In the tradition of hard-boiled detective fiction, the film’s first scenes follow a private investigator (Harrison Ford) as he calls on some of the masters of this capitalistic world. Above all, the cityscape proclaims through its manifold logos that it is a construct of powerful corporations. ![]() ![]() The city’s crowds make up a multilingual mass exhibiting a dazzling plurality of ethnic or subcultural dress codes. Los Angeles streets bathe in the glare of ubiquitous advertising graphics-neon signs, giant screens on the face of skyscrapers, floating dirigibles blaring out commercial messages. Viewers discover a tangle of urban canyons, fire-spouting oil refineries, and huge pyramid-shaped high-rises. The film opens with a panoramic view of an industrial megalopolis identified in screen captions as 2019 Los Angeles. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968), depicts a world Emile Zola, Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, John Dos Passos, and Raymond Chandler might have claimed as their own. ![]() Ridley Scott’s film Blade Runner (1982), based on Philip K.
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