Blade Runner (10/10) Movie CLIP - The Ending: A Replicant? (1982) HD
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Deckard (Harrison Ford) returns for Rachael (Sean Young) and then finds an origami unicorn in one of the most debated endings of all time.
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In this futuristic science fiction drama, two firms are both on the working overtime to see who can be first to perfect a new and groundbreaking invention -- a technology that can perfectly recreate human tissue, allowing people to be replicated at will. One of the companies is a small, cutting-edge concern, while the other is a major multinational conglomerate, and in a world where such companies control the legal and judicial system (hey, are you sure this is science fiction?), beating them to the punch can have deadly consequences. The larger firm sends a team of thugs to destroy the smaller company's offices, just as inventor Ludo (Michael St. Gerard) is using himself as a guinea pig for his final tests on the replication system; things go haywire during the assault, and soon Ludo finds himself chasing his own manmade evil twin. Replikator also stars Ned Beatty, Brigitte Bako, and Ilona Staller, the latter better known as Cicciolina, the Italian adult film star who was elected to that nation's Parliament.
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Cast: Harrison Ford, Sean Young
Director: Ridley Scott
Producers: Charles de Lauzirika, Hampton Fancher, Jerry Perenchio, Ridley Scott, Run Run Shaw, Paul Prischman, Bud Yorkin, Brian Kelly, Ivor Powell, Michael Deeley
Screenwriters: Philip K. Dick, Hampton Fancher, David Webb Peoples
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I just love the whole Noir theme of the movie, the old style clothing, the darkness and rain, the cruddy and dank city life. Just makes you feel depressed and interested at the same time.
yeah!
You GOT IT man.
neon lit rooms are also a winner by the way I found the film totally invigerating and inspiring despite its dark tone. my all time fav with numerous pics second
Retrofuturism combined with Film Noir at its best.
YEP😎
I don't think it really matters whether Deckard is a replicant or not. I think the point is that the line between human and replicant has become so blurred that you can't tell which is which. Like by the end Batty shows more humanity than Deckard. Which makes sense if you remember the Tyrell corporations motto "More Human than Human". So replicants like Rachael are becoming more human and humans like Deckard (if he is one) are becoming more artificial.
aquagrl63 Kind of reminds me of the Matrix movies. Neo was the human & Agent Smith was a computer program, but as the films progressed, Smith was becoming more emotional while Neo was more or less becoming "robotic".
There u right
I think it matters. I mean, how ironic would it be that Deckard, being a replicant, became a Blade Runner and "taught" true emotions to the replicant girl? It makes the term "retire" sound ridiculous. Just think about it, if you were a Blade Runner and you saw the entire movie, after sympathazing with Deckard's character and realizing that he's a replicant, could you look him in the eyes and "retire" him? It's pretty important. Sorry for bad grammar, I'm learning english :) it's not my mother tongue
@Raja Thyagaraj Replicants are human, dipstick.
Thats something I feel like defines Ridley Scott. He never seems to understand his own work even when he makes it so well. The best part of Bladerunner and the whole point of it is that Deckard the Human is a cold and inhuman hunter while the robots he's hunting are more emotional, expressive, and full-of-life than anyone else in the city. Thats the significance of the ending where Batty is on the roof and saves Deckard, and then gives him an emotional monologue before dying.
The point is to blur the line figuratively, rather than literally. From what Ive read Ridley Scott pushed very hard for this "Deckard is a replicant" subplot and it just doesnt make any sense with the themes of the movie. If the human people are supposed to be rooting for is actually just a robot, and is just as much a victim as the replicants who are supposed to be the tragic villains are, then what was the point to begin with?
im so happy "movieclips" had the know to leave the forst bar of the ending soundtrack ....i love it
westben2000 Right; I had my fingers crossed
Exactly!
Christina Reynolds think he meant “first bar”, the intro of the song
I was glad too
haha forst
IT'S TOO BAD SHE WON'T LIVE, BUT THEN AGAIN, WHO DOES??
So say we all.
