watching all of Evangelion for the first time has led me to thinking about artistic intent vs how the work is received and the conversation surrounding the work vs the conversations had while making it. I'm still half baked on a lot of these thoughts but mostly my thoughts are:
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you can spend a million hours on something and your audience is still going to see things that you never intended, or even miss something you considered really obvious. Art (especially in 2019 and onward) is a conversation between artist and audience, but value is still exchanged
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even if both of you are speaking different languages. my bar for 'good art' vs 'bad art' is this: Does it get better or worse the more questions you ask? If better, then it's good art. Of course even great art can have rough spots; see: Evangelion, but...
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many things can be simultaneously true: - the art is good - you don't like it - the art is bad - the art is very influential - you love it - conversations about art don't have to excavate new ground. Squeeing about awesome is legitimate conversation.
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dee said yesterday that she'd heard that Evangelion was Japan's star wars. Probably true. Even if you're not a fan it was hugely, hugely influential on the pop culture. There are things about eva I really like (the animation, the machine designs, the bona fide attempts to mainstr
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eam psychological well-being into the conversation.) there are things about eva I really don't like (needless titillation, repetitive story arcs, the fanboys...) but that's ok. Evangelion will be evangelion whatever I, you, or anyone except Anno and his team think.
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sidebar i'm also REALLY GLAD I was 33 when I first watched Evangelion because I don't think the me who was 9 years old when it was released would have gotten the same things out of it.
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In Portugal they played it on public TV between morning cartoons. I had teachers warning us not to watch it, which of course backfired.
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