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- From: ed@cwis.unomaha.edu (Dusk Thornwell)
- Subject: Re: Aeon Flux
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 18:52:21 GMT
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- bkeener@cs.ulowell.edu (Brian E. Keener) writes:
-
- >LTV on 11/17 kind of bit until Aeon Flux... I thought it was the best
- > episode they've had all season.
- >Now that it's pretty much certain that each scenario is entirely independent
- > of the others, but with the same characters, I hope they bring back
- > the second girl in future episodes... perhaps even make her the
- > heroine. She is infinitely less clumsy.
-
- There will be one more episode this season, I don't know if the girl you
- like will be in it. No more AF's have been made beyond that. WRITE TO
- MTV and tell them you want it!
-
- Oh...don't take my word for it...here's an excerpt from the Peter Chung
- interview that'll be in the January issue of SOUND.
-
-
-
- "Originally I had the idea of doing something like Aeon Flux for quite a
- long time. It's basically my reaction to seeing Hollywood
- action/adventure
- movies and wanting to do something that kind of showed viewers what was
- always implicit but what those films never really delivered. Which was
- basically having the main character doing all the standard heroic
- things,
- but doing so in what I would call a 'moral vacuum' in which you don't
- really know why she's doing the things she's doing but you're kind of
- caught up in the action. And seeing how viewers would, how far along
- you
- could lead them on (laugh) until the point where she dies in a very
- ridiculous manner and it's been interesting to see what people think of
- that. I mean some people hate to see her die and other people think
- it's
- funny. The intention was to make you wonder about whether she was a
- good
- person or a bad person to begin with...and I don't know what YOU
- thought..."
-
- (I mentioned the imagery and extreme violence)
-
- "Well, that was an attempt to get it to tie into the whole Liquid TV
- concept which was to, basically, do a show that was satire and spoofed
- various genres of things that were out there. The thing that I chose
- was
- heroic action/adventure movies. I don't think it's that far from what
- you
- actually see in say, an Arnold Schwartzenegger movie where the
- exaggerated
- level of the one-against-all battle scenes is pretty absurd."
-
- ed: (some people took it more seriously, I thought it had a different
- level
- other than JUST a spoof)
-
- "I had arguments with MTV about...they didn't understand it and the only
- way I was able to sell it to them, to sell them on the idea of doing it
- or
- letting me do it was to tell them that it was a spoof. My intentions
- were
- much more...I guess you'd say academic. I was interested in
- experimenting
- with visual narrative, telling a story without dialogue and also trying
- to
- create a style of telling a story with animation that wasn't influenced
- by
- the usual kinds of things that you see.
- For me there is a solid storyline going on under all the action.
- It's not really that important to me whether or not everybody agrees on
- what that story is. There were very specific demands that had to be met
- working for that format. One thing that was very important to me was
- doing
- something that could be watched more than once and that you could look
- at
- again and still read other things into it. Because the fact that MTV's
- been running that show over and over and over again and is still going
- to
- do that. And so, I think a way to do that is to get people involved and
- thinking about it and talking about it."
-
- (I tell him of people doing that...intensely...watching over and
- over...)
-
- "Who are these people!?"
- he needs to convince MTV of this loyal following, he's been
- struggling
- with them about funding more episodes...write letters.
-
- AF originally made for LIQUID TV
- 6 two-minute episodes in the first season....5 in the second season.
-
- ed: (is she a clone, alien, robot? or cartoony?)
-
- "Well, um...originally she died at the end of the first season. My idea
- was not to bring her back...but they wanted to bring her back. I
- couldn't
- really find a credible way to (bring her back), I mean I didn't want to
- pull something where you say 'she fell down but she didn't really die'
- or
- 'they put her back together' or something like that so. I just said
- 'the
- hell with it', I'm just going to bring her back, I'm not going to
- explain
- it and she's going to die in every episode."
-
- ed: "that makes sense"
-
- "Let people fill in the blanks the way they want. I hope people aren't
- thinking she's a robot, I prefer that they didn't think that because
- she's
- much more interesting if she's a real person."
-
- [sorry about the quirky formatting....but I haven't formatted it for
- ascii and it looks really cranky. "ed" is me....the unqualified quotes
- are his.]
-
- ....e
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