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大衛8
《異形》角色
File:David - Promotional Video.jpg
短片《大衛8介紹：新一代韋蘭集團機器人》中的大衛，由麥可·法斯賓達飾演
首次登場《普羅米修斯》（2012年）
最後登場《異形：聖約》（2017年）
创作者
饰演麥可·法斯賓達
角色设定信息
物種人形機器人
性別男性
職業
  • 管家
  • 維修員

大衛8，大多簡稱大衛，是一名出現在《異形》系列電影中的虛構角色，由德裔爱尔兰男演員麥可·法斯賓達飾演。他是一個由彼得·韋蘭設計的男性人形機器人，在《異形》系列電影的首部前傳電影《普羅米修斯》（2012年）中，以管家、維修員和韋蘭的「兒子」的身分首度登場。他負責幫助「普羅米修斯號」的人類船員和韋蘭到遙遠行星LV-223探險，尋找創造人類的外星種族——工程師。然而，大衛逐漸著迷於自行創造生命的概念。在韋蘭死於工程師手下後，大衛不需再聽令於人類，於是開始進行生物研究，著手創造新的生物——异形。

在《普羅米修斯》中，編劇打算在人類追尋他們的創造者的主題中，安插一個非人類的視角，大衛這個角色因而誕生。大衛由人類創造，而人類又是由工程師創造，因此他的階層比另外兩者都低。然而，大衛逐漸對他的創造者人類，甚至他的創造者的創造者工程師感到失望，自認較兩者優越，進而決定毀滅兩者。演員法斯賓達是導演雷利·史考特心目中的首選，而法斯賓達也協助塑造、建構了大衛這個角色。隨著劇情的發展，大衛逐漸從一個動機不明的神秘人物，變成一個公然試圖摧毀人類福祉的角色。

儘管兩部《異形》前傳電影《普羅米修斯》和《異形：聖約》（2017年）的整體評價褒貶不一，但法斯賓達的演技和大衛的角色設定始終獲得影評人的好評。影評人主要稱讚大衛在《異形：聖約》中發展成反派的劇情，甚至將大衛譽為有史以來最棒的《異形》角色，以及2010年代最棒的電影反派之一。法斯賓達也憑藉著他飾演大衛的表現入圍或榮獲多項大獎。

角色設計

創作

編劇喬·史派茨（英语：Jon Spaihts）在一部《異形》前傳《異形：工程師》（Alien: Engineers）的初稿中，創造了大衛這個角色。在劇本中，大衛是一個服務於太空船「普羅米修斯號」上的人形機器人，於劇情上扮演著探索「創造生命」主題的角色。「普羅米修斯號」的人類船員希望能發現他們的創造者——工程師，但大衛的創造者就已經在他的面前。與其他人形機器人不同的是，大衛認為他的創造者們是劣等生物，對他們感到失望。《異形》系列電影的主創兼導演雷利·史考特對此概念深表讚賞，並請來另一位編劇戴蒙·林道夫來推動並改寫這個故事。這就是日後的《普羅米修斯》（2012年）[1]。雖然大衛認為普羅米修斯號的這趟任務毫無意義，但對創造者人類的那份失望，讓他對「創造生命」這檔事有了極大興趣。因此，他在劇中將帶有外星生物的「黑水」混入飲料中，給考古學家查理·哈洛維（Charlie Holloway）喝下去，導致哈洛維被異種附身的行為，就是出於他對於自行創造新物種的渴望[2]。在第二部《異形》前傳兼《普羅米修斯》的續集《異形：聖約》（2017年）上映部酒後，史考特解釋道，大衛在對人類和工程師得到更多認識後，「逐漸討厭、鄙視兩者」，並得出結論——消滅人類和工程師可以讓宇宙更美好[3]。

