Blade Runner


When I first heard about Blade Runner, it was because of the trailer for the sequel. I didn't know much about the original except for the fact that Harrison Ford is the star. After watching it, I found myself enjoying it and seeing symbolism within the movie. 

The movie is based on the short story about Phillip K. Dick. It was originally called Do Androids Dream of Sleep? He also wrote many other books including The Man in the High Castle and Ubik. He had many influences on his stories. One of the biggest ones is H.G. Wells, who is known for his concepts of science fiction including time machines and space travel. His most well-known work is The. Time Machine and War of the Worlds. Most of his works dealt with criticism of society and also predicted many technologies that would come after his death.

Phillip K. Dick adds commentary on limited time and identity in the story and Ridley Scott continues it in his movie, Blade Runner. The movie discusses the identity of the replicants and their limited time on earth. Despite them being robots, we can find ourselves in the anti-heroes of the movie. 

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Notes:

Blade Runner was released in 1982 and stars Harrison Ford

Directed by Ridley Scott

Pay attention to the landscape of the futuristic city

Replicant 

  • Robots identical to humans

  • Declared illegal

  • Blade Runner Unit killed them

    • Retirement, not execution 

Los Angeles is very dark and a lot is on fire 

This is set in 2019

Tyrell Corp. created the replicant and is now testing to see if anyone around them are replicant

Giant billboards, and flying cars, Los Angeles is very Asian influenced

  • Maybe it is set in China Town

Off-World

  • Where the replicants live

Very Metropolis 

Normal clothes despite being the future

Leon

  • He snuck into the company of other 

  • 2017

Roy Batty

  • The leader of the replicants sneaking into the company

They might develop a human response

Nexus 6

They have their own set of questions in order to figure out if they are replicants or not

Everyone speaks a different language 

Racheal

  • Retire = kill

  • Her hair reminds me of victory rolls

Rachael is a replicant

  • She doesn’t know that she is one

  • She is an experiment 

  • They are given implanted memories in order to make them more human

The guy knows that they are replicants

“If only I can see in your eyes”

Racheal

  • All of her memories are from Tyrell’s niece

The replicants went against the Tyrell company because they wanted longer lifespans

  • The average lifespan was 4 years

Pris

  • The basic pleasure model

  • Meets J.F. Sebastian (the main person Roy is looking for)

A constant ad about the Other World fly over the city and is constantly shown throughout the movie

J.F. makes his own friends at his house and takes Pris there

A unicorn?

He has a photo scanner zooming into the photo to figure out who it is

  • Enhance, move in, pull out, and track right 

The evidence shows that the sample from the hotel is a snake sample

  • It was manufactured locally

  • There was a serial number in the sample

In the original story, it was set in San Francisco

  • I wonder why they changed

He enters a club of some sort 

Chinatown is its own separate thing

  • Why make this set in a futuristic Chinatown

I think therefore I am 

There’s a little bit of me in you

A common theme in these sci-fi movies: is technology going against humans (especially their maker)

Ray Bradbury

  • Author of Farenheit 451

Dove flew out of Roy’s hand

  • Signifying his death and being at peace with it

Deckard soon sympathizes with Roy as soon as he dies

Roy saves him from his death

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Project and Creative Process

First, we met together and talk about the movie. We all brought up something from the movie that had to do with the movie. We mostly focused on space and robots. 

Here is the list we came up together



Then, the hurricane came and we had a change in plans. We still kept in touch about the collage. Jillian started to construct the collage and even organized it. 

Lastly, we met and we finished the collage. I painted some of the things including Orion’s belt and the dove. I created the snake scales with the serial number. Alivia created different origami on the collage, which was a paper crane and a unicorn. 

Below is the final result: 

 







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