NTV Friday Road Show 3.0 Trailer (Piano)
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A piano and a tree shaped like a heart? Those two things can't fit into plugsuits! Easily, anyway... The merchandising angle is all wrong! ;D
Anyway, is this still better than nothing? I guess even this is. It's weird I've come to accept this after waiting so long.
Anyway, is this still better than nothing? I guess even this is. It's weird I've come to accept this after waiting so long.
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Wow, khara is really pushing this piano video. It's the second time they've linked a YouTube link on their official fabecook page.
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maybe it's Shinji playing the piano who knows?
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Heh. Their past marketing campaigns have been kinda cookie cutter and obvious. Whatever said about this, at least they're thinking outside the box! I love it. This is exactly what I want to see. If they're producing trailer-specific animation, why not go further with something like the Prometheus viral videos, short films about events outside the film itself?
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Ugh. It isn't even a decent song, it's just silly ragtime-ish bullcrap.
Damn it Anno, stop wasting people's time animating a piano and get the fucking movie done, you knucklehead!
Damn it Anno, stop wasting people's time animating a piano and get the fucking movie done, you knucklehead!
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Girlfriend of Steel really pushed that sound. B/
Seele00TextOnly wrote:Yes, obviously folks are over the top for interpreting the giant focus on the guts of an instrument as meaning this is going to be a movie with instrumentality. Clearly people are out of their minds.
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I mean it's not like it's just a giant photo of an instrument. There's surely something entirely different going on here.
Alright, it's a fish-eye lens, thus the image is warped, so...
INSTRUMENTALITY HAS BEEN WARPED! That, or we'll be hearing strained notes a lot.
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Oh boy....this could get interesting. If you know anything about pianos and the musical interval known as "perfect fifths", then this could be considered a stroke of genius by some. Also the 88 keys of a piano may come into play. (I know it may seem like I'm reading into this a bit, but there has never been such intense focus on just a single instrument presented in the continuity before so it must be important.)
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Not sure how anyone can possibly call it rag-time, there's nothing remotely similar. It sounds like an etude, building off of the dominant 7, it's probably 1850's or later, but it sounds like something that's written or arranged specifically for the promo.
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khara's really going the extra mile to promote this piano motif, I just hope it amounts to something.
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I'll try to explain as best I can but it may be a little messy. (and again, I'm probably reading into this a bit too much so apology in advance. Also this is just speculation/theorising, so I'm not expecting this to be right.)
Anyways, the choice to use a Grand piano isn't that weird, obviously it provides the best sound quality when being compared to other types of pianos. However, if you look at the piano on the Evangelion.co.jp front page, you can clearly see its a Yamaha piano. Now these are a pretty common brand of grand piano, (they've been making them for years) so what most would assume is its there so we as a audience can identify with it. But the fact that this trailer goes inside the piano is what is most interesting. It shows that someone (most likely Anno) wanted us to pay attention to the details of the piano. The want us to experience the music not only audibly, but visually as well. I guess my assumption would be that Anno may have been taught music on a similar type of piano in his youth. (This is obviously backed by his love for classical music.) What this means in terms of the plot, well I guess maybe the lost of innocence and how childhood was a simpler time?? Probably something to do with Shinji finally growing up and taking responsibility for his action or something to that effect. Plus, pianos are sexy...
Now as for "perfect fifths" part, I'll direct you to the Wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_fifth
Basically it talks about how it is the most consonant or stable interval next to the Unison and the Octave. Now I see the Unison representing what would have occurred had third impact been successful. (the unison of Unit 01 and whatever that Rei looking thing was; I don't actually know the name.) I guess the Octave could be referencing Unit 08. (because of an Octagon having eight sides??) And of course Perfect Fifth would have to be Kaworu, since he would be the next "stable" life-form able to commence third impact and if we consider Mari the fourth child, then he would be the fifth technically. It also talks about perfect fifths having a pitch ratio of 3:2 which could represent the number of Nerv children vs. Seele's children (or whoever Mari is working for??)
I guess what it comes down to is the whole trailer is just a bunch of metaphors and they may not even have any context with the film. I hope I elaborated enough for that to make sense and I hope you got something from my little ramble!
This is just me speculating, but perhaps the inside look at the Piano and then the outside look is a way of trying to represent how many different pieces become one whole. So, to link this to Eva this could represent Human Instrumentality (another link to the Piano is that it is an Instrument) as it it about all human beings becoming one whole.
Just speculation though.
Just speculation though.
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