![]() How do you create a dystopian future set 30 years after the most perfect dystopian future has already been created? Villeneuve and Gassner decided that rather than reinventing ‘the future’ they would draw on and extend the mood and themes of the first film. Sci-fi movies have covered so much ground since the first film’s release in 1982 that reimagining the future is a tough job if you want to be original. Production Designer Dennis Gassner and Set Decorator Alessandra Querzola created, as beautifully puts it: “deeply atmospheric sets that not only conveyed the solitude and loneliness at the heart of the film, but offered the director, cinematographer and actors distinctive worlds within a world”. 2049 builds on the narrative and visual themes of the original and further evolves the quest to define what differentiates human feelings and responses from those of AI – a topic that gets hotter by the day. Officer K discovers a long-buried secret which leads him to track down former blade runner Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) who has been missing for thirty years. Set thirty years after the original and directed by Denis Villeneuve, Blade Runner 2049 centres around the story of young blade runner K (Ryan Gosling). How do you create a dystopian future when the perfect dystopian future has already been defined? Blade Runner 2049Ī new blade runner (Ryan Gosling), finds a secret leading to a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) who has been missing for 30 years. The only thing missing on my visit that day was the pouring rain – weather is as important to the original film as much as it is to the eagerly awaited follow-up ‘ 2049‘. I wanted to immerse myself in a Blade Runner-esque scene and with its chaos of neon and outsized, talking advertising screens, it did not disappoint. When I visited Tokyo for the first time at the invitation of the British Embassy 14 years ago, high-up on my to-do list was a visit to Akihabara or “electric city” as it is known. Harrison Ford as Deckard in Blade Runner (1982) Based on Philip K Dick’s book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Blade Runner explores what it means to be human and was probably the first film to fuse science fiction with film noir. It painted a distinct, visionary picture of a dystopian future whose cultural impact permeates to this day. ![]() Set in 2019, Ridley Scott’s original Blade Runner (1982) isn’t just a well loved sci-fi movie, it’s a cult. ![]() Given the technological, political and environmental news that has hit us over the last few months, the choice and design of many of these objects predict the future with more insight than one might realise. Here I share my opinions on the hidden narrative behind these objects, supplemented by fascinating facts gleaned from conversations with the movie’s Set Decorator Alessandra Querzola SDSA and Concept Artist Mike Hill. I took this opportunity to dissect and discuss my favourite artefacts in the film. I was delighted to give a talk at a recent screening of Blade Runner 2049 hosted at the stunning The Conran Shop showroom in London’s Fulham Road in collaboration with Sony. Life imitates art: 6 key artefacts in Blade Runner 2049 and the hidden stories they tell.
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