NOTES ON THE STORY:
For me, this story was like the ritual ex-girlfriends go through on Valentine's Day to banish the memory of boyfriends of old by cutting up and burning an old photo of him in a bin. I needed catharsis. There were too many problems with a film that should have been a real great, and ended up being greatly flawed. Such an epic story.
Now that it's finished, I feel much better. It was a selfish story, just for me. Unfortunately, if I'd written it without publishing it, the ritual would have been incomplete.
I got a little bored before I introduced the Engineer and so had a little fun with it from there. I wanted the engineer to just be a normal guy and an overly-officious security guard. I wanted Elizabeth to be my main target for ridicule (she represented Ridley Scott. such brilliant ideas but such bad mistakes!). For David, I just wanted the joke to be about the attitudes towards him and his politeness in asking if anyone wanted a cup of tea (with reference to Meredith Vickers confrontation of him about Weyland. "Cup of tea, ma'am?"). Such technological brilliance and yet so easy to poke fun at during the film (Weyland's, Vickers' and Charlie's attitudes towards him, are examples).
The references to Jurassic park: Elizabeth uses it to give an example of evasion to David. She says she was scared. she then uses the same example talking to an alien who's obviously never seen Jurassic park (a bit of fun at the expense of Elizabeth's idiocy), but this time, she is confused herself as she's no longer talking about evasion, but fear. She's confusing herself and reaching desperately for an excuse for her actions. She repeats the Jurassic park reference later to show the reader that she is a bit simple and hasn't a clue what she's saying. From that, the punch line at the end wrote itself.
The Se7en reference: Vanessa was angry and got a little confused. In her confusion, she somehow segued into the monologue of Kevin Spacey towards the end of the film in the police car.
There's also a 'Dead Parrot' reference in there too. I think it was apt.
Like I say, I just wanted a bit of fun. We deserved more. The actors deserved more. The Xenomorphs deserved more!
Hope all Prometheus lovers aren't too unhappy with it.
