Prometheus Unsound
Went to see Prometheus last night, and in the pub afterwards explicated a theory about how it was all to do with punishment for the Crucifixion, solar myth, Osiris, Prometheus the Titan as a Christ prototype, the Golden Bough and so on.
Came here this morning to share it with you all, only to find that some other so-and-so has already had basically the same thoughts, a week ago. Gah! And he's researched Scott's own apposite remarks as well, which I hadn't bothered to do.
In other news, for the few remaining people who haven't yet seen it, the film itself is pretty shamefully shoddy, with all kinds of crazy inconsistencies and plot nonsenses. But worth seeing for £5.70, which is all it cost at my local Cineworld on a Tuesday.
(Oh, cavalorn doesn't say anything about Frankenstein, which was also part of my theory. The subtitle of that novel is "or, The Modern Prometheus", because Frankenstein, like the Titan, dares to assume the godlike power of conferring life upon inert matter, and (spoiler alert!) suffers for his hubris. In the film, David asks (in the context of Holloway wondering why the Engineers created humanity) why humans created androids: the only-half-joking answer is "because we could". It seems pretty clear that Scott is flagging this up as a Frankenstein-like blasphemously arrogant act that merits, and duly receives, punishment.)
Came here this morning to share it with you all, only to find that some other so-and-so has already had basically the same thoughts, a week ago. Gah! And he's researched Scott's own apposite remarks as well, which I hadn't bothered to do.
In other news, for the few remaining people who haven't yet seen it, the film itself is pretty shamefully shoddy, with all kinds of crazy inconsistencies and plot nonsenses. But worth seeing for £5.70, which is all it cost at my local Cineworld on a Tuesday.
(Oh, cavalorn doesn't say anything about Frankenstein, which was also part of my theory. The subtitle of that novel is "or, The Modern Prometheus", because Frankenstein, like the Titan, dares to assume the godlike power of conferring life upon inert matter, and (spoiler alert!) suffers for his hubris. In the film, David asks (in the context of Holloway wondering why the Engineers created humanity) why humans created androids: the only-half-joking answer is "because we could". It seems pretty clear that Scott is flagging this up as a Frankenstein-like blasphemously arrogant act that merits, and duly receives, punishment.)