Alien, Blade Runner and Raised by the Wolves, all have very advanced robots; Credits: Screen Rant

Sir Ridley Scott, the mastermind behind Alien, Blade Runner, and Prometheus, is presently working on Napoleon. The filmmaker has put in a lot of thought creating the sci-fi legends that these films, and apart from all the amazing aspects he relayed to these films, he took his genius further by using android robots in his films. 

The director is especially well-versed with sci-fi and mastered the art of humanoid robots in films like Alien and more. Presently, his work Raised by Wolves employs similar techniques of storytelling. 

The HBO Max series has entered its second season this year. Marking the amazing techniques he used to create the cinematic experience with these robots, he shared that though these robots look a lot like humans, they vary from us by a great deal. 

The legendary filmmaker explained how he first got acquainted with the art of making science fiction cinema and the film he thinks helped pave the way for the modern telling of sci-fi cinema. The original film that aided to inspire his work in Alien and Blade Runner. He also explained what he thinks links the androids to apartheid.

Beginning his interview with Entertainment Weekly, Scott explained that he was not very keen on sci-fi cinema in his teenage years. He found it mildly interesting, but the genre did not specifically interest him. 

Yet when he saw Kubrick, he realized that that one film is what he would consider as the epitome of sci-fi in its early years. 

Another sci-fi work that he really enjoyed is On the Beach, a film based on the book written by Nevil Shute. Saying that the book was top-notch, he revealed that the film took highly after the novel in its world-building and was a good movie in earnest. 

The film portrays the story of a post-atomic warfare world, where Australia is the only surviving continent. The director suggested his fans watch the film. 

When the director saw the film for the first time in 2002, it became his inspiration for the works that he would later create. In fact, he thinks that Star Wars was also influenced by it and also inspired George Lucas. 

The most influential factor that got to him was the part where a real brain talked with HAL. Saying that HAL was the heart of the film, an element, which was then later imitated by Dan O'Bannon and Ron Shusett.

The blatant denial by HAL to care for the humans on board is what also inspired his film, Alien. Giving O-Bannon and Shusett the due credits for influencing his work, he explained that the AI components in these films "fascinated" him. 

As AI already has been in the market for 10 years, the story only flourished with a better understanding of what AI could accomplish. 

Ridley Scott then continued on to explain that Blade Runner was also made on a similar set of notions. The components that he added into his films were not actually present in the Blade Runner book.

The director employed the help of Hampton Fancher to expand on the concept and write the screenplay as they worked together. Equating Roy Batty, played by Rutger Hauer, to the character of Harrison Ford in the film, the director explained that Roy managed to live a different reality with the help of androids. 

Astonishingly, he thinks that his robots are "more human than human" in Raised by Wolves. The idea was conceptualized by Aaron Guzikowski, the creator of the series. 

The director also expanded on the idea of the discrimination that takes place in the film. There is a story trope where a character falls in love with a robotic character. He himself was raised by a robot mother, but she too does discriminate against her own kind, saying if he actually intends to love a robot. 

Ridley Scott likened this idea to that of apartheid, explaining that the idea of the film is to bring conversations about letting people be who they are. The idea includes allowing people to enjoy their life whether they want to be cross-dresser, gay, or ally with any community they wish to connect within a free world. 

The sci-fi world allows a fantasy universe where a great number of possibilities are allowed. The film can allow characters to have varied forms in terms of their body. They could refer to themselves as asexual and owing to the sci-fi world, could do with not looking like either male or female physiques.

Yet what is important is that these characters can be portrayed as the best of the people, and it would not matter what sexuality they chose to be. Such ideas can help ensure that people get to see others in a better light and induce affection in people regardless of their status. 

Apart from that, the story also changes the perspective of how robots see humans. A robot servant could perceive his human master as a cute being, just like a pet. A simple such thought where they think they could pat the head of the cute person can change the perception of which species is in control and shift the arc of power. 

Blade Runner expands on similar thoughts where robots are not inferior beings to humans who have to adjust to human rule but are rather a species in their own right. They exist alongside humans and interact with the species. 

Explaining how these superior robots can cause trouble for humans, Scott explained that it begins with a human finding a serious AI and commanding it to create a better AI than itself. The AI carries the order and creates an even smarter AI. 

Blade Runner existed in the fictional times 2049; Credits: Warner Bros

Hence, this is where the problem starts for humans. When this will happen, it would only be a matter of time until the control of humans starts crumbling and when it would be the AI on top.