What Would You Consider The First Steampunk Movie

[CB2001]

Definitely not, since it´s definitely science fiction

Michael

Steampunk is a sub-genre of science fiction and speculative fiction, frequently featuring elements of fantasy, that came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s.

So, basically, it's science fiction. And "Metropolis" can be considered steampunk.

 

[wannab]

Sci-Fi with steam powered tech influences. So yeah that first movie qualifies.


Doug

 

[dualedge]

Steampunk is in essence an immitation of Victorian era fiction so I think calling original Victorian or early 1900's fiction works "steampunk" - like 20,000 Leagues (originally written in 1869) - is kind of an odd viewpoint.

It would be like creating a new style of art based on cubism, naming it something... "cubepunk" and then referring to an original Picasso cubist painting by that description. It might be fun but I, at least, wouldn't view it as accurate.

I'd also disagree with the notion that Dark City is steampunk personally... It does have a bit of an "out-of-time" quality to it but beyond that, I wouldn't call it Victorian or see any evidence of psuedo-victorian-age technology. It's one of my favorite films, regardless.

 

[Sigma-LS]

You know it's funny I just spent a good amount of time at a couple of Steampunk panels at Kamikazecon 2010 and the best definition I got for Steampunk was simply a "retro future"

So future sci-fi stuff that was written a hundred and twenty years ago seems retro to folks today. Examples as Wells and Verne and the guy who wrote Katei Gunkan and those folks. Semantics are semantics and can be argued indefinetly.

I can see folks being as passionate about it as I am in drawing the line between an old school conservationist like Roosevelt and all this Green crap we have going on in the media today.

 

[Contec]

the League....or the league of extraordinary gentlemen....

 

[tain669]

Wild Wild West is Steampunk to me....I liked the film ( Not the best mind you) But I still liked it. I'd also consider Briscoe County Jr as such also.But thats a TV series but what the heck...:unsure

 

[d_jedi1]

Remember the Steam powered car engines in Escape from New York?

(runs out of the room) :lol

 

[propologist]

the League....or the league of extraordinary gentlemen....

yeah that was good one.

 

[staermose]

The Danish television series CRASH from 1984 had a lot of Stempunk design. Especially the starships.

More behind the scenes pics here:
http://s31.photobucket.com/albums/c387/staermose/CRASH Truslen fra det sorte hul/

Full series here. Please notice that the episode are not listed in correct order:
http://www.dr.dk/bonanza20_assets/E...ash/any/48593/FreeTextRank/desc/1/Crash_01_13

 

[franz bolo]

Since the term wasn't around before the late 80's, nothing before that can really be called Steampunk can it? It's certainly influenced the Genre but can't be a part of it.

Jules Verne wrote Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea in the late 1800's. That was pure science fiction in those days.

The first Steampunk/Neo-Victorian films I remember was Disney's Atlantis and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

FB

 

[vismus]

1. 20,000 Leagues under the Sea
2. Wild, Wild, West (TV)
3. First Men in the Moon
4. Brazil
5. City of Lost Children
6. 12 Monkeys

 

[EvilRocketeer]

12 monkeys was steampunk? are we in bizarro world?

 

[Robert412]

This whole 'steam punk' thing infuriates me

It's like in the early two thousands when I was trying to explain to people what emo was... I eventually started calling it 'lite goth with less leather and more canvas.' I kind of feel the same about steampunk... 'lite goth with brass and brown.'

I know steampunk IS a thing, but it's hard to set the boundaries since it seems to be a sub genre of a couple of subgenres. You may notice this by some of the movie suggestions given.

Let's apply my theory. If max were in brown leather and his hardware was brass, there wouldn't be much of a question. Also, the same can be said about city of lost children, dark city, and 12 monkeys. Though mainly I think those last three are just French.

My 'first steam punk movie' experience was rocketeer. You can't argue with that.

 

[Larry Young]

The steampunk aesthetic was around for a lot longer than the first time fanboys first coined the term. The Wild Wild West TV show applied the Wells/Verne SF aesthetic to modern sensibilities in what is commonly retrorecognized as steampunk.

I'd say the Kirk Douglas 20,000 Leagues flick is probably the first film to apply steampunk sensibilities to cinematic fiction. Before that, the retro goes unrecognized, as Victorian SF is just SF as noted above.

 

[Amish Trooper]

I would go with Return to Oz

 

[jarvis]

My 'first steam punk movie' experience was rocketeer. You can't argue with that.

You're not confusing steam punk with Art Deco? Though they both do have the brass and zeppelins in common.

 

[EvilRocketeer]

My 'first steam punk movie' experience was rocketeer. You can't argue with that.

:angry ROCKETEER IS NOT STEAM PUNK YOU *******......BAN THIS MOTHER *******!

 

[Larry Young]

No kidding. My first vegan experience was a Porterhouse steak.

 

[Larry Young]

Although, to throw this out there: Metropolis is pretty steampunky.

 

[dbalschi]

The Fabulous World of Jules Verne