Comparison Of Blade Runner And Do Androids Dream Of Electric

Vietnam War amidst Dick’s extreme paranoia at the time during the 1950s up to his death in 1982 that stemmed from his heavy drug use and his existential religious views which has directly impacted the aggression of the dystopia in this story. This story is a separate idea to anything that William Gibson was developing years later with cyberspace which has little or no involvement in any Philip K Dick novel.

That being said, in the novel (not the film) there was an example of virtual reality called an “empathy box” however you should not get this confused with cyberspace, virtual reality is a reality that encapsulates reality however cyberspace is a reality that is distant/its own from reality.

The film adaption of ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric

Cyberpunk is all about the “sensory overload” as stated in Sterling’s ‘Mirrorshades’ [1986] but is compared with Blade Runner by Paul M. Sammon (author for ‘Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner’ [2017]) to have the same “style” and states the qualities of the cyberpunk movement are “familiar” to the film. The idea of lighting and skylines are a similarity to what you might imagine of a cyberpunk although they are different in the sense that ‘Blade Runner’. The skyline is very close in description to the aesthetic and density that is described in Neuromancer however is placed in a different context. “The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel” gives the sense of artificial and electric, flickering lights of extreme detail. This is the kind of visual that you see in ‘Blade Runner’ although the film stems off 1980s apocalyptic futurism rather than the cybernetically, virtual and digitally infested land that Gibson writes. The colours and the light are the same, but the details are separate. Although similarities such as Japanese culture mixed with the western society has been shown within both fictional settings that have played a significant part in the narrative and aesthetic; the majority of the settings in Neuromancer take place in Japan as much as Blade Runner’s street scenes show plenty of Japanese signage and characters. They are separate in the respect that cyberpunk indicates a more aggressive urban environment than Blade Runner, with a stronger example of high tech mixed in with the low life. Blade Runner visualises a dystopia where artificial intelligence isn’t accepted but isn’t quite visualised despite the artificial colours and materials shown in comparison to the machine world of ‘The