{"id":53146,"date":"2013-08-12T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T13:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.buzzbuzzhome.com\/?p=53146"},"modified":"2013-08-09T17:54:43","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T21:54:43","slug":"dystopian-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.livabl.com\/articles\/archives\/dystopian-architecture","title":{"rendered":"Party like it&#8217;s 1984: Top 6 examples of dystopian architecture in movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 id='pressboard-ad-sponsorship-tag' style='margin-bottom: 35px;'><\/h4><p>Sure, dystopias aren&#8217;t any fun to live in \u2014 that&#8217;s kind of the point. However, cinematic totalitarianism makes for some stunning architecture. The cityscapes from these six grim movies are plain old <em>doubleplusgood:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livabl.com\/articles\/?attachment_id=53149\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53149\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53149\" alt=\"Elysium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.livabl.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Elysium.png\" width=\"720\" height=\"317\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livabl.com\/articles\/?attachment_id=53150\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53150\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53150\" alt=\"Elysium 2 - forevergeek\" src=\"https:\/\/www.livabl.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Elysium-2-forevergeek.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"298\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Elysium<\/strong> &#8211; In this summer blockbuster set in 2154, the population is starkly divided into two classes; the wealthy reside on a space station resort, where war is nonexistent and cancer can be cured by hopping into a medical pod. Everyone else, of course, lives on a crowded, ruined Earth. Bald Matt Damon to the rescue!\u00a0<em>Photos: <a href=\"http:\/\/illabus.com\/elysium-movie-trailer-absolute-nerdgasm\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"external\">illabus.com<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forevergeek.com\/2013\/04\/a-closer-look-at-elysium\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"external\">forevergeek.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livabl.com\/articles\/?attachment_id=53151\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53151\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53151\" alt=\"Equilibrium 2 desura\" src=\"https:\/\/www.livabl.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Equilibrium-2-desura.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"307\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livabl.com\/articles\/?attachment_id=53152\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53152\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53152\" alt=\"Equilibrium - punkcybergeek\" src=\"https:\/\/www.livabl.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Equilibrium-punkcybergeek.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"303\" \/><\/a><strong>Equilibrium<\/strong> &#8211; This risible sci-fi drama features a world in which emotions have been banned, and the underground resistance is&#8230; literally underground. The public squares are dominated by huge screens that telegraph propaganda and daily reminders for residents to take their feelings-suppressing medicine. The new outdoor cinema? \u00a0<em>Photos:\u00a0<a href=\"desura.com\" target=\"_blank\">desura.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.punkycybergeek.com\/equilibrium\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"external\">punkycybergeek.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livabl.com\/articles\/?attachment_id=53153\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53153\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53153\" alt=\"Hunger Games The Capitol \" src=\"https:\/\/www.livabl.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Hunger-Games-The-Capitol-frozenemotion.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"306\" \/><\/a><strong>The Hunger Games<\/strong> &#8211; The Capitol of Panem is all about pageantry, including fashion, food and annual teenage death matches. How could this techno-totalitarian city not be fabulous?\u00a0<em>Photo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hungergamestrilogy.net\/2012\/01\/hunger-games-the-capitol-tour-website\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"external\">hungergamestrilogy.net<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livabl.com\/articles\/?attachment_id=53154\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53154\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53154\" alt=\"Matrix Zion\" src=\"https:\/\/www.livabl.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Matrix-Zion.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" \/><\/a><strong>Matrix Revolutions<\/strong> &#8211; \u00a0The third installation in the Matrix trilogy put the &#8220;meh&#8221; in &#8220;mecha,&#8221; but the last human city of Zion was a visual marvel.\u00a0<em>Photo: <a href=\"http:\/\/matrix.wikia.com\/wiki\/Zion\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"external\">matrix.wikia.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livabl.com\/articles\/?attachment_id=53156\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53156\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53156\" alt=\"Metropolis davidszondy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.livabl.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Metropolis-davidszondy.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" \/><\/a><strong>Metropolis<\/strong> &#8211; \u00a0Fritz Lang&#8217;s German expressionist masterpiece is set in Metropolis, where wealthy industrialists rule from skyscrapers while a lower class of underground-dwelling workers slave away at the machines that power the city. Totally irrelevant to modern society.\u00a0<em>Photo: <a href=\"http:\/\/davidszondy.com\/future\/city\/skyscraper.htm\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"external\">davidszondy.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livabl.com\/articles\/?attachment_id=53157\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53157\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53157\" alt=\"Blade Runner 2 biomechanicalrhetoric\" src=\"https:\/\/www.livabl.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Blade-Runner-2-biomechanicalrhetoric.jpeg\" width=\"720\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livabl.com\/articles\/?attachment_id=53158\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53158\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53158\" alt=\"Blade Runner drnorth\" src=\"https:\/\/www.livabl.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Blade-Runner-drnorth.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"302\" \/><\/a><strong>Blade Runner<\/strong> &#8211; This seminal 1982 thriller is kinda-sorta dystopian the way that replicants are kinda-sorta human. Genre quibbles aside, the opening minutes of Blade Runner reveal the ultimate in garish noir cityscapes. Plus, Rick Deckard&#8217;s world reminds us of New York&#8217;s Times Square, which is pretty much a real-life dystopia. <em>Photos: <a href=\"http:\/\/biomechanicalrhetoric.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/13\/the-focus-of-mise-en-scene-in-blade-runner\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"external\">biomechanicalrhetoric.wordpress.com<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/drnorth.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/14\/letters-of-note-blade-runner-will-prove-invincible\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"external\">drnorth.wordpress.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div id='pressboard-ad-sponsorship-msg'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Architecture so good, it&#8217;s almost a 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