Blade Runner Movie And Book Comparison

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The year 1982 saw the arrival of Blade Runner, a loose film adaptation of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? directed by Ridley Scott. Within the following year's different versions of the film were released; for this paper will focus on the 1992 director’s cut of Ridley Scott’s film. While Blade Runner diverges basically from its source novel, one factor in which both the novel and film have in common is that they both focus extensively on a similar issue. In each of the two adaptations future a protagonist who is charged with the task of recognizing androids as distinct from human, this displays an ethical quandary. However, since Scott’s film adaption differs by and large from Dick’s novel, it may be argued that both the film and novel
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