I damn well adored evangelion and its screaming utopia of dying innocence. If they can retain the same attention to detail and RESIST explaining every damn mystery instantly (the Hollywood insecurity complex) they may pull something off.
Top of the head:
The evangelions are good little boys and girls. They are well trained animals/soldiers and move with a speed according to their mass. They even stand straight. Until things get tight and they can't afford to pretend anymore... and then the facade drops along with all that futile housetraining. They stop standing straight the jaw drops open and might snarl a bit I spose (the mouth MUST stay shut until they lose it - part of the facade), the shoulders go forward and they hunch a bit. The muscles are more obvious. They stop moving with a speed that should be possible and the poor special effects/CGI team have to deal with a whole new physics of large objects moving through air at high speed. Sudden air pressure changes from fists passing cause vapour streams and maybe optical distortion from the much denser air. I don't want to think about sonic boom shockwaves. Sound will be appropriately delayed by the distances involved (though this will cause confusion unless used sparingly for its impact only) Basically, all those things Anime SFX artists do because they can do anything, and all those things film SFX artists don't do because they can't do everything.
Next, the city.
Regarding the name, Tokyo 3. I vote for it. It underlines a few things for the audience. Tokyo is gone. They're dead. Do you understand? Millions! They're all DEAD! And this is the THIRD. Americans would go all 9/11 on you if it was a US named city. They don't give a fig if it's anyone elses, but it would have no effect if they didn't know of it beforehand. And Tokyo 3 trips off the tongue very nicely ta. Don't mention what happened to America in the cataclysms tho - let them worry. Sets the scene nicely. The new city is nation INDEPENDENT! It's made from the brightest of the leftovers. Nobody CARES about nationality now, and nobody mentions the past as everyone knows it. As for the city construction, one of the shots looked a little victorian or LXG with lots of lumpy steel. No, that's too 'old'. Tokyo 3 is a monument to the dead, and to their hopes of the future. It looks like utopia. No expense is spared. Lots of shiny shaped steel and glass (the glass shatters nicely and the shiny steel buckles and picks up grime well). When an eva walks among the buildings it damages things that aren't massively reinforced like the ground. When it leans round a corner SWAT stylee it crushes the building a little. Nobody cares. They all know it's a fake, a facade, a weapon laden trap for angels. There are other divisions dedicated to keeping it shiny and repaired, but it's not the EVA team. To them it's thoroughly expendable.
Regarding explanations. If anyone stops to explain things to Shinki as he is torn from normality, taken underground and dropped inside a terrifying monster I shall be very annoyed. They can explain things to him once he's proved himself to them. Until then he gets treated as a new recruit. Screw the audience. They're seeing things through Shinji's eyes. Those receptors they put on their head? Don't explain them. Just have a tech shout over that they have signal and drop Shinji in the tank (I can't see how they'd attach, myself, so take a pair of sunglasses, wear them on the back of your head and morph them a bit. You will have contact with brainstem and temples. Sorted. Maybe wrap around the throat for voice synthesis, or just pluck what he's trying to say out of his head. That'd scare him)
If they can preserve the comcenter chaos - the exquisite graphics that you only glimpse fast enough to know they're screaming themselves, while everyone is shouting relevant information back and forth, that'd be nice. I fully expect Hollywood to put a 5 minute ego war in the comcenter as people bicker about what they should d
Do planes carry oxygen or are they feeding the pilots pressurised air?
If they had emergency oxygen, they might have to be quick witted. I don't think they cover this in pilot training. Pressure loss, yeah. Large clouds of unexpected flatulence, nope.
And while my brane is full of this stuff, why are people looking solely for tensile strength?
Can't they clamp interlocking magnetic fibres/stuff together and power it with a current running up/down it?
And if people are still chickenlickening about my early comment, you can suspend a small island from the cable somewhere high enough to not ground itself, but still low enough that you can fly stuff up to it.
Kinda like Tiphares in the Battle Angel books. (God I loved those books) (God I'll hate the movie)
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I damn well adored evangelion and its screaming utopia of dying innocence. If they can retain the same attention to detail and RESIST explaining every damn mystery instantly (the Hollywood insecurity complex) they may pull something off.
