Blade Runner (1982) - Filmfansite

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Harrison Ford is an ex-policeman who has to hunt down four rouge androids led by Rutger Hauer and including Daryl Hannah and Joanna Cassidy who have been created to live for only 4 years and who want to meet their maker to increase their life span. Harrison Ford also meets the enigmatic Rachel (Sean Young) who is also a repliant but does not know it until Harrison Ford tells her. This is a bleak and dismal view of the future that is violent in places, but explores the difference between what it means to be a human and what it means to be alive. Although this is essentially a Sci-Fi film, there is something of a homage to 1940's style film noir in its production style, being shot largely in the dark. Although not initially a major box office success, it has subsequently become a cult classic and one of Ridley Scott's best films. This is very visually impressive and has set the image of what a dystopian future is in more recent films. It is the final scene that is the philosophical finale of the film as underlying the film is the question what is it that makes us human? The final speech was written by the actor Rutger Haurer himself which included the phrase like tears in rain. Harrison Ford is good in the lead role alomg with Rutger Hauer as the lead replicant and Sean Young as Rachel, the replicacant who learns that she is not human but actually a replicant. The film is based on the book Do androids dream of electric sheep? by Philip K Dick.

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