Blade Runner Film Techniques

Blade Runner

Based on the 1968 novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? written by Philip K. Dick, Blade Runner, a science fiction/ thriller film puts a new spin on the novel. This film follows Richard Deckard (portrayed by Harrison Ford) who has to hunt and retire replicants, who are robots with more human than human attributes. Blade Runner is directed by Ridley Scott, this movie uses different elements of cinematography such as lighting, sound, film noir and camera angles to show the audience the magnified faults and shortcomings in our society, which is the pollution and discrimination against women and lower class people in the Blade Runner dystopian world.

Blade Runner is definite example of Film noir. Film noir is a style of film about dark crime films made between 1944-1954. The films are mainly shot in blacks, whites and greys. The settings often dark and gloomy appearances. Scott uses the idea of film noir to show all the pollution throughout Blade Runner. This dystopian world is rid off all plant, animals and anything that would make earth seems natural. There is lots of pollution in today's smog filled Los Angles. The sky is constantly dark, filled with the smoke from cigarettes, the audience only ever

Most of the people living on earth are sad and live in poverty. The lighting in Blade Runner shows the discrimination of lower class people in Blade Runner, and how they are treated with less respect than other humans. From the first scene of blade Runner the audience can see that this is a dark movie. The low lighting of the futuristic L.A makes the city seems mysterious and dangerous. Most of the movie is dark because the people are shown as shadows, forgotten about. The brightest part of the film is when the sun shines over the Tyrell corporation, this is shown that Tyrell has power over the rest of the off-world and the replicants and he is seen as a