”Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" That was the title of the Philip K. Dick novel that Ridley Scott turned into "Blade Runner" in 1982 – set in a dystopian future Los Angeles in 2019, with synthetic humans bioengineered by a powerful corporation. Scott credited Edward Hopper's "Nighthawks" and French science fiction comics for the look of the thing. He said he wanted it to look like "Hong Kong on a very bad day" – and production...
more »”Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" That was the title of the Philip K. Dick novel that Ridley Scott turned into "Blade Runner" in 1982 – set in a dystopian future Los Angeles in 2019, with synthetic humans bioengineered by a powerful corporation. Scott credited Edward Hopper's "Nighthawks" and French science fiction comics for the look of the thing. He said he wanted it to look like "Hong Kong on a very bad day" – and production designer Lawrence G. Paull and art director David Snyder pulled that off – and now, with one year to go, Los Angeles does look dystopian. This is an industrial corner a just south Hollywood. Los Angeles did turn into that movie. ~ Friday, June 8, 2018
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