Blade Runner Analysis

With an attempt to define humanity, this essay will discuss the slogan of the Tyrell company ‘more human than human’ from the movie ‘Blade Runner’ directed by Ridley Scott. The connecting ideas of what is real, what is good and whether replicants are more appealing than humans, will also be discussed. Ridley Scott explores the idea of what it means to be human through the main protagonist, Deckard, and the antagonist, Roy Batty. This is done in a futuristic setting, where replicants are controlled and used by humans, to undertake tasks that humans don’t want to do.

The notion what is real and what is not forces us to think deeper about what it means to be human. Replicants look human and act like humans, yet aren’t considered by the audience to be real because they are in fact, robots. As highly developed robots, with artificial intelligence they aren’t considered to have typical ‘human’ mannerisms, such as; abstract thought, free will, emotions, the sensational absence of replicants …show more content…
Roy Batty was considered by Tyrell to be the perfect specimen. The fact that he has blonde hair and blue eyes could be a reference to the historical events of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi ideals. Replicants will do the jobs that no human wants to do, for example war; when human soldiers go to war there is a chance that they won’t come back alive, this brings a sadness not only to the soldier’s family, but to the nation they were fighting for. But if a robot is sent out into war and gets blown up there isn’t sadness because they are considered replaceable and their lives don’t mean as much as a human one does. Replicants were also being used for human enjoyment. J.F. Sebastian is clearly a lonely person as he has been forced to stay on Earth, lonely and mistreated by humanity, having the replicant Pris around him makes him feel happy and not as alone. Therefore, making the replicants more appealing then