35 - Blade Runner (1982)

 Welcome to the future . . .   THCC's Cyberpunk month begins with a review of one of the most influential and greatest sci-fi films in cinema, Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982). In dystopian 2019 Los Angeles, in a world of outer-planet colonization and corporate overruling, former blade runner Rick Deckard is tasked to hunt down and "retire" a group of fugitive replicants.   Tears of Rain monologue analysis:   Joanne Taylor (2006), "'Here's to Plain Speaking': The Condition(s) of Knowing and Speaking in Film Noir", Florida Atlantic Comparative Studies, 48: 29–54.   You can find our platforms:  https//linktr.ee/TheHoffiCoffiCast INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/thehofficofficast/?hl=en Rhys Bolton: www.instagram.com/bolts97/  Rhys Jones: www.instagram.com/rhysbjones/