Blade Runner is considered by many as the ultimate postmodern film about the city. Director Ridley Scott drew a lot on his experience with commercials. The paranoid science fiction story on which the film was based -'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?'- was written by Philip K. Dick.The set design by Syd Mead and the famous special effects by
Douglas Trumbell created an ingenious visual spectacle of a city in 2019. Harrison Ford's task as Blade Runner is to capture
and eliminate six 'replicas' in the Los Angeles of 2019. These replicants were generated with pieces of DNA and can hardly be distinguished from real human beings. Blade Runner is a gothic fairy tale with reference to early twentieth century utopian city projects and a post-urban vision of the future.
