Auteur Signature Film Form

• long establishing shot
• film noir style – dull,cold and detective in his office vibe
• german expressionism
• arc (?) lights and strong shadows
• low key lighting
• shifts in genre – science fiction/film noir
• neon colours
• ECU pf the eye with flame going around the side – as we don’t know who it is, it could just be in the movie because it looks nice which Scott really cares about. It could be about question of identity as well.

New Hollywood Film Form

• composite images and lens flare
• text exposition
• non-diegetic heart beating sound (during/start of turtle story)
• machine beeping
• low key lighting – LA – cold
• slow paced shots – low cutting rate
• no explanation of why LA is like that
• no explanation of how Tyrel corp is so powerful
• Pyramids – power symbol
• fire coming out of stacks
• flying cars – metropolis
• mundane grey office – parody of modern day office that contrasts to outside. Isolated from everyone else
• light coming into the office but it is dark outside
• action reaction shot (CU and MS) of talking
• heart beeping
• double speak

Production Context 

• forced perspective – miniatures of the city made with LED lights (computer moved the camera?)
• Voight – Rompf machine made to look like it was breathing – links to the replicants
• low key lighting and fog to hide the set
• Budget change
• Song made for the film

Themes and motifs 

• themes – neo-liberalism, fear of technology, fear of something new, fossil fuels are used in the world which is dirty (environmental fears)

Representation 

• no children – fear of AI/replicants taking the place of children and/or the replicants are the children/represent children
• the officer is a man
• woman on the advertisement – only woman we have seen so far and advertising is dominating the world in general
• asian influence

Political Context 

• Asian influence
• Resemblance of Tyrel building to cathedral of light (Nazi’s) – looks similar and the light at the top – power that it represents as well
• cold war
• fear of technology – nuclear bomb and cold war
• in the 80’s technical advancements were mainstream
• Tyrel’s power – capitalism
• reliance on fossil fuels – no wind farms, fire
• neo-liberalism