"Countless" days and nights of waiting, "Love, Death and Robots" was finally officially announced-
Season 2 officially arrives on May 14, 2021! It's also renewed for a third season! Airtime in 2022!
What exactly is Love, Death and Robots? Why is it so worth looking forward to? Why is it so cool?
Let's talk to you in detail today.
Love, Death and Robots
Love, Death and Robots is an animated series produced by Netflix and produced by david Finch and Tim Miller (hereinafter referred to as "Love Death Machine").
"Love Death Machine" is also a new form of content, it is composed of 18 "eighteen forbidden" animated short films, ranging in length from 5 to 15 minutes, the style of painting involves 2D, rotoscoping, 3D, live-action, CG, the theme is more imaginative and strange: science fiction, magic, war, fantasy, suspense, thriller, comedy everything...
In the film industry, it is common for several short films with similar themes to form a feature film, but the practice of packaging animated shorts with completely different styles into a collection like "Love Death Machine" is unprecedented, and the only thing that can do this and do it perfectly is Netflix.
Turnip cabbage, each with its own love. Producer Miller's favorite of the 18 short films is one of the episodes, Soul Eaters, and he hopes the writers will write a sequel. In total, six of them are of a very high standard, and they are mentioned the most times, and I will focus on them next.
Sonny's advantage
Sonnie's Edge
On IMDb, "Sonny's Advantage" was the first episode of Love Death Machine (David Finch didn't like to call them episode "sets"), but in fact, in order to explore more possibilities, Netflix pushed 18 short films to users in four orders, and some users' first words were "Beyond the Cracks".
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Sonny's Advantage was produced by Miller's own studio, Blur Studio, which animated or previewed games like Halo 2, Tomb Raider: Shadow, Far Cry 5, and the cool titles of Dragon Tattooed Girl.
CG realistic style, a revenge story that takes place in the cyberpunk world, uses bloody battles between monsters to show female resistance, and the ending is even more unexpected.
The following one also involves female revenge:
Happy hunting
Good Hunting
"Happy Hunting" is produced by Red Dog Culture House, a two-dimensional animation studio in South Korea, and is adapted from the novel of the same name by famous science fiction author and translator Liu Yukun.
The magical pan-Asian backdrop subverts our previous impression of the "species" of the "fox spirit", and the second half moves into the fascinating world of steampunk, creating a wonderful sense of magic and technology, tradition and modernity.
The ten-minute short film explores the fight against colonialism, feminism, environmentalism, and even a bit of a superhero flavor in the end.
In addition, although the characters speak English, the graphics and core of this short film are very oriental, which is very rare.
witness
The Witness
The most visually dazzling, directed by Alberto Mirgo, the former visual director of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, is an original screenplay, a story of a victim, a murderer, and a witness.
Alberto's early character settings for Spider-Man: Parallel Universes show that one of the inspirations for the heroine was Penny Parker:
The male protagonist seems to be the director himself:
Like Parallel Universe, it blends reality and manga and looks like rotoscoping but is actually completely hand-drawn!
Some film critics even said: "Witness" is so good! If only the next 15 episodes were all about it!
Beyond the cracks
Beyond the Aquila Rift
Adapted from a novel by British science fiction writer Alastair Reynolds, a writer who reads The World of Science Fiction (Translation) may have an impression of this author.
Produced by French studio Unit Image, Unit Image specializes in CG and special effects, and has participated in works such as God of War, Ghost Adventure 2, and I Killed Giants.
It is estimated that you have also found that one of the rules of Netflix's ranking of these short films seems to be not to let the CG class be connected together, and different styles are interspersed with each other.
A wrong interstellar trip sends the hero to a place 150,000 light-years away from Earth, but this is not the most terrible...
The rhythm is perfect, and "Living in the Shadows" sung by Matthew Perryman Jones at the end of the film is also very compatible with the content.
Shapeshifter
Shape-Shifters
Really big wolf dog
Also known as "Everybody Can", it has a bit of a "Call of the Wild", also produced by Blur Studio, adapted from Marco Krauss's novel "On the Use of Werewolves in War", which can be read for free on Amazon.
As for why it is not directly called "Werewolf", it may be to leave a suspense.
It tells the story of two true wolves in Afghanistan, who are ostracized by their own people and want to serve their country. The situation becomes more complicated when werewolves are also present on the enemy side.
Zima Blue
Zima Blue
Ambitious and poetic, it is based on Alastair Reynolds' novel of the same name, which was originally published in Science Fiction World.
It is the best in the series, and I dare not even think about the performance art of coloring the asteroid... It proves once again that the visual presentation and ultimate height of the science fiction genre have a lot to do with the original work.
Other short films also have their own advantages, such as "When Yogurt Rules the World", which is only five minutes, short and concise, and full of black humor.
"Three Robots" takes the "buddy comedy" route, examining human behavior from a robot perspective in the post-apocalyptic era.
The Fa-manga-style Soul Eater, along with the previous "Shapeshifter", brought together vampires and werewolves.
"Ancient Fish Recovery" is also a favorite of many people, with a certain "fenny content", which may pay tribute to the end of "Seven Deadly Sins".
Lucky Thirteen, the same original author as Shapeshifter (who excels at writing military themes), is modeled by Samira Willie ("The Women's Prison", "The Handmaid's Tale"), and is also voiced by her.
"Ice Age", live-action + CG, directed by Tim Miller himself, the male protagonist is the former "Venom" Tove Goris, to sum up is "playing "Civilization in the refrigerator".
Love Death Machine is like a box of chocolates, but you don't even know if the next one is chocolate.
Looking back at the title, it is estimated that the producers also came up with a way to wrap these short films together, and finally chose the three most extensive words, and these small icons are their unified UI.
As early as 2008, David Finch wanted to remake the sci-fi animated feature film "Cosmic Curiosity", although it was ultimately unsuccessful, but his enthusiasm for creating adult animation collections never faded.
As a result, the group that had been gathered for "Cosmic Curiosity" became the original team of "Love, Death and Robots", including Tim Miller ("Deadpool"), who liked various marginal cultures and had seen countless short film scripts.
For Finch, fixing episodes to 22 or 48 minutes is a rigid thing to do, "to get each story to the length of time it needs to bring the most impact and entertainment value." Three minutes to finish? That's nice. He especially liked that "Mind Hunter" had a chapter that was 34 minutes long, and "no audience expressed dissatisfaction with that chapter."
Finch and Miller have dealt with a lot of animation studios, and making animated feature films is difficult for small studios, but they're very good at creating very high-caliber short films, and Finch says, "A lot of people in those studios don't want to do 'talking-animal films' anymore, they want to do what they want to do." ”
The animation studios that made Love Death Machine came from all over the world: the United States, Canada, France, South Korea, and so on, and Finch and Tim gave them a lot of creative freedom — providing several scripts, estimated lengths, and budgets, and the studio picked one they liked, and then just reported on the progress on a regular basis, and Netflix just paid for it.
In the end, almost all the studios produced animations that lasted longer than initially expected, and it's conceivable that it's a heavenly creative environment where everyone is having fun drawing.
The audience is naturally happy to see it, and the sense of hindsight is nothing more than two, the first is complete, such as "Zima Blue", "Lucky 13", "Witness", which are relatively round and integrated in structure:
The second is to see more, whether it is a more complete plot, the story that happens next, or other possibilities in this world, such as "Shapeshifter", "Secret War", "Happy Hunting" and so on.
Love is the process, robots are the form, and death is the end and beginning. I believe the second season will be more exciting!
What's your favorite movie in Love, Death, and Robots (Season 1)?