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Interesting Bay Area trivia: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, the book Blade Runner was adapted from, takes place in San Francisco. The Mission police stati

• MichaelMoser123 3y ago
  The book is very different from the movie; the book is post World War 3 while the movie isn't.
  • jhbadger 3y ago
    Well, a very mild WW3, so it hardly matters. It's not like it was in a Fallout/Road Warrior style wasteland.
    • MichaelMoser123 3y ago
      very mild WW3. Earth is a wasteland where almost all animals died from radiation long ago and anything that survived it is an object of worship. Survivors need to go through periodic checkups, those affected by radiation are labeled off as "chickenheads". People are emigrating to desert Mars - which is an even worse wasteland, where things are so bad that even the Robots are trying to escape back to Earth, such a Robot has to kill his former master and then pose as his former master. (the whole plot is about finding these Robots) The culture of the survivors is based on this worship of what remained of the animal kingdom, as seen in the test that they administer to check if you are a robot or not. Especially amusing: the Robots in the book are hallucinating - (these hallucinations are called 'false memories'), just as these large language models of ours...
• kaycebasques 3y ago
  I wonder if Philip K. Dick had the old Mission police station in mind? The one near Gus's. Not sure when that one went out of commission.
• serf 3y ago
  I think the exclusion of Mercerism from the movie is criminal.