What is a steampunk-style movie?
Steampunk is a synthetic word, composed of two words, steam steam steam and punk, steam naturally represents a large machine powered by a steam engine. Punk is a non-mainstream fringe culture, and steampunk works often rely on some hypothetical new technology, such as through new energy, new machinery, new materials, new vehicles, etc., to show an alternate worldview parallel to the 19th century Western world, and strive to create its fictional and nostalgic characteristics. Simply put, the steampunk worldview is a utopian ideal of backwardness and advancement, magic and science, and spiritual pursuits.
Good-looking steampunk style movies look blood boiling, this article first recommends an animated version of the movie:
1. Castle in the Sky (1986)
Recommended reason: "Castle in the Sky" is the early classic animation of the famous Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki, depicting a beautiful and peaceful world, each character has a unique personality, but there is no lack of love and sincerity, even if it seems to be an old and cunning pirate mother, she also has a kind and loving heart. The worldview setting of sky city, the airships flying in the sky, the robots like clay sculptures, and the overall planning of Laputa City all have a distinct steampunk shadow, and the drama is full of many new elements, especially highlighting the flavor of the European Industrial Revolution.
2. Silver Island (2002)
Reason for recommendation: The 15-year-old boy Zhan Mei yin and yang mistakenly got a spherical starry sky treasure map. This map records the burial site of the huge treasure looted by the pirates of the universe, so the teenager Jamie stepped on a huge space sailboat, and his space adventure began. Jamme meets John, the ship's cook, and with John's help, Jamme learns a lot about astronauts. In a series of space adventures and battles, Jame gradually mastered the techniques and rules of survival in space. As they get closer and closer to the treasure, Chame slowly discovers that her good friend John, who is along the way, turns out to be a sinister and cunning pirate. In the face of the betrayal of friends, how will Chame be good?
3. Hal's Moving Castle (2004)
Reason for recommendation: Miyazaki is another work, the characters have a wealth of personality characteristics, Hal's blonde hair and ice blue eyes, the sky's dressage dance steps, the windy earrings, is a rare super handsome man in Miyazaki's pen. There is no absolute good or bad in the world created by Miyazaki, there is no absolute good or evil, everyone is real, taking off the mask of hypocrisy in real life, there is flesh and blood, the human heart is complex, and the character shaping is very good.
4. Steam Boy (2004)
Reason for recommendation: The film lasted 9 years, cost 2.4 billion yen (about 181 million yuan), drew a total of 180,000 pictures, and contained 400 3D passages, making it the longest and most expensive animated film in Japanese history. The film shows the imagination and fascination with the machine, the sense of power of the machine itself is expressed, the picture of the steam kingdom taking off is hymn-level, the design and conception of the imagination, the picture is extremely exquisite and meticulous, and the magnificent soundtrack makes people feel like flying in the air.
5. Gaspar Morero's Mysterious Adventures (2005)
Reason for recommendation: This film won the Best Animation Crystal Award at the 2005 Annecy Animation Film Festival in France. Silhouette style, the soundtrack is great, full of gears and steel frames of the aircraft, like magma burning tumors, with a background of earth ash, visually oppressive sense is very strong to highlight the gray and dark of the machine age. Steampunk floating cities, steamships in storms, fantasy Northern Lights...
6. Robot No. 9 (2009)
Recommended reason: Robot No. 9 suddenly woke up and found that the world around him was full of crises, crippled everywhere, and an apocalyptic scene. Number 9 escapes into the street with a circular object painted with three strange symbols, but fortunately encounters the inventor Robot No. 2 who puts a voice on himself, but Number 2 is unfortunately captured by the machine monster. Number 9 found Veteran No. 1, Mechanic No. 5, Mad Painter No. 6, and Hercules No. 8. No. 9 and No. 5 traveled to rescue No. 2 without permission, and were rescued by The Female Samurai No. 7 when they were in danger, but inadvertently No. 9 resurrected the Ultimate Robot Beast. With the question of where they came from and their mission to survive, Decision 9 tries his best to subdue the beast and save the world...
7. Mechanical Core (2013)
Recommended reason: The French brain hole is really clear, the mechanical heart painting style is beautiful, and the storyline is not conventional. Miyazaki's story is full of love and hope. And this animated film looks down, intertwined with despair in love, and produces beauty in despair.
8. Mr. Hablow (2013)
Why: This is an 11-minute short film that won the 2013 3D Festival S3D/Seine-Saint-Denis Top Award and Best Animated Short Film, the 86th Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, in this elevated steampunk world, showing wonderful creativity, carefully crafted details, character and scene and plot design, smooth rhythm, camera processing, soul-like music.
9. Box Monster (2014)
Reason for recommendation: This is a sincere stop-motion animation, and the story is more humorous than hilarious. Tolerance and understanding, harmony and difference, are the cornerstones of civilization; exclusion and killing will kill themselves like the self-exploding Snächer.
10. Avril and the Fictional World (2015)
Reason for recommendation: Ansi Animation Festival Best Movie, hailed as a film that will not make Hoji want animated dolls, but make the world a better place. In another France ruled by Napoleon V in the middle of the 20th century, scientists disappeared for 70 years, and great inventions such as flying, electricity and even movies were in vain, and only Eiffel built a second tower. Coal and steam make the sky a miasma of smoke, wear gas masks when going out on the streets, and the Grand Palace becomes a greenhouse. Affy's parents are scientists, but also disappeared for no reason, when the old cat Darwin is sick to the colorful, Affy secretly developed an immortal medicine, but thus fled the adventure, sharp-toothed Darwin, the strange grandfather with many ideas, and the renegade agent Zulia also have difficulties together. French manga artist Jacques Tardi's original work, combining the aura of Verne and Miyazaki, with a rare nostalgic animation style, to recover the lost animation era.