Blade Runner Dystopian

The city of Los Angeles is not a unified city. Los Angeles consists of too many large sub cities or communities to speak with one voice. There are many sub cities in LA such as the Westside, Hollywood, the Valley, Downtown, and of course, South Central. To make things more difficult, many of these sub cities themselves are not unified. Due to their size, all

“War is peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength”, These are the moral codes and social conventions citizens of George Orwell's 1984 live by. With high level surveillance and publicly inflicted ideologies that promote the governing force puppeteering its nation, 1984 shares shocking similarities with increased security, political power and technology seen in today's world. In the same vein, Ridley Scott's dystopian futuristic thriller Blade Runner, set in an overpopulated, corrupt, corporation governed world can be compared to the world of today in terms of the rapid development in technology and the political influence large corporations can have on governments. Both texts create a futuristic world that is able to form connections with its audience to varying degrees. But how do George Orwell's 1984 and Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner depicted futuristic worlds specifically relate to the audience of today?

The opening of Blade Runner gives a close up of a human eye, a human sensory organ reflecting the toxic panorama of the world the ‘people’ created; a dark and depressing metropolis filled with urban decay. The entirety of the film seems to be falsely lit by the progression of technology, suggesting a hidden dark side to technology; as portrayed by Scott this the unethical production and retirement of Replicants, positioning the audience to view acts such as this as hallmarks of dying society. The portrayal of a city composed of all human creeds and colours similar to cities of today but taller, wider, darker and grittier gives the audience the ability to identify what is important in daily society, and determine whether or not this type of technological advancement is enviable. Scott describes the need for nature; natural sunlight, organisms and fresh air an essential part of society that no technology should have the ability to mask. In each text the sad, predictable futures of protagonists is described to be controlled by the advance of technology.

Through the establishment of setting in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (directors cut), a medium is provided by which the characters and message behind the text can develop by means of various cinematic techniques and diverse settings. Situated in the year 2019, Blade Runner is within the near future, no more than a generation for viewers in both our context, and the context in which it was released (originally 1892 then the directors cut released in 1992). In Blade Runner, the way in which characters engage with their setting acts as a representation of values and

Centered in a dark futuristic L.A. in the year 2019 multimillionaire corporation starts producing genetically modified humans called replicants tasked with doing the hard work in the off world human colonies, so when six of them violently escape and attempt to hide in the city therefore a special task force blade runner Rick Deckard specialized with “terminating” rouge replicants is assign to investigate and

I look to the right of my bed and it’s there; crouching beside me. Its face is pure white and doesn’t resemble skin at all, but a shining porcelain. The monster doesn’t have a mouth - there is just skin running down from the bottom of its nose to its chin. Shielding it’s beady eyes are a pair of raven-black goggles strapped to its bald head. It wears what resembles a completely circular helmet the colour of a neon orange and its hands are covered in tactical gloves, dark as a jet-black night. It wears an amber jumpsuit and stare into my soul. Its wretched face is about five centimetres away from mine and I can feel an ice cold breath creep onto my forehead.The creatures body is hunched over and strange

Postmodernism is a concept that can be defined by many different ideas. This normally ends up with us being led to the idea of a dystopian or utopian future. The movie Blade Runner portrays the idea of a dystopic future through many aspects of the film. For example, using mis-en-scene we can see this through many effects i.e the lighting is very dark alongside the idea of a neon jungle in the crammed streets. It gives us the idea of poverty and the slum type living which is associated with a negative connotation therefore leading us to believe in this idea of a dystopian future. Also under mis-en-scene we see clothing. The people on the ground seem to be wearing quite worn out and messy clothing

In this film the setting is in an dystopian environment. The world has been taken over by a popular Trend “fidget spinners”. This film is part comedy and part dystopian. There is a group of people called vape nation that has a goal to eliminate all fidget spinners and take people out of the zombie state. This film is to demonstrate how society can all be changed by a small Trend and how easily a large amount of people can be influenced by a simple trend. The trend could have negative impacts on the community. For example, a Trend can make a large community of people to change the way they do things and can solve world problems. This can also have a negative impact on society for example a product that people

