Together
with “2001: A Space Odyssey”, but in a different way, Ridley
Scott’s 1982 “Blade Runner” (based on the 1968 novel “Do Androids Dream of
Electric Sheep?” by Philip K. Dick), starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer and
Sean Young, is another of my all-time favourite sci-fi movies.
Without
giving away too much on its plot, in my opinion, the film combines deeply human reflections about the inevitability of death and about what the
human condition entails, with clearly political elements of Nietzschean thought:
the slave/master, Übermensch/Untermensch contrast.
This scene,
however, gives an unexpected twist to everything Nietzschean in the film:
After acknowledging
the distinction Übermensch/Untermensch, Scott seems to ask his viewers “who’s who”? It's clear who is the Übermensch and who is the Untermensch, but who is the master and who, the slave?
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From Vangelis’ superb soundtrack, “Blade Runner” end titles:
I imagine the world’s most reviled, slandered man, born in
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