BLADE RUNNER!!

1. Blade Runner is best known for its cyberpunk mise en scene (design aspects of the film): the incredibly dense texture of its shots. Watch very carefully and describe the 2020 culture the movie suggests visually.

The scenery of the movie Blade Runner is dark and ominous, and it is raining through out the entirety of the movie. the opening scene of the movie is an over head view of Los Angles in the year 2020. As the camera flies over the city there are massive fire balls exploding out of what appears to be factories. These fire balls are clearly releasing toxins into the air there for causing a great deal of smog that polutes the air. Hence why it is constantly raining and always dark. In this sense the director wanted to portray 2020 to be a dark, poluted, and toxin infested time period.


2. A moral message of the movie is that it was wrong to enslave the replicants and use them as forced labor since they were so human-like in both appearance and thought process. What would need to be different about replicants in order for us to feel that it was OK to use them for labor?

What would need to happen is the replacants would have to be made to look more machanical, or more robot like. Once the creators built them to look and act like humans the creators took the role of God. It does not matter what religion you belong to, there is and only ever will be one God.


3. Pulling in our current topics of Order and Chaos “The Self Among Others” what kind of economy does the 2020 world live in? Give examples of imagery or quotes to support your opinion.

The economy of 2020 appeared to be broken into two parts, either very rich or very poor. This reference is suggested when the camera focuses on these massive building that look complex and expensive to live in. However when the camera is on ground level the city is congested, dirty, and not well maintained. There for explaining to the audience in 2020 the economy of the United States is not going to have a middle man. Only Upper and Lower classes.