Admittedly, we’re not at the point where we’re uploading our brains to the internet just yet, but all the same, both Ghost In The Shell and its later animated TV series, the similarly acclaimed Stand Alone Complex, were unique in their depiction of a future world of ubiquitous technology.īack in 1995, the web’s reach was comparatively tiny mobile phone technology was in its infancy.
Ghost In The Shell‘s brilliance goes far beyond ’90s cool, though – over 20 years later, its vision of an interconnected, cybernetic world is looking more prescient than ever.
In fact, when the Wachowskis were trying to explain exactly what their heady amalgam of comic book, anime and videogame imagery would look like, they simply showed their producer, Joel Silver, a videotape of Ghost In The Shell. From a visual and storytelling standpoint, Ghost In The Shell‘s impact was pretty much immediate in the late 90s, two young American filmmakers, the Wachowskis, were so inspired by Oshii’s anime that they incorporated slivers of it into what would become The Matrix, their own cyberpunk thriller that exploded into cinemas in 1999.
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