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Blade Runner fans: it's Roy Batty's birthday
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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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To: Perdogg

Don’t forget to listen to the Blade Runner soundtrack!

This is the 2002 Esper edition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwhZ11lcOJQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6qUTSZ5Zmk

0:00:00 Prologue And Main Titles 3:54
0:03:54 Leon’s Voight Kampff Test 1:09
0:05:03 Sushi Bar — Damask Rose 2:46
0:07:49 Spinner Ascent 1:21
0:09:10 Blush Response 5:43
0:14:53 Wait For Me 5:12
0:20:05 Deckard Meets Rachael 1:36
0:21:41 Rachael’s Song 4:20
0:26:01 Tales Of The Future 4:53
0:30:54 Bicycle Riders 2:10
0:33:04 Chew’s Eye Lab 1:15
0:34:19 Memories Of Green 5:35
0:39:54 Blade Runner Blues 10:01
0:49:55 Pris Meets J.F. Sebastian 1:47
0:51:42 One More Kiss‚ Dear 4:04
0:55:46 Deckard Dream 1:10
0:56:56 Thinking Of Rachael 1:18
0:58:14 Esper Analysis 2:34
1:00:48 Animoid Row 2:34
1:03:22 Taffey Lewis Night Club 2:02
1:05:24 Salome’s Dance 1:23
1:06:47 Zhora’s Retirement 1:42
1:08:29 I am The Business 2:29
1:10:48 Love Theme 4:58
1:15:46 I Dreamt Music 4:32
1:20:18 Morning At The Bradbury 3:46
1:24:04 The Prodigal Son Brings Death 4:07
1:28:11 Deckard Enters The Bradbury 3:37
1:31:48 Dangerous Days 0:57
1:32:45 Wounded Animals 10:53
1:43:38 Tears In Rain 2:51
1:46:29 Rachael Sleeps 2:08
1:48:37 End Titles 4:06

3-CD Special Edition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-cF6PRCcVY

More info on the various versions of the movie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versions_of_Blade_Runner


61 posted on 01/07/2016 8:39:45 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Vision Thing

Bingo!


62 posted on 01/07/2016 8:40:25 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Vision Thing

Ridley Scott confirms that Deckard is a Replicant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7o0rvVxU0w

Ridley Scott - Is Deckard A Replicant?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZPg1CSPSII


63 posted on 01/07/2016 8:43:56 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: BBell

It’s probably common knowledge by now, but Roy’s soliloquy was ad-libbed. Hauer deviated from the script, and created some of the most memorable lines in cinema.


64 posted on 01/07/2016 8:48:35 PM PST by IronJack
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To: Pelham

That really is one of the great soliloquies from film and all the more impressive knowing that Rutger Hauer improvised it.

...

Two other great ones would be “delivering the bomb” in Jaws, and the “Dali Lama” in Caddyshack. All written or improvised by the actors.


65 posted on 01/07/2016 8:53:46 PM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: doorgunner69
Rutger Hauer on Blade Runner

Rutger Hauer on Blade Runner

66 posted on 01/07/2016 8:59:21 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: Moonman62

“Two other great ones would be “delivering the bomb” in Jaws”

Absolutely

” and the “Dali Lama” in Caddyshack. “

I’ve never seen Caddyshack...now I will have to.


67 posted on 01/07/2016 9:23:56 PM PST by Pelham (Muslim immigration...the enemy is inside the wire.)
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To: TChad

“Someone might recognize her. “

We won’t tell.


68 posted on 01/07/2016 9:25:18 PM PST by Pelham (Muslim immigration...the enemy is inside the wire.)
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To: tbw2
Was the blade runner himself a replicant?

Precisely. "You know the score, Pal? You ain't Cops, you're Little People!"

69 posted on 01/07/2016 10:47:27 PM PST by Prospero (Omnis caro fenum)
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To: Pelham

The Dying Gaul...excellent connection. And that made me think that perhaps Chateaubriand would have enjoyed the movie, provided he were introduced to late 20th century media slowly... I think he would have gotten the “Descartes” reference right away.


70 posted on 01/07/2016 10:52:35 PM PST by Prospero (Omnis caro fenum)
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To: Pelham
We won't tell.

Nope. Her lovely face looks better smiling than frowning.

71 posted on 01/08/2016 12:30:07 AM PST by TChad
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To: Perdogg
Read the original story when published, went to the movie when it was first screened, was powerfully moved when I saw it, and have seen it many times since. I've kept the VCR tape and a player just to see it again whenever its memory gets blurry.

We've all got to die. Many of us have seen things our ancestors could not even imagine. Like R. Lee Ermey reading of the latest happenings in the USMC, f'r instance.

72 posted on 01/08/2016 1:47:03 AM PST by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: so_real

Man, I thought “Wedlock” was great. Hauer is Harrison Ford’s clone with a bit more realism and angst.


