film "Prometheus". The first person invited to join the film plan was . Joe Speitz . He is also a loyal fan of the alien. In the documentary "God of Rage: Making Prometheus", he talked about his excitement when he first drafted the script, and wrote the original version of "Prometheus" in a very short time. After
, Lao Lei's annotation was quickly modified. Soon after, the second screenwriter Damon Lindelov joined the screenwriter camp. The film we have seen so far will be more like Damon Lindelov's draft script, but there will be some differences. The content of the scripts I quoted in the last two issues is also based on Damon Lindelov's version.
Many years after "Prometheus" was released, the draft scripts of these two screenwriters also appeared online. Although I don't know whether it is true or false, based on the documentary and my own understanding of the 18th-tier screenwriter who wrote the scripts, I think the credibility of these two draft scripts is very high.
The draft plots of the two screenwriters circulating on the Internet are very different, but each has its own characteristics. The "Prometheus" we saw today is basically a combination of the advantages of these two draft scripts (I think).
If you understand the draft scripts of these two people, I believe that the secret behind the film "Prometheus" will be clearer.
is here to declare it first. Of course, I will not be the first to discuss these two versions of the script. When these two scripts appeared on the Internet, many netizens took it out and discussed it.
But what I analyzed next was the analysis I compiled after reading the script myself. I dare say that it is more meticulous than many people. I should be the first person to combine these two scripts for detailed analysis.
However, I did not translate the English directly because the translation took too much time, so there may be some minor flaws in understanding reading. Please point it out if there is any.
Joe.Spetz version
Joe's version is the most original, and because Joe was a loyal fan of Alien before, his version is closer to Alien's regular series, but it also lacks a lot of mystery now. However, the skeleton of the entire story is basically grasped, which is also where Lao Lei adopted this script and modified it.
At the beginning of the script, the White Giant also arrives on the earth. The description of the White Giant here is like the sculptor of Rodan . So the White Giant Engineer in the film is quite similar.
Then the young white giant also took out the metal box, but after the metal box was opened, except for the jelly-like black substance, many bugs began to grow around. These bugs were called scarabs. This script was different from the main movie from the beginning.
Then the white giant knelt down and drank the box of substances accompanied by countless scarabs, which quickly covered the white giant's mouth. Then the white giant spread his arms and made the cross Jesus the appearance of suffering.
This is the original sentence of the literal translation of the script. In other words, the version of Joe in "Prometheus" was filled with very heavy Christian elements from the beginning, and the same was true in the whole article afterwards, but it was later deleted a lot by Lao Lei, so this also reflects that Lao Lei did not want to simply turn "Prometheus" into a movie of interpreting the story of the Christian Bible.
Next time, during the ape human period, a female ape man looked at the sky with ignorance, and a pebbles spacecraft appeared in the sky, and then the female ape man was bitten by the previous scarab, and the female ape man's DNA changed. This scene tells us that from that time on, humans have gained higher wisdom. After
, the picture was cut directly to the bottom of the deep sea. Waters and Harrowway salvaged the ruins of ancient civilizations in the deep sea and discovered astrological maps.
Yes, Sean was not called Sean at the beginning, it was Waters, but the character design was the same, so I will change it to Sean, so it is easier for everyone to understand. Moreover (script) they finally salvage the work scene at the bottom of the sea, and the production cost of the film is even higher, so it becomes Scotland in the main film.The opening of the version of
Joe, the biggest subversive thing is the black fruit jelly substance in the metal box, and the plot weaving is more like "2001 Space Odyssey".
"2001 Space Odyssey" is a man of ape discovered that black square has wisdom, while Joe's version is a man of ape was bitten by a scarab with wisdom. After that, the picture directly turned to the human beings who became very strong technological civilization.
Next, Qiao's version was a relatively long prelude. Before setting off for a long voyage, Sean and his team met Weilun first, and then Weilun talked to them about the philosophy of life, and then they were approved to explore the origin of human beings. Then Weilun never appeared again because Weilun passed away and became a great man who did not want eternal life but pursued the truth of human beings.
So Sean and the others set out on a long voyage to the planet the engineer once guided, where two of the most important differences from the main film appeared.