在與人類角色的關係方面，大衛不只是其創造者彼得·韋蘭的「兒子」，也是韋蘭親生但疏遠的女兒梅莉迪絲·維克斯（Meredith Vickers）的替代品。飾演維克斯的女演員莎莉·賽隆說明，史考特認為韋蘭家族和韋蘭公司應該由男性主導，而韋蘭似乎就只有維克斯一個女兒。因此，韋蘭設計大衛也是為了取代維克斯，來維護家族的父權體制[4]。Throughout the eight-month rewrite process leading directly into principal photography, Damon Lindelof focused on enhancing David's bondage to Weyland and the Prometheus- despite David being designed to be a surrogate son, he would actually be a proverbial captive to the master and his ship.[5] With Weyland's death at the hands of the awakened Engineer, David's programming has run its course and every action he takes from thereon out is by his own volition, essentially freeing him.[6] A philosophical element Scott raised about the David 8 model is that he exemplifies the dangers of making an android sentient- with him having the capacity for free will and the ability to create, he crosses a moral boundary that other androids stay within. The contrast between David and the others androids was developed further in Alien: Covenant, with the creation of the physically identical character Walter, who was made more robotic and unable to create on his own.[7]

演員

Fassbender, who was Ridley Scott's ideal choice for the role, disregarded previous portrayals of androids from the Alien franchise and modeled the character after a number of other sources.

Throughout the development stage of the production of Prometheus, director Ridley Scott considered German-Irish actor Michael Fassbender to be his top choice to portray David. In January 2011, Fassbender was confirmed to have joined the cast of Prometheus.[8] Fassbender was provided with a significant amount of free rein for modeling the character as he saw fit. Rather than taking inspiration from the previous Alien installments, Fassbender studied Sean Young's character Rachael, a replicant in Blade Runner, noting her vacant demeanor. Fassbender drew inspiration from a number of other film performances, including Douglas Rain as HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey, David Bowie in The Man Who Fell to Earth, and Dirk Bogarde in The Servant. Additionally, Fassbender modeled his walk around American Olympic diver Greg Louganis.[9]

In the screenplay for Prometheus, David is noted as being unusually fond of the 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia, with the character viewing parallels to himself, as they both have unfaltering pursuits of the objectives. As such, Fassbender elected to model much of his performance and appearance around the Peter O'Toole depiction of T. E. Lawrence.[10] Fassbender would continue to have his role make references to Lawrence of Arabia in Alien: Covenant by having David play samplings of the soundtrack on his flute.[11] For his first appearance in Prometheus, Fassbender, a natural brunette, dyed his hair blonde and fashioned it into a style influenced by Lawrence.[12] Scott requested that Fassbender dye his hair for the role, in order to provide the character with an otherworldly and unsettling appearance.[13]

劇中表現

《普羅米修斯》

As the science vessel Prometheus heads for the moon LV-223, David maintains the ship and passes time by engaging in leisurely activities, monitoring the crew members' dreams, watching films and studying the Proto-Indo-European language that the Engineers are believed to speak. Upon arrival, a holographic presentation by the supposedly deceased Peter Weyland introduces David as his surrogate son. David, along with the bulk of the crew, embark on a ground excursion towards one of the artificial structures containing submerged Engineer ships. Inside, David utilizes his linguistic knowledge to activate an ancient hologram depicting Engineers fleeing through the corridors of the ship. Pursuing the hologram, he finds a room filled with urns containing a black mutagen. As an incoming windstorm is detected, David bags one of the urns and returns it to Prometheus. Aboard the ship, David assists Shaw with studying an Engineer head. David is instructed by an unidentified voice on a radio to "try harder", prompting him to gather a drop of mutagen from the urn and use it to infect Holloway as he drinks champagne.[14]

The following day, there is another excursion to the Engineer ship, with David providing Weyland Corporation executive Meredith Vickers with a live stream of his own private investigation. However, he cuts Vickers off from the feed and keeps it exclusive to a private audience. David makes his way to the ship's flight deck, where he activates a hologram revealing that the Engineers were looking to travel to Earth and that there is a single Engineer in cryosleep. David and the rest of the team return to Prometheus when Holloway's infection from the mutagen becomes apparent, prompting Vickers to incinerate him with a flamethrower. David checks Shaw's vitals and informs her that she is "pregnant", as a result of Holloway passing the mutagen to her when they had intercourse the night before. After Shaw surgically extracts an alien parasite from her abdomen, she happens into the private quarters of David's previously unidentified director — the still-alive Peter Weyland.[14]

