Humanity
What makes you human - ie are the Replicants human. People have friends/family contact are Replicants
Basically Frankenstein - man plays God, creation destroys him
Roy enters eye shop in shadow, slight low angle, at end bathed in unnatural blue light
Identity
When the Replicants find out their memories are fake, it brings into question what makes you you
After Rachel finds out she's a replicant she's lit from the back in harsh white light
Dystopia
Japanese imagery - foreign threat
High contrast light, smoke effects - industry. Iconography - pyramid
Ridley Scott Thematic Traits:
Dystopian Futures
Identity
Humanity
Isolation
Corporation Corruption
Aesthetic Traits:
High contrast colour low key lighting
Shooting through smoke
Long landscape establishing shots
Cinematography
used for world building rather than narrative (possibly because the
world is more interesting than the characters, at least the protagonist
Eye close ups
Even in 1982 still has ideas of toxic masculinity - women like forceful men
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