But can there really be a sequel at this point? Perhaps they were banished themselves for attempting to create life? And maybe humanity is a reminder of their folly? Again, a good theory, but do we want it explained away in another movie?
Probably not. Update : Almost 10 Engineers appeared in that opening sequence. Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. The other possibility is this. There are two types of Engineers. If you notice the one from the beginning looks to be a passive creature with a religious robe that sacrifices himself.
What if the Engineers on the ships were a counter part to the peaceful ones. They go out through space combating each other indirectly. One set creating life and the other destroying it. I really feel it is leaning more towards the first idea. They do not appear to be peaceful in any way and I think the religious undertone was more for keeping everyone happy that was viewing the film.
Even how Shaw puts her cross back on at the end. After everything she saw she still believed. Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy. To wait all that long to develop a fruit to become ripe for harvest and by that ready to drop the Goo on us, to make Xenos is well bit long winded..
And the Goo did not make us into Xenos Maybe the years ago is purely coincidence? Ridley hinted at a Jesus figure was the reasons I think the bigger picture could be David He is a Tool created by Weyland in our image to perform tasks so that Mankind does not have to, and these could be undertake tasks that would be too hazardous too distressing for ourselves David showed tendencies of not being pleased at his creator and we have seen many movies about Robots uprisings inc Terminator etc.
By that maybe the Engineers was created like David as a tool, to perform tasks for a higher power maybe the Elders Maybe at some point they created mankind to then serve them? Or maybe Mankind was created as a evolution of the Engineers and the Engineers creators favored the Humans Maybe the Engineers or a Fraction rebelled against their creators and God, and wanted to be all powerfull themselves and a War Broke out.
Latter the surviving fraction of Engineers then tried to manipulate Mankind to serve them to serve one Leader of them and thus maybe responsible for trying to program mankind via the bible etc The plan or changes they wanted for us was not working, so they created a Hybrid Being Part Engineer and Part Human to be a Emisary of their kind to try and sway Mankind to conform to the Engineers wishes. But we still revolted and had this Emissary Crucified and so the Engineers re-weaponized the Xeno to use to not only wipe us out but create something new.
This Godlike being wants mankind to rule under him alone, but mankind does not follow the ways and orders of this new One God, in which case he sends down a Emissary to guide and change mankind and when we still do not follow him While i am not saying this is exactly the deal, i think the movie could go for a similar outcome and paint the Bible and Koran as our interpretations of the decree and orders of a last standing Elder or who ever beings are at the top of the Hierarchy.
Or maybe not and just one Elder who decides he wants to control his own creations in rebellion to his creator. Not because it would not make good copy but because the studio bosses would see it as crimping the potential returns. Stick to fiction. I think one thing that's interesting is trying to understand the mentality of the Engineers.
Are they impulsive? Was Earth a vital target? The reason why I think these questions are important is because these beings have a greater concept of time and space than human beings do. It seems farfetched that a lone engineer would wake up and all of a sudden attack Earth even if he was ordered too.
Thats like a soldier trying to press the Nuke Button after years in a comma. The reality is that he didn't have to continue his mission right there and then. And as far as I am concerned it was an irrational move. I heard the concept that he might have been a rebel or something in between those lines. Maybe he was fail safe. The maps on Earth were perhaps meant to draw us to the Engineers in order for us to wake them and basically show it was our time to end. However, this would be avoiding the concepts imprinted on the walls of the ship as well as the Engineers attempt to escape the outbreak.
This doesn't seem planned out, especially because the first scene we see is a willing sacrifice. The deleted scenes seem to indicate a rational being. My interpretation of those scenes, are that this Engineer is awoken by Mankind Once he had seen how Weyland had acted and how he ordered Shaw to be silenced the Engineer would then know that Weyland only sees his reasons for being there as important. And the Engineer would have been told by David that Weyland wanted to be made immortal, and then noticed that Mankind had created David in their image and thus that mankind now has a God Complex and that Mankind would see themselves as Gods, or at least question why they can not be equal to the Engineers in time.
The Engineer would know mankind has the ability to reach LV and that LV has the Bio Weapons and Juggernauts and as David knows how to communicate to the Engineer maybe the Engineer would also be concerned that these Androids could maybe fly there ships. Knowing that mankind is still selfish and now knows how to get to LV the Engineer could not let Mankind get there hands on the Technology of the Engineers and so off he went to finish the job his brothers had set out to do years prior.
This was my interpretation of the events, and especially since seeing the deleted scenes and more so since we got some partial translations to what David and Engineer had said. What is also interesting is that the Engineers seemed to have abandoned Earth all together. When writing that kind of story you have to situate your characters according to the topic. Peter Weyland: wants to be immortal.
He despises life. David: is a Robot who looks perfectly human but who is, in the end, still a non-living object which existence is an insult to life.
They only want to observe it. Charlie Holloway: wants to become an engineer I believe. He is fascinated by the promethean power, which is why he should be in love with Dr. We thought they were talking about the characters' journey into the depths of space to meet the extraterrestrial originators of life on earth. It turned out, though, to refer to us poor lugs in the audience, stumbling out into the night scratching our heads.
Here we try to untangle some of the film's more prominent puzzlers. Spoilers abound, of course, and we're frankly as stumped as you - so do chip in in the comments …. Um… probably? That certainly seems to be the case: we see an engineer, apparently left alone on a barren earth as his fellows ship out, who consciously sacrifices himself by drinking black goo that causes his body to crumble into little bits of DNA that spread throughout the world.
But as they look much like the engineers our heroes encounter, wouldn't that mean their biology and technology hasn't changed in billions of years? Perhaps this can be filed under 'things Ridley Scott wants us to wonder about' — he has talked about ideas for a sequel engaging with the engineers' motivations more directly.
They're too recent for the engineers to have left them when they created life — did they somehow appear to humans in visions? Were they based on engineer artefacts that haven't survived? Have the engineers been popping back every so often?
And given their later hostility, why would the engineers want to leave directions anyway? Was it a test? Or an alarm designed to notify them of mankind's development of space travel?
File under 'movie characters do dumb shit'.
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