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Distributor:
Paramount Home Entertainment
Release Date: 13 February 2006
Certificate: M |
region 4
Available to buy
Extras:
Yes
ANYONE
IN IT WE KNOW?
Voices by Denise Poirier, John Rafter Lee
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WHAT’S
IT ABOUT THEN?
With the big screen Charlize Theron Live Action version soon to be upon us, the time is definitely right to take another look at the
MTV series that inspired the movie.
Created by Peter Chung for MTV's early 1990's Liquid Television (which was also
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responsible for Beavis and
Butthead) strand before becoming a full blown series in 1995, in the early shorts Flux featured no dialogue and even here in the series the dialogue
is terse and to the point, the series follows the scanitly clad, bum cheek baring, Æon Flux, a secret agent from Monica who is
highly skilled in both acrobatics and assassination whose main role is disrupting the society of
Brgena, run by her arch enemy (but also lover) Trevor Goodchild. The main thrust of this highly violent ten episode series (which is spread over three discs in this
paramount release) though is Flux's relentless search for a man carrying a deadly virus.
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Whilst clearly influenced by
Japanese anime the ultimate style is more comic book, crisp lines and dark blocked colours. It's also
definitely not a series that younger viewers should be watching, there is overt sexuality with fetishism, bondage and domination
being recurring themes (quite funny really when you consider that creator Peter Chung previously worked on kids classic
Rugrats).
Other than the first and episodes individual segments can be watched in any order as there is no real sort of continuity, in fact in
one of the episodes Flux is killed and replaced by an identical clone. Even if you are not an anime fan you should still find time to
watch this incredible series.
ANY
SPECIAL FEATURES?
There is a great collection of extras in this 3 disc set including a comprehensive documentary about the making of the series
whilst The Deviant Devices of Æon Flux is a look at the incredible weaponry used in the series; The original pilot movie (which was
split into 6 parts and seen on the first series of Liquid Television) is also here as are the shorts that went to make up the second
series of Flux (both come complete with optional audio commentary from the crew); Theres a fantastic section on the
production art broken down into segments, sketches, model sheets, storyboards and color stills as well as two pencil tests for the
shorts War and Mirror; Other work of Peter Chung features MTV promos and commercials in the Aeon Flux style Theres also a
selction of Liquid Television shorts too; There are also audio commentaries galore.
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