Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade 1,7, University of Wuppertal Anglistik, course Narrating Los Angeles, language English, abstract The reference I've seen things you people wouldn't believe marks one of the most iconic monologues in movie history. It perfectly describes the confusing life within a dystopian future from the perspective of a being whose existence is a comment on life itself. Replicants, artificial life, flying cars, dirty streets, confusing architecture and big corporations fill the narration of Blade Runner, often claimed as the showpiece of the art form of cyberpunk. What is cyberpunk What is cyber What is punk This seminar paper will examine the origins of the cyberpunk narrative by amplifying its roots, the dystopian scenario. Furthermore the dystopian roots within the utopian narrative will be specified. Using the example of Ridley Scott's 1982 movie Blade Runner the significance of the city o