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Originally Posted by realdealblues
V...I would hate to go against you at trivia...lol. I know years, directors, actors and maybe a few details but you know all the specs :-)
I'll have to check out the original script.
I really only thought Shaw, David & Captain Janek were strong characters. I didn't feel Vickers or Holloway really added much. Shaw's character could have been both parts (Holloway & Shaw) with someone else as the "infectee/love interest. Vickers didn't really do anything but say I'm in charge and then have no one pay attention to her.
It was better than your average movie and would watch it again, but it just didn't really have that big of an impact on me I guess. I'm glad you really like it though and it stirs something in you. No one around me really has much passion for film so it's nice to have someone really express what they like about something.
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There are several aspects to Vickers's character which are not immediately evident in the first viewing - why she is the way she is, what kind of a relation she shares with Weyland, why she is trying desperately to show that she is in charge while all the time the real "Captain" of the entire mission is David. Old man Weyland is obviously disappointed on not having a son to run his empire after him, and so Meredith is left running things "inside a boardroom" as some sort of a Assistant MD of sorts, while Weyland proclaims that David is "the closest thing to having a son". One of the reasons why David's programming involves following Weyland's orders implicitly - the perfect son for the "perfect" Dad.
The 3 key scenes for this - Weyland's virtual image addressing the crew, Meredith and Weyland inside Weyland's chamber, and a short interaction between David and Elizabeth just before they leave to meet the final Engineer sleeping in his cryo tube.
Holloway, as a character, is essential to the focus of the film. He's the more impressionable of the two, and unlike Shaw, he was more interested in knowing what exactly they were going to seek. He wasn't exactly sure they were going to be the makers, rather than finding a new planet with a new race, possibly the point from where humans evolved. His immense disappointment is amply evident by 2 scenes - when he approaches the "altar" on the wall and sees the sarcophagus with the green top and comments how it's all dead, and when they find nothing of interest in the chamber or in the pyramid, except a decapitated Engineer, which only confirms his doubts - their makers are also susceptible to death, so they can't be their makers, nor can they be perfect "gods", so as to speak. Which makes him go drunk when David meets him (to infect him with the goo).
And I am intrigued by
Prometheus because of 2 reasons - my immense love for
Alien and it's universe, and after a long, long time a film has come about which poses questions, rather than feed answers directly like most modern contemporary films (any genre). Rather than tying everything up neatly in a bow tie, this film leaves you asking stuff, and asking for more. These 2 emotions are very tough to be brought out. And maybe that's why
Prometheus is just that bit more special to me. I wouldn't classify it as a 10/10 film, it has it's faults, but it's been the single biggest event (film-wise) to have happened to me in recent times.