Who loves the 80’s?
The fashion! The mood! The rise of technology and computers! Hair Metal bands!
Just joking. And if you’re still reading this, that means you forgive me once more. I promise I won’t do it again. Soon. Seriously, though, who loves the 80’s? I do. You bet. The 80’s were the breeding grounds for one of the most intriguing and most important subcultures e-e-e-ever!
The genre arose through several literary works such as those published by Bruce Bethke or William Gibson who, willingly or not, ended up shaping our attitude towards technology and creating a vision of a grim, yet neon sprinkled future. We’re talking about
Once you’re done reading up on it (yes I expected you to click on the link above and read the Wikipedia article), I’d like to direct your attention to one of the most lovable and most charismatic entities of Cyberpunk.
Now that you’ve learned about Cyberpunk and were introduced to one of its most lovable characters, I’d like you to have a look for yourself. And don’t tell me that Jim Carrey didn’t borrow some of his humoristic style from Max.
And here a live performance with David Letterman in 1985:
And if any movie ever properly managed to capture the film noir/sci-fi/punk atmosphere of the genre, then it was Blade Runner:
I write this in an attempt of at least keeping the genre from completely flatlining out into oblivion. While movies such as the Matrix tried to bring back some of the charms of the movement, it ultimately failed and merely bred a short lived generation of trench coat wearers and slanted sun glasses.
Don’t forget cyberpunk.
Stay vigilant.
October 25th, 2007 at 12:40 am
Some of us will never forget.
December 13th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
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