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Friday, July 14, 2006

Fiery the Angels Fell

Posted by on July 14 at 16:32 PM

In 1982, I saw this city on a movie screen and, at once, more than badly desired to be in it, to live and die in it. spinner.jpg Today I found this image: img_6461.jpg The city that first appeared in the movie Blade Runner is now in reality Shanghai.


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My lungs hurt just looking at that picture.

Clean air is the triumph of nature over machine.
Charles hates nature.

Oh, well if it's smog you like, then you want Beijing.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/52991569@N00/56437637/

SE Asia's rampant "hurry the fuck up and get industrialized" trend is generating exactly these sorts of places, with restrictive social politics (e.g. communist party worship, or Singaporean corporacracy) and ZT-style laws and punishments that are not unlike that of dystopian science fiction.

Ah, Charles. You dreamt of being a replicant in that world, didn't you? Because then you could transfer the blame of your biological alienation simply by crying, "You made me this way!"

Shanghai in 2006 is Los Angeles in 2019.

Except for a marked lack of replicants, flying cars, migration to distant colonies around other stars, starships and so on.

I just don't see the appeal. It looks like a bunch of Marriotts to me.

Why on earth would you wanna live in the LA of Blade Runner? Everyone looked miserable.

And the movie sucked.

Well, it does sort of look like Ridley Scott's L.A. circa 2014, but without the flying cars, the incessant rain, the advertisements for off-world colonies, or the replicants.

Other than that...

Blade Runner was the best movie, ever.

Blade Runner was the best movie, ever.
try the book?

If you wanna see the best Blade Runner/Matrix ripoff ever check out the South Korean movie "Natural City." The story sags a little but it is the most beautiful sci-fi movie I've ever seen.

Another dreamy and poetic posting Charles. Some day Seattle could look that good, a dense core of high rise buildings like an angel's nest.

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