The result is that the dystopian future becomes a realistic possibility to the audience. This has two effects, in the first it makes the events of the film more plausible. Technological development and the creation of robotic life could eventually occur in our own reality. In this regard, the film is using image as presence by setting up this believable world. However, in the second arena it makes the audience reflect on the questions of urbanity and development that exist in our current paradigm, thus inviting discussion about the way human and planning elements are being merged together in our own technology driven world. These concepts are as relevant now as they were when the film was first released two decades ago. The camera continually roves over this world creating spatial continuity that implies that there is virtually no escape from this smoky, polluted, society. The landscape provides a site for making metaphor about the socioeconomic divide that characterizes the Blade Runner universe. The skyscrapers of the wealthy are clear symbols of how the poor are at the bottom of the socio economic

Literature comes in several formats and genre. The literature works can be genres like physiological, adventure, fiction, nonfiction and much more. And these different kinds of books will have a specific type of setting that fits the type of book it is. In many cases, these works will display a dystopian society. This is a very popular setting, where the story takes place somewhere most people would not wish to live in. These places are dreadful, dull and, in some situations, are unlivable for reasons by which a story would give. Why this setting is so popular has many reasons.

Los Angeles was the first product off the assembly line of American urban planning. Turned on in the late 19th century, the city-making machine was fueled by an immense immigration of people who sought to create a new type of city out of the previously quaint pueblo. They also strove to craft the first major city developed primarily by Americans and outside of European archetypes. As a result, Los Angles is not only incredibly diverse, but also nearly impossible to define. Since it is a product of the American machine, understanding the community of Los Angeles becomes vital to understanding the United States. But to fully comprehend the present Los Angeles, one must look at the process that created it. Specifically, Los Angeles was

Dystopian science fiction films of the past have frequently presented a critical dystopia, by projecting future cities that perpetuates corporate capitalism’s prominent features. Examples of these features are urban decay, commodification, overcrowding, highly skewed disparities of wealth and poverty, and authoritarian policing. An example of a Dystopian science fiction film that project cities that perpetuates

During the 1980’s, the increasing amount of industrialisation brought about a new period in time, the Industrial Revolution. Literally revolutionising the world, the Industrial Revolution changed the way the world was perceived, no longer an agricultural based society but instead one overrun with globalisation and consumerism. Scott portrays this in an overindulged manner, looking at the extreme effects to long time globalisation and consumerism. As depicted in the film, the city is subject to a constant downpour of rain surrounded by numerous skyscrapers that effectively block out the view of

In the novel Another City many of the authors have their own opinions of how Los Angeles is or how it shapes them as a person. Other stories are very short and tell stories of how Los Angeles isn’t as great a place even though we may have people fooled to think so. In the short story Interesting Times the author Judith Lewis tells us about how she adjusted to living in Los Angeles and how she views the city before and after lives there. Whether she felt she didn’t belong, people were too distracted with their own lives, or people were united by tragic events, Los Angeles became her home and a place she lived in interesting times. These themes come up often in the story and are the base of how Lewis feels about Los Angeles as she settles in to the new city.

From the silent epic of Fritz Lang Metropolis 1927 to Ridley’s Scott’s spectacular Blade Runner 1982 the connection between architecture and film has always been intimate. The most apparent concepts that connect these two films are the overall visuals of both films and their vision of city of the future. The futuristic city of both Scott and Lang are distinct in their landscapes, geography, and social structure. These two films sought to envision a future where technology was the basis by which society functioned. Technology was the culture and the cities would crumble without it. Metropolis and Blade Runner uses the themes relationships amongst female sexuality and male vision, and technology. However, Gender roles and technology seems to be the most important part in both films.