What 1995 Japanese cyberpunk movie influenced The Matrix ?
The cynical and stylish perspective of classic film noir had a formative effect on the cyberpunk genre of science fiction that emerged in the early 1980s ; the movie most directly influential on cyberpunk was " Blade Runner " ( 1982 ) , directed by Ridley Scott , which pays clear and evocative homage to the classic noir mode ( Scott would subsequently direct the noir crime melodrama " Someone to Watch Over Me " ) .