Comments on: What Did David Say To The Engineer In Prometheus?

By: JMC

JMC — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:44:00 +0000

In the end, the Engineer looks at ‘David’ curiously, and then rips his
head off… Based on this, and the *seeding* of a planet at the
beginning of the movie, I believe the Engineers to be -God-. In the
bible it says something about ‘not recreating the image of God’ or
something like that. I think the Engineer was mad that we created
*life* in the form of a cyborg… I also believe the *canisters*
simply contained primordial ooze. They humans activated them, and it
transformed the earth worms in the soil, into those snake-like
creatures. They tested the primordial ooze on the guy to see how it
would recreate. If it improved his health without altering him, David
would have used it on Wayeland…

By: Christopher Presley

Christopher Presley — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 17:41:00 +0000

The Engineers didn’t create life on Earth; God did. Also, human languages were never based off of alien languages. Evidence for the origin of human language can be found in the Old Testament (Bible). So when David tried to communicate with the
Engineer, in a language he couldn’t have possibly been able to understand, he definitely said something wrong. The Engineer snapped and killed everybody because he was a common criminal. LV 223 is actually a prison colony, used by the Engineers to house the worst offenders of their race. All the engineers died because they were trying to escape after a riot, which activated a global security system, controlled by robots, which wiped them out, before they could escape.

By: Spaldinadliotistapiss

Spaldinadliotistapiss — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 02:54:00 +0000

The movie sucked. I walked out after the 1st hour. The 3rd movie this year I walked out of. They included John Carter and the Grey. This one was so cookie cutter and CGI’d to death. I wanted to like this one so bad, but it just sucked.

By: Jake Hamilton

Jake Hamilton — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 21:05:00 +0000

I think the Engineer felt davids face and discovered he was a synthetic, and came to the realization that the humans were becoming engineers themselves, building their own beings. I think the engineer felt threatened by this, and that it further enforced his mission to destroy humanity on Earth and thats why he left in such haste.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 07:42:00 +0000

Didn’t you watch the movie? The characters themselves were as confused as we are.. I have a feeling that this seemingly dull and indention-filled plot of Ridley’s will slowly reveal answers and will ultimately blossom into a masterpiece.

By: Kenton

Kenton — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 02:12:00 +0000

Thanks for the info on David’s communication with the Eng. My 2 cents is the Eng thought that the humans may have been infected therefore he began killing them to prevent an out break of the alien life form.

By: Imagine.That

Imagine.That — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 06:01:00 +0000

I think we might find a situation like the “Children of the Gods” series from Stargate. Where there are a number of humanoid species in the universe with a couple of common threads to their existence.
It would be interesting to find out that the introduction sequence we saw in the beginning was not a sacrifice to credit life, but a sacrifice to end it. I think we will find that the opening sequence was not on earth but elsewhere. This is due to the nature of the goo.
If it was an evolutionary accelerator, why has humanity hit something of a brick wall, yet the Black aliens keep developing?
In the end I believe we will find that the “Engineers” were not engineers at all but a species bent on elimination of every other human like species because they discovered that they were not the only ones.
i think we will find that the “Predators” and the “Aliens” were different designs of mercenaries that failed the “Engineers” .
I think it would be interesting to see what we thought was the opening sequence was actually the ending sequence of the trilogy.

By: Alexander Onasis

Alexander Onasis — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 06:06:00 +0000

Then make sure to not watch the sequel.

By: Alexander Onasis

Alexander Onasis — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 06:03:00 +0000

You just missed the whole point… so sad.

By: Rodney James

Rodney James — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 16:54:00 +0000

I think that the “Engineers” saw that their work had become “flawed or weak”. They were trying to make the perfect beings to replace them, beings who would not get sick, grow old or die. But the whole batch was ruined and so they were going to Earth to destroy their creation and start over somewhere else.

By: Miles Zarathustra

Miles Zarathustra — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 20:50:00 +0000

The above is what he THOUGHT he said. What it REALLY meant was “There is no coffee and the nearest Starbucks is a billion lightyears away. Oh, and they guys out in the hall ate all the doughnuts.” Now, if someone had told you that after you had been so rudely awakened, after being asleep for 3000 years, don’t you think you’d rip someone’s head off too?

By: William

William — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 02:45:00 +0000

‘why would david infect the humans’
to this question, i have written a post elsewhere to explain it. to put it shortly, i think as humans have the tendency to rebel against creator, so does an android who wants freedom and must rebel to achieve it. david’s act seems trivial, but i think it’s a defiance tendency within all creatures to rebel.
i have written a full commentary here: http://tso1989.blogspot.hk/2012/07/prometheus-2012.html

By: baby fart mcgeeziaks

baby fart mcgeeziaks — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 16:15:00 +0000

I don’t understand why this was left out… this would have made the film make much more sense. The engineers are obviously disgusted with humanity, we can only speculate on why (Space Jesus anyone?) but they seem to have gone from teaching humans (as seen in hieroglyphs) to giving up hope and deciding to destroy them. This alien was given the mission to destroy these “disgusting humans” 2000 years ago and now wakes up to humans asking him to make them live forever. Hmm… maybe it’s the greed and ambition of humans that have made the engineers give up on them? Maybe the engineers are themselves disgusted that they created such a species. And maybe, to then wake up to this species asking you for immortality was enough to make the guy want to snap some necks. Imagine if a human scientist had genetically engineered children only for them to turn out to be money grubbing homicidal maniacs… the scientist would probably want to destroy them at all costs, no? Interesting as the Prometheus title then gets a bit of further alliteration as Frankenstein’s original subtitle was “The modern Prometheus”

By: JessSayin

JessSayin — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 02:39:00 +0000

A better question would be, What was Ridley thinking when he made this senseless piece of garbage?
“Engineers”… It’s a movie, not a religion! And a bad movie at that. Get over it!

