Evangelion & One Hour Photo
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- Опубліковано 9 лис 2016
- A look at One Hour Photo, a 2002 psychological thriller written and directed by Mark Romanek and starring Robin Williams as Sy Parrish, a photo technician at a fictionalized version of WalMart. The film has special significance to Evangelion fans, as a Mass Produced Evangelion figure factors in the plot in a significant way.
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MUSIC USED:
00:01 - 03 A Moment When Tension Breaks from Neon Genesis Evangelion: Mahjong Hokan Keikaku
00:38 - 08 Five Customers from One Hour Photo
01:17 - 02 Birthday Party from One Hour Photo
01:24 - 04 Diner from One Hour Photo
02:04 - 09 Christmas With the Yorkins from One Hour Photo
02:23 - 08 Five Customers from One Hour Photo
02:45 - 07 Wall of Photos from One Hour Photo
04:25 - 16 Discovery-Following Nina from One Hour Photo
04:54 - 17 Sy's Nightmare from One Hour Photo
05:55 - 17 Sy's Nightmare from One Hour Photo
06:19 - 03 A Moment When Tension Breaks from Neon Genesis Evangelion: Mahjong Hokan Keikaku
07:02 - Music from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
07:21 - 03 A Moment When Tension Breaks from Neon Genesis Evangelion: Mahjong Hokan Keikaku
09:57 - 22 End Titles (Sy's Theme) from One Hour Photo
11:00 - 01 Next Episode from Neon Genesis Evangelion: Mahjong Hokan Keikaku - Фільми й анімація
That kid must really hate Asuka
That kid must really like rei
Darren well you can blame him, I’m sure almost everybody, even some of the people inside the fandom, hate her, me included.
yeah those flying white basterds set off the third impact by killing Asuka and setting of shinji
Just for the godly rei/lilith to kill everyone
*cough* *cough* cant breathe...
"good guy"
Kid is a confirmed member of SEELE
Lol
Maybe he is SEELE 1
LMAO
yes
i thought that too
The kid didn't accept it because he had just watched End of E
Lmao what’s wrong with end of evangelion? I haven’t watched anything of evangelion but I’m interested on why that movie is controversial
@@impmadness oh no I love the movie and so does the fan base, without ruining anything it’s just that this particular toy is based off something quite... distressing haha
Highly recommend watching Evangelion btw! Just stop after episode 24 then watch End of E as episodes 25 and 26 are a less “refined” ending
@@jontyrosenow9396 oh ok cool
E
"I can't accept this."
Everyone’s talking about “he’s a good guy” but no one’s talking about Robin Williams.
I miss him.
He is a good guy too
I was today years old when I learned he was a nerd who named his daughter Zelda
I want to cry I love this man so much
One of the best actors.
I feel like if there's ever a live action remake of Eva, he'll pop from the grave to play Gendo Ikari. Or at least horrifically haunt the person directing a Live Action Eva film.
7:13 really hits hard when you think back on it now. ☹️
"What does he do?"
"Well, he's a soulless, undead killing machine animated by the brain patterns of the only person to ever give the hero unconditional love before forcing the hero to murder him, he can fly, and he's got a silver sword that can turn into a copy of an ancient alien relic that he uses to disable the heroine so he and his pals can torture her and eat her alive before helping the hero's very literally Oedipal love interest end the world right after she was fingered by his dad."
"Really."
"And he's 60 feet tall."
I mean basically a good guy...
I...What? Holy shit, I need to get into Evangelion.
I blitzed it over the course of a weekend. It was memorable to say the least.
@@vgman94 good show but it is seriously weird
It's true it messes with your head discovered it in hs. Not the same now better or worse.
I thought the kid seeing the figurine as a "good guy" almost made it seem like he wanted the toy without actually knowing anything about it. Like he just made something up on the fly about it because he thought it looked cool.
It's also white and looks like an angel. I'd probably assume it's a good guy if I were a kid
its probably a parallel to robin's character, the kid thinks he's a good guy but is actually wrong about it. I'm surprised the creator of this video didn't touch on that. Also, I think evangelion was 'mispronounced' because that word is pronounced that way in american english. Like evangelist church, you wouldn't say evanGHEList church.
I also felt that, he just wanted it and had probably light information of what the series is about. I was like that when I was a child and got a toy that I liked how it looked but didn’t know where it came from.
