In Blade Runner, replicant detection occurs via the subject's ability/inability to show advanced emotion. But early in the movie Deckard starts off as emotionle
I may have lost count, but the last time I checked there were 4 different cuts of Blade Runner. The original cinema release (with the voice over and the spliced
The Voight-Kampff test (the so-called "empathy test") in the film has been bothering me for some time... It is acknowledged in the film that the test can give
In Philip K. Dick's novel 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep' there are key aspects of the plot of the novel that are completely excluded from Blade Runner, i
Throughout Blade Runner we see Gaff (Edward James Olmos) making origami figures at various points in the movie. He makes a chicken, matchstick men and at the en
Near the end of Blade Runner, Deckard enters Sebastian’s apartment, gets ambushed and kills the girl. He then gets chased around the apartment by Roy, wh
So, the end result of about 19 different versions of Blade Runner seems to be that all indicators point to Deckard being a Replicant himself. If you do indeed
The leader of the replicants was standing in the elevator with Sebastian (a Tyrell's employee). They were going to pay Tyrell a visit. Tyrell asked what does he
I am watching Blade Runner for the first time, and early on we have this scene Holden: Describe in single words. Only the good things that come to your mind
Blade Runner (1982) has a lot of buzz around it. Everyone knows the movie, it's widely cited and highly regarded. However, after watching it twice I just wasn'
I just saw Blade Runner on the big screen for the first time in twenty years. There were many details that I saw for the first time. One of these details happen
I've heard it said that Deckard (Harrison Ford) in Blade Runner is a replicant. I don't remember it being made clear either way. Is Deckard a replicant? What e
Do the cinematography techniques in Blade Runner use textual representation (image as text) or material representation (image as presence) in order to convey th
The classic Blade Runner film is seen to be the archetypical story of machine who are men. It covers many of the classic literature conflicts, man vs man, man v
In Blade Runner, Deckard says that it takes 20-30 questions to identify a replicant (and a hundred for Rachel). However, when I saw the movie yesterday, I real
After that conversation between Roy and Leon, the camera moves away. They walk past an area where there are two big stones with writings on it. What's written
So in the scene where Leon shoots Holden, at the beginning of the movie, a stream of quick-edit chaos happens. At first you see Leon shoot Holden under the tab
Throughout Blade Runner we see Gaff (Edward James Olmos) making origami figures at various points in the movie. He makes a chicken, matchstick men and at the en
In Blade Runner, I never understood why Gaff spares Rachael's life. The only thing he says about Rachael is: It's too bad [Rachael] won't live... but then a
I realise that this is a somewhat pedantic question, but: is it known precisely which version of Blade Runner (US theatrical release, international theatrical r