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The sequence begins with a harp-like glissando which accompanies the fade-in to a scene of an industrial wasteland that is Los Angeles in the year 2019, on an Earth that is in physical and psychological decay - without a trace of nature. It begins with an establishing shot, an extreme long shot, the camera slowly tracking forward, showing a vast city at night, or at least in the darkness. The sky is black, the city is a dirty brown colour, heavily polluted with smoke; giant flames of exhaust gasses belch out of oil refinery towers in the industrial overgrowth. From time to time, a flying car (a spinner as they are called in the original script) zips by. During the opening, the soundtrack contributes to the overall effect of mystery and menace. We cut to a huge, disembodied blue eye which fills the frame completely. We see the flames above the city reflected in the eye, enigmatic as we do not know whom it belongs to. (At first it seems to be that of Holden, the first character we see; equally it could belong to Batty, leader of the escaped replicants who has blue eyes). We cut back to an extreme long shot of the cityscape described above. Two giant buildings appear deep in the background from which hazy beams of light seem to be