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Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep Essay

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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is a 1968 sci-fi novel by Phillip K. Dick, and Blade Runner is the 1982 film adaptation directed by Ridley Scott. Both stories involve the same premise, Rick Deckard a bounty hunter that is tasked with hunting down androids, built for use on distant colonial worlds as Soldiers and workers of colonist. The laws of this future time have declared androids illegal on earth. In both stories several androids have illegally escaped from the distant colonial worlds and made their way to Earth. The ways the film and book portrays the stories is drastically different, especially with a film adaptation that was made over a decade after the book there is bound to be changes in the genre of Science Fiction to bring the story to the big screen.
The first obvious difference is the title. In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, the term Blade Runner doesn 't exist, whereas in the movie the concept of Electric Sheep doesn 't exist, more specifically robot animals. The terminology is different for androids, in the book, they are called Andys for short. In the movie androids are called Replicants. The book refers to Deckard’s character as a bounty …show more content…

The Book has Deckard finding the rest of the androids and killing with little effort, except for Priss, where he hesitates because of her striking resemblance to Rachael. The movie ditches all of this and instead has Deckard kill Priss and chase Roy through the building before killing him and running away with Rachel who he has fallen in love with. Both endings are very different, with very different tones. The book has an anticlimactic ending. The movie ends with hope for Deckard because of his love for Rachel. The book implies that humans in the future are just as autonomous as the androids are, and the movie gives the viewer the feeling that Replicants may have a soul and are capable of

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