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Blade Runner

Blade runner is a film which was inspired by the book "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep?"
written by Phillip K. Dick, and directed by Ridley Scott. this movie quickly became a cult classic,
with a large follwing of loyal fans, but as with all cult classics it has also had many critics, and
most of these critics have a very similar Critisism of the film. they dismiss it as being a good-loooking
film built on the flimsiest of narratives, a triumph of production design over substance. this statement
allthough very critical and bold, is not completely without substance, with many plot twists and changes in dirrection, the themes are often hard to follow, as is the character
dialogue and the general flow of the plot. which can frustrate many people and therefore result in such bad critisism. when discussing this statement, you must look at
a number of majour scenes in the film itself, and analyse both the narrative content and the production design, and make close reference to both. u also, must look at how the
narrative, production design, and

The first scene of majour importance to both the narative and the production design, is the scene in which the viewer is first introduced to Racheal. Racheal is introduced into
the narrative as tyrells secretary, and also a new form of replicant which is almost as human as humans are. but she later becomes deckards love interest, which is quite an
ironic juxtaposition due to the fact that it is deckards job as a blade runner to kill replicants. but the dialogue is complicated, and assumes to much of the viewer, in the
sense,
that it assumed that the viewer knows more about the new world than is actully told. The visuals in this scene a quite amazing, and capture the eye of the viewer easily. there is
a shot from the far end of the room, looking out of the floor to celling retractable window at the sunset, of an almost acient looking landscape, with pyramids and other ancient type
buildings. the room...