Evangelion 3.0 interviews (needs translation!)
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Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh. My laziness was right all along. This is taking way long than expected.
Just gonna add stuff as soon as I finish it.
Misato raw Japanese:
http://wiki.evageeks.org/Resources:Evangelion_Q_Records_Collection#Kotono_Mitsuishi_as_Misato_Katsuragi
For the love of all things holy please don't just shove these through machine translators even if you're desperate.
Just gonna add stuff as soon as I finish it.
Misato raw Japanese:
http://wiki.evageeks.org/Resources:Evangelion_Q_Records_Collection#Kotono_Mitsuishi_as_Misato_Katsuragi
For the love of all things holy please don't just shove these through machine translators even if you're desperate.
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The interview with the Kaworu VA alludes to "cycles" of Evangelion, not the sequel theory mind you. And according to his interview he got taken aside pretty early by Anno and knew a lot of what was coming while others were kept in the dark.
Maybe 3.33 wasn't just pulled out of a back pocket, so to speak...
Maybe 3.33 wasn't just pulled out of a back pocket, so to speak...
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Charsi wrote:The interview with the Kaworu VA alludes to "cycles" of Evangelion, not the sequel theory mind you. And according to his interview he got taken aside pretty early by Anno and knew a lot of what was coming while others were kept in the dark.
Maybe 3.33 wasn't just pulled out of a back pocket, so to speak...
The cyclic aspect was hinted at from the first film, but I highly doubt Khara had a solid idea of the 3.0 plot before 2.0 was completed.
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No, probably not, but by the sounds of it Anno had some sort of a drastic "narrative break" idea from pretty early along. Maybe the timeskip, but not much more than that.
I'm curious what the early concept of Mark.06's involvement was, because i'm guessing the story's drifted pretty far from whatever that was.
It's all very interesting, and hasn't been helped by rumors posted as fact (eg. the supposed scrap and rewrite somewhere between 2 and 3).
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I have still to see a single source for that.
99% of the time it's brought up it's people bitching how they didn't like Q and because of the preview and it taking so long things MUST have been scrapped at some point.
I fileit all under baseless nonsense until I see some proof.
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We don't know the truth about how much plot they had done after 2.0, so you might be wrong or i am.
And Anno was making stuff up as he goes along while making the original series, not in rebuilt, because he has had much more time.
Okay...So blindly making these films...? That's a sign of a pretty bad filmmaker, and i don't think Anno is one of those.
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Did you read the complete records collection interviews? Anno is totally making up Rebuild as he goes along.
Based on the available evidence and Anno's track record, I think it's the best explanation we have for the huge gulf between what was promised in the 3.0 preview and what we got.
On the contrary, he's a great filmmaker for being able to create emotionally resonant work while basically winging it.
He was making up Nadia as he went along, then Evangelion, and he even went into shooting the ending of Shiki-Jitsu before finishing the script. It's just how he works.
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That's true, but Ishida also suggests some things were planned, and in fact, while 3.33 has crazy new stuff like battleships etc, some parts of itresemble 1.11 stylistically a lot.
But in any case, it's just another sort of creative process.
Some writers, like most famously JKR write down a lot of background facts on everyone that they might not even use, for others, their creations are dynamic things that result from feedback and the developement of situation; It's a common easthetic in Japan, to "capture something fleeting".
Like, in Noh theaters (Jo-Ha-Q sheme says hi) they only rehearsed together once and then let every actor practive on their own, so the whole would come together spontaneously and uniquely.
The whole thing is stupid - if you have an idea that looks better to you than your initial one, why should you not use it simply because it wasn't your first one?
Changing your opinion when new evidence presents trumps stubbornly clinging to your old one, if you ask me.
I do hope that we will one day come to see some of the scrapped material, like we got all those alternate 2.0 scripts and storyboards and cut scenes, just out of curiosity.
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That whole interview page must've taken a while, good job! The Megumi interview was interesting I thought, shows how powerful 3.0 was for the people who worked on it.
I mean, predictability is the central attraction and the narrative hook that we've all come to expect from the Evangelion franchise. How come Anno can't realize this? Twice? - FreakyFilmFan4ever
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I love Evangelion, but would it make sense to spend so much time learning a language just to watch animes and understand interviews? I learned english almost without noticing, but as far as I know Japanese is very very difficult.
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