Blade Runner Film Analysis Essay

A Comparison of the Themes of Blade Runner and Brave New World ‘Humanity likes to think of itself as more sophisticated than the wild yet it cannot really escape its need for the natural world’ Despite different contexts both Aldous Huxley within his book Brave New World and Ridley Scott in the film Blade Runner explore the idea that humans feel themselves more sophisticated than the natural world, yet are able to completely sever relations between humanity and the nature. Through various techniques both texts warn their varied audiences of the negative ramifications that will come from such disdainful, careless opinions and actions. All aspects of the ‘New State’ within Aldous

The Kite Runner is the first novel of Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini. It tells the story of Amir, a boy from Kabul, Afghanistan, whose closest friend is Hassan, a young Hazara servant. Novel turns around these two characters and Baba, Amir’s father, by telling their tragic stories, guilt and redemption that are woven throughout the novel. Even in the difficult moments, characters build up to their guilt and later on to their redemption. Their sins and faults alter the lives of innocent people. First, Amir and Baba fail to take action on the path to justice for Ali and Hassan. Moreover, Amir and Baba continue to build up their guilt due to their decisions and actions. Although Amir builds up more guilt than Baba throughout the novel, he eventually succeeds in the road to redemption unlike his father. After all, Amir and Baba have many chances to fix their atonements but Baba chooses not to and Amir does. Baba uses his wealth to cover up his sins but never atone himself while Amir decides to stand up and save Sohrab and finally finds peace. Amir and Baba’s reaction to sins essentially indicate their peace of mind and how they react to guilt and injustice.

I'm writing about a somewhat controversial topic that concerns one of my favorite movies, "Blade Runner." "Blade Runner" is a science fiction, neo-noir movie that takes place in Dystopian Los Angeles in the year 2019. I've seen all editions of this film several times. I've also read the book "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?" written by Philip K. Dick, which "Blade Runner" is a loose adaptation. I've always regarded Rick Deckard (played by Harrison Ford) as a human, but many people believe that he is a Replicant.

One major theme that is evident in The Kite Runner is that scars are reminders of life’s pain and regret, and, though you can ease the regret and the scars will fade, neither will completely go away. We all have regrets and always will, but though it will be a long hard process we can lessen them through redemption. The majority of The Kite Runner is about the narrator and protagonist, Amir. Almost all of the characters in The Kite Runner have scars, whether they are physical or emotional. Baba has scars all down his back from fighting a bear, but he also has emotional scars from not being able to admit that Hassan was also his son. Hassan is born with a cleft lip, but for his birthday Baba pays for it to be fixed, which left a small scar above his mouth. Hassan also has emotional scars from being raped. The reader is probably shown the emotional scars of Amir the most. Amir has emotional scars because he feels that he killed his mother, and also because his father emotionally neglects him. In the end of the novel, Amir receives many physical scars from getting beaten up by Assef, when rescuing Sohrab. Though scars will never go away and are a reminder of the past, not all scars are bad.

Hard-boiled detective fiction and film noir are extremely prevalent in the 1982 film Blade Runner. In his article “Blade Runner. Science Fiction and Transcendence,” David Desser gives multiple examples of elements of the hard-boiled universe in Blade Runner: Deckard is an ex-cop, an ex-blade runner, doubtless in part because of the corruption of the system as seen in Captain Bryant, who calls replicants “skin jobs” (the equivalent of calling black people niggers), and in Gaff, who dresses like a dandy. Most importantly, however, Deckard is alienated from his fellow man, divorced that is, not only from his wife (who he tells us, thought of him as “sushi – cold fish”), but from all of humanity. It is ironic and significant that when Deckard does finally fall in love, does finally make a genuine emotional commitment, it is with a replicant – a woman who is not a human.

