Dystopian films used to be one-offs such as Soylent Green or Blade Runner; dark, disturbing glimpses of the future that popped up from time to time, but not every other week.
"The ideal city is not one with gated communities, security cameras, a futuristic scene from Blade Runner, dark and dramatic, with profound unhappiness … We need to at least build a city where happiness is possible and where public space is really for everybody".
Young leaf blades are dark copper red on the upper surface.
Despite the huge rooms in which the action takes place, "Blade 2" is dark and claustrophobic.
Jones's intelligently constructed, distinctly retro film borrows from the best – Silent Running, Alien, Blade Runner, Solaris, Dark Star and Outland – and is the best kind of paranoia movie, with unfussy dialogue, a heightened sense of isolation and corporate wickedness to the fore.
Slender, sheathed in black leather, with short ebony hair standing up in a tuft, her fingers poking out of black woollen gloves as they skitter across a laptop keyboard, Mara (who played Mark Zuckerberg's girlfriend at the beginning of "The Social Network") cuts through scene after scene like a swift, dark blade.
Above the Icefall, the route continued up a glacier valley, the Western Cwm, which slopes upward for three miles until it slams into the granite and ice shoulder of Everest, whose summit pyramid looms like a dark blade.
Blade pale to dark green above, tinged reddish (pronounced on veins) beneath, palmately compound, leaflets 4 6, obliquely oblong-lanceolate or obovate-lanceolate, 4 10 × 1.5 3 cm, abaxially sparsely setulose, adaxially sparsely hirsute, margins pinnatilobed, apex caudate-acuminate or acuminate, base cuneate or attenuate into a short, winged petiolule 2 5 mm long.
However, many of the characters, scenes and plot turns in Lamberto Bava's A Blade in the Dark (1983) were arguably directly inspired by Argento's film.
