SPOILERS FOR ALIEN (1979), ALIENS (1986), ALIEN3 (1992), ALIEN: RESURRECTION (1997), and PROMETHEUS (2012)
In this episode:
- Cleolinda Jones joins us once again!
- And she's going to be at Dragon Con this year! She'll be on or at several panels, including the Hannibal Fannibals pannibal (say that three times fast) at 1PM on Saturday, August 30th and the Dream Logic and Murder Wizardry panel at 10PM on Sunday, August 1st. And she'll be giving away some awesome stuff--listen for more details!
- Fio and I will also be attending a few upcoming conventions, although in much less professional capacity. Fio will be at Baltimore Comic-Con the weekend of September 6th, and I'll be at Scare-a-Con 2014 on Saturday, September 12th!
- Discussion of the 2012 Ridley Scott film Prometheus, including the good ideas, the bad ideas, the utterly nonsensical ideas, and the all-around wackadoo nature of the film.
- The writer of this movie seemed to be more interested in writing David than anything else, but we all would've liked to see more of the Shaw/David relationship explored.
- For some reason Ridley Scott thinks leaving things out makes more sense.
- Alright, to be perfectly fair, Blade Runner is a million times better without the narration. Did that change burn Ridley so bad that he just wants to make the rest of his movies incomprehensible?
- Pacing. It's a thing.
- Here are links to the deleted scenes Cleo mentioned:
- This brings us to the end of our 2014 Summer Movie Series! Let us know in the comments here or on Tumblr what you'd like to hear us discuss next.
- As of the writing of this post, I am 99% sure I'll be at Scare-a-Con. I waffled a bit on the podcast, but now I'm pretty certain.
- Wolven's Tumblr is wolvensnothere.tumblr.com, as in "Wolven's not here," not "Wolven's not there," as we say on the podcast. Knot naut naught knawt.
- RE: the comments on how Marc Streitenfeld wrote the music for Prometheus backwards and then reversed the recording: It wasn't the main melodic theme he did that with (which, as it happens, seems to have been written by Harry Gregson-Williams)--I think it was just the score in general, and you can definitely hear it in the moodier music on the soundtrack album. Here's the section of the Wikipedia article on it.
- Opening: Prometheus Trailer
- Intro: "This is My Design" - original song, music by Ian. More on this as it develops.
- Outro: "Life" - Harry Gregson-Williams, Prometheus Original Soundtrack | YouTube | iTunes |
http://archive.org/download/AMOT049/AMOT049.mp3
As something of a Greek mythology buff, I just wanted to remind you guys that in the myths Prometheus and his brother Epimetheus were the creators of all the creatures of the Earth. Epimetheus gave all the "best" gifts like fur and speed to the animals, but Prometheus gave men reason and intellect. However, when the first winter came, Man was having a hard time surviving, so Prometheus stole fire from Mount Olympus and gave it to Man, and showed them how to use it. For doing this the God punished him. I believe the film is called "Prometheus" in reference to the fact Prometheus was the Creator of Man, sort of like the Engineers.
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