Ridley Scott's View Of The New World

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In the film, Ridley Scott presents what is real and what is not in a variety of ways. He uses the replicants and the off-world colony to represent the ‘fake’ side of the film. The off-world colony was created so the healthy or ‘perfect’ humans can start a new world that is cleaner, easier and more liveable than Earth. However, because the new world is not shown in the movie, it is presented as an artificial place where the replicants live and do all the chores the humans do not want to do. Despite that, Scott uses dark lighting and a very polluted atmosphere to create Earth. There are many faceless people in the film which creates the idea that no one else matters besides the blade runners and the replicants, he has also incorporated the predominant