![]() Or you can take the other way, which is to say: “Hang on – if these dudes are all doped-up pleasure seekers who have disapplied standard moral rules and are encouraged by the state to pursue free love in the service of a harmonious collectivity instead of maintaining sexual probity that, it’s argued, marks and fuels the individualism, selfishness and jealousy that leads to aggression, war and strife … we could – fill the whole screen with tits?” You can take the “Oh, my goodness – what a richly fertile field of possibilities we have before us, to tease out inferences and draw parallels new and old between the vision of what was to become of humanity and where we find ourselves! To mark what was prescient in the imagination of the 30s and what it could not, and never did envision! To site ourselves in Huxley’s world and use its masterful commentary on his own era to propel and inform one on our own! What an opportunity to probe enduring ethical quandaries and stress test psychological theories! To contribute in some small way to the furthering of an answer to the question that has vexed mankind since time immemorial – what is happiness?!” approach. The full first season of Brave New World is available streaming on Peacock Premium now.There are two main ways you can approach the adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s 1932 classic of dystopian literature, Brave New World. Even if John and Lenina didn't get their happily-ever-after in the Season 1 finale, I for one don't see Lenina going back to everybody belonging to everybody else if she has an alternative! If the show returns for a second season, then there will likely be fewer openings for orgies. The first season of Brave New World ends with the status quo potentially changed for good, with Lenina in a position of power and many previous leaders either dead or gone from New London. No, and that's an excuse obviously for being able to film those gigantic sequences in Battersea Park in London with 200 extras, all choreographed as one organism. Of course, not many TV shows could include an orgy and have it be essential to the plot and overall tone, as Grant Morrison acknowledged: ![]() It was also a stark contrast to what John and Lenina would have together when they fell in love and John just wanted her to belong to him. The end result was an orgy that left no divisions between sexes and genders and really emphasized the conditioning that everybody belongs to everybody else. And part of that was the fact that the writers room was mostly staffed by women, because we really wanted to make sure we weren't turning the whole thing into some kind of Playboy Club.īrave New World's writers room was evidently staffed mostly by women, with the goal for this sequence to craft an orgy scene that wasn't gratuitous and actually mattered to the story. What I like about it, it has a really different feeling from other orgy scenes in anything else that we've seen. I think all of our ideas about sexuality, we were able to express them. Everyone belongs to everyone else, so there's no divisions between genders or sexes in the way that we would organize them. What we would call gay relationships would to them not be seen at all. We tried to have a lot more diversity in there. ![]() The big orgy sequence didn't happen in Brave New World just because releasing on a streaming service meant that Grant Morrison and the production team could take the show to some risqué places, but rather because intimacy means something very different in New London than viewers may have been expecting and it set the stage.īut no, apart from that, we weren't really given a hard time. You see huge masses of people all starting to move as one organism, because they're all so closely tied together. And that was what we were trying to get across, and I think that worked quite well. But at the same time there's no real soul or passion in it, so when you see these things, they're almost like sporting events or like ballets in a certain way. There's no guilt, there's no sense of shame about it. And so we kind of wanted to show a little bit of that. It has a different meaning from what it has in our culture. For the new world, sex is kind of a duty. No! Obviously because the book deals with sex and sexuality so much, but it's a weird kind of package. When asked if there was anything he wanted to do with Brave New World on Peacock but was unable to, Morrison shared: Brave New World executive producer Grant Morrison spoke with CinemaBlend about the show, and he broke down why the orgy was key to the plot.
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