Ridley Scott’s new Alien forerunner Prometheus is as much about the age-old big question — the origin of life on Earth — than it is a horror film with extra-terrestrials. But Prometheus, released in theaters this week, isn’t the only science fiction film to explore man’s attempt to reach into the stars and find our maker.
Star Trek V: The Final
Frontier: William Shatner directed this 1989 theatrical outing of the
U.S.S. Enterprise crew as an obsessed Vulcan claims to communicate with God,
takes over Captain Kirk’s ship, and speeds everyone along in a voyage across
the galaxy to meet our maker.
2001: A Space Odyssey
and 2010: The Year We Make Contact:
Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece 2001: A
Space Odyssey dealt with man’s attempt to contact alien life near Jupiter
— the same aliens that brought life to our planet and helped it grow. In
the 1984 follow-up, 2010: The Year We
Make Contact, humankind must deal with the consequences of contacting that
life. The films are based on two of the novels in Arthur C. Clarke’s Space Odyssey series.
Contact: Jodie
Foster plays a young astronomer who is given the opportunity to travel into
space and meet the alien species that contacted us in 1997’s Contact, based on Carl Sagan’s novel. What
she learns in the process is that humans are not alone in contemplating the
meaning of life and the origins of our universe.
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