Edit. "[6] Writing in the book Action and Adventure Cinema, Marc O'Day described her as among the "least overtly eroticised" female characters in science fiction, though stated that Aki was "transformed in a variety of poses into an erotic fantasy machine" in a photo shoot that was included on the DVD's special features. [81] Two weeks before it was released the DVD version was listed on Amazon.com as one of the most-anticipated releases, and it was expected to recoup some of the money lost on the film's disappointing box office performance. Phantoms, including three alive-Phantoms, make an appearance (along with the rest of the film's virtual cast) in a hidden Easter egg parody of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" music video created for the film's DVD release. He lowers a shielded vehicle, with Aki and Gray aboard, into the crater to locate the final spirit. [21] In order to keep the film in line with Hironobu Sakaguchi's vision as director, several script rewrites took place,[26] most in the initial stages of production. Her death led Sakaguchi to reflect on what happened to the spirit after death, and these thoughts resurfaced while he was planning the film, eventually taking the form of the Gaia hypothesis. [15][16] The basic film was rendered at a custom render farm created by Square in Hawaii. [5] The film has been called a box office bomb[9] and is blamed for the demise of Square Pictures.[10]. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. Chris Taylor from Time magazine noted that video game adaptations had a poor track record at the box office and that it was Sakaguchi's first feature film. [33] He concluded that Aki ended up being similar to him in almost every way, with the exception that "she's a lot cuter". Notably, it did not perform any better in Japan, where the Final Fantasy franchise was created and is quite popular. The total cost of the film was $137 million, and the world wide gross only came to $85 million. [41] The last song on the album and the second and final song to play during the film's credits (after "The Dream Within") is "Spirit Dreams Inside" by Japanese rock band L'Arc-en-Ciel. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. The Phantoms are unknown creatures (almost the existence information is about the Phantom Ghosts). Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is a computer animated science fiction Film by Hironobu Sakaguchi, the creator of the kitten-stranglingly popular Final Fantasy series of role-playing games.. [35] Shortly afterward, Square Pictures was closed and absorbed into Square and the company ceased use of the character. Sample of "The Phantom Plains" from the soundtrack album. 19 on Billboard's Top Soundtracks list and No. [11] The workload was so light it did not interfere with her acting commitments in the television series ER. Early incarnations included a New York City divided in an \"upper city\" and \"lower city\", riot police, oxygen salesmen, and dispensing machines, and even French Foreign Legion desert troops and European biohazard soldiers. [17][18] Animator Matthew Hackett stated that while motion capture was effective for many of the scenes, in others animators still had to add movements manually. There was no motion capture used for the Phantom animations. Sakaguchi indicated the reason for this was the lack of powerful gaming hardware at the time, feeling the graphics in any game adaptation would be far too much of a step down from the graphics in the film itself. In 2065, Earth is infested by alien life forms known as Phantoms. [39], The soundtrack to the film was released on July 3, 2001 by Sony Music. It was the first photorealistic computer-animated feature film and was the most expensive video game-inspired film until the release of Prince of Persia in 2010. [83] Dustin Somner from Blu-ray.com gave the Blu-ray version 5 out of 5 stars for video quality and special features, and 4½ stars for audio quality. [58], Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times was a strong advocate of the film; he gave it 3½ stars out of four, praising it as a "technical milestone" while conceding that its "nuts and bolts" story lacked "the intelligence and daring of, say, Steven Spielberg's A.I." Aki is concerned the cannon will damage Earth's Gaia (a spirit representing its ecosystem) and delays the use of it by revealing that she has been infected and the collected spirit signatures are keeping her infection stable, convincing the council that there may be another way to defeat the Phantoms. This Phantoms concered much of the Earth, as weaponary is ineffective against them and contact