It feels like a western (Walker as doomed cowboy in the age of the combustion engine) or a ghost story (does Walker actually die in the opening sequence?); and with its lurid Godardian colours and its Antonioniesque sense of alienation, it looks like a smashed mirror on whose shards can briefly be seen all the reflected pathologies of the City of Night.
It feels like a western (Walker as doomed cowboy in the age of the combustion engine) or a ghost story (does Walker actually die in the opening sequence?); and with its lurid Godardian colours and its Antonioniesque sense of alienation, it looks like a smashed mirror on whose shards can briefly be seen all the reflected pathologies of the City of Night.
The Matrix series took several concepts from the film, including the Matrix digital rain, which was inspired by the opening credits of Ghost in the Shell, and the way people accessed the Matrix through holes in the back of their necks.
Mr. Gaiman, 48, won for "The Graveyard Book," a story about a boy who is raised in a cemetery by ghosts after his family is killed in the opening pages of the novel.
Taylor introduces us, in the opening pages, to the Holy Ghost Club, a supposedly harmless dining fraternity with a debauched tradition of having members rape a virgin as a rite of initiation.
His voice pitched sonorous and low, his face a moonlike mask of unhappiness, he registers in the opening scenes as an abstract (as well as abstracted) Willy, a ghost who roams through his own life.
In the thrill-free science-fiction thriller "Ghost in the Shell," her character comes at you in pieces, emerging first during the opening credits in the form of a metallic skeleton.
