Anyone who's seen "Aeon Flux"...

I watched the trailer twice, and there's a clip which shows a bunch of ball-bearings rolling along a corridor purposefully. They all stack up against a door and the door blows open. Aeon says, "Good boys."

Does anyone know what exactly those ball-bearing-things are? Are they robotic or alive in some way or what? How do they work? They're starting to really intrigue me and I want to put something similar in a story, but I don't want to ape the movie. Any light you can shed on this will be much appreciated.

Bmwhtly said:

Although whatever you do don't, under any circumstances, watch the film to satisfy your curiosity.
Nothing good will come of it.

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It's that bad? I thought the grass that turned to actual blades looked cool, although I gotta say, the trailer doesn't give much indication as to what the plot is. Other than that there's some futuristic society, Aeon is the usual rebel against the empire and there's some guy she has to take on.

The picture on the Wikipedia page, of her entangling an insect in her eyelashes, is neat too. Pity so many movies seem to have better special effects than scripts.

Cyia said:

Pretty much anything you can imagine is an improvement over the movie.

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Well, I'm thinking a swarm of sentient creatures that just happen to look like small spheres and be made of ceramic (won't go with metal because that's too copycat). They can communicate by forming simple patterns, but they can't blow anything up. I'm not sure exactly what role they'll play in the story, but I wouldn't mind them defending a place or property; they can't be bribed or reasoned with, and if one of them is taken out, the rest will know about it.

STKlingaman said:

They weren't ball bearing to start,
they were chips from a ring I believe.
Then once summoned, turned into the
explosion little balls.

Who cares, they were cool, but I'd have
to say robotic. You wouldn't ask a living
thing (and that many of them) to give
there lives just so she can escape.

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Thanks for the explanation! They might just be one creature, though, one mind in several small spherical bodies. That would be cool too.

dclary said:

BTW: The Transformers in Transformers 2 used those same little balls to infiltrate a decepticon into a top-secret base.

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Well, as long as the little balls were robotic and non-sentient in the movie. They'll be pretty different in my story - a single-minded swarm that sometimes acts on its own volition and which might even have a personality, albeit a fairly simple one.

I'm also planning to change their color. Maybe they'll be clear, like crystal balls.

ChunkyC said:

Aeon Fluxx, or Aeon Suxx as I like to call it, was one of the worst movies I've ever been forced to sit through. If I hadn't been reviewing it, I would have walked out long before the end.

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I looked the movie up on Rotten Tomatoes and found this review : "In the future, the sexiest people among us will rise up to defend our freedom. They will all wear spandex."

Do you have a link to your review? I'd love to read it.

I like your ideas for your WIP. Keep brainstorming it, you'll find a unique twist to make it yours.

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Thanks! I've decided that they're going to be clear and iridescent, like soap bubbles. Although they look delicate, they're unbreakable and can be malicious if dealing with intruders of any kind. Since they're near-invisible in the dark, they make small sounds as they roll from one place to another, or they knock over small objects, scaring the intruder. And when he inevitably runs, they try to roll under his feet and make him fall.

Trying to figure out what to call them.