Blade Runner was made by Ridley Scott (Thelma and Louise, Gladiator etc) in 1982. It was a ground-breaking vision of the future which has been copied again and again since. It was based on a book by Philip K Dick called Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?...
Wierd title I know, but let me explain - both the book and the film are about the nature of what it means to be human. In the future depicted by Dick in the book animals are so rare that owning a real one (rather than a synthetic copy) is seen as a status symbol. The central character ponders the question: if I dream of owning a real sheep, do androids dream of owning android sheep?
Of course it's much deeper than that, but you can appreciate this theme - if androids dream at all, what's the difference between them and humans? Androids are copies of humans, but when the copy is as real as the real thing, the definition of 'real' is called into question. Perhaps I'm not real. Perhaps you're not real etc.
Anyway - what I want you to do is real the article Blade Runner's Postmodern Legacy which can be found on Blackboard (http://vle.havering-college.ac.uk/) or on this link http://cinemism.com/2009/05/25/the-details-blade-runners-postmodern-legacy/
It might be quite hard going at times, but read it and respond in some way on your postmodernism blog. I'm looking for 200-300 words on what you learned from the article. I'm not expecting full comprehension, just whatever you got from it.
Do this for next lesson.
