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A 5 page essay that discusses how director Ridley Scott's movie Blade Runner expanded creatively on the themes presented by Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The writer argues that Scott's film actually improves on the story presented in the novel through the changes made in the adaptation, while preserving the author's original message. No additional sources cited.
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in 1991, a "directors cut" was issued that restored the original vision of the director. It is this version, in particular, that best exemplifies how Scott creatively and effectively
adapted Philip K. Dicks novel -- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) into a film that actually states the novels principal theme more effectively then the
original. Blade Runner, like Dicks novel, is set in a world that has suffered through a nuclear war. Dick created a world in which bureaucracies and technology have had
a dehumanizing effect on the population. The principle theme around which the action revolves in Dicks novel is the concept that the only differentiating true humans from the creation of
technology, androids, is the ability to feel empathy. Dicks protagonist, Rick Deckard, is a policeman who has specialized in the past in tracking down and eliminating (killing) renegade androids, which
are referred to as "replicants." The only way that Deckard has of determining?with certainty?which individuals are android and which are human is by using a complicated test that consists
of a series of questions, which are designed to elicit an emotional response. Reaction to these questions is automatic in an organic humans physiology, but an android is not designed
to react emotionally and must formulate a false emphatic response. The difference in the time involved is what reveals the android as a human imposter. Both the movie and
the book follow the same story to this point; however, there are some major differences. Dicks novel focuses on an archetypal religious figures, Wilber Mercer, who has established a religious
doctrine that is predicated on showing idea that showing caring behavior for living animals demonstrates that human have the capacity for empathy and that the cruelty inherent in our species
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