Blade Runner Literary Analysis

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What is real? What makes us human? The realm of metaphysics has long been explored by writers of science-fiction, from the 1968 films, 2001: A Space Odyssey and Planet of the Apes, to the ever-popular Star Wars series, beginning with Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope, in 1977. With the resurfacing of the Blade Runner franchise in 2017's Blade Runner 2049, and the increasingly relevant issues it foregrounded, we were all but prompted to revisit its direct precursor and greatest influence, Blade Runner: The Final Cut, at QAGOMA's screening last Friday, the 25th of May. For the uninitiated, Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982) is loosely based on Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, both of which share some common elements. First …show more content…

The removal of these elements is certainly understandable – the sheer difficulty of incorporating a plethora of components from the book that may not achieve desirable results, and the financial issues in procuring the necessary resources and sets justifies these alterations. Nonetheless, the key themes of the novel, most predominantly, the search for humanity by both the humans and the androids, are preserved in this …show more content…

The founder of Tyrell Corporation, Eldon Tyrell, has a larger role in the film, and is characterized as both the modern Prometheus and god-figure of the story, distancing himself from the industrial flames of a hellish Los Angeles, sitting atop pyramid, delving into his morally ambiguous work – the creation of replicants that he proclaims are “more human than human”, which raises questions pertaining to the nature of humanity or lack thereof. The striking performance of Rutger Hauer as Roy Batty, a Nexus-6 model and the leader of the renegade replicants, is particularly memorable. Serving as the Icarus of Blade Runner, Roy Batty seeks to extend the four-year lifespan which was put in place to prevent replicants from developing emotions, suggesting that replicants have a fear of death, contrasting with the idea that they are emotionless shells similar in appearance to

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