Aeon Flux S2E01 - Gravity (1992).eng Subtitles

00:00:02,760 --> 00:00:03,"Gravity."

00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:08,I loved the intro of this.

00:00:08,200 --> 00:00:10,Super spy.

00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:12,Amazing tongue work.

00:00:13,120 --> 00:00:16,Actually, you know, I think I g***t the
idea for doing that camera angle...

00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:18,from the Rugrats pilot.

00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:21,There was a shot
in that where...

00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:24,we were looking through one
of the twins' mouths...

00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:26,at the other one.

00:00:26,200 --> 00:00:28,And I just thought it
was a great way...

00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:31,to show one character's
dominance over another...

00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:35,is to see them framed
within the open mouth...

00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:37,of the character
in the foreground.

00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:42,And, somehow, that made
it into Aeon Flux...

00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:44,in a different context.

00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:46,Once we g***t into the
interior of this...

00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:49,there's a background sound.

00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:52,It's as though it's
a political radio.

00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:54,I wanted to give a sense...

00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:56,that there's a
dictatorship of some sort.

00:00:56,360 --> 00:00:58,So, it was kind of a mix...

00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:01,of fake Breen dialogue,
and cheering crowds...

00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:04,and what later became the
Breen national anthem.

00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:06,Just a throwaway.

00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:08,And as we get to the exterior...

00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:11,it was a B-25 that I actually
recorded accidentally...

00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:14,just lucked out. Found
one at Burbank Airport.

00:01:18,400 --> 00:01:21,So, at this point, I guess I
might as well mention that...

00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:27,I had decided that Aeon Flux was going
to die in every one of these shorts.

00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:28,And, not only was
she going to die...

00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:32,but she was going to fail in
what she had set out to do.

00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:34,Spectacularly.

00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:35,But that...

00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:40,the initial mission usually
was just a way of...

00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:42,getting the story in motion...

00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:44,getting the character
in motion, and that...

00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:49,because she would
get sidetracked...

00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:52,or, in this case,
she would, well...

00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:54,She's distracted here.

00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:56,Well, that's the
thing, is that...

00:01:57,240 --> 00:01:58,she has to...

00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:01,come up with a reason for
continuing falling...

00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:03,and she finds one.

00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:07,You know, obviously,
the idea being that...

00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:11,the height of this fall...

00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:15,sort of represents the duration of
how much you have left to live.

00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:17,This one was tougher
on the sound effects.

00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:20,I think I wrote the music for
this one in about two hours...

00:02:20,920 --> 00:02:24,but the sound effects
took several days.

00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:29,I'm not sure why the music
went so much more easily.

00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:31,I think it's because I already
knew what I was doing by then.

00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:41,I'm kind of loathe to comment on
what's happening in the stories.

00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:43,I think it's very self-explanatory,
and I also think...

00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:46,that it kind of defeats the purpose
of why I made these films...

00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:48,Well, here's a sense that we might
actually make it out of this...

00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:50,after all this falling.

00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:52,There's a chance that...

00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:55,But she g***t distracted at the very
last, and, well, obviously...

00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:58,that's the reason
for her downfall.

00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:00,And as we cut to black, well...

00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:01,a horrible noise.