Blade runner! Book vs Film

There’s always a drastic change between the novel and its Film, as it is between Phillip K. Dick’s novels like in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? And Ridley Scott’s film Blade Runner the final cut. There are similarities and differences between each work making them two very different stories with very different themes. While the Novel focus on a various topics from humanity, relationships, technology and religion to environment, war and animal extinction, the Film focuses primarily on artificiality, romance, relationships and mortality.i really enjoy both mostly the book. The book is so different from the film it has so much more details.

Rick Deckard is a Blade runner, his job is to kill androids called “replicants.” Deckard’s job is to find and retire a group of replicants that has escaped from Earth’s space colonies nexus 6.  His target in the Novel is to find some peace and answers to his questions about god and humanity. He seeks these answers through Mercerism and holds tight to the notion that in order to progress and be better, he must have a real, living animal. The only way to get that is for Deckard to retire the android so that he can earn money. In the Novel, Deckard life is drenched in heartbreak and disappointment. This theme does not exist in the Film.

In the Film, Deckard hunting the Andy’s is not a particular task is and order. Deckard is shown as a vulnerable individual in search of answers. In the film It doest explain Deckard’s motivations or his life in general. In the Film, he is just Deckard, the blade runner demolisher who does the necessary dirty work, gets the girl, but ends up sad because her time is running out. He does not wake up in the morning to a human wife who might as well be artificial for all her authenticity and he does not have the option of programming his mood. Harrison Ford, as Rick Deckard, has no wife

and no electric sheep there is no religious theme in the Film and no mood-altering module, though the Film does put an emphasis on artificiality as it does to animals and technology.

Harrison Ford is not the same Deckard as in the novel. He wants to find out what it means to be human. Deckard wishes to own a real animal of his own .in the Film Deckard goes to the animal market during the course of investigating rogue androids. The Film shows the idea where artificiality blends with reality. Deckard’s primary aim is to get through the day, accomplish what needs to be done, and to get some food and sleep. In the Film, it is not religion or spirituality that Deckard is grappling with, it is not a messiah or a better mood that he needs. He does not need a wife who displays something more than programmed feelings or an animal to love and care for; in the Film, Deckard needs to be touched by humanity (or perhaps just by the perfect woman) and to come to grips with his own mortality.

i really recommended this book to everyone who likes "philosophical" books & science fiction film, it just has you thinking what it means to be real ? & what defines real? i love it !