For my writing project comparing a movie to Frankenstein I chose the movie Blade Runner. The story of blade runner, with it’s creation of replicants and the father figure to the replicant Roy Batty, the story line has many similarities to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The story of Frankenstein is one that deals primarily with the idea of creation and what can go awry when humans take it into their own hands.
I am going to focus mostly on the scene when Roy approaches his ‘father’ concerning his dwindling life span and the viewers are exposed to a child like version of Roy when he takes his fathers head into his hands and kisses him and then the violent version when he gouges out his father’s eyes and kills him.
This is very similar to Frankenstein’s monster; he is created as a naïve creature who has a certain passion for his creator, but when Frankenstein refuses to create another monster to be his companion, similarly to Roy’s father refusing to extend his life span, he grows angry and violent.
Frankenstein and Blade Runner
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