![]() ![]() Man, Huxley maintained, is an “embodied spirit.” As such, he is governed by belief: As Milton Birnbaum points out, by the early thirties, Huxley was in transition from cynicism to a mystical religion, which held that a transcendent God exists, and that one’s proper final end, as the foreword to the 1946 edition of Brave New World notes, is “attaining unitive knowledge of the immanent Tao or Logos, the transcendent Godhead or Brahman.” (Indeed, with its religious theme, Brave New World emerges as a milestone in Huxley’s odyssey.) Subsequent history has vindicated his pessimism.īrave New World’ s significations flow from Huxley’s vision of reality and human nature and its implications for proper living. Reading the signs of his times, Huxley saw awaiting us a soulless utilitarian existence, incompatible with our nature and purpose. Huxley himself described its theme as “the advancement of science as it affects human individuals.” Brave New World Revisited (1958) deplored its vision of the over orderly dystopia “where perfect efficiency left no room for freedom or personal initiative.” Yet Brave New World has a deeper meaning: a warning, by way of a grim portrait, of life in a world which has fled from God and lost all awareness of the transcendent. The full first season of Brave New World is available streaming on Peacock Premium now.Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932) is commonly seen as an indictment of both tyranny and technology. 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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