"Blade Runner": From bad reviews to the supreme classic
Jiang Xiaoyuan
said that there has never been a film, like "Blade Runner" (Blade Runner, 1982). Qi Yu: At the beginning of the show, there was a wave of bad reviews, neither crowded nor applauded. Even Harrison Ford, who played the leading role, was not proud of starring in this movie. However, in the next quarter of a century, the reputation of "Blade Runner" changed from evil to good, and then soared, becoming a high-status classic in science fiction films. In 2004, the British "Guardian" organized 60 scientists to select " Among the ten outstanding science fiction films in history, it ranked first by absolute advantage. Nowadays, people who talk about science fiction films, when they talk about "Blade Runner," they usually stop watching.
It is said that "Blade Runner" has already had 7 different versions, and the most anticipated one is the latest version of the newly released director Scott's "appointed"-it will soon be available for the majority of Chinese movie fans.
In fact, the storyline of "Blade Runner" is not complicated. What is complicated is the interpretation of these plots.
After another world war, the earth's environment is in shattered condition. Human beings have gone to outer space to colonize, and the future of those who remain on Earth is dim. Los Angeles in 2019 is rainy and dark.
At that time, humans had mastered the technology of "replicators" (Android). The replicators developed by Tyrell-they were copied by the elite of human beings, but they only had a life span of four years, and they were automatically scrapped as soon as the four years arrived-constantly updated. , By the time of the Nexus-6 type, even if these clones were placed among human beings, they were already out of the ordinary and outstanding. All of them were handsome men and beautiful women, and they had extremely high comprehensive abilities and qualities. But even if they are so good, they still don't have human rights. Replicators are used for high-risk tasks that humans do not want to do personally, such as space exploration or colonization missions on other planets.
But since the cloners are so good, they can't be willing to be in a position of being enslaved for a long time, and rebellion finally appeared. The human government declared that the copying person was illegal and established a special police agency to kill the copying person. The killer employed by the agency is called the "Blade Runner", and Harrison Ford's actor, Rick Deckard, is a former blade runner who has already washed his hands.
At the beginning of the film's story, the police chief asked Dikar to come out again, because there are still four remnants of copiers, who are old and cunning, and are still at large. So in the dilapidated Los Angeles city, Dicastal began to pursue and kill the four clones with all his strength. While the clones are being hunted down, they are seeking another goal-to extend their own lives. The best cloner Roy Batty (Roy Batty) found the designer of the cloner, Dr. Tyrell, but the doctor couldn't extend the life of the cloner. Batty killed the doctor in despair.
In the process of hunting down the four clones, Dika killed two of them, but fell in love with the other-the female clone Rachael, the beautiful secretary of the Tyrell company boss. Dika became more and more confused about his mission. In the end, when he was in a duel with Batty, he was almost vulnerable and completely at a disadvantage. At this time, Batty was on his deathbed (because his four-year life span was about to expire). Instead of letting Di Ka "back up", he rescued Di Ka, and died after saying the famous last words. The reason why the last words is famous is that no one can explain it to this day. Finally, Dika and Rachel left, knowing where they ended up.
"Blade Runner" is based on Philip Dick's novel "Do Replicants Dream of Electronic Sheep?" "(Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep?) adapted. When it comes to Dick’s science fiction novels, I really have to be awe-inspiring. At the moment, I think of at least five famous science fiction films based on his novels: "Blade Runner" and "Universal Veyron" (Total Recall, 1990), Minority Report (2002), Memory Crack (Paycheck, 2003), A Scanner Darkly (2006).
Regarding "Blade Runner", Dick once said: "In my opinion, the theme of this story is that Dicastal is increasingly dehumanizing in the process of hunting down the clone, while at the same time, the clone gradually reveals a more human nature. One side. Finally, Dika must ask himself: What am I doing? What is the essential difference between me and them? If there is no difference, then who am I?" This passage leads us directly to the movie "Blade Runner" Among the most difficult problems-if there is even a specious explanation for all other problems about the film, then for this problem, after arguing for a quarter of a century, there is still no consensus answer. .
Since the day "Blade Runner" was released, people have been arguing about a question: Is Dikar himself a copy? There are of course "yes" and "no" two answers. Each of the two parties has many reasons to support themselves, some of which are quite powerful.
The important reasons for supporting Dicastal as a cloner include:
1. Dicastal’s "Unicorn Dream", which implies that Dicastal’s memory is implanted (each copyist needs to implant a memory in order to There is a "past life and this life");
2. When Dika told Rachel that he would not kill her, red light flashed in her eyes (red light only flashes in the eyes of the copying person);
3. The chief of police said to Dika: if If you are not a policeman, you are nothing;
4. Director Scott believes that Dicastal is a copyist. He once said that the reason why he didn't explicitly say this in the film was just to let the audience discover it by themselves.
The important reasons for supporting Dika’s not being a copyist include:
1. In the original version of the film, Dika had a clear background and his ex-wife;
2. Dika’s "Unicorn Dream" was because he watched Rachel information;
3, wearing a card if it is a copy, and he will not be as disgusted as the movie in the performance of their work;
4, Dicastal is not a human soul, Batty is a humane human cloning, The film uses such a contrast to express profound thoughts. If Dicastal is a copy person, this contrast will disappear, and the film will greatly lose its ideological value;
5. Dicastal's actor Harrison Ford is strong In favor of the above reason, he has always insisted that Dika is not a copycat. During the filming process, the relationship between Ford and the director has not been harmonious, and this difference may also be one of the reasons.
Although once the film comes out, it is a "text", and the audience can interpret it as much as they want, and neither the director nor the protagonist can impose their own opinions on the audience. But after all, interpretation can be divided into reasonable and unreasonable, or good and bad. From the perspective of the ideological value of the film, treating Dicastal as a copyist is undoubtedly a "bad" interpretation, or, in other words, an interpretation that weakens the ideological value of the film.
So I totally agree with Harrison Ford's view that Dicastal should not be a copycat.
In my interpretation, "Blade Runner" is mainly two themes entangled in Dika's body:
The first is the human rights issue of copying people: an excellent copying person like Roy Barty, handsome and fit, heroic, rich in artistic accomplishment, and noble character-he is willing to lend a helping hand to enemies who are in desperate situation in the fight. He died. Such people have no human rights and only have a life span of four years. Isn't this too ridiculous and unreasonable? So Dika would be confused about his mission, and he fell in love with a clone. On what basis are human rights obtained? Is it based on biological "birth", or based on human nature—that is, culture—to get it? This question can also be translated into "human rights of robots" or "human rights of human cloning", and it is seen in later films such as "I, Robot" (I, Robot, 2004) and "Escape from the Clone Island" (The Island, 2005). The same was involved, but "Blade Runner" can be regarded as their forerunner.
The second theme is a little more cryptic, that is, can we really know the truth of the world we live in? The storyline about memory implantation in "Blade Runner" involves this theme. In fact, Dika can't know who he is? In later films such as "The Thirteenth Floor" (1999) and "The Matrix" (1999 ~ 2003), this issue has been more focused and more directly expressed and discussed, but "Blade Runner" "It can also be regarded as their pioneer.
Of course, "Blade Runner" has more "pioneer" qualifications. For example, it is also the most important pioneer of the dystopian film tradition-from ideological tendency to artistic style. It can become a classic, it is indeed not a vain name.
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