Blade Runner

Have you ever seen the movie Blade Runner written by Ridley Scott or read the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelly? Well if you have read one of them amazing stories then you will know what I am going to talk about. I am going to talk about how those two stories are so much alike. In both of these stories there is a monster that is considered unacceptable by our “normal” social standards; they are deemed outcasts by the people who are hunting for them. People are afraid of the monsters unnatural…

Ridley Scott’s 1982 film Blade Runner is an endlessly fascinating film to dissect. The film while not popular upon it’s initial release has grown a huge following over the years and has captured the minds of filmmakers, students and scholars alike. Even Sir Ridley Scott himself couldn’t stay away from his film as over the last thirty years he has tinkered with and fine tuned his film into what is now known as “The Final Cut”. The 1982 theatrical cut of the film and the subsequent 2007 release of…

and Ridley Scott’s 1982 movie, Blade Runner, explore the idea of the living computer by showing their ability to have independent thought and human like qualities. Being able to develop a personality by using one 's own thought is key to proving…

Blade runner is a science fiction film about the future, in this futuristic scenario there are robots called replicants, these are visually indistinguishable from humans, and are exclusively used for menial or dangerous work on off-world colonies. Replicants are banned from earth, if one of them managed his way to earth, blade runners will be sent to hunt them and then retire (kill) them. Deckard, who is a blade runner, has the mission to retire four replicants who have got to earth to find a…

Blade Runner the 1982 movie directed by Ridley Scott and I Robot the 2004 movie directed by Alex Proyas, show how two movies in the same genre of science fiction can explore similar and different themes. The shared themes of creator turning on the creation, technology and the implications on the future and Morality are explored in both the movies, however through stylistic features, plots and dialogue, the films vary from each other. Blade Runner with its dystopian and philosophic charm follows…

placed director Ridley Scott’s 1982 neo-noir film Blade Runner a well-deserved second on its neo-noir ‘best list’. In order to support this opinion this critique will analyse Blade Runner’s production design, iconographic and symbolic image conventions, whilst also undertaking a mise-en-scene analysis of the films image-based neo-noir conventions and associated codes to conclude that Blade Runner does deserve to be on Watchmojo’s ‘best list’. Blade Runner (1982) directed by Ridley Scott is a…

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…

In the Blade Runner, Tyrell says "More human than human" to Deckard. When thinking of humanity many things may come to mind. The meaning of “human” is their ability to reason and grow as a thinker. This is due to the evolution of our brains and their ability to reach different levels of intellect. The big question here is, what does it means to be human? The word “human being” has many definitions; to be human you will need to have anatomical and biological qualities. Which means as humans we…

these are the confronting dystopian worlds represented in Ridley Scott’s compelling and evocative film, Blade Runner, originally released in the 1980’s and Steve Cutts thought provoking short film entitled Happiness, released in 2017 which both successfully establish a relationship between their purpose, context and the audience. Purpose: Throughout their images,…

In what ways can a reading of Blade Runner be justified within the terms – theoretical, historical and aesthetic – of ‘science fiction cinema’? The science fiction genre is difficult to define within a set of conventions. However, through various subgenres and from exploring theoretic ideas, it is evident that Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982) fits into the umbrella term of science fiction. The advanced technology of a futuristic society is presented through the creation of the Nexus 6…