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Originally Posted by Myssa Rei
The need for condensation? The movie format leaves very little space to work with in terms or characterization, and even with four movies it's still hard to do, especially since it's based on an existing setting. Corners will inevitably be cut, or else we'd have something on the scale of War and Peace, which would be too much for a casual movie-goer.
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It's possible but I don't think it's very likely. Using stereotype otaku conventions in these characters might even alienate a more mainstream audience that did not have exposure to more recent anime.
So I would assume it was done for a plot purpose.
Also the four movies (assuming 3 and 4 will have the same running time as 1 and 2) will have the same amount of effective screen time as roughly 20 episodes of a TV series. That should be plenty for any type of characterization they wish for. While psychological in nature, Evangelion is not a novel that needs to be severely condensed to fit a screen format.