Started by Corporal Hicks, Dec 04, 2015, 01:10:32 PM
QuoteAlien, Blade Runner and Prometheus all display an interest in AI. Here, we look at Ridley Scott's complex depiction of androids..."All of those moments will be lost, like tears in rain... Time to die."One of the most poignant final lines of any sci-fi character? Almost certainly. That replicant Roy Batty evokes such sympathy in Blade Runner's dying moments is perhaps the greatest of all the conjuring tricks Ridley Scott managed to achieve in his 1982 classic. The film may be prized for its special effects and production design, but it's the arc of Batty's character - not to mention Rutger Hauer's peerless performance - that gives Blade Runner its emotional weight.Released three years after the similarly influential Alien, Blade Runner was the last of Scott's science fiction films before his late-career return to the genre with 2012's Prometheus and this year's The Martian. Of those four sci-fi films, three of them contain artificially-intelligent characters: Alien's Ash, Blade Runner's Roy and Prometheus' David. They're duplicitous, inhumanly strong, and sometimes capable of grotesque acts of violence. But Scott and his writers are careful to make them intelligent and sometimes noble, too. Here's a look at each of them in turn.
