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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Charlie Creed Mills as David in The Fifth Element: "Father, are you SURE she's a supreme being?"
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Gary Oldman as Commissioner Jim Gordon in The Dark Knight Rises: "I see a beautiful city and brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy. I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."
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Julie Christie as Clarisse in Fahrenheit 451: "Is it true that a long time ago, firemen used to put out fires and not burn books?"
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Gregor Fisher as Parsons in Nineteen Eighty-Four
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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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Anthony Ray Parker as Dozer in The Matrix
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Bruce Willis as Korben Dallas in The Fifth Element: "I was just on my way over to see you, when this big fare fell in my lap. You know, one of these really big fares that you just can't resist?"
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Adam Baldwin as Jayne Cobb in Serenity: "I'll kill a man in a fair fight. Or if I think he's gonna start a fair fight. Or if he bothers me. Or if there's a woman. Or if I'm gettin' paid. Mostly when I'm gettin' paid."
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Alfred Abel as Joh Fredersen in Metropolis: "Beginning today, I wish to be kept informed of every step taken by my son."
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