Blade Runner itself is a marvel in the history of science fiction.
Wrong picture on, this is Beijing
Everything comes from author Philip. Dick said. Philip. Born in 1928, Dick wrote dozens of science fiction stories throughout his life. One of the most important classics is "Bionic Man Will Dream of an Electronic Sheep", which was adapted into a milestone science fiction film "Blade Runner". Another classic was adapted into the popular American drama "The Strange Man of the High Castle".
In addition, "Total Memories", "Destiny Planning Bureau", "Foreseeing the Future" and so on are all well-known Hollywood blockbusters, but many In China have not been released. If Asimov, Simmons, Kraken, etc. are called the kings of science fiction, then Philip Dick can be called the king of science fiction movies, in today's words, a big IP author.
"Will Bionics Dream of An Electronic Sheep" has a gray background setting - and human nuclear war has destroyed the earth. Most of the survivors have emigrated to alien planets, and a small number of sentimental people still insist on staying here. The bionic human, an organic intelligent robot, was born and was treated as a slave to human beings. They are the product of human immorality, and they themselves are treated as consumables and have no choice.
Some of these self-awakened bionics who are not willing to sink will try to escape back to Earth. The protagonist, Rick, is a bounty hunter who specializes in hunting down this bionic man, blade runner. However, in the process of hunting, humans and bionic human characters have been confused, and it is no longer clear who is more human and who is more human.
Written half a century ago in 1968, the original work is full of apocalyptic complex and an atmosphere of decadence and despair from beginning to end, which is inseparable from the background of the times at that time. The 1960s were the pinnacle of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, and the era of rapid advances in nuclear weapons and missile technology, and the world was shrouded in the shadow of the end of nuclear war. Even the United States generated a great deal of martial law in response to the Cold War, not to mention the Soviet Union behind the Iron Curtain.
In Philip. In Dick's view, the development of science and technology has not brought happiness and a bright future to mankind, but has made mankind fall into despair. And human society, including human nature, collapsed as a result, and all men became one-size-fits-all small parts of the vast, cold national military apparatus. This is what the author hates, so the text carries the same dystopian style of Western science fiction as the previous Brave New World and 1984.
The pyramid in Blade Runner is actually a meme for 1984
Philip. In Dick's futuristic world, the human who obeys orders has lost its humanity and becomes like a machine. The bionic people who chose to rebel against society as machines became more human, and instead resembled people. Isn't that a great irony? This is also a profound metaphor in the author, the Book of Revelation in the machine world.
Please allow Captain Iron to use so much ink to introduce the original and the author. Because the original is the soul and core of the film, the film is just its coat. After watching the original book, we go back to watching the film, and the original lengthy and dullness has been swept away, and it has changed from the obscure Cinderella to the dazzling princess.
Los Angeles in 2019 AD, rainy and dark. The whole world is like a twisted and deformed Gothic or Rococo-style giant junkyard, but it has no Gothic divine grandeur or Rococo sophistication.
Sprawling pyramid-like buildings, abandoned buildings, foggy streets, eerie flashing lights, crowds of bazaars like a small mudslide. Such a depressed and desperate remodeling, like Satan's dance of death row prisoners, the body wrapped in thick armor eroded and withered like a flower of evil, and even the periphery of the armor was corroded by the incessant rain of acid.
Human slave replicants were artificially implanted with abilities, thoughts, personalities, and even memories at the beginning of creation. But due to human concerns, replicants have a short lifespan of four years. Without human rights, they were not willing to be enslaved, so the expected rebellion appeared.
Humanity is on the verge of a great enemy, the veteran Blade Runner Harrison. Ford went out of the mountains to annihilate four "unpunished" replicants in one fell swoop. Unexpectedly, in the process of hunting down the replicants, Harrison. Ford, on the other hand, fell in love with one of the female replicants, Rachel.
Dick once said: "In my opinion, the theme of this story is that Daika is becoming more and more dehumanized in the pursuit of replicants, while at the same time, replicants gradually reveal a more human side." Finally, Deca had to ask herself: What am I doing? What is the fundamental difference between me and them? If there is no difference, then who am I? ”
The film uses the method of deduction, from a human and replicant core about human torture, extending many branch questions, when these insightful questions were thrown thirty years ago, when it seemed to be obscured by a thick fog, it was difficult to peek into the truth contained in it.
Beautiful female replicant Rachel
In fact, the seemingly vicious artificial man is not drunk on killing, but hopes to get the continuation of life and human dignity. Harrison Ford, whose hands were stained with blood, became an anti-human character. Flowers and plants are sentient, not to mention a flesh and blood body.
The original sin of the replicants is that they are too good to threaten the status of the god of human creation, causing fear and jealousy among human beings. Do humans think of themselves as the masters of the world, because our wisdom and kindness represent the direction of civilization, or because we have great power to override other species?
