Posted on 02/03/2019 5:52:57 AM PST by Carriage Hill
Welcome to the future.
Two classic science-fiction films — “Blade Runner” and “The Running Man” — are both set in 2019, and although the films envisioned a few details that aren’t a reality right now, many of their themes nailed current modern life in America.
“I call science fiction ‘reality ahead of schedule,’” Syd Mead, the celebrated designer behind “Blade Runner,” tells The Post.
Watch these films now, and you can see many parallels between their fictional worlds and the real one we’re living in this very year.
Ridley Scott’s 1982 film “Blade Runner” told the story of a detective (Harrison Ford) tasked with hunting rogue humanoids known as “replicants,” played by Daryl Hannah and Rutger Hauer. “The Running Man,” which hit theaters in 1987, concerned a police officer (Arnold Schwarzenegger) falsely imprisoned by the totalitarian state and made to perform on a top-rated game show, which forces convicts to run from heavily armed pursuers through a dystopian maze.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
They managed to squeeze some enviro-weenie pap into the article.
“‘Blade Runner’ was meant to be a warning about how our climate was changing, how our pollution was destroying the world, how industry is taking over the environment,”
And here I thought it was meant to provoke thought about what it means to be human. Silly me.
Since they control the media, they can it into every article, in some way.
That the writer and all the persons quoted make no mention of the book that's the basis for the movie, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep", shows their colossal ignorance. Indeed, the story was about what it means to be human.
This article is stupid. It claims the forest fires in California are caused by pollution.
Yeah, stopped reading right at the word ‘Climate’
Never let a Replicant put in your contact lenses.
“Not with the thumbs!”
Heh, we should always remember that reporters are reporters because even “science for poets” was beyond their ability.
One thing Blade Runner got wrong -
Pan Am didn’t survive till 2019
Imagine what folks do with their cars already. Now imagine they’re doing it with a _flying_ car.
I think flying cars would be a disaster.
The novel is set in a post-apocalyptic San Francisco, where Earth's life has been greatly damaged by nuclear global war.
They're naturally trying to re-construct a narrative about this film being prophetic.
Nuclear war was going to produce a "nuclear winter" not man-made global warming.
BR didn't predict man-made global warming.
Running Man is a 7 to
Blade Runner’s 10.
Solent Green should be
The “Flag Ship” for
This Hoax called Global warming.
Classic Aaaaaahnold one liners and heavy cheese. But still, set yer brain on the end table and enjoy.
The game show portion fits nicely with the current crap that passes for "entertainment" on TV.
As for Blade Runner, we got the sexbots and flying cars still in the cooker but coming along. Advertising everywhere (even the damn gas pumps!)in multi-cultural cities.
**sigh** Might as well toss "Idiocracy" on this lil pile of celluloid prophets as well. d;^)
Inverting cause and effect is a classic ruse of advanced propaganda.
By doing so, you can make societal norms seem absurd and mad.
There's a guy at the NYT who every year or so writes an article under a headline that's some variation of this: "Incarceration Rates Increase Even Though Crime Remains At Historic Low".
We have giant video screens and (sex) robots.
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