Analysis of Blade Runner by Ridley Scott
Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott and based on Philip K. Dick's
novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, is a Sci-fi slash Noir film
about a policeman named Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) in a decrepit
2019 Los Angeles whose job it is to "retire" four genetically
engineered cyborgs, known as "Replicants". The four fugitives, Pris
(Daryl Hannah), Zhora (Joanna Cassidy), Leon (Brian James), and their
leader, Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer), have escaped from an off-world
colony in order to find their creator and bully him into expanding
their pre-determined four-year life span. This film originally flopped
when it came out in 1982, but since has become a widely acclaimed cult
classic with a director's cut to boot. A large part of the success
that this movie has received can be attributed to its ability to
operate on many different levels.
Blade Runner focuses around the adventures of Rick Deckard, a bounty
hunter, whose prey are the replicants, androids who are virtually
indistinguishable from humans. The story is set in downtown Los
Angeles, in the year 2019. This is a post nuclear holocaust world,
where the sun is darkened by the fallout and acid rain continually
falls. Six replicants of the Nexus 6 generation, the most advanced,
have escaped from their off-world colony, where they were being used
as slave labor. The leader of the replicants, Roy Batty, is on a
mission to find more life for himself and the others, for they only
have a four year life span and are on the verge of death. Roy is a
military style replicant, so he has killed many people in
inter-galactic wars and continues to ki...
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...s out. "Should the replicants kill to
gain moral life? Should Harrison Ford be killing them simply because
they want to exist? These questions begin to tangle up Deckard's
thinking…especially when he becomes involved with a female replicant
himself."
The ultimate relevance of Blade Runner lies in its challenge of what
it must mean to be human. It raises the eternal gnawing doubt as to
our own humanity or lack of it. These are the same issues raised by
the great religions and philosophies of the past. And it goes to how
we respond to the pain of those around us. Do we reach for the one
downed by the crushing perplexity of modernity or do we merely pass
by, forgetting about that grizzled human lying on the sidewalk who is
drowning in the gutter created by the disintegrating and dehumanising
post-modern existence?
I'd be working in a place like this if I could afford a real snake?"
Saving Private Ryan starts out on June 6, 1944, which marks the beginning of the invasion of Normandy, in World War II. As learned early on four brothers from the Ryan family all go out to serve the United States, and in action three of the four are killed. This story follows a group of soldiers on their journey as they search for, the last surviving of the Ryan brothers, Private First Class James Ryan, and send him home. World War II is the deadliest and most extensive war in history that lasted six years. In World War II there were battles fought and rescue missions that took place, and the US Military showed their bravery as they went in to fight for our country.
One of the most important existentialist to ever live was a man named Søren Kierkegaard. Kierkegaard believed that “truth is subjective and subjectivity is truth,” meaning that a variety of people can look at the same exact situation, and still comprehend it differently. Another well known existentialist is a man named Martin Heidegger. Heidegger believed that there are two types of people in this world, those who are a “Beings In The World” and those who are “Beings Towards Death” Their ideas are seen throughout the movie "Blade Runner" numerous times. Blade Runner is set in the year 2019, during a time where Los Angeles has become engulfed in urban decay, depression and darkness. In the beginning of the film we are introduced to Rick Deckard,
...ch somehow we all bear complicity, and with both joy and trouble intensifed by love, linking us to others who share in the human condition.
The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, dives into the life of a boy living in Afghanistan before and after its downfall. Amir lives with his father, Baba, and they have two servants that live in a shack at their house. Baba is known throughout the land as a high ranking citizen who has accomplished much good in his life. Ali and Hassan, the servants are also like family to Baba and Amir. Hassan and Amir fed from the same breasts and have grown up entirely together. Rahim Khan and Baba usually converse about life together daily. Many struggles and conflicts continually bring the four characters together and recurringly push them apart. Amir has to make many crucial decisions as the protagonist in the story. Amir endures many hardships throughout
In the book The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, Amir and Baba struggle to find a way to bring their relationship closer. They try to bond, but these childish activities do not mature Amir in the way Baba wants. Baba yearns for Amir to grow up and stand up for himself and for others. Amir finally learns how to be a man by taking the examples Baba has modeled in Afghanistan and applying them in America.
