Welcome to the second part of me answering the popular questions everyone is asking about one of the years biggest film, 'Prometheus', last time I talked about the questions surrounding the film in general, today I will be answering all the questions revolving the cast and characters. Naturally, this post contains spoilers.
Why didn't they cast an old guy to play Weyland?
One of the low points of the movie is seeing Guy Pierce play Peter Weyland, although he plays the part well, the make-up is pretty bad, everyone can tell that it is fake. There have been a lot of complaints about casting Pierce as such an old character, but what people don't realize is that Pierce also portrays a younger Peter Weyland in one of the early viral marketing's, which suggests that a younger Weyland may have been intended to be in the movie, but never made the final cut. We can't complain about Pierce's acting, and surely we can ignore the make-up.
Milburn and Fifield, are they really that thick?
Basically they pay for being as thick as they seem. Somehow they manage to get themselves lost in the ship and left there when the rest of the crew head back to Prometheus, which doesn't make sense because how id no one on board realize that they hadn't returned yet? It's also got embarrassing how they got lost but were communicating with the captain who was standing in from of a huge hologram map of the place. They never asked where would be safe for them to go. So yes, they are pretty thick.
Also a lot of people have to wondering why a smart biologist like Milburn would try and touch the strange alien creature that they knew nothing about. At the end of the day, he was excited, I mean who wouldn't be? He would have traveled there purely to see some extra-terrestrial life. So when he comes into contact with one, his excitement gets the best of him, so although people are calling him stupid for contacting with the alien without knowing anything about it, we can't really blame him because most people would probably do the same thing.
Why does David infect Holloway?
We can assume that he is instructed by Weyland to do so. It implies that Weyland knew (or had an idea) what the crew would find, but it still doesn't answer all the questions. Presumably it's all part of his quest for immortality, but it isn't clear how that helped. David's motivation for his instructions are open to interpretation, he spent a couple of years learning a lot of things, and perhaps we wasn't instructed at all, maybe he was just curious, as an android his understanding of right and wrong can be limited. Everything he does is logical presumably. Also don't forget that David is the first to find the black goo when they arrive and uses it to work out what he's dealing with, and uses it help meet the overall objective that Weyland has given him. He also seems to know what he's looking for, so there must have been some evidence on Earth as to what it is, and if it is the key to life and we are led to assume, then perhaps David was curious to see what it does to life itself. We clearly see the results of this later in the film.
What does Weyland want?
That's a nice easy one, immortality. He's an old man who wants to avoid death. This doesn't explain his actions however, many believe there may be more to Peter Weyland that we would see in a longer cut of the film.
How does Shaw get over the medpod scene so quickly?
Just like with most of this film, it is suggested that in a longer cut of the film we would get more answers, however in the cut we saw, she deals with the creature, escapes and then moves on to the next matter at hand, and suddenly the rest of the crew don't try and sedate her again. We must also take into account that this scene is leading into the third act of the film, so it couldn't be too big of a scene otherwise it would make the third act seem less important.
Does David hate his creator?
Possibly. We know that David spent two years on the ship by himself whilst the rest of the crew was in stasis, when he wasn't studying ancient languages, he indulged in popular culture, music, film, history. We see him style his hair off a movie, he watches Shaw's dreams, is it possibly that he developed his own unique personality that surpasses his programming? Two years of popular culture may have altered the way that David sees his mission. Maybe he comes to believe that what Weyland wants is wrong. David asks Holloway "don't all children want their parents dead?" before he infects him which could be a sign that he has misinterpreted some of the crew's childhood memories/dreams and generally believes that all children hate their parents, or he really does resent Weyland. Another way to look at it is that it is obvious that David is created to serve, he looks after the crew, obeys everyone's orders, maybe he just wants independence. Freedom.
What does David say to the Engineer?
Until Ridley Scott tells us what David says, this will continue to be one of the most debated points of the film, on one hand the he might have just told the Engineer why they were there and what Weyland is requesting from it and then the Engineer reacts through anger/hatred for humanity (maybe even fear, fear that an inferior being of their creating has somehow managed to find them). On the other hand, David could have told him to kill Weyland, since we've established that he has father issues. Like I said, we'll never know until we're told, perhaps David will reveal to Shaw what he said in the sequel.
Why does Shaw trust David at the end?
She doesn't really have a choice, there are dozens of alien vestals that only David can pilot, she probably doesn't trust him but has found herself in a situation where she has to hold her tongue and let listen to him. She has found herself in the middle of something much bigger than she knows. The future of Earth is very shakey at the moment.
Also, the want a sequel, Fassbender was the best character, think of the box office.
Why do the Engineer's want us dead?
We see that humans and the Engineer's DNA matches, which reinforces the idea that they created us, whether on purpose or by accident, they may see where the future of the human race is going and not like it, maybe we have became too powerful for them, as Peter Weyland states in the viral clip "We are the Gods now". Check out the link to the viral clip below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XrotIFuX6Wg
After watching the movie, this viral clip begins to make a bit more sense, we begin to see his message in a new light. Weyland takes us on a guided tour through just how far mankind has came. It also goes back to the creator/father questions, Weyland states that we are Gods now because by this point in 2023 they have created androids that could be mistaken for humans. The Engineer's create us, we create the androids (then David creates the creature at the end of the film).
There's also a lot we don't know about the Engineer's (what their real names are for a start), maybe they have seen Earth's eventual demise (which could link into the 'Alien' franchise when we see the state Earth is in at the end of 'Alien Resurrection').
There we have it my viewers, I have answered as many questions about 'Prometheus' as I can at this moment, I can guarantee that more will arise within the next few weeks, possibly even more if this much talked about extended cut makes it to the cinema.
Just remember this, whatever was taken out of the film was taken out for a reason, Ridley Scott isn't going to spoon feed us the answers, that much is clear, we have to work it out for ourselves, for now.
As usual I would love to hear your opinions on this post and feel free to ask any of your own questions about 'Prometheus'.
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