Grey_Is_The_Heart_Of_Blade_Runner

Grey Is The Heart Of Blade Runner Grey is the heart of Blade Runner In a dark future, on a planet ravaged by war, completely overrun with consumerism and damaged beyond repair, what is still valuable' This is the question that Phillip K. Dick asked in his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and the same question Ridley Scott asked when he took on the project of filming Blade Runner, the movie based on that text. This paper looks strictly at the director’s cut of Blade Runner as though this is the movie Scott intended to make (as he has said). To say the movie is visually stunning and that it was far ahead of its time is to greatly understate. Scott is known for another groundbreaking Sci-Fi film in Alien. But, here Scott excels in a way that is astounding even now, nineteen years after the film’s original release. In creating a San Francisco of the year 2019, post nuclear war, Scott built a more complete alternate reality than any other director in the science fiction genre. Everything on the set is believable. Decker’s apartment, from the furniture to the glasses he drinks from to the architecture itself, seems perfectly plausible, deckard, film, scott, rachel, one, life, even, replicants, replicant, movie, scene, roy, lighting, after, value, though, say, runner, questions, over, eyes, deckard’s, blade, about, white, while, strange, much, might, makes, leon, human, environment, difficult, clearly