Dark City Directors Cut 1998 watch along

Hey, Deasha! Thanks for honoring the request. I'm glad you enjoyed it! This is one of my favorite films! The Director's Cut eliminates the spoiling opening narration of the Theatrical version and includes additional scenes. I saw this five times in a packed NYC theater and the audience audibly gasped each time they burst through the wall at Shell Beach! Collective mind-blowing! It's a brilliant puzzle-box mystery! Director Alex Proyas really should revisit this story to chronicle Murdoch's godhood and the search for home. Absolute power corrupts and Proyas once considered a sequel with a tyrannical Murdoch as a mad god which would have been really interesting. The movie feels like it could have been based on a graphic novel but it wasn't. It's an original screenplay! Murdoch went to the automat because the desk clerk at the hotel told him his wallet had been found there. Emma was also drawn to the automat sign because John mentioned the eatery when talking about the woman he had been with. Automats were real food dispensaries from the 1930s to the 1960s. The Strangers weren't altering bodies other than using corpses to get around. The lack of healed burns on Murdoch's upper arm indicated that he never experienced those Shell Beach memories. It is speculated that the pre-cursor to Murdoch, the addled Walenski, was allowed free reign as an aware stray as part of an experiment all its own since he posed no threat lacking the ability to tune. Murdoch is a mutant, an evolutionary leap ahead. It is unknown how many generations of humans the Strangers have been experimenting on or when they first snatched abductees from Earth. Late film critic Roger Ebert was an outspoken champion of this film and recorded the audio commentary for the DVD. The Wachowski siblings used some of the sets from this movie when they shot "The Matrix" at the same Australian studio. "Dark City" was unfortunately overshadowed by "The Matrix" the following year as it dealt with similar themes of layers of reality and the power of the mind. Rufus Sewell has also been in "Old", "Dangerous Beauty", "The Illusionist", "The Legend of Zorro", "The Man in the High Castle", "John Adams" and, currently, "The Diplomat". Jennifer Connelly's own singing voice was used for the Director's Cut. Kiefer Sutherland based his performance on Peter Lorre. Proyas sought Kiefer's father, Donald, for the role of Schreber but changed his mind after meeting with Kiefer to hear his take on the character. Richard O'Brien, who played Mr. Hand, was also Riff-Raff from "The Rocky Horror Picture Show". The late, great William Hurt, who played Inspector Bumstead, was a sci-fi aficionado who easily grasped the themes and concepts of the story. Proyas said Hurt understood the narrative's philosophical and existential underpinnings better than he did! Melissa George made her film debut as the automat streetwalker. Bruce Spence, who played tall Mr. Wall, is best known as the Gyro-Captain from "The Road Warrior" with Mel Gibson.

Alex Vazquez