The first difference is that the spacecraft that Sean set off is not called Prometheus, but Magellan. Magellan is a Portuguese navigator who took the lead in circling the earth for the first time, but died in the Philippines and failed to successfully orbit the earth, which also implies that the spacecraft in the film failed to finally complete the mission they wanted.
The second difference is that the planet they went to was not called LV223, but LV426, which is the planet that was close to LV223.
This change is very big. Qiao's intention is very obvious, and he wants to successfully connect the story of "Alien" in 1979. I guess he didn't think he would do the prequel trilogy of "Alien" when he wrote this script.
Next, Sean and his team launched the exploration process, but judging from the text description, the engineer's Tubaru bag shape is almost the same as the pyramid of the earth.
And Harlowe also has a line saying that they built the pyramids of the earth.
Vicus is not the cold and proud age in the film, but a 45-year-old woman, but has the same domineering personality. It is said that Lao Lei liked Vickers at this age and wanted to play Michelle Yeoh .
After the engineer woke up, Halloween saw that the engineer looked very similar to humans, and then said, "The Genesis 1.27 writes that God created humans in His own way."
And Harlowway talks about "Genesis", and his other lines also quote other chapters of "Genesis". I can only say that Joe's version is really too Christian, and this is not over yet. Later, Harlowway also had lines that directly said: "Jesus is the engineer! Jesus is the last engineer to come to the earth, but we were crucified by us."
But this line cannot be released. The first is that it is too straightforward and unsuspecting, which makes the audience less interpretation of the film, and the second is that it is too blasphemous religion. If it is released in this way, it will inevitably trigger the West to resist the film to varying degrees. After
After the script decryption, the engineer died because of the key point. Gradually, it was discovered that the engineer had mutated into an alien due to the failure in the cultivation and research of black water.
Afterwards, Halloway was attacked by face-cuffing bug . He was rescued like in 1979, but later, Halloway broke his chest and an alien appeared. This plot is very similar to the 1979 "Alien" dining table with a broken chest. The third act after
script basically sold the emotional card of "Alien" in 1979, and Sean fought against Alien with the rescue team.
even in the middle of the journey, Vickers also awakened the sleeping mercenary , carrying many weapons to increase the action scenes of the film.
script final battle stage, the alien was killed by Sean. Like the previous alien, the heroine won. Regarding the issue of female feminism in "Alien", we will definitely talk about it without rushing.
at the end is very different from the main film. After Sean killed the alien, he drank in the lifesaving compartment. At this time, David asked Sean for help. David kept talking, and Sean kept ignoring him.
Finally Sean said, David, I will never save you in my life, I will wait for the boat to come.
David said, whose ship you are waiting for, human or engineer? But no matter what, this is the decision you make.
After Sean lit up the signal light of the pyramid, and the light of the lamppost soared into the sky, waiting for the rescue of the interstellar spacecraft.
The whole script ends.
Frankly speaking, this script has visual effects on the action, but it is equivalent to repeating some of the structure and operations of "Alien" in 1979. This is exactly what Lao Lei doesn't like. Lao Lei doesn't want to repeat himself. I believe that every director doesn't want to repeat his work.
And as mentioned earlier, Lao Lei does not want "Prometheus" to become a disguised interpretation work of Christianity.
so Lao Lei made a major change to Joe's script, and then Damon Lindelof joined in. Next, let's take a look at the draft script of Damon's version of "Prometheus".
Damon.Lindelof version
Damon version draft script is closer to the plot of the main film, but the script also lacks more secrets and suspense. After reading the whole article, you can also know what the engineers of Damon version sell in the gourd.
First of all, the old white giant said to the young white giant metal box: "Let your body turn into soil, let your blood melt into water, may your soul return to us." This paragraph of
was photographed and placed in the deleted fragment.
In fact, in Damon's script, the old white giant said a passage before this passage, which literally translated it roughly means: "Hold it (metal box), this is the flesh and blood of our Lord, because we cannot create, our gift has been deprived a long time ago. As always, we will continue to work hard to create the perfect Garden of Eden like ourselves. You are the chosen one and will create it in your image (Eden)." The sentence
almost summarizes what the Damon version of White Giant did in the film, and it is indeed as the alternative clip of the quarrel between Hallowew and Sean said. Hallowew points out that the earth is the experimental field and humans are the experimental products.
