I stare at the Pandora’s Box that is Prometheus, struggling to look away as its lid gradually opens
wider and wider with each subsequent trailer.
However, it’s hard to resist temptation when the forbidden fruit looks
so sweet. With the international launch
trailer, Ridley Scott continues to tip his hand without throwing the game.
The trailer opens with the Prometheus landing much more smoothly on LV-426 than the Nostromo
ever managed to. The remainder of the
first minute is all exposition, spelling out the plot more clearly than any
other synopsis up until this point. One
moment shows a first person view from one the team’s helmet cams, the amazing
clarity of which feels like a metaphor for the look of the film as well as the
film itself. By comparison, Alien seems to have been filmed through
an impenetrable fog. Prometheus means to
remove that fog, literally and figuratively.
Then again, maybe the “fog” of Alien isn’t absent, but has instead taken a different form. This
trailer seems to be saying that the dots won’t be so easy to connect this time
out. There are a ton of images that feel
like callbacks Alien, yet here they are
arranged into an intriguing pastiche. Not
a stitch of context is offered for any of them.
At one point, there’s a hologram image of the Space Jokey running toward
the camera. Moments later, the Jokey
stands over Noomi Rapace imposingly. By
the time the title screen comes up, Prometheus is still the most mysterious
Blockbuster of the year. The wait for this has just gone from unbearable to torturous.
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