Staying True to Two Dimensions
"You can't have roads, cars, characters crossing each other. Those things are three-dimensional. You just can't do that stuff and say that you're making a film about Flatland."
In fact he went a bit further than the original novel.
"Rain is mentioned in the original novel. Where would it drain to? Everyone would drown. I thought Flatlanders should be like microbes, floating on top of a viscous plane, swimming with little hair follicles. They don't experience gravity."
Which had even more implications.
"If you're going to be pure about two-dimensionality, then you can't have writing, or movies.
These are things that work for us because we have three dimensions and can understand a two dimensional plane.
Flatlanders can't see those things, they'd have to write in one dimension, which is impossible to visualize."
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Working on Flatland was sort of like being in solitary confinement for two years. But in a good way."
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