Dystopian Trailer

Blade Runner Ridley Scott, R, 1982
Set in Los Angeles, 2019, Blade Runner is about four robots, or replicants, escaped from interplanetary colonies. Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a retired police officer, is enlisted to capture and "retire" these replicants.

This is an exemplary dystopian trailer because it depicts a generally realistic future and subtlely displays dystiopian characteristics. The trailer shows a huge city, with a ground level very similar to something one might see today, but above there are soaring pyramids, flying cars, and constant cloud cover that spits rain day and night. This shows a banished natural world replaced by sprawling and impoverished urban areas. The premise is then revealed when Deckard is on the trail of the replicants and goes to see the head of the Tyrell company which produces them. From the short clip it is revealed that this corporation is controling society, and one can infer that the general poverty displayed in other parts of the trailer are due to underemployment because of the replicants. The final, and most disturbing aspect of this dystopia is that when the replicants appear, they look exactly like humans, and one wonders whether there is any difference between those born and those manufactured. This shows that in a way, freedom is restricted because these replicants are prohibited from living on earth and live in a state of slavery.

For my groups dystopian trailer, we intend to show some of the aspects of the dystopia through events in the trailer, similar to Blade Runner, rather than text or voice overs. We also want to show a very bleak setting, in Blade Runner this was the rainy, dark city, but in our trailer we will use a whitewashed correction facility where everyone is dressed in the same color and must hide their faces.