Blade Runner
The early Ridley Scott directed Blade Runner (1982) after his latest hit Alien (1979) you can clearly see his style being an innovator in his field and his masterful use of water and smoke, giving all his movies his unique sense of style. Not to mention the perfect world he builds for his movies, Blade Runner has a dark futuristic city vibe yet vibrant with neon lights and crowds of people. The conventions being a gritty sci-fi noir. The context of this world that of which takes place in 2019 in a futuristic Los Angeles that has off-world colonies and advanced technology. The sound scored by Vangelis masterfully mixes the music with the sounds of the world making them both one, turning the city alive. The way Scott makes us
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Another scene that 's so well done, when we see a flying cop car and the music plays a sound that looks and matches exactly what anyone would think that type of vehicle would actually sound like, but the music isolated still sounds amazing and yet it all manages to work together. I would consider a man like Vangelis that can subconsciously add to the world without having us see it makes the use of sound utterly incredible.
The film has heavy themes on the repercussions of manufacturing of bio-androids called replicants, Almost indistinguishable from real humans, flesh, and blood but treated as slaves or enemies to be slaughtered with no remorse when looking for freedom, even though they are sentient beings able to enjoy human things and emotions. Even a trained replicant killer like Rick Deckard falls for the realism of a replicant, After telling Rachael, a replicant who thought she was human that her life is a lie and that she has implanted memories. She cries showing true emotions and sadness, Deckard a man who has killed countless replicants actually feels bad for her. He says it was a bad joke feeling bad for the damage he 's done to this young lady. In this world when there are these people who are made not born but feel as real as anything is it right to treat them as slaves? The use of androids to benefit the human race seems like a good thing but
In the movie Blade Runner, humans create “androids” that resemble humans physically and have human emotion, implanted memories and the purpose to work as slaves. Throughout the course of the movie these androids, which are later referred as “replicants,” start to realize their desire to live longer as humans do and to try to prevent their death. Humans are threatened by this desire the replicants build and start killing them off to prevent any destruction replicants might cause. A belief that these replicants should not be granted human rights comes into play and sets the audience to question whether replicants can be perceived as human or not. Replicants are seen as non-human throughout the movie Blade Runner, yet still live lives filled with emotion as humans do. Therefore, rather than calling replicants “non-human,” they should be called “persons” and should be granted human rights because they reflect real human emotion and had no part in their own creation. This constitutes their innocence making them undeserving of punishment.
The vision Christopher Nolan had for The Prestige (2006) was to add to the outbreak of street magician film, whilst playing a large dramatic subplot equal in grandeur to the magical performances within the film. In the final sequence of the film, I will analyse how the cinematography and sound resolves the plot so that it summarises the themes present in the film, whilst also invoking a response from the audience. Nolan predominantly uses close up shots, non-diegetic sound (music) and dialogue collaboratively to convey the dramatic, personal subplot of the characters and their relationships, whilst appealing to the audience bringing forth an emotional response from the audience. The heavy, slow, dramatic atmosphere of the ending sequence uses various techniques to summarise and uncover the underlying mysteries of the events throughout the film and consolidate themes introduced during the exposition.
Blade runner a box office flop in 1982 but a 1992 re release hit set
Ridley Scott’s film Blade Runner reflects some of the key themes seen in Mary Shelley’s classic novel Frankenstein. For one, both the sources touch on the necessity of creators taking responsibility for their creations. Another key theme established in both works is the idea that emotional complexity and knowledge, over memory and appearance, allow people to be defined as human beings.
We are also shown the idea of humanity and compassion in the film ‘Blade Runner’. The replicants are only seen as objects. This is shown through the repetition of the reference to replicants as ‘it’. It shows the lack of compassion and humanity and to have quality of life you need a certain degree of this. Blade Runner also illustrates that it may not be the replicants fault for their need to survive but lacking of the quality of life. The film noir expresses the films artificial and ‘depressing’ world with dehumanized buildings and dark eerie environments. This makes you ask is this world forgetting about humanity? Their quest for survival is only one step into gaining quality of life as the world they live in now does not contain all elements needed to acquire this.
Despite different contexts, both Shelley’s Frankenstein and Scott’s Blade Runner enthrall the audience in a journey to explore the inner psyche through the various perspectives that are drawn.
