Film has been a form of communication for over a century. And its due to this fact that artificial life trying to find humanity and aliens using humans for repopulation has become classics in everyone’s home. Ridley Scott, the director of the films, is known for his auteur style that has a strong nightmare like feel. Through the analysis of the films Blade Runner (1982) and Alien (1979), Scott embeds his own ideology of our future being ‘grim, dark and polluted’ (The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2018) through various film techniques, that expressively show his auteur style.
Ridley Scott was born in 1937, before the major modernisation period. This would suggest why he chose to direct films relating to a dark future. He has lived through events such as World War II, the creation of the first computer, landing on the moon, and creating artificial organs. These, if further progressed, could have serious consequences as to how the future transpires. Scott did not get into film until he went to college, but was a major film lover beforehand. His first successful movie was Alien, whilst Blade Runner is regarded as a classic, it did not make a box office hit when it was released initially. These films through different cinematographic techniques, evidently express Scott’s ideologies. …show more content…
He is a “Blade Runner” stalking the genetically made criminal replicants. His assignment: Kill them. Their crime: Wanting to be human’ (Deeley & Scott 1982). Alien however follows the life of Ripley, ‘When the crew of the space-tug Nostromo answers a distress signal from a desolate planet, they discover a deadly life form that breeds within a human host. And so the horror begins – a horror which will end the lives of six crew members and alter the life of the seventh forever’ (Carroll & Scott
Ridley Scott was born in 1937, before the major modernisation period. This would suggest why he chose to direct films relating to a dark future. He has lived through events such as World War II, the creation of the first computer, landing on the moon, and creating artificial organs. These, if further progressed, could have serious consequences as to how the future transpires. Scott did not get into film until he went to college, but was a major film lover beforehand. His first successful movie was Alien, whilst Blade Runner is regarded as a classic, it did not make a box office hit when it was released initially. These films through different cinematographic techniques, evidently express Scott’s ideologies. …show more content…
He is a “Blade Runner” stalking the genetically made criminal replicants. His assignment: Kill them. Their crime: Wanting to be human’ (Deeley & Scott 1982). Alien however follows the life of Ripley, ‘When the crew of the space-tug Nostromo answers a distress signal from a desolate planet, they discover a deadly life form that breeds within a human host. And so the horror begins – a horror which will end the lives of six crew members and alter the life of the seventh forever’ (Carroll & Scott