This is a society where huge multinational companies like the Tyrell Corporation hold influence, their technological developments into genetics and artificial life allowing human beings to escape from the bleak dystopian cities of earth to off-world colonies. It’s the perfect setting for Ripley Scott’s imaginative ‘noir’ treatment of the story, which is aided in no small part by Harrison Ford’s pitch-perfect performance as morose, world-weary ex-detective Rick Deckard.
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Perhaps only second to Fritz Lang’s ‘Metropolis’ in terms of its influence on movie science-fiction, Blade Runner defined the whole look and feel of what our cities could conceivably and (unlike Spielberg’s ‘Minority Report’ for example) realistically look like in the future – crumbling old buildings with bolted-on new technologies, a permanently dark world where it constantly rains, the effects of some unspecified (in the film) nuclear disaster, a cityscape illuminated only by huge advertising blimps. If not exactly true to the word of Philip K Dick’s novel ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’, Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner is at least true in spirit, bringing to the screen the author’s unsettling vision of future society. What, no Star Wars, E.T, Alien or Madmen of Mandaras! Alright then, what are your favourite films and TV programmes from the genre? Just in time for Christmas, DVD Times has some last minute gift ideas as we take a look at our favourite science-fiction on DVD.