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Gavin
MemberTrilobiteMar-09-2012 12:01 PMJust watched the TED video again after downloading [url=http://video.ted.com/talks/ads/postrolls/Prometheus/Prometheus-download-2500k.mp4]HERE[/url] and I've just noticed the way it finishes.
You see normally at the TED people go on the stage and introduce themselves before presenting their theories, discoveries, designs etc. Maybe the next TED video will continue from where this first video ends... "My name is Peter Weyland, and if you'll indulge me, I'd like to change the world..."
Maybe Peter Weyland will reveal his discovery (debunking our theories of a cover-up), maybe he will reveal the designs of the Prometheus, or the Synthetics, or something else...
Your thoughts?
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CBT1979
MemberOvomorphMar-09-2012 12:19 PMSomehow i think the TED sequence is
only for the marketing campaign
For the movie prometheus and not
included in the final movie.
maybe in a directors cut. But i think
It is like those teasers from.T2 or
Godzilla which never were part of
the movie.
OrganicLife
MemberOvomorphMar-09-2012 12:22 PMYeah pretty sure they said it wasn't part of the movie...but that doesn't mean there won't be more, it looks like we're gonna be getting a pretty heavy viral campaign going on the closer we get to release.
Gavin
MemberTrilobiteMar-09-2012 12:29 PMI never said or inferred that I thought the TED footage would be in the movie, It was just that after watching it I got the atmosphere of an introduction, and that we may see more footage continuing on from the introduction in which Peter Weyland presents something infront of the crowd - a theory, a design or something else entirely, that will act as a build up to the release of the movie.
centrosphere
MemberOvomorphMar-09-2012 12:33 PMI believe that there will be more snippets of the Peter Weyland TED talk as the release date approaches, just to keep expectatives high. That is what I would do, and is a sure way to generate buzz about the movie.
Gavin
MemberTrilobiteMar-09-2012 12:38 PMThats what I meant. But what will he talk to the crowd about?
Gavin
MemberTrilobiteMar-09-2012 12:45 PMThanks Sparky.
IMO the whole Prometheus story may hint at Peter Weyland either revealing something about an AA (Ancient Alien) discovery or the ship itself which we will see in the film.
jujutsuka
MemberOvomorphMar-09-2012 12:50 PMNice post.
I don't have any ideas what Weyland might talk about in a subsequent video, but it'd be interesting if they posted another TED talk, or just anything not directly tied to scenes in the film.
I'm generally thinking of more videos/media that depict events that happen prior to Prometheus--so they're essentially lengthening the Prometheus "experience" by releasing some relevant snippets, rather than including unnecessary exposition in the film that would mess with the pacing. It would be a good way to present stuff they edited out of the film--not sure if a viral campaign has ever done that before--rather than merely sticking it on an "extras" disc when the Blu-Ray comes out.
Fall down seven times, get up eight.
Spartacus
MemberOvomorphMar-09-2012 12:52 PMi think what he may mention is that they have aquired some sort of technology. Alien technology, soemthing they find on earth they think is NOT of this world.
Ronster
MemberOvomorphMar-09-2012 1:19 PMPerhaps there is more to that talk but I think that if it ends there it ends there but...
perhaps we'll get a talk from Ms Yutani too?
Spartacus
MemberOvomorphMar-09-2012 1:23 PMand last time I saw her she had a suticase with a pred gun weapon in it too !!! LMAO !!!
GreatBoosUp
MemberOvomorphMar-09-2012 1:28 PMI would like to see TED Talk video of Peter introducing the first "cybernetic individual" to the world. Or a TED Talk where Peter announces the plan to follow up on the first evidence of Alien life with a trip to the home world of the Aliens.
centrosphere
MemberOvomorphMar-09-2012 2:48 PM"I would like to see TED Talk video of Peter introducing the first "cybernetic individual" to the world. Or a TED Talk where Peter announces the plan to follow up on the first evidence of Alien life with a trip to the home world of the Aliens."
I think that the announce of a research program aimed at developing a drive that could send us to investigate some alien civilization that left some remains on Earth would be something VERY worth of a TED talk. And also tipical of our times:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/08/nasa_private_space_nasa/
BUT I think such a mission would be considered a trade secret and zealously defended against outsider´s sights.
That´s why I think that he will demonstrate an early prototipe of an android. Created in his own image. Very godlike.
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