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I. J. Thompson wrote:Also, I don't know if you guys remember the ol' Max Headroom series, but... whoah.

eccentricbeing wrote:i think david fincher has been influenced by blade runner. he definitely likes to surround himself with people who worked on blade runnner.

Although it initially gained a small North American audience, the film was popular internationally and became a cult classic which has been often referenced in other media. Blade Runner's dark cyberpunk style and futuristic design have served as a benchmark and its inspiration can be seen in many subsequent science fiction films and television programs, such as Max Headroom, Batman, RoboCop, The Fifth Element, Brazil, Dark Angel, Judge Dredd, Firefly, Battlestar Galactica, The Matrix, I, Robot, and Children of Men.[citation needed] and in anime, including Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Armitage III, Silent M?bius, Cowboy Bebop, Bubblegum Crisis, AD Police Files, Parasite Dolls, Heat Guy J and Ergo Proxy.[citation needed]

The film arguably marks the introduction of the cyberpunk genre into popular culture.[citation needed] Blade Runner continues to reflect modern trends and concerns, and an increasing number consider it one of the greatest science fiction films of all time.[29] The film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 1993 and is frequently used in university courses. It is one of the most musically sampled films of the 20th century.[30] Leon is sampled, saying: "Wake up time to die" in the Pop Will Eat Itself song named for the quote. He is also sampled in the song by Tricky titled, "Aftermath," saying, "Let me tell you about my mother." The character Roy Batty served as the apparent inspiration of several songs, such as Audioslave's "Show Me How To Live", White Zombie's "Electric Head" and "More Human Than Human" (a Tyrell Corporation slogan), Gary Numan's "Time To Die", Covenant's "Like Tears In Rain" and "Replicant", Diesel Christ's "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?", Sigue Sigue Sputnik's "Love Missile F1-11", Hoodlum Priest's "Tyrell" and Kent's "OWC", Fightstar's "Lost Like tears in rain".

Other Rock songs influenced by the film (and the book it is based upon) include Blind Guardian's "Time What Is Time", Fear Factory's "Replica", Gary Numan's "Are 'Friends' Electric?", Incubus' "Talk Shows On Mute", Kim Wilde's "Bladerunner", Circle of Dust's "Pale Reflection," Revolting Cocks's "Attack Ships on Fire," and Tan-Hauser Gate's "Little Piece of You".

"Ridley Scott's film remains the defining vision of futuristic science fiction." ? Steve Biodrowski
Blade Runner has also influenced the adventure games Rise of the Dragon, Snatcher and Flashback: The Quest for Identity, the role-playing game Shadowrun, the computer game System Shock and the Syndicate games. The fictional language Cityspeak has been used in many cyberpunk genre role-playing games. The memorable Scrap Brain Zone level from the original Sonic the Hedgehog features an almost identical score to the Blade Runner 'End Title' theme, and is clearly a direct tribute.[citation needed]

Director Christopher Nolan used Blade Runner as "an interesting lesson on the technique of exploring and describing a credible universe that doesn't appear to have any boundaries", he applied this inspiration to the production of Batman Begins.[31]

Blade Runner is currently ranked the third best film of all time by The Screen Directory.[32]