Powerful replicants are feared by humans
A good book is like a soul dialogue with the author, and a good movie is not. You can enjoy every minute of watching Blade Runner, from the rambling at the beginning to the condensed deep emotions, until the finale is difficult to leave. This kind of movie-watching experience has gone far beyond the scope of skill, it is a more authentic, broader and more difficult to say talent.
If movies will leave something for this era, it is that gold will eventually shine, and time is the touchstone for discovering the truth. The value embodied in Blade Runner is nothing less than a new creation, an eternal milestone for science fiction films.
In the end, the desperate "Blade Runner" is saved by the "prey" he pursues
"I don't know why he wanted to save my life, maybe at that last moment he loved life even more, anyone' life, including my life." At the end of the film, the replicant leader Roy has no love after losing his lover, but instead of choosing revenge, he chooses forgiveness. Saved Harrison. After Ford finished the classic dialogue, he jumped off the tower.
Finally, a tribute to timeless classics:
I've seen spaceships burning in Sagittarius,
I've seen gamma rays burst forth and shine at the Stargate.
However, all of this will eventually fade into time,
It's like tears disappearing into the rain.
The time of death has come.
This line is necessary for a broken love breakup
The story of a new generation of Blade Runners begins again, but this time it's even more brutal, with replicants hunting down replicants. Replicant k is tasked with hunting down his own kind—an old-fashioned fish that slipped through the net.
Los Angeles in 2049 is still raining dirty, the fog is even uncomfortable across the screen, and the neon lights and huge female advertising figures still fill every inch of the protagonist's land as in the previous game.
It was originally an ordinary routine task. He found his target on a distant farm, an old replicant of a decaying old model. The picture is absolutely heavy: the surviving old replicants, growing high-protein worms in a smoggy agricultural factory, are forced to feed on them.
He is naturally not k's opponent. However, before dying, his only remaining eye glowed with radiance, and he proudly and proudly said to K: You have not seen a real miracle!
In terms of light and shadow vision, the tone and atmosphere brewed in the film are still dark and decadent. The replicants' huts are full of old furniture, which is not a high-style retro, but despair and decadence, showing the abandoned earth.
In the routine search that followed, k found new clues. A lonely dead tree and a small flower. Dead trees are real monuments. It not only commemorates the replicant Rachel, but also mourns the dying earth, and witnesses the miracle of life.
He discovers the secret: Rachel, the replicant, has a child!
It's a bombshell that will cause panic in humanity and spark a replicant uprising. Everything born of a mother is life, and everything born of a mother has a soul, which is ironclad proof that replicants are not machines!
So the competition began. Josie of the police station asks K to destroy the evidence, but Wallace, a blind scientist at Tyrell, wants to master the secrets and sends a new model of replicant Ruve to hunt him down. And K himself wants to find out the truth to the previous generation of Blade Runner Reed.
So all the clues intertwined, like the rushing Amazon River merging into the Pacific Ocean.
This Blade Runner 2049 is largely consistent with the previous game, whether it is the style tone, character clues, and ideological connotations, it is closely related to the previous work. In order to connect with the previous work, the official also launched three short films: the 2022 great power outage, the 2036 replicant dawn, and the 2048 nowhere to escape.
Since human warfare destroyed most of the electronic data, he could only investigate with traditional methods, adding a lot of points of view.
Lieutenant Josie's dedication to duty is admirable, the ambitions of the blind scientist Wallace are shocking, and the new generation of replicants, Ruve, is even more ruthless. The previous generation of "Blade Runner" Reed and his lover kept this secret separately, and the new generation of Blade Runner K brought his own awakening in the pursuit of his own destiny.
He has a name!
At the end of the film, the truth seems to have come out but is hidden. It seems to have foreshadowed the next sequel.
The virtual girlfriend of the person in charge K, Joey (what a sad couple), is crushed by Ruve's foot. The distraught K knew his origins, not the lucky child, but was proud of him. All replicants were ready to sacrifice. The replicant riot seems to be on the verge of erupting.
This is not a war between humanity and replicants, but a return of humanity, the awakening of replicants.
Mirror flower moon-like Joey
John Dorne said, "No one is an island and can be self-sufficient." ”
However, in the world of Blade Runner, everyone is an island. Technology has not made people happier and happier, but has exacerbated human loneliness. Everyone is cut off from others and spends all day with machines. Just like today's low-headed people.
Replicants may still be a distant future, but with the development of artificial intelligence, cyborgs are really born. Saudi Arabia has granted citizenship to a humanoid intelligent robot, Sophia.
When asked if you would destroy humanity if you were threatened by humans, she gritted her teeth and said:
No one offends me, I don't offend!