Maybe he just really disliked Asuka and was all for instrumentalitty
@@piluex2 instrumentality 2020👀
“He’s a good guy”
Asuka: ANTA BAKA?
I laughed so hard
Asuka:
- Pathetic.
"How disgusting..."
Asuka has nice feet
Comments you can hear.
Robin Williams mispronounced Evangelion on purpose because he was felt that his character fits the out of touch old man, it's no different than your parents calling Pokemon, 'Pokey Man'.
Lost in Lucidity
Poke A Man. But that’s very interesting
But why did the kid mispronounce it?
seg162
Because it’s a kid and probably just wants the toy cause it looks cool.
seg162 because he most likely hadn’t watched evangelion. he did call a mass produced eva a “good guy” after all
Fuckin drove me nuts as a child
“He’s a good guy...”
Mass Produced Eva: “Hold my Beer...”
They are just misunderstood! They just want what's best for humanity
LMFAO
so true!
khornetto and turn all the fucking humanity in lcl
I mean...is there a good guy in evangelion? Really?
4:08 his parents must've watched End of Evangelion
"he's a good guy, he can fly, has a sword-"
AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHhhahahah
Dumb kid!
He is a traitor, he is in favor of the angels.
Don't you want to become one big soup with the rest of humanity :3
@@shodank9590 soup is delicious.
Zenith Maldren its a fucking movie, its not just because he’s a kid, he’s reading a script
Kid: "He's got a silver sword that can kill bad guys."
Asuka: "Are you calling me a bad guy!?"
asuka best girl dude, always remember that
I ain't calling you for dinner, that's for sure
@@somerandomdudecharles Best Roadkill
Arv No thats Mari
yeh
I'd love to actually to show the kid End of Evangelion, then he'd wouldn't want it.
That film would terrorize him.
it would probably KILL him
Well I watched it when I was about his age so... yeah deep traumas left behind
4:00 the kids parents showed him the end of evangelion
That's why he couldn't take it
Digimon Adventure's Omegamon / Omnimon is more suitable. 60 feet tall and an actual Good Guy, or at least the main protagonists' partner.
ua-cam.com/video/CCuBj8ozC4U/v-deo.html
Though one got to wonder on the real reason the kid couldn't take it. Is it:
* His parents forbade it like he said it.
* He is just not interest on it anymore.
* His parents forbade taking gifts from a stranger.
Calling a mass produced Eva a good guy is just proof this ten year old didn't watch end of evangelion
And most responsible parents wouldn't let their 10 year old watch End of Evangelion anyway. It makes perfect sense.
aleks no unless he hates Asuka a lot :9
Or it's proof that he did. Most parents would never allow their child to watch the show if they knew what it was, let alone buy its toys. I find it much more likely that the kid saw Evangelion at a friend's house, knew he couldn't tell his parents about it because he wouldn't be allowed to visit that friend's house anymore, and when he saw the MP Eva toy, decided to try and trick his parents into buying it for him by lying to them about the show and the MP Eva's role in it. Likewise, he thought that if Sy knew the truth, he would take it away.
The child simply agrees with human instrumentality.
honestly if I were his parent I would let him watch the show but not the movie
By accident, the MP Eva figure has become a metaphor for something that seems innocent and pure at first because of its appearance, eg. white, wings, smile... The Eva, it's the Robin's character.
Say sike right ducking now, nobody thought it was pure because of them Bri’ish smiles
@@evagineer9165 I thought they were reinforcement until they smiled.
@@andrejspecht8217 what if they kill asuka so they can be with Shinji
@@evagineer9165 They didn't, she was Tang'ed by Wondergirl in time. They were driven by dummyplugs based on Nagisa's clones though.
@@andrejspecht8217 I kinda said that as a joke
"He's a good guy"
*Shows Cyborg responsible for Apocalypse*
Yeah fuck NERV, They are trying to stop humanity revival.
This Is an Overrated Image lmao
Best comment ever
Can you imagine Robin Williams to play Gendo?
No, because he's dead
@@TheFunContinues :c
Well, I know that he would do a good job with that dark character. He can play the serious role to perfection.
He lloked more like the Seele leader.
I think in a reddit AMA he wouldn't have wanted to play Gendo but Daisuke Aramaki from Ghost in the Shell
"He's a good guy, he can fly and he has a seord he uses to kill bad guys"
WELL BOY DO I HAVE NEWS FOR YOU
He's right
@@snarkylive I know, that's why in my response I said he (the kid in the film who called it a "good guy") was right.
