Reporting An Accidet To Police/calgary

BLADE RUNNER - 1982

"I've seen Things You Would not people believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.

I watched C-beams glitter in the Darkness at Tannhäuser Gate. "

the early twenty-first century, genetics creates beings in human form known as "replicants." They are stronger than their parents and as smart as they. Their lifetime is limited to a few years, hardly the time to acquire a past, memories and perhaps feelings. They are used as auxiliaries in the exploration of other planets. Some had mutinied, they were all banned from "Earth" on pain of death.

However, four of them lurking in Los Angeles ...

Bars, comics, painting, design and literature

"Blade Runner" is a prototype, it has redesigned the prospects of sci-fi movies.

The film breaks the stereotypes of anticipation by imposing a vision of the future by challenging the benchmarks.

Adventure Technology and baroque aesthetic matrix, the film questions the place of film in powerful others arts.

symbols and thematic

The visual symbolism is very strong through two recurring elements:

In an extreme close one eye, is reflected on the horizon and the lights of the city. It is on the pupil of the "replicants" that are performed tests of empathy. Dilation of the pupil betrays emotion, the eye can not lie.

In the laboratory, the "replicants" meet the creator of their eyes synthetic.

Tyrell has an owl, an animal who sees only the night ... Leon is associated with a turtle, Zora to "her" snake Roy doves.

Star Wars

When Deckard arrives at the Central Police, one sees the "Millennium Falcon" ...

"Whoever runs on the razor's edge"

In 1967 came "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" the science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, who will be first published in France under the title "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", Then as the "Blade Runner".