Final Project Pitch
March 24, 2010 by Vincent Li Sun
the film i am going to write about for the final project is Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner. As i found several aspect/themes in the film very interesting. First and the most obvious one is the discussion over humanity, since the story deals with human and replicant (robot), and it has been ambiguous in distinguishing these two. Secondly, the issue of technology is also been brought up in the film, as the technology causes paranoia, fear and other problems. other than these, i also think the elements of film noir and set design are interesting topics in this film. i would also like to compare this film to one or two other robot films that is similar, for example, I robot, Terminator, etc.
If you want to look at Blade Runner as a film noir, you might get some mileage by looking at some contemporary neo-noirish films like Body Heat and True Confessions or even works that came a little earlier, like Chinatown and Taxi Driver. Why was Scott using some conventions of the genre for that particular story? Does the film’s context within a genre movement help us understand it?
Ridley Scott also looked at the (hypothetical, I assume) relationship between humans and robots in Alien. Does he treat robots differently in that film? Does that mean anything?