It opposes the values of love, empathy and community with the innovative forms of technology and social life under advanced capitalism. The binary opposition between man and technology is represented by three characters in the plot: Deckard, apparently a human. Roy, an android who fears death and longs to be human and Rachel, who thinks she is human and who enters a relationship with a human. These replicants represent capitalism’s oppressive characteristics and also to a certain extent the rebellion against exploitation. Deckard's realization of how the Tyrell Corporation exploits him, and the rebellion of the replicants against their oppressors, is the ultimate critique of capitalism. Since both sides — killer and killed — reject their status as servants of the corporation and refuse further exploitation. (Kellner, et all) The corporation in the Blade Runner that is used to illustrate capitalism’s destructive characteristics is The Tyrell Coporation. The Tyrell Corporation invents replicants to have a controllable labor force that will perform difficult and dangerous tasks. Similarly applicable to today, where capitalism turns individuals into machines that have only the function of productivity. Ironically, the replicants form a human rebellion; while the actual human characters in the film seem to submit to corporate domination and live a life like the corporations sees them to. It seems as if the humans have become so dehumanized that the replicants form a rebellion against their oppressor instead of human beings. Capitalism has dehumanized the population to such an extent, that technology is actually more
The movie “Gone with the Wind” is about a rich southern girl named Scarlett O’Hara and her life hardships set during the time-period of the Civil War. In the story, Scarlett is forced to watch helplessly as her family’s wealth and lives fade as the confederacy loses the Civil War. Even though, the movie is mainly centered on the dilemmas of Scarlett’s love life, there are many historical accuracies that immerse the viewer in the southern mindset as well as the timeframe. The portrayal of class structures and the confederate attitudes before the Civil War are both accurate and engaging details that the movie successfully implements. In the film, these examples are displayed mainly through the dialogue and setting.
Blade Runner became recognized as a film noir due to Ridley Scott portrait of Los Angeles as it might be in 2019: smog covered sky, towering factories emitting giant flames, and massive financial conglomerates that leave shadows and darkness for the world below. The whole ornate architecture of the past has been replaced by the industrial world as it is left to be eroded away by the continuously falling acid rain. Humanity is left without an identity since there are only a few physical remnants of the past. People can no longer remember how things were before.
"Blade Runner" made its smashing entrance into the world in 1982 and quickly gained a cult following with its depiction of a bleak future consisting of
most is the presence of Harrison Ford, who still is to this day a huge
The movie that I chose to analyze for this section is Blade Runner. This movie takes
Choosing a movie, do you take notice to whether it is a Director’s cut, the original version, or simply grab the chosen movie and pop it in taking no notice of which version is in hand? Is there even a difference? Because a director’s cut is simply a version of a movie with various cuts made by the director’s choosing, if watching both versions of Ridley Scott’s, “Blade Runner,” the subtle differences in several of the scenes will become apparent, although the scene layout and plot remains the same throughout both versions.
Tom Tykwer’s Run Lola Run (1998) is truly a brilliant film. It is very seldom that a film manages to combine the high pace of an action thriller and a deep philosophical subtext without botching it, but Run Lola Run does an excellent job at striking a balance between both. Tackling the very abstract and philosophical concepts of chance and cause-effect, Run Lola Run is truly a modern foreign classic. Tykwer manages to postulate one simple theory through the film, that the simplest of choices can completely change everything. The film is supported by stellar performances from Franka Potente and Moritz Bleibtreu as the protagonist Lola and her boyfriend, Manni. The film’s use of cinematography to add to the narrative, clever use of the aspects of mise-en-scene and explosively-paced soundtrack add a whole new dimension to this film. One of the few German films to be both a critical and commercial success, Run Lola Run is a smart and stimulating film, which demands active watching in order to understand fully. I will now analyze the film comprehensively using three main parameters; the mise-en-scene, the cinematography and the sound.
This time we will focus on the analysis of the sound of a film that, in addition, to be well achieved according to my personal appreciation, has been nominated for several awards for sound and has won some of them. It is then a proposal that, when like others, it is convenient to analyze and understand, to take from it what works best for us or interest, or for our future productions. For this I have chosen the feature film Pan’s labyrinth (2006) by director Guillermo del Toro; in charge of the sound Martin