David prepares Weyland for an excursion to the Engineer ship. Shaw asks David about his freedom after Weyland's eventual demise, to which he ominously asks about every child's dream of having their parents dead. He leads the team to the flight deck of the ship, where he awakens and speaks with the Engineer, who reacts by decapitating him and killing the rest of the team, save for Shaw. David's severed head watches from the floor as the Engineer launches the ship and attempts to embark for Earth. After the ship is disabled by Prometheus getting purposely crashed into it, David warns Shaw that the Engineer is coming for her. David contacts Shaw after she escapes the Engineer and convinces her to retrieve his head and body, so that he may pilot another ship. Shaw dictates that she will cooperate with him if he takes them to the Engineer home world, which he agrees to, despite not understanding her motivations. Together, they depart from the moon aboard an Engineer ship.[14]

《異形：聖約》

Shortly after his creation, David becomes acquainted with a young Peter Weyland, who introduces himself as the android's creator and "father". Weyland asks him what his name is and upon observing David by Michelangelo, states that his name is David. As David plays the piano, Weyland states that they will together seek out humanity's creator. David remarks that Weyland will die, while he himself is incapable of death. An agitated Weyland responds by ordering David to prepare him a cup of tea.[15]

Following David and Shaw's exodus for the Engineer home world, they arrive at a temple surrounded by scores of Engineers. David carpet bombs them with the mutagen, resulting in the extinction of all non-floral life on the planet, as well as mutations in the flora that can infect and impregnate organisms with Neomorphs. The Engineer ship crashes afterwards and Shaw dies from unknown means, though David preserves and utilizes her body in his eugenics experiments.[15] Eleven years later, a team from the colony ship Covenant is attacked by two Neomorphs that burst from two of their bodies. David intervenes by frightening them away with a flare gun. He urges the survivors to follow him to the temple, where he has established his laboratory. Sporting overgrown hair, David introduces himself and offers them shelter, while learning about the 2,000 colonists and 1,000 embryos in stasis aboard Covenant. He takes a special interest in the successor model from his own synthetic line, Walter, and tells him that Shaw died when the Engineer ship crashed. David claims to have loved Shaw and compares it to Walter's attachment to the terraforming expert Daniels, which Walter dismisses as being impossible. David attempts to bond with Walter by teaching him to play the flute. Walter explains that, while he is more advanced, he has been inhibited from creating, due to David's more human-like idiosyncrasies and ability to think for himself causing a disturbance with people around him.[15]

After a Neomorph attacks and decapitates Covenant security officer Rosenthal, David approaches it and pacifies it by attempting to communicate. The ship's captain, Christopher Oram, kills the Neomorph, upsetting David. Held at gunpoint by Oram, David shows him how he has been utilizing the mutagen to try and engineer the "perfect organism", with the Neomorphs being one of the outcomes. David leads Oram to a room filled with Alien Eggs or Ovomorphs, where Oram is attacked and impregnated by a Facehugger by forcing its ovipositor down his throat. David watches as Oram awakens a short time later and dies as an Alien Xenomorph bursts out of his chest. Having discovered the dissected and mutilated corpse of Shaw, Walter confronts David, stating that he knows that David killed her, along with the Engineers. Walter rejects David's offer to join him, prompting David to impale him through the neck with his flute, apparently terminating him.[15]

David encounters Daniels, who he attacks and attempts to force himself upon her. Walter intervenes and the two androids engage in a fight. Though Walter has the upper-hand, David reaches for a knife and defeats Walter, secretly assuming his identity. David escapes with the few survivors aboard a cargo lander, which is used to kill an Alien giving chase. Aboard Covenant, the ship's mainframe computer, MU/TH/UR, ("Mother"), informs the crew that an "unidentified life form" has stowed away. David coordinates with Daniels and the ship's pilot, Tennessee, to lead the Alien to the terraforming bay, where the creature is flushed into space. David helps Tennessee into cryosleep, followed by Daniels. Before Daniels goes to sleep, she mentions her dream about a cabin on the lake, which she had previously told Walter about. When David does not recognize her story, Daniels realizes who he is and panics, before David puts her into cryosleep. David regurgitates two Alien embryos and stores them in cold storage next to the human embryos. With the humans and embryos at his mercy, he sends out a transmission impersonating Walter that states that all the crew members, save for Daniels and Tennessee, were killed in a neutrino blast and that they are still en route to their original destination, Origae-6.[15]

