12 Movies That Borrowed 'Blade Runner' Aesthetics But Took Them In Bold New Directions

12 Movies That Borrowed 'Blade Runner' Aesthetics But Took Them In Bold New Directions

Few films have cast as long a shadow over cinema as Ridley Scott's 1982 masterpiece Blade Runner. Its rain-slicked streets, neon-drenched cityscapes, and fusion of high-tech and decaying urban environments created a visual language that filmmakers have been borrowing from and building upon for decades. The film's striking visual style, combining film noir aesthetics with dystopian futurism, became the template for the cyberpunk movement that wou…