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