2001: A Space Odyssey influenced Blade Runner

Scott has described 2001 as the film that raised the bar and, by his own account, made him want to work at that level of density. The debt is in the craft rather than the story: miniatures shot with long lenses and heavy atmosphere so the scale reads, interfaces that are diegetic and unexplained, and a pace that lets an audience look around a room. The graph already holds 2001 pointing at Alien on the same grounds; the Los Angeles of 2019 is the other end of the same design argument.