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« on: July 20, 2011, 03:58:34 am »

this is a topic for steampunk elements in non steampunk shows and motion pictures. please try to post pictures or links.
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« Reply #1 on: July 20, 2011, 09:40:49 am »

The Anachronism (Full Film)


um.... would this count? its a short film (15mins) called the Anachronism.
there is also films like:
the prestige - http://www.imdb.com/media/rm4031813632/tt0482571

metropolis - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_(film)

Metropia - http://www.metropiathemovie.com/#/story
this isn't really steampunk but its about the future and could be cyberpunk/steampunk. but it makes me think of it sometimes.

the illusionist - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443543/
i love this one, i don't know why but its very good.

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« Reply #2 on: July 20, 2011, 09:31:15 pm »

I think all of those films go under the "accidentally steampunk" category. And The Anachronism was gorgeous! I'd love it to be longer.
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« Reply #3 on: July 20, 2011, 10:02:27 pm »

Those are definitley good for the category. I especially like the prestige. How could you go wrong with a movie about competing magicians with Nikola Tesla in it? Cheesy
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« Reply #4 on: July 20, 2011, 11:40:53 pm »

This movie still gets my vote.

http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/271706/Midsummer-Night-s-Sex-Comedy-A-Movie-Clip-Spirit-Ball.html
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« Reply #5 on: July 20, 2011, 11:45:29 pm »

I think all of those films go under the "accidentally steampunk" category. And The Anachronism was gorgeous! I'd love it to be longer.

i'm glad you liked it! i love it too! its very cute and almost has a 'notalgic' feeling
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« Reply #6 on: July 28, 2011, 07:21:59 pm »

I think all of those films go under the "accidentally steampunk" category. And The Anachronism was gorgeous! I'd love it to be longer.


i'm glad you liked it! i love it too! its very cute and almost has a 'notalgic' feeling


It really does have a nostalgic feeling to it, very well made!

The Prestige is one of my favorite films, on the brink between steampunk and dieselpunk. (I'm thinking about the use of electricity here).

I'd have to say some of the Doctor Who episodes are steampunk. Especially "The Giel in the Fireplace" with Madame de Pompadour and the clockwork men. http://www.huxter.org/dwfun/clockwork-man-head.jpg
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« Reply #7 on: July 29, 2011, 11:34:27 pm »

That is one of my favorite episodes. I think it's the second best episode, the first being blink.
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« Reply #8 on: August 10, 2011, 11:33:52 pm »

The first episode I saw was the WWII episodes in season 1. It really freaked me out, which made me like DW so much. Blink is my fave episode too, it's so creepy!

I find that some literature that features the Victorian era easily becomes accidentally steampunk. It mostly happened before steampunk was a well known genre. Can't think of any books now of course! Ah well, it'll come to me later.
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« Reply #9 on: August 11, 2011, 02:08:27 am »

Tom and Jerry meet Sherlock Holmes
Very silly, but it has some wonderful gadgets in it.

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« Reply #10 on: August 11, 2011, 04:28:01 am »

Going back to the topic of Doctor Who, let's not forget 2010's Christmas Carol episode. If I remember correctly, there were an awful lot of people romping around in goggles, and the control panel inside the...main building seemed rather steamy to me.

Plus, Air sharks. Kinda up there with air krakens, though not really.
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« Reply #11 on: August 16, 2011, 02:11:25 am »

now I can't get the image of an air shark and an air kraken battling out of my head.
 Cheesy
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« Reply #12 on: August 16, 2011, 03:36:04 pm »

I feel like that would be the most epic sky battle ever!

And then the Doctor just sits on a roof and watches, I feel like he would do something like that. But he would stop it eventually. Maybe. Hopefully. Most likely before that battle escalated into somethin city destroying.
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« Reply #13 on: November 15, 2011, 01:47:42 pm »

At the weekend, The Countess and I watched a film called 'Bathory' starring Anna Friel as the eponymous 16th Hungarian countess, Erzebet Bathory, who allegedly bathed in the blood of virgins in order to remain youthful looking (and is in the Guinness Book of records rightly or wrongly..as the biggest female mass murderer/serial killer of all time). The film, made in the former Czech Republic (so  we have some  stunning scenery..and locations..convincing East European accents) is an interesting interpretation of the story..if a little long..but I quite enjoyed it.
However there are a couple of characters in this, monks acting as spies, who have an array of  wonderful 'clockpunk' gadgets. First we see them putting on their three wheeled rollerskates. Later these skates are converted into wind up clockwork snow shoes that  actually propel the wear through  snow and up slopes with minimum of effort. Later they set up a contraption  consisting of a wooden frame with two globular containers of water that is either meant to be some form of early camera or telescope We see them eaves dropping on conversations too far away to hear with a clever variation of the 'two cans and a bit of string' toy. Finally we see one of them leap off a cliff wearing a devise that unfurls like a Da Vinci-esque parachute.
Wonderful stuff...
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« Reply #14 on: November 15, 2011, 01:58:37 pm »

I think it might be accidental but http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0386955/ - the Murdoch Mysteries

Oh and the Tardis is a steampunk dream!
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« Reply #15 on: November 16, 2011, 05:36:16 pm »

-Harry Potter
-Wizard of Waverly Place (kinda)
-Firefly ( for some, it depend if you consider the futur is not a suitable setting for a genuine steampunk story)
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« Reply #16 on: November 17, 2011, 10:36:17 pm »

Accidental?

Before 2006 almost anything Steampunk related was accidental if it had, cogs, gears or weird contraptions. A few exceptions but not many

I think its some how the other away around and Steampunk, as the genre is today, is the result of these 'accidents'. It is rather an eclectic meta culture after all.
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« Reply #17 on: November 18, 2011, 01:18:21 pm »

I have a feeling that the "accidental steampunk"may just be true steampunk slipped in by someone on the film crew secretly trying to show his (or her) true steampunk colours
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« Reply #18 on: November 18, 2011, 01:19:44 pm »

I have a feeling that the "accidental steampunk"may just be true steampunk slipped in by someone on the film crew secretly trying to show his (or her) true steampunk colours
Just a theory, of course,  but there may be a touch of steam in each of us.
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« Reply #19 on: November 20, 2011, 04:56:51 am »

Last minute addition:

- Quest for Camelot

-Labyrinth
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« Reply #20 on: November 29, 2011, 05:55:56 am »

ooo labyrinth   Shocked Cheesy
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