@@jhulslander Enjoy it while it lasts
Frakkin skinjobs
Gaff easily could’ve killed her but didn’t
Gaff, though weird, is A-Okay in my book 🤓
Ridley Scott says he's a replicant, but the writer says it's ambiguous. So the real answer I guess is nobody knows. Who we are, where we're going, and how long we have, these are the questions.
So he is more human than human, in the movie he seems more emotional than the people around him. I mean he does a better job at being human than us.
In my opinion, in the end it doesn't really matter what the director "says" is right. It only matters what the film shows.
+Caleb Mayfield It's mainly Roy Batty who represents this IMO. Ok he's killing people but in the end you understand throughout Batty's character the nexus-6 just wanted to live.
Scott said on the commentary that it's up to interpretation.
I think it makes more sense if he is human. Deckard is a bit lost in the movie. He doesn't really seem to have anything to look forward to other than his job, which he doesn't really want to do. He drinks all the time. It takes a replicant to teach him the value if living. If Deckard is a replicant, than it's nothing more than a plot twist that doesn't serve much purpose.
I love this ending. The way decard nods, turns and walks to the elevator and how the camera follows him after realising the unicorn and it’s implications is so cool to me. Such a masterpiece. It inspires me to want to try and make such a film and I’m not even a film maker. Not sure where to start either.
same here man… hopefully we can both pursue our dreams and make art like this one day - good luck !!
"Just do it. Make sure what you are doing" - Ridley Scott.
start by making a movie. y'know? make a fooarken moovee
Please explain the implications. I don’t understand how that makes him a replicant.
I like the look from Rachel after he picks it up too. Makes it seem like she realises.
In the book he’s not a replicant. It doesn’t matter what Ridley Scott says. The unicorn origami scene for me is just a way to show the audience that the detective (Edward James Olmos) was watching Deckard all the time, probably hearing his conversations as well. He knew about their romance. That was his way of saying: “go, take her and live the rest of the time you two still have, together. I’m not gonna tell anyone.”.
Yep, but still the origami refers to deckard's dream so the detective couldn't know about that.
In Scott's mind, these two interpretations co-exist: he is a replicant and the detective, probably tasked with eliminating Rachelle, decides to let them go.
to me its like I know where you are but im giving you a head start
if blade runner 2049 is canon does this mean Deckard is not a replicant since he lived so long?
@@metsrus no because it was only the older models of the replicants that lived 4 years and if deckard is one of the new models like Rachael and he dosent know he’s a replicant then there is no set time that they die
That ending, into the Vangelis music, really is pitch perfect.
Thank God for the director's cut. Greatest ending of all time.
perfect camera work, perfect start of ending score
Indeed. Harrison and Sean both acted this final scene very well.
thanks Sean and Harrison, for making this scene. We all know you couldn't stand each other (which we all find pretty funny), which makes us appreciate what you two guys did here all the more.
to me this is emblematic of what I think the first movie does so much better than 2049. It manages to discuss the humanity/replicant morality without any heavy-handed exposition, while maintaining adherence to the noir style. It gets to be as straightforward noir mystery movie and also smuggle the themes of humanity in without a compromise.
I'm glad the sequel doesn't really answer whether Deckard is a replicant or not.
@Eric Cartman not if he was some sort of earlier prototype model (like Rachael), but configured for government use. With some memory implants and no termination date, it explains a lot of Gaff's interactions with him and also explains why Bryant would need to recall "the old blade runner", when his current staff of presumably humans (such as Holden) failed.
@Eric Cartman Deckard may be a Nexus 7, like Rachel. An experimental step in between the Nexus 6 of Blade Runner and the Nexus 8 of Blade Runner 2049. Maybe they didn't give them extraordinary strength because it wasn't required of a prototype?
Deckard himself was confirmed to be a replicant.Problem solved.
@@yuugenr7549 He was never confirmed to be
@@wheresmyeyebrow1608 the director confirmed it. While the actor denied it. The director has more power so its a confirmed kill.
