Blade Runner: Where to begin?
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Colin Droidmilk
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I love this one.
The spinners were supposed to be armed.
You can see the rail mount in the film, but they put a stupid light on instead.
Maybe it interfered with the door too much to be practical. Wonder if they ever tried though.
Damn that Syd Mead! I thought the whole left side of that image was a photo when it scrolled up.
rodneyfaile
Sr Member
You know he must have at least considered the thought that he might be a replicant. I mean if you live in a world where people are replicants and they don't know they are replicants, your mind has to at least imagine the thought "what if I found out I was a replicant?" "wonder if I could be a replicant?" "last year is kinda fuzzy now that you mention it."
Your whole world, your entire grip on reality all would come crashing down. Especially because of the 4 year life span.
Now if replicants hand longer life spans, I could totally handle it. Just get a few upgrades from Steve Jobs every few years to keep current and its all good.
Larry Young
Master Member
The Questor Tapes didn't fly and Data isn't the main character of TNG for a reason. You can sympathize with Pinocchio but you can't empathize with him. While we all ponder the nature of identity, we all know what it's like to be a real boy.
Larry Young
Master Member
+1,000,000
I'm not sure I'd want to live in that world, but I'd sure want to tour it. Always, always wanted to see the cityscape in the painting Blip posted on the previous page. Rodney, the fact that replicants can be given copied memories is news to Deckard. He's been in the rep-detect game for years, presumably he keeps up (or used to) with trade news, so we can assume it's either a very recent development or a trade secret (or both). He might have been pondering it since the meeting with Tyrell, though.
There are lots of things that don't make sense, though. Why go all the way to the CEO of what has to be a mega-corp, just to carry out a test on a Nexus-6? Why are Nexus-6 models considered so new and unknown anyway, when they've been running around for at least four years?
rodneyfaile
Sr Member
Rodney, the fact that replicants can be given copied memories is news to Deckard. He's been in the rep-detect game for years, presumably he keeps up (or used to) with trade news, so we can assume it's either a very recent development or a trade secret (or both). He might have been pondering it since the meeting with Tyrell, though.
There are lots of things that don't make sense, though. Why go all the way to the CEO of what has to be a mega-corp, just to carry out a test on a Nexus-6? Why are Nexus-6 models considered so new and unknown anyway, when they've been running around for at least four years?
yes, finding out that there are replicants with implanted memories is news to deckard. and finding out that rachel doesnt know she is a replicant is also news to him.
but once he finds out that information, i am sure later on he had a few sips of johhnie walker and sat back in his chair and pondered the possibilities of rachels circumstances and what it would be like to be in her shoes.
that sort of reality would cause some people a lot of trauma. suddenly every unclear memory would be suspiciously like evidence you are a replicant yourself.
Ford explained that this was because of his foul up missing his mark and getting into the special light source that caused the intentional red-eye.
Declare is the best replicant killer in the world yet seems to know mornings about them. That's probably the awkward bit of storytelling n the movie.
That and the trail of clues doesn't really add up very well.
Nick
That and the trail of clues doesn't really add up very well.
Nick
androidandy
Sr Member
It all makes sense if Deckard had retired before the nexus6 (or at least thinks he did), and till this point no Nexus 6 have made it back to earth yet to be tested by VK, or this was Deckard's rush job training on how to distinguish a Nexus 6.
In the book Eldon (Tyrell) Rosen try to convince Deckard that the test was flawed because Rachael had lived as a child on a spaceship without a lot of human contact in order to discredit Deckard and the police.
Also they shot the same scene where Deckard's Eyes glowed several times, but ultimately chose the one with his eyes glowing for a reason.
Andy
In the book Eldon (Tyrell) Rosen try to convince Deckard that the test was flawed because Rachael had lived as a child on a spaceship without a lot of human contact in order to discredit Deckard and the police.
Also they shot the same scene where Deckard's Eyes glowed several times, but ultimately chose the one with his eyes glowing for a reason.
Andy
rodneyfaile
Sr Member
Tyrell - "Rachel is an experiment, nothing more."
And I would bet the only one of her advanced kind with a comment like that. Clearly she was the absolute last word from the Tyrell corporation at that point in creating a human being.
Deckard would have had to have been above her in advancement.
But Deckard's job was also detecting empathy and emotions.
You coudn't send a replicant to do that, not even one as advanced as Rachael.
They might have even been doing something illegal in creating her too
I suspect.
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