1.
Bladerunner was made in 1982 but set in 2019 Los
Angeles.
2.
The scenario is Japan won WWII not the US. That
is why we see the Japanese images spread across LA.
3.
I asked you look for Japanese images in the
film.
4.
The movie is a science fiction dystopia. There
are film noir ideas, but we can think about that later.
5.
What does the unicorn represent in mythology?
Purity, innocence and power. I was taught the unicorn represents uniqueness,
one of a kind ability, rare talent.
6.
Why is the unicorn a Japanese image in
Bladerunner? How does the director twist it and why?
7.
Notice the old pictures probably of old family
members on the piano. Decker is a cold man with not much emotion. Why does he
have them? Androids steal their memories from pictures. Remember they only live
four years.
8.
Misogyny: hatred (violence) for women. That is
the third scene that is violent toward women.
9.
10.
“The flame that burns
Twice as bright burns half as long.”
People that die young are often the
greatest. Old people just burn out.
11. Ray
Bradbury is a great science fiction writer. Paying homage to.
In Good Will Hunting, the shrink says “It’s not your fault.”
When an adult hits a child, the adult is always wrong. Adults should not hit
children for so many reasons. Yet, children think they deserve to be hit
because they were bad, naughty, lazy, got bad grades, etc.
Psychologist can’t prescribe medicine.
Psychiatrist can prescribe medicine.
Now we can use a narrator to do a voice over in the movie to
explain what is going on. Before we had movies and went to the theater, if we
needed a narrator, the actor would stop acting and start talking to the
audience to explain what was going on. This is called a soliloquy. In the
studio version, there is a narrator. Actually the director did not want a
narrator as he believes the film, if it is good, would explain itself. In the
director’s cut, the narrator is removed. But Ridley Scott used a soliloquy.
He has his own memories. He has experiences that humans
could not imagine. That makes him kind of human. I think the dove (metaphor) is
his soul. There are some cultures that believe birds take your soul up.
Two Biblical ideas here. The nail in the hand. Jesus also
died unfairly. But some movement came after Jesus died called Christianity. It
is raining the whole movie. The flood that came to end the world when Noah took
the animals on the ark.
How can the director make the unicorn, a very Western idea,
Japanese? Origami.
Movies are divided by scenes.
Play (performances) by acts. Shakespeare usually used five
acts in a play.
Books are separated by chapters. Some people say the Coen
Brothers wanted to show early Pulp Fiction with cowboys and the west of
America. They used stories by Jack London.
Genres
1.
Horror
2.
Comedy
3.
Coming of age / drama
4.
western and musical
5.
Gangster
Western: Europe and America
western: cowboy
1.
Misanthrope: someone (usually smart) who hates
most people
2.
Shakespearean plot. The story is Shakespearean,
it means you can understand the conclusion in ten different ways.
Dead Man’s hand: two black aces and two black eights
Buster has a good hand, but he does not want to play it
because it is unlucky. He is superstitious. That is the hand that Wild Bill
Hickock had when someone shot him in the back of the head.
This is before there were trains in America. So people had
to use a chuckwagon. It is really dangerous because the Indians. They have to
go together for protection. It’s called a wagon train. They finished the train
east to west in the 1870s.
