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Evangelion 1.0: You Are (Not) Alone is the first film in the Rebuild of Evangelion movie series. It premiered in Japan on September 1, 2007.
Overview
Evangelion 1.0 is an alternate retelling of the original Neon Genesis Evangelion series, covering material up to the battle against the Angel Ramiel in Episode 06 of the original series. Evangelion 1.0 very faithfully recreates many scenes from the original series, often shot for shot, but with better animation quality, using modern digital animation techniques.
Plot
Shinji on the telephone after arriving in Tokyo 3
Shinji Ikari receives a message from his father, asking him to come to meet him. He is picked up by Misato Katsuragi, and taken to meet his father, at the headquarters of his organization, Nerv. Meanwhile, the city of Tokyo-3 is attacked by a strange creature, the Angel Sachiel. At Nerv HQ, Shinji is shown what his father has been working on: A giant "robot," Evangelion Unit-01. Shinji's father, Gendo Ikari, forces him to pilot it, saying he is the only one who can. Shinji fails to defeat the Angel, and blacks out in pain, but Eva-01 goes berserk and defeats the Angel on its own.
Soon afterwards, Shinji wakes up in hospital and is officially instated as the pilot of Eva-01, the Third Child. Shinji runs into problems in school with Toji, whose sister was injured in the battle. The Fifth Angel, Shamshel, attacks Tokyo-3, and Shinji is forced to battle again. He defeats it, but he disobeyed orders during the fight, and decides to run away. After making his way to an under construction bridge (whether or not Shinji was contemplating suicide seems to be individual interpretation), he is brought back by Nerv employees. At school, Toji decides that Shinji isn't a bad person, and they become friends. Following this, Shinji interacts with his fellow pilot, the mysterious Rei Ayanami for the first time. Another incredibly powerful Angel appears, Ramiel, who nearly kills Shinji with its powerful beam attack. It then proceeds to drill down into the Geo-Front cavern below. When Shinji recovers, Misato takes him down to Central Dogma (instead of Terminal Dogma in the series), where she shows him Lilith, a white giant hanging from a cross. She explains that if an Angel were to unite with Lilith, it would cause Third Impact. This encourages Shinji to pilot Eva-01 again. A plan is developed to defeat Ramiel by using all of the electrical power of Japan to power an experimental positron rifle which Eva-01 will use to snipe Ramiel while Rei, in Eva-00 supports by blocking its attack. After his first shot fails to kill the Angel, Shinji is successfully able to fire a second shot and destroy the Angel.
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Ramiel heading toward Tokyo 3
Meanwhile, in the final scene, the camera pans up from the end of the battle with Ramiel and zooms in on Earth's moon. On the moon, a line of what appear to be coffin-like boxes is on the lunar surface, with a giant stain of blood intersecting the landscape through the middle of the row of boxes. Out of one of these rises a nude Kaworu Nagisa, who begins talking to Chairman Keele's Seele 01 "sound only" monolith communicator. Behind them on the moon appears to be a secret Seele base, with a white giant with an appearance similar to Lilith restrainedbehind them in a pit covered with scaffolding. Kaworu says that the "Third" hasn't changed, and he can't wait to meet Shinji...
Soundtrack
- The film's soundtrack was released in two formats. The first contained uncut recordings of most of the songs. The second contained every song in the film cut to sync with the on-screen length.
- Hikaru Utada's song "Beautiful World" is the main theme for the movie.
Reception
On its opening weekend in Japan, Evangelion 1.0: You Are (Not) Alone took the #1 place at the box office: 236,158 people spent 280 million yen (about US $2.4 million). Unusually, it earned this much money despite playing at only 84 theaters, though many of them were packed to capacity.[1]
Notes and references
- The first trailer for the film was released online on July 13, 2007.
- After the credits finish, a trailer plays for the next movie in the Rebuild series, Evangelion 2.0. Amusingly, its structured exactly like the "next episode on Evangelion" segments that ended each episode of the original series, including the same musical theme and a voice-over by Misato.
- A spelling error: when Misato and Shinji are in the elevator, right before it opens and they meet Ritsuko for the first time, the instructions printed next to the level display clearly say "Emargency" instead of "Emergency". Another spelling error is seen briefly during Operation Yashima, where "Storage" is misspelled "Strage"(The "o" is missing). These errors have been rectified in the video release.