Not really. Just makes the characters' decisions seem less intelligent, which is something I've always agreed with. She even says herself that there are things in the final version that were done much better than they were in the Spaihts script, like the portrayal of David and the overall mysterious nature of the film. The mystery is probably the most appealing thing about the film to me, followed by the visuals and the score.
So glad it wasn't a generic, black-and-white story that spelled everything out for you. The stuff that you need to know in the film is there if you read between the lines, but a lot of things were purposely unexplained.
Charlie's original death scene and Shaw's med-pod scene sound amazing. Both would have been truly horrifying to witness.
Not really. Just makes the characters' decisions seem less intelligent, which is something I've always agreed with. She even says herself that there are things in the final version that were done much better than they were in the Spaihts script, like the portrayal of David and the overall mysterious nature of the film. The mystery is probably the most appealing thing about the film to me, followed by the visuals and the score.
So glad it wasn't a generic, black-and-white story that spelled everything out for you. The stuff that you need to know in the film is there if you read between the lines, but a lot of things were purposely unexplained.
Charlie's original death scene and Shaw's med-pod scene sound amazing. Both would have been truly horrifying to witness.
Like I said, the things you need to understand for the movie to develop are there, you just have to look harder for them. The stuff that wasn't explained at all and only kinda hinted at, like the wall mural/altar, space jockey Jesus, what killed the engineers there, etc, none of that needed an explanation for the main plot of the film to be understood. All of those things were goodies left for speculation and to be explored in what I assume at the time was a guaranteed sequel. Hell, the original plan for Prometheus was two films.there were a couple of things that were good according to what she was saying but that's just grasping at straws. The original script is clearly much better.
Hell even the deleted scenes make the movie better. I Still like the movie a lot but I can understand why people hate it.
One thing is to have a movie that is not genetic black and white story that spelled out everything, but another thing is to create questions that will never get answered and confuse the hell out of everyone. This is not Lost, in a tv show I can understand leaving huge questions unanswered and create mystery because you will have more episodes to work on it and develop it more.
In a movie you don't get that. make it too obscure and too mysterious and you are going to lose a lot of people in the audience. I Still like the movie, but there are a lot of things from the first script that Indeed do sound amazing.
Like I said, the things you need to understand for the movie to develop are there, you just have to look harder for them. The stuff that wasn't explained at all and only kinda hinted at, like the wall mural/altar, space jockey Jesus, what killed the engineers there, etc, none of that needed an explanation for the main plot of the film to be understood. All of those things were goodies left for speculation and to be explored in what I assume at the time was a guaranteed sequel. Hell, the original plan for Prometheus was two films.
I think Ridley has a general idea of where everything is headed, and the initial plan was to introduce these obscure subplots in Prometheus and let people soak them in and speculate until the sequel(s) came out. At the same time though I hope not everything ends up being explained.the thing is that a the end of the day a movie is a visual experience. If Promtheus was a book and left you with all those questions and all those hints then okay that would be fine.
But the way I see it is that they left out all these great things that would have looked amazing on film for the sake of obscurity and mystery.
From a visual stand point alone the fact that they said no to some of the stuff in the original script in favor of leaving the audience guessing was a big miss for me.