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    DECKARD: Deckard‚ a so called ‘Blade Runner’‚ of a violent group of artificial human beings called replicants. As Deckard hunts them down‚ one by one‚ and attempts to eliminate them (which is now dubbed as putting into retirement)‚ the replicants themselves conduct their own quest to find and confront their creator before Deckard destroys them. As the replicants themselves appear more human as the film goes on‚ Deckard himself is challenged by the thought that he might be a replicant himself.

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    and perhaps in games" [1] Christopher Vogler in The Writer ’s Journey: Mythic Structure for Storytellers and Screenwriters‚ adapting his paradigm from Joseph Campbell ’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces and Vladimir Propp ’s Morphology of the Folktale [2]‚ makes claim that ’all stories consist of a few common structural elements found universally in myths‚ fairy tales‚ dreams and movies ’ [3]. Syd Field‚ author of The Screen Writer ’s Workbook [4]‚ also outlined a paradigm that most screenplays follow

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    suspenseful and have beautiful on-screen picture since no one would be entertained by a long‚ dull‚ confusing movie. The novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? experienced this firsthand when it was stripped and redrawn into its sister movie‚ Blade Runner. Although much of the original story is preserved‚ several aspects of its original plot were omitted‚ and new ones were added. The

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    Real World Connector In the chapter Church‚ I felt a connection with Kiowa. “Not a minister‚” he said‚ “but I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there‚ like you’re in a forest and everything’s really quiet‚ except there’s still this sound you can’t hear”. The way I relate to this part is the same way I feel when I go to a temple (similar to a church) I feel the same way. When I go to the temple I sit there and listen to the prayer. But when I get into the

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    The Effect of Drop Height on Bounce Height with Golf Balls Abstract: The effect of bounce height and drop height with a Titleist golf ball and Top Flight golf ball was observed from three different heights. The first golf ball used while conducting this experiment was the more expensive option‚ “Titleist”‚ which has a softer core and is therefore expected to have less bounce. The second golf ball used in this experiment was a ball with a different interior structure than the first. A less

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    Blade Runner The film Blade Runner is based on the science fiction novel ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ written by Philip K. Dick (Abadzis). Blade Runner is set in the United States city of Los Angeles in the year 2019 where humans have discovered genetic engineering. Through this‚ they have found ways of manufacturing organic robots‚ which are replicates of humans. The manufacturing industries have grown to be the major industries all over the world. According to the film

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    portrayal of women‚ in my opinion‚ is that we are either objects of desire or subservient to the more "superior" gender‚ that is‚ men. In Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner and Theresa Cha’s Dictee‚ women are‚ indeed‚ portrayed in different ways. I want to compare the representation of women from both works of art. Ridley Scott’s science fiction classic‚ Blade Runner‚ is a story that takes place in the future- 2019 to be exact. There are two things that struck me about this film‚ the first being that its style

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    Blade Runner- Film Noir Technique Christine Groom Stuart 9/22/10 Debate rages over the definition of what constitutes a Film Noir. The consensus seems to center on the time period in which noir films were created which is early 1940’s through late 1950’s. It was an era of film making that used low budget sets‚ light and dark elements of lighting‚ altered space (sparse)‚ and sharp photographic focus shot at odd angles. Scripts were often based on pulp novels from the 1930’s. The protagonist

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    or replicants vs humans. Deckard’s dramatic need in BR is to hunt and kill four "nexus 6" replicants that are considered dangerous to humans. Another plot is the romance between Deckard‚ human‚ and Rachel‚ replicant. Further‚ film analysts and Blade Runner fanatics frequently ask the question as to whether Deckard himself is a replicant; his glowing eyes‚ and his fascination for photos are some of the hints which suggest that he is‚ as photos were a way for replicants to tie themselves to their

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    within Mary Shelley ’s 19th century gothic novel ’Frankenstein ’ (1818) and Ridley Scott ’s dystopian science fiction film ’Blade Runner ’ (1992) as both pose markedly similar existentialist discourses regarding the fate of humanity. Through ’Frankenstein ’‚ Shelley ’s romantic approach condemns humanitys intrusive assumption as creator during an era where scientific hubris prompted people to abandon the metaphysical aspects of life‚ whereas Ridley Scott composes ’Blade Runner ’ during the modern

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