One of the most brilliant sentences came from Batou, in Ghost in the shell 2: Innocence. When he is flying over the ghost city... What he says in that scene is the soul of cyberpunk
I think ppl in cinema forgot that movie story is not going from point A to point B, sometimes you need to stop and linger a bit, enjoy the atmosphere...
Japenese media excels at this, look at the quantity of panels in a manga without "action", or scenes of the landscape in Akira Kurosawa films, those little moments are what is life about
"I wanted to create worlds different from our own." - Mamoru Oshii. When I first saw this that I knew this guy had gone further than anyone into showing us a different universe.
"Gone further than anyone into showing us a different universe"? Uhm... "anyone" is a rather bold statement there, buddy. "Gone further than most"? Yes. "Gone further than anyone"? No... just no. Heck, did you forget Ridley Scott with Blade Runner?
they showed GITS 95 in a limited theater run across America as part of anime expo last year. finally got to experience this scene on the big screen which was a bucket list wish. i teared up.
Scenes like these that gives audience time to absorb the vibes and reflect on the previous events of the film is something I really really miss nowadays, not just in anime but films as a whole.
I remember when teletoon would show anime movies around midnight during the holidays. I was no older than 14 when i first saw this movie dubbed in french. I was transfixed by this sequence. As i grew older i came to appreciate it more and more. This music will always remind me of the night. A night hauntingly melancholic, filled with ghosts.
I just started watching this anime after having some memory of it as a child when it played on adult swim and thinking it was the best thing I've ever seen and I was not dissapointed. I wasn't even born in 1995-6 but this is honestly a great anime
Watched Akira re-release in the theatres and it was as glorious as it sounds. The thing I would do to watch 1995 Ghost In the Shell in a proper theatre in literal 4K+ resolution.
does it make sense to watch something that came out more than 2 decades ago in 4k resolution? i mean it's not like you can enhance something that just is not there
@@hazardeur I don't have a home theatre with sophisticated sound systems nor a big monitor capable of running bluray discs, I'm poor as folk so I had to go to the theatre and watch it leave me alone :((((
I first saw this movie in 2011. I had some early memories of seeing clips from the music video of king of my castle. It was bizarre feeling to see the whole movie at adult age after seeing few clips in 1996 or 1997 as a kid. My favourite movie ever perhaps. And major Motokos distant personality is really intriguing.
You could write a lot words trying to express what makes a scene like this so powerful. But you'd never really capture it. This is cinema at it's purest form - something you simply have to feel.
Plastic and solid, solice and terror. My mind rips between what I see and what I try to feel. Echoes of memories not there but laugh from the corner of my eyes. I'm not human but a shell of what I'm trying to forget. Leave me alone, but come here when you do it. Silence and screams.
When I first watched this movie many years ago, I never knew what cyberpunk is. I didn’t knew this scene had gotten so deep into my head, all I knew was I started falling in love with Hong Kong ever since. It was many years later that I found out a lot of scenes in GIS were exactly inspired by Hong Kong streets aesthetically, and you can say pretty much the same with the idea of cyberpunk itself. You can find a lot of Asian cities in there. Tokyo or Hong Kong, large population, exotic, neon-lit, heavy rain, machines struggling to become humans, and humans looking for their lost souls. This movie is fantastic, but this scene alone is masterpiece. It says so much about cyberpunk, and it doesn’t even need a word. Oh and BTW, when I finally got to watch Bladerunner, it was like holy shit now I know what this all came from. That was the grand master. That is our Yoda.
If the Movie had a sound track half as decent as the anime's it might have been a hit. They seemed to have deliberately left out this important element of the atomosphere created by the soundtrack. I never did figure out why?
It finally hit me, how much this scene reminded me of that iconic one from Miami Vice's first episode. The bit with Crockett and Tubbs, driving to "In the Air Tonight" by Phil Collins. Similar vibes.
Waste of time, GTA 6 could've waited for a game like Ghost in the Shell instead. Imagine a next gen game but with visuals as crispy as old Anime with an actual cool cyberpunk vibe.
@@noahsherwood2445 actually, yes really. metal gear solid came out in 1998. and before you play that card, yes, I know that there were the Metal Gear games before that, but they don't really have anything to do with the aesthetics of GitS now, right?
