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BLADE RUNNER - INTRODUCTION OF RACHAEL - Coggle Diagram
BLADE RUNNER - INTRODUCTION OF RACHAEL
MISE EN SCENE
Tyrell corp is built like a Mayan temple
Human sacrifices are made there
Built off slaves (replicants) to worship a god (Tyrell)
Also built like an Egyptian temple
Establishes this god-like prescence
The rest of the world is down at the bottom of the building (especially Eurasian people)
White supremacy
The owl
Raised in captivity
Represents Rachael being trapped in the confines of Tyrell corp
Owl are smart, and this owl is artificial
Artificial intelligence ;)
Orange haze in Tyrell corp
Warm, pristine and welcoming
Highly contrasted with the cold, dark blues of the world below
Class divide
The random artifacts
Serves no greater use or purpose
Tyrell flexing his worth and excess
Establishes Tyrell's god-like presence
Eagles on the corners of the frame resembles the Third Reich symbol
Nazi imagery
Eagles also represent American pride
Rachael's drip
Powerful and professional business like look
Clunky shoulder pads
Black business dress
Against the patriarchy, very angular and tailored
Fetishized feministic too
Bright red lips and nails
Tight dress
Clearly defined hourglass
30s meets 80s
Resembles
Hedy Lamarr
, a famous femme fatale actress
Scott wanted a "severe but beautiful" look for Rachel
Rachael walks out of the frame in the building and closer to the protagonist
Resembles that one moment in Vertigo
The table in the center of the room
Sacrificial table (for replicants)
Mayan imagery
Resembles the last supper
The one tower almost concealing the sun
Humans trying to reach heavenly, god-like status
Deckard sits down while Rachael keeps standing
The hierarchy of power in gender dominance is about to change
She is in control
Deckard intimidated by Rachael's presence
Corresponding high and low angle
Shimmering water reflected behind Tyrell
A heavenly, serene atmosphere
Tyrell's big glasses
"The eyes are the gateway to the soul"
Big reflecting glasses = no soul
"It's too dark in here"
Steamy, sexy romance scene coming up
Backlit smoke
Allows for the cinematographer (Jordan Cronenweth) to "paint with light"
The VK machine
Eye reader, seeing into the soul
Lungs literally added to the machine
Anthropomorphized
Another machine in the scene with human qualities (like replicants)
Most of Deckard's face is obscured by the darkness
Shadow self
He doesn't know all of who he is
His eyes being blocked off = He doesn't know what his soul looks like
That one shot of Rachael
Smoke fills the air when she talks
Trying to dance around the truth
"Antisocial behavoiour"
The smoke gives Rachel much more of a stereotypical femme fatale look
A slight reflection in her eyes
Gives her slinky, cat-like qualities
Shows she's a replicant
Rachael being interrogated by the camera
US
Doubling down on the voyeurism of the scene with an interrogation sequence
Rachael under the darkness when she leaves the room
Metaphorically and literally in the dark about the secret Tyrell and Deckard knows
Symmetrical build
Divine and perfect place, a far cry from the world below
PERFORMANCE
Rachael's weird walk
A manufactured femenine walk
"Have you ever retired a human by mistake?"
Testing to see if Deckard is a replicant
Trying to find out more about reality, what it means to be human
Tyrell doesn't directly answer Deckard's question ("who's the subject?")
Trying not to spill the beans that Rachael is a replicant
Deckard's monotone voice vs Rachael's defiant voice
"More human than human"
Foreshadows that Deckard's a replicant
Neither Deckard nor Rachel blink much
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Rachel's strange, unnatural smile before she takes the VK test
She's becoming more paranoid about being a replicant and she's losing her professional composure
Deckard is far less tense after finding out she's a replicant
No longer threatened by her aura as a powerful woman, since she's not real
Tyrell starts to call Rachel "it" after spilling the beans
Tyrell sees their humans as only human, not as people
Tyrell talks about giving replicants memories to keep them sane and under control better
Controlling an individual's past, or the truth, for their desires
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Deckard framed in the outside of the building
No association or interest with anything Tyrell related
Side profile of Rachael
Objectifying, painting Rachael as heavenly and perfect
Venitian blind effect, resembling jail bars
Gives Rachael a very femme fatale look
Establishing shots of Tyrell corp
Hollywood CLASSICISM
There's plenty of other grand, extensive wides throughout the film
Ridley Scott, the master of SPECTACLE
Tyrell framed in front of Rachel
Now in control of the scene, Rachel is relegated to the sidelines
SOUND / MUSIC
Magical twinkling sounds in Tyrell corp
A heavenly, perfect world that establishes Tyrell corp like a god-like world
Light white noise in the background
The horrors and dangers of the world below are far behind them
Twinkly romance music plays when the lights go out
Dreamy romance
An east asain choir plays after Tyrell stops talking
God like motif continues
EDITING
We hear Tyrell before we see him
Establishing his god-like figure
Cross dissolve
Shows the passing of time
Also implies sex (because we cut through a "significant" chunk of time)
Dream-like quality
POWER CONTROL IDENTITY
