Transformation

The film is set in Los Angeles in November 2019. Manufactured human beings called replicants, these replicants are used for dangerous and undignified work on off-world colonies. Replicants became illegal on Earth after a small rebellion which caused the creation of specialist police units called "blade runners" who were trained to hunt down and kill escaped replicants on Earth. The film details the story of a former blade runner hunting a of replicants hiding in Los Angeles.

http://www.impawards.com/1982/blade_runner.html

In Blade Runner the design combines what we know now with the directors view of the future to make it seem believable, for instance the gritty streets despite belching smoke and fire still in a way resemble city streets today especially in crowded backstreets with many milling around and doing shady deals. Places there are representative of today such as there being a Chinatown in the movie. Neon lights though seemingly more advanced in the movie are here today.

http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/movies/long/bladerunner1992.html

http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/movies/long/bladerunner1992.html

Small crowded food stores, dark rubbish littered streets, giant billboards, there is much in common with today that the design almost can make the audience feel that they are there.