with a living being cause the being's soul to be removed, killing them. "[12], While Square ruled out any chance of a sequel to The Spirits Within before it was even completed, Sakaguchi intended to position Aki as being the "main star" for Square Pictures, using her in later games and films by Square, and including the flexibility of being able to modify aspects such as her age for such appearances. [66] Ruth La Ferla from The New York Times described her as having the "sinewy efficiency" of Alien franchise character Ellen Ripley and visual appeal of Julia Roberts' portrayal of Erin Brockovich. In the year 2065, Earth has been overrun by an alien infestation. Just before they can reach it, Hein fires the Zeus cannon into the crater, not only destroying the eighth spirit but also revealing the Phantom Gaia. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Hein continues to fire the Zeus cannon despite overheating warnings and unintentionally destroys the cannon and himself. VOICES OF: Ming-Na, Alec Baldwin, Ving Rhames, Steve Buscemi, Peri Gilpin, Donald Sutherland, James Woods 2001, 105 Minutes, Directed by: Hironobu Sakaguchi Description: Earth is a desolate wasteland in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. "[30] Writing in the book Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams, Livia Monnet stated the film remediated "the notion of life in the neovitalistic, evolutionary biology of Lynn Margulis and in contemporary theories on artificial life", going on to state that the film's exploration of the Gaia hypothesis raised interesting questions regarding the life and death process of both cinema and digital media, as well as contemporary life sciences, cybernetics, philosophy and science fiction. [40] Elliot Goldenthal composed the entire score, as well as the film's theme song, "The Dream Within",[19] which had lyrics written by Richard Rudolf and vocals performed by Lara Fabian. However, this revelation leads Hein to incorrectly conclude that she is being controlled by the Phantoms. A render farm consisting of 960 workstations was tasked with rendering each of the film's 141,964 frames. These phantoms kill humans, supposedly in a ruthless battle for world domination. English: Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is a 2001 computer-animated science fiction film directed by Hironobu Sakaguchi, creator of the Final Fantasy franchise. In 2006, Boston.com regarded it as the 4th biggest box office bomb, estimating the film's losses at the end of its cinema run at over $94 million. Other features included Aki's dream viewable as a whole sequence, the film's original opening sequence, and intentional outtakes. [65] The same image appeared in the "Babes: The Girls of Sci Fi" special issue of SFX. Though it was highly promoted by Sony Pictures, it failed miserably in theaters, nearly bankrupting Squaresoft, and delayed the merger of Square and Enix. [28], Director Sakaguchi named the main character after his mother, Aki, who died in an accident several years prior to the production of the film. [12] Ming-Na stated that she would be willing if asked to continue voicing Aki. [79] The film's trailer was nominated for the "Golden Fleece" award at the 3rd Golden Trailer Awards. The Whale-Phantom is a monolithic phantom only seen in the pre-production version of the. [69] Square Pictures announced in late January 2002 that they were closing down, largely due to the commercial failure of The Spirits Within. The protagonist of the movie is a strong-willed scientist entirely devoted to saving the human race from the Phantoms overrunning the planet. They also contained a version of the film in its basic CGI and sketch form, with the option of pop-up comments on the film. Anime /. The Spirits Within premiered in Los Angeles on July 2, 2001, and was theatrically released in the United States on July 11. After being infected by a Phantom during one of her experiments, Aki Ross (Ming-Na) and her mentor, Doctor Sid (Donald Sutherland), uncover a means of defeating the Phantoms by gathering eight spirit signatures that, when joined, can negate the Phantoms. The Spirits Within follows scientists Aki Ross and Doctor Sid in their efforts to free a post-apocalyptic Earth from a mysterious and deadly alien race known as the Phantoms, which has driven the remnants of humanity into "barrier cities". It was recorded in the United Kingdom at the Watford Coloseum and the London AIR Lyndhurst Hall and was mixed at the Manhattan Center Studios in the United States. [17] The film debuted on July 2, 2001 at the Mann Bruins Theater in Los Angeles, California,[49] and was released in the United States on July 11, making $32 million in North America and going on to gross $85 million in worldwide box office receipts. [6], Each character's base body model was built from more than 100,000 polygons,[31] plus more than 300,000 for clothing alone. "[59] He also expressed a desire for the film to succeed in hopes of seeing more films made in its image, though he was skeptical of its ability to be accepted. Aki Ross's voice actor, Ming-Na Wen, was selected for a perceived fit between her personality and Aki's. If the ambitious mix of East–West, movie-game and anime-action doesn't pay off, we may still remember this as the moment true CG actors were born. