Futuristic Mix of Old and New Technology in Film

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It is natural for films based on novels to different in formats, such as the setting. Scotts films imagery differs greatly from Dicks vision in the novel although they have the same story plot. Even though Scott left out and changed most of the settings in the film, he still provided Dicks vision of a futuristic mix of old and new technology.
In the film Blade Runner the world is and environmental disaster in Los Angeles 2019. Scott’s image adds a futuristic lifestyle such as flying cars, billboard fixed projections screens, and exotic food vendors. He sets the first scene of the film with world war Teminous, after the war is over the city of Los Angeles in 2019, which is filled with futuristic flying cars, skyscrapers, and bombs going off through the city. The city is polluted and overly crowded with societies upper class and lower class. The cities over crowdedness gives an imagery of dreariness and environmental decay to the setting. In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep the books first setting starts in the main characters, Derckards, house. Deckard and his wife start a casual conversation in his living room and there arguing makes the setting of the house seem a little off and dark. The film does not stick to the books plot and has nothing in common in the first scene.
The second scene in both medias still lack a sense of connection. In the film, China town is futuristic and has an over whelming amount of people which gives more of an illusion that society is still alive and running. The town was displayed in the film with a variety of people walking around the city and buying from food vendors. The city looked so packed that people trying to get around the city would walk without having any space for any other type of ...

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...e full of dusty furniture that looks like no one has touched in years. The description in the book can lead the readers to believe that the setting is very dark and mysterious. These two settings contradict each other because, one is futuristic and seems to be a very important office with all of its new technology and the novels setting provokes one to imagine an old warehouse that hasn't been used in many years. The films setting gives more of an idealistic tone to the imagery that helps the setting unfold itself in each scene compared to the book but the books setting has more figurative language and lets the readers imagine the setting as they read which gives the book a different tone. Both the book and the film use a great description for the setting which allows the reader to either imagine the settings as they please or to look at straight from the scene.

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