"Sad Asuka noises"
Shhhhhh he knows he just hates Asuka
Recently deceased after battling depression, Robin Williams was such a huge fan of yours that he had Evangelion figures appear in one of the films he starred in. Were you aware of his fandom?
No, I didn’t know that. It’s a pity. I knew about his passing, but never about him being such a huge fan.
-HIDEAKI ANNO.
:(
Mass produced Evas were always the good guys and Shinji is a brave and stable teenager.
Maybe that's the reason why later the kid didn't want the toy anymore, he watched End of Evangelion
Evangelion is my favorite live action sitcom.
Same
Oddly enough there were plans to make it live action with robin williams playing gendo ikari...the plans fell apart
What happened?
i was wondering about the live action but it would be impossible to cram evangelion into 2 or 2 1/2 hrs there's too much to explain and even the anime has trouble explaining it
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"he's a good guy, he can fly and he has a silver sword that can kill bad guys..
oh, and he also ripped apart a similar but red colored guy with its tsundere pilot cannibal holocaust style with his other buddies"
maximusdarkultima yea killed best girl but best girl came back
Understood reference
@@leviyoung4066 you just like her bc of the porm
SlenLen left hand-san beat meat and beat asuka
yooooooo Cannibal Holocaust !!!
"He's 60ft tall
and he and his pals consumed the hero and the other characters to turn everyone into orange soda"
"He's a good guy and has a silver sword that he uses to kill bad guys"
*Asuka has left the chat*
*quite literally left the chat*
@@CMTechnica so did Kyoko
Wow. I never recalled the white evangelion series to be good guys.
Jhonny Mark Haha. They werent good or bad. They just followed their purpose. Like bohrok swarms from bionicle.
The Aki War oh snap a fellow bionicle fan 🙌
The kid had some sketchy subs.
A person with a Metroid profile pic commenting on an Evangelion video mentions Bionicle... I have found true culture.
I love everyone I'm this thread
this movie looks depressing af
Just like evangelion
very
Just like my life
I remember watching this film as a child and feeling really uncomfortable and nervous, I should re-watch it
i am uncomfortable and nervous just from watching this video
2 Things:
1) That kid is SEELE 01.
2) Robin Williams is also one of us. Rest in Peace.
Robin Williams mispronounces Evangelion in the movie, because he's not playing Robin Williams.
6:20
The designer of the box really wanted to throw salt into an open wound. :)
The SALT is real.
Spolachs omg foreal, i know im a year late but how dare they put a picture of her next to that thing
Dude i knlw right lmao
"FEATURING REAL ASUKA KILLING ACTION!!!"
4:03 Take the fucking action figure, Shinji!
RockmanMegaX lol
RockmanMegaX haha
"Hes a good guy"
"Good guy"
" G O O D G U Y"
I'm sorry..... THEY SOLD EVA TOYS AT THE STORE, man it's moments like this where I wish I wasn't a fucking toddler in the early 2000s 😭😭
Deadass, now if you want some eva figures you're paying like 80-200 dollars 💀 P A I N
Same
I was 12 in the year 2000. I remember what it was like. They weren't actually seeling Eva toys at your average Walmart or K-Mart out there, lol. It's just a movie.
I can relate.
@@shikitohno47 20-40 at a Japanese or SouthWestern Coast of a American Yardsale
Robin Williams wasn't playing and Eva fan, thus he pronounces it as a non fan would.
I get the feeling that the kid probably mis-pronounced it, and rather than correct him, he simply went with it. Williams was too nice of a guy to correct a kid like that over something so trivial, at the risk of coming off pretentious, condescending, or scalding, so I think he probably just rolled with it. Or he could have found out about the show from the figure, and become a fan afterword. That is also entirely possible.
specially if you consider Robin had depression and that's basically what Evangelion is about
Then again, thinking about it, actually, it may be even simpler. The kid probably said it wrong, and since his CHARACTER hasn't seen Eva before, he wouldn't know to say Gel instead of Jel, and when the kid mis-spoke, (if Williams watched it before the movie was made and not after) then he would have said Jel instead to keep the continuity.
wylde678 That's just how good he is at concealing his power level
He pronounced it like a grandpa would say it
You sure that's wrong? That is closer to the Portuguese way of saying it than yours are, and Portuguese is a Latin language
I always thought mispronouncing Evangelion seemed natural and in-character for Williams, whose character Sy wouldn't know anything about the show at all. And he was following the boy's lead, who would also have no reason to know anything very much about that show either because it definitely isn't for kids, and never aired on TV in the US. He would probably have only seen it in a comic book or heard about it from a young friend and just liked the toy because it seemed cool. And realistically, there's no way he could have seen the End movie to know that the MP Evas were not 'good guys', so he would have just made that up.
