Blade Runner and New Brave Worlds Perspectives on...

Blade Runner and New Brave Worlds Perspectives on Humanity Ridley Scott’s film â€Å"Blade Runner: Director’s Cut† and Aldous Huxley’s novel â€Å"Brave New World† explore the concept of ‘In The Wild’ by focusing on the natural world and its rhythms falling victim to unbridled scientific development. They present a wedge that is divorcing man from his relationship with nature, in an attempt to define what it means to be ‘human’. Both texts depict chilling dystopic futures where the materialistic scientific and economic ways of thinking have been allowed to quash the†¦show more content†¦This era saw these materialistic multinational corporations, as symbolized by Tyrell, rise to enormous economic and political power. Due to the movements of the 60s and 70s against envi ronmental degradation, the state of the natural environment (eg: the ozone layer and industrialisation) was also a global anxiety for humanity. The utterly urban existence of â€Å"Blade Runner† is Scott’s prediction of 1980s America’s future as a society overrun by commercialism, globalization and consumerism where nature was being rapidly exhausted to allow for man’s unbridled thirst for technological development. These texts, in reflecting the concerns of when they were composed, caution man against drifting from nature. In their texts, the composers’ dramatic use of dystopic settings, illustrate humanity’s dislocation from traditional religious and philosophic ways of thinking. In â€Å"Blade Runner†, the panoramic camera shots of L.A. 2019 establish a hellish megalopolis through disorienting imagery of unnatural squalor and the domination of pagan edifices. Ironically,