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(5pp) Blade Runner", based loosely on Philip K.
Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
is considered the archetypical cyberpunk movie.
Few other movies have matched it; some that are
considered cyberpunk or marginally so are Alien
and its sequels, Freejack.
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movie. Few other movies have matched it; some that are considered cyberpunk or marginally so are Alien and its sequels, Freejack, The Lawnmower Man, Until The End Of The World,
the "Terminator" movies, Total Recall, Strange Days, and Brainstorm. Marginalization According to an internet website (1998) which proclaims itself the base of "cyberpunk:"
cyberpunk literature in general, of the mid 1980s, deals with marginalized people in technologically-enhanced cultural "systems". In Cyberpunk stories settings, there is usually a "system" which dominates the lives
of most "ordinary" people, be it an oppressive government, a group of large, paternalistic corporations or a fundamentalist religion. These systems are enhanced by certain technologies, particularly "information technology" (computers,
the mass media), making the system better at keeping those within it, inside it. Often this technological system extends
into its human "components" as well, via brain implants, prosthetic limbs, cloned or genetically engineered organs. Humans themselves become part of "the Machine". This is the "cyber" aspect of Cyberpunk.
However, in any cultural system, there are always those who live on its margins, on "the Edge": criminals, outcasts, visionaries or those who simply want freedom for its own sake.
Cyberpunk literature focuses on these people, and often on how they turn the systems technological tools to their own ends. This is the "punk" aspect of Cyberpunk.
Marginalization has occurred through much of history. In our own twentieth century, we might claim that women and minority
groups were marginalized - or out of the mainstream of society. There are some who argue that is still true today and may indeed be why "Blade Runner" continues
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