I first saw this film at home and it was the theatrical version, and I liked it. But I recently saw the Final Cut in the theater and was in awe. This ending was SO much better it gave me chills.
@Laffy Taffy they drive into the sunset in a car, with a voiceover, it’s awful.
I remember seeing the theatrical version after the Directors Cut... yikes. No wonder Harrison was pissed off.
Vangelis’ music fits this ending much better. I think I might make my own cut of the film which takes the unicorn dream back out though, because otherwise this confirms the lame ‘Deckard is a replicant’ theory that Ridley Scott loves so much.
how you know this movie is a masterpiece of modern cinema,is gets people talking and arguing by introducing a new idea love it.and music at end is so suspenseful!
Chicken origami: "You're too afraid to take this job, Deckard."
Dude-with-a-boner origami: "You're getting off on doing this job again."
Unicorn origami;
Original version (non-Ridley Scott approved): "I've been here, but I let her live. She'll die anyway."
Director's Cut & Final Cut: "I know your memories. Your dreams. They're implants. You know what that means."
Are there major difference in these cuts?
@@juliom3775 The theatrical cut included narration and a literal "ride into the sunset" ending. The later cuts dropped both of those and restored a previously removed dream sequence involving a unicorn. The significance of the latter is that this time, Deckard finding the origami unicorn suggests that Gaff knew about the dream which in turn suggests that it was an implanted memory that he witnessed being installed. Thus, Deckard is possibly a replicant.
...and no, Gaff is not a replicant. The reason he probably isn't already off world is his bad leg. He probably failed the medical. why would you 'build' something that had s limp and used a cane?
not as a hunter but as a archetypical mentor figure in the background seemingly weak but at the same time freaking everywhere you are right after the action even at rachels before deckard in the ending .... hmm
1:42 gaffs voice comes to my head too when i find oil under my geo metro
XD
Jacno77 Indeed. My Geo Metrocant lies moldering in the back yard.
XD
The book, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" has Deckard going out into the desert, despondent after killing all the replicants, where he finds a toad buried in the sand. He is very happy to find this toad, because it gives him hope that there is still real life in the world. All the real animals have long since been replaced with replicant copies, even insects are replicants. Nothing is real anymore. But Deckard's happiness is short lived, because Deckard's wife flips the toad over to show him where the batteries go...even the toad is a replicant. Sadened to discover this, Deckard falls asleep, as his wife calls the Replicant Store, to order replicant flies for Deckard's toad to eat, telling the clerk, "He cherishes it (the toad) so..." To my way of thinking, if even the spiders and the flies are replicants, I think all the real people have long since passed away and everything "living" on Earth is really just a replicant copy. It's just that some of the replicant copies have convinced themselves that they are the real humans in the world, and that others are not...
That is some deep shit
Michael Ashton Life has deep places all over it. That's why it's important to look where you put your foot before you step.
I hope the replicant mosquitoes don't bite.
R C Nelson Of course replicant mosquitoes bite, The real question is, "Do Replicant Mosquitoes Dream of Electric Blood?"
That's just like one of the questions Leon was asked when he was going through the test - the interviewer had asked him what he would do if he was in the middle of a desert and found a tortoise that was flipped upside down.
perfect ending to a perfect movie.
Vangelis made such an incredible score for the movie
Paladin Danse: What a disgraceful ending.
Deacon: C'mon, where's the ride off into the sunset?
Preston:A settlement is in need of your help.
Thunder Butts, how funny. Because Fallout ripped off Blade Runner.
The DoomGuy 9000 fallout didn't rip off blade runner, it was inspired by it
said the replicant
I think this is by far the best ending, you still know that he might be a replicant, and it suggests a happy ending
There are two ways to interpret this scene. One is that Deckard realizes he is a replicant too, and that Gaf is giving them both a pass for a job well done. Similar to what Joshi does for K in 2049. The other is that he realizes that Gaf is giving _Rachael_ a pass. Leave town tonight, never come back, and I won't hunt you down kind of thing
All the more heartfelt to see this ending now after learning from the sequel what became of Deckard and Rachael. 💓
That nod at the end by Harrison Ford, legendary!
