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| Topic Started: May 18 2008, 05:29 PM (46 Views) | |
| Chukchi Husky | May 18 2008, 05:29 PM Post #1 |
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I got Blade Runner: The Final Cut recently. If you don't know the film (I been told it's obscure), it's based on the novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard. The basic plotline is that in 2019, technology has advanced far enough to create replicants, basically genetically engineered humans with a four year lifespan created as slaves and illegal on Earth, come to Los Angeles to find a way to cure their short lifespan, and Rick Deckard is a Blade Runner, a detective who's job is to find out who is a replicant and "retire" (kill) them. One surprising thing about the film is that, since it originally came out in 1982, reality has come closer to the future world of 2019 presented in the film, especially places like Hong Kong. The future Los Angeles of 2019 is shown to be a dark, polluted and almost constantly raining, with large almost futuristic style skyscrapers, retrofitted old buildings, adverts everywhere (including a large spaceship like zeppelin), and the city crowded with a large multicultural population with a lot of Eastern influence. It's assumed the environment is a mess because of the extreme rarity of animals. Philip K. Dick said that the look of the film is exactly what he imagined when he wrote the novel. The look is also partially inspired by Teeside in Northern England. One thing that the film questions is what makes someone human and how can you know if you are human, even going as far as questioning if Deckard is human. |
I beg for my tummy to be scratched... 
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