Personally I thought the characters in prometheus were more interesting then the characters in alien and there psychology told through clever subtlety, I always felt that the scene with milburn and fifield and I want to make money was to do with the forging of social groups. Milburn gravitated to fifiled because they were both a bunch of sad cases, you know like the sad cases you got at school who couldn’t make friends. I also found it clever that fifield obviously over compensated with his absolute cowardice by covering himself in tattoos and coming off as unapproachable probably a ridley scott idea at least a visual one. I’m guessing fifield was perhaps bullied when he was younger, maybe this is a form of that goth shit. When I saw the movie I just saw them as the social outcasts. But the characters portrayal’s were perhaps to subtle, for instance everyone thinks charlie is an asshole and yet he was the only guy who knew david was a cock. But people say ahhh poor david look at how charlie keeps bullying him, charlie knew he was a cock that's why, it's just a shame he trusted him too much and underestimated him. I think all of this stuff is very clever but perhaps to subtle and can be missed. The whole why did fifield get lost?, well because he's an idiot, why would weyland hire idiots?, well it was vickers, okay so why did vickers hire idiots?. All is made clear in the briefing scene when weyland says david is the son i never had and then we cut to charlize theron and that look on her face, and then we have the scene towards the end when she is looking for her fathers acceptance because she knew he was going to die down there she even says that, hence the tear when he says anything else and pulls his hand away, she sabotaged a mission that she thought was crazy, and what was it? it was one man looking for immortality because he was such a megalomaniac. To me the film is very interesting in this respect.
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