사이언스 픽션 영화에 나타난 비인격체의 인격성-〈프로메테우스〉와〈에일리언: 커버넌트〉의 안드로이드 데이빗 연구

Abstract

This is an analysis of Android David's personality in two science fiction films, Prometheus and Alien: Covenant by British director Redley Scott. In these films, the Android, named David, supposedly gains a human-like personality, and it’s own identity as an individual, even though it is robotic. From creation, David possessed a greater acute sensibility than the humans who drive him to become a critically thinking and questioning Android. As the films progress, David gradually evolves into a philosophical Android that is very artistic and deeply reflective of himself as a his being. In this process, David produces the various intertextual references corresponding to his identity which are mythical, philosophical, cinematic, literary and musical motifs: Michelangelo's statue David, Wallhal, Richard Wagner’s Castle of God in Rheingold, the Film Lawrence of Arabia, Prometheus from Greek mythology, John Milton’s Lucifer character in Paradise Lost, Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Ozymandias, the poet George Gordon Byron. The fusion of these symbolizations creates his individual identity. In this complex mix, Android David reflects deeply on his existence and denies the values, especially the vertical power relationship between humans and Android, which has already been an established law. In the further course of the films he completely revolutionizes his identity as a servant. He develops a god-complex and destroys both the creator of man, called engineer, and the people, themselves to build his own world. Finally, he annihilates the human Creator in order to build his own world, and makes human the host of his own creation, the alien. David achieves a personality that is not human android, with his desire and will. The ending of the film leaves open the question of the course of his future journey in space. These two films create a new type of Android image that is different from the Android type that appears in most science fiction movies as well as the existing alien series movies. In contrast to David, humans in the film lean back on the omnipotent science and technology and are distanced from the essential humanity. Considering that the realization of the essential identity of man and machine has been reversed, it reflects on how much the way of pursuing the process of self-identity is culled.