73 posted on 01/08/2016 3:05:12 AM PST by raybbr (Obamacare needs a deatha panel)
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To: Perdogg

Read lots of Scifi in my younger days. Asimov, Heinlein, Clarke, a host of others. By the time I stopped was before Phillip Dick was popular so I never read any of his stuff.

I saw Blade Runner when it came out....I was impressed.....I like dark stories....my favorite original Star Wars was ‘empire strikes back’.

A few years ago they made a number of different directors cuts (why?) of ‘Blade Runner’. I had basically forgotten the fine points of the movie and thought it would be good to see it and freshen my memory.

I did not know what was going on. They presented this particular version I watched WITHOUT the Harrison Ford narration. I didn’t know what the heck I was watching. Luckily this pass year encore put on a nice clean version of the original(or perhaps a different directors cut). It was a breath of fresh air.


74 posted on 01/08/2016 3:36:05 AM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: tbw2

as a few have said here yes and ridley scoot confirmed it.

there is a load of hints in both movies. here is a few

all replicants collect family photos (the fake family they are given to ‘cope’ with their creation...deckard’s house is filled with these to an extreme level.

rachel play the piano thinking she learned it in her childhood...just like deckard.

tyrell almost tells him when deckard is interiewing rachel. he smiles at deckard when asked ‘how can it not know what it is?’ and tyrell answers ‘more human than human’. tyrell asks how many questions it takes and deckard replies 30-40 cross referenced but for rachel it was more than a 100. this really means tyrell is working to create a nexus line that is totally indistinguishable from human...you would never know even with the test..the implication is decard is one of these. the mind warping in the movie is truly fantastic...was deckard just created? did he even exist before the noodle meetup with gaff? was all of the past just implanted? was he and the team just created to kill roy and the off worlders with their own short lifespan? the implication is that all the blade runner units are actually replicants hunting replicants.

rachel asks deckard has he ever taken the test (the voight/kampf test that tests eye movement etc) ..he hasnt

there is a lot to imply that the nexus 7 line is making the nexus 8 and humans are kinda out of the loop. we have been bypassed in brain power. look for example where the people who made the nexus line are now living. they eye designer (’if you could have seen what i have seen with your eyes)’ is not exactly swimming in money. when pris meets the designer he is proud of the fact that he ‘made’ the nexus 7 (there is part of me in you i think is the comment). although he is still involved with tyrell...does he look and act like someone at the pinnicle of his career?, nope he doesnt. also roy batty, a soldier for off world wars...one designed for battle and war...even he has brain power equal to and probably exceeding tyrell himself...he beats tyrell at chess, with almost no experience he jousts with tyrell on how to genetically change himself to stop dying...humans are no longer top dog in the brain game. also roy kills his god. i am sure i dont have to spell out the implications of that scenario.

in the movie deckard knows/is told about the spider story rachel thinks is her own, that memory was taken from tyrells niece and implanted in rachel. deckard the hard nosed detective daydreams about unicorns in the extended version and gaff the police man with a limp leaves an origami unicorn for him at the end. gaff is probably human and is aware of who is actually who (i.e. who is real and who is the nexus line). he knows deckard dreams of unicorns...he is letting deckard know what he is with the unicorn at the end. now if you really want to extend this out...how would gaff know he dreams of unicorns, perhaps told or....unless gaff dreams of unicorns, so ....is deckard a nexus copy of the injured gaff and his memories? have they taken the police experience of gaff and implanted them in a working body to hunt replicants...?? a stretch i know...but this is why blade runner is such a fantastic movie. once you get even marginally below the surface it really deals with the arrival of AI. Since you are you because of your memories...well how do you know right now know you are human and are not simply a nexus model from tyrell corporation?

...its is truly a fascinating movie...and you can look at it as a police chase and be happy or..far far deeper...


75 posted on 01/08/2016 4:01:16 AM PST by Irishguy
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To: doorgunner69

I worked with the guy, we discussed “Blade Runner”, and I mentioned how much I enjoyed Rutger Hauer’s performance.

He insisted that I should watch “Hobo With A Shotgun”.

Hoo boy. Not MY kind of movie, and I was looking over my shoulder thinking “If my wife comes in here and sees me watching this kind of movie...she is going to think I have something seriously wrong with me!”


76 posted on 01/08/2016 4:31:26 AM PST by rlmorel ("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
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To: BBell
"Do you like our Owl Mr. Deckard?"

"Nice Hooters!"

77 posted on 01/08/2016 4:37:42 AM PST by rlmorel ("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
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To: PLMerite
"These are your redheads, strippers, girls named Tiffany...hairdressers..."

Absolutely brilliantly funny!

78 posted on 01/08/2016 4:45:40 AM PST by rlmorel ("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
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To: rlmorel

Link

http://m.break.com/video/hot-crazy-matrix-mans-guide-to-women-2742854


79 posted on 01/08/2016 5:39:13 AM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Vaquero

As a guy I think that is the funniest thing, and even the thought of it brings a smile to my face!


80 posted on 01/08/2016 7:06:39 AM PST by rlmorel ("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
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