Why "Blade Runner" Still Defines How We See Tech

Offline with Jon Favreau

Crooked Media

Society & Culture, News

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Critic Emily St. James and Crooked’s Halle Kiefer join Max to discuss “Blade Runner,” the 1982 classic that asks the question: could an AI chatbot become so hot that it would be unethical to delete it? Perhaps no other movie has had as big an impact on sci-fi or the aesthetic of futurism as Ridley Scott’s film. Is this Harrison Ford’s peak hotness? Which Silicon Valley Overlord is our Tyrell? If life imitates art, does tech imitate sci-fi? Listen to the final installment of Offline Movie Club to find out.

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0:00.0	There's no politics in this movie. There's no state. Like other than the police, it's not clear the government exists except basically to protect corporate interests.
0:07.4	And I think this vision of the future you see basically in all of the sci-fi that comes after it's like a matrix minority report
0:15.3	fifth element has this children and men like the Nolan Batman's are explicitly
0:20.4	modeled on the look in this movie which is partly because it looks
0:23.4	fucking amazing but also just because it's like that's kind of what we just
0:26.7	think the future looks like now and I think this movie created that I mean other than the
0:31.4	police there's no evidence that government exists except to protect corporate interests. I'm glad they got that one wrong.
0:36.0	That one completely off.
0:39.0	Well, we're building wind farms combined. I'm Max Fisher.
0:43.0	I'm Max Fisher.
0:44.0	I'm Max Fisher. I'm Hallie Keeper and with us joining again Emily St James one of our
0:57.1	favorites here author of the Just Out Lost Back to the Island complete critical
1:01.4	companion to the TV show.
1:03.0	Notice the podcast, the 2000s.
1:04.4	Emily, good to see you.
1:05.7	Podcast like it's the 2000s.
1:07.4	Like it's the two, okay, thank you.
1:08.8	Yeah, it's good to be here again in this studio.
1:11.4	Lovely with all of you people.
1:13.0	This is the offline movie club.
1:15.0	Every episode we discuss one of our favorite movies and how it reflects or shapes how we think about technology and the internet.
1:21.0	This week we are talking about one of my favorites, Blade Runner, the
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