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Blade Runner (Franchise)
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Blade Runner is a neo-noir science fiction franchise that started in 1982 with the release of Blade Runner, which was loosely based on the 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. While the film performed modestly at the box office, it ascended to Cult Classic and remains an influential work of the Cyberpunk genre, and left enough of a cultural mark to get a sequel more than three decades later.The setting is a dystopian 21st century Los Angeles, and the stories involve Artificial Humans, the Replicants, who were invented to perform tasks deemed too dangerous or undignifying for humans, especially in deep space. Some of them develop personalities of their own and struggle to break free from servitude as a result, and a special police force, the Blade Runners, is tasked to track them down and "retire" them, as they have no right to roam free on Earth. | |
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Gaia's Lament | |
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Gaia's Lament: In the original film, real animals are already extraordinarily rare and the Earth is being polluted at an extraordinary rate. By the second film, set thirty years later, the entire biosphere has been wiped out, with humanity only being kept alive due to mass production of low-quality food through artificial means. | |
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Artificial Human | |
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Artificial Humans: Replicants are bioengineered androids. | |
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Cyberpunk with a Chance of Rain | |
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Cyberpunk with a Chance of Rain: The 1982 film is probably responsible for starting the trend in cyberpunk films. The endless rain was a reference to the Film Noir genre as much as it helped disguise the fact that the film was just shooting on a backlot — all those scenes set at night with lots of rain and smoke are a great disguise. In this 2005 interview with Wired Magazine, Ridley Scott stated that the rain in part was present to hide the wires on the Spinners. Quote: "Because you can't make a spinner fly without a crank. That's why it was raining in the shot, because the rain would help to hide the cables." | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Crapsack World: Let's just say this version of 21st century America is not a nice place to live, what with pollution, unfriendly climate, corporate corruption and potentially dangerous bio-androids roaming free. | |
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Ambiguously Human | |
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Ambiguously Human: Replicants have bones, flesh, blood, and ultimately very human-like intelligence and feelings, and conscience of their existence, which causes much trouble once they want to break free. | |
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Flying Car | |
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Flying Cars: The Spinners, mainly used by police forces. | |
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Dystopia | |
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Dystopia: Oh boy... The Earth is now a Polluted Wasteland, most of the humans live unhappily in slums, a single omnipotent company controls most of the technology available (and even food in 2049), and a Replicant's life is even worse. | |
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Crapsaccharine World | |
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Crapsaccharine World: The Off-World colonies are frequently described as a paradise for those who can afford to leave the Earth, but it is outright stated that they rely on replicant slave labor to keep them functioning. It's also implied judging by Roy and Sapper's backstories that they are frequently fought over in military conflicts. | |
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Ban on A.I. | |
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Ban on A.I.: Replicants, artificially created humanoids, were outlawed for use on Earth, with bounty hunters dubbed "Blade Runners" charged with tracking them down and executing them. However, between the original film and the sequel, this law was overturned when newer generations were proven to be more reliable. | |
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Futuristic Pyramid | |
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Futuristic Pyramid: The pyramid towering over Los Angeles, first inhabited by Eldon Tyrell and his company, then by Niander Wallace and his company. | |
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Central Theme | |
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Central Theme: Humanity and empathy. | |
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What Measure Is a Non-Human? | |
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What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Pretty much the central theme of the series. | |
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Alternate History | |
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Alternate History: History diverged at some point in the Blade Runner timeline to where the Soviet Union still exists in some capacity by 2049, and humanity was able to develop the technology for FTL travel and humanoid androids by the early 21st century. | |
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The Future Is Noir | |
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The Future Is Noir: The future in which the films are set doesn't have very good lighting. | |
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