Sliding Scale of Shiny Versus Gritty: Difference between revisions

 

* ''[[Blade Runner]]'' was gritty for the most part, especially in contrast to the [[Executive Meddling|tacked-on happy ending]].

** [[Terry Gilliam]]'s ''Jabberwocky'' is, if anything, even grittier.

* The movie ''[[Se7en]]''

* [[The BBC]] vs. 2005 movie versions of ''[[Pride and Prejudice]]'' come to mind. In the BBC version, everything is shiny, even though it's the English countryside. In the movie, the Bennets' home is more realistically dirty.

** Except not particularly 'realistically'... there seems to be some misunderstanding about what the book means when the Bennets are described as 'poor'. There's no reason to suppose from the text that they don't still have a team of servants to clean the house for them- that would be a remarkable circumstance for people of their caste- servants were cheap. (A genteel Regency-era home shouldn't be ''obviously'' more dirty than most modern ones- though it would be a lot harder to keep clean, thanks to soot and lack of modern appliances like vacuum cleaners- it would be a full-time job for at least 2 maids, but said maids could be employed for nothing but their meals and a cubby-hole to sleep in.) On the other hand, the film does at least show the levels of lighting feasible from candles realistically in the evening scenes.

* The original ''[[Star Wars]]'' included dirty both [[Used Future]] farms, towns, and junk traders (and the Rebel base and its equipment) and the pristine corridors of Leia's ship and of the Death Star. The blockade runner even combined the two on the same ship: the engine compartments and life pod bays have a [[Used Future]] look to them, too.

* ''[[The Matrix]]'' has a decidedly gritty real world, but the titular simulated world ranges from average to shiny.