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What Blade Runner references did you find?

posted 10 years ago by Luminousoctaves
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This movie is clearly packed with tributes to the classic 1982 sci-fi movie "Blade Runner".
Here are the ones I noticed:

- See-through plastic raincoats
- The turtle/tortoise on it's back
- Auto rickshaws
- The sounds of guns and shotguns.
- The egg boiler
- Dark city landscapes seen from above with commercial holograms along asian sounding music
- The city look with it's constant rain

Overall I found this dystopia better than expected. A strange mix of highs and lows. The atmosphere was amazing. It's good that it's slow. Casting was mostly excellent. But the plot didn't hold up until the end. Worth watching though.

[–] GeF_fEn 10 years ago

Yea, the whole prodution design basically. I also thought of BladeRunner when Banderas sent the message. The "fax" thing he used. I liked it.

[–] Luminousoctaves 10 years ago

True about the fax machine.

Listening to the soundtrack of Automata, which has it's moments, some of the parts sound very similair to the Vangelis soundtrack from 1982.

Actually, I don't mind Gabe Ibáñez stealing from "Blade Runner", he has probably done it better and more clever than Ridley Scott would have done (if he'd made a remake or a sequel).

Love the futuristic old school technology of Blade Runner, especially the "enhancing" image monitor.

[–] skerries-803-910622 10 years ago

I presumed the reason they used a fax was because it was land-line based as satellite communication was non-exist

[–] marty-130-840283 10 years ago

The cop at the start, stuffing narcotics up his nose

[–] monkeymechx 10 years ago

The dream sequences are very similar to the unicorn scenes in BR.

The lifeless desert is also from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.

[–] phlexonance 10 years ago

Now that you mention the gun sounds, I wonder why regular shotguns had that charging capacitor sound.

[–] tommyhj-1 10 years ago

You forget the blimps!

[–] martindear 10 years ago

Both had a Rachael - the wife and the replicant.

[–] JackMillion 9 years ago

I noticed the similarities too. I liked seeing them. I wasn't a huge fan of the movie, but I did enjoy it, oddly enough. I also noticed:

- the lighting in the apartment. There's this "diagonal" lighting that is in Decker's apartment, as well as the home in this film. (Correct me if I am wrong - it may have been another interior setting). In Decker's apartment, the lights in the room are up along where the ceiling and wall connect. It's like a long diagonally placed flat lighting structure. If they sell these, I want them!!!

- Main character wears a long coat. Maybe it's a stretch, but the coat the guy wears in Automata reminds me of Decker's long trench coat.

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