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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Read them all in my day. More recent SF novels not very interesting now that I read and soak in the KJV Bible.
Never saw the sequel.
Didn't know there was one.
I kind of liked the sequel.
Watched it twice.
The original one is great. A movie that I own.
“Never saw the sequel.”
Blade Runner 2049 was released in 2017. While not the seminal work of art that the original was (IMHO) it was a great film and a worthy sequel. Not at all a re-hash, it developed some intriguing ideas.
Well worth watching if you’re a fan of the first one.
Amazingly funny! Great job!
The Bible beats all! And it’s true.
She kind of went off the rails I'm afraid.
I interviewed a guy for a mechanic job once. I swore he was Leon.
Agreed. There are a lot of authors whose stories/novels you read and you think, “You know, if I put my mind to it, I could probably write a story like this.” With PKD, I *never* think that. He was operating on another level from everyone else. Incredible genius who left us too soon.
UBIK, Time Out of Joint, Three Stigmata, Scanner Darkly etc. etc. Absolutely love those books.
Deckard as a replicant sucks because the whole point of the movie is that Deckard is at least as inhumane as the androids that he's hunting.
He shoots Zahara in the back and his sex scene with Rachael is half a rape.
Sean Young. She was so beautiful (”Baby” movie for kids about dinosaurs; “BladeRunner”; “No Way Out” with Kevin Koster; others).
She send my young children signed photos and trading cards from “Baby”. That was classy and very well appreciated by them.
Love the music.
The book and move are interesting complements: similar beginning, but then they diverge in opposite directions, exploring how he is, or isn’t, a replicant.
There’s a cut scene on one of the disk versions (under extras or whatever) which shows that so much more. Basically, the stuff cut from their “love” scene.
yup, sad, too sad
she was Sooo hot in Stripes
See post #20
>>You know what a turtle is? Saaaame thing.<<
BLAAMMM!!!!
>>You know what a turtle is? Saaaame thing.<<
>>BLAAMMM!!!!
“I mean you’re not helping. Why is that Leon? (tense silence).
They’re just questions, Leon. In answer to your query, they’re written down for me. It’s a test, designed to provoke an emotional response. Shall we continue?
Describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about your mother.” (Holden)”
“My Mother? Let me tell you about my mother... (Leon)”
and this is the cue for the bang line.
“My mother? Let me tell you about my mother!” (Leon)
Well, I was paraphrasing. It is the climax to the scene.
(sorry if that was a spoiler who have not seen this classic movie that came out in 1982)
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