Saturday, February 19, 2011

Science Fiction - Connecting Gritty Live-Action and Animation Through Wall-E and Blade Runner


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"Blade Runner is a dark, gritty science fiction film that �projects the nightmarish vision of the early twenty first century� (Bosnak 74). The city is dirty, overcrowded and chaotic due technology consuming society�s everyday lives. The film follows an ex-police officer Rick Deckard being forced out of retirement to hunt down and kill a group of escaped humanoid robots known as Replicants. It�s hard to imagine that such a horrific story would parallel Pixar�s animated film Wall-E in numerous ways. Scenery details, characterization and key symbolic items in both films correlate with one another. The difference in Wall-E and Blade Runner is in that they cross different genres, Wall-E with animation and Blade Runner with film noir (Doll and Faller 91). Naturally this cross produces different outcomes to particular situations, with Blade Runner obviously being far darker than Wall-E. Despite these differences, through looking at the science fiction genre and specific concepts and ideas within it, I am able to tie themes and situations in both films close together."

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