...and then heading to Rachel into the elevator. All odds against a happy ending, but nevertheless determined.
The second situation in the movie that I would consider to be 'human' after the one in which Roy Batty shared his memories with Deckart. Both is obviously more 'manly' than 'doing a man's job', by hunting down replicants.
Agree
Always have been curious about that nod. What is he acknowledging? That Gaf is going to give them both a one time pass on getting smoked? That he is a replicant?
@@jakeg3733 in my view I just think it means respect of him toward Gaff, knowing (due to the origami) he knew Rachael was at Deckard’s apartment
@@QuangNguyenNgocThieu That's the simplest, most elegant explanation and I hadn't considered it at all. I grew up debating Deckard's replicant status because my father was a Bladerunner fanatic, so I'm always looking for that angle lol
Its the first time after watching this movie so many times that I notice how Deckard chose to put the side of his face against Rachel's to see if she's alive ... notice Ford's expression of sudden relief as soon as he felt the warmth of Rachel's skin. A normal director will usually just have the man put his fingers over the woman's nose for signs of breathing but they think of such an exquisite way of expressing it ... this and so many other scene in the movie are so sensually done ...
It takes many rewatching to catch all these wonderful things in the movie but once you catch these nuances and touches, you begin to love the movie like no other ...
To those who think his being a replicant doesn't add anything, of course it adds something!
Throughout the whole thing, Deckard is presented as the everyman. The most human character there. He is so convinced of his humanity and his difference from the replicants that he blithely puts them down for a living.
A replicant is a thing to him. They don't have dreams, they don't have souls.
And then he discovers that he is one.
"Its too bad she won't live, but then again... who does?"
Very moving, this film.
The first time I saw it, I thought Deckard was going to kill Rachel when he gets in the elevator with her...
Me too lol
I thought she got killed by his blade runner ally
For some reason, I keep coming back to this video just for the last eight seconds.
Blade Runner is probably the one movie in the world that should NEVER get a sequel. It's too perfect as a self-contained piece. A perfect ending for a perfect movie, the ambiguity makes it so. Yet here we are....
tell that Dennis Villeneuve. But honestly, I am very interested in a sequel. That ambiguity didn't make the movie better or worse for me, I only cared about Pris and Roy Batty and it had a nice conclusion. I'd be interested in revisiting this huge world again, cause they didn't really show much of it and a few things could be explaned more properly in the sequel. I'm just afraid they'll go with too much cgi but I have much faith in a competent guy like Villeneuve. Hopefully it'll be as good as the original, if not better.
Mac think if the sequel more as just another story in the Universe of Bladerunner. I don't think it will be damaging at all to the wonderful first Bladerunner film.
While you might be right, it should probably not get a sequel, but what do you think about a remake?
wtf a sequel was just announced today LOL
Bryan Huang haha no, production was announced months ago! I'm still a cynic though, guess we'll find out next October, I could be completely wrong and it could be decent, but I just get a feeling....
I think it's sad that there could be a sequel because the end of this film is awesomely beautiful, sublime.
Rick (Harrison Ford), while running away, is struck by the gleam of something on the ground, the shining of a special origami.
It is the revelation of his essence, the deployment of every torments, therefore the bitter solace of freedom.
Rick understands everything and smiles slightly, drying in a second all the rain of the film.
They close the doors and thus the film ends in a mechanical darkness. A chilling echo of every past event erupts from the black screen.
A beautiful sound of Vangelis that always makes you goosebumps.
John Alfa Centauri the sequel could expand on what Batty was alluding too and add another great chapter to the film
Well, the sequel turned out to be a blast.
I doubt Deckard is replicant.. He's using a hand cannon to "Clean up" the replicant mess. It's an overkill weapon for an unbalanced fight. Always felt like the blade runners havent been around long, and that the Nexus program was most likely cancelled and restructured so they dont start a replicant war.
She's just gorgeous and naturally flawless
They've already said that when Deckards eyes glow it was because he accidentