Essays on Blade Runner

Blade Runner was originally released in 1982, it is a movie with hybrid genre, which combines both film noir and science fiction. Hybridization in general is considered as a post-modern behavior, as we will see in details, Blade Runner is also introducing a hybrid architectural design of future Los Angeles in the year of 2019,...

Directed by Ridley Scott, the original Blade Runner (1982) portrays a futuristic, dystopian society in its science fiction and neo noir genre touches. The film is best categorized as future noir or sci-fi noir, a genre at the intersection of cyberpunk-styled near-future science fiction and film noir visuals. The genre emerged in the 1980s and...

The major ideas of a film are changed by its contents. Philp. K. Dick’s neo nior film “Blade Runner” (1982) provides us with an insight into the world of a blade runner narrated by the main character Rick Deckard. Throughout the movie Deckard expresses a profound distaste for replicants based off a deeply rooted fear...

Blade Runner is a sci-fi film in which society has withered into a bleak and dystopian world filled with a labyrinth of weaving streets that intertwine between dilapidated skyscrapers and towering buildings. The dark and rainy citadel is lit by flashy neon lights that set a deep and futuristic mood for the audience. The films...

The dystopian novel 1984 by George Orwell and the 1982 science-fiction film Blade Runner directed by Ridley Scott challenge their audiences to dissect what it means to be human. Orwell and Scott present their ideas through the internal conflict of their protagonists and their external conflict against a totalitarian government and a world ruled by...

Khaled Hosseini in The Kite Runner and Ridley Scott in Blade Runner explore the notion of what it means to be human through the juxtaposition of a reluctant, flawed protagonist and an antagonist. Both authors use characterisation and setting to portray their respective antagonists as both evil and in the case of Blade Runner, morally...

“it has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity” · Albert Einstein Science, so often do we depict it as a noble and righteous pursuit. In fact, we humans strongly worship the desire to exceed past the boundaries of the knowledge and possibilities that we possess. However, keeping in mind the fact...

With science progressing and playing with genetics, people are now able to choose the sex of their babies. Perhaps in the future we can create human beings that are genetically modified making them physically stronger and more intelligent. This can be beneficial if you happen to have diseases or faulty genes in your bloodline but...

We all want to live forever. Ever since the dawn of language, humans have idolised the notion of immortality. We embody eternity through the divine, the supernatural, and now technology. Facebook now allows for the post-mortem memorialisation of pages, and other start-like Dead Social enable you to assign a digital executor to post a pre-prepared...

How Frankenstein and Blade Runner hint to a collapsed society in the face of a lack of compassion. What does it really mean to be human? With the recent outbreak of the Corona Virus, this question has absorbed me. While we have been uplifted by the large-scale efforts to combat the virus, it has also...