Blade Runner and Its Connection to the Overall Discussion of Artificial Intelligence


 

-       Blade Runner Info

- Release Date: June 25, 1982

- Director: Ridley Scott

-Main Storyline: Within the film, the Tyrell Corporation developed a kind of artificial intelligence in the form of “replicants” who look and act like humans. When these replicants begin to rebel on an off-Earth colony, they then become illegal on Earth. As the story continues the viewer meets a member of the police force tasked with destroying these replicants. 

 

-       Notes taken throughout film

-takes place in the year 2019

- in the first initial scene two men sit across from each other and one man must take a test using hypothetical questions 

-in the middle of a question regarding his mother the man shoots the interviewer

-Deckard is known as a “Blade Runner” (destroyer of replicants)

-interviews a woman named Rachael who is not human he interviews her, and the creator says Nexus’s mission is to reach a consensus “more human than human”

-decker finds scale of animal in bathtub

-he figures out the woman in the photo and kills her

-he sees Rachel and is told to kill her but then the replicant tries to kill him

-Quote: “I’m not in the business, I am the business”- Rachel

-Quote: “I think Sebastian therefore I am”

-replicant named Roy kills the creator

-Deckard kills Pris

-Roy chases Deckard around the house while howling 

-Quote: “Quite an experience to live in fear isn’t it that’s what it’s like to be a slave”-Roy

-Roy catches Deckard as he’s about to fall

-animals are supposed to be extinct but he is holding a dove

-Quote: “I’ve seen things you would not believe”

-Roy dies, the dove flies away

- “Time to die” meaning: gets to a point where he acknowledges his experiences and then accepts his fate in death

-decker tries to save Rachael

-origami unicorn is found in Deckard’s apartment

-Deckard leaves with Rachel

 

 

-       Phillip K. Dick Notes

-1928-1982

- American science-fiction writer

-Notable work, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, that was adapted into the film Blade Runner 

- He wrote 44 novels and about 121 short stories

- often questions the nature of humanity and the viability of reality itself

-also was burdened by deteriorating mental health, visions, and “paranormal experiences”

-literary works explore the possibilities of the future and the workings of the modern world

-within the science fiction literature and film genre he played a key role in outlining the dangers of futuristic technology and the effects of dystopian surroundings on individuals within the existing society

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