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

Comparing Ridley Scotts Blade commencement and Philip K. Dicks Do Androids Dream of galvanic Sheep? How do we know that we be human and, if we are human, what does it mean to be human? These two philosophical inquiries are explored in great depth in Ridley Scotts image Blade Runner, and of course the text of Philip K. Dicks wonderful novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? on which the film is based. Most would agree that these themes pull through in the novel, but a handful of critics and academics have some doubt as to their presence in the film. If one examines both the film and the text, one depart realize that they both serve to support the same motifs, but do so in different fashions. Many critics argue that the awesome visuals overwhelm the table of contents of the plot and theme, but I argue that the visuals depicting Los Angeles in the year 2019 help to advance the themes. Viewers often miss the human side of the taradiddle or lack there of, and may object to the s trong visuals for this reason. It base be argued that the visuals serve to portray a dehumanized world where only clear-sighted signs of humanitys existence are dispersed throughout, where existentialist notions such as what being human is and what being human means are not easily answered.To presently summarize the plot, Harrison Ford 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 usually referred to as androids. Specifically, his assignment is to find and kill five replicants who have escaped 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 more human, Deckard because he is slowly losing his humanity, and the androids because they have never had t he 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 more 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? view as humans and androids become the same thing? It is not so important that one answers these questions, but that he or she asks them.