![]() The scale leads him to the strip club where Zhora works, where he pretends to be part of the “committee of moral abuses” to speak with her. ![]() He has a dream about a unicorn is Deckard real or a Replicant? “What dis?” Deckard is in full sleuth mode, scanning one of Leon’s pictures to reveal Zhora, then investigating the scale to discover it’s from a snake. Sebastian, manipulating him into asking her to come inside his place for food and warmth. A trick of the light on Harrison Ford’s eyes sparked the “is Deckard a Replicant” argument. In this “new world” he’s out of retirement, chasing down replicants and falling in love. ![]() She gets upset and leaves, but this is where their romantic relationship starts, which is a foreign thing to Deckard. Deckard tells her that her memories are from Tyrell’s niece. Rachael appears at Deckard’s apartment to prove to him she is human, even showing him a picture of herself as a child with her mom. Sebastian, a genetic designer who works closely with Tyrell. Batty and Leon are doing some digging around themselves, talking to Chew at an eye-manufacturing laboratory, learning of J. At Leon’s hotel Deckard finds some pictures and an animal scale. But the world itself shows Deckard resistance during his investigation. “More human than human.” “You axe a lotta questions, yo.”ĭeckard first “refuses the call” earlier when Bryant asks him to do the job, but apparently he has no choice, so the usual resistance shown by the protagonist at this point goes by in a flash. Tyrell explains that Rachael is only an experiment. After more questions than normal, Deckard discovers she’s a Replicant, but memory implants make her believe she is human. At Tyrell Corporation, Deckard puts the Voight-Kampff on Eldon Tyrell‘s personal assistant Rachael. Replicants have a 4-year life span as a fail safe in case they become aware and resistant. He’s to take down Leon and three other Nexus-6’s: Roy Batty, Zhora, and Pris. “Good luck, pal.”īryant gives Deckard (and us) the lowdown on the escaped replicants. Deckard reluctantly takes the gig and is now on a new path. Being a Blade Runner is one of the only respectable jobs left. I believe what Bryant means is now that Deckard is retired, he’s not a worthy member of society, as anyone who still lives on earth is considered low-class. But then Bryant says “You’re not cop you’re little people” which makes him change his mind. Deckard shows resistance, and gets up to leave. He’s asked/ told to track down some replicants and “retire” them, as they are on Earth illegally. We meet the protagonist Rick Deckard eating some noodles when, ex-coworker and snazzy dresser, Gaff tells him to go see his former supervisor, Bryant. The interview is a great setup tool to introduce the audience to the world of the film. During the interview Leon suddenly shoots Holden. Then we have the Voight-Kampff interview of Replicant Leon by a Blade Runner named Holden. We’re literally told the set-up of this world within the first five minutes. Then we get a slow crawl explaining Replicants and Blade Runners. We open on an eye, then a slow pan of a dystopian, 2019 Los Angeles. Let’s get this structure train moving! Film Length: 1:57:37 min The world Ridley Scott created is incredible but also believable, and the special effects hold up incredibly well. There isn’t a more visually beautiful film out there as far as I’m concerned. The breaking down structure madness continues with one of my all time favorite films, Blade Runner, a science fiction masterpiece that I could watch it every day and still be enthralled.
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