Posted on 09/22/2017 6:15:44 AM PDT by C19fan
Hollywood is creatively bankrupt. Every other movie they make now is a remake, a sequel, or a prequel. The rest are based on comic books or video games.
GII is basically the exception that proves the rule that sequels are typically just a way to sell tickets when you're running out of original creative ideas.
“There are hints about that in the movie (very subtle). But the other replicants seem a lot stronger than Decker.”
We see Deckard having a vision of a unicorn, and Gaff seems to know about this, (some sort of replicant memory implant?) taunting Deckard with an origami unicorn at the end of the film.
I like the notion that Deckard’s humanity is ambiguous, the whole film is about such ambiguity. It would be fine with me if this question is never fully resolved.
Neither are Hollywood divorce lawyers.
But the other replicants were the new series. Decker could have been one of the previous replicant versions that didn't have the limited life span built in.
LOL
Harrison Ford’s character was a Replicant?
Speculation.................
I feel like George Costanza in the Seinfeld episode with the book club. He didn’t know the Breakfast at Tiffany’s character was queer.
I didn’t have a clue Harrison Ford’s character was a replicant. I didn’t see that in the movie, was it made apparent in the book?
From reading here, it looks as if Harrison was upset he had to do a bunch of voiceover narration that he thought was not in the original contract. Whatever. It worked. You can bet the farm that these clowns will fail. let me guess, Decker turns out to be a climate change denier. All the replicants are ordered to kill em.
post # 49.................me too.
I own the director’s cut DVD without the voice-over narration. I agree with Ford that the voice-over often diminishes the film by spoon-feeding the audience things that they are already implicit. The worst example of such narration was something like “So then he died...” in reference to Batty’s death on the roof, completely breaking the mood of the scene.
The voice-over was part of what the suits did. I agree that it made the movie much better for theater attendees.
Also, it’s almost required to watch that version before the director’s cut. It makes things much more understandable.
So actually I agree with you. I’m a fan of both versions. The director and actors hated some of the things that were done for the theatrical release (the voice-over, the happy driving-into-the-sunset ending), but overall it made it a much more palatable film with regards to the time and audience that went to see it.
If Rutger Hauer is in it I’m going.
I wonder if the writer intended on the speculation. I’ve watched that movie a dozen times but now I have to watch it again with this in mind. It never occurred to me.
The film is a loose adaptation of the 1968 novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” by Philip K. Dick.
In the original book, they were androids not flesh and blood.
The ‘blade runners’ were bounty hunters, not police officers.
Neither term, ‘replicant’ or ‘blade runner’ was in the book................
There were certainly clues. As noted above, even in the theater release and "The Final Cut" there is the origami unicorn left at his house by police officer which indicates he knows what Decker has been dreaming of. In the Director's cut is was made even more obvious - In the scene where Decker looks in the mirror there is an electric glow which flashes in his eyes and in the scene where Roy Batty grabs Decker to keep him from falling to his death he mutters "kinship" as he lifts him to the roof. These last two items were deleted from the Final Cut to leave it more ambiguous.
We see Deckard having a vision of a unicorn, and Gaff seems to know about this, (some sort of replicant memory implant?) taunting Deckard with an origami unicorn at the end of the film.
You don’t know what his burnt rate is, viagra and crashing airplanes can get expensive.
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