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u/The_starving_artist5 Sep 10 '24 edited Sep 10 '24
Weyland thought the same thing. Then the engineer slowly walked over and just ripped off David’s head , and threw the rest of the crew across the room . He had no chill . He literally woke up and chose violence
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u/JahEthBur Sep 10 '24
At least he got that PPE for safety.
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u/HSLB66 Sep 11 '24
I'd be pissed too if I suddenly woke up after 2,000 years and some neanderthal motherfuckers were desecrating my ship
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u/Poupulino Sep 11 '24
He had no chill . He literally woke up and chose violence
According to the original script, he was just confused when he woke up. Then he saw Elizabeth getting bashed and realized these little people were violent, and then saw David and realized he was an artificial being, and the engineers had a taboo with trying to mimic life because that was part of their own religion, so he snapped.
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u/The_starving_artist5 Sep 11 '24
And all of that should have been in the movie to explain it why he was upset. There is a deleted alternate scene of the engineer speaking to them in his language. That wasn’t in the theatrical version. In the theatrical version he says nothing
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u/PythagorasJones Sep 11 '24
I don't know, I watched Prometheus this week and there were quite direct cues about the engineer looking at Shaw being manhandled, and then inspecting David and understanding he wasn't human.
It's okay to work through subtlety. I don't need a character narrating the exposition. Show, don't tell.
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u/The_starving_artist5 Sep 11 '24
They still left out his speech he made. That would have been nice to see in the movie especially since they made up a whole language for the engineers to speak . It the only scene where he talks and they cut it
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u/Seph1902 Engineer Sep 11 '24
Yeah, I hate that they cut it out. I have the fan edition with a lot of the cut scenes readded. It's a better film with them.
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u/Ok_Confection_10 Sep 12 '24
They spent the whole movie trying to make contact with their maker and when they finally do he says nothing. No payoff.
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u/Substantial_Tap8537 Sep 11 '24
The engineer told them that they once took one of the humans back to their planet and showed him their ways. Implicating that it was Jesus Christ so that we could live like them, but obviously that didn’t go as according to plan, and that made him more mad.
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u/Chesterlespaul Sep 11 '24
I just learned this! Such a cool concept, and with all the human thing back story idk why this wasn’t included.
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u/Substantial_Tap8537 Sep 11 '24
Who knows maybe they’re getting ready to expand the story more with future releases I mean we just got a new alien movie I just found out about.
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Covenant flopped, no more engineer stories.
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u/Pyromanick Sep 11 '24
You should watch romulus
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u/Epistemix Sep 11 '24
No that's actually certified fan made, though it would've been better than what we got
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u/maestro826 Sep 11 '24
Imagine if one of Tyrell's Replicants was there instead of an Artificial Person.. how would the outcome have differed?
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u/MonkeyNugetz Sep 11 '24
I was really bummed to learn they wanted to wipe out humans. I was hoping that Shaw and the jockey escaped on his ship when seeing the trailer. Poor Shaw.
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u/gabynew1 Sep 11 '24
You wake up from a very, very, very long sleep. A bunch of bugs are on top of you and everywhere on the floor. What do? You smash...
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u/DisplayExact5200 Sep 11 '24
I’m not gonna lie, I’m really glad he tore David to shreds, considering what kind of insidious villain that damn android turned out to be. He was a vain toolbag shaped in the image of his pompous creator and he deserved to be taken down several notches.
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u/S2-RT Sep 11 '24
“Feeling cute. Might birth/annihilate humanity later. IDK”
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u/Leepysworld Sep 10 '24
I always thought this image was like photoshopped or something but turns out it’s real and he was chillin like this on set lol
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u/ghostmaskrises Sep 11 '24
That's my favorite thing about practical costumes. The pictures or videos of people relaxing in full costume are amazing
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u/TheNittanyLionKing Sep 11 '24
Like the meme of the Stranger Things 4 villain enjoying a boba tea in full costume
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u/BasedKetamineApe Sep 11 '24
Please keep in mind that in canon this is just some regular dude. Like we basically have the same DNA. They're human just like us. So it is 100% lore accurate that they would be chilling like that in universe too.
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u/Leepysworld Sep 11 '24 edited Sep 11 '24
to be fair he did not seem very chill in the movie lol Humans were created by them, but they are not Human, and it’s implied they decided to destroy us.
Bro woke up started immediately fucking shit up, that’s like the opposite of chill lmao
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u/TheLostLuminary Sep 11 '24
Really? I assumed and thought most others would assume it was obviously a set photo.
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u/Dependent_Compote259 Sep 11 '24
Safety glasses won’t help you when you’re disintegrating in a river
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u/Darklancer02 The sound of a M41A Pulse Rifle Sep 11 '24
OSHA approved apparel for starting life.
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u/TheNittanyLionKing Sep 11 '24
Well they are called engineers after all. They do have to follow Space OSHA regulations
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u/Darklancer02 The sound of a M41A Pulse Rifle Sep 11 '24
I wonder what that safety briefing would look like...
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u/OengusEverywhere Sep 11 '24
He's about to show you his black goo microbrewery
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u/itsjustaride24 Sep 11 '24
Not gaining a great market share due to the ‘May cause violent deformation and homicidal actions’ disclaimer.
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u/DerpsAndRags Sep 11 '24
I hate going to bars with him. One little drink, and he goes all to pieces.
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u/blackestofswans Sep 11 '24
As usual, it seems the engineer race is ahead of us in all aspects, including work health and safety. Frankly we could learn a lot from them.
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u/Annahsbananas Sep 11 '24
If they brought him to earth rather than Jesus, then LV426 wouldn’t have had their panties in an uproar
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u/unabridgeddiversion LET'S ROCK Sep 11 '24
Hey what's up man. I just came out here to vibe, smoke a little and take in the views before I start a little experiment, stoked for what it could be. The scientist dude said I'll trip so hard I'll think I'm melting! Haha gonna be tight. Anyway I'll catch ya later!
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u/Markus_lfc Sep 11 '24
Looks like a guy who runs 25 miles each day and will try to get you into a pyramid scheme
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u/Limekilnlake Sep 11 '24
I want a collection of these on-set pictures of monsters from alien movies
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u/Revolutionary_Judge5 Sep 11 '24
He looks like a tech geek that's also ripped and is about to humiliate me by fixing my laptop with Ctrl/alt/del
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u/TheNittanyLionKing Sep 11 '24
From a modern engineer to a prehistoric engineer, kudos on wearing the proper PPE equipment 👍
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u/Budget_Flan1709 Sep 11 '24
He looks like the guy who looks up from the stock trading program on his phone to order a latte to go after his morning run
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u/Perfect-Season6116 Sep 11 '24
That huge quiet dude on the constructoon site, that does bodybiilding after work.
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Omg thats so cool! Ehhehehehe. I always thought there skin looked so nice. Like marble. Smooth and cool. I want to stroke the skin!
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u/More-Escape3704 Sep 11 '24
I really wish they would make one with david and the engineers or the years in between prometheus and covenant
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u/BukLau58 Sep 11 '24
He was practical? lol kinda of takes away the argument I’ve seen a bunch of people make about the engineer being CGI, good to know
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u/BobVance_Fridges Sep 11 '24
Even the engineers use the appropriate PPE according to their job scope
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u/Ok-Amphibian5807 Sep 12 '24
“Just chilling, might commit genocide on my genetic descendants later”
-Engineer, probably
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