Essay on Blade Runner

756 Words Aug 24th, 2014 4 Pages
Creating a false sense of fear and insecurity by portraying unorthodox representations in sci-fi films is something Ridley seems to master. The whole point of Science Fiction is to create a fear of this ever-growing progress of technology and anything that isn’t familiar to us. “People have always feared being slaves to technology--that someday machines will control our lives, takeover our humanity, and define our reality“(Jerry Harris, 2010). Ridley Scott portrayed this extremely well as he showed us exactly how and why viewers should fear ‘the other’. He grasped a concept that audiences all know and accepted (humans) and suggested that something we are all familiar with may actually be something we should fear (replicants). He turned reality upside down, therefore having the audience on the edge of their seats wondering, ‘Woah! Is that actually real? I hope not’. If there were to be a re-make of Blade Runner, it’s almost guaranteed that these brilliant representations would get lost in the midst of pleasing their newly aimed social

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