Blade Runner Scene Analysis

Blade Runner Scene Analysis


Blade Runner Scene Analysis
Opening scene
• Synthetic music
• Dystopic world
- World in darkness with smoke and fire rising into the air
- Covered in pollution
• Film noir (filmed in the dark)
• Spinners (flying cars)
• Smoke stacks randomly shooting balls of fire into the atmosphere – loss of regard for the environment
• Close up of eye with image reflected in it
- Eye motif in both texts (eyes of the monster)
- The world is contained within the iris
- We have become part of this Dystopic world, we are a part of the technology, blurring the line between who and what is human and what is not
- Polluted world reflected into the eye
- Foreshadowing
• Tyrell corporation (two big lights)
- Pair of eyes gazing upwards
- Mayan structure symbolization of power in the ancient world
- Technology is the only way to see the light
- Symbolically represents GOD LIKE STATUS Tyrell above everybody in the light
• Contrast and juxtaposition between the man made environment reflecting in the natural eye
• Sound that moves us visually to one scene to the next – sound bridge
- Soundtrack is non-diegetic
• - Wind chimes, propelled by nature, bridges us to a world which is very controlled by people and technology (Tyrell corporation)
• Interview
• - Using machine to work out humanity
o Fan, eye reader, squeeze thing in repetitive motion
• - Hybrid to detective genre
o Black and white image
o Ceiling fan
o Type writer
o Smokey
• - The eye motif
o The way emotion is read
• - High backed Tyrell chair
o Dominating and in control
• - Photos to stir implanted memories
• - Heat beat to build tension
o Repetitive and increasing
o Conveying Leons agitation
o Blurring the line between human and machine
• - Machine starts beeping after asked about his mother
Street Scene
• - Globalisation
o Global thinking
o International corporations
o Increased travel
o Spread of...

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