Posted on 08/21/2020 6:48:18 PM PDT by simpson96
Blade Runner is a 1982 science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott, and written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples. Starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young and Edward James Olmos, the film is set in a dystopian future Los Angeles of 2019, in which synthetic humans known as replicants are bio-engineered by the powerful Tyrell Corporation to work at space colonies. When a fugitive group of advanced replicants led by Roy Batty (Hauer) escapes back to Earth, burnt-out cop Rick Deckard (Ford) reluctantly agrees to hunt them down.
The Voight-Kampff test was designed to distinguish replicants from humans based on their emotional response to questions. Deckard meets with the CEO of the company that creates the replicants, Eldon Tyrell, so he can administer the test on a replicant to see if it works. Tyrell expresses his interest in seeing the test fail first and asks him to administer it on his assistant Rachael. After a much longer than standard test, Deckard concludes that Rachael is a replicant who believes she is human.
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I wrote a paper on the Voight-Kampff and this topic. It’s super interesting
I saw a livestream where a guy administered this test to a clueless 20-year-old. He had no idea what it was or where it was from, but some very disturbing stuff got revealed about him.
Can the Voight-Kampff test be administered to NPC’s? They appear to be human but are obviously programmed to run orangemanbad.exe at all times.
My memory is that Deckerd is or might be a replicant. That might be more book than movie since I’ve read it a lot more recently.
i hoped for so much more from Sean
He’s clearly a replicant, and that’s explicit in the sequel.
Okay. I think I have the sequel on a drive somewhere. I’ll have to watch that. I have heard mostly good reviews. Maybe a good double-header.
One of my all time favorite movies. The gritty scenes in LA were prescient. Harrison Ford was all over it!
Dreaming of Electric Sheep.
What’s a tortoise ?
You know what a turtle is? Saaaame thing.
It’s amazing how well the visuals and effects of Blade Runner hold up after so many years. It still is stunning and beautiful. Unlike so many other Sci-Fy movies from that era.
PKD had some great stories.
The scene where Rachel goes to Deckard’s apartment to argue for her humanity is so rich and haunting -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-MYn1xxwVc
“Those aren’t your memories, they’re someone else’s.”
In the sequel it established that, at least in 2049, all Blade Runners are replicants - who else could go up against a genetically enhanced artificial person? The sequel also suggests that Deckard and Rachel were part of an experiment to see if replicants could successfully breed - one scene features Deckard in an abandoned Vegas casino as Elvis sings “I Can’t Help Falling in Love With You.”
Great film.
A visual feast and best seen in a theater, imo.
Gotta start somewhere.
I always liked actor Brion James who played the first replicant to fail the test. He also played General Munro in “The Fifth Element.” A good character actor who sadly died in 1999.
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