Go Into The Story Script Reading & Analysis: “Blade Runner”

A 5 part series on the influential 1982 science fiction movie.

Screenplay by Hampton Fancher and David Webb Peoples, based on the novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” by Philip K. Dick.

IMDb plot summary: A blade runner must pursue and try to terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.

Links to the GITS week-long discussion and analysis:

General Comments
Structure
Characters
Themes
Dialogue

Years ago, I came up with this mantra: Watch movies. Read scripts. Write pages. A link to my reflections on that here.

Cannot emphasize enough the importance of reading movie scripts.

For all of the other screenplays and commentary in the GITS Script Reading & Analysis series, go here.

For my 7-part series on How to Read a Screenplay, go here.

For links to over 100 free and legal script downloads, go here.