Throughout the story The Kite Runner an important central theme displayed by the other is the idea that it is important to be able to confront your past mistakes or else those mistakes will torture you for the rest of your life. Many of the main characters came face to face with this idea and each of them dealt with their mistakes in different ways. Despite this, it was made clear that the characters that were able to deal with their problems ended up much better off mentally than those of them that were unable to. Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, teachers the reader that confronting past mistakes is better than running from them through Amir’s feelings following his betrayal of Hassan, how Soraya felt after telling Amir about her past, and Amir’s reaction to finding out Baba was Hassan’s father.

Blade Runner is known to be the most influential science fiction film coming from the neo-noir genre (Leggett). People claim it is an instant science fiction classic (Savage). The sequel Blade Runner 2049 follows up with further interesting visualization but on a greater scale than its predecessor created thirty-five years ago. Science fiction films have undergone major changes the past few decades due to the visual advancements in the field. A big part of the sequel’s success is due to its ‘tonal and visual similarities’ as well as what John Nelson, the film’s Oscar-winning visual effects supervisor, explained as, “Using all of the visual effects to make something feel very organic” (Marshall).

“I thought about Hassan’s dream, the one about us swimming in the lake. There is no monster, he’s said, just water. Expect he’d been wrong about that. There was a monster in the lake… I was that monster.” When looking at this quote some may wonder who would be considered the monster; and in this case Amir would be. The idea of him redeeming himself from being a monster is a recurring theme in the story and the movie.

Whenever people tend to discuss the ending of “Drive,” speculation is rife on whether or not Driver lives at the end. And in a way, just as in the case of “Blade Runner”, “Inception”, or “No Country for Old Men” the ambiguity is intended. Driver could live or die, not that he will one way or the other. This moment is the culmination of a journey designed to lead him to this exact scenario, as he bleeds to death driving through LA, and the story concludes here for a reason. One shouldn’t feel the need to speculate beyond this as it is not the purpose of the scene, especially because, in my understanding of the movie, Driver was already dead well before the final scene.

After watching the movies Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049, both directed by Ridley Scott. The two movies has numerous similarities between them not just because they are part of same series, some similarities are such as the setting of the movies which both take place in Los Angeles, California and show a future dystopia society and the protagonists of the films, Deckard and Joe are equally similar in many ways, for example both of them are replicants who work for the Los Angeles Police Department as a Blade Runner meaning they “retire” rogue replicants and while doing so both Deckard and Joe are morally challenged and both of them fell in love with someone who supposedly is not engineered to have any real emotions, After watching and analysing both films. I have come to the conclusion that Blade Runner 2049 is a better film when in comparison to its prequel Blade Runner and this is clearly show through the plot, relationships between characters and the craft of film making.

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Social conditions are what shape a country. Over the years, people, not only in Afghanistan, but around the world create norms that define people’s roles in life, their future, and how they should be treated based on their gender and beliefs. Khaled Hosseini’s first novel, The Kite Runner, comments on the social conditions of Afghanistan through telling a story about the lives of two Muslim boys; a privileged Sunni Pashtun, Amir, and his long-time friend and servant, Hassan, a loyal but disadvantaged Shia Hazara. Hosseini expresses Amir’s uncertain feelings toward Hassan which form the decisions he makes throughout the book. These choices result in Amir destroying his relationship with Hassan. The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini is a commentary on the social conditions in Afghanistan as shown through the roles of women and men in society and the ideals of Afghan culture. Unfortunately, these problems are still active in most of Afghanistan.

Blade Runner, adapted from the book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, is the cornerstone science fiction movie of it's time. It's neon lights and overcrowded megalopolis culture helped define what an entire generation thought of the future. In the movie, a nuclear war makes it necessary for off world colonies to be made. These colonies employ replicants, genetically designed androids with no emotions that are identical to humans, as slave labor. After an attack by rebellious replicants, they were banned on the earth. A police force was made to kill, or retire, these rogue replicants. These killers were known as blade runners. After a group of replicants infiltrate the earth, a former blade runner known as Rick Deckard is pulled out’ve retirement to hunt

Sebastian is the only true human. He is the composite of both man and replicant

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