Comments on: Full Steampunk Ahead! http://moviemorlocks.com/2008/06/12/full-steampunk-ahead/ MovieMorlocks.com is the official blog for Turner Classic Movies (TCM). No topic is too obscure or niche to be excluded from our film discussions. And we welcome your comments on our blogs and bloggers. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:41:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Rob Meyer http://moviemorlocks.com/2008/06/12/full-steampunk-ahead/#comment-3841 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:51:23 +0000 http://tcmmoviemorlocks.wordpress.com/?p=833#comment-3841 Stylisticly steampunk seems to grow out of the Goths who are developing a more adult style. Rather than the tatterdamelion trappings of vampires and ghouls. Steampunk is more the province of Holmes, Houdini, Cthulhu, Edward Hyde and Dorian Gray. A world full of the promise of traversing the air as well as time and the ocean floor. Where invisibility lay next door to astral travel to Mars and spelunking could take you to Earth’s inner surface. The map still had blank spots where monsters could hide. There were books that should never have been read. Scientists were blindfolded shamans desperately trying to pierce the dark with almost random guesswork and an air of self assurance. A single man could and often did change the course of the world with a series of inventions, observations and occansionally rhetoric.

That today sometimes seems less magical is due to the volumes of science one needs to know in order to appreciate the how sharp the cutting edge is.

]]> By: Dave Bell http://moviemorlocks.com/2008/06/12/full-steampunk-ahead/#comment-3835 Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:28:23 +0000 http://tcmmoviemorlocks.wordpress.com/?p=833#comment-3835 A lot of Steampunk seems to depend on a society that hasn’t had its illusions shattered by the Great War, not much like the cyberpunk that prompted the name. But that Victorian Age was the age of dark satanic mills.

Dieselpunk is a related label which seems to better fit the very different period between the World Wars, both the tech and the attitude. Sky Captain, Indiana Jones, wild adventures in Central Asia and a slowly growing evil casting it’s shadow over the wise.

Just turn the tech dial up to 11. The US Navy really did build airships that could carry fighter biplanes.

]]> By: Frank Lehn http://moviemorlocks.com/2008/06/12/full-steampunk-ahead/#comment-3798 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 02:20:19 +0000 http://tcmmoviemorlocks.wordpress.com/?p=833#comment-3798 . . . love this stuff – LOVE it! Thank you!

]]> By: Allen http://moviemorlocks.com/2008/06/12/full-steampunk-ahead/#comment-3791 Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:40:32 +0000 http://tcmmoviemorlocks.wordpress.com/?p=833#comment-3791 More steampunk influence? Brazil, League of extraordinary Gentlemen, Sky Capt. and the World of …, and a recent vampire flick called Perfect Creature(steam driven autos even..)

]]> By: Richard http://moviemorlocks.com/2008/06/12/full-steampunk-ahead/#comment-3787 Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:15:43 +0000 http://tcmmoviemorlocks.wordpress.com/?p=833#comment-3787 Oh yes, “Johnny Guitar” is just another version of “Beauty and the Beast” and of course Sterling Hayden is perfect in the role of the Beauty.

]]> By: RHS http://moviemorlocks.com/2008/06/12/full-steampunk-ahead/#comment-3785 Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:29:08 +0000 http://tcmmoviemorlocks.wordpress.com/?p=833#comment-3785 Whoo, is it just me or is it getting hot in here?!

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