They reintroduce and walk to Shell Beach, beginning their relationship anew. [40] Ebert used it in his teaching, and also appears on a commentary track for the original DVD and the 2006 Director's Cut. "[22] The production designer created the city architecture to have an organic presence with the structural elements. Murdoch is eventually caught by Inspector Bumstead, who acknowledges that Murdoch is most likely innocent, and by then has his own misgivings about the nature of the city.

In the ensuing fight, Bumstead falls through the hole into space, revealing the city as an enormous space habitat surrounded by a force field.The Strangers bring Murdoch to their home beneath the city and force Dr. Schreber to imprint Murdoch with their collective memory. We laid some rail for it to ride on. [65] Biodrowski concluded, "Dark City may not provide profound answers, but it deals seriously with a profound idea, and does it in a way that is cathartic and even uplifting, without being contrived or condescending. So, you don't really know where you are. Proyas said, "I do like Greek mythology and have read a little of it, so maybe some of it has crept into the work, though I don't completely agree with that point of view. Biodrowski writes, "As the story progresses, the pieces of the puzzle fall into place, and we gradually realize that the film is not a murky muddle of visuals propping up a weak story. When design first started, the filmmakers considered having the Strangers be bugs underneath but decided that the bug appearance was overused.

Alex Proyas Interview - Dark City Director's Cut and More, Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds, Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film, Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dark_City_(1998_film)&oldid=985655697, CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat-VIAF identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, "No movie can ever have too much atmosphere, and, Alex Proyas, Lem Dobbs, and David S. Goyer, Andrew Mason, Mara Bryan, Peter Doyle, and Tom Davies, This page was last edited on 27 October 2020, at 04:43. Menu. The film premiered in the United States on 27 February 1998, and was nominated for a Hugo Award for the Best Dramatic Presentation and six Saturn Awards. [20] Tatopoulos described the city:[22]. A director's cut of Dark City was also officially released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on 29 July 2008. [47], When Christopher Nolan first started thinking about writing the script for Inception, he was influenced by "that era of movies where you had The Matrix, you had Dark City, you had The Thirteenth Floor and, to a certain extent, you had Memento, too. [14], The city in Dark City is described by Higley as a "murky, nightmarish German expressionist film noir depiction of urban repression and mechanism".

Murdoch eventually meets Bumstead, who recognizes Murdoch's innocence and has his own questions about the nature of the dark city. An American and Australian production, it was jointly produced by New Line Cinema and Mystery Clock Cinema, and distributed by the former for theatrical release. He is also sought for a series of murders, which he cannot remember, by police inspector Frank Bumstead (William Hurt). Meanwhile, it is clear that some strange people with special powers are after Murdoch... John's life has become a nightmare. In the chase, he discovers that he has psychokinetic powers like the Strangers, which he uses to escape from them.Murdoch questions the dark urban environment and discovers through clues and interviews with his family that he was originally from a coastal town called Shell Beach. John decides to find out what is happening in his city; why is it always night? [69], Dark City premiered in cinemas on 27 February 1998 in wide release on 1,754 screens in the U.S., and grossed $5,576,953 on its opening weekend, placing 4th,[3] far behind Titanic in 1st place with $19,633,056. Schreber reveals Murdoch as an anomaly who inadvertently woke up during the midnight process with the ability to tune.The three men embark to find Shell Beach, which ultimately exists only as a billboard at the edge of the city. [72], The film was released in VHS video format on 2 March 1999.

"—Todd McCarthy, writing in, CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (. Dark City is a 1998 neo-noir science fiction film directed by Alex Proyas and starring Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, Richard O'Brien, and William Hurt.

"[16], Proyas referenced film noir of the 1940s and the 1950s (such as The Maltese Falcon) as an influence for the film.

Murdoch explores the anachronistic city,[8] where nobody seems to realize it is always night. and "With its amber-tinged palette and its distinctively dystopian view of life, it may be the most unique-looking film we've seen in ages...[but] defies logic and makes frightening and unexpected leaps. Tatopoulos said Proyas wanted to make the Strangers energy beings, "Alex called me and said he wanted something like an energy that kept re-powering itself, re-creating itself, re-shaping itself, sitting inside a dry piece of human shape. [9], Kiefer Sutherland's character Daniel P. Schreber is named after Daniel Paul Schreber, a German judge who suffered from narcissistic, paranoid psychosis and possibly schizophrenia and whose autobiographical Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken) to which the film's plot alludes at various instances. "[59], Andrea Basora of Newsweek, stated that director Proyas flooded the screen with "cinematic and literary references ranging from Murnau and Lang to Kafka and Orwell, creating a unique yet utterly convincing world". A director's cut was released in 2008, restoring and preserving Proyas' original artistic vision for the film.



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