White Giant (Engineer) is building a new home and descendants for himself. There is a detail difference in the oath-taking ceremony when Prometheus arrived at LV223. In the script, Weilun introduced David, when David was different from humans, David lacked something called soul, and Vickers looked at David with a contemptuous expression.
This paragraph is different from the main film. The main film is Vickers jealous of David, while the script is Vickers despise David. After
Shawn and his team conducted their first exploration. Do you still remember the engineer's text on the temple door panel? David translated and read it out.
roughly means: "Only those who are chosen can enter. This is a sacred place and must be kept sacred. If you dare to step in, you will be punished. This is our Lord." After
, David said that Sean did not pay attention to opening the door. After Sean and the others entered the temple, David observed the words carved on the face of the giant stone statue, and then continued to read them in the language of the engineer. The content was: "This is the person we chose. The person selected created our master. This is his resting place, and it is also the blood of our attempt to revive the master." After
, David said to himself, "What do they (engineers) want to create?"
. Sean and the others did not know the engineering language David spoke.
Then, Halloway saw the mural behind the giant stone statue, which was the picture of the cross with its arms spreading open, and Halloway asked David to translate.
David read in the language of an engineer: "Our master was chosen from that time. Our ancestors gave birth to life. His holy blood was our gift. Through our mouths, holy blood gave birth to life in other worlds."
The small alien in that mural has a name called "Dicken". That is, the Deakin, who was officially named "Dickin" at the end of the film, has the same name, but I will try to decipher whether it is the same creature later.
Hallowe asked, what is the metal bottle?
David said, I'm not sure, but I think the alien creatures are alive for attacking the verbal verbally, the engineers are scared, I believe the metal cans are some kind of experiments by the engineers, and if I translate correctly, they are trying to reproduce their master. The scene of
basically interprets the purpose of the engineer and some of the functions of Hei Water. Perhaps it is because it is too straightforward that the audience has less room for thinking, so Lao Lei deleted all these scenes, and it was not included in the Blu-ray behind-the-scenes. I guess they have shots, but they will not make it public. After all, I talked about it before, and it is said that the rough-cut version of the film has been nearly 4 hours.
After Sean and the others evacuated back to the spacecraft. In the scene that night of the spacecraft, there was a dream of Weilun. Weilun was about 40 or 50 years old at the time, and the young Vickers went to find Weilun.
Weilun first educated Vickers, saying that when he was young, he loved money and power like Vickers, but now he wants to find the answer to life, but in fact he wants eternal life. After
, Vickers said that because of this project, Weilun Industry is about to go bankrupt.
Just as they were chatting, a lady came in, and Weilun asked Vickers to say hello to the lady, because this lady was Vickers' mother.
But Vickers said that her mother had been dead for decades, and this lady is actually biochemical human . Later, a 6-year-old boy came in. I don’t know if he was a biochemical person, but this is Weilun’s son.
However, the script has annotation that this child is very similar to David. Perhaps Weilun once really had a son, but later his son passed away, so Weilun created David as his son.
Wicks expressed his hatred for Weilun.
oh by the way, there is a movie poster of "Lawrence of Arabia" hanging on the wall in Weilun's room.
This paragraph aggravates the scenes between Weilun and Vickers and his daughter. Of course, it did not appear in the end because it felt that it had little to do with the main line, and it might have made the audience know too early that Weilun was not dead but was just hibernating.
Next is the scene of Sean and Harrowway quarreling in an alternative clip, which was advanced. In other words, Harrowway quarreled with Sean before drinking the black water wine. However, the noteworthy detail is that in the script, Sean and Harrowway did not stop the quarreling with each other, but Sean left the room angrily.
Then Sean began to talk about the story of African women and the sun under the Christmas tree, and then Sean went to study the engineer's head.
David later went to secretly report to Weilun who was hibernating. This section was included in the main film, but the audience did not know who this person was, nor did he know what David had reported specifically.
But in the script, David talked a lot about the background knowledge about the engineer, let’s take a look at this scene.
In this scene, David entered Weilun's dream. Weilun's dream was on the beautiful beach, and there were also beautiful yacht girls. Weilun was enjoying it there... OK. You can imagine that if this scene was filmed, it would not be in line with the temperament of "Prometheus".
Then David told Weilun that the engineer was dead.
Weilun can only ask what else do you find.
David answered that he discovered black water, which may be the key to engineers making people.
