ADVANCED MODULE A Frankenstein and Blade Runner Faced with similar challenges against long held values both Frankenstein and Blade Runner express similar concerns and developed concepts that were almost the same as they tried to stop science and technology from eroding fundamental values. However‚ given the almost 200 year difference it is inevitable that they express their concerns differently. Both Frankenstein and Blade Runner examine the consequences of Man usurping God’s role as creator and
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Character Notes Rick Deckard Rick Deckard is a “Blade Runner”‚ a special agent in the Los Angeles police department employed to hunt down and “retire” replicants‚ played by Harrison ford. He is a hard-boiled sort of character meaning he is dominated by an over riding cynicism and a generally fearless composure combined with great strength and skill. He is the engine behind which the audience can place their faith in for humanity‚ as they watch how he reacts to the replicants‚ in particular
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Module A Essay Plan Introduction: - Texts; o Blade Runner – Ridley Scott (1982) o Frankenstein – Mary Shelley (1818) - Both texts deal with issues of nature‚ monstrosity‚ creator vs creation and man playing God‚ as well as challenging the notions of traditional humanity. - The issues dealt with in the text can be clearly linked with the context in which they were written. - Despite being written in different centuries one can draw clear links between
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when an individual thinks of Artificial Intelligence a few things come to mind such as the HAL 9000 system‚ known as “the inimitable star of the classic Kubrick and Clarke film ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’”(Picard 2001)‚ others will think of the movie “Blade Runner”‚ this film featured an alternate future where a group of individuals were responsible for tracking down cyborg humans known as “Sims” which were so human like they actually were unaware that they weren’t actually humans (Scott‚ Fancher et al.
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In Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner‚ the viewer is forced to determine what separates the human population from the replicant population and determined if Deckard is just in retiring the replicants. By blurring the line of what distinguishes replicant from human within the movie‚ Scott intends to break down the barrier that exists between human and replicant. This barrier is definitively defined by the human experience from a human’s perspective ultimately making the gap between what is human and what
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good arguments‚ but with modern testing and with the proof of growth in society that comes with technology it can be hard to believe everything he says. Carr’s beliefs on artificial memory run side by side with some major plot points in the film “Blade Runner.” Nicholas Carr makes the case that it’s not just the content of our thoughts that are changed by the phones and computers we use‚ but also the make up of our brains. Our ability to have certain kinds of thoughts and experiences can
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Even since the beginning of time man has pushed the limits of knowledge‚ and with every new discovery there are pros and cons‚ we have all heard the saying curiosity killed the cat and ignorance is bliss. Despite the great gulfs of time in-between the writing of both texts‚ they both portray the same themes central to the story as the context of both texts was of a time of great social and technological change. An idea that is present in Scott’s Blade Runner and Shelley’s Frankenstein is they
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Frankenstein and Blade Runner Frankenstein * Prometheus represents on who has defied and challenged the natural order; one who has transgressed on forbidden territory. His actions are not couched in connotations of courage or heroism but recognised as reckless and without any thought to the possible consequences. * Victor earns disregard and disdain through his insufferable egotism and unprincipled and reckless judgement. Time and time again‚ he fails to take responsibility for his own actions
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In what ways does a comparative study accentuate the distinctive contexts of Frankenstein and Blade Runner? Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner are texts that explore the same underlying anxieties and values in humanity. Even though they are constructed nearly 200 years apart‚ the same feelings exist. At the time of composition‚ and‚ through their literary work‚ the authors examine their place in the world. With the proliferation of scientific technology
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Shelley’s gothic novel Frankenstein (1818) which draws upon galvanism and the industrial movement and Ridley Scott’s film Blade Runner (1992) which has been heavily influenced by Thatcherism and Reagonomics. Despite there being over 150 years between their compositions both these texts explore several common themes such as mankind’s loss of humanity and man attempting to play God. Through the exploration of these common thematic concerns and the universal depiction of protagonists and societies obsessed
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