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within ... See, the Phantoms have an energy signal, and the scientists want to match the signal with the 8 spirits and overlap them in order to phase them out. Worse pieces of Phantoms can infect humans from the inside like germs. It is revealed that Gray was once romantically involved with Aki. When Aki talks about a dying girl, Goldenthal used a piano in order to give a domestic home-like feeling to a completely foreign environment, also choosing to use a flute each time Aki focusses on Gaia, as he believed it to be the most "human kind of instrument". An enemy whose mere touch is fatal, the Phantoms appear the more dangerous enemy, but as they will come to find out, their human nemeses are also not to be trifled with. Though Hein intended that only a few Phantoms enter, his plan goes awry and legions of Phantoms invade the entire city. If we give any credence to Hollywood’s latest sci-fi releases, the future of our planet is doomed. In one of the incarnations, there was a small child named Meg, who had a much larger part in the … Aki, Sid and the Deep Eyes attempt to reach Aki's spaceship, their means of escape, but Ryan, Neil and Jane are killed by Phantoms. A 2001 film, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, was a breakthrough for photorealistic CGI humans. The short film, appearing in the DVD's bonus content and featuring her with a slightly modified design, shows her acrobatically dueling a robot from the Matrix setting. Aki and the Deep Eyes squad succeed in finding the seventh spirit as Aki's infection begins to worsen and she slips into unconsciousness. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is the biggest videogame movie flop of all time losing millions at the box office because of its high production costs. [11], Square accumulated four SGI Origin 2000 series servers, four Onyx2 systems, and 167 Octane workstations for the film's production. It was the first photorealistic computer-animated feature film and was the most expensive video game-inspired film until the release of Prince of Persia in 2010. Aki Ross and Doctor Sid begin searching for the eight life forms who possess spirts capabl… Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within Characters. Still, despite its issues, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is an amazing technical achievement, and is a fun and entertaining science fiction film. During preproduction the script went through fifty incarnations. Most of these costs came from the style of computer animation used, some of the most realistic used at the time. A woman and a group of soldiers are attacked by phantoms and the humans fire weapons killing some (they scream, growl and disintegrate when they are hit). The asteriod brought with it strange, ghost-like alien beings called Phantoms, ranging from vaguely humaniod to monsterously huge. Artificial Intelligence), earth-shattering meteors oozing with alien slime and landscapes toasted by invading phantoms (Final Fantasy) give a bleak outlook for the human race.. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within was released in the US in 2001, to very mixed reviews. Hand and facial movements were all done manually. 193 on the Billboard 200 on July 28, 2001. [74] The Making of Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, a companion book, was published by BradyGames in August 2001. [50] The film achieved average to poor results at the box office in most of Southeast Asia; however, it performed well in Australia, New Zealand and South Korea.