Gravity - Gravitalien - Alien

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Film Scenario Explorations

a) When Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity came out, already because of the poster I started to imagine chains of aliens connecting together streaming through the poster as if they were travelling around on an invisible roller coaster. See Gravitalien Poster

b) During the time I watched the movie Gravity at the cinema, which starred Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, I had reveries about aliens throwing themselves through space in the manner of  Russian satellite wreckage and landing on the different space crafts and space stations before swarming the vessel. There was also the question about what these vessels might have become on closer exploration.

c) When Sandra Bullock's character got into the Russian space station, and there were sparks and flames spreading around the construction,  I thought about these being the alien creature, hiding in a cabinet in place of where small flames were coming out from being discharged into the air, and then the rest beginning to chase Sandra's character through the interior and then she shuts them out with an impenetrable doorway before she leaves via a capsule. I continued to imagine the aliens floating around in the darkness waiting to grab onto the next vessel and the next person floating in space.

The late J G Ballard

d) Tombs in space from JG Ballard "Memory of the Space Age"
Seeing the space shuttle in the depths of space and later a floating wreck containing dead bodies made me think of the odd tomb like nature of the place, and later Sandra Bullock's character was just about to give up and die in her space capsule making that place become her tomb. I was also very inspired by the writer J G Ballard's idea of dead astronauts killed in accidents in outerspace and their rocket capsules becoming orbiting coffins such as in his story Memory of the Space Age. This was the author who was approached to write the novelisation of Alien and refused since he wasn't interested in the script but was actually quite inspired by what Ridley had done with the script. I had also been thinking about tombs out in space with giant aliens sealed inside. My interests had been brought to surface in 2013 movie Gravity where the space shuttle is transformed into a spinning tomb with its dead astronauts trapped in the cockpit.

e) Tombs in space transforming into Pakal Votan tomb lids  into Mayan rocketmen
I had started to think again about remains of giant ancient alien astronauts stuck out in space and began returning to the concept of the ancient Mayan rocket man as perceived in the Pakal Votan Tomb lid. Later I was able to discover that HR Giger had been inspired for at least a couple of paintings by the Pakal Votan tomb lid.  (See also: Pakal Votan Tomb lid)

Pakal Votan Tomb lid

f) There have been fantastic tales about the possibility of pre-ancient space vehicle wreckage in the outer orbits of space with no serious scientific basis given for it but it caught the imagination as with many mysteries. I thought about how in Prometheus the Mayan Space Jockey based on the Pakal Votan tomb lid that had become known as the Mayan Rocket Man because of it's a likeness to an astronaut in a space capsule.  So the two astronauts from Gravity are travelling through space as they did together to get to the Space Shuttle and later the Russian space station. I am imagining though a Lanard's Space Rocket capsule toy for 3 3/4 scale figures with the side opening up with double doors to reveal the cockpit inside and this has been roughly converted into a Mayan rocket capsule and here we find the giant skeleton of the space jockey. The aliens appear to be floating through space from one thing to another almost like some sort of sea creatures because I can not be bothered to think about the dangers that aliens must presently present. (See also: drawing aliens after Gravity)

http://www.jomitoys.com/2010/02/star-force-1998-space-capsule.html

g) The revery continues that if Ridley had thought about making a Prometheus sequel by taking some sort of a film joke from the previous movie as the basis for the next one as had often been done with the Alien movies, maybe the Mayan Space Jockey would be the next point of discussion. However I would have like a rocket capsule for the Mayan Space Jockey that would be like something that came from a Giger painting just as the derelict ship in Alien was.