Comments | trmanning: Rebuild of Evangelion

trmanning

Rebuild of Evangelion

Jan 30, 2008 23:49

Although I`m not really huge into anime in general, I am kinda stoked to see the new Evangelion movie, which is the first in a series of 4 movies that will retell the entire story that played out in the television series, changing various elements of the story in order to culminate everything in an ending that actually makes sense (unlike what ( Read more... )

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littlegirltoast January 30 2008, 18:17:39 UTC

That's an interesting prospect. I worry that compressing the storyline could damage the progressive sense of identification and empathy for the characters - part of what made the show great was the long periods of fairly idle, entertaining adventure episodes in between the soul-bludgeoning dark parts. Maybe it's possible to do over the course of eight or so hours rather than thirteen... you'll have to let me know!

littlegirltoast January 30 2008, 18:20:49 UTC

oh also - last night Audra and I finished watching Twin Peaks' second (and final) season, and I thought it was very interesting that they had chosen such an apt quote comparing Eva to that show on the box, because at least one, if not both, ending(s) of Eva is so severely indebted to the finale of Twin Peaks it's uncanny. The brutality with which they dispense with certain storylines is shocking, even having had a bunch of saggy episodes which squandered our investment in several characters. In Twin Peaks, that is. Eva's pretty tight the whole way through in terms of arc - I guess you get to (have to) plan animation out more than live shows.

littlegirltoast January 31 2008, 07:22:43 UTC

where the tv series dealt in so much pshycological asides, this is very likely going to be a much more straightforward and grounded version of the story, probably focusing on the physical events that take place rather than inner dialouges of the characters. The tv series eventually became of victim of its own complication, and the ret-conning of the story I think will serve to remove all the extraneous shit that overloaded everything.
Also a lot of the appeal is to simply see the evangelion saga presented in big budget theatrical quality animation and sound.
(at least for me it is anyway). big robots go smashy smashy.

littlegirltoast January 31 2008, 16:38:16 UTC

I think I'm pretty much only interested in the physical sequence of events as a stage for the psychological action... Eva's about people, primarily, and that's what has always set it above other giant mecha anime.

But that doesn't mean that nothing was extraneous, and good point about the animation quality - while the show was a study in judicious minimalism, it was definitely more because it was developed during a severe recession and they just plain couldn't afford any more frames than that.

honeybee17 February 9 2008, 05:13:36 UTC

can someone be warily excited? I think I am..

trmanning February 10 2008, 02:07:02 UTC

i went by the MOVIEPOP! theatre in namba yesterday and its not playing anymore its been replaced by some goddamn mr bean movie that nobody is going to watch.
I will check the tohoplex this weekend but if its not there fuck it im not going out of my way.
there` probably already bootlegs of it over in chinatown anyway