Early in the 21st century, the Tyrell Corporation, advanced robot evolution into the nexus phase - a being virtually identical to a human - known as a replicant. These replicants had superior strength and quality, they were used off-world as slave labo...

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How does Ridley Scott use Misen Scène to create an effective atmosphere in Blade Runner?

Early in the 21st century, the Tyrell Corporation, advanced robot evolution into the nexus phase - a being virtually identical to a human - known as a replicant. These replicants had superior strength and quality, they were used off-world as slave labour in a colonization of other planets. However they still only have a four year life span and have no feelings and emotions. They were treated almost like robots and “coffee making machines, as they were slaves.” After a bloody mutiny in an off world colony, Replicants were declared illegal on earth, under the penalty of death. Special police squads known as Blade Runner Units had the job to kill any trespassing replicants.

Rick Deckard (played by Harrison Ford), ex-cop, ex-Blade Runner, and ex-killer, is forced by the police boss to return to his former profession of Replicant Hunter (Blade Runner.)

He is assigned to eliminate four Replicants who fled the slavery of the colonies and came to Earth. Before starting the job Deckard visits the Tyrell Corporation where he meets Rachel, a “Replicant” girl created as an experiment, with whom he falls in love with.

After some investigations, he is able to discover the first of the four Replicants, Zhora. There starts a relentless pursuit through the streets of the Metropolis in which Deckard succeeds in eliminating Zhora but is himself attacked by another of the replicants, Leon. Just as Deckard is about to be killed, Rachel intervenes and shoots the Replicant, saving Deckard's life. There are still two Replicants remaining, Pris and Roy. Roy is their leader and the most advanced Replicant of all. They fight it out in a concluding battle.

Director, Ridley Scott put in $25 million to the Burbank, California made film. This storyline of the film is actually based on Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep? It took a whole sixteen weeks to shoot the whole film. When the film first came out it was very poorly received in terms of Critical Response and media. This was a surprise as it was meant to be a new improved version of the former 1982 version. This new Blade Runner: Director’s Cut was released in 1992, one major change was the extra fifteen seconds “unicorn running through woods” scene.

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Misen Scène is a word borrowed from the French theatre. It is actually everything on screen including scenery and the props used. The setting, costumes and lighting are also essential in an opening scene. It is essential in all films, as so much of the appearance and audience’s attention goes directly there. Scott has also used Film Noir which implies to the film, set forty years hence and made in the styles of forty years ago.

The film has a Cyber Punk genre, cyber being all the electronic things and gizmos and punk being the disruptive, rebellious street level. This ...

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