Blade Runner

Ridley Scott · 1982 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

In a rain-soaked Los Angeles of 2019, Deckard is pulled out of retirement to hunt four escaped replicants passing as human. His only tool is an empathy test, and the trail runs back through the corporation that built them. What is human when memory can be manufactured; the hunted teach the hunter how to die.

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Lineage

• influenced by ↑ Frankenstein
  Mary Shelley · 1818 CE · Novel
• adapts ↑ Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
  Philip K. Dick · 1968 CE · Novel
• ↑ Metropolis
  Fritz Lang · 1927 CE · Film — prefigures this

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