More Than One Genre: The Blade Runner

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Mutli-generic means that the film has a mixture of genres, it has more than one genre. The Blade Runner is defiantly a science fiction along with film noir. The Blade Runner is a film noir because of the dark and rainy atmosphere in the movie, it’s always dark in the city which gives us the suspenseful felling, and the movie has a really unsatisfying ending where he kills the humanoid that wanted to live. Science fiction because it concentrated on a human creation which was genetically engineered humanoids and it is set in the future. This genre focuses on humanity’s relationship with science as well as technology. Blade Runner concentrates on the effects of technology on the world in the future. Blade Runner is very much like Frankenstein

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