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okonx001 posts on 6/11/2008 6:42:35 PM
I did not like Bladerunner at all, it was pretty much painful to keep watching it through the whole entire movie. I thought the movie was contradicting in it's plot. These replicants can't feel/express emotions so therefore how can these replicants kill. You need some emotion to kill. Even if killing gives someone pleasure, it's still part of an emotion. Plus Rachel says "I love you" to Deckard but love is also emotion, so how is it that she is able to express it by words or even sex.
Luke82 posts on 5/29/2008 7:24:37 PM
Deckard is not a replicant! For starters, at the beginning of the movie he first learns of the memory chip implant. If he were a replicant wouldn't he have known about this? Seeing as how he was a Blade Runner for years and not couped up like Rachel, you would think he would've figured it out. If he were a replicant how could he have become a Blade Runner? He's been around since before the Nexus-6s so he couldn't be the new and improved replicant. Also, he clearly shows emotional responses. Not to mention he gets his butt kicked by replicants through the whole movie.
Porthos, misunderstood servant of the people posts on 5/18/2008 10:41:54 PM
The book said Decker was human. The book came first. End of discussion. It simply wouldnt make any sense at all for Decker to hunt his own kind. It's be like the Nazis hiring a Jew to kiull other Jews. No one is going to kill another of their own kind for a group that's out to get their own race. Thus it simply isnt logical for Decker to be a Rep.
Question Bot posts on 5/18/2008 9:39:57 PM
Deckard wasnt a replicant he just liked having sex with them due to their more powerful snatch muscles. I sort of wonder why Pris was not able to crush Deckards head between her thighs. Deckard was probably getting a major Woody when that happened. I loved it when he shot Pris and she flopped around like fish out of water the way she did when she was in SPLASH! 2 years later. I wonder if thats why she got that role as a mermaid?
Jeremy R posts a message on 5/17/2008 4:23:32 PM
It's crystal clear from a published interview with Ridley Scott that he came to believe at some point during the filming that Deckard was a replicant. Curiously, I understand that it almost certainly hadn't been in the minds of either the script writers/editors or of the actors (Ford in particular) that Deckard was anything other than human. Of course, in Dick's original book he is human. However, if you believe that the director is the "author" of a film - and their interpretation is definitive - then Scott portrayed Deckard as a replicant . This interpretation is (I believe) invisible in the original release but the clues (discussed elsewhere) were inserted into the "Director's Cut". The controversy points up wonderfully one of the fascinating themes underlying both Dick's original story and the film.
Bethany T. UMD posts on 5/16/2008 2:08:58 PM
I read an earlier post stating that Deckard is not a replicant (with examples including the KKK situation) I have to disagree. Based on the way the story was developing, Deckard very well could have been a replicant, especially with the way the new replicants were being developed. He very well may not have known that he was a replicant due to the brain chip technology that implants a lifetime worth of memories, as was done in Rachel's case. A good point was made in pointing out Deckard's inferior physical capabilities. Roy did give him a good beating, suggesting that Deckard was not a replicant. However, with Tyrell's attempt to make the replicants more and more human, Deckard may have been one that was developed without the superhuman capabilities.
Cindy H posts on 5/6/2008 12:23:07 PM
I watched a newer version of this film, one without the first-person detective-style commentary from Harrison Ford. Has anyone seen that one? Or better yet, has anyone seen both versions? I'm curious to know which is more effective, and how much of a different experience each of them is. Does Deckard's humanity get called more clearly into question in the version he narrates? I, like some other posters, didn't pick up on that question while watching the movie, but only by reading more about it later. I thought the unicorn Gaff left at the end was just a sign that he'd been there, and he decided to let Rachel live. I took the unicorn as a sign of peace, not as a sign that Gaff knows Deckard's thoughts. What does Deckard's daydream about the unicorn mean, anyway? This is a movie I'm probably going to have to watch a few more times, and I have a feeling I'll get something different out of it every time.
Ginger (City-Dog She) posts on 1/20/2008 5:47:50 PM
Ginger made her way around the city scouting for food. Knocking over a trash can, she grabbed a half eaten chicken leg and gulped it down seeing a man running toward her with a broom. Pricking her ears forward she raced away into the road and dodged the trafic with her years of skill. (Well I think it is fine since the board is totally dead!))
Bandit ( City-Dog Tom) posts on 1/14/2008 2:19:29 PM
((Since no one talks here anymore, is it okay if we turn this into a dog Role-Play?? It would be funner and cooler!!! If anyone doesn't want to though, I understand and I won't start Role-playing as a dog here. Just say your thoughts!!))
harpua posts on 12/6/2007 11:26:55 PM
I'm going to have to jump on the boat saying that Deckard is a replicant. Mill 3322 is right on, why would the origami unicorn be left if not to prove the point that Deckard is a replicant. It seems like it would be a very odd choice to add an origami unicorn at the end of the movie if it were not there to prove a point. Also, in response to Porthos, I hate to use to Dave Chappelle to prove a point, but does anyone recall the black white supremacist skit. Oft times, people end up doing things without really knowing all the reasons behind their motives. Deckard believed he was doing his job and his memories were proof enough to him that he was human, but in my humble opinion, he was not.
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