1. Ridley Scott’s two defining films are alien and blade runner.
2. Blade runner owes its aesthetic to film noir.
3. The constant rain and dark tones aesthetic of the film in general.
4. Neo-noir is the revival of film noir, with the same dark themes and aesthetic, just with colour.
5. Themes of Identity, memories, mortality, society and technology.
6. Ridley blended the genre of noir and sci-fi, with futuristic robots and city from sci-if movies and the aesthetic and tone of noir.
7. “You have a futuristic science fiction genre spliced with a historical one, film noir” – “there are sometimes specific reworkings of some of the tropes from 1940s noir projected into a future setting” – Rhidian Davis
8. The production design features some quite specific nods to classic noir location, such as the use of the Bradbury building in lox Angeles for J.F Sebastian’s apartment building.
9. The character similarities between blade runner and a typical noir are clearly seen, with Rachael being a femme fatal, and Deckard being a gritty detective.
10. A character you won’t find in film noir is Roy Batty as he’s an Icarus figure, who draws from the romantic, he’s Frankenstein’s monster, he’s Oedipus.
