204 Movie Questions (20pts)

  • Write all answers in your bound journal
  • Make it NEAT and in COMPLETE SENTENCES, and clearly number the questions you are answering.
  • Develop your thought, and be ready to share your answer in class.
  • -2pt if you do not title and date the entry
  • -1pt (per infraction) if you do not clearly number the questions for your responses
  1. The 1979 movie Alien starts the journey with a distress signal that ends up being a warning. Explain how this could be a "crisis of the soul" when exploring the concepts of the divine.
  2. What were the three questions Peter Weyland posed for taking the journey?
  3. Why was Shaw recruited for the journey?
  4. Why did David (the robot) need to use a space suit?
  5. During Holloway's discussion with David at the pool table, he says "I forgot you are not a real boy..." explain how this statement and other reactions by the crew members trivialize David's existence.
  6. Using David and Holloway's discussion (below), explain how this verbal interaction goes against the fabric of purpose seen in many religions.
    • David: "Why did your people make me?"
    • Holloway: "We made you because we could."
    • David: "How disappointed would you feel hearing this from your creator?"
  7. Right before David laced Holoway's drink, he poses the question to Holloway "How far would you go to get what you came all this way for?" How far would you go to get concrete definitive answers on the presence of God and your purpose in life?
  8. Holloway presents the question to Shaw, "Don't you want to know why they came...why they abandoned us?" Explain this question as it pertains to present day philosophies about God. What do you feel about this statement in regard to the divine?
  9. In the Judeo-Christian Old Testament, many believe that the personification of the divine clearly has a love hate relationship with its creation of humans (read any biblical account of God destroying humans), Using this as a link, why does the engineer violently attack the crew?
  10. What was Weyland's real reason for taking the journey?
  11. What is Shaw's undying question even to the end?
  12. Give three major questions this movie produces?