By: Circadia

Circadia — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 23:18:00 +0000

Time should be taken into account here. Over thousands of years humans have evolved, changed, gone through upheavals in government, changes in philosophy. There is some indication that the “Engineers” who seeded Earth at the start of the movie are no longer the same. The first Engineer is in a flowing ceremonial gown. The ship he arrives in appears to be a giant egg shape (indicative of life and birth). When we later find the Engineers, they are in a war vessel with imposing armour. Remember, this is like millions of years later. The Engineers’ society may have changed. They too may be out to rid themselves of the oppression of their own parents, and to destroy the life they created just as the rivalry between David and his sister. This could be another splinter of the Engineers with a different agenda just as all humans don’t have the same agenda.

By: dean66683

dean66683 — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:41:00 +0000

Just seen it and obviously a ‘alien spin off’ after 10 minutes. All a bit predictable really (an i hadn’t even read anything about it). But interesting bit about them seeding different life in the universe. At least it answers where the alien ‘queens’ came from. There demise on the “DNA bank planet” wasn’t to clear or why the 1st race acted as he did.

By: Rachel Matteson

Rachel Matteson — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 19:54:00 +0000

Via- aliens.wikia.com (one circulating theory stemming from novels, comics ect)
The Mala’kaks, also known as “Space Jockeys or engineers” created mankind as guinea pigs to perfect their genetics weapons of mass destruction. Since there was a huge civil war on their home world they have many enemies such as the yautja or “predator” and possibly others.
Hope that website answers some questions for you.

By: Dorko

Dorko — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:48:00 +0000

I agree. I’m hoping sequels will prove me wrong but my gut tells me Ridley chose the wrong writer. What’s his resume, Lost and Cowboys and Aliens? Eeesh, lame!

By: Brandon Hubbard

Brandon Hubbard — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:07:00 +0000

My own personal theory of prometheus is that the engineers werent trying to make a virus but trying to send life to planets in those pods. And what started black goo like organic matter turned into a new species of fast evolving aliens. Its almost like the sludge sped up the cellular evolution of a species. Maybe one day we will look like the aliens from the movies lol

By: bertie

bertie — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 06:13:00 +0000

The engineer was just pissed these insignificant beings woke him from his beauty sleep!

By: mark

mark — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 01:22:00 +0000

The idea of creating is to improve. By your logic our tools would stay as stone. More specifically i mean that one must use lesser object ideas and designs to create the next level of any tool. Progession is our word for “this”. I deduced that engineers are not our gods but we are the improvment in their false, which is a good reason to hate us. Maybe not in whole but i could imagine that their govt may have regulation against our creation.
A scene i found powerful was the seemingly religous opening, the ssacrfice, to create something weather to be more pure or evil.
Of course this is all lay, and just a less crdical interrertation as we obviously do not know the entire story and can not accuratly make assumtions based on notions.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 01:09:00 +0000

One whoe seeks a hole, merely will fall.

By: Graham Miller

Graham Miller — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 22:06:00 +0000

Prometheus’ script had more holes than swiss cheese. It’s simply sloppy writing posing as art. Why would the “engineers” (what a stupid name) want to build us then destroy us? Why would David infect the humans and then want to help Dr. Shaw at the end? Why would they run in a straight line when the alien vessel is about to fall on them? Why did Weyland’s make up look so terrible? When will the engineers become male models and make their own calendar? Our expectations as movie goers have gotten very low. We deserve better. And this is coming from a huge sci-fi fan.

By: Dale Hoppert

Dale Hoppert — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:25:00 +0000

Wasn’t it pretty clearly established the the Engineers were on their way to Earth to ERASE us when they fell victim to their own bioweapons? The question is why they want us dead.

By: Mike.

Mike. — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 18:42:00 +0000

I felt the Engineer would have been outraged that, not only did humans on Earth survive, they created intelligent life themselves ie David, in their image, as the Engineers had created humans in theirs. Not only this, but humans had then had the audacity to find the Engineers, wake one, then have David speak the Engineer’s language to request a dying old man have his life extended. If the Engineers view themselves as Gods, then humans as their creations are far below them, and androids (presumably without a soul) even lower. The way the Engineer reacted is no different than the vengeful God of the Old Testament, and besides, since the Engineers still wanted to destroy human life on Earth, why wouldn’t they hesitate to kill the Prometheus landing party?