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*** From the deleted scene, the Engineer is genuinelly confused as to why they came, and but only went hostile after Weyland asked for immortality.
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*** From the deleted scene, the Engineer is genuinelly genuinely confused as to why they came, and but only went hostile only after Weyland asked for immortality.
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*** Actually, the exact words are "What makes this man so great as to ask for such a thing?!". It's not a case of being against immortality, and more of being insulted by the fact some old guy from an infant/inferior species believes himself worthy of it. Up until that point, the Engineer was just confused and curious as to why they had come (indicating at least the message WASN'T some invitation. He even looked confused at Shaw's outburst). Once Weyland opened his mouth and started bragging to be like a god, it got pissed off. Maybe the Engineers DO have something akin to immortality or at least are able to prolongate life, but they aren't just handing it out because you think yourself like them.
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*** Actually, the exact words are "What makes this man so great as to ask for such a thing?!". It's not a case of being against immortality, and more of being insulted by the fact some old guy from an infant/inferior species believes himself worthy of it. Up until that point, the Engineer was just confused and curious as to why they had come (indicating at least the message WASN'T some invitation. He even looked confused at Shaw's outburst). Once Weyland opened his mouth and started bragging to bragging, "to be like a god, god," it got pissed off. Maybe the Engineers DO have something akin to immortality or at least are able to prolongate life, but they aren't just handing it out because you think yourself like them.
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* David's mimicking of Peter O'Toole's portrayal of T.E. Lawrence extends to bleaching and styling his own hair while the crew are asleep. Why would you make a robot with hair that grows/requires unnecessary upkeep, let alone to have its roots redone? David's deviating from the factory-standard look for androids of his kind, in keeping with his development of personal desires and emotions. He's modding himself as a means to assert an independent identity. The fact that the crew does not remark on this may suggest that it's commonplace for other people who "own" David 8 units to modify them according to their own tastes; David doing so himself is making himself his own master.
* A thematic point that alot of people seem to miss is that this movie is actually the inversion of the Alien franchise. That movie dealt with the horror of a bad pregnancy/child. This movie dealt with the horror of a bad, overbearing, overly controlling, parent. It makes alot of sense given the emphasis put on Weyland as a bad parent for both Vickers and David. Furthermore, it perfectly explains why the Forerunner attacked David, and why they wanted to destroy Earth: they felt that humans, their children, had advanced beyond the point they were supposed too technologically. David in particular showed that humans had had the audacity to HAVE CHILDREN OF THEIR OWN! (when you consider that they were already prepared to wipe us out thousands of years ago, the idea that we were capable of building androids and spaceships, they probably felt like they'd told their son not to leave the house, and he'd not only left, but founded a Fortune 500 company while he was away).
* A thematic point that alot of people seem to miss is that this movie is actually the inversion of the Alien franchise. That movie dealt with the horror of a bad pregnancy/child. This movie dealt with the horror of a bad, overbearing, overly controlling, parent. It makes alot of sense given the emphasis put on Weyland as a bad parent for both Vickers and David. Furthermore, it perfectly explains why the Forerunner attacked David, and why they wanted to destroy Earth: they felt that humans, their children, had advanced beyond the point they were supposed too technologically. David in particular showed that humans had had the audacity to HAVE CHILDREN OF THEIR OWN! (when you consider that they were already prepared to wipe us out thousands of years ago, the idea that we were capable of building androids and spaceships, they probably felt like they'd told their son not to leave the house, and he'd not only left, but founded a Fortune 500 company while he was away).
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* David's mimicking of Peter O'Toole's portrayal of T.E. Lawrence extends to bleaching and styling his own hair while the crew are asleep. Why would you make a robot with hair that grows/requires unnecessary upkeep, let alone to have its roots redone? David's deviating from the factory-standard look for androids of his kind, in keeping with his development of personal desires and emotions. He's modding modifying himself as a means to assert an independent identity. The fact that the crew does not remark on this may suggest that it's commonplace for other people who "own" David 8 units to modify them according to their own tastes; David doing so himself is making himself his own master.
