Blade Runner: Good Story Telling?

Let me prefrence this by saying my only writing experence is in journalism. I'm really speaking here as a Sci Fi fan.<BR><BR>Several people have commented on how BR is visualy appealing, which of course it is. <BR><BR>I think there is anoter element particular to RS's style of story telling which makes the movie appealing, emotion.<BR><BR>Riddly Scott seams to use emotion as a method to getting his point across. Gladiator is a good example of this. Wether he is doing it intentionaly or not I don't know, but he is good at it. The thing with this type of story telling is it will work to varying degrees with different people.<BR><BR>You can't argue that BR does not poor story strcture. The movie does not work on a rational level. It plays on your feelings, it sucks you in and engroses you. In the secene where Deckard is considering what he has just done to Zora, trying to rationalize his job with his feelings. You can't help not getting pulled in by it.<BR><BR>Consider the final secene between Deckard and Roy. It's almost too much for words. These two mortal enemies looking each other face to face, locked together in their own private moment. The hunter turned prey saved by the prey turned hunter. Maybe Roy seams more sympathetic to the audence, maybe the resolution runs a little too quick from this clamax (am I makeing sense?). What does it really matter? This has to be one of the most striking secenes in cinamatic history.<BR><BR>Blade Runner is a very viseral story (did I spell that right?). It works for us not just because it looks good, gets us engaged in the story, but it hits us in our gut. It touches somthing inside that is hard to for us to pin down but is too strong to ignore. After all, when we look back at memorable moments in our lives, do we think of the story strcture or of how we felt?
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