By Robbie Graham
Silver Screen Saucers
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Michael Fassbender inspects alien writing closely resembling Sumerian cuneiform in Prometheus (2012) |
It’sno secret that Ridley Scott’s
Prometheus is inspired by theAncient Astronaut theory of UFOlogy – Scott himself has testified to this inmultiple interviews. However, it has been unclear throughout the promotion ofhis upcoming movie whether Scott personally believes in ET life and visitation,or if he is using these concepts merely as narrative devices. In the currenthard-copy issue of
Empire magazine, however, Scott finally ‘outs’ himself as aproponent of the Ancient Astronaut theory, saying:
“In the ‘60s there was a guy calledErich Von Daniken who did a very popular book called Chariots of the Gods?, andhe proposed previsitation, which we all pooh-poohed. But the more we get intoit, the more science accepts the fact that we’re not alone in this universe,and there’s every feasible chance that there’s more of us, not exactly as weare, but creatures that are organically living in other parts of thisparticular galaxy. (Stephen) Hawking said he thinks that there are and that hehopes they don’t visit. Because if they do, they’re way ahead of us.”
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Noomi Rapace presents evidence of ancient extraterrestrial contact inPrometheus (2012) |
Whenasked by Empire if he personally believes Earth has been visited byextraterrestrials in its ancient past, Scott replies:
“I think it’s entirely logical. Theidea that we’ve been here three billion years and nothing happened until 75,000years ago is absolute nonsense. If something happened here two billion yearsago, if there was a civilization at least equal to ours, there would be nothingleft after two billion years. It would be carbon. We talk about Atlantis andcities under water that have long gone, long submerged, but they’re in therelatively recent past. I’m talking about one-and-a-half-billion years ago –was this planet really empty? I don’t think so.”
Onthe subject of
Prometheus,
Infowars.com recently posted a videofeaturing musings on the movie from the high priest of the conspiracycommunity, Alex Jones. The video – in which Jones claims to expose the “secret”behind
Prometheus – is introduced by
Infowars.com as follows (
Note: MUST be read aloud in growly Southernaccent!)…
“Thesecret is that the elite believe they are attaining godhood and are destinedfor the stars. Their ancient and occultic views are reflected in the darkthemes of Prometheus, the very nameof which hints at the quest for eternity and power among a group who think adivine right bestowed by a higher intelligence gives credence to their meddlingwith the affairs of common man.”
And here is Jones himself…
Jones says Prometheus is “more than just a film” and that it is, in fact, “a revelation” of theIlluminati’s diabolical plans to manipulate humanity’s evolutionary process through genetic engineering.But is the movie a conscious and subtle expose of these alleged plans, or abrazen celebration of them? Jones neatly avoids addressing this question andseems to dismiss the idea that the movie is just “art imitating life” – that RidleyScott and his writers have simply been inspired by the literature of Erich VonDanekin and Zecharia Sitchin, and, indeed, by the subplot for Scott’s own 1979movie, Alien.
Is there a hidden hand behind Prometheus? If so, thenJones doesn’t specify to whom that hand might belong or which individuals in the filmmaking process it might hold in its dirty grip. Are we talking here about Ridley Scott?About the movie’s writers, Jon Spaihts and Damon Lindelof? Or producersDavid Giler and Walter Hill? At what point did The Illuminati sit down anddecide to make Prometheus (if that is what Jones is suggesting)? And for whatconceivable purpose? Presumably, at least one of the aforementioned Hollywoodcreatives was present at the Illuminati Prometheus meeting – else how could movie’scontent be tailored to the elite’s specifications? Alternatively, if Jones issuggesting that Prometheus is an expose rather than a celebration of theIlluminati’s agenda, again the question should be raised: are Ridley Scott and/ormembers of his creative team reallyconsciously blowing the whistle? And, if so, at whose behest?
As someone who has written and lectured extensively about the
symbiotic relationship between Washington and Tinseltown, I am fully cognizant ofthe fact that Hollywood has long been used as a conduit for elite propaganda, buteven I recognize that, sometimes, a movie is just a movie – especially whenabsolutely no evidence is available to suggest otherwise.