[51]. [87] Aaron Beierle from DVD Talk gave a positive review of the DVD, rating it 4½ out of 5 stars for audio quality, video quality and special features. Broken Base: A lot of fans were annoyed that none of the games were adapted to the big screen before Spirits Within, while others argue that each game … Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is a 2001 computer-animated Science Fiction film directed by Hironobu Sakaguchi, the creator of the pimple-poppingly popular Final Fantasy series of role-playing games. It features the voices of Ming-Na Wen, Alec Baldwin, Donald Sutherland, James Woods, Ving Rhames, Peri Gilpin and Steve Buscemi. It isn’t the story, that’s for sure. [22] The film's final cost of $137 million,[5] which included about $30 million spent on marketing by the film's distributor Columbia Pictures,[27] escalated from an original budget rumored to be around $70 million. [6] It was Columbia Pictures' first animated feature film since Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation in 1986. A scientist makes a last stand on Earth with the help of a ragtag team of soldiers against an invasion of alien phantoms. [7][8] It features the voices of Ming-Na Wen, Alec Baldwin, Donald Sutherland, James Woods, Ving Rhames, Peri Gilpin and Steve Buscemi. The surviving humans live in "barrier cities", areas protected by an energy shield that prevents Phantoms from entering, and are engaged in an ongoing struggle to free the planet. [18] It is estimated that over the film's four-year production, approximately 200 people put in a combined 120 years of work on it. In terms of box office admissions, the film sold 5,961,378 tickets in the United States,[4] 1,456,523 tickets in France,[52] 4,299,604 tickets in other European countries,[4] 446,728 tickets in Brazil,[53] and 160,100 tickets in Seoul City (South Korea). Hein escapes and boards the Zeus space-station where he finally receives authorization to fire the cannon. Humanity has been decimated by an invasion of Phantoms, insubstantial aliens that extract and devour the spirits of … [19] He later explained that the theme he wanted to convey was "more of a complex idea of life and death and spirit", believing that the best way to portray this would be to set the film on Earth. Aki is searching for the sixth spirit in the ruins of New York City when she is cornered by Phantoms but is rescued by Gray Edwards (Alec Baldwin) and his squad "Deep Eyes", consisting of Ryan Whittaker (Ving Rhames), Neil Fleming (Steve Buscemi) and Jane Proudfoot (Peri Gilpin). 2 VIDEOS | 185 IMAGES. [83][84] Peter Bracke from High-Def Digest stated the DVD was "so packed with extras it was almost overwhelming", stating that Sony went "all-out" on the extra features in a likely attempt to boost DVD sales and recover losses. [41] A review from Filmtracks gave the album 4 out of 5, calling it "an easy album to recommend", adding "parts of it will blow you out of your seat. 179. Final Fantasy Wiki is a FANDOM Games Community. [17] $45 million alone was spent on the construction of Square's studio in Hawaii. $12.99 Buy HD. It was Dr. Sid who created the barrier within Aki that contains the phantom, and helps her survive. Expand All Images | Collapse All Images. Fifteen featurettes, including seven on character biographies, three on vehicle comparisons and an interactive "Making Of" featurette, were also included. To scare the council into giving him clearance to fire the Zeus cannon, Hein lowers part of the barrier shield protecting the city. [63] Entertainment Weekly named Aki an "it girl", stating that "Calling this action heroine a cartoon would be like calling a Rembrandt a doodle. [10], While the near lifelike appearance of the characters in the film was well received, some commentators felt the character renderings fell into the trap that many robotics scientists refer to as the "uncanny valley". [19] The screenplay was written by Al Reinert and Jeff Vintar. At first it was very lonely sitting in that booth and eerie to see (Aki's) lips move and my words coming out, but slowly I began to enjoy my time with Aki, and I became attuned to her. FINAL FANTASY: THE SPIRITS WITHIN is an animated New Age pagan science fiction fantasy with alien ghosts and demonic possession. Square Pictures rendered the film using some of the most advanced processing capabilities available for film animation at the time. [46], The album peaked at No. It housed 960 Pentium III-933 MHz workstations. [33] Sato perceived Aki's original look as a "supermodel", and subsequently removed her make-up and shortened her hair in order to give her a more intelligent look that would "convince people that she's a scientist. A scientist makes a last stand on Earth with the help of a ragtag team of soldiers against an invasion of alien phantoms. An easter egg shows the cast of the film re-enacting the dance from Michael Jackson's Thriller. "[45] Dan Goldwasser from Soundtrack.net also gave the soundtrack 4 out of 5, calling it a "must have". [67] In contrast, Livia Monnet criticized her