This material was written and produced in conjunction with the post-broadcast project that ultimately became the movies D+R and EoE.
#Evangelion red cross book movie#
This is new material added to the Home Video versions of episodes 21-24 (designated 21'-24') or included in the movie recap of the series 'Death'.
Of particular interest are the ~15 minutes or so of new scenes and/or re-done animation known as the New Production Cuts (NPC). Sometimes, the mirroring can be of the obscure sort that you'll probably only notice with the help of the step-frame button: (That is not to deny at all that there are plentiful instances of simple recycling of animation to cut corners production-wise.) EoE, in particular, is chock-full of these visual call-backs and mirroring, from the beginning of the series.Īnd there is mirroring internal to the movie, as well: That is, when you notice that some visual aspect of a scene seems to be recalling something you saw earlier in the series, it's very often the case visual reference = narrative significance. NGE, taken as a whole, is a work wherein narrative and/or thematic threads are woven into a marvelously complex web by means of pervasive visual (and, less often, verbal) self-reference. This article will demonstrate that Anno posed this mystery, not to confound the audience, but rather as a puzzle to be solved: as the movie proceeds subsequent to the enigmatic 'unheard' line, he supplies some clever "connect-the-dots" hints relating to where to look for the answer, and then he provides the answer (in a suitably subtle fashion), and he even offers a very sly "heads up" when the time comes, to alert the audience that the answer is imminent! When she says 'hidden', what that really means is director Anno's favorite kind of hidden, which is to say "hidden in plain sight", right there in the movie!
This is actually their one tip to the audience of what's up, because the truth is, the 'incredible, hidden hint' that Yamaguchi mentions is not an exclusive secret that only she and Anno are privy to rather, it is something accessible to the audience. The point that everyone has been missing is why Gainax included this anecdote in the RCB. It hardly needs saying, but Director Anno is incredible. With that one incredible hint, I, and Ritsuko Akagi, were utterly defeated. When it came time to do the voice-over, he showed me a single, hidden hint at the last moment. But the voice-over grew nearer and nearer.ĭirector Anno must have noticed how I felt. This made the interpretation of "Liar" very important. But in the previous movie (D+R) she ended as a deeply jealous woman filled with nothing but hatred toward Ikari.įeeling unsatisfied with this, I looked for a way to accept her death at the hands of Ikari. I personally wanted her to end as a convenient, submissive woman who simply wanted to die righteously. That is the complexity of Gendou and Ritsuko's relationship.įrom Ritsuko Akagi's inner feelings as a scientist, she could be considered a woman who blindly gave her love to Gendou Ikari, and also a foolish woman that walked the same path as her mother Naoko who committed suicide after being betrayed by Ikari. I can imagine many words that might follow "I truly.", but I can't decide on any in particular. Ritsuko fades away with her final word, "Liar." But what was this "Liar" in reference to? The script for this last scene only has Gendo saying: "Ritsuko Akagi, I truly." followed by Ritsuko saying: "Liar (gets shot)". Here is the sole official statement on the issue (from The EoE Theatrical Programme, aka 'The Red Cross Book' or RCB):
We now believe that this is a mistaken assumption. This is because it has always been assumed up until now that Anno posed this mystery, and then simply left it to the audience to supply their own "answer", based on one's individual interpretation of the scene. However, this debate has always been fruitless, in that no definite conclusion was ever reached. There have been many theories or "best guesses" put forth as to what he actually said, and the topic has been thoroughly discussed and debated, sometimes ad nauseam, by the on-line Eva fandom, ever since EoE came out back in 1997. _ _ _"), to which she replies, "Usotsuki!" ("Liar!"), whereupon he shoots her dead. This article will attempt to resolve the mystery of the infamous "unheard line" that Gendo utters to Ristuko in ep25' (Air) of EoE: "Akagi Ritsuko-kun, honto ni.
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