... As it flies across the room we see a central view of the room, showing big stone pillars, a posh, wooden table, and in the background the sun is setting behind some ancient-Egyptian style buildings. The room looks very expensive and upper class but the audience gets an impression for how jumbled up the world ... and the use of backlighting and hard lighting adds to the grim, dark, futuristic mood of the film. Rachael enters the room with very neat combed hair, and a black, well-defined dress with shoulder pads, and almost all you can see behind her is shadow. Her costume gives her a str...

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... vision of the future. The set design in the films Metropolis (Lang, 1926) and Blade Runner (Lang, 1926) helps set a dreary hopeless view of the future. For example in Metropolis(1926), all of the sets are comprised of angles, some are sharp jagged edges or perfect right angles, the exception being the ... all time highs in the world. Another example is the scene in the Tyrell building during Holden's VOID-comp test, in this scene the room is lit from outside the building. This makes it obvious that the light outside is artificial because this scene takes place at the same time ... and...

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