Then David began to introduce the history of engineers. David explained that engineers can live about 300,000 years. Engineers used to be able to mated and reproduce like humans, but later, they lost their fertility. But they discovered that one creature could be born from another creature, they called this creature Deakin. After that, engineers used Deakin's flesh and blood as seeds of life, but they quickly used up, so they tried to redevelop Deakin's Blood, but they created something else.
After Weilun asked David to use his imagination and use Black Water to do something, so David said in the main film: OK sir, I understand.
so Halloway was deceived and drank black water wine.
In this scene, Weilun also mentioned that the planet near LV223 seemed to have signals, but it was considered too early by David.
This conversation is actually the LV426 planet of "Alien" from 1979, and there is an engineer spacecraft lying there. The whole scene of
basically explains the engineer's motivation to make black water, and inadvertently induces alien shapes, or something similar to alien shapes. As for Deakin, there is not much explanation, but I will do my own analysis for you later.
In the scene where David took out the black water, there were actually many plots. David actually used frozen white rats to do experiments first and obtained the experimental report.
The rough content of this black water experimental report is: internal infections will cause the cell to collapse and form brand new cells and DNA to replace them. External infections can lead to rapid mutations and are extremely aggressive. The black water report
also basically explains the meaning of DNA damage and then recombination of microscopic lens cells at the beginning of the film. Afterwards, Halloway took the rose and tried to apologize to Sean. This is also the plot of the main film.
Before I said that Harlowway and Sean quarreled as an alternative scene, but from this script, it is not. In the script, Harlowway and Sean quarreled before studying the head, so there are two scenes in Sean's room. So why do you still say that Harlowway and Sean quarreled as an alternative scene?
Because during the shooting, the ending of these two scenes ended with Harlowway and Sean having sex, it was considered that they could only choose one of them.
Next we jump to the part where David discovered the control room. At that time, the holographic imaging engineer was talking and the engineer's chat content was displayed in the script.
The more important thing is that the engineer sitting in the chair told another engineer, are you ready for a journey to Eden (Earth)?
Another engineer said something happened, another ship broke down and was docked on the planet next door (LV426), and the engineer of that ship was inspecting the black water. After
, the chair engineer said, we can’t do anything, we need to continue to go to the Garden of Eden (Earth).
This paragraph of the dialogue between engineers is regarded as the second time that the Damon script Q to LV426.
Finally, it is the scene where David, who is most talked about, takes Weilun to meet the engineer. In fact, there are many scenes that don’t even have deleted.
In the script, David first introduced humans to the engineer and told the engineers that humans accepted the invitation to come here.
Engineer said this is not my home, my home is called heaven, why are you here for?
Then David continued to help Weilun translate why he created humans.
Engineer replied that many worlds were created by our fathers through the blood of the Lord, and you are the only ones who succeeded. After
, Sean suddenly asked a question, asking the engineer why he wanted to destroy the earth now. Weilun was angry and asked his subordinates to violently stop Sean.
But David still helped Sean translate.
The engineer was very angry when he heard this, so he started to talk endlessly.
Engineer said, do we hate you (humans)? We gave human emotions, we took care of you, gave you fire, helped you build buildings, and gave you the Garden of Eden, but we watched you kill each other again and again, war, we came back several times to save your souls, we also brought the children of humanity back to our heaven for education, and then sent back to the earth, but you decided to punish him, we gave you the fruit of life, but you let it rot.
Then, Weilun didn't care about the engineer's answer to Sean, and he was anxious to ask David to translate that he wanted to live forever.
So after David translated, the engineer said that humans were not worth it and asked why humans wanted immortality.
Then Weilun said the lines of the deleted clip of the main film, telling the engineer that he created the immortal David, and then the engineer went crazy and started killing.
Let me summarize the script. I can understand why Lao Lei deleted it so cleanly, because he didn't want to turn the film into an environmental pacifist main theme movie at the end, and didn't want the audience to understand that engineers wanted to cleanse humans because of their evil deeds.
And the engineer said that he once took a child to heaven for education and sent it back to humans, but humans still hurt him. This is obviously a name for Jesus. Such a scene is the same as Joe's version, which will inevitably cause controversy.
But no matter what, we learned a lot of secrets from the beginning of "Prometheus" engineer and Blackwater from Damon's script.
