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System Shock, Deus Ex, Bioshock, Syndicate, Beneath a Steel Sky, Shadowrun, Gemini Rue, Cyberpunk 2071, ...

The Matrix, Ghost in the Shell, Cowboy Bebop, Akira, Brazil, Teminator, Robocop, The Fifth Element, Strange Days, Gattaca, Dark City, ...

To name just a few, Some you might not like the original Blade Runner, but it‘s undeniably one of the most influental movies of the last 50 years.

The phantastic set design with its incredible attention to detail in combination with the lightning and Vangelis briliant music (by far his best OST) create a dystopic and melancholic atmosphere that is unmatched for me in SciFi movie history. It absorbs me every time I watch it (and I just watched it this very evening again, it was on arte, arguably one of the few remaining European public TV channels which broadcasts movie classics at prime time and combines it with subsequent documentaries, in this case one about Philip K. Dick).

Blade Runner did not only influence plenty of others, it was of course influenced by others. The most obvious influences are Fritz Lang's Metropolis, the film noir genre (Robert Mitchum was the the preferred actor for Deckard by the original screenplay writer Hampton Fincher)) and 70s French SciFi comics by Enki Bilal, Moebius and Philippe Druillet (published in Métal Hurlant, aka Heavy Metal magazine in USA).