What's the significance of Gaff's 2049 origami?
During his investigation in Blade Runner 2049 Officer K visits an old Gaff in a retirement home. And of course Gaff can't help but make one of his origami figures during the conversation with K. Now in the original 1982 Blade Runner Gaff's origami were quite a characteristic habit of this enigmatic figure, with much a meaning behind them, especially the famous unicorn origami from the ending.
While the film surely doesn't run short of callbacks to the original, it doesn't lack the ambition to continue and expand the original's universe, story and themes either. So this keeps me wondering what the origami in the new film actually represented (and what it was to begin with). It seemed to me to be some kind of ox or cow, if I remember correctly. Is that accurate? And what did it mean beyond a mere callback to good ole Gaff and one of the many mysterious details from the original Blade Runner?
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In this movie, Gaff lays down a sheep origami, which directly insults Officer K by implying he is like a sheep, always following orders. Remember, K is a Nexus 9, built to obey and never rebel.
Gaff always uses his origami to silently taunt whoever is watching it, often being symbolic. Just to recap, in the first Blade Runner, he puts down the origami of a chicken (Deckard "chickening" out), a man with an erection (a clue that the snake-scale belongs to one of the seductive ladies at the bar), and finally a unicorn (Deckard's unicorn dream, or possibly alluding to unicorns being regarded as different than ordinary horses - just as replicants are to humans).
Then again, it could also be a reference to "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", but that is less likely since that book does not have much influence on this movie.
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What does the origami symbolize in Blade Runner?
Later, one of Deckard's fellow blade runners, a wigged-out dandy named Gaff (Edward James Olmos), leaves an origami unicorn for Deckard to find. This suggests that Gaff knows Deckard's memories, which means they're implanted, which means he's a 'bot.What is the significance of 61021 in Blade Runner?
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The film is full of hints that Deckard is a replicant. His journey through the film, discovering that Rachel is a replicant, reflects our own journey as viewers learning that Deckard is. We're introduced to Gaff first. We're then introduced to the idea that replicants can think they're human.Who made the origami in Blade Runner?
Gaff was a police officer with the LAPD who escorted Blade Runner Rick Deckard during his assignment to retire a group of renegade replicants. He had an affinity for creating origami figures.WAIT WHAT (Minecraft) #51
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I immediately supposed that it was a sheep, alluding to the original novel title "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?." He also confirmed that Deckard was a replicant when he said "It was something in his eyes."
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