The Gerald Scarfe and Ralph Steadman influence?

leading from  Prometheus: Afterthoughts  a) Once Ridley Scott mentioned that he was taking film viewers to the dark side of the moon, I wondered if this meant that we were going to encounter monsters associated with Pink Floyd Gerald Scarfe which meant the movie "Pink Floyd: The Wall" released in 1982 with strange hallucinatory characters designed by illustrator Gerald Scarfe.  It took me quite a while but I became almost convinced...

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The Dark Side Of The Moon

album cover for Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon(leading from The Orrery )a) In 2010 Ridley Scott was unveiling details about the Prometheus movie and then he mentioned that the film was the dark side of the moon. Obviously he wanted to express how shadowy the film was, but the other side to this seemed that he was throwing around the title of Pink Floyd's well known album released in 1973. Despite the phrase being used out of context with...

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Henry Moore's "Prometheus" drawings

Leading from Prometheus Afterthoughts  a) We understand that the giant head in the film Prometheus represents a member of the Engineer's race. However we might take a look at the fact that there are a frameworok of lines covering the head.  We might take a look at the images of Henry Moore's lithographs of "The head of Prometheus" from 1950 and notice an almost similar type of framework structure (perhaps connected with his drawings...

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other works of Ralph Steadman's

leading from Did Ralph Steadman inspire the final Fifield monsterOther examples of Steadman's work featuring variations of the same sort of general menacing grotesquesdrawing from Fear and Loathing in Las VegasSantas ClausPortrait of a decent republicanillustration from The Cherry Wood Can...

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Did Ralph Steadman inspire the final Fifield monster?

leading from: The Gerald Scarfe and Ralph Steadman influence?Fear and Loathing in LV223 ! Ralph Steadman's illustration for the Lizard Lounge from "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas".Since I found reason to ask if the WETA alternate Fifield monster had been inspired by an iconic cartoon image for Pink Floyd's The Wall, the next question I am asking is if the final Fifield monster was too inspired by artwork from a similar field. Maybe the obvious...

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Pink Floyd / Gerald Scarfe inspired WETA's alternate Fifield monster?

leading from: The Gerald Scarfe and Ralph Steadman influence?a) Ever since the trailer first showed the strange long limbs of some creature that would be later revealed to be the octopus like Trilobyte had I been looking for some signs of Pink Floyd as a point of reference. Since they didn't have HR Giger aboard the film project to offer creature designs that echoed rituals, beliefs and ideas that had been around for thousands of years, at least...

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Gerald Scarfe's Mick Jagger's influence on the Deacon?

leading from: The Gerald Scarfe and Ralph Steadman influen...

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Pink Floyd: The Wall

Pink Floyd/Gerald Scarfe inspired WETA's alternate Fifield monster? Pink Floyd/ Gerald Scarfe inspired Trilobyte tongue  ...

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Pink Floyd / Gerald Scarfe inspired Trilobyte tongue ?

leading from: The Gerald Scarfe and Ralph Steadman influence?"The Flying Fanny" In Pink Floyd's The Wall, another possible inspiration for a curiosity from Prometheus. In The Wall, a hallucination growing from phantom memories of his wife, she transforms into a preying mantis and then a flower that opens and snake head comes out of it, and then from the front a fanged maw with a penile head that comes and it has two eyes upon it. However the...

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"Deacon Blues" and the blue Deacon

Leading from Prometheus Afterthoughts Deacon Blue/ Deacon Blues emerges in Prometheusa) The odd question is what was the Deacon in Prometheus all about, why was it named so by the production team and why was it blue? Arthur Max said that the name to the creature because, Ridley said " It looks like a bishop's mitre, the evil deacon's pointed hat"  and they gave this creature a strange blue colour.Ridley Scott dubbed this creature the Deacon,...

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The Evil Deacon

the death of Thomas Becket took place in 117The term: The Evil Deacon has come through the ages. Who exactly was the original Evil Deacon? One can be traced at least back to the 12th Century,  Hugh of Horsea who Alfred Duggan informs us that the renegade clerk became famous in Kent as the Evil Deacon and we can find from various sources that he was known for having gut his foot on the neck of the Thomas Becket, and scattered the rest his brains...

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