Monday, September 23, 2019

Blade Runner Analysis

The Blade Runner scene starts in a dystopian world which
creates a dark, monochromatic atmosphere, however, the music
which is created from the diegetic music played in the
street, is an opposite to the representation of the scene as
the music is very jazzy and romantic. The shot is started
with establishing shot of the street in the city. In the
establishing shot, we get the sense of the surrounding, with
the rain. The rain is used through pathetic fallacy as rain
gives a sense of a sad and gloomy atmosphere. The scene cuts
to a close up of Deckard at a minibar in the street when is
approached by a character. Deckard's character emotions
portray a bothered and annoyed look, meaning hed preferred if
he was left alone. The scene changes to Deckard being
forward tracked by the AI which is followed by a fight scene
that brakes out, used with Foley sounds to give the
impression of a hard-hitting punch on Deckard, the dialogue
of the Ai is portrayed with aggression as you can hear the
grittiness in his voice. As an over the shoulder shot of
Deckard being held by the AI, we hear a gunshot without
seeing it, this is a shock towards the viewers and the
characters as we both don't know where it came from. Then the
scene cuts to a shot of Rachael at a low angle shot holding
a gun saying shes the powerful character in this situation,
which was pointing towards the two other men. The frozen
expression of Deckard tells us that he doesn't know what going
on as he couldn't see who shot the AI. Throughout the entire
sequence, the way the director has positioned the shots
within the characters, creates a crammed world, as in the
shots you can see so much being presented in one shot. The
characters within the shots have been positioned within the
rule of thirds to give an organized flow to the scenes with
many over the shoulder shots during the dialogue of each character.

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