Disclaimer: I saw it before but I was really young and forgot everything apart how confusing and slow it is (I probably wasn't even 1)
This is an 1982 sci-fi film based on the book "Do androids dream electric sheep?" by Phillip K. Dick.Directed by Ridley Scott written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples produced by Micheal Deeley. The production was done by the Ladd Company and Warner Bros. It had a budget of 28,000,000 it has made 38,800,000 the film explores many themes the biggest are technology, slavery and identity. The film won awards for it's dramatic presentation, best cinematography, best set design, best costume and got a Czech lion award for best foreign film. The film follows a Blade Runner called Rick Deckard (A person who has to hunt down Replicants) who is looking for 6 replicants as 5 had committed mutiny and killed 12 people on their mining colony even though one was killed. One of the key scenes in the film is the climatic ending what is one of the best scenes in film and even though the lines are improvised they are amazing and so is the original lines (It has it's own Wikipedia page) there aren't really many films similar to this one could be the Alien film also from Ridley Scott as the crew didn't know that Ash is a android. After the film Ridley Scott went to make more films such as the Martian (2015), Gladiator (2000) and Prometheus (2012). Harrison Ford went on to star in more amazing films Regarding Henry (1991), The Fugitive (1993) and Cowboys and Aliens (2011). Unfortunately except for Daryl Hannah no other actors done anything as big as this. Daryl Hannah played Ellie Driver in Kill Bill vol.1 & 2. The film Blade Runner has many different versions there are about seven different versions of this one film. For this I shall be looking at performance and misc en scene.
In the climatic scene of the film we have Deckard chasing Batty. In this Deckard is hanging on his finger tips and just before he dies he is grabbed by Batty. For this very small bit I shall be talking about the performance. Batty says "Quite an experience to live in fear isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave." When Batty says this he has a sort of shocked and menacing look on his face, this would be to show that he's amazed that he has defeated Beckard even though he's going to die any second of old age of 3. It would also show the amazement that someone will have learned something form a replicant. After this and when he reaches down to pull Deckard up you can see the confusion on Deckard's face as he's just been saved. When Batty says his monologue Deckard clearly changes his feeling as it goes from confusion to understanding to learning to understanding. During the monolgue is being said Batty changes form looking menacing and arrogant to a sort of confused face as if he's forgetting something to then sounding as if he's on his death bed. To strengthen this his facial expression, body language and voice are in perfect harmony. Just before he says the words "Tears...in rain." just before he says this he coughs as if he's actually crying. When he then says after the words "Time...to die." he says them incredibly soft to truly connect with the audience with him throwing his head down showing he has died.
In the final scenes it is a fight between Batty and Deckard. For this I shall be talking about the misc en scene. During most of this Batty is nearly naked. This would be showing that he is having a few issues as he is looking absolutely mental and him aging has gotten allot worse. In another part when Deckard has gotten away he is seen pushing his fingers back into place while this goes on Batty has his hand clamping up showing that he is unable to stop himself from losing his fight not just with Deckard but actually with his life. To stop this he pushes a nail through his hand the two doing actions related with hands shows they have some sort of connection and that they are the same while being hugely different. During the climatic Batty is seen holding a dove very close. After Batty dies you can see the dove fly away. The dove is clearly representing Batty's life him holding the dove very close shows he doesn't want to let go of his life just yet. When the dove flys away it's clearly showing that he is dead, however the dove also appears as a symbol of hope as doves often are viewed like that. It could be telling the audience that Batty was a sign of hope the dark and depressing city had needed.
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