about the untainable quest he set out to attain in the fututre. I totaly agree with your opinon on Kane @Craigamore. It is one of the greatest films of all time. It changed the way films were made in the future. Orson Wells use of different camera angles and so on revolutionized cinematagrophy. But what really makes Citizen Kane so powerful was the plot. Orson wells's Kane is really a representaion of Newspaper magnet William Randolph Hearst. Who owned the majority of the major newspapers in the country during that period. After Kane came out Wells was black listed by Hollywood becuase of the power that Hearst wielded in the film industry. Those that hate or do not find Citizen Kane appealing have very odd tastes when it comes to cinema.

IMHO Prometheus is a great movie! Citizen Kane & Prometheus both tell stories of men who thought they could make themselves happy by using their money & power to influence others. Neither story ends well because they both die unhappy & unfulfilled. Maybe next time I could use 'Meatballs' to better illustrate my point, but it just doesn't matter, it just doesn't matter, it just doesn't matter. HA HA!

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