{"id":4731,"date":"2017-05-28T02:03:07","date_gmt":"2017-05-28T02:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=4731"},"modified":"2021-06-15T01:02:09","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T01:02:09","slug":"robert-stark-and-richard-wolstencroft-discuss-the-film-dark-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=4731","title":{"rendered":"Robert Stark and Richard Wolstencroft discuss The Film Dark City"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Robert Stark,\u00a0co-host\u00a0Pilleater<\/a>, and\u00a0Count Isidor Fosco<\/a>, talk to filmmaker\u00a0Richard Wolstencroft<\/a>\u00a0about the film Dark City(1998) directed by Alex Proyas.<\/p>\n

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Australian director Alex Proyas, his background in Punk, and his style
\nProyas’s films The Crow, Gods of Egypt, and Knowing
\nProyas rebelling against the conformity of Hollywood Cinema
\nComparisons to the Matrix which came out a year later and the theme of a meta reality
\nThe setting of the City in a Space Ship disconnected from earth, the theme of parallel universes, and comparisons to the Truman Show
\nThe role of “the Others” in the film; the metaphor for powerful people who manipulate reality from behind the scenes
\nHow the others switch peoples memories and give them false memories; comparisons to\u00a0Ghost in a Shell<\/a>
\nThe Gothic and Neo Noire Genres
\nThe aesthetics of the film;\u00a0Decopunk<\/a>, Metropolis,\u00a0Edward Hopper<\/a>, and other influences
\nThe irony of\u00a0dystopian films is that they often succeed in creating utopian aesthetics
\nThe films success in building upon the sense of mystery
\nThe theme of man becoming a “God Like” figure restructuring society as a utopia
\nPlato’s allegory of the Cave and the Ship of Theseus
\nThe symbolism of Shell Beach
\nThe directors cut vs. the theatrical cut<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Dark-City.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

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                  Robert Stark, co-host Pilleater, and Count Isidor Fosco, talk to filmmaker Richard Wolstencroft about the film Dark City(1998) directed by Alex Proyas. Topics: Australian director Alex Proyas, his background in Punk, and his style Proyas’s films The Crow, Gods of Egypt, and Knowing Proyas rebelling against the conformity of Hollywood Cinema … Continue reading Robert Stark and Richard Wolstencroft discuss The Film Dark City<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[819,542,740,1020,709,623,457,629,129,429,554,868,459,937,741,601,1022,428,653,931,684,370,371,1023,938,624,425,170,169,737,1327,86,694,688,603,1006,762,1021,677],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1990s","category-aesthetics","category-akira","category-alex-proyas","category-alienation","category-architecture","category-art","category-art-deco","category-australia","category-cinema","category-cities","category-count-isidor-fosco","category-culture","category-dark-city","category-david-lynch","category-dystopia","category-edward-hopper","category-film","category-film-noire","category-ghost-in-a-shell","category-hollywood","category-horror","category-horror-films","category-jennifer-connelly","category-metropolis","category-mid-century-modern","category-mythology","category-nihilism","category-philosophy","category-pilleater","category-plato","category-psychology","category-retro-futurism","category-richard-wolstencroft","category-science-fiction","category-steampunk","category-surrealism","category-the-matrix","category-utopia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4731"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4775,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4731\/revisions\/4775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}