Blade Runner:
Flying cars with tires for the cops,
Bicycles for the sheeple, all of them. Millions of them.
Quote:
“They say you Blade Runner”
Bicycles for the sheeple, all of them. Millions of them.
I recently read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? the book from which Blade Runner was written. The movie was a bit short on the "why" of things like only cops having cars.
The book did better at filling in those details (as books usually do). It seems there was a nuclear war, and anybody with any brains had moved "off-world." (The assumption by the author was that we would never have a President like Obama who would terminate manned spaceflight, but I digress.) The only people left around were either nuke-addled, sterile simpletons ("specials"), cops or industrialists.
The fact that this was a post-apocalyptic setting was entirely lost in the movie, and would it would have helped to have spent a few minutes in the exposition explaining that detail. There was never daylight, and it was always raining, for examples.