stelok
05-17-2008, 08:02 AM
Favorite Predator film
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Predator culture revolves around the hunting and stalking of dangerous lifeforms. After making a kill, Predators typically skin or decapitate a carcass, converting it into a trophy. Failure in a hunt results in the Predator involved committing an honorable suicide. It is often alluded to that the reason Predators hunt is not for sustenance or elimination of threats, but as entertainment, as they will only attack life forms that have the ability to provide them with a challenge.Hunting is the cornerstone of the Yautja culture. When hunting humans, Predators normally avoid unarmed individuals, though they will spare armed ones if they happen to be pregnant or sickly.
A human who has managed to kill a Predator in single combat or has fought alongside one is usually given a trophy (often a rare or exotic weapon) as a sign of respect. Predators have a deep respect for Aliens and consider them to be worthy as hunting trophies. The Predators put adolescents through a dangerous coming of age ritual which is intended to weed the weak and breed the strong. The hunter's graduation/initiation rite is completed with the marking of his forehead with the acidic blood of his first kill.
Yautja/Predators have a code of honor. In the film Predator 2, the predator spared the pregnant female cop, the naked prostitute and the kid with a toy gun , who thought the predator was Casper the ghost. Perhaps he spared their lives because the prostitute was defenseless, the female cop was pregnant and the kid was only a kid. I guess the predator's code of honor forbids hunting and killing pregnant women, children and unarmed prey.
In the first AVP film, the surviving predator at first spared the life of the corporate mogul named Weyland because his infrared sensors told him he was ill. However he killed Weyland only after Weyland squandered the predator's mercy by attacking him. In the predator's view, there is no honor or sport in killing a sick prey.
In the first two Predator movies, the Predators are naked without armor. In the AVP movies, the predators wear armorplate but only when they are hunting "hard meat" xenomorphs.
When they are hunting only humans, they take off armor before that in order to perhaps give humans a fair and sporting chance. Yes, in both AVP films, they wore armor when they came on earth and killed humans . But they were here to hunt xenomorphs, not humans. The Prredators killed only humans who got in their way. It is also not against ther code to eliminate the ones who witnessed their attempts to keep the Xenomorph existence a secret. The predator also killed an armed man because he was threatening a mother and a child. However he spares the lives of the mother and the child.
The Yautja, being the ever-sportsmen, consider it unsporting and dishonorable to wear armor while hunting humans since any earthly projectile weapons cannot penetrate their diamond-hard armor plates, which had to be made of the same materials as their melee weapons.
In Predator 2 movie, the metallurgist, examining the blade, exclaims "it has almost no weight. Then Danny Glover's character adds, "But it cuts through steel". Only a xenomorph's stinger tail and acidic blood can penetrate the Yautja armor.
Links:
http://www.geocities.com/gunsandgod/intro.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yautja
http://members.iinet.net.au/~jaherne/thehunted/
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Predator culture revolves around the hunting and stalking of dangerous lifeforms. After making a kill, Predators typically skin or decapitate a carcass, converting it into a trophy. Failure in a hunt results in the Predator involved committing an honorable suicide. It is often alluded to that the reason Predators hunt is not for sustenance or elimination of threats, but as entertainment, as they will only attack life forms that have the ability to provide them with a challenge.Hunting is the cornerstone of the Yautja culture. When hunting humans, Predators normally avoid unarmed individuals, though they will spare armed ones if they happen to be pregnant or sickly.
A human who has managed to kill a Predator in single combat or has fought alongside one is usually given a trophy (often a rare or exotic weapon) as a sign of respect. Predators have a deep respect for Aliens and consider them to be worthy as hunting trophies. The Predators put adolescents through a dangerous coming of age ritual which is intended to weed the weak and breed the strong. The hunter's graduation/initiation rite is completed with the marking of his forehead with the acidic blood of his first kill.
Yautja/Predators have a code of honor. In the film Predator 2, the predator spared the pregnant female cop, the naked prostitute and the kid with a toy gun , who thought the predator was Casper the ghost. Perhaps he spared their lives because the prostitute was defenseless, the female cop was pregnant and the kid was only a kid. I guess the predator's code of honor forbids hunting and killing pregnant women, children and unarmed prey.
In the first AVP film, the surviving predator at first spared the life of the corporate mogul named Weyland because his infrared sensors told him he was ill. However he killed Weyland only after Weyland squandered the predator's mercy by attacking him. In the predator's view, there is no honor or sport in killing a sick prey.
In the first two Predator movies, the Predators are naked without armor. In the AVP movies, the predators wear armorplate but only when they are hunting "hard meat" xenomorphs.
When they are hunting only humans, they take off armor before that in order to perhaps give humans a fair and sporting chance. Yes, in both AVP films, they wore armor when they came on earth and killed humans . But they were here to hunt xenomorphs, not humans. The Prredators killed only humans who got in their way. It is also not against ther code to eliminate the ones who witnessed their attempts to keep the Xenomorph existence a secret. The predator also killed an armed man because he was threatening a mother and a child. However he spares the lives of the mother and the child.
The Yautja, being the ever-sportsmen, consider it unsporting and dishonorable to wear armor while hunting humans since any earthly projectile weapons cannot penetrate their diamond-hard armor plates, which had to be made of the same materials as their melee weapons.
In Predator 2 movie, the metallurgist, examining the blade, exclaims "it has almost no weight. Then Danny Glover's character adds, "But it cuts through steel". Only a xenomorph's stinger tail and acidic blood can penetrate the Yautja armor.
Links:
http://www.geocities.com/gunsandgod/intro.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yautja
http://members.iinet.net.au/~jaherne/thehunted/
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