Who Is Rick Deckard's Blade Runner?

The movie I chose was Sling blade. I chose this movie partly because of the story line, and partly because of the langauge. It's a story about a guy named Karl Childers (the main character), a mentally challanged fellow who has been in a mental institution since he was a child of 12 years old for the murder of his mother and her lover. This movie starts at the mental institution where Karl has lived for the past 20 years.

Blade Runner, the classic sci-fi noir movie by Hampton Fincher and David Peoples, is a futuristic perspective on slavery, humanity, and the rights of thinking beings. In the movie, Deckard, a blade runner and the main character of the story, hunts down Nexus 6 replicants: androids imposed with superhuman strength and nearly human intelligence who have gone rogue (2, 10). These androids are given a four-year lifespan to prevent them from developing human emotions which way throughout the movie to further complicate the balance between androids and humans (6). Throughout the movie, the line between humanity and inhumanity becomes thinner and better, causing problems for Deckard and Tyrell Corporation. In its entirety, Blade Runner is attempting to get the audience to decide whether replicants deserve the same freedom and rights as humans. To help the audience in their decision, the movie proved information about the supposedly "inhumane" replicants and their human creators.

Scott’s Blade Runner demonstrates a world that neglects nature in order to accomplish technological and scientific advancements, which has instigated irreversible consequences on the environment. the opening panoramic shot of blazing smokestacks which, together with the haunting synthetic pulses , give the viewer a technological overload, adding further to the film’s nightmarish dystopian tones. This then portrays the notion of unrestrained economic freedom through the focus on consumerism as an insidious form of oppression. Advertising slogans are repeated throughout the film to creates a constant

"Blade Runner" made its smashing entrance into the world in 1982 and quickly gained a cult following with its depiction of a bleak future consisting of

Blade Runner has aspects of a number of genre’s, but ultimately, the two genre’s that are most portrayed through the setting, characters and plot of the movie are Science Fiction and Crime Fiction.

Released in 1980, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back is by far one of my favorite movies of all time. A definite classic in many regards, I often credit The Empire Strikes Back as the form of art that sparked my imagination, thus implanting my adolescent self with the undying desire to create.

"Follow the yellow brick road" - The Wizard of Oz. Although society is more familiar with the 1939 version it was in fact the fifth remake of the 1910 silent film. In fact the original film was actually based off of a 1902 stage musical of the same content which was based off of the original book written by Lyman Frank Baum. The release of the movies 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ' and 'Oz the Great and Powerful ' is a 103 years difference. In that amount of time this movie has been remade 57 times and counting. Even though the newer version of the Wizard of Oz isn 't a remake of the original it 's more of a prequel , both the original and the new version were interesting as you get a different perspective because the focus was on different aspects, the techniques used were drastically different and the characters play roles that are unexpected.

place in Los Angeles in the year 2019. It is based on a futuristic situation where a company has created an advance synthetic human form referred to as replicants. The replicants look identical to regular humans, however they are faster, stronger, and more agile. Their intelligence is equal to if not more superior to humans. The replicants were sent to the off world and used to further space exploration and used as slaves. When a revolt of the replicants took place it was determined that they would no longer be able to return to earth. A police task force called the Blade Runners was established to retire (execute) any replicant

It opposes the values of love, empathy and community with the innovative forms of technology and social life under advanced capitalism. The binary opposition between man and technology is represented by three characters in the plot: Deckard, apparently a human. Roy, an android who fears death and longs to be human and Rachel, who thinks she is human and who enters a relationship with a human. These replicants represent capitalism’s oppressive characteristics and also to a certain extent the rebellion against exploitation. Deckard's realization of how the Tyrell Corporation exploits him, and the rebellion of the replicants against their oppressors, is the ultimate critique of capitalism. Since both sides — killer and killed — reject their status as servants of the corporation and refuse further exploitation. (Kellner, et all) The corporation in the Blade Runner that is used to illustrate capitalism’s destructive characteristics is The Tyrell Coporation. The Tyrell Corporation invents replicants to have a controllable labor force that will perform difficult and dangerous tasks. Similarly applicable to today, where capitalism turns individuals into machines that have only the function of productivity. Ironically, the replicants form a human rebellion; while the actual human characters in the film seem to submit to corporate domination and live a life like the corporations sees them to. It seems as if the humans have become so dehumanized that the replicants form a rebellion against their oppressor instead of human beings. Capitalism has dehumanized the population to such an extent, that technology is actually more

‘Blade Runner’, the film adaption, directed by Ridley Scott in 1982, of the 1968 novel ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ by Philip K. Dick. This essay will explore the meaning of the Tyrell slogan “More human than human” by following Deckard on Earth in Los Angeles 2019 as a futuristic, dark and depressing industrial metropolis by looking into and discussing what is real and what is not, the good and the bad and why replicants are more appealing than humans. This essay will analyse and pull apart the “Blade Runner’ world, the condition of humanity and what it really means to be human.

The original Blade Runner is a 1982 film directed by Ridley Scott, depicting the future of life in Los Angeles in 2019. A company called the Tyrell Corporation has created a line of intelligent androids, known as replicants, who are virtually identical to human beings and are titled as the Nexus series. These replicants are only used on off-world colonies for fighting and working in extreme working conditions on the other planets. The replicants are declared illegal on Earth after a mutiny by Nexus-6 models in an off-world colony. Four of the Nexus-6 model replicants have managed to get access to Earth. The story focuses on Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), who is part of a special police squad known as blade runners, whose task is to hunt down and “retire” (kill) any replicants on Earth.

This can be observed through Blade Runner’s hero Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) who struggles throughout the film to remember his past. A retired detective, Deckard was specialized in tracking down and destroying human replicants who attempt to live on earth. In 2019 the power of human replication has reached a new peak with the NEXUS 6; replicants that are far more advanced than their predecessors. They are stronger and more specialized than real humans because they are sent to off-world colonies as slave laborers. Deckard the best blade runner in Los Angeles is asked to return to duty a final time to find four NEXUS 6 replicants; Leon, Roy, Zhora and Pris, that returned to earth on a high jacked space shuttle. The replicants leader Roy wants to meet the designer of the replicants Elden

Nonetheless, I chose the film Arrival. The story plot focuses on the premises of humanity and aliens, trying to establish communication with each other and the perception of time. I find Arrival to be a fascinating film because it’s truly a mind blowing and well composed movie. It’s a very complex story and keeps the audience on the edge of their seats. However, Arrival can be interpreted in many ways.

Blade Runner became a cult classic. “The film may have survived long enough to benefit from a renewed taste for darker, more violent sci-fi. It’s appeal has less to do with a fascination for outer space (which does not feature beyond reference in a few lines of dialogue) than with a vision of earth and humankind in the near future” (Roberts and Wallis Pg 157-8). Both films have a timeless quality to it, as they are representative of the future of our planet earth. I find it so interesting that even though these films were made in different times their ideas about the futuristic city and society are almost identical.

Blade Runner is a fast thriller movie a race to find the robots who are running out of time to find the Dr. who created them. The Blade Runner film was in 1982 where is based upon the