Directed by Ridley Scott
USA 1982
Blade Runner opens in Los Angeles in the future world and the robot city in The Matrix Revolutions. Fireballs are burning everywhere. The whole city looks like it has never seen the sun before, and the neon language in foreign languages. Rainbow Billboard, a somewhat exotic and dangerous city center is crowded with immigrant residents. This situation makes people wonder whether every director of science fiction film happens to have the same vision of the future. But Blade Runner does not need any explanation for these ingenious collaborations. It is the beginning of all science fiction movies, before David Lynch's Dune, and before many other terrible changes to Philip K Dick's wonderful novels.
Director Ridley Scott's adaptation of the original film based on ("Do robots dream of electronic sheep?") is not at all formal. His added fuel to the storyline makes the tracking and killing of Blade Runner even more thrilling. And the main character of the story has also changed from the killer Rick to the chased clone (also as a robot). Thanks to the unparalleled imagery and performance in the film, these changes have allowed the entire film to rise from the original allegory theme to the state of being crazy infatuated by the audience. The "sympathy" that the neurotic Roy Batty suddenly inspires before his death in the story is simply the most memorable scene in the history of science fiction. Chess lovers should look at the story behind Tyrell and Sebastian’s game [1].
Industrial and electronic music lovers will hear a lot of familiar dialogues in the movie. After everyone has watched, liked or hated this movie, it has become the most cited original soundtrack [2]. The band Covenant even wrote a song called "Like Tears in the Rain" to commemorate the famous "It's Time to Die" scene.
The tragic atmosphere surrounding the movie's protagonists is also a Frankenstein contradiction that can trigger a long debate. Like all lives created by humans, robots are either too dissatisfied with themselves or want more "life" so much that they have to kill their creators. Blade Runner's own work is also a dilemma. Although he is a human who should pass the "test of sentiment", he must be very determined to kill a robot that looks similar to him. Perhaps only a new generation of robots like Rachael, because they are born with "memories", can have normal feelings and live the same lives as humans. But in the movie, she also failed the "Affection Test", "It's a pity that she can't live anymore, but who can?"
[1] http://www.brmovie.com/FAQs/BR_FAQ_Themes.htm# Chess
[2] http://www.sloth.org/samples-bin/samples/source?exact=Blade+Runner
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