Blade Runner’s Vision of Modernity/ Modernity in Film Anonymous College

The first thing everyone notices about Blade Runner is how beautiful it is. Along with William Gibson’s novel Neuromancer, the film is credited with the creation of the cyberpunk genre. A science-fiction sub genre marked by the confluence of high tech and low life. Blade Runner’s Los Angeles of 2019 is the archetype of that style creating it more than describing it with its giant anthologies, neon laced storefronts, probing lights and rain. Filmmaker Ridley Scott is perhaps the only person who could’ve adapted this film from the Philip K. Dick’s novel ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ adept as he was at creating atmospherics in the 3000 commercials he directed. In Blade Runner, his trade was fully realized in the service of a simple story loaded with thematic explorations. Most of what you need to know about the plot are explained before the film even starts. Men created smart androids called replicants, some rebelled, cops called Blade Runners were hired to kill them. Now the replicants are banned from Earth and given meager four-year life spans.

In the first act of the film, we learn that four replicants escaped their banishment and came back to Earth and Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a retired Blade Runner is being...