Carlos Huante's Prometheus Notes

1. Dissection of a Space Jockey2 . Facehugger - blob like molusc floats on a string of mucus (+ lympits)3. Nothing from Alien 1 in this movie.4. All structures are encrusted with abalone shell texture 5. Engineers - Spartans + giant furniture + xxxxxxxx6. Scarabs - They Swarm in - Hit the face mask like this,  - when they are squished - they bleed acid7. Ultramorphpolished abalone shellFacehugger centipede - to show that this design worked but...

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Engineer's Technology

Leading from The EngineersThere was the idea that the people who inhabited the planet that they visit in Prometheus have technology is beyond anything that we're able to or understand, but the design team had to make it visually interesting.source quotes  L'Ecran Fantastique: À propos, les space jockeys ont-ils un vrai nomBen Procter: Nous avons fini par les appeler "les ingénieurs", parce qu'ils ont implanté des  formes de vies humanoides dans toute la galaxy (L'Ecran Fantastique Hors Série no 16. p31)Googletranslate: Ecran Fantastique:...

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As Revealed In The Film

Leading from The EngineersIn the film's story, when Elizabeth Shaw and Holloway conceived the mission to find the engineers, their expectations was that they were on their way to Paradise and would discover a benevolent species that might provide answers to some of humanity's greatest mysteries. In other words, they were hoping to meet god, but these being prove to be anything but compassionate.Instead they are a dangerous race of superbeings and their destination was a dark, twisted and frightening world, a way station to these beings....

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The Sacrificial Engineer

Leading from The EngineersA member of the race of the engineeers involved in a self-sacrificing rituala)a) In the first sequence of the film, we discover what happens when engineers arrive on somewhere that may well be Earth and what they do. Originally there was to be a dome under which are arranged various objects which were designed by David Levy and redesigned by Steve Messing. Once designed by their design team in Los Angeles, the ...

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Meeting the Engineers via the Head Room

Leading from The Engineersa) Having the head room room ideaWhen Arthur Max took some of the motif's from Giger's derelict corridor design  ribs and created columns that were almost plant like in nature and then gave the layout to the illustrators who developed that into drawings, Ridley looked at it and said, "Can we have a statue, a sculpture or something iconic in the middle that celebrates the Engineers?" Steve Messing also talked...

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Alex Kzohanov / Gutalin

leading fromPrometheus' Production CrewArtist's website www.gutalin.orgCieling FrescoesHammer shaped Primordial engineer shipsLikely inspiration for the Engineer's hibernation m...

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Cieling Frescoes

Leading from Alex Kzohanov / GutalinThe artist known at Gutalin was responsible for the artwork for the Frescos, he was required to make the artwork look more "human" and then he insisted that it should look more "Alien". He did two versions of the artwork, "human" and "Alien" and they used the "human" version. We have seen near enough two panels that he has done, one showing the alien hands around an alien egg, and another a humanoid with another...

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