Dark City Soundtrack - Into The City

Trevor Jones composed most of the music for this movie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Jones_%28composer%29

Works possibly inspired by Dark City:

Comparisons have been made between Dark City's villain Mr. Hand and the villain from the Matrix Trilogy, Agent Smith. Both are enforcers for the film's antagonists (the Strangers/the Machines), but both are somehow different from their otherwise homogeneous fellows. Both develop a bond with their human opponent (Hand through Murdoch's memories, Smith through Neo's code), which causes them to become more human and to develop some of humanity's worst characteristics. Subsequent movies in the Matrix Trilogy further this comparison, as the climactic fight scene in Dark City is not unlike the one seen in Revolutions.

Nor do the comparisons end there; both Matrix and Dark City concern artificial memories and habitats, and both are patrolled by faceless superpowered beings challenged when a human develops comparable powers. Comparisons have been made between scenes from the movies, making note of similarities in both cinematography and atmosphere.Template:Ref

The Animatrix short story A Detective Story is remarkably similar to Bumstead's story arc in Dark City. In the short story, a detective is pursuing an enigmatic figure (Trinity, who like Murdoch is an "enlightened" human with knowledge of the false nature of their reality). Over the course of the investigation he learns that the previous investigators went insane or disappeared. In the end, the detective catches up with his target and learns the true nature of his world, only to die shortly thereafter.

The overlying plot of the anime The Big O also features an isolated, noir-esque city, where virtually everyone suffers from amnesia, people possess memories that are not their own, and in the end it is revealed that the city is apparently some sort of experiment, ending and resetting itself every forty years.

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Music

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• Dark
• City
• Soundtrack
• Sleeps
• Awakening

[deadasfak]

The sections at 1:12 and 4:03 should be longer. Last night I had a nightmare in witch I was chased, and I heard this music in my head all that time. It was pretty cool in a weird way:)

[BadLactose]

Thank you for this. I love this movie and this soundtrack!

[WizardOfHumor1989]

Trevor Jones should have scored THE MATRIX trilogy films.

[TheBamftiger]

Where will you run? This city's ours. We made it.

So now you know the truth...

[Magnolia296]

Really great film. Rufus Sewell, Jennifer Connelly, Kiefer Sutherland, William Hurt were great. The 90's had so many overlooked & underrated SCI-FI films - this one, FutureSport, The Time Shifters, Virtuosity, Tha Lawnmower Man, Alien 3, Space Truckers, Strange Days, The Arrival, Mimic, The Apocalypse (1997), Virus, RoboCop 2, Them, Body Snatchers, eXistenZ, Sphere, Judge Dredd, Demolition Man, Anaconda, The Shadow Men etc

[komunista94]

Saw this during its theatrical release on 98. I was intrigued because Alex Proyas was involved in it. Having loved The Crow, I waited for it. Felt sorry for the movie because there probably 5 of us in the cinema and disappeared after a week. It literally blew me away and had to watch the second screening because I wanted to experience the ending again. This is the reason why other Cartesian type films like The Matrix or Inception did not surprise me at all. Dark City is still the best.

[TheDymed]

"I call them, strangers"

[WizardOfHumor1989]

Trevor Jones should have been chosen to compose the final few Harry potter films.

[TheMrMojoRisin67]

@WOWJBEOWULF What I also find interesting is that it also explores the meaning of the human soul, that what makes us who we are is not through memories, but through something deeper.

[zoofiesta]

is so powerfull... i love it.

[WOWJBEOWULF]

Dark City is a science fiction movie with an Evolution viewpoint. Eventually the Mankind must have an advancement in skills (i.e. evolution) in order to keep our survival niche, or find another more advance survival niche, or be lost to a superior predator. To fall in evolution (devolve means to inherit not de-evolution), really is the end, because we fell below human status; thus Dark City takes us to another survival niche for the Red Queen stage as Mankind gains another skill.

[toasega]

@madhammudeux I don't understand how a driver's license adds up to "sex offender's license."