Blade Runner

General Blade Runner thread.

Is there any subtle symbolism in this movie that goes over normie heads? Other than the most obvious shit i.e. Tyrell as God etc.

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Does anyone have that symbolic movie poster?

The one with the blade runner?

Yeah, the minimalist one.

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Being a kid is liking Harrison Ford
Being an adult is realizing Rutger Hauer was the better actor

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The first origami Gaff does is a chicken, when Deckard chicken out the mission. The second one is a tiny man made of a match, could represent Deckard's time running out, not sure about this one. And the last one is obvious with the later cuts with the dream sequence, but even without the scene it can be interpreted as the lack of humanity of Dechard and Rachel, the unicorn represent a fantasy creature, not a real one.

trash movie

>MUH 80S

Fucking hobbit is better.

Deckard and Rachael *

This might seem like a question with an extremely obvious answer, but why was Deckard so blatantly depressed throughout the movie?

Eyes are used loads for symbolism, being the windows to the soul and whatnot. Opening sequence has the big eye with the flame in, skinjobs have redeye pupils, the replicated owl in Tyrell's office etc.

It was a style.
Scott liked the look, it has nothing to do about knowing who is a replicant or not.

Grim story, grim setting, miserable people

Which is why it was used only on the replicant characters.

Kek!

this and also, in the voice overs Deckard mentions being recently divorced

Is it implied at any point that Deckard himself suspected he was a replicant?

His reaction to the unicorn in the final cut is really... muted. He just kind of nods and leaves, as he either knew or heavily suspected it all along.

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This and Deer Hunter are the 2 most overrated movies I have ever seen

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So he was just nodding because he thought Gaff was pointing out their relationship was a fantasy?

But what about the dream?

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Their lives were a "fantasy", a lie etc, being replicants. The dream only make that more obvious, hinting that Gaff knows about Deckard dreams, just like he knew about Rachael ones

But did he begin to suspect this before he found the unicorn origami?

never thought that, but maybe after Rachael ask him if he ever applied the Void Kampff to himself

>mfw faggots actually believe Deckard was a replicant

Again I'm only asking because his reaction was so abrupt.

I think either the point you mentored or just after that he started to suspect it.

Yes, kek.
Kek indeed.

yeah, I don't think he ever thought about it before Rachael asking him about the test or even before the final scene

Barely the same thing.

#rekt

You can see the tiny man has a boner, it's implying deckard's lust for hunting replicants.

I finally was able to finish the movie and my god is it a boring shitpaced fucking mess with nice visuals

I think you have adhd my man

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HE SAY YOU BRADE RUNNA

Why the fuck were they called 'blade runners' anyway?

I was also curious so I googled it. The answer is too long to type up so youre gonna have to search it yourself you lazy cunt.

They lead a very dangerous life by working a job like that. They ran on a knife's edge all the time.

The title can be traced back to a book by science fiction / fantasy writer Alan E. Nourse who wrote a story called “The Bladerunner”. The story dealt with an impoverished society where medical supplies were so scarce they had to be supplied by smugglers known as “Blade Runners”.

William S. Burroughs took the book and wrote “Bladerunner (A Movie)” in 1979. Similarities between Nourse’s “The Bladerunner” and Scott’s BR are in name only.

Ridley Scott felt that calling Deckard a “detective” just wouldn’t do. Hampton Fancher, screenwriter for the movie, began searching through his personal library and came up with Burroughs’ book.

Scott liked it, and he and Fancher also felt the title would make a great new title for the screenplay, and so they eventually bought the rights for the use of the name Blade Runner from both Nourse’s and Burroughs’ representatives.

So there you have it. The term “blade runner” is really best regarded as a code name; it doesn’t really mean anything by itself. Also, the words echo “bounty hunter”.

So theres literally no in-lore reason they are called that?
Thats disappointing.

>muh symbolism
>muh imagery
>muh cyberpunk
>muh 87 different versions
>muh unicorns

Is there a more overrated sci-fi flick? Worst fanbase, Marlel/Shit Wars tier.

He doesn't even run the blade.

youre right about multiple versions being silly, but whats wrong with symbolism, imagery and cyberpunk?

>replying to shitty bait

>but whats wrong with symbolism, imagery and cyberpunk?

You faggots pretend the flick is some 2deep4u shit, or at least some of the 296 versions is.

Its a code-name for the job. Code-names dont need a reason.

>roy batty
>is batty

pottery

the way leon asked "which desert?" really made me think of the way humans can assume things seemingly without context

i might get that one on my wall desu senpai

answer the question or dont bother replying.

ive got some spare (You)'s for him

Scott confirmed he was

but really it shouldn't matter, because that's not what the movie was about

>Deckard is a replicant bladerunner built to hunt replicants
>doesn't have their super strength or reflexes and gets his shit pushed in by every replicant he actually has to fight

Ridley's little 2deep4u plot twist would be great if it didn't completely destroy the whole verisimilitude of his film.

>Scott confirmed he was
He was trolling.

big guy confirmed he's not a replicant though

>he doesnt know

>gets fingers broken
>climbs to top of a multiple story building while being chased by a super soldier

He wasn't as strong as Batty, but fucker was practically superhuman in his own right.

Only fuck-up that was unforgivable was getting his shit pushed in by Leon, but even then he was ambushed, and from what I remember Leon had military training too.

Underrated and underappreciated post.

Even as a kid I recognised that

He really didnt need to be in this movie. Driver couldve carried it fine.

>while being chased by a super soldier
not really, roy was in a childish fit in his own world by that point. deckard was in a good condition but in no way superhuman

wasn't leon just a hard worker type?

>le "it doesn't matter" meme

Typical go-to hole where all the pseudo-intellectual fanboys like to hide when confronted.

tell me why it matters?
you can't because it doesn't matter, idiot

this is fucking cringy bro

yeah, he was labor robot. is talking out of his ass

Close enough

lol

>and also, in the voice overs Deckard mentions being recently divorced

The voiceovers are non-canon shit. Scott has disowned anything but the Final Cut.