I thought Cypher was mad until I went to my own company’s conference
I need to watch it again to refresh my memory exactly how, but Cypher is a film which (like The Sixth Sense) plays heavily with colour pallets. You can tell what’s going on – once you know to look for it – from the photography.
Apart from in Star Wars, Alien, and Blade Runner, obvs.
I think that’s kind of his point – i associate the grubby dystopian sci fi aesthetic with the 70s and perhaps early 80s. By the time 5th Element came out, Alien and Blade runner were ancient history