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What is Cyberpunk?

Cyberpunk is a science-fiction sub-genre dealing with the integration of society and technology in dystopian settings. Often referred to as “low-life and high tech,” Cyberpunk stories deal with outsiders (punks) who fight against the oppressors in society (usually mega corporations that control everything) via technological means (cyber). If the punks aren’t actively fighting against a megacorp, they’re still dealing with living in a world completely dependent on high technology.

Cyberpunk characteristics include:

Dystopian city setting where mega-corporations rule
Full integration of technology into society, featuring cybernetic implants
Outsider protagonists (punks) who often are very familiar with the technology around them
Hard boiled detective and film noir vibes and influence
Themes dabbling in trans-humanism, existentialism, and what it means to be human.

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[Full Movie] Runaway (1984 480p) (www.youtube.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/29811589

Runaway is a 1984 American science fiction action film written and directed by Michael Crichton, starring Tom Selleck, Gene Simmons, Cynthia Rhodes and Kirstie Alley. Selleck portrays a police officer assigned to track down dangerous robots, while Simmons is a scientist who hopes to profit from his manipulation of robots. The film was a box office disappointment and received mixed reviews.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaway_(1984_American_film)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Wonder what you thought?

I just watched it, and it was pretty cliche-ridden. But it's worth remembering that it came out in 1984, and a lot of tech in it that seems standard now, didn't actually exist (at least as consumer electronics) at that time:

tablet-like portable computers
earbud cellphones / walkie-talkies?
door camera recordings
retinal biometrics
text-to-speech
voice user interfaces to databases
mobile phones

This was written by Michael Crichton, after Congo and before Sphere, and about 9 years before Jurassic Park. I don't know if I'd classify it as cyberpunk primarily; more like a techno-thriller, which is the sort of thing Crichton was known for.

Besides the obvious stars, the music was composed by Jerry Goldsmith:

He composed scores for five films in the Star Trek franchise and three in the Rambo franchise, as well as for films including Logan's Run, Planet of the Apes, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Patton, Papillon, Chinatown, The Omen, Alien, Poltergeist, The Secret of NIMH, Medicine Man, Gremlins, Hoosiers, Total Recall, Basic Instinct, Air Force One, L.A. Confidential, Mulan, and The Mummy.

According to the movie end titles, the music was "performed on Yamaha Digital Instruments". At the time was still fairly novel, and this is the type of sound that would go on to inspire various modern electronic music movements, such as synthwave.