Comparing Dark City And Blade Runner

Dark City, a film by Alex proyas is a tremendous visionary accomplishment, and a motion picture so authentic and innovative, it provokes your wildest imagination. If these words speak the truth, as the German Director Werner Herzog presumes, that human beings live in an era emaciated of fresh concepts, then Dark City is a picture to enrich us. Not a tale so much as an incident, it is a exultation of art direction, cinematography, set design, special effects and of course, imagination.

Similar to Blade Runner, it conceptualizes a futuristic city. And Although Blade Runner prolonged existing trends, Dark City ascends into the obscure unknown. Its boundless noir metropolis implies to prevail in an alternative timeline, containing aspects of

the present and past linked and united with perceptions of a futuristic comic book. Identical to the first Batman, it demonstrates a city of obscurity, darkness and shadows, however it goes significantly beyond Batman in an abundance of apocalyptic, stylized sets, boulevards, horizons and cityscapes. For once, a film city is equivalent to any we could possibly envision in our minds.
In the film dark city, all of the individual’s memories and recollections are completely fabricated as the clock strikes 12. This is characterized as “midnight”, however, the term is deceitful. Because the town never lays eves on noon. “First came darkness, then came the Strangers,” is portrayed in the opening narrative. In the introduction, there is no light. John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell), the protagonist, presents his thoughts to Bumstead (William Hurt), the police detective: “when was the last time you remember doing something during the day?” Bumstead is intrigued by this query. “You know something?” murdoch inquires. “I don’t think the sun ever existed in this place. I’ve been up for hours and hours, and the night never ends here.”