Dystopian Movie Timeline
I thought it would be fun to put together a dystopian movie timeline so that you can see, decade by decade, what stories are being told. This helps to give an idea of the social and political background of the day, and I’m hoping it will highlight any kind of progression of themes that arise over the years. It provides a little historical perspective: the movie is a relatively new medium of expression, but already we’ve notched up roughly a century of storytelling on the big screen, and it’s good to see where we’ve come from.
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I’ve included all the significant titles I can think of right now, possibly there will be a few more. But I’ve bound to have forgotten something, so if you notice that I’ve made a drastic omission then let me know about it in the comments. We’re up to ninety-something, and it would give me a nice warm feeling to get it up to one hundred!
Random Dystopia Quotes
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Milla Jovovich as Leeloo in The Fifth Element: "Me: fifth element - supreme being. Me protect you."
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Sandra Bullock as Lenina Huxley in Demolition Man: "Ahh... smoking is not good for you, and it's been deemed that anything not good for you is bad; hence, illegal. Alcohol, caffeine, contact sports, meat... "
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Joe Pantoliano as Cypher in The Matrix: "I know what you're thinking, 'cause right now I'm thinking the same thing. Actually, I've been thinking it ever since I got here: Why oh why didn't I take the BLUE pill?"
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Tom Hardy as Bane in The Dark Knight Rises: "Gotham, take control… take control of your city. Behold, the instrument of your liberation! Identify yourself to the world!"
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Brion James as Leon Kowalski in Blade Runner: "Nothing is worse than having an itch you can never scratch!"
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Tommy Lister as President Lindberg in The Fifth Element: "O.K. There's a ball of fire, it's 1200 miles in diameter heading straight for Earth, and we have no idea how to stop it. THAT's the problem."
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Patrick Magee as Frank Alexander in A Clockwork Orange: "Recruiting brutal young roughs into the police, proposing debilitating and will-sapping techniques of conditioning. Oh, we've seen it all before in other countries. The thin end of the wedge. Before we know where we are, we shall have the full apparatus of totalitarianism."
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Brigitte Helm as Maria in Metropolis: "HEAD and HANDS need a mediator! The mediator between HEAD and HANDS must be the HEART!!"
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Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard in Blade Runner: [narrating] "The report read 'Routine retirement of a replicant.' That didn't make me feel any better about shooting a woman in the back."
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