Friday, 16 September 2011

SciFi Film Research: Blade Runner

The themes and context of the film" Blade Runner" are very similar to the production that we are creating. Blade runner also shares many similar moral conundrums ,such as the ethical aspects of cloning ,and the wider effect on society. The Film also deals with the hunting down of a clone much like Blade Runner.
A number of scenes in Blade Runner gave inspiration to a host of ideas in our film. Here I will discuss the similarity between our film idea and the plot of Blade Runner.

Blade Runner is based on the Book" Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep". In the Blade Runner universe replicants are created by the Tyrell Corporation.They are indistinguishable from humans in almost every way. 

In the film Deckard played by Harrison Ford is a blade runner, tasked with hunting down and terminating replicants. In the film that we are producing there is in fact a story quite similar to this, with the clone that escaped being hunted down by guards from the cooperation that created him.Though from a different point of view a similar message is portrayed of the hunted and the hunter, as will be shown in a number of escape and running sequences.














Both films also deal with one of the characters trying to find meaning in their life. In blade runner this is Roy Batty played by Rutger Hauer. However in our film it is the main character Alpha the clone that is trying to find out why he was created ,and this leads him to a confrontation with his creator in much the same way the replicants in the film confront Dr.  Tyrell (Joe Turkel).