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Ridley Scott prepares his projects with such care that you want to forgive him for how dumb his films sometimes turn out. Furious Gods is another one of Lauzirika’s exhaustive documentaries, focusing in detail on things that you would perhaps rather not know about (anyone who didn’t Google “mole penis” after watching the segment on animal genitalia can cast the first stone). With the optional additional videos, you will spend at least an afternoon (or two evenings) with the filmmakers, which may seem like a much greater deal of attention than Prometheus deserves, but after those four hours, you will probably come to believe that it’s actually not such a bad film. You will encounter molecular gastronomy, Freudian interpretation (the first Alien was about rape, the second about motherhood and Prometheus is about sex) and indications of what a pain in the ass stereoscopic filming is. This is again an exercise in building up the myth of the visionary filmmaker who prefers honest craftsmanship (not CGI) and mainly wants to offer an original story (there is an interesting conflict of opinion between whether Prometheus is supposed to be a stand-alone film, as Scott claims, or the next instalment of the Alien series, as reflected in the statements of most of the actors and collaborators, who are enthusiastic about being part of the celebrated franchise), rather than making a pile of money (in opposition to the studio, which pushes filmmakers to keep the age rating as low as possible in order to maximise profit). It is worth elaborating upon the reasoning as to why Prometheus had to be made, guided in spirit by the auteur theory (Scott’s fetish for strong female characters), and the fan-ish foundation on which the screenplay, written by a pair of relatively young writers who were admirers of the original Alien, is constructed. With respect to the thoroughness with which Scott polishes the narrative in order to make it as fluid and comprehensible as possible, it is a shame that the editing of the film, or rather the shaping of the right final version, did not get more space, but perhaps it simply did not require as much work as, for example, Kingdom of Heaven. But these are all minor issues that do not in any diminish the feeling that you have learned everything essential.
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Exhaustive (informatively, not for the viewer!) and with more items of interest and information since the Encyclopedia Britannica. Instead of being about Making Prometheus, this is more of a loose sequel to Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner, about how high-budget movies are made in the twenty-first century. As a result, it is the right (and, for many viewers, the only) reason to buy an original dvd of Prometheus.
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