Blade Runner
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 bein
He chose and worked on all of that with the idea of somehow conveying to the audience the questions of existence, belonging and if Androids really do dream of electric sheep. Tyrell's inability to truly see what Roy and the replicants wanted or needed resulted in his death or ability to see. This line implies a sort of birth process provided by the Tyrell Corporation and that not only does the corporation provide them with the Physical and biological means of existence but they also give them the gift of sight, which in turn enables them to learn and experience therefore giving them an identity. In Blade Runner, the lighting is actually reversed. In Blade Runner, it is important how the characters are lit. The meaning within this film is both lying on the surface of every shot and hiding behind ever line of the script. To be human is to be seen as human by others, by forces outside of ourselves willing to recognize our difference but also, ironically, willing to share a sameness. Within Blade Runner, everything we see and experience on the outside is dependent on the acceptance of what lies on the inside of those who are watching and those within the film. Although I only focused on a small portion of the film and its elements, I feel in my mind I have discovered and proved exactly how design can become expressionistic. It also gives this film its noir aspects and feelings. At first this seems like a minor scene with no importance other than to show the violent side of the replicants but it is when Roy says to Cho "If you could only see what I've seen with your eyes" that we begin to see the true meaning behind the film and the replicants state of being. When you write a song you choose the lyrics according to an idea or emotion you wish you express to others and when the finished product is there it expresses the idea to the world. However lighting also plays a major role in the success and feel of this film. Unable to see the impossibility of such a request Roy gouges out the eyes of Tyrell.
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