Reccuring Themes - Father & Son Conflict

• Some of his films feature strong conflicts between father and son that usually end with the latter killing the former (Blade Runner, Gladiator) or witnessing the event (Kingdom of Heaven, Robin Hood). The Lord of Darkness in Legend also mentions his "father" on a few occasions. As part of the conflict between father and son there are some repetitive scenes: in Gladiator, the son hugs the father seemingly as an expression of love but this embrace turns into the suffocation and death of the father. There is a similar sequence in Blade Runner. In Prometheus, the character David says "Doesn't everyone want their parents dead?" - Source: Wikipedia 

• Maximus kills his father (Gladiator)
• Roy Batter's main ambition is too meet and slaughter his father (Blade Runner)
• The alien kills it's own host in order to be born, which is an act of survival (Alien)
• The character David says "Doesn't everyone want their parents dead?" (Prometheus)
• It's as though these characters seek to all kill their makers all for similar reasons, some for revenge, others for survival but all of them seem to relate to this theme of 'becoming the alpha male' as though in order to survive as the superior being they must first defeat their predecessors to earn the alpha male title , this is actually one thing i've noticed in Scott's form of developing his characters.