1. BLADE RUNNER (1982)
BY BALPREET ATKAR

2. Why is Blade Runner Post Modern?
Blade Runner is a unique post modern text in which

3. Why is Blade Runner Post Modern?
• Blade Runner is set in a Los angelos which from the mise
en scen is in decay. Technology is presented in its darker
from
• We see references to recycled Film Genres/Movemnts
and we see the present (as it was in the 1980’s) being
shown in the future as references to PanAm airlines is
included as well as the film references such as Metrolpolis
a German expressionist science-fiction film directed by
Fritz Lang. We also see references to Mildred Pierce a
1945 American drama film directed by Michael Curtiz.

6. The new york skyline is also another post modern element present in
blade runner, the fact that Ridley Scott chose to include this in not only a
decaying future, but Los angleos suggests an intersexual reference to
The world being one big place and a universal identity in this hyper
reality he has created.

7. The setting of blade runner and its post
modern elements
• The film itself gives us an idea of what people in that time
thought the future would be like, neon lights , eternal
darkness, however we as an audience can see the
directors view of technology we in a sense get the feeling
that Blade Runner as a text is not entirely fiction but a
view of the future.

8. References that we as a a lter genration
can identify
Coca Cola is present on a billboard
(I didn’t notice, it was pointed out in
an article I read online) and this to
me suggests a post modern view of
how the world of blade runner has
used up everything in existence
and formed a dark gloomy future in
which there is a bright billboard
advertising a famous soft drink?
The reasons behind the directors
choice will never be clear however
in my opinion it is almost showing
what people In the 1980s would
recognise in a world that they do
not and potentially wish to not
identify.

9. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?.
• The film was originally constructed with this book in mind ,
I read in article online that the films pragmatic message is
‘What Makes us human?’ this raised questions to me
surrounding the movies origin and if Ridley Scott intended
on his film being an ‘Artistic Movement’ or just his vision of
the future, the city itself reminds me of a present day
Tokyo or new york (Minus the dark gloomy feeling)
however the book originally written by Philip K Dick
contained many religious references and ceased to be
post modern in my opinion.

10. Chinatown in Blade Runner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3ow78
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This is just to show you some of the film and how
the future is predicted and also the post modern
hyper reality presented within the film, all in all I
believe that tis movie was not intended on being
post modern or an artistic movement in film, but
simply an old Sci-Fi with a good story.