{"id":198410,"date":"2021-02-21T19:00:27","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T19:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/80s-movie-invented-tech-noir\/"},"modified":"2021-02-21T19:00:27","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T19:00:27","slug":"one-movie-both-invented-and-perfected-the-tech-noir-genre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/02\/21\/one-movie-both-invented-and-perfected-the-tech-noir-genre\/","title":{"rendered":"One Movie Both Invented And Perfected The Tech Noir Genre"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In his early career, before he had the freedom he has today, Ridley Scott was a master of taking directing assignments he could easily phone in and turning them into something groundbreaking. When Fox hired Scott to direct Alien<\/em>, the expectation was that he would helm a serviceable haunted-house-in-space B-movie. But he went a few steps further: Scott\u2019s razor-sharp command of pacing and tension ensured it would be remembered as one of the greatest horror films ever made<\/a>, while the allegorical nature of the xenomorph and H.R. Giger\u2019s hauntingly beautiful otherworldly designs made it one of the most profound works in sci-fi cinema. He would then apply his talent to a movie that basically invented the tech noir genre.<\/p>\n

When Scott was tapped to direct a film adaptation of Philip K. Dick\u2019s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?<\/em>, later retitled Blade Runner<\/strong><\/em>, his only obligation was to make an entertaining movie about a cop looking for robots in the future. But Scott went a few steps further again. He connected the central detective story to film noir and helmed Blade Runner<\/a><\/em> as one of the first-ever\u00a0tech noir films. Blade Runner<\/em> arguably contributed as much to establishing the neo-noir as Roman Polanski\u2019s Chinatown<\/em>, whose soul-crushing ending redefined the noir<\/a> as audiences knew it, as Scott\u2019s movie proved it was possible to bring in elements from other genres and still succeed as a complex, morally challenging entry in the noir canon.<\/p>\n

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Tech\u00a0noirs are ten a penny now that Blade Runner<\/em> has finally gotten the recognition it deserves and inspired a generation of filmmakers, and a few have come close to matching its perfect balance of the two genres \u2013 Ghost in the Shell<\/em> and Minority Report<\/em> are prime examples \u2013 but Blade Runner<\/em> remains the quintessential\u00a0tech noir<\/a>. It perfectly blends the two genres, both visually and thematically. The story of a detective hunting down artificial humans that have ingratiated themselves into a bustling urban society makes for a great noir, and the exploration of a futuristic metropolitan society and the speculative ethics of A.I. makes for great science fiction.<\/p>\n

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Scott expertly put a sci-fi spin on every well-worn noir trope to make it feel fresh and original. He gave the familiar stark lighting a neon tinge. He gave his hard-boiled alcoholic protagonist strange postmodern glassware to drink out of. Vangelis\u2019 iconic score utilizes the film noir\u2019s signature saxophone, but infuses it with the high-tech sounds of synthesizers. Morally dubious protagonists are a staple of the film noir, and in this spirit, Blade Runner<\/em>\u2019s protagonist has questionable ethics \u2013 but the ethics explored are all speculative. Genetic engineering and sentient artificial intelligence<\/a> have since become realities, but at the time Blade Runner<\/em> was made, it was a distant dream. Blade Runner<\/em> digs into the ethics of A.I. through the prejudices of its antihero.<\/p>\n

Rick Deckard is a grizzled, rule-bending gumshoe in the mold of Philip Marlowe or Sam Spade, except he\u2019s not on the trail of a gangster or a corrupt politician \u2013 he\u2019s on the trail of some robots. Harrison Ford couldn\u2019t have been more perfectly cast<\/a> as a space-age Bogart, and Deckard\u2019s interviews with potential replicants pose the ultimate sci-fi question of what makes us human. Sean Young\u2019s android character Rachael is coded as a femme fatale, but she\u2019s actually shown to be more of a victim, subverting the usual expectations of this trope. By the time Deckard spares her life, the audience has come to empathize with her enough to understand why.<\/p>\n

Most noirs explore urban decay with high crime rates and class division in a post-war society, but Blade Runner<\/em> takes a look through that lens from the near future<\/a>, with giant neon-lit ads and absurdly tall skyscrapers bearing down on dispassionate citizens and rows of refineries pumping smoke and fire into the over-polluted air. Scott even used the Bradbury Building as a filming location. The Bradbury Building has been seen in a ton of film noirs, including Double Indemnity<\/em>, D.O.A.<\/em>, Shockproof<\/em>, and The Unfaithful<\/em>. It\u2019s one of the most overused locations in the history of cinema, but Scott managed to shoot it in a way that made it feel unfamiliar. He dressed it up with Styrofoam columns and a canopy, lit the interior with revolving spotlights, put in a couple of smoke machines, and filled the place with trash to give it a ramshackle, dilapidated look, far from the white-collar prestige of Walter Neff\u2019s insurance office.<\/p>\n

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Like many classic noirs, Blade Runner<\/em>\u2019s final scene leaves the story on an ambiguous note. It\u2019s up to the viewer to decide if Deckard is a replicant or not. Thankfully, Denis Villeneuve refrained from resolving this mystery<\/a> in Blade Runner 2049<\/em> \u2013 one of the rare belated sequels to an untouchable masterpiece that actually satisfied fans of the original \u2013 keeping the ambiguity of Scott\u2019s film intact. Blade Runner<\/em>\u2019s ending refuses to provide the audience with closure, because Deckard himself doesn\u2019t get closure on whether his memories were implanted.<\/p>\n

Just as An American Werewolf in London<\/em> satisfies as both a comedy and a horror film, Blade Runner<\/em> is a hybrid-genre movie that fires on all cylinders and manages to succeed on both counts. It ranks with Sunset Boulevard<\/em> and Touch of Evil<\/em> among the greatest film noirs ever made, and ranks alongside 2001: A Space Odyssey<\/em> and Stalker<\/em> as one of the greatest sci-fi movies ever made<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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