https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6oplzJuR08&feature=youtu.be&t=30s
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 – 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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Thank you for the post!!
You area sci-fi fan.
Yes, and for an odd reason. I'd just read the book before I saw the movie with some friends and found myself attempting to explain the ending to them on the way out of the theater. They thought I was full of crap and I begged them to read the book but I don't think anyone of them ever did.
It's funny - I was, as I said, convinced that no one in the movies understood SF. For evidence I offer that, and the hideous abortion that Starship Troopers turned into. Clarke and Heinlein, down the drain, but Bradbury had Blade Runner and I was never happier to be wrong.
I read Starship Troopers about 30 years before the movie. What a let down. However, I read the Godfather about 15 years before I watched the movie and I enjoyed it. Whatever you do please don’t watch the remake of Rollerball or The Andromeda strain. If you decide to watch them have a barf bag ready.
I knew who you meant. I’m not as critical as some here.
Watching”Misfits” right now.
DVDs are My Friend!
I try not to stare.
...post a pic...
That really is one of the great soliloquies from film and all the more impressive knowing that Rutger Hauer improvised it.
“Yeah but bat crap crazy in real life wasn’t she ?.....:o)”
I believe the Hollywood term is “difficult.”
She was high on my list of most beautiful women, hot enough to overcome the crazy thing.
Ha! Sorry, I don't have a pic, and wouldn't post it if I did. Someone might recognize her.
Was the blade runner himself a replicant?
Starship Troopers is my favorite sci-fi book. The movie sucked. Mobile Infantry in the book rocked.
A magic and beautiful piece of dialog superbly
delivered.
Yes. No. Green.
https://www.quora.com/Was-Deckard-a-replicant-in-Blade-Runner
According to Ridley Scott, yes, Deckard was a Replicant. It was hinted at in the movie when it first came out which resulted in a lot of controversy. The final cut version, which came out in 2007, was tweaked slightly to make that fact much more obvious.
If you read the book, “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” you’ll find out that the goal of the Rosen Corp. (aka the Tyrell Corp. in the movie) was to replace all humanity with Replicants.
Reading the book and watching the movie really make a more complete picture of what the author was painting. I invite everyone to take the time to read the book.
By tweak, are you referring to the unicorn dream sequence? Which ties to the unicorn origami at the end of the film.
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