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Blade Runner Analysis
BLADE RUNNER
A brief overrall analysis
By Gareth Britton
In this essay I shall examine Ridley Scott's 1982 masterpiece, Blade Runner, in terms of its narrative, theme, setting, sound and what I consider to be the film's overrall message.
The movie Blade Runner was scripted in a 1980's style of science-fiction writing known as cyber punk'. The target of cyberpunk writers was dehumanized socities dominated by technology and science, emphasizing the fallibility of scientists. Blade Runner deals with the typical cyberpunk theme: what if we could bring machines to life? What would they be like? Would they be more human' than humans?
The story of Blade Runner is basically as follows. Rick Deckard is one of a select few futuristic law-enforcement officers who have been trained to detect and track down replicants', powerful humanoid robots who have been engineered to do the work of people in space. But the replicants have gone amok. They have started to ask fundamental philosophical questions about their own existence, made all the more urgent by the limited lifespan programmed into them. A desperate band of these killer replicants has made its way to earth, seeking to have there programmes changed. Deckard's assignment is to track down these runaway replicants and terminate them.
The setting in Blade Runner is dark and brooding. The city, perhaps due to its perpetual rain, has a lingering fog and darkness that is penetrated only by the neon street signs and huge video advertisements. Flying cars soar through the city's skies, and people of all races and colors crowd the rainy streets. In the distance, there often rumbles a dark and unknown sound like thunder. From the onset, the music of Vangelis vibrates and rumbles as the viewer is transported to this futuristic city. It is a city in decay, all vestiges of nature having been long since eliminated. Even the...
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