Postmodernism & Blade Runner
Postmodernism & Blade Runner
Postmodernism
1) One of the characteristics of postmodernism is reflexivity, or an act of self-reference.
2) Mast and Kawin identify Ed Wood (homage to the tone of Ed Wood) and
Grease (its ironic distance from the era it portrays – the 1950s) as postmodern.
3) Postmodern films typically set out to be free of conventional resolution.
4) They avoid grand narratives that communicate “either/or.”
5)Postmodern texts seek to be many things at once.
Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)
1) blurs the line between human and machine
(but other postmodern films can also blurs the boundaries between gender and sex, gay and straight,
or black and white).
2)The replicants in Blade Runner are simulacra (copies, likenesses) and the architecture is too
(the Tyrell corporate headquarters looks like a replica of a pyramid).
3)The postmodern principle at work in Blade Runner is pastiche, a series of neutral quotations
mimicking various architectural styles and film styles.
4)Everything is double coded (everything is a replicant or simulacra).
5)The film quotes noir but is not a parody.
Intro to Blade Runner clip
In the following clip from Blade Runner, Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer), the leader of the renegade Nexus-6 replicants and the main antagonist of the film, delivers the "Tears in Rain" monologue. Mark Rowlands describes as "perhaps the most moving death soliloquy in cinematic history." Batty's monologue reflects on mortality and the difference between human/replicant.
Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982):
Tears in the Rain clip Click Here
Wikipeduda Article on Tears in the Rain monologue
Click Here
Interesting tip i foung
Ford hated the idea, saying: "I felt that the audience needed to have someone on-screen that they could emotionally relate to as though they were a human being."
He believed they had an agreement that the film would not pursue this angle but Scott secretly started weaving in clues and hints that Deckard wasn't human, like the unicorn dream (which was cut but appears in later versions).
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