Do People Dream Of Cyberpunk Films

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    The Crucial Phase of Cyberpunk film from 1980-2013 onwards

  • Blade Runner

    Blade Runner, a dystopian film set in the future 2019. Starring Harrison Ford.
    "Ridley Scott's 1982 movie, Blade Runner, captures the quintessence of the cyberpunk aesthtic: a juxtaposition of high technology with social decay as a troubling allegory of the relationship between humanity and machines, in particular, artificially intelligent machines"
    Pivato J M 2000, A Very Short History of Cyberpunk, viewed 20 August 2013
    http://www.athabascau.ca/courses/engl/491/cyberpunk_history.pdf
  • Tron

    Tron, the film that defined video-gaming in a virtual world released by Disney and winning an Oscar for technical achievment the following year.
  • Brazil

    A bureaucrat in a retro-future world tries to correct an administrative error and himself becomes an enemy of the state.
  • Robocop

    A film set int hefuture where a man who is part human, part machine is enforced to be a cop.
  • Akira

    The first real Japanese anime film, that really made anime, what it i today.
  • Hardware

    A film set in a post-apocalyptic future follows the rampage of a self-repairing cyborg.
  • The Lawnmower man

    A film based loosely on the short story by Stephen King
  • City of Lost Children

    A french film that is considered more steampunk than cyber. the film is about a scientist who steals children to extract their dreams to stop his agieng process.
  • Strange Days

    kathryn Bigelow and James Cameron's cyber punk thriller starring Ralph Fiennes. In 1999 USA has become a dangerous war zone and an interface called SQUID which reoreds human memories is the only key to find out where a muderer is hiding.
  • Ghost in the Shell

    Critically aclaimed film "Ghost in the Shell" is a japanese animated film set in the near future where computer technolgies allow humans to go into 'avartars' or shells as they call them. It follows the story of a puppet master controlling the system and people hunting the perosn down.
  • Fifth Element

    A film directed by Luc Besson. Set in the 23rd century it involves the world to be saved by an unspeakable evil
  • Pi

    a film directed by Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan). The film centres around a man fixated on the symbol Pi and its meaning and becomes compulsively paraonoid.
  • The Matrix

    A computer hacker finds a group of rebels who tell him that his world isn't so.
  • Equilibrium

    A warrior-priest and enforcement officer in a future dystopia where both feelings and artistic expression are outlawed and citizens take daily injections of drugs to suppress their emotions.
  • I, Robot

    2004 film, I, Robot starring Will Smith tells the story of a detective who investigates a suicide/murder of a supposed robot that kills.
  • A Scanner Darkly

    In an all star cast film, based on a short story by Philip K. Dick. It tells the story of a cop living in a highly survielanced society, where privacy is no-where.
  • Repo: The Genetic Opera

    A musical cyberpunk film about a man named repo who collects body parts if you owe an outstanding debt.
  • Elysium

    A science fiction cyber punk film that explores a space station called Elysium and its social classes