a fearful one, and such fear is justified. It is troubling to realise that the government, which is regularly scapegoated particularly in modern times, has less control than capitalist entities. Scott is aware of such things, and paints the picture of a Los Angeles essentially dominated (both economically and sculpturally – the Corporation building itself is quite overwhelming) by The Tyrell Corporation, whose goal, as Eldon Tyrell himself reveals, is commerce. Los Angeles is seen as corrupt and essentially ungovernable, and this is a notion that Scott's contemporaries, and even audiences twenty years later, can identify with and comprehend. We know Los Angeles as it is described in the popular cliche already mentioned, the corrupt, often ungovernable, yet still powerful "queen" and temptress.
             The film is greatly preoccupied with the theme of Orientalism, and focuses specifically on Japan as an interest. We glimpse the Japanese woman on the huge advertising scre
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