Blade runner/Brave new world comparative essay

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2006 In the Wild

The desire for control can have disastrous consequences and both Aldous Huxley's Brave new world and Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner :Directors cut" are dramatic futuristic depictions of potential worlds. Through the destruction and replacement of nature, natural processes and exploitation of freedom, controllers have turned the future worlds into dystopias, bringing to the fore consequences for the desire for control.

The destruction and replacement of nature in Brave new world is the world state's attempt at maintaining conformity and increasing control. "Civilisation is sterilisation", "a squat grey building" and "pale dead as a ghost...corpse coloured rubber", these are Huxley's bleak images of the world state. However, his depictions of the savage reservation where nature is limited to are "it's horrible it's horrible" and "infantile decorum". Lenina, as a product of her controlling and conditioning, finds no joy in nature and remains adamant about her "conditioning". This emphasises that in the world state's desire for control, and in the past WW1 context of Huxley, that disconformities and nature must be eliminated. This is further explored through Scott's opening long panoramic shot of a hellish megalopolis scatted with towering smoke stacks emitting intense fireballs. The film