“What I do is to think about why things are the way they are now, combine that awareness with how things were, are now and may be brought into reality. “I do not claim to ‘define the future,” said Mead in interview with Design Trophy about his influential work.
A great deal of this is credited to the unique approach of visual futurist Syd Mead (that’s his official credit on “Blade Runner”), who collaborated closely with Scott and his artisans for months before production. There’s an element of melancholy incorporated into the story, one that’s deeply rooted in its visual design. Often one of the first things that is written about “Blade Runner” is that despite its cold, emotionally distant future, the film feels nostalgic. A Recognizable Los Angeles One Syd Mead’s preliminary concept designs for “Blade Runner” © 1982 The Blade Runner Partnership, All RIghts Reserved “When you create a film dealing with humans and cyborgs, you have no choice but to refer back to Ridley Scott’s ‘Blade Runner,’ as this movie is probably the foundation of movies with this theme,” said Oshii in 2004 interview. It’s a connection that filmmakers like Christopher Nolan, the Wachowskis, and “Ghost in the Shell” visionary Mamoru Oshii readily acknowledge. As a result, the international film market has increasingly gravitated toward this futuristic setting defined by technology - bleeding into genre re-defining superhero movies (“Dark Knight”), action movies (“The Matrix”) and anime (“Ghost in the Shell”) - for which “Blade Runner” is the visual touchstone. Ridley Scott and his team of incredible technicians built a futuristic Los Angeles that was the perfect extension of the near-future dystopia sci-fi authors were writing about in their books.Īs the role technology plays in our daily lives has grown exponentially since the ’70s and ’80s, the themes of the cyberpunk movement have permeated all aspects of popular culture. What made “Blade Runner” groundbreaking was it created the visual look, atmosphere, and world of cyberpunk. Dick’s 1968 novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?,” which “Blade Runner” is based on. The exploration of the moral and philosophical quandaries that would come with computers and artificial intelligence was present in science fiction books dating back to the ’60s and ’70s - including Philip K.
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