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People Realise Blade Runner Was Set In 2019 And Everyone Made The Same Joke

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It’s always fun watching films which try to predict the future. Pinning a futuristic film to a certain date always feels like it’s setting itself up for a fall.

2001 came and went, for example, with no evil computers talking to us and no astronauts ending up in a strange bedroom after a psychedelic trip through time and space (I think).

A few years later however, we do have Google Home Assistants and Alexas talking to us, so maybe Kubrick was on to something…

After Kubrick’s surreal sci-fi masterpiece though, another genre-defining slice of sci-fi cinema came in the form of Ridley Scott’s 1982 film Blade Runner, which was based on Philip K. Dick’s 1968 novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?.

Scott’s film was a dystopian tour de force. He created a bleak but fascinating, dark but futuristic landscape, imagining vast cities full of skyscrapers which housed a mixture of wealth and poverty, robots and humans – all influenced by a plethora of different cultures and countries.

And while that doesn’t sound very dissimilar to today’s modern cities (expect for the robots, which we’re working on), the fact the first Blade Runner film was set in 2019 has grabbed the attention of quite a few people.

Some seem disappointed we won’t be hovering around in flying cars next year, while others are more concerned about the fashion choices.

Almost 37 years since its release, with 2019 just around the corner, the film has stood the test of time and is a bona fide classic. Its prediction of what we’ll be doing that year however, not so much…

As the events of 2018 haven’t exactly made it a year to remember, the dystopian feeling of Blade Runner however, is arguably going to be present in 2019.

One person wrote:

Saw a showing of blade runner in a theatre about a year ago and everyone laughed when the date appeared on screen [sic]

Another wrote:

Well, it’s 2019 in a few weeks and Blade Runner didn’t get it right. 10 more years until we’re in Terminator territory and it’s looking more and more likely that’s gonna be the movie that nailed it [sic]

They added:

I LOVED [Blade Runner 2049], but the basis for that movie was what the world looked like in 2019, and I doubt we’re gonna get hover cars, cops gunning down replicants in the streets, and live under giant holographic advertisements in the next 365 days, as much as I wish we would [sic]

Others had their eyes on the future too, noting Blade Runner 2049 may be a more accurate representation of future fashion:

Alas, it seems no matter how good your intentions, science fiction or not, you just can’t predict what fashion will be like in 40 years time.

So here’s looking to 2049, when I’ll definitely be as handsome as either Harrison Ford or Ryan Gosling (I’ll take either), the whole flying cars thing will be a definite, and I’ll have hopefully learnt how to pass that Voight-Kampff Test.

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