Since September 11, 2001, the Western world’s view of the Middle East, specifically countries like Iraq or Afghanistan, has shifted drastically. Whenever the media portrays the Middle East, they manage to spin a story negatively or violently. Due to these extrinsic influences, the youngest generation of Americans has never known an America that did not express at least some hatred toward certain parts of the Eastern world. Novels like The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini strive to encourage a healthy interest in Afghanistan and the Middle East while breaking the stereotypes that westerners have come to accept as fact about the culture and religion of Afghanistan. Hosseini manages to conjure a universal story line with relatable characters that introduce the world to the everyday people of postcolonial Afghanistan. On a grander scale, in The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini utilizes his own life experiences alongside his firsthand account of the contemporary history of Afghanistan to craft a novel that breaks down these negative stereotypes and offers a significant contribution to Afghan American literature.
Nicole Hendricks USP 107 Final IDs Professor James Ingram. “Empire Strikes Back” Mayors Source: Lecture 18 Meaning: An “Empire Strikes Back” mayor refers to the white republican mayor that often times comes into office following a minority mayor. In cases such as the “Empire Strikes Back” mayor, the minority mayor has failed to hold forth to the issues that he intended to solve upon being elected. The minority mayor was elected in order to improve racial tensions. Yet, the minority mayor must somewhat “dilute” his stance in order to appeal to multiple ethnicities, rather than just his.
...g detail of its execution." (pg 219). Roy expresses to Tyrell that he has done undesirable things during his life that were caused because of his desire to live longer than his allotted four years.
...om dried blood, rendering himself incapable of communicating. This forced Roy to spit in the doctor's face, to show he was alive.15 The doctor ensured that Roy would survive, and after a year of rehabilitation he returned to work, stationed in Fort Riley until a transfer to Fort Sam Houston in 1972, where he continued to serve his career until retirement on September 10, 1976.16
Blade Runner is exemplified as a dystopia that predicts a future city that sustains corporate capitalism’s worst features, such as urban decay, extreme gaps between wealth and poverty, and authoritative police work. The film depicts an urban city that, due to capitalism, coalesced into a polluted, overpopulated city controlled by monopolies.
Over the years Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner has become a cult classic in the science fiction and film noir genre. The film covers a wide variety of reoccurring themes and motifs throughout the entire film, such as the most noticeable ones like the reoccurring eyes representing the window to the soul and the origami figures symbolizing artificial representation. While those motifs are on the surface and are relatively noticeable to the first time viewer, other themes are not so obvious and won’t appear until reviewing the movie over several times. As one begins to break down Blade Runner from scene to scene, they will discover these larger underlining themes seamlessly woven into the mise en scene
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is a novel based in Afghanistan that shows the betrayal between two boys with two different social backgrounds. Four years later “The Kite Runner” was filmed by David Benioff, which shows the meaningful message that the book delivers in a movie. Throughout the book and movie, Amir the protagonist must live the rest of his life with guilt from his childhood. Although the movie gave the same meaningful message that the book delivered, the book was further developed, which had more detail and kept the readers wanting more. Ultimately these details that were present in the novel gave the readers a better understanding of the characters, which led to the relationships
Alex Garland’s movie, Ex Machina, seems to be another fantasy based film where humans create machines that are able to behaves as humans, but this film looks beyond behavior and into deeper concepts such as control of the mind and not just the body. A scene that displays this idea is when Caleb slashes into his arm and begins to push the blood out to ensure that he is still human and not a machine. Throughout this movie, especially in this particular scene, demonstrates main interaction with a robot, which then leads to minimal human interaction and sleepless nights. While this scene could have just been for attention or to add dramatic effect to the movie, but seeing the scene through a different perspective of other intellectual minds,
Interstellar, directed by Christopher Nolan, was a very complex and interesting sci-fi movie. This movie in particular has a lot of factors playing into the movie. Everyone is able to find their favorite part about the movie, and various people can watch this movie and connect with it. This movie came out in 2014, and shocked millions of people by its intense ending. Interstellar was awarded for best visual effects, and then nominated for many other things including, best original score, best sound mixing, and best sound effects which played a huge role in making the movie. The image and sound complement each other, but I thought that image dominated over sound because there were so many silent moments throughout the movie. I thought the plot