BackgroundAtlantic City(1981) is a sad, unsentimental, evocative and bleak character study by French New Wave director Louis Malle.He complained about his sinking X-wing fighter, now submerged in the muck, and feared he could never leave.Bilbo voiced their belief in good omens: "I do believe the worst is behind us," as hey watched a thrush fly to the mountainside.[Had he disappeared? What was his unknown fate?] The film concluded with a slow tracking shot toward the decomposed, rotted head of Mrs.The crew of a spaceship namedPrometheus, funded by the Weyland Corporation, headed off to the distant moon LV-223 in another star system and landed there in the year 2093 after a 2 year, 4 1/2 month journey.