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Crudup Breaks Down His Most Terrifying Scene [THR]

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Roger55

MemberChestbursterMay-26-2017 11:38 PM

Oram lost his wife and part of his crew, because he made a decision to come to this planet. So what was he hoping to accomplish by going with David into that basement?

You've got a character who goes through a crisis of faith, and their foundation is shaken and fractured, and they don't have the ability to make the best choices with the resources that they have. You want a moment of redemption, and the writers offered that in this moment, where [Oram] has to make a conscious decision about what it means for him to be a loving, thoughtful and passionate person in the world if he doesn't have this rigid dogma to hold on to. What is his litmus test? Ultimately it comes down to the protection of the people he loves. The crew that now he is in charge of taking care of. So when someone appears to be a dangerous influence, he finds the courage in himself to address it head-on. So that makes it a great moment of redemption and allows me to play right into Michael's hands as David, because David is the little puppet master there. [Oram's] moment of rising up ends up being his downfall, but you do have this moment where you think, "I'm so glad Oram was able to resurrect his belief in humanity and himself."

I hadn't considered what a great chance of redemption this was.

In the backstory, [director] Ridley [Scott] and [screenwriter] John [Logan] supposed that he had a kind of punitive Pentecostal upbringing that scarred him in many respects, but also gave him this foundation for his belief in God. One of the traditional Pentecostal belief systems, or a sect of the Pentecostal belief system, is the Holy Ghost could speak through you. So you have the symmetry of him actually being possessed at a certain point — not by the Holy Ghost, but by the devil. I just loved that. They quake in church and start speaking tongues and all the things that happen to you when you go through the chestbuster. I really loved the symmetry of all of that. I hope people will take the time and geek out on it, because there's a whole lot to digest with this movie. Ridley does a great job of creating an entire universe for people to go back to again and again and again and understand the expansive thought that went into all of the choices.

You got to work with the facehugger. What was shooting that like?

You want it to be an actual thing; you want them to have created a facehugger that you get to act with finally. But alas, it is smoke and mirrors, a beautifully crafted piece of rubber that they stick on you and you writhe in agony. Needless to say, approaching the egg was with much realistic trepidation because god damn — I saw the first movie and I know what happens if you go near the eggs, and I think the first take we did, I actually started to approach the egg and I can't do it and I start laughing, back up and Ridley is like "God damn it!" That was pretty special. www.hollywoodreporter.com

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sosse

MemberOvomorphMay-27-2017 12:36 AM

nice read

BioDegradable

MemberFacehuggerMay-27-2017 12:46 AM

his moment of redemption was when he shot that creature, that child of David, when it decided to make contact with David. Other than that not a great way to go down. Especially, since his character was a person of faith. What he got instead, is as he was given a slap into his face, saying "where is your God now?!". And before, he was considered a second class person, irrational, ostracized to the point that he had to be always second, as because he was thought to be a fundamentalist. He was not given a chance to give a speech on the sceene called the last supper by his commander, even though he appeared to be second person in order on a mission. Instead the commander gave courtessy to his partner, Daniels. So much stoicism, character building, issues to overcome purely because of religion and yet not to get any grace or show how all these sacrifices made sense, really. A big f.u. to theologically inclined people amongst us :)

Nice night for a walk : washday tomorrow, nothing clean, right?

The answer is irrelevant. Have a good journey...

Tonehound

MemberFacehuggerMay-27-2017 12:57 AM

This is exactly what many, many viewers and especially those who have so off handedly written off the movie have totally missed. There is so much going on beneath the surface of this and the other instalments of this film that it is impossible to digest everything in 1-2 sittings.

There is so much more going on here than meets the eye.

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