Dark City is a film australo-American carried out by Alex Proyas, left in 1998.
Synopsis
All starts in a room of bain.One sees a man there on the face of which pearl one blood drops, in a bath-tub. A lamp wavers, the man awakes. Confusion and incomprehension are then its batch when he realizes that he is in a strange hotel and that he is required for murders of which he does not have any memories.
One learns, while following the man in his search of identity and memory, which it is called John Murdock and which it is continued by a detective of the name of Bumstead for the murders that it would have made.
Soon, it understands that the things are not as it would owe the being when he sees the whole city falling asleep abruptly and that any exchange.
At this point in time the “ Étrangers appear”.
Who are they? What do they want? Which is their role?
John can resist their strange powers to control and of creation (also called “ syntonization ”) and realizes that it can use the capacity to syntonize…
What will it make of it if he survives the continuation of the “ Étrangers ”?
Comments
The influence of Metropolis is very clear.It is a very black film which seems to mix the Science-fiction and the American comics.
The spiral is a figure which frequently returns in film: marks on the body of the woman, labyrinth of the rats, forms clouds… It is the symbol of time, combining the concept of time cyclic (cycle of the days, of the seasons, of the life) and concept of time linear (progression, change). The men, the such rats of the laboratories, are pulled by this spiral.
In addition, the spiral also refers to Cold sweats ( Vertigo ) of Alfred Hitchcock, another film over time and the memory, with the spirals of the credits and the cut of the sequoia.
Daniel Paul Schreber is the name of a " patient" of Freud, in a case study devoted to the Paranoia. The name very similar to the doctor of film is not a chance, the using scenario of many elements of this study on paranoia.
The hero, John Murdoch, live in a hotel room carrying number 614. This figure refers to the Gospel according to St Jean in which the chapter 6:14 treats arrival of the Messie.
The decorations of film were re-used for the turning of Matrix: in particular for the scene of introduction where Trinity escapes the agents while jumping from buildings in buildings. (1999).
Data sheet
- Title: Dark City
- Realization: Alex Proyas
- Scenario: Alex Proyas, Lem Dobbs and David S. Goyer
- Production: Andrew Mason, Alex Proyas, Michael De Luca and Brian Witten
- Production companies: Mystery Clock Cinema and New Line Cinema
- Budget: 27 million dollars
- Music: Trevor Jones
- Photography: Dariusz Wolski
- Assembly: Dov Hoenig
- Decorations: George Liddle and Patrick Tatopoulos
- Costumes: Liz Keogh
- Country of origin: Australia, the United States
- Format: Colors - 2,35:1 - SDR/Dolby DIGITAL/SDDS - 35 mm
- Kind: Fantastic
- Lasted: 100 minutes
- Comings out date:
- : February 27th 1998
- France: Swiss May 20th 1998
- : July 29th 1998
- Australia: August 6th 1998
Distribution
- Rufus Sewell : John Murdoch
- William Hurt: the inspector Frank Bumstead
- Kiefer Sutherland: Dr. Daniel P. Schreber
- Jennifer Connelly: Emma Murdoch/Anna
- Richard O' Brien: Mr. Hand
- Ian Richardson: Mr. Book
- Bruce Spence: Mr. Wall
- Hake Friels: the detective Eddie Walenski
- John Bluthal: Karl Harris
- Mitchell Butel: the officer Husselbeck
- Melissa George: May
- Frank Gallacher : the inspector Stromboli
- Ritchie Singer: the manager of the hotel
- Justin Monjo: the taxi driver
- Beautiful Nicholas: Mr. Rain
Around film
- turning began the August 12th 1996 and was held with Los Angeles and Sydney.
Original soundtrack
- the Shawl blue , interpreted by Anita Kelsey
- Sway , interpreted by Anita Kelsey
- The Night Has 1000 Eyes , interpreted by Anita Kelsey
External bonds
- an outline of Dark City
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