Probably another mistake to do this (the Rebuilds being the first mistake...). Anno is on record saying that he wants Evangelion to be like Gundam, but Eva is obviously a one and done story. You could tell postapocalyptic stories set in the aftermath, but they wouldn't uphold the Eva brand (existential crises in modernity, depressed teenagers, giant robots).
Also for someone who famously cared so much about the story that he raged at his audience for not getting it, kind of weird to move in a commercializing direction.
As far as Yoko Taro, I don't know if anything about Nier suggests he would be good at writing an Evangelion story, but Evangelion without Anno probably isn't Evangelion just like Lucas is the only one that can write real Star Wars.
Anno is the definition of washed-up. Hates his audience, hates being chained to Evangelion that he basically tried to sabotage it with Rebuild, but knows that it's the only thing keeping him relevant.
Have you played through Drakengard 1-3? Shit's DARK, really dark, and understanding why the world of Automata is the way it is through playing the Drakengard games has made me understand how messed up Yoko Taro can be.
The games are a bit esoteric (and I wish they'd get re-released for current gen), but if you just want to understand his way of thinking, it's worth it
Episode I has the podrace and the Darth Maul duel and those are right up there with the best of Star Wars. II is a little saggy in the middle, but it's far from trash. The Battle of Geonosis was sick.
A film critic weighs in on the haptic vs. optic cinema discourse in 1977:
"When you have a film that's 90 percent special effects...you might just as well be watching an animated cartoon, because finally all those special effects begin to look totally unreal. You are looking for something that looks like flesh and blood there. You have three lousy actors in the main roles who don't contribute much flesh and blood, you have ghastly dialogue, terrible plotting, miserable characterization, which also do not contribute flesh and blood."
If you're not the kind of person who "gets" Star Wars, this isn't exactly wrong. What happened in the late 90s and 2000s is that Gen X critics--while they had grandfathered in the Star Wars films from their childhoods as good movies--in fact no longer "got" Star Wars at all, if they ever really did. That's why their analysis of the prequels sounded indistinguishable from this. It's also why Lucas would get ruthlessly mocked for making straightforward statements trying to explain it: "Dialogue is a sound effect," "It's based on a Saturday matinee serial from the 1930s," "It's like poetry, it rhymes," etc.
It's also why people were and are so eager to recast a movie like The Empire Strikes Back as some sort of gritty, dialogue-driven, psychological drama made for adults, a description which bears such little relation to the movie as it actually exists that it's hard to believe it could be sustained in people's minds even after so many ostensible viewings.
Probably another mistake to do this (the Rebuilds being the first mistake...). Anno is on record saying that he wants Evangelion to be like Gundam, but Eva is obviously a one and done story. You could tell postapocalyptic stories set in the aftermath, but they wouldn't uphold the Eva brand (existential crises in modernity, depressed teenagers, giant robots).
Also for someone who famously cared so much about the story that he raged at his audience for not getting it, kind of weird to move in a commercializing direction.
As far as Yoko Taro, I don't know if anything about Nier suggests he would be good at writing an Evangelion story, but Evangelion without Anno probably isn't Evangelion just like Lucas is the only one that can write real Star Wars.
Anno is the definition of washed-up. Hates his audience, hates being chained to Evangelion that he basically tried to sabotage it with Rebuild, but knows that it's the only thing keeping him relevant.
u/Adamrises needs to come back from his monthslong sabbatical. He laid some pretty acidic critiques on the Rebuilds.
Have you played through Drakengard 1-3? Shit's DARK, really dark, and understanding why the world of Automata is the way it is through playing the Drakengard games has made me understand how messed up Yoko Taro can be.
The games are a bit esoteric (and I wish they'd get re-released for current gen), but if you just want to understand his way of thinking, it's worth it
No I haven't - I don't doubt they're dark, interesting stories, but Anno's brand of dark is pretty specific to Anno.
Episodes I and II were shit and you know it.
Episode I has the podrace and the Darth Maul duel and those are right up there with the best of Star Wars. II is a little saggy in the middle, but it's far from trash. The Battle of Geonosis was sick.
Pure spectacle, zero substance.
There is actually a wealth of careful visual symbolism in the prequels, overshadowed by their excesses.
This post is also quite trenchant:
A little overstated, but worth considering.
This will go about as well as the FLCL remake.