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SKIN JOB 66
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TFS Fred; love those comparisons. |
Thanks JB !
Talking about comparisons... Hmm... similar looking columns in the Nostromo engines and the "Harkonnen castle" / Ampule room... (these Prometheus columns also remind me of columns seen in LEGEND (Darkness' lair) but since I don't own this one in DVD I'm not able to do screencaps)
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I can see another influence of Moebius' art in Prometheus, this time taken from one of his late 70's porn illustrations...
I guess the idea was to keep alive the idea of male rape already here in the original A L I E N...
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| SKIN JOB 66 wrote: | | joberg wrote: |
TFS Fred; love those comparisons. |
Thanks JB !
Talking about comparisons... Hmm... similar looking columns in the Nostromo engines and the "Harkonnen castle" / Ampule room... (these Prometheus columns also remind me of columns seen in LEGEND (Darkness' lair) but since I don't own this one in DVD I'm not able to do screencaps)
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You're very welcome BC !
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Bingo Fred!  ...btw, you had posted before the pic of the room with the columns in LOTR wich is also the same kind of design in "Legend".
And as you said, the "male rape theme" is, once again, used in Prometheus; thank God for the R rating  |
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Thanks JB !
Another example of "Alien porn" as seen in Prometheus, derivated this time from Moebius and O'Bannon's classic The Long Tomorrow...
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I think this is one of gigers earliest Alien works for the film. White figure with biomechanics and all. I have to wonder if Scott looked at this and decided that was the big guy in the chair, or maybe he as supposed to be this guy all along.
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| Very interesting Noeland...as we can see in the pic he's human but with "Alien" characteristics. While Fred's pic was somewhat simililar, Giger's is more into the spirit and the imagery that was produced before and finally used in Prometheus |
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Good catch Noeland, must admit I never thought of this one !!!
The guy also looks a little like the mummy of king Ramses II... and when you think that a little part of the engineers' esthetic partially came from ancient Egypt art, well...
Again... Well spotted !
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Just spotted this today... What was that idiot doing in the field of camera ???
It's not that obvious in the screencaps but play that sequence on your TV and you'll see... The guy is moving during the shot, you even see the light reflect on his glasses !!!!!!
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Maybe he thought he was hidden by the big seat if the foreground 
Never saw that one Fred...now in HD, everything is so sharp that you'll discover stuff that wasn't there in the regular format. |
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Absolutely riiiight, JB !
I was listening to a program devoted to philosophy the other day on France Culture (the name tells it all) radio station and they talked about Blade Runner at a certain point...
One of the guys established a link between Rick Deckard and René Descartes during the conversation, saying that Ford's character name was a kind of american translation of the french philosopher's name... I must admit I was a little shocked because I had never thought of it, but now it seems so obvious !
For those who don't know a thing about Philosopher René "I think, therefore I am" Descartes, it's here :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/René_Descartes
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| Well, well, well; talk about surprise here Fred I don't know who came up with the name (Hampton?) but it all make sense now: the Replicants have acquired consciousness think they are humans; very interesting indeed |
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Priss' own words...
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Thanks Fred for that one also (I had forgotten about that line)...yes, conscienceness, what is reality, etc. BR is touching on a lot of philosophical subjects for sure  |
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The name Rick Deckard comes from Phil Dick's original novel. He had put a lot of thought into it, obviously.
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| Jens2133 wrote: | | The name Rick Deckard comes from Phil Dick's original novel. |
Should have done more homework... Very cool anyhow, thanks for sharing the info !
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Didn't want to read this whole thread to see if this was mentioned yet: That Nostromo and Sulaco appear in the Joseph Conrad novel "Nostromo."
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| Quote: | | Conrad set his novel in the mining town of Sulaco, an imaginary port in the occidental region of the imaginary country of Costaguana. The book has more fully developed characters than any other of his novels, but two characters dominate the narrative: Señor Gould and the eponymous anti-hero, the "incorruptible" Nostromo. |
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