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The Blade Runner

Observations

Day 1

  • The scene looks like outer space
    • The setting of the first scene looks like a combination of the Egyptian pyramids and star wars
    • Flying cars, bright light-up/led signs, crowded city streets
    • Coca-Cola signs on billboard
  • Replicants
    • Why are they searching for them?
    • Testing to discover them
      • Rachael does not know she is a replicant
      • Deckard could tell based on his questioning
  • Why are characters leaving small pieces of origami?
  •  Rachael's implanted memories prove that she is a replicant
    • How does she have emotion?
  • Replicants are looking for J.F.
    • One pretends to be a lost, hungry, homeless orphan to get inside his home

Day 2

  • Deckard is tasked with killing Rachael
    • Is he falling in love with her?
    • She saves his life when the replicant tries to kill him
    • Rachael wants to escape and flee up north
      • Deckard says he won't chase her but someone else will come for her
  • Another replicant shows up at J.F.'s home
    • Replicant says that "I think so that I am"
      • Can robots think?
  • Replicant Roy kills Tyrell
    • After telling him that he cannot extend his life expectancy 
  • Deckard kills Pris 
    • Roy comes after Deckard
      • breaks his fingers
      • Searching for him throughout J.F.'s home
  • Roy's lifespan runs out
  • Deckard and Rachael escape together

Philip K. Dick

  • Philip is the writer behind the movie, The Blade Runner 
  • He was born in December 1928 and died in March 1982
  • He believed that a god or supernatural voice guided him through life
  • Philip disliked the original screenplay of The Blade Runner but approved of the final version
  • He died four months before The Blade Runner was released

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