Yup, it makes sense for his character. The word "evangelion" is based on the word "evangelical" which is pronounced more with a J sound, so it makes sense someone seeing the name for the first time would assume evangelion is said the same way. Robin in real life probably knew it was supposed to have a hard G sound.
Well excuse me but the Mass Produced Evas look like the Good guys when they are trying to take down a Rouge Agent Piloting a weapon of mass destruction so, yeah Id agree that they are actually the Good guys and it doesnt help that Asuka is a huge b i t ch like god damn what tf is wrong with her attitude
@@localdude2979
Yeah SEELE was doing it so they can end the world
@@genghiskhan5701 hell yeah
Gentle Giant W
Im gonna miss that man. He really named his daughter after zelda
He's a good guy, he can fly and he has a sword
*Laughs in SEELE*
Do Paul Blart and Evangelion
great to see you here
SynthCool didn't even realize it was you haha
SynthCool Synth you memer I knew I would find you lurking around here
I have never heard this one. Sounds like a meme, but I would just love to find out a majority of the action scenes from both films have surprising similarities to Eva action scenes, intentional or not. XD
Should’ve known I’d find you here. You’re actually the reason why I started watching Evangelion. It used to be on my to watch list, but now I’ve seen the whole series and End of Evangelion.
60 ft tall and a good guy😂
Kitty Mew mew lmao! That damn Eva killed Asuka
*Ate Asuka
Wilbert Castillo that's why he's the good guy
Juan López
I mean, I'd eat her too
Juan López in reality it was both
"He's a Good Guy"
Jontron: I have S E V E R A L questions
Both One Hour Photo and Insomnia are criminally underrated in my opinion
Umm okay kid.... I'm guessing you haven't seen End of Evangelion when those guys killed Asuka.
Jessica L mabye he hates her and loves those things for doing it....I can relate
She got better, though
Asuka was a really good character, even though I related most to her polar opposite Rei, she also had a very important role in the psychological analysis of EVA.
Spoilers...
Jessica L You mean more like pack hunted...
That's some good investigative reporting. Some of Williams' movies are harder for me to watch now after his death. This is definitely one of them.
ElNingyou Cherish the things that made us sad for his death. Remember the moments he gave.
„Mass produced Eva 09 is a good guy!“
*“THE LANCE OF LONGINUS??!!“*
“He’s a Good Guy”. We love the Mass Production Eva units that killed Asuka
Get in the robot, Sy.
If only Jake had just gotten into the robot
Orange Tang everywhere
SHINJI GET IN THE GODDAMNED ROBOT
Sy borg???
@@smirage22 Cleanup on every aisle in the universe.
I believe Robin himself detailed in an AMA that he is a fan of NGE (other notable anime as well) and he purposefully mispronounced NGE as a gag. I could be misremembering the details though. I think the figure was also part of his personal collection, but seeing that the director claims he picked it out himself i'm gonna have to look back at the AMA to make sure.
good vid though!
If you find anything relevant in his AMA let me know. I didn't find anything when I went through his AMA, but then again, those tend to be a rabbit hole of collapsed comments, and I might not have dug deep enough. Thanks.
My mistake, I actually looked back at the AMA and only found Robin mentioning Blood the Last Vampire and GiTS. Then I remembered that I had read the story concerning the figure on a blog a few years ago so I can't find it now and I don't know how accurate it is.
Yeah, that sounds about right, I do remember finding that in his AMA as well. It's just one of those things that took on a life of its own despite not having any primary sources. There was Matt Greenfield, but it's hard to say if he ever met or interacted with him. You can find this misconception all over the place, including IMDB and Did You Know Anime.
If I remember, those Eva figures are actually his 😂
The thought of Robin Williams having been an NGE fan makes a little too much sense.
R.I.P. Robin Williams
You will be missed..
