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    The adaptation from book to movie changes the population of Earth from underpopulated in the book to overpopulated in the movie. In the book, the majority of the population moved off planet to colonies on Mars because Earth had turned into a radioactive graveyard after “World War Terminus,” which we aren’t given much background on. This changes the feel of the entire story. The sparsely populated landscape of the book gives the story tones of isolation and loneliness. JR Isidore lives in an…

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    Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, or watching “Blade Runner”, the film that was based off of the novel. In a battle of nature vs nurture, it is unquestionably nurture that takes the victory for what makes us human because, even though androids are not genetically human, they think, act, and feel just like a human does; they live life as humans do, does that not make them human themselves? “Blade Runner” gives us contradicting views of androids. Observers perceive them…

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    The stimulus above is a quote from the movie ‘Blade Runner’. The quote above is delivered by a machine called a replicant, a machine that is capable of mimicking a human being. In suggesting that this machine is able to replicate a human in some emotional capacity, the stimulus raises the preliminary question of whether or not we can know what it is like to be a replicant (as it is something that mimics our own behaviours such as in the case of feeling sad)? If we can consider a replicant to be…

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    Frankenstein/Blade Runner In the novel frankenstein and the movie blade runner there are many similarities, smart men playing god, scientists , to much knowledge is dangerous , monsters want to be fixed, and the monsters are slave to owner. Frankenstein In frankenstein, takes place in the 1700’s victor frankenstein creates a ‘monster” or living creature out of found dead body parts in the cementary. The monster is disliked by everyone else and he gets mad and tries to get revenge on his creator…

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    genres can be crossed. The 1982 film Blade Runner is a prime example of a cross-genre film, containing aspects from both the film noir genre to the sub-genre called cyberpunk. Blade Runner takes many of its conventions from film noir, such as its use of a dark urban city, the use of shadows versus light and even the emotions of the characters. Yet, also incorporates the realms of high tech and low-life culture that comes from cyberpunk. Throughout Blade Runner film noir is mixed with the…

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    Neo Noir Vs Blade Runner

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    The Neo-Noir, Science Fiction classic, Blade Runner by Ridley Scott, will evermore remain a motion picture masterpiece. In a world that is torn between humans and replicants, a blade runner must pursue and contend to four replicants who thought it was a fantastic idea to steal a ship in space and return to the captivating Earth to find their creator. Falling between both Neo-Noir and Sci-Fi, Blade Runner provides its audience with exquisite visual environments with just a splash of detail. With…

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    Matthew Maechling Mr. Marsh English III, Period 7 29 April 2016 I did some research for the prompts. Blade Runner Film Response The confrontations with the two irrational beings provides similarity in the film, as shown when Deckard confronts the fugitive rebels and how Victor confronts the demon on the mountain. Both of these encounters are the climax of the novel, and are also the first meetings between the protagonists and rebel-figures. Without a doubt, these similar moments in the film…

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    outlet for many visionaries to contemplate the endless possibilities of technological advances, and how they will impact our world. In this paper, a subgenre of sci-fi, known as cyberpunk, will be defined and related to a postmodern work of film, “Blade Runner” and the book the movie is based on: “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” by Philip K. Dick. These two sci-fi works…

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    Hate often stems from a fear of the “other.” It is easier to disdain for something or someone when it is different from you. In Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein (1818) and Ridley Scott’s science-fiction hit Blade Runner (1982), the “other” is the creature and the replicants. Their non-sexual reproductive origins have made them be branded as “unnatural.” This has forced them onto the fringes of society, to be harshly judged. As a 21st century reader, it calls into question who we push to the…

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    Despite the temporal and contextual disparities between Mary Shelley’s Gothic novel Frankenstein (1818) and Ridley Scott’s science fiction film Blade Runner (1982), both didactic texts analyse man’s hubristic pursuit of knowledge and power at the expense of humanity. The catastrophic outcome of usurping the natural order underscores the composers’ emphasis on retribution as the means to create equilibrium in an unnatural world. Shelley scrutinises the morally chaotic pursuits of the…

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