Many critics have noted some crucial similarities between the films of Cronenberg, Tsukamoto and Lynch. here are some scenes from Videodrome, Tetsuo, the Iron Man and Erasurehead.
Cronenberg’s Videodrome
Tsukamoto’s tetsuo: the Iron Man.
Lynch’s Erasurehead
a comparison between “the Matrix” and “Ghost in the Shell”
two examples of how Japan Animation uses women figures as embodiment of strength and hybrid of nature, animal and technology
the “Major” in Ghost in the Shell
Princess Mononoke
Nausicaa
the 1975 original “Bionic Woman” Lindsay Wagner
for those interested, Independent filmmaker Shu Lea Cheang came out with her own version of Blade Runner: I.K.U has many scenes clearly inspired from B.R.(a couple of scenes on the elevator where one character whispers in the other character’s ear “do you trust me?” and the whole last scene outside the city borders. repeated twice, imagining two different endings (two ending versions, like in Blade Runner).
except… her “replicants” are sex workers delivering orgasms on demand. the movie is a SciFi porn, and sparked quite some controversy when it was first screened at teh Sundance Festival in 2000 and at the Images Festival (Toronto) in 2001.
AKIRA
THE FIFTH ELEMENT
while Blade Runner (1982…and later versions) owes a great deal of its architectural imagination to earlier films such as Metropolis, to the drawings of Moebius and the SF magazine Métal Hurlant where his drawings were published, it did, in turn, become quite an iconic model for a many movies to come.
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