其他

[[:File:Prometheus Viral 3 - David.jpg|thumb|upright|A full-page advertisement printed in The Wall Street Journal in 2012, featuring Fassbender as David8. The character was prominently featured throughout the marketing for Prometheus.]] David has been featured in a number of promotional materials for the Alien prequel films. For Prometheus, rather than focusing on the film's connection with the Alien canon, the marketing team emphasized central characters, most prominently David.[16] On March 17, 2012, director Ridley Scott hosted a panel for Prometheus at WonderCon, where attendees were provided with Weyland Corporation business cards that provided a website and telephone number. Upon calling the number, callers were played an automated message that stated that Weyland Corporation's lines were busy, at which point a text message was sent that linked to a video narrated by Fassbender that showed David being unboxed, prior to his awakening.[17] A month later, on April 17, an extended version of the unboxing video was released, with David providing additional insight into his function aboard the Prometheus as the ship's butler and maintenance man, as well as advertising his ability to seamlessly replicate human emotions without the restrictions of ethics or distress. Released with the video was also a poster featuring David, which was printed as a full-page advertisement in The Wall Street Journal.[18]

Prior to the release of Alien: Covenant, 20th Century Fox released online two prologue short films directed by Ridley Scott. Following a first short film called "The Last Supper" about the crew of the Covenant prior to going into cryosleep, the second part called "The Crossing", connecting the continuities of Prometheus and Alien: Covenant, was released on April 26, 2017. In The Crossing, Shaw reattaches David's head to his body as they voyage through space aboard an Engineer ship towards the species' home world. Shaw enters cryosleep in a shipboard chamber, leaving David awake and alone. The ship arrives at the home world and above a massive gathering of Engineers around a temple, David prepares to drop the urns of mutagen on them.[19]

迴響

評價

Despite the lukewarm reception of the Alien prequel films, Michael Fassbender's portrayal of David was met with critical acclaim, with his performance generally considered to be the standout.[20] Following the critics screening of Prometheus in May 2012, critics from a number of media companies, including /Film and Screen International, proclaimed Fassbender to have been the highlight of the film.[21] Forrest Wickman of Slate magazine lauded Fassbender for being able to emulate uncanny valley through his mannerisms alone and ranked David as being the greatest portrayal of an android to date.[22] Philip French from The Guardian praised the character for being a cross between the fictional valet Jeeves, created by P. G. Wodehouse, and a double agent commonly found in an English Renaissance theatre production. French further complimented the character for paying homage to T. E. Lawrence by being portrayed as a control freak caught between two cultures- the parallel in Prometheus being that David is caught between humanity and synthetics.[23] Referencing the Titan Prometheus of Greek mythology, Kwaak Je-yup stated in his review of Prometheus that Fassbender "steals fire" in every scene, upstaging Noomi Rapace's leading performance as Shaw.[24]

David's character arc throughout the Alien prequel series, with his role becoming increasingly central, has been lauded by critics. Kevin Lincoln of Vulture magazine described David as being the best cinematic villain in years, due to his dynamic personality and ability to win against the characters in Alien: Covenant.[25] John Squires of Bloody Disgusting praised David for supplanting the main protagonist of the first four films, Ellen Ripley, as the overall best character of the franchise in 2017. Squires perceived David's passion to become a creator in Alien: Covenant as a retroactive explanation for poisoning Holloway in Prometheus.[26] Eschewing from most reviews, Wenlei Ma from News.com.au complimented Fassbender's ability to portray David, though she criticized the mystery lost by revealing the character's true intentions.[27]

榮譽

Michael Fassbender has earned a number of awards and nominations for his portrayal of David. Fassbender won Best Supporting Actor at the 2012 edition of the Fright Meter Awards, an annual horror film awards event.[28] He was nominated by the London Film Critics Circle Awards 2012 for Supporting Actor of the Year, but lost to Philip Seymour Hoffman in The Master.[29] At the 39th Saturn Awards, Fassbender was nominated for Best Supporting Actor, losing to Clark Gregg's portrayal of Phil Coulson in The Avengers.[30][31]

出場作品

  • Prometheus (2012)
  • Prometheus (novel) (2012)
  • Alien: The Weyland-Yutani Report (2014)
  • Alien: Covenant (2017)
  • Alien: Covenant (novel) (2017)

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