character as an example of the constantly kidnapped female in Japanese cinema, further "diluted" by her existence solely as a computer-generated character representing "an ideal, cinematic female character that has no real referent. "[43] In the film's 'Making of' featurette, Goldenthal states he used "ghostly choral" music when the Phantoms are emerging, in an attempt to give a celestial feeling, and focused on low brass clusters and taiko drum rhythms for violent scenes. [76], The film won the "Jury Prize" at the 2002 Japan Media Arts Festival. The Earth's Gaia is returned to normal as the Phantoms ascend into space, finally at peace. [9] In March 2012, CNBC considered it to be the 9th biggest box office bomb,[55] though Time's list of the ten biggest box office failures, which was released on the same day, did not include the film. It was the first photorealistic computer-animated feature film and was the most expensive video game-inspired film until the release of Prince of Persia in 2010. The movie's working title was simply \"Gaia\". [22] The film had high cost overruns towards the end of filming. Cities submerged by melting ice caps (A.I. [11] Aki only made one appearance outside of the film; in 2002 she appeared in a demonstration video that Square Pictures made to present to The Wachowskis before developing Final Flight of the Osiris for The Animatrix. [20] 1,327 scenes in total needed to be filmed to animate the digital characters. Described by one artist as his favorite vehicle in the movie, the Phantom Transporter self-destructs by crashing into the enemy, the Phantoms inside are kept safe from the shock by a protective jelly. [41] Director Hironobu Sakaguchi opted for the acclaimed Goldenthal instead of Nobuo Uematsu, the composer of the Final Fantasy games' soundtracks, a decision met with mixed opinions as the former was completely unknown to many of the games' fans. [36][37] This concept describes when a robot or animated character becomes very realistic, but subtly different enough from reality to feel "creepy". By physical contact Phantoms consume the Gaia spirit of living beings, killing them instantly, though a minor contact may only result in an infection. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is a 2001 computer animated drama about a scientist who makes a last stand on Earth with the help of a ragtag team of soldiers against an invasion of alien phantoms. [33] The model for Aki was designed to closely follow human appearance, with Sakaguchi commenting in an interview "I think it's OK to look at Aki and be convinced that she's a human. purge]A phantom is a ghost, a physical manifestation of the soul or spirit of a deceased person. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is a computer animated science fiction Film by Hironobu Sakaguchi, the creator of the kitten-stranglingly popular Final Fantasy series of role-playing games.. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. The year is 2065 and Earth has been taken over by phantom alien forms. [38] John Mangan from The Age cited the film as an example of this phenomenon. [22] A novelization was written by Dean Wesley Smith and published by Pocket Books in June 2001. [25] Lee compared The Spirits Within, the first full-length photorealistic animated film, to Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first full-length cel animated film. [80], A two-disc DVD version of the film was released on October 23, 2001, with the Blu-ray edition released on August 7, 2007. [23] The film was co-directed by Motonori Sakakibara,[24] with Jun Aida and Chris Lee both serving as producers. [86] The DVD was nominated for "Best DVD Special Edition Release" at the 28th Saturn Awards. $3.99 Rent HD. [60] Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave a more negative review, stating that while the animation was brilliant, the "solemnly realist human faces look shriekingly phoney precisely because they're almost there but not quite", concluding "The story is adequate, if familiar, but after half an hour relapses into cliche. [41], The film's score was performed by the London Symphony Orchestra[19] with Belgian composer Dirk Brossé conducting. Add to Wishlist. 2001 106 minutes. The movie follows Dr. Aki Ross, Dr. Sid, and the Deep Eyes combat group as they attempt to defeat the Phantoms - a mysterious alien race that has attacked the Earth. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is a computer animated science fiction film directed by Hironobu Sakaguchi, creator of the popular series of RPG video games Final Fantasy produced by Square Enix. 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