FMP-Element 1-Moodboard & Analysis & World-View-Setting October week 2，3

Chinese Style Moodboard

Cyberpunk style Moodboard

Primary Research

Analysis-How to Combine the Cyberpunk and Chinese style

I think “Chinese Cyber” is based on the ancient Chinese architecture, adding the cyberpunk sense of mechanics and futuristic sci-fi.
Cyberpunk, the origin of the film and television style is Blade Runner 2049, set in Tokyo and Hong Kong, and Kowloon Walled City was once a cyberpunk destination. So what exactly is cyberpunk? In terms of the history of science fiction, it is the story of “cyborgs pushed to their limits”. Cyborgs, also known as human-machine combinations, are mainly the result of scientists’ attempts to adapt the human body to extreme environments such as outer space starting in the 1960s. However, until Cyberpunk, Cyborgs mainly modified only human organs, while Cyberpunk requires the modification of the brain – this modification is not only the enhancement of the ability of a single individual, but also the connection between the brains of different individuals. Cyberpunk’s most crucial element, “cyberspace”, emerged under such circumstances. What about “cyberspace”? In reality, the Internet can be understood as a low-level version of Cyberspace. Many cyberpunk novels often have such a logic – human body modification is to spend money, have this money are RoboCop in the head of the kind of big business/military industrial complex to replace the function of the government, they transformed the human body is to use the human as a tool, and in the end will be Cyber space will be reversed thousand off. The narrative logic of cyberpunk writers is largely inherited from their predecessors. In their writing, cyberspace is highly capitalised and commodified. The human brain is being information technology. Linked together, this space is mainly used to make money for capitalists. The protagonists of the novels are always hackers because their mastery of the technology allows them to still have a sliver of space to roam beyond the reach of capital. The most typical work is Gibson’s Bionic Swarms. This work can be regarded as a typical “debut is the peak”, of which there are many points that can be said, only one is emphasised here: the pervasiveness of capital is very much emphasised in the novel. It is the first part of the “Sprawl Trilogy”. Sprawl refers to the infinite expansion of big cities, just like the vines of plants that eventually connect with each other, so that the suburbs and green areas between cities no longer exist, and the cities under the control of capital become the “natural environment” for human survival. The city under the control of capital becomes the “natural environment” of human existence. This is the outside of the human body, and the inside of the human body is the cyberspace mentioned earlier. In such a dominant logic of capital, individual human beings become screws in a big machine. Cyberpunk recognises this, and is different from previous science fiction, including the new space opera novels that were just re-emerging at the time, in which the protagonists, even if they have mastered god-like technology, are in reality retiring, nerdy, living on the edge of life, and “anti-heroes” – that is, “high-tech” – and “anti-heroes” – that is to say, “anti-heroes” – in the sense of “high-tech”. High-tech, low-life”.

So in terms of art style, to a great extent and its background has a significant connection, that is, the rich area of the building through the sky, the display of the building is full of technology, there will be a lot of biotouch screen, walk wherever you go with the virtual screen, etc., while the ordinary people’s area, the dilapidated streets mixed with neon lights to highlight the sense of sci-fi, and the streets cluttered with expensive technology tuning car parking. In addition to the characters, the rich people will modify their bodies to the extreme, installing all kinds of prosthetics to maximise their energy, and they will also be able to reach the state of immortality because of these expensive prosthetic machines. And the life of the poor in addition to theft and robbery, but also to face the birth of a variety of disasters, and the prosthetic body on their body is also mostly from the rich don’t want the latter informal channels to get, and its degree of disrepair is huge.

Cyberpunk style described, modern and crowded, technologically advanced but produced social conflicts in the background was originally suitable for China, so in combination with the production do not have to pursue a special Chinese localisation expression. China’s ancient architecture is more dignified and elegant, and its integration process, I will not take the feeling of dilapidation as the main style, but from the point of view of the rich to depict the world of cyberpunk, the life of the lights and greenery.

I think a “Chinese Cyber” style building must first look very grand, it doesn’t need to be particularly tall, but it must have a large footprint. In ancient China, people would usually go to sleep very early because there was no popularity of lights, and the combination of houses with cyber can be lit up at night, which can be quite like the feeling of the Tang Dynasty’s never-ending city.

Reference

Blade Runner 2049,Oct 3 2017,Denis Villeneuve, [science fiction],Distributed by Warner Bros. (North America),Sony pictures releasing (International)

Kowloon Walled City，upcoming，Cheang Pou soi and starring Louis Koo, Sammo Hung,Richie Jen and Raymond Lam. [Martial Arts], Distributed by Media Asia Distributions.

Robocop, 2014, Jose Padilha,[science fiction],disturbed by sony pictures releasing.