What makes a film cyberpunk as opposed to just sci-fi?
Cybernetics.
Corporational Control.
Cyberspace.
Hacking.
Bonus:
Neon Lights.
Tall Dark buildings.
Smog.
Cyberpunk is a subgenre of scifi which is more gritty and less clean. Seems like you had a bunch of punks taking the resources they had in their scifi world and doing a DIY kinda look.
>>69305929
Hackers, hackers everywhere
Big corporations running the world
Everything is dirty and gritty
>>69305929
A focus on outsider, underworld type characters, which are the "punks" in a technologically advanced society with a heavy emphasis on things like AI and VR, which takes care of the "cyber"
>>69305929
cyberpunk is where the rich and powerful corporations oppress and subjugate the poverty stricken millions with ruthless an amoral application of futuristic technology and exploitation of the free market.
so basically, take the 80s and extrapolate into future dystopia.
>>69307137
>take the 80s and extrapolate into future dystopia.
Isn't that just the regular world?
>>69305929
Strange Days is just a normal boring movie with one new invention.
>>69307303
ya. but that's as opposed to the normal sci-fi World of Tomorrow.
>>69307303
Sort of but no. Companies in the 70s and 80s were really keen on creating massive conglomerate businesses, however in the 90s we realized this isn't a great idea so it died down. But think of instead of the hundreds of thousands of companies we have today, there would be like two dozen or so Google or Apple size ones, operating in many different markets and industries.
Constant rain
Nighttime.
Neon lights
Fuck huge buildings
Hackers.
Hackers.
Computer stuff.
Grimy hideouts down a dark alley.
fuck i just want that gritty 90-s tech atmosphere revival
>>69307735
Start hanging around a CS or robotics department of a university. Looks about the same.
>>69305929
My mother really enjoys this movie.
>>69307798
i'm already cs bachelor working as programmer. I want movies with that specific 90-s hackerish atmosphere
>>69305929
There must a punk in it.
>>69307884
They don't them anymore. Make one yourself, perhaps.
>>69307884
how about 'Hackers'
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>technologically enhanced humans
>dark noir style
>underground city
>surface showing a bright city with comfy look, but everyone just sits waiting to die there.
Something like that.
>>69307945
well there are many stylized movies that perfectly capture 70-s, 80-s, etc I just hope there will be something similiar for 90-s
>>69307965
seen it ofc
>>69306329
Wait, like leaving the house?
>>69305929
Sci fi is set in the far future where most of the problems of the current day are solved.
Cyberpunk is in the near future, it has modern problems that are still unresolved.
>>69308050
Then make one, faggot. Stop sitting around and waiting for the someone else to make the art you want to see.
I'm surprised most of the thread has missed the main point so much.
Cyberpunk is generally about the prevalence of mass media and consumer technologies in society, and how they effect the general public. That, and the corporate and government control of media and goods sets up a de facto slave state in society.
Most of the aesthetic aspects are derivations from these themes. Dark grittiness is derived from the dystopian angle of the corporate slave state setting, and the bright flashy screens and neon lights are derived from the media and consumerist aspects of it.
One lack of cyberpunk in the media in current times is because in many ways current life is a cyberpunk setting. Remember much of this genre came out of the 70s and 80s before the internet, and even before cable television was prominent. Nowadays it's considered a natural right to be able to send video clips to strangers on the other side of the planet, using a portable device that is on someone's person probably more consistently than a billfold or ID papers/card.
>>69308225
where do i start nigga
>>69307884
It's gotta have that clunky physical media vibe, it's no fun when the futuristic hacker doesn't have computer parts, wires and discs all over his apartment.
>>69308180
>Sci fi is set in the far future where most of the problems of the current day are solved.
You're a fucking moron. Cyberpunk is one of many subgenres of science-fiction, so saying that science-fiction is set only in the far-future is as ridiculous as saying historical fiction can only be set in the days of the Roman Empire.
>>69308307
YOUR FUCKING BRAIN
>>69308331
yea that's exactly what i'm talking about
>>69308050
Read 'The Hacker Crackdown' by Bruce Sterling.
>>69308508
>On nihilism
Never noticed that before.Neo is a fucking edge-fag
>>69308683
>rips out all the pages of a book
>making him unable to read it
>OH HES A NIHLIST
>>69308683
The way he dresses and his relationship with authorities weren't good enough clues?
>>69308755
But it says so right in the book..
>>69308801
I just thought he was really into the Blade-movies
Who /somafm/ here?
Any good cyberpunk movies based on the nightmarish police state the current UK is?
>>69309086
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ1FxBJEoYA
pugg related
>>69309086
You know Scotland has a separate justice system, right?
>>69308683
Title of the book is Simulacra and Simulation
>>69309209
I'm afraid hurt-feels social media police are a UK-wide problem, not just Scotland.
http://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/crime/sunderland-teen-who-made-twitter-joke-about-glasgow-tragedy-given-police-caution-1-7072090
>>69307373
>boring
