It has low-lifes living in the future, but there really isn’t much high-tech and governments are still in control (not corporations). So do you consider Escape From New York to be cyberpunk?

Apparently the movie was an influence for William Gibson:

Escape from New York never made it big, but it’s been redone a billion times as a rock video. I saw that movie, by the way, when I was starting “Burning Chrome” and it had a real influence on Neuromancer.

But that doesn’t immediately make it cyberpunk. After all, Gibson was also influenced by hard-boiled detective novels and that doesn’t make those cyberpunk.

I could see the argument for this either way so I’m curious what your thoughts are.

It’s streaming on Roku Channel and Freevee (Amazon Prime) if you haven’t seen it before.

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    11 year ago

    I’d say the prison walls qualify.

    It’s been a long while since I watched the movie, but there were some examples of high(er) tech being used. Its likely a limited budget/imagination of the times that prohibited the details.

    • ᕮᐯIᒪ Tᕼᕮ ᑕᗩT
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      1 year ago

      Just walls isn’t enough to make it cyberpunk 😂

      It’s clearly a dystopian/post-apocalyptic setting.