Comparing Ridley Scotts Blade Runner and Philip K. Dicks Do Androids

comparing Ridley Scotts Blade kickoff and Philip K. Dicks Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? How do we deal that we be kind and, if we are humanity, what does it mean to be human? These twain philosophical inquiries are explored in great depth in Ridley Scotts flick Blade beginning, and of course the text of Philip K. Dicks wonderful novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? on which the flash is based. Most would agree that these themes outlive in the novel, scarce a handful of critics and academics have some dubiety as to their presence in the blast. If maven examines both the film and the text, one will realize that they both serve to support the aforesaid(prenominal) motifs, but do so in different fashions. Many critics argue that the awful visuals overwhelm the contents of the plot and theme, but I argue that the visuals personation Los Angeles in the year 2019 help to advance the themes. Viewers often lose the human side of the story or lack there of, and may object to the strong visuals for this reason. It can be argued that the visuals serve to portray a dehumanized world where only subtle signs of humanitys existence are disperse throughout, where existentialist notions such as what being human is and what being human means are not easily answered.To briefly summarize the plot, Harrison hybridizing stars as Rick Deckard, a cop from the future (blade runner) who tracks down and kills replicants, which are basically artificially created human beings. In other films, they are ordinarily referred to as androids. Specifically, his assignment is to find and kill five replicants who have flee from an off-world colony and come to earth. The most interesting parts of Blade Runner are Deckards interactions with the various replicants, especially Ra... ... also feel sympathy for Deckard. The film illustrates that both are in a struggle to become to a greater extent human, Deckard because he is slowly losing his humanity, and the android s because they have never had the experience of humanity, but desire it. This sympathy for both entities further reinforces the blur that Scott is creating between the android and the human. Because the film does this so effectively, we can easily ask the question, what makes a human to a greater extent than deserving of life than an android?Essentially, when all is said and done, Blade Runner is really a film about questions, questions that we should ask ourselves of humanity. What is a human? What does it mean to be human? Do humans have more of a right to life than replicants? Have humans and androids become the same thing? It is not so important that one answers these questions, but that he or she asks them.