Blade runner in 2019: what it got right about hong kong

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There are no flying cars, there’s only one space station and the killer humanoid robots are yet to show themselves. But a robot made in Hong Kong is being booked for professional speaking


engagements, while in grimy, neon-lit streets its residents make video calls as they walk beneath some of the world’s biggest LED video billboards. Advertisement Hong Kong 2019 has a lot in


common with a future envisioned almost 40 years ago. The 1982 movie _Blade Runner_ is considered a classic of science fiction. It is one of the most influential science fiction films of all


time, and was set in November 2019. It now has the curious allure of being a film that is set in our past, causing many around the world to consider how accurately it predicted the future.


While social media has buzzed for months about the passing of the date that appears on screen in the first few frames of the movie, for residents of Hong Kong it is again cause to consider


how deeply the city has influenced science fiction. Directed by Ridley Scott, starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer and Daryl Hannah, _Blade Runner_ is set in a dystopian Los Angeles in which


a burned-out detective hunts bio-engineered robots that look exactly like humans, but exhibit superior strength and a murderous desire to survive. Advertisement The movie was based on the


1968 novella _Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?_ by Philip K. Dick, but it is the visual feel of the film created by Scott and concept artist Syd Mead that has had lasting influence upon


anime, film, computer games and fashion.


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