Æon Flux (Aeon Flux) The Movie Worldbuilding Similarities to Mine and Possible Cartoon Influences

I thoroughly enjoyed Aeon Flux, the movie.  I, furthermore, enjoyed the cartoon the few times I got to catch it on MTV.  The strong female character is a favorite of mine, and I liked the way Charlize Theron brought that to the Aeon character.  15 November 2010 was the first time I saw the movie.

This whole stream of thought came from chapter 3/14 in the movie, that we find out in the director's commentary with Charlize, in the BluRay extras, that it was an ohmage to the character from the cartoons.  The outfit Aeon is wearing in bed at home has a similar theme to the outfit I tried to describe for Suki in Suki With A Twist: Part One (sample preview), in the first two chapters when she is on a date with the chief partner of a law firm.  The halter style of the outfit is what I was going for, except the one I described fastens behind the neck, crosses over her breasts, then down to her hips to fan out covering her backside and draping around the upper thighs in front.  When I saw the scene below, I thought "Suki's party outfit!"  Almost.

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Suki's outfit and wig are made of electrochromic polymers, i.e., synthetics that change color when varying voltages are applied, so they morph colors in a manner coordinated by the wearer.  Other than Aeon and Suki being strong female characters with great bodies sexy wardrobes and deadly with any weapon, there is not much similarity between them.  Aeon uses gymnastic moves constantly.  Suki is perfectly capable of some of that, I wrote her as very fit and limber, but I never have her doing much like that outside of the bedroom.

In the movie world that was built for Aeon Flux, it is much more on the organic side.  It is also 400 years in the future and my work is only twenty years out.  My future is a combination of electromechanical and organic.  In the first series, some of Suki's work is in robotics theory for industry, and she has a PhD from MIT in that field.  She is constantly modifying things, carving, makes her own bows and arrows, improving the cleaning robots at her fiance's condo, etc.

The segment in the BluRay extras of Aeon Flux when the screen writers spoke of their world without "burning trash cans" or "burlap", that struck me as identical to what I was thinking about the future I write.  Neither their work nor mine is Blade Runner at all.  Neither is a dark, gray world.  The sun shines brightly, brightly. The plants are full and green, flowers bloom, bright colors abound, etcetera.  In both, nothing is perfect.  In the Suki series, the threats are against the couple's relationship.

When the cartoon clips were shown, the memory flood was of how sexual the cartoons were.   There had to be some influence from that on what I wrote.   Nothing specific that I can point to.  As I recall from when the shorts were on MTV, Peter Chung had frequent sexual slavery scenes, or maybe I am misinterpreting them.  I have some of that in Suki II: Sunshine Returns (that site not work safe, but it is a free eBook), but it is not a main theme in either series.  In Sarah and Suki's fan fiction stories, they play up sexual slavery to the hilt.

Æon Flux is one of those works that I enjoyed on its own, as well as it making me feel good about my work.  I cannot help but think that the cartoons influenced my work in a good way, although I cannot recall exactly where or how.  A review of Suki II: Sunshine Returns, at BDSMlibrary.com (link is to review, site is not work safe), by JimmyJump said the way my prose alternates between dead-on serious and adolescent is probably from an Anime influence.  Perhaps this is it, but he never responded to my inquiry.

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