Blade

We have all been in the same spot: our favorite book gets its chance on the big screen. The anticipation builds up as trailers are released and small bits of this fictional world is revealed, but when we go to see it, we see that the movie is in fact nothing like the book. They have changed some important details or just left entire facts out. Those changes can result in an overall tone shift from the book to the movie. All of a sudden, a character who was the lowly underdog is transformed into…

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…

Mistress, 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…

Thornton’s Sling Blade is a brilliant Academy Award winning film that he not only directed himself, but was also the star actor. The movie was released in November of 1996 by Miramax Films, an American company known for independent and foreign films.1 Some other famous cast member includes country star Dwight Yoakam, and J.T. Walsh known from the film A Few Good Men. Sling Blade was an expansion of the short film that Billy had previously created called “Some Folks Call it a Sling Blade”…

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…

According to the chart below the Hardaway is 12,000 years old (Office of State Archaeology). The Hardaway was a thin side notch point 1 to 2 inches long (“Hardaway Cluster”). The Hardaway has a straight blade, but their have been some found in the past with a curved blade (“Hardaway Cluster).“This point is primarily found southern Virginia and into Mississippi” (“Hardaway Cluster”). This demonstrates how old the Hadaway is, what they look like and where the are found. Later leading…

Mikatsuki Blade made by Sanjo Kokaji Munechika By the Heian period (794-1185), Japan had become well renowned among the neighboring nations for its swordsmiths. Though for most of history prior, China had been the main producer of swords (and pretty much everything else) Japan had managed to make a name for itself by innovating on Chinese designs. Several swordsmith guilds appeared throughout the Heian period and were very wealthy and influential. One of those guilds was started by a man named…