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David and Elizabeth in Prometheus

 “Noomi saw a childlike similarity between David and her character Elizabeth Shaw, since he is also childlike and curious about the outside world.

Fassbender agreed that he thought that was why David took a particular interest in her, even while she was in cryostasis, while she’s asleep and he goes into her dreams and Fassbender thought that this was an intrusive things to do to her, but he was curious about her throughout.

Her character would be seen to make making her various discoveries and there’s something about her that’s different from the rest of the crew members, a certain curiosity.

So Fassbender thought that David was investing in her more than he is any of the other crew members on board, and so found her a interesting case.

Perhaps David was fascinated that she was a scientist and yet she had a belief, this faith which we know little about but she is using science to prove her faith and so David likes the the film Lawrence of Arabia and so David would be comparing her to Lawrence of that film, having a clear vision and going to get tto it no matter what.

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Noomi understanding was that David was not supposed to have his own agenda and when Noomi was being Elizabeth, she would have to correct herself and remind herself that David was a robot, a computer and then at one point in the movie, she would feel this huge rage, and anger towards him and then remind herself that he was a hard disk with no soul or emotions, and he wouldn’t really understand her as a human who has a soul.

Elizabeth Shaw would be the heart and soul in and David the brains, and they could be a good team.

Fassbender agreed with this point of view although he saw his character as a hard arse/ass rather than a hard disc”

Source: http://alienexplorations.blogspot.it/2012/07/?m=1

I personally find interesting how David compared Elizabeth to the Lawrence of Arabia of his favorite movie. The same character he hidentifies himself with (but in his situation mostly for “Romantic” resosns: because they both, David and Lawrence, are different from anyone else, are “strangers”, because of their isolation, because they both feel special, not ordinary men). I wrote about the parallels between Elizabeth and Lawrence here: https://gothic-fiction-in-space.tumblr.com/post/169015685863/gothic-fiction-in-space-why-david-has-fallen-in 

Elizabeth put David back together, during their journey to the Engineers’ planet, because she pitied him, in the end, but also because she has never really seen David as a person worth of her resentment, worth of her anger. Davis was a computer in human form to her, someone was programmed to be amoral and dangerous, not because he really was dangerous and cruel by his choice. Fassbender knew better when he saiod that to him, David was more a “hard arse” rather than an “hard disc”, I think.

Maybe that’s why Daniels, in Alien: Covenant, is the only one that doubts of David, the only one that doesn’t trust David: because she is used to look at synthetics as people, and so, she put more attention to their behavior. Daniels is always trying to “humanize” Walter during Alien: Covenant, especially in the deleted scenes. We know, thanks to some interviews, that Daniels’ best friends, her favorite people, even before the events of Covenant movie, are Tennesse, Faris, and Walter: a synthetic out of all the humans of the crew. Daniels doesn’t allow Walter to say he “thinks about everything” and helps her only because he’s programmed to do that, only because it’s his duty: Daniels gives value to Walter’s “kindness”. When Walter sees David and gets a little struck by the realization he (Walter) is only a copy of someone else, a copy of David, that there are “others” like him, Daniels try to make him look at David as a “distant relative”, she tries to “humanize” him, to give value to his “uniqueness”, even if Walter sees David more as a “distant me”. Daniels smiles a bit while she’s comparing Walter and David to two relatives: she’s trying to be kind and warm even in that gruesome situation.