Top of the head:
The evangelions are good little boys and girls. They are well trained animals/soldiers and move with a speed according to their mass. They even stand straight. Until things get tight and they can't afford to pretend anymore...
and then the facade drops along with all that futile housetraining.
They stop standing straight the jaw drops open and might snarl a bit I spose (the mouth MUST stay shut until they lose it - part of the facade), the shoulders go forward and they hunch a bit. The muscles are more obvious.
They stop moving with a speed that should be possible and the poor special effects/CGI team have to deal with a whole new physics of large objects moving through air at high speed.
Sudden air pressure changes from fists passing cause vapour streams and maybe optical distortion from the much denser air. I don't want to think about sonic boom shockwaves. Sound will be appropriately delayed by the distances involved (though this will cause confusion unless used sparingly for its impact only)
Basically, all those things Anime SFX artists do because they can do anything, and all those things film SFX artists don't do because they can't do everything.
Next, the city.
Regarding the name, Tokyo 3. I vote for it. It underlines a few things for the audience. Tokyo is gone. They're dead. Do you understand? Millions! They're all DEAD! And this is the THIRD.
Americans would go all 9/11 on you if it was a US named city. They don't give a fig if it's anyone elses, but it would have no effect if they didn't know of it beforehand. And Tokyo 3 trips off the tongue very nicely ta.
Don't mention what happened to America in the cataclysms tho - let them worry. Sets the scene nicely.
The new city is nation INDEPENDENT! It's made from the brightest of the leftovers. Nobody CARES about nationality now, and nobody mentions the past as everyone knows it.
As for the city construction, one of the shots looked a little victorian or LXG with lots of lumpy steel. No, that's too 'old'.
Tokyo 3 is a monument to the dead, and to their hopes of the future. It looks like utopia. No expense is spared. Lots of shiny shaped steel and glass (the glass shatters nicely and the shiny steel buckles and picks up grime well).
When an eva walks among the buildings it damages things that aren't massively reinforced like the ground. When it leans round a corner SWAT stylee it crushes the building a little. Nobody cares. They all know it's a fake, a facade, a weapon laden trap for angels. There are other divisions dedicated to keeping it shiny and repaired, but it's not the EVA team. To them it's thoroughly expendable.
Regarding explanations. If anyone stops to explain things to Shinki as he is torn from normality, taken underground and dropped inside a terrifying monster I shall be very annoyed. They can explain things to him once he's proved himself to them. Until then he gets treated as a new recruit. Screw the audience. They're seeing things through Shinji's eyes.
Those receptors they put on their head? Don't explain them. Just have a tech shout over that they have signal and drop Shinji in the tank (I can't see how they'd attach, myself, so take a pair of sunglasses, wear them on the back of your head and morph them a bit. You will have contact with brainstem and temples. Sorted. Maybe wrap around the throat for voice synthesis, or just pluck what he's trying to say out of his head. That'd scare him)
If they can preserve the comcenter chaos - the exquisite graphics that you only glimpse fast enough to know they're screaming themselves, while everyone is shouting relevant information back and forth, that'd be nice.
I fully expect Hollywood to put a 5 minute ego war in the comcenter as people bicker about what they should d
Do planes carry oxygen or are they feeding the pilots pressurised air?
:-)
If they had emergency oxygen, they might have to be quick witted. I don't think they cover this in pilot training. Pressure loss, yeah. Large clouds of unexpected flatulence, nope.
And as the other guy said, 'bang'
And while my brane is full of this stuff, why are people looking solely for tensile strength?
Can't they clamp interlocking magnetic fibres/stuff together and power it with a current running up/down it?
And if people are still chickenlickening about my early comment, you can suspend a small island from the cable somewhere high enough to not ground itself, but still low enough that you can fly stuff up to it.
Kinda like Tiphares in the Battle Angel books.
(God I loved those books)
(God I'll hate the movie)
You unreel a little extra cable from the counterweight. Problem solved
Isn't the upper atmosphere charged?
:-)
What would happen if you grounded it with, say, a huge conducting nanotube cable?
And after it'd finished grounding, making the worlds largest fish stew, would we then discover that we kinda needed it?
There, that should get the panicmongers going nicely