Sentences with phrase «of dystopian city»

'' As the credits rolled, I had not accomplished much of anything for the population of this dystopian city - state, but I'd helped out a few pals and made some changes of my own.

'' As the credits rolled, I had not accomplished much of anything for the population of this dystopian city - state, but I'd helped out a few pals and made some changes of my own.

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«Isle of Dogs» takes place in a dystopian Japanese city called Megasaki.

In the futuristic Metropolis, (and almost every dystopian future) wealth and privilege are reserved for an upper crust of society, while an enslaved working class allows for excesses and keeps the city running.

It's set predominantly in a dystopian 2044, in and around Kansas City, with its nonchalant killings and whole housing estates of working girls.

SYNOPSIS: In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in -LSB-...]

The tale is set in a dystopian Japan and focuses on a group of dogs who are living on an island / garbage dump after the government banished them from the cities.

In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty - five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.

The citizens of Megasaki City are propagandised into compliant sheep; dogs are penned in a concentration camp - everywhere dystopian power is projected through media manipulation and brute force.

After its opening - credit sequence, during which Roger Pratt's camera roams around what is eventually revealed to be a metal Bat - Signal, Burton establishes his vision of Gotham City: an unabashedly surreal environment that owes more to the dystopian sci - fi visions of Metropolis and Blade Runner than to any of the notions of noir - ish realism that underpins Nolan's films.

The film takes place in a dystopian Japanese city called Megasaki «20 years into the future,» where dogs have been scapegoated for carrying toxic diseases and relocated to a grim waste island, by fiat of the despotic, square - shouldered Mayor Kobayashi (voiced by Kunichi Nomura, who helped conceive the story with Anderson, Roman Coppola, and Jason Schwartzman).

Jeunet became known for the feature films he co-directed with regular collaborations Marc Caro: dystopian comedy Delicatessen (1991) and the dark fantasy The City of Lost Children (1995).

The opening shot of the vast, dystopian city of Los Angeles — dubbed «The Hades Landscape» — is an absolute feast for the eyes and a vision that's yet to be beaten — even by today's standards.

As Susan Sontag wrote in 1965, their «sensuous elaboration» of dystopian techno - futures allowed the viewer to «participate in the fantasy of living through one's own death and more, the death of cities, the destruction of humanity itself.»

I could never fully understand the logic of the argument about the first academies presenting the end of the comprehensive ideal; City Academies took over some of the most depressed, dysfunctional, dystopian schools in the country.

Trump's most explicit campaign references to cities were directed to inner cities, described in dystopian terms as places of chaos and violence.

Ninja Slayer takes place in a dystopian future where ninja souls have been resurrected and now wreak havoc on the city of Neo-Saitama.

Lauded director Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings) is adapting this dystopian, steampunk adventure story of a lower - class boy who lives in the moving city of London.

City of Ice and Dreams is a dystopian thriller full of action and suspense.

I'm so excited to show you the brand new cover for City of Ice and Dreams, the second full - length novel in my dystopian thriller series, Tales From A Warming Planet.

Bezoar, the city that the majority of Hard Reset is based in, brings back strong memories of Blade Runner's dystopian Los Angeles.

It also features a rich single player campaign set within a dystopian future, where players take on the role of a tactician to a resistance group attempting to prevent an evil corporation from taking over a city.

However, while the two cities may not have similar political climates, they have in common the fact that they've both become dystopian in nature, crumbling under the weight of their own radicalism.

I'm totally in love with the distant future setting that finds much of the game's dystopian world banished to underground city states known as Panopticons (the original working title for the game if you remember).

Imagine the horror of being submerged miles and miles beneath the Atlantic ocean in a dystopian underwater city with no immediate means of escape.

Everyone from the previous game is absent (except for David Sarif who does fuck all) and the only major consequence that seems to have resulted from the Panchaea incident, where most of the augmented population of Earth was made to viciously attack the unaugmented portion, is that augmented citizens are treated like second - class citizens, forced to carry expensive paperwork, and are deported to a dystopian city known as Golem if they don't comply.

Set in a dystopian city - state inspired by the events of George...

The Division takes place in a dystopian New York City following a smallpox pandemic, and sees the player as an agent of the Strategic Homeland Division who is searching for the origins of the outbreak whilst society descends into chaos.

About The Surge Set in a heavily dystopian future as Earth nears the end of its life, those who remain in the overpopulated cities must work to survive as social programs become saturated by an ageing population and increasing environmental diseases.

Noir — A dark, grimy city map inspired by futuristic Brooklyn at night, Noir is a classic three - lane map set against a backdrop of a dystopian future, filled with cafes and parks surrounding a brutal downtown warzone.

The Surge maintains the same core formula while fundamentally changing the setting, which is now a dystopian future where Earth nears the end of its life and overpopulated cities face environmental diseases among many other issues.

Dark, empty and void of any human activity — through his ongoing project, London Falling, Tamas Olajos has been capturing the city using a 28 mm camera by immortalising abstract, dystopian and surreal cityscapes.

As the worst nuclear power plant accident in history, Chernobyl drove the city of Pripyat, Ukraine (the U.S.S.R. at the time), into an overnight dystopian empire that's become a haunting landscape of ruins that time gnaws on.

To celebrate the release of Isle of Dogs, director Wes Anderson has teamed up with The Store X at 180 The Strand to present an exhibition exploring the meticulously crafted dystopian world of Megasaki — the fictional Japanese city in which the film is set.

In addition to broadly engaging with subjects such as the dystopian character of the contemporary city, the consequences of industrialization, or the lack of cultural and public spaces, this group of artworks also leads us to explore and question the role that an institution, such as Fundación / Colección Jumex, can potentially play in its immediate surrounding, in this case, Ecatepec.»

The most traditional artist on the list is Paul Noble, who for the past 15 years has been producing drawings of a dystopian, fictional city «Nobson's Newtown».

The story follows the observations and surveillance of «a geophysicist code writer held captive in City - A, a dystopian metropolis where nouveau riche capitalists preside over the dregs of communism.»

With his E.I. series, Cairns has taken the idea of photographic printing to new levels, creating works that present his dystopian city scenes petrified in e-reader screens.

A «New Wave - futurist - noir,» the story follows the observations and surveillance of a geophysicist code writer obliged to remain in City - A, a dystopian sci - fi metropolis where nouveau - riche capitalists preside over the dregs of communism.

Both of them follow a cyberpunk fantasy format where you'll have things like elves and magic, but it takes place is pseudo-futuristic, dystopian cities.