Why is it always raining in LA in the movie "Blade Runner"?

[sasquatch]

:shrug:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear sasquatch...

I suspect that it makes LA look dirtier and more squalid than you would normally expect...

But I really don't know.

:shrug:

:hi:

[pokerfan]

2. dystopian film noir

I guess the weather's fucked up for some reason.

[Bicoastal]

3. It DOES rain in Los Angeles, even in the present.

Not very often--only about 12 inches per year--but it does happen.

[BlueJazz]

4. I thought it was because since the film is set in the future, society has...

...polluted the atmosphere so bad that the weather patterns are all screwed up..

[Iggo]

5. Yeah, I thought it was permanent acid rain.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

6. Maybe to make the "tears in rain" speech more effective.

[qnr]

7. That's not rain, it's just really heavy, wet smog. n/t

[busybl]

8. ambiance

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

9. Well, if you don't like the rain in L.A. ...

There are opportunities in the offworld colonies, some of which are probably much drier. Bon voyage. Just watch out for the replicants (the mean ones, not the pleasure variants)

:hi:

[Blue_Tires]

10. the rain is an allegory to God's vengeance on the just and unjust

or God is just pissing on what the world has become...

[Bertha Venation]

11. Because it was filmed in February.

[jakeXT]

12. The director, Ridley Scott is from the UK ?

[baldguy]

13. Climate change.

It's always dark, too.

[edbermac]

14. Streets photograph better when wet.