Prometheus (2012)

Actors

• Charles de Lauzirika (miscellaneous crew)
• Ridley Scott (director)
• Ridley Scott (producer)
• Peter O'Toole (actor)
• Charlize Theron (actress)
• Harry Fowler (actor)
• Andy Stephens (miscellaneous crew)
• Walter Hill (producer)
• Guy Pearce (actor)
• Idris Elba (actor)
• Robin Atkin Downes (actor)
• Michael Fassbender (actor)
• Dan O'Bannon (miscellaneous crew)
• Stuart Saunders (actor)
• Dan O'Bannon (writer)

Genres

• Adventure
• Mystery
• Sci-Fi

Taglines:

The search for our beginning could lead to our end
They went looking for our beginning. What they found could be our end.
We came from them. They will come for us.

Quotes:

Janek: Prometheus has landed.

Meredith Vickers: Good morning. I am Meredith Vickers, and it is my job to make sure you do yours.

[from trailer]::Interviewer: Eighth-generation Weyland TIPE: Technological, Intellectual, Physical...::David: Emotional.

Elizabeth Shaw: But you don't understand. You don't know. This place isn't what we thought it was. They aren't what we thought they were. I was wrong. We were so wrong. Charlie, Dr. Holloway's dead. We must leave.::Peter Weyland: And what would Charlie do now that we're so close to answering the most meaningful questions ever asked by mankind? Hm? How can you leave without knowing what they are? Or have you lost your faith, Shaw?

Peter Weyland: [from TED Talks viral video] T.E. Lawrence, eponymously of Arabia but very much an Englishman, favoured pinching a burning match between his fingers to put it out. When asked by his colleague William Potter to reveal his trick, how is it he effectively extinguished the flame without hurting himself whatsoever, Lawrence just smiled and said, "The trick, Potter, is not minding it hurts." The fire that danced at the end of that match was a gift from the titan Prometheus, a gift that he stole from the gods. When Prometheus was caught and brought to justice for his theft, the gods, well, you might say they overreacted a little. The poor man was tied to a rock, as an eagle ripped through his belly and ate his liver over and over, day after day, ad infinitum. All because he gave us fire. Our first true piece of technology, fire...

Peter Weyland: [from TED Talks viral video] 100,000 BC: stone tools. 4,000 BC: the wheel. 900 AD: gunpowder - bit of a game changer, that one. 19th century: eureka, the lightbulb! 20th century: the automobile, television, nuclear weapons, spacecrafts, Internet. 21st century: biotech, nanotech, fusion and fission and M theory - and THAT, was just the first decade! We are now three months into the year of our Lord, 2023. At this moment of our civilization, we can create cybernetic individuals, who in just a few short years will be completely indistinguishable from us. Which leads to an obvious conclusion: WE are the gods now.

Peter Weyland: [from TED Talks viral video] To those of you who know me: you will be aware by now that my ambition is unlimited. You know that I will settle for nothing short of greatness, or I will die trying. To those of you who do not yet know me: allow me to introduce myself. My name is Peter Weyland, and if you'll indulge me, I'd like to change the world.

Janek: Whatever that probe is picking up, it's a lifeform.

Meredith Vickers: If you're really going down there, you're going to die.::Peter Weyland: Very negative way of looking at things. Exactly why you should have stayed at home.::Meredith Vickers: Did you really think I was gonna sit in a boardroom for years arguing over who was in charge while you go look for some miracle on some godforsaken rock in the middle of space? A king has his reign, and then he dies. It's inevitable. That is natural order of things.

David: A superior species, no doubt. The hypersleep chambers will impress, I trust.::Elizabeth Shaw: So they were traveling somewhere?::David: I've managed to work out the broad strips, it's fairly evident they were in the process of leaving, before things went to pot.::Elizabeth Shaw: Leaving to go where?::David: Earth.::Elizabeth Shaw: Why?::David: Sometimes to create, one must first destroy.

• Lyrics: play full screen play karaoke
• Molly Brown - Vince Gill
• Millie Brown - Al Stewart
• Melbourne - The Whitlams

Molly Brown, waits for me
In a little one-horse town
And Boley, Oklahoma
Where white folks don't come around
I'm thinkin' about you, Molly
I'm forbidden to come 'round
Lord knows I love you, Molly
Molly Brown
Molly Brown, Molly Brown
Lay down by my side
Show me how you spread your wings
And let that pony ride
I'm crazy about you, Molly
I don't care that your skin is brown
Lord knows I need you, Molly
Molly Brown
Molly Brown
Oh, Molly Brown
We met down by the river
She wore her wedding gown
I never saw it coming
And no one heard the sound
My daddy used both barrels
And left me there to drown
Lord knows I'd die for Molly
Molly Brown
Molly Brown, Molly Brown
Don't you weep for me
I'm going to a place the Lord
Prepared for you and me
I'll meet you up in Heaven
Upon that Holy ground
I'll be waitin' for you, Molly
Molly Brown
Molly Brown, Molly Brown, Molly Brown
Lord, I'll be waitin' up in Heavenly

Do you have the photograph we took with Millie Brown
It such a lovely picture of a night out on the town
She was dressed in purple, and we took her to the fair
I know that you'd remember 'cause I know that you were there
Riding the cars, what did she say?
I wanted to know
The wind took her words, and blew them away
I wanted to know
All that she said, all that she said,
I want you to tell me all that she said
All that she said
You got out your camera, we were standing on the beach
Millie wore her yellow hat and seemed just out of reach
She was in a deck chair with a paper on her knee
I think she might have winked at me
She really was a tease
Down to the pub everyone went, and Millie was fine
She moved in close, smiling at me
And spilling her wine
All that she said, all that she said,
I want you to tell me all that she said
All that she said
She held me hand, then disappeared into the night
When she came back her lipstick was smeared
She was waving goodbye
All that she said, all that she said
I want you to tell me all that she said

She paints pictures on the wall
She eats all of the garden
And has an aversion to conviction
And she calls her dog "the bear"
In love with this girl
And with her town as well
Walking 'round the rainy city
What a pity there's things to do at home
She paints pictures on the wall
I awake to see the feelings
from the night before
She eats all of the garden, it's a jungle out there
And we won't return by dawn
If I had three lives
I'd marry her in two
I'm dreaming of a time
That we sit when the music stops
She has an aversion to conviction
She's more confused than ever
Won't pay her fines and wonders when the cops will get her
She calls her dog "the bear"
And walks me with him to the corner
In her pyjamas