Blade Runner...let me tell you about Blade Runner. If design is impressionistic then the design of Blade Runner is by far the most impressionable design. It's noir nature and questionable theories have captured the attentions and hearts of viewers for the past twenty years.
             There are many aspects of the film that I have come to love such as the unanswerable questions it poses about what it truly means to be human and even if "Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" The most memorable and alluring aspect of the film however is the visual imagery it provides me as a viewer. It allows me to put myself in the place of the movie without having to imagine too hard. The setting of the film is in the year 2019 while although a long time away, Ridley Scott uses a pastiche of past, present and future cities to allow my mind to accept this as a plausible future.
             Ridley in my mind is the Master of Science fiction mise-en-scene with his ability to orchestrate his actor's movements in conjunction with their surroundings. The film takes place in the future, a place where everything should be new and strange to us as well as those who we encounter be of a Star Wars nature.
             The picture opens with a very futuristic complex and a worker being interviewed by what appears to be a very intelligent man with a futuristic yet commodore 64 like computer. Then Deckard is brought into the picture along with the police chief and the primary detective. All three of these men seem to be your typical 1980's policemen with a touch of Elliot Ness thrown in. Other than the technology swarming around them there really isn't anything distant about them yet we accept the fact that they are members of justice in the future.
             However lighting also plays a major role in the success and feel of this film. Jordan Cronenweth was the cinematographer for Blade Runner and he chose to go against the blueprint of past science fiction films such ...