The accidental choice of the mass produced eva is actually pretty thematically appropriate. Of course people who never saw Eva wouldn't know it, but the symbolism of the 'angelic avenger' and the reality of the creature's murderous role in the show work pretty well with the theme of the film. Pretty cool how that worked out. I hope the director eventually saw what happened in the Eva film and felt the same way.
great video. Wonder why they characterized the Eva series figurine as a "good guy" though.
Probably just the director's limited knowledge of the series. It bugs us as fans, but if anyone on the production (Williams included) knew enough to split hairs, they probably just didn't feel it was necessary. Besides, the director was really only looking for something that fit visually. I think it works just fine.
Agree it works fine as a plot device, but you're right it bugs my inner fanboy.
I think he must have had to have known that it wasn't an accurate description if he put it in in the first place. However what the kid actually says it far better for the film.
Maybe they are the good guys, you ever think about that ;)
Wasn't SEELE an American institution?
When that kid called the MP Eva a "Good Guy"....
TTTTTTRRRRRRIIIIIIGGGGGGEEEEERRRRRREEEEEDDDDD!
Mass produced Evas did nothing wrong
IN CAPITALIST AMERICA MASS PRODUCED ANYTHING IS GOOD GUY!!
MWHТ13 60 FEET TALL
"...and kills bad guys with his sword"
almost right
I mean. Technically SEELE's objective was a righteous one. They were literally trying to create "Heaven". Where as Gendo was just trying to see his wife again. If you look at it that way the mass produced Evas were kinda the good guys in a weird way.
"He's a good guy, he can fly and he has a silver sword that can kill bad guys" Yeah I think that boy hates germanies tsunderes
Funny thing I'd never heard or had any interest in Evangelion when I watched this movie, so just assumed that the kid was right about the whole good guy thing and that was the way to pronounce it. Fast forward 20 years later and my oldest nephew tells me "You need to watch this anime" and that brought me back to this scene. Oh the irony.
Robin Williams' death hit me hard. both showing that there is no cure, no getting better, from mental illness, that even into my 60's or 70's i may still succumb to suicide, but also inspiring me to keep myself going even long into my life, and to try not succumb to such suffering that drive Robin Williams to leave this earth. But it's hard, and it is never going to get easier. Life is hard. :(
I would note that Robin had recently been diagnosed with Lewy body dementia, which is a form of dementia which often leads to delerium, psychosis and/or violence.
Even without prior depression, it's not unreasonable to chose death over what it will eventually turn you into.
You can prevent suicide, its up to you though. You need to search yourself.
As a fellow nut job I can only pass on my mantra:it could always be worse.
You will always have a chance for happiness, after all you are still alive. I just watched end of evangelion earlier and it had a quote like this.
Well, Robin had Lewy Body Dementia. His mind was literally disintegrating. He was experiencing terrible symptoms every single day, so I would figure any normal person would want to end it. From what I've read, his wife said he looked better his last few days and there was a change in medication, so maybe he didn't even want to kill himself but rather he didn't even know what he was doing (you should do some research on LBD), but that's just a possibility.
"He's a good guy..." DROPPED
Its all a matter of perspective. One could argue that the MPE's are the good guys and that NERV are the bad guys considering what we know about Gendo's motivations.
except she was literally too angry to die and came back from lcl soup
"He's a good guy"
Yeah, and Shinji *has to* get in the robot.
“Hes a good guy”
*how disgusting.*
I'm a bit late here, but I'd like to leave my two cents.
It might have even been on accident, but the way the boy thinks the Mass-Produced Eva is a good guy while, in reality, they're some of the most fucked up creations of mankind seems to be a mirror to Sy.
The Evas are off-putting and have something off about them from the beginning, but seem to be the "good guys" for the most part. Only towards the end of the story is their true nature revealed. This is when the "evil" Mass-Produced Evas destroy one of the last "good" Evas and push Shinji to bring about Instrumentality.
In the movie, Sy seems off-putting and a little off, but generally seems genial and "good." Only towards the end of the story is his true nature revealed, which, combined with the "evil" of the things happening around him, pushes him to start being a creepo.
Of course, I haven't seen One Hour Photo, but it seems like a parallel of sorts.
I saw Evangelion before learning English and thus I keep calling it Evan-jelion.
As a German Catholic, I pronounce it the German-Latin-Greek-way:
Like Nehyon Ghehnesis Evanghehlion.
mundotaku Spanish Evangelion is the best Evangelion. :)
Me too, but in my language's dub, which is outstanding and 100% faithful (I still have the VHSes), they call it correctly, so did I.
