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Aeon flux anime dvd9/9/2023 ![]() ![]() * “Investigation: The History of Aeon Flux” (17:37) is a featurette on the character’s evolution. “Tide” (4:23) sees Aeon betrayed by a fellow agent as she tries to deal with a massive drain-stopper. “Mirror” (4:11) sees the heroine distracted from her mission by a faulty VCR and spilt coffee. “Leisure” (3:04) finds Aeon tussling with sentient extraterrestrials who apparently lay very tasty eggs. “Gravity” (3:16) depicts a very disappointed Aeon falling from an airplane and plummeting for three minutes to what she assumes will be her death. Discover that in “War” (5:26), Aeon is actually a minor character who dies in the episode’s first seconds. Chung and Newman offer commentaries on all of these as well. * The five longer post-pilot “Liquid Television” shorts, all of which feature a klutzier Aeon dying in the best Kenny McCormick tradition. Drew Newman, a chatty fellow who provided music and sound for all the early dialogue-free shorts, offers commentary alongside Chung. The third disc contains: * The 12-minute 1991 “Aeon Flux” pilot (which MTV chopped up into six two-minute shorts for MTV’s “Liquid Television”). Actress Denise Poirier, who provides Aeon’s voice, offers commentary on one. Voice director Jack Fletcher offers commentary on one. A thoroughly obnoxious (and possibly drunk) writer named Mark Mars, who apparently never learned to use his “indoor voice,” appears on three. Story editor/writer Peter Gaffney on three. Producer/writer Japhet Asher appears on six of those. The first disc contains all five half-hour episodes directed by “Aeon” creator Peter Chung, a “Rugrats” vet who would go on to direct straight-to-video projects like “The Animatrix” and “The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury.” The second disc contains all five half-hour episodes directed by Howard Baker, a veteran of “Rugrats” and “Ren & Stimpy.” Chung appears on commentaries for seven of the 10 half-hours. Some rarely seen animation clips, such as the “Loaded” MTV promo, the 15-second Aeon Flux CD-Rom commercial produced at Madhouse studios, and pencil test reels of two Liquid TV shorts, “War” and “Mirror,” have also been remastered and are included in this definitive collector’s edition. The original audio elements have been remixed for 5.1 surround sound. Denise Poirier and John Lee returned to the studio to record Aeon and Trevor’s new lines, while the character of Clavius, the ex-leader of Bregna, has been recast and re-recorded (by a special guest performer). The picture has been edited to match the video masters at their original running times, which, in most cases, are longer than the broadcast versions.įour of the full-length episodes – “Utopia or Deuteranopia?” “The Demiurge,” “Reraizure” and “End Sinister” – have had selected dialogue rewritten to bring characterization into better continuity with the series as a whole. In a few cases, alternate takes were found and included. Animation and timing errors were corrected, where possible. Trevor’s vibrating harness, the Demiurge’s blue light, and Aeon’s gun bursts are among the effects that have been digitally enhanced using tools not available at the time of the original production. In every episode, enhancements such as highlights, shadows, blurs or glows were added to achieve a range of moods and atmospheres not seen in the earlier editions. Each scene was then color-corrected with my supervision. Viewers will notice a marked improvement in line detail and color fidelity over the previous video release. The original 4x3 aspect ratio was carefully preserved, improving the cropping of the earlier transfer to minimize loss of visual information at the edges of the frame. The negatives were cleaned and digitally remastered. The original camera negatives were retrieved from the vaults and, in some cases, from my personal archive of materials. ![]() This special edition DVD of Aeon Flux contains the entire collection of animated episodes produced from MTV. And they actually probably are better than I remembered, as demonstrated by this note included in the DVD packaging: Every installment turns out to be even better than I remembered (and I remembered them all with enormous affection). Dense with pervy sexuality and deadpan wit, it revels in speed and invention, saturated to its literal gills in Chung’s seemingly boundless engineer’s imagination. I can’t speak for the new Charlize Theron movie, but I have more than a little to say about the hilarious and otherwise breathtaking Aeon Flux: The Complete Animated Collection, which contains every cartoon adventure of Peter Chung’s future-dwelling half-naked Monican secret agent. ![]()
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