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Productions from the 70s and 80s seemed to always have a murky color palette, and the early-mid 90s countered with strange "pastel" lighting... I can't think of good examples atm besides Darkman (1990) and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992).
Edit: If I had bowl full of paper stubs, listing every North American movie release from 1980-1989, I would have a high chance of picking a movie that mentions "the Soviets," "the Japanese," Vietnam vets, nuclear war, The American Way losing to _____, or etc. The 80s were a decade of uncertainty and insecurity.
The OP over-reaches to support the premise that it was an era of noire. Every era had a selection of such film, especially in the foreign/art circuit. "Woyzeck" in '79 is but one example. Mainstream "Days of Wine and Roses," "Bridge on the River Kwai," etc. show a continuing presence of "dark" in film. Picking and choosing, one can argue that there were eras of flying pigs and livestock in film. I suspect that you would not relate that to political climate without your tongue firmly planted in cheek.
I don't know why but I'm sure that if today someone remade Blade Runner, The thing and stuff like those they would be much less gloomy but rather more fancyful and even comic, in order to target a teen and a family audience
in those movies you really breathe a sense of desperation and death on the scene, beside a feeling of common unreliable relationships among protagonists, plus I like to add, a cool dark music (dark new wave, sort of punk, syintethizer...) I no longer find in nowadays films
I don't know why but I'm sure that if today someone remade Blade Runner, The thing and stuff like those they would be much less gloomy but rather more fancyful and even comic, in order to target a teen and a family audience
in those movies you really breathe a sense of desperation and death on the scene, beside a feeling of common unreliable relationships among protagonists, plus I like to add, a cool dark music (dark new wave, sort of punk, syintethizer...) I no longer find in nowadays films
I saw Blade Runner in film class at community college. Really good film.
I don't know why but I'm sure that if today someone remade Blade Runner, The thing and stuff like those they would be much less gloomy but rather more fancyful and even comic, in order to target a teen and a family audience
I don't know. PROMETHEUS was pretty dark and grim. And it even had a BLADE RUNNER tie in!
Ridley Scott is supposedly working on a BLADE RUNNER sequel. But I have to admit I'm a little skeptical, since I don't think Ridley Scott has made a truly great movie in over 30 years.
BLADE RUNNER is my all time favorite movie. I love every version, even the one with the hardboiled detective narration.
I love that movie and also another whacky one with Emilio E. is Maximum Overdrive
A gloomier teen sci-fi horror favorite of mine is Deadly Friend
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