I call it Ay-vang-gay-leon :v
evanjelion for the win xD
I remember reading somewhere that Williams said his favorite anime was NGE, so this totally makes sense. Plus the mispronunciation could be intentional to make him seem more detached from the kid.
Coincidentally, the mass produced Eva toy wound up being kind of a good fit symbolically. Robin Williams's character mistakes it for a good guy. Just like he considers himself a good guy, protecting the little boy and the woman from the cheating father.
He Died And He Didnt Watch The 4th Rebuild. Stay Humble..
Rei Ayanami I laughed at this to much...
MP Eva's are good guys.......
Let's ignore that one scene with asuka and "THE GOOD GUYS"
Asuka begs to differ
Williams might have been a fan but his character in the movie wasn't so he pronounced Evangelion as any regular guy would had.
This was a brilliant video !
I must say, even though it almost appeared something simple and minor, you kept me interested throughout the video. Can't wait to see more.
Thanks. I've got a bunch of stuff cookin. Hopefully I'll be getting into a groove soon.
There's also a Gundam action figure / kit in the film, Char's Zaku I believe.
There is indeed, I considered mentioning it, but I didn't really feel like it added anything to the video.
Eva Monkey
How dare you!!! Gunpla/Gundam is always relevant!!!
Robin willams has good taste in mecha
Well needed analyses 🙏🏻🙏🏻
I love those essays and research videos!
Been following evamonkey for years and he seems like one of the only sane people in the eva fanbase. Keep up the good work.
Thanks dude! :)
Everything is blue
His pills, his hands, his jeans
And now I'm covered in the colors
Pulled apart at the seams
And it's blue
And it's blue
Everything is grey
His hair, his smoke, his dreams
And now he's so devoid of color
He don't know what it means
And he's blue
And he's blue
I'M BLUE DA BA DEE DOO BOO DA
Thank you for putting subtitles in all your videos :)
You are most welcome. Evangelion attracts fans from all over the world, and not all of them are native English speakers, so I subtitle all of my videos myself to help with that. It also helps if my speech just isn't clear enough.
MIND BLOWN!!
I suspect Mark Romanek is full of shit. As a director, he probably just doesn't want to admit that someone else added some depth to his movie -- or he simply isn't aware, doesn't remember, or doesn't care. I feel certain that Robin Williams knew fully well what he was doing when he included the Evangelion figurine, and I can explain why: it's due to the deliberate use of irony, which hinges upon the masterful choice of the Mass Production Evangelion.
The line, "Well, he's a good guy," takes on whole lot of irony -- genuine irony -- that none of our characters are aware of -- indeed, even most of the _audience_ watching the film is not aware of that layer of irony. *Only* people who have watched End of Evangelion are aware of the irony behind the line, "Well, he's a good guy" -- because that is *decidedly* not the case -- the Mass Production Evangelions are not the "good guys" at all.
Think about how that irony adds to the ambiguous (and, indeed, perhaps evil) nature of Robin Williams' character Sy in One Hour Photo -- that is, Sy is not merely an "avenging angel" but can be _explicitly_ compared to the role that the Mass Production Evangelions play; just as SEELE does, Sy thinks he's the good guy when -- in reality -- he may not be the good guy at all and actually does some things that are quite horrific.
Thus, my argument is that only someone who knows the irony behind the line, "Well, he's a good guy" would have included that line -- since it's clearly not true in End of Evangelion (hence making the line ironic) -- and since, clearly, Mark Romanek doesn't seem to fully understand the presence of the Mass Production Evangelion, I therefore conclude Robin Williams was indeed the one who chose the Mass Production Evangelion for the film and likely knew the true story behind it.
The irony in the line, "Well, he's a good guy," is deliberate.
(Oh, and Robin Williams mispronounces the name "Evangelion" because his _character_ would not know how to pronounce it.)
exactly my thought, the audio of him sounds very unsure of his decision as well. if thats true, its a shame to take away the credit of a deceased man
Very good analogy there, though I'd go as far as to argue that even in its proper context, the "he's a good guy" line works - the kid's lying, plain and simple. He probably saw Evangelion at a friend's house because his parents would never have approved of him watching it if they knew what it was about, so he also misrepresents the toy itself because he's worried that Sy and/or his parents would refuse to let him have it.
