| CHRIS LEE:
"Our story is about a
brilliant and very beautiful scientist named Dr. Aki Ross, who is leading the
fight to defeat the aliens and unlock their secret. She's aided by Capt Gray
Edwards, and they are opposed by General Hein, who represents another faction
of the military, and has a very different view of how to deal with the
aliens."
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 MING-NA: (Dr. Aki Ross)
"Aki is first and
foremost a scientist and a true humanitarian. Earth has been under attack, and
she wants to find a way to save humanity. And that brings about all the issues
of all the characters that I love playing; she's courageous, she's brave, she's
focused and she is trying to save the world."
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HIRONOBU SAKAGUCHI:
"It has long been the CG
Artist's dream to create a superior computer generated human character so real,
that a distinction cannot be made between its CG images and that of a live
action film. As we have successfully simulated human emotions and movements
through computer graphic animation, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
will set the viewer on an exciting voyage of personal discovery."
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ALEC BALDWIN (Capt. Gray Edwards):
"The good news is I
don't have to look like Gray. (he laughs) They computer generated Gray, and
they made him perfect in every way that I'm not perfect!"
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JAMES WOODS (General Hein):
"I was thrilled with the idea
of making a film where people were being digitally created. I thought, 'This is
the equivalent of the first talkie, in a way.' It's the first time you'll see
people acting on the screen who have been completely generated in the minds of
their creators."
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LEE:
"I think if we didn't have a
good story to go with our animation, we really wouldn't have a movie that we
could be proud of, or expect to do well. Hollywood is littered with bad
videogame movies. But there have been some that have been successful, and there
are some that are really games in themselves - The Matrix is really a
game if you look at it. You go on different levels, you have to fight, you go
in and out of different realities. Those are all the hallmarks of
gaming."
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