Blade Runner Opening Analysis

Blade Runner Opening Analysis

To begin the film is opened with an establishing shot as the camera is moving in onto the futuristic city, which has biblical connotations of hell. We can identify this as the statues are producing fire and the environment of the foreign city is a set mood of darkness as there is no visual of a sky of any sort other than the polluted air, which is visible to us (the audience)…

Straight away in this opening sequence we can tell that the genre of the film is science fiction due to the dystopian setting with the special effects and the suspense of the introductory music and with this we can tell that something has gone extremely wrong on Earth, which is a mystery to us as viewers, so early in the film.

The next shot type used is an extreme wide shot. The camera is moved onto the pyramids forwards which draws the audience into this nightmarish world, also during this we can tell that the director has done this to create a sense of space around the pyramid and how bad the dystopian world is. The pyramid has connotations of it being the centre of power as there is no sign of government yet and also with references from Egyptian pyramids and the power Pharaohs had through the Egyptian culture back then.

Next is the Extreme Close Up of the eye. This denotes a hidden identity but also connotes that this person is taking in the world, which ties to emotions within the film as the unnatural world is visually destroyed.