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Blade Runner fans: it's Roy Batty's birthday
Queanbeyanage.Com ^
Posted on 01/07/2016 7:13:51 PM PST by Perdogg
It's a boy! It's a Roy! For Blade Runner fans, 8 January 2016 is a date of major significance. It's the "day of activation" for Roy Batty, one of the most charismatic and significant characters in this landmark movie. He's a replicant, or android â and, although he might not be flesh and blood, he certainly makes us think about what it is to be human. He's arguably the heart and soul of the movie, even more than its putative hero, played by Harrison Ford
Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott, is one of the most influential films of the 1980s, a philosophical science fiction-action work set in the near future that's steeped in a sense of the past, a reflection on memory, identity, emotion, creation and invention that takes place in a dazzling yet downbeat neo-noir urban landscape. Loosely based on Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?, its events begin to unfold in November 2019, in a world in which highly realistic androids, known as replicants, have been built by a company called the Tyrell Corporation.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: bladerunner; electricsheep; phillipkdick; roybatty
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posted on
01/07/2016 7:13:51 PM PST
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Perdogg
To: Aevery_Freeman; ShadowAce; Jack Hydrazine; Altariel; nuancey; Thorliveshere; skinkinthegrass; ...
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posted on
01/07/2016 7:14:44 PM PST
by
Perdogg
(Senator Ted Cruz - President 2016)
To: Perdogg
“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe.”
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posted on
01/07/2016 7:15:39 PM PST
by
Flag_This
(You can't spell "treason" without the "O".)
To: Perdogg
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posted on
01/07/2016 7:17:34 PM PST
by
max americana
(fired every liberal in our company at every election cycle..and laughed at their faces (true story))
To: Perdogg
“Loosely based on Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?”
Quite. More like about the same until halfway, at which point the book takes a right turn and the movie a left, taking us to very different conclusions.
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posted on
01/07/2016 7:21:07 PM PST
by
ctdonath2
(History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the week or the timid. - Ike)
To: Perdogg
Fiery the angels fall! Happy Birthday Roy!
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posted on
01/07/2016 7:21:43 PM PST
by
Busko
(The only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain.)
To: Flag_This; Perdogg
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears...in...rain. Time to die.
Great movie.
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posted on
01/07/2016 7:24:35 PM PST
by
BBell
To: Perdogg
Not seen Rutger Hauer in many films, other than Lady Hawk. This was was a stunner, do not know what he thinks of it these days, would be good to find out.
Quite something to have such an iconic image for the ages.
To: Perdogg
Rachel is Who I Remember,
yummy!
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posted on
01/07/2016 7:27:06 PM PST
by
Big Red Badger
(UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
To: Perdogg
Hot pleasure robots...
Hmmmmmmmm
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posted on
01/07/2016 7:27:28 PM PST
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: 2banana
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posted on
01/07/2016 7:28:16 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Perdogg
"Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it?"
"That's what it is to be a slave."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zXajYDnprQ
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posted on
01/07/2016 7:28:37 PM PST
by
GBA
(Here in the matrix, life is but a dream.)
To: BBell
Stunning moment. The line was Hauer’s, by the way, not the scriptwriters’. I wish fervently that they’d shut Ford up on the narration and just left it there. It was at that moment that I gave up a lifelong conviction that nobody in the art of motion pictures really got science fiction. They got it all right.
To: Big Red Badger
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posted on
01/07/2016 7:32:52 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Perdogg
“You Sure have some nice toys”
Roy Batty to Sebastian
I now know Hitler’s Birthday (April 20)
and Roy Batty’s (Jan 8)
Nice Catch LOL
How long have you been waiting to post this ?
To: BBell
Magnificent!
That is one of the finest death scenes ever, perhaps the finest in science fiction, especially considering that Hauer ad libbed it.
He made that movie so memorable with that line. To me, Hauer was the star of Blade Runner.
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posted on
01/07/2016 7:34:00 PM PST
by
chris37
(heartless)
To: Perdogg
“I’ve done questionable things.”
To: Big Red Badger
Yeah but bat crap crazy in real life wasn’t she ?.....:o)
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posted on
01/07/2016 7:35:22 PM PST
by
Squantos
( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
To: Flag_This
"I've done ... questionable things." :-)
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posted on
01/07/2016 7:35:32 PM PST
by
so_real
( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
To: so_real
“if only you could see what I’ve seen with your eyes!”
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posted on
01/07/2016 7:37:36 PM PST
by
Flag_This
(You can't spell "treason" without the "O".)
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