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Blade Runner (1982 Riddley Scott) Blade Runner is set in future Los Angeles (2019). Harrison Ford stars as Rick Deckard a cop who has to hunt down a group of highly advanced androids who were designed as slaves. The androids anger towards there human creators is very large due to the fact that they only have a very short lifespan. The screenplay is based on the novel ‘Do Androids dream of electric sheep’ by Phillip K Dick. There are many themes that are taken from the book which are never explained in any detail but seem to add to the feeling of this future world. It doesn’t explain in the film that the majority of the humans have left the pollution ridden earth and that Sebastian (William Sanderson) the robotics expert is ageing prematurely due to staying on the decaying planet. The anim