The movie Blade Runner is very dear to my heart. It is a treatise on the nature of existence expanding on, and perhaps exceeding the reach of the Phillip K. Dick work which inspired it, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Perhaps I have missed out on some greater subtlety of PKD's work, but the point of DADoES pursues the definition of fake, while Blade Runner instead focuses on what is real. Where the replicants in the novel are sociopathic monsters who emulate emotions solely to gain traction against humans who may hunt them, the humans there rely on machines to dictate their own emotions for them. They dial for "energetic determination" or "six-hour self-accusatory depression." As much as the replicants are machines incapable of real emotion, humans are similarly reliant on a machine to simulate emotion for them. In contrast, the movie's central them is spelled out for us in Deckard's apartment, when Rachel is playing the piano. She professe...
So, zombie nipples . . .
ReplyDeleteNah, too many punchlines.
It's funny, because RE4 arguably doesn't have zombies in it, and the French ad looks more like a Buffyverse thing than a zombie OR the Iberian villagers that are the mainstay villain in RE4.
ReplyDeleteYou know, you're right. A breast-feeding zombie does seem more Whedonesque than anything.
ReplyDeleteI actually haven't played any of the newer RE games but I am glad that they're putting out non-cutesy stuff on the GameCube, just on principle. I still have a nostalgic fondness in my heart for the incredibly bad dialogue of the first game: http://www.audioatrocities.com/games/residentevil/index.html