California is right now facing a major crisis as a massive lightning-sparked wildfire is raging in the area, threatening thousands of homes and other structures. The situation has been going on since more than three weeks now. According to reports, the fire roared to life after being stoked by high winds and consequently spread at a ferocious rate across mountainous terrain and parched foothills, destroying an untold number of homes.
As a result of the wildfire, a thick smoke choked the air on Wednesday and casted an eerie orange hue across the region. The internet was full of residents of the Bay Area, San Francisco and Oakland in California, US sharing pictures of the frightful scene.
While people have shared several pictures, one video has particularly horrified netizens. A drone footage of San Francisco covered with disorienting orange skies and the music from the film Blade Runner 2049 playing in the background has gone viral online. And it is disturbing.
Watch the clip:
Someone put Blade Runner 2049 music to drone footage of San Francisco on 9/09/20 credit to Terry Tsai (YouTube) #BayArea #BayAreaFires pic.twitter.com/ZbdIZRWPFk
— Andreas_sensei (@Bunny_Godfather) September 10, 2020
According to the tweet, the clip was made by a YouTuber named Terry Tsai. The drone footage was originally shot by a YouTuber called DoctorSbaitso.
The video looks straight out of a dystopian movie scene, but the scary part is that it is real, and that is what is scaring the netizens the most.
Since being shared, the clip has gone crazy viral and has been tweeted multiple times on Twitter. See some of the reactions:
This isn’t Blade Runner 2049, it’s California 2020.https://t.co/m7HW7JaBaC pic.twitter.com/0aDtDSSvKX
— Theo Priestley (@tprstly) September 10, 2020
Jesus. https://t.co/aEleNBwA7t
— natasha lyonne (@nlyonne) September 11, 2020
I mean I absolutely love the bladerunner movies but I was kinda hoping we would avoid that future. pic.twitter.com/poe5n8WNvS
— Jesus H Christ79 (@JesusHChrist79) September 11, 2020
These aren’t high priced Hollywood special effects.
This is the cost we are paying for the inaction of leaders to stop the destruction of the planet so a handful of people can accumulate more wealth they could ever spend in their lifetimes https://t.co/QIjz2GjFuD
— Jaisal Noor (@jaisalnoor) September 11, 2020
This is normal. Climate change is a hoax, right? https://t.co/4NyjNkLc2U
— Alvaro Lopez Ortega (@alobbs) September 10, 2020
We are living in the future, and it sucks. https://t.co/WHqHZbAEsE
— Jim Getz (@jimgetz) September 11, 2020
“THIS IS JUST LIKE THOSE DEPRESSING MOVIES ABOTU A DYSTOPIAN FUTURE” https://t.co/OXbyzl7iW3
— Laura Lisbon (@cyberxboyfriend) September 10, 2020
Before this, many other Twitter user had also compared the scenes in California with Blade Runner 2049. See the tweets:
It is LITERALLY Blade Runner 2049 in California right now. pic.twitter.com/FAggbTQeNB
— Kevin L. Lee (@Klee_FilmReview) September 9, 2020
People are like “CliMaTe cHaNgE iS FaKe”, meanwhile every photo of California right now looks like a still from Blade Runner. pic.twitter.com/vuFEHcEkUM
— Forest (@fr0st_nixon) September 9, 2020
Time for a terrible and frightening new game.
Blade Runner 2049 or California 2020? pic.twitter.com/0yp9re8USv
— Paul Dokas (@pauldokas) September 9, 2020
Everybody in California posting photos like they’re on the set of Blade Runner 2049 pic.twitter.com/ZwCEffwp2J
— Mike Rundle (@flyosity) September 9, 2020
BLADE RUNNER 2049 | CALIFORNIA 2020 pic.twitter.com/sSN9KAEJwR
— Ana de Armas Updates (@ArmasUpdates) September 10, 2020
Not sure if this is California in 2020 or Blade Runner 2049… pic.twitter.com/qqhjvsPSUq
— Canadian Foxes (@LCFC_Canada) September 9, 2020
Blade Runner 2049 came out in 2017. It was a long-awaited follow-up of the 1982 sci-fi classic. The movie also had scenes that had distinctively orange and hazy scenes, and it was set in a desolate future Las Vegas. And this makes the comparison even scarier.
Watch the trailer for Blade Runner 2049 here:
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