game between Roy and Tyrell based on the famous Immortal game of 1851, though Scott has said that was coincidental.
Dr. Tyrell polarizing his office window to control the Sun implies the god-like powers of the Tyrell Corporation.
Blade Runner delves into the implications of technology for the environment and society by reaching to the past, using literature, religious symbolism, classical dramatic themes, and film noir. This tension, between past, present, and future is mirrored in the retrofitted future of Blade Runner, which is high-tech and gleaming in places but decayed and old elsewhere. Interviewing Ridley Scott in 2002, reporter Lynn Barber in The Observer described the film as: “extremely dark, both literally and metaphorically, with an oddly masochistic feel”. Director Scott said he “liked the idea of exploring pain” in the wake of his brother’s skin