Blade Runner Notes

Blade Runner

- Taking place in 2019 (made in 1980s)

- Replicants – robots almost identical to humans

- They are declared illegal – the blade runners are ordered to kill any replicant upon trespassing

- Super advanced technology portrayed

- Replicates have been found – slaughtering people and trying to break into Tyrell

- Roy Batty – a replicant

- Differentiating between robot and human – Yuring test

- Replicants do not know they are replicants – “she is beginning to suspect”

- Implant memories in replicants

- Roy wants to know about his creation – he has figured out he is a replicant

- Rachel crying – is she a replicant if she has emotion?

- She says here’s a picture with my mother and talks about her childhood memories – but decker says they are implanted

- JF Sebastian – genetic designer

- He finds Pris on the street and lets her in

- Decker analyzing Rachel’s photo that she left at his apartment – trying to find the woman in the back of the photo

- He finds the woman and retires her – she was a replicant

- Rachel disappeared – something to do with her brain implants

- When Deckard is attacked, Rachel kills the replicant attacking him

- “I’m not in the business, I am the business”

- Replicants eyes kind of glow red in the lighting

- “I think therefore I am”

- “there’s a little bit of me in you”

- Roy meets Tyrrell –

- Calls Roy the prodigal son

- Kisses Tyrrell – then kills him

- Deckard kills pris

- Roy wants to kill Deckard

- Roy is starting to die

- Fighting with Deckard

- Roy saves him from the ledge

- Symbols of Roy’s line: dove, Orion, Tannhauser gate, tears in rain

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