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    FBR Homework Task Past speaks to the future in Frankenstein and Blade Runner. To what extent is this made evident in the texts that you have studied? Mary Shelley’s 19th century gothic novel Frankenstein and Ridley Scott’s 1982 film Blade Runner both explore the fears relevant to their contexts. While these texts were composed in different time periods‚ a parallel that exists between these texts involves man’s testing the established moral and ideals of the time. Both texts deal with the possible

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    Frankenblade. If society rejects the individual‚ the individual rejects society. This dichotomous relationship has an overarching impression that plays throughout both Blade Runner and Frankenstein in similar perspectives on how guardian/social responsibility‚ science and religion are thought of in society as well as how they impact individuals. The ways are shaped and moulded to their respective contexts to suit the contrasting opinions of the time is what creates different perspectives. Mary

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    Blade Runner and Frankenstein despite contextual differences reflect almost identical concerns transcending ethical boundaries for scientific advancement. While Blade Runner can be seen as offering a parallel plot to Frankenstein‚ Ridley Scott take the story of a creator and his being to new heights and answers questions Shelley left unsaid. Parity between both texts is driven in the meet the creators scene that demonstrate the fundamentally similar themes prevalent in both contexts‚ where the lines

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    Gros 1 Jamie Gros Professor Charpentier English 102 4 February 2013 The science fiction film Blade Runner is about cinematic vision. In the beginning of the film‚ a difference between the lens and mirror is shown. A close up of an eye is shown with flames which symbolizes the camera that has just shot the scene. Eye imagery occurs throughout the movie being the film’s obsessive exploration of the theme. The protagonist‚ Rick Deckard uses an “Esper machine‚” a high tech apparatus‚ to dissect

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    Narrative in Blade Runner

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    Blade RunnerBlade Runner”‚ based on the 1968 novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” by American writer Philip K. Dick‚ was adapted to a feature film in 1982 by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples. “Blade Runner” is a neo-noir science-fiction film about a dystopian Los Angeles in 2019 where a Blade Runner – Deckard – has to ‘retire’ four replicants who have escaped from an off-world colony. The film is directed by Ridley Scott and produced by Michael Deeley. Todorov’s narrative theory of

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    Frankenstein/ Blade Runner

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    Shelley’s 1818 Horror Science Fiction Print Novel‚ Frankenstein‚ written during the industrial revolution and Ridley Scott’s 1982 Action Science Fiction film Blade Runner‚ written as Social disillusionment and Environmental concerns became the prominent public issue. The idea of Science Playing God is emulated in both Frankenstein and Blade Runner. Firstly in Frankenstein the obvious notion is explored through Victor’s scientific construction of a human from the body parts of the dead and bringing it

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    Humanity In Blade Runner

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    Blade Runner Humanity Question of humanity continually appears throughout the film. What it takes to be human. Humans in the film are human but is it humanity‚ to have compassion spirit and emotion. Live in the darkness and day to day; the ones who never left to the off-world. Replicants started to achieve humanity where they begin to feel emotion and have morality about them (Roy saving Deckard’s life on the rooftop) Humans have lost what it means to be a good member of the human race

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    Despite being created in different political‚ social and cultural paradigms‚ a comparative study of Mary Shelley’s classic novel Frankenstein and Ridley Scott’s sci-fi cult film‚ ‘Blade Runner the Directors Cut’ reveals similar concerns and issues which are still relevant to a modern audience. Both Blade Runner and Frankenstein were written centuries apart‚ both being passed on Milton’s four century old epic poem‚ Milton’s Paradise Lost. This continuum of consideration highlights the continued significance

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    2010 English (Advanced) Paper 2: Texts in time Band 6 student sample Analyse how Frankenstein and Blade Runner imaginatively portray individuals who challenge the established values of their time. | Mary Shelley’s seminal novel Frankenstein and Ridley Scott’s cult classic film Blade Runner express the contextual concerns of the post-industrial and post modern eras respectively. Where Shelley’s novel operates as a Gothic expression of the conflicting paradigms of Romantic idealism and Enlightenment

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    Blade Runner Analysis To analyze the movie “Blade Runner” I started by watching the film (I had already seen it several times in the past) and then re-watching to analyze various scenes as well as get a more overall reaction to the work as a whole. The following analysis is more freestyle (based upon the notes I took while watching the film more closely the second time through) and my thoughts about the work as a whole will follow. Opening scene of a technological metropolis‚ but the fireballs

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