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Greek Prometheus and the movie script

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MemberOvomorphApr-10-2012 3:34 PM
Hello everybody, I am happy to share my thoughts with you. Your feedback will always be appreciated. So, just to convey some thoughts on Ancient Greek Mythology, since I am Greek (but not holding any copyrights of it :)). I would like to make people aware into the feeling that Greek mythology conveys to people. At that time, Gods were not the benevolent beings who helped humans. They lived in a world of their own, had their own fights, passions, and plots. And guess what...they did not care at all for humans. There was a clear distinction: "I am God, you are mortal! How do you dare speak to me"..sort of. Often they would also intervene into mortals' lifes to achieve very personal goals. People were really scared of them...not love them. They would sacrifice to them to be ok with them out of fear. They wouldn't even allow humans to control technologies like fire that Prometheus stole. In fact Prometheus in Greek, comes from the word prometheia=supply, thus Prometheus=Supplier....He supplied mortals with the God secret of fire. And he did so out of love for the human race and realizing the brutality and ignorance of Gods for human kind. He also paid with his life.(released later by a demi-God). If we now move to the movie plot, application of this knowledge might contribute to enlighten the possible script. So who is who in the new movie? Prometheus is either the actual ship and its crew or the space jockeys in the derelict. If it's the ship and its crew, that would be quite a linear story telling. Mankind discovers a dna secret (grey matter, alien dna mix method or other-the Prometheus "fire") of the presumed higher race of the space jokeys who in their turn are the presumed Gods or just keepers of the secrets of the Gods. The crew grabs hold of the secret in good will for helping the human race, but since it is a too advanced technology and people are slaves to their passions, they lose its control and get consumed by it. I guess that we are not going to see a living space jockey. Whether they are the presumed Gods or just some tools of them, they have seized to exist long ago. They only execute their bio-mechanical program to eliminate life as it has entered their "temple". And their tool of destruction is the grey matter (which gives birth to the xenomorphs).But I don't like that theory. I believe the second option. That the Space jockeys are actually Prometheus in this movie.I dare say just one of them. The one we already show on the first film of 1979. And they are benevolent. And in this case, they couldn't be the Gods, for Prometheus was a human (puppet and instsrumnet of the Gods like any other human). They must be some kind of a slave race to the Gods, with the responsibility to execute the evil plan of those malevolent Gods. Such Gods would also fit in the profile mentioned above. Distant creatures, living in their own shpere of existence, totally uncaring (not unaware though) for lower life forms like us or the Space Jockeys. And even worse: These Gods find intelligent life in other planets for they have the means to do it, and plot a hideous plan to let them evolve up to the point to become intelligent enough so then the Gods can come in and achieve their goals (the alien-indigenous inhabitantd DNA mix would work better when they would have evolved up to the point they can interprete and execute the invitation from the pictogram, terraform their planets to suit their needs, use the planet resources, consume the inhabitants, you name it). But they don't do this by themselves. They have far superior interests from that. They have employed as slaves the Space Jockeys to do the dirty job. And they are either programmed or born slaves to these Gods will. The alien xenomorph dna is the weapon of choice of the Gods, to eliminate any other intelligent life form making its presence in the universe they are in cotrol of. But some Space Jockeys (maybe only one of them) became moral and conscious enough to realize their Gods malevolent nature and try to set things right. They steal the ultimate weapon their Gods had entrusted them to turn it against them. They do it out of love for other species, probably going to receive the same fate as their race. They get swiftly punished, as they too can't seem to control this weapon by themselves successfully. So Gods leave a trap at this place, since it can automatically reproduce alien life via the alien DNA which appears to be apparent throughout this place. A place where their ultimate weapon can come to life again and again with every visitor.Ultimately, all visitors can become Prometheus, as they all seek to find and bring back the God technology, and the original Prometheus Eagle punishment can be reborn again and again, like the rebirth of the alien DNA mixing with the one of the visitors'. I also believe that the warning signal from LV-426 was planted by one of the ships survivors or... one mutated into an alien human member of the crew. Any comments are highly anticipated. Thanks a lot
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Ethon the Ripper

MemberOvomorphApr-10-2012 4:14 PM
nice info, and I certainly believe we have some possible ideas about the metaphorical concept of Prometheus: 1 - Weyland builds the ship Prometheus, his android David stole fire from the Gods (technology, urns, terraforming and bioengineering) and thus increase the technological progress of mankind. The punishment comes down to a horde of monstrous creatures deborando mutants and the crew of the Prometheus (in the bowels of the Prometheus, for example the scene in the hangar of vehicles with the mohawk guy) 2 - The SJ are not gods. Maybe they are just costumes created by biotechnological true Gods. Perhaps one of the mutated crew members use one of the suits to be a puppet for a much bigger plan. 3 - The SJ are demigods and only one (the pilot of the derelict) left clues to their whereabouts, an invitation to "paradise" in the form of a star map to share knowledge with humanity, but then pays the price become a guinea pig for the creation of Xenomorph eggs. But one way or another it seems that is a metaphor for the arrogance of the human race, and the price we must pay for his enormous ambition. regards

RipleyResistance

MemberOvomorphApr-11-2012 5:50 AM
Hmm well this is an interesting topic but I dont think It has anything to do with the "gods". I think another race (different from humans and aliens) left signs on our earth so that we (humans) could track down this signal and find the Alien DNA. So in order for the Alien to creat itself in full form, they need human DNA to do so. So if you mix these two, you will get a Alien bursting from a human being. And these other species need the Alien as a "weapon" for something else... And I think that the warning signal is coming directly from the ship itself. I think the ship is a part of the Aliens. Because you can see Aliens in the ships's walls in the Prometheus trailer....
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