>>9663167well in that case i was thinking more about anno and kojima, as well as so many other authors and artists in history who tried pulling the
>lol i didn't know what i was doing???schtick. i've written things before - you don't just sit there and blank out and put things down, it's always under pretty heavy scrutiny by yourself. even innocuous things like describing the color of something in a story or putting a phrase in a music composition has a reason, even if it's just "i thought it was pretty there"
i'm positive the creator had a solid message he made the movie with - whether or not you have to interpret that message the same way is a different story (and if you want, a really long and annoying discussion about how language, thought, and communication works). but i refuse to believe he just sat down at the editor's table and thought to himself
>gee, i have no clue what i'm doing, i'm just gonna start talking about noah's ark and putting these guys chasing fish and some girl carrying an egg talking about birds and i'll be darned if i could tell you whythat's about as unbelievable as it gets to me. even if sometimes it's for innocuous or simple reasons instead of 3deep5me ones (my dad often liked to say "sometimes the author said the flowers were purple just because they thought that would look good"), but it's never for "no reason" because writing is a conscious effort
