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 Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2011 12:33 pm |
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I think anyone posting here would enjoy the Conversation.
Coppola's follow up to the Godfather. It's about a guy in the surveillance industry that becomes obsessive over a couple he's tailing and assumes will be murdered. Not a lot of science fiction elements, but there's plenty of shots of surveillance tech and Walter Murch created some really bizarre sound fx for the film.
Hackman's final scene of paranoia is amazing.
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| Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2013 4:04 am |
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Some of the science-fiction comics/manga of Osamu Tezuka might fit this category. Especially in relation to Japanese cyberpunk. At the top of my mind is "Metropolis" (1949) and "Astro Boy" (1952-68), both which deal with the relationship between robots and humans and the ensuing segregation and class-struggle, and "Resurrection" (1979-71), which centers on a man whose sensory inputs have been warped after large parts of his brain was replaced with artificial substitutes.
There is also Jules Verne's "Paris in the Twentieth Century" (1863) which I haven't read, but from what I've heard deals with MANY of the topics that later became trademarks of cyberpunk. (Oppressive corporations dominating the world, the negative, dehumanizing effects of advanced technology on society, computers being used for long distance sharing of information, warfare becoming impersonal, etc, etc, etc.) It might be disqualified outright however as it wasn't published until 1994 and therefor could not have inspired anything before that.
| SSJKamui wrote: | Could the book "Anthem" by the american philosopher Ayn Rand be considered a Cyberpunk Precursor? In the book, there is described a totalitarian dystopia similar to the Cyberpunk movie "THX - 11308". In the book, the government also effectively controls Wisdom gathering and that the heroes illegally gather a special information is the beginning of the end of the totalitarian dictatorship. (This could be considered as a precursor to the Hacker Rebel themes of Cyberpunk media.)
I also think that perhaps, this book could be an origin of the imaginary of "opressive equality" often seen in Cyberpunk media, where masses of people are shown with extremely equal clothes (which often also resemble prison clothes) and an allmost synchrounus movement, in contrast to the extremely nonconformist appeareance of the protagonists. |
All those themes where taken from the novel "We" by Yevgeny Zamyatin. Especially that last one. Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty Four" is also based on "We" so if either of those deserves to be seen as Cyberpunk precursor "We" definitively does.
Their relationship can be viewed as such:
"We" is dystopia as imagined by a Russian bolshevik. "Nineteen Eighty Four" and "Anthem" are that same dystopia as interpreted by an English democratic-socialist and an Russian-American capitalist respectively.
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