As Ridley Scott's new sci-fi epic lands in cinemas today, June 1, academics at the University of Warwick have given their views on the film - and the Alien films to which it is a prequel.
Dr Jack Cohen, Honorary Professor of the University of Warwick, and one of the joint authors of Evolving the Alien: The Science of Extraterrestrial Life, says he is glad the film avoided the usual design of extraterrestrials as humanoids with ridged brows.
He commented: "The Alien universe, which Prometheus may also be part of, at least avoids the more preposterous fictional universes where most of the aliens look exactly like humans - but with slightly different types of bumpy foreheads. Aliens are likely to be much more alien."
But he added: "However the key aliens of the Alien universe still draw too much on human's own fear images and this obscures more reasoned...
Dr Jack Cohen, Honorary Professor of the University of Warwick, and one of the joint authors of Evolving the Alien: The Science of Extraterrestrial Life, says he is glad the film avoided the usual design of extraterrestrials as humanoids with ridged brows.
He commented: "The Alien universe, which Prometheus may also be part of, at least avoids the more preposterous fictional universes where most of the aliens look exactly like humans - but with slightly different types of bumpy foreheads. Aliens are likely to be much more alien."
But he added: "However the key aliens of the Alien universe still draw too much on human's own fear images and this obscures more reasoned...
- 6/3/2012
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
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