2001 Space Odyssey was aired last night on AMC. I am referencing it here because it was one of the movies Peter Chung found found it an inspirational film, directed and written by Stanley Kubrick.
I saw some things in it that were echoed in Aeon Flux.
The moonbase was called Clavius Moonbase.
There was a computer screen in the beginning with the word Flux on it.
The fisheye lens belonging to the computer Hal reflected an eerie predatory intellect watching reminiscent of the eye of Aeon Flux at the beginning of every show.
Several scenes of the ship reminded me of AF and the elaborate scenes of Bregna, (air ducts, mechanisms, etc).
I have an appreciation for this film after seeing it again, I haven't seen it in quite some time. I never realized how well done it was till last night.
Naturally it is a non-explanatory dialog film.
The premise of the movie is about man's intellect evolving (with the help of the mysterious monolith) and man's ability to evolve to the point of ability to finally survive without 'tools'. I have to wonder if the new filmmakers will catch this entire drift from the series, and hopefully explore this in the movie. If not the series certainly made good use of Kubrick's direction.
― Barb e (Barb e), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)
I recently watched Blade Runner and found things that echo Aeon.
Correct me if I am wrong, the story unfolds non linearly like an aeon flux epi. Plus, it has that wtf did i just see element to it, the first time you watch it. Deckard wears a trench coat that looks alot like trevor's plus he wears it the same way.
http://www.brmovie.com/Images/Characters/Deckard/BR_Deckard_Poser.jpgThe office that makes the replicants, it could be me and i am reaching but it reminds me of trevor's.
http://www.robokopp.de/images/BladeRunner/blade_runner_large_11.jpg
Finally, Mobius's the long tomorrow's weird architechure Looks alot like the stuff I see in Aeon. I never noticed how round things are. Look at the comic here. http://ultrawet.net/10cent/scan/moebius/ltm/moebius-ltm1.htm
(taken from some site. to lazy to double check)
The Heavy Metal story "The Long Tomorrow" (drawn by Moebius) in particular - which was originally meant to be sort of a parody on American film noir - was a direct source of inspiration for Ridley Scott, because it had the look that Scott felt the film needed.
Ridley Scott wanted Giraud to work on Blade Runner, but he was under contract elsewhere at the time. Although he was not directly involved, his style was certainly referenced during production.
― , Wednesday, 9 March 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)
I have not watched 2001 in a while, but I really love that movie. I have never noticed those connections to Aeon Flux though, thanks for pointing those out Barb! That's great, I'll have to watch that movie again soon. I always feel like I sort of need to "prepare" for it though... it'a a long movie, alot to take in. I definitley think that Aeon Flux has some resemblance to Blade Runner as well, but Blade Runner has influenced the look and style of many sci-fi type films since it was made. Thanks for posting a link to those Moebius comics! The architecture does remind me of that of Aeon Flux, those are some great drawings. I remember someone posting something about Moebius' comics before on this board... I can't remeber where or anything though.
― Antimax (Antimax), Saturday, 12 March 2005 08:59 (twenty years ago)
I didn't mean to hijack the thread. It took awhile for some response. I just wanted to point out the small things i noticed in blade runner. Trevor's coat always felt familiar. If it's from blade runner, it's very kewl in my opin. even though the roundish buildings are similiar i am not saying alot of innovation didn't go into the stuff in aeon..
yw for the comic! not a big fan of moebius btw.
http://www.shadowgallery.co.uk/moebius2.jpghttp://www.ctrl-c.liu.se/ftp/images/moebius/moebius-00.gif― , Saturday, 12 March 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)