* A thematic point that alot of people seem to miss is that this movie is actually the inversion of the Alien franchise. That movie dealt with the horror of a bad pregnancy/child. This movie dealt with the horror of a bad, overbearing, overly controlling, parent. It makes alot of sense given the emphasis put on Weyland as a bad parent for both Vickers and David. Furthermore, it perfectly explains why the Forerunner attacked David, and why they wanted to destroy Earth: they felt that humans, their children, had advanced beyond the point they were supposedtoo to, technologically. David in particular showed that humans had had the audacity to HAVE CHILDREN OF THEIR OWN! (when you consider that they were already prepared to wipe us out thousands of years ago, the idea that we were capable of building androids and spaceships, they probably felt like they'd told their son not to leave the house, and he'd not only left, but founded a Fortune 500 company while he was away).
* A thematic point that alot of people seem to miss is that this movie is actually the inversion of the Alien franchise. That movie dealt with the horror of a bad pregnancy/child. This movie dealt with the horror of a bad, overbearing, overly controlling, parent. It makes alot of sense given the emphasis put on Weyland as a bad parent for both Vickers and David. Furthermore, it perfectly explains why the Forerunner attacked David, and why they wanted to destroy Earth: they felt that humans, their children, had advanced beyond the point they were supposed
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** The Epic of Gilgamesh *also* features a man with a long life full of many accomplishments journeying to a distant land in search of immortality, only to be denied by an ancient being who says he is unworthy of that gift. The Engineer is just a lot more contemptuous than Utnapishtim was.
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** To expand upon this, many posters on /tv/ were annoyed at the [[spoiler: Vickers slept with the Janek for no apparent reason than to leave the stranded scientists unmonitored.]] I realized on second viewing, that in actuality, [[spoiler: her Daddy Issues are triggered when she is accused of being a robot: she resents David for the attention Weyland gives him and rebels with promiscuity.]]-th0114nd
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** To expand upon this, many posters on /tv/ viewers were annoyed at the [[spoiler: Vickers slept with the Janek for no apparent reason than to leave the stranded scientists unmonitored.]] I realized on On second viewing, viewing it's clear that in actuality, [[spoiler: her Daddy Issues are triggered when she is accused of being a robot: she resents David for the attention Weyland gives him and rebels with promiscuity.]]-th0114nd]]
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*** On a related note, Shaw is very obviously seen tearing out [[spoiler:her unconventional fetus' umbilical cord after it was yanked out of her by the machine, which would imply that it has, at least, a mammalian-style gestation. The machine very promptly begins to staple her up afterward, but ''[[FridgeHorror what about the placenta?]]'']]
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**** That does make sense. Why would you make a map for your little biology experiment to use that leads them to an ''armory''? If it was meant to be a map, why not point your experiment to a planet that has, you know, no weapons that can be used against you?
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** This also gives reasons for later sliminess of Weyland-Yutani employees. We do not know how much information got back to Earth (as in regular data transmissions sent back), so the entire mission could have been received by the W-Y folks back home. They could have made the same connection as above, in that the goo that was so well protected was the best way to kill the Engineers. Future missions would have been geared towards gathering samples of this bioweapon at any costs, thus setting up the events in ''Alien'' and ''Aliens''. Weyland-Yutani ''knew'' the only chance humanity had against a technologically superior race was to use their own weapons against them, and the androids (which are W-Y property) had a hard-wired drive to obtain these weapons. Though W-Y would have used these weapons to save mankind from annihilation, they used some extremely dubious methods to obtain them. If Burke maybe would have mentioned that they needed samples of the xenomorph, and why, the marines in ''Aliens'' may have used different methods. Of course, Burke himself may have never known the real reason his employer's wanted these samples in the first place.
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** That is.... brilliant. Consider the actions of the Engineer as it woke up. At first, it seems almost amused at these little copies of itself, but then gets angry when David attempts to communicate. Consider this from the Engineer's angle: the "experiment" shows up on ''your'' planet and speaks ''your'' language. These little beings had to have come through several stockpiles of the goo (like the huge one right before your control room), and you have no idea how much they know about you and the goo. You could be potentially at these "human's" mercy, or they could be studying this goo in order to learn how to kill you! The best reaction? Kill them all, and ask questions later.
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*** Then why the panic over getting into a spacesuit before launching an escape pod? Surely the {{Kayfabe}} isn't that critical when death is seconds away and no-one's around to see it?
