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Blade
Runner is a 1982 American science fiction film directed
by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer,
and Sean Young. The screenplay, written by Hampton Fancher
and David Peoples, is loosely based on the novel Do Androids
Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick.
The
film depicts a dystopian Los Angeles in November 2019 in
which genetically engineered organic robots called replicants—visually
indistinguishable from adult humans—are manufactured
by the powerful Tyrell Corporation as well as by other "mega–manufacturers"
around the world. Their use on Earth is banned and replicants
are exclusively used for dangerous, menial or leisure work
on Earth's off-world colonies. Replicants who defy the ban
and return to Earth are hunted down and "retired"
by police special operatives known as "Blade Runners".
The plot focuses on a brutal and cunning group of recently
escaped replicants hiding in Los Angeles and the burnt out
expert Blade Runner, Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), who reluctantly
agrees to take on one more assignment to hunt them down.
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