YES, you could tell from the director's responses he wasn't sure how far to take credit but he showed his hand when he said he had no idea of the background behind the figure. It's so beautiful and ironic that it just makes sense a beloved weeb like Robin would push for it's inclusion. Romanek may have officially "approved" its inclusion but I do believe it was from Robin's collection. Why would production go to the effort of paying for a likely expensive limited edition Japanese import figure?
Very probable.I can see the director asking to production to found "a cool looking robot in mint condition" but Robin Williams saying "hey, i have already one of these in home" so he added this one, because was more fitting with the drama in the movie.
Yes, I agree. The same question may have been asked to Romanek many times about the inclusion since Eva is pretty much a cult within weeb circle but Romanek may just for the reason of his personal ego to acted like someone who's completely ignorant about it. It is highly unlikely a "mass production eva" can be that handy to use as a prop without someone purposely introduce it so Romanek's explanation of being some kind of "accident" is truly full of shit. Think he may be annoyed by everyone asking him about it since a toy has more in-depth meaning than his own writing.
"He's a good guy, he can fly, and he has a silver sword that can kill bad guys"
> _remembers the scene of Auska_
In hindsight the disconnect of the figure being a "good guy" or an "avenging angel" to what it really is quite a subtle point that was what I think an accidental inclusion that actually kinda works since Robin sees himself as the avenging angel in the story opposed to what he really is.
Glad to see it's back
Weird.. apparently it was William's toy. Zelda tweeted about it. Maybe he kept it after filming.
Quite possibly. My concern was the belief that had it not been for Robin Williams, the Evangelion figure would not have made it into the film, and per my exchanges with Mark Romanek, that isn't the case. The question is whether it's the same figure throughout the film. The figure in the packaging looks clearly had been opened in order to remove the card of Asuka. The question is whether the figure in the packaging, the figure out of the packaging, and the figure in the original script reads are all the same figure, or if they are two different figures. Ultimately, that's probably an unimportant detail.
this video inspired me to watch One Hour Photo!
Awesome. That's what I'm hoping for. :)
Emma same :3
I bought it because of this video
me too!!
I actually watched that film and i just finished eva and i fucking realised that eva was there
I’ve been wanting to know the context behind that clip for ages, thank you
Kid: hes a good guy
People: Awwww
Eva Asuka fans: *Get that monster away from me..*
wow! i found your video on reddit and its great!
Thanks bro. :)
"Wow! What does he do?" *Bach's Air starts playing*
Outstanding video ❤️
Fun video, interesting concept.
He's a good guy."
Ha, funny
Awesome vid. More please!!
Thanks, I'm working hard on it. If all goes well, there should be something new every two weeks.
this video is incredible
This is in-depth and cool. Keep making these!
3:26 this hurts me more than the Netflix dub
I have the same Mass Produced Eva Figure right next to my Joseph Kony Figure and Ed Gein figure on the *good guy shelf*
* w h e e z i n g *
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This is one of the best videos I've ever watched in my life...it was so interesting
that's why i love the internet you look at one little thing in a 2000's movie and explained all the backstory of a thing so minor but still intersting just amazing
Fantastic video! Engaging all the way through, also nice to get some real clarification on this long believed piece of trivia that had no real backing other than "Robin was a fan of Eva so it makes sense"
Thanks. Really glad you enjoyed it. :)
Comments of this video
2% “wow! So this is the connection between them”
4% the word “Evangelion” doesn’t sound like that
94% “he’s a good guy”
You did an amazing job with pacing out the story of 1 Hour Photo! It's been a very long time since I've seen the movie. Honestly, it's sadder knowing the Robin has Lewy body disease (basically Parkinson's and dementia) and also took his own life, which I totally understand and agree with when it comes to dementia/Alzheimer's. Anyway, I'm grateful how you broke the creepiness to talk about a toy from a manga.
3 years I come back to watch this video once again...I remember watching this movie but I don't know if I watched it because of this video or before.
He is a good guy, silver sword so he can kill bad guys
*Mass production Evas tearing apart Asuka's Eva ripping flesh and sinew, guts spilling out as they consume the flesh that is Eva unit 2*
Scott Wales Yeah I haven't seen Asuka the same since despite not watching the anime or movie.
Since Robin Williams knew NGE, just imagine his reaction reading the script about that scene, and the kid dialogue saying that the figure was ''a good guy''...
Wow props to actually getting Mark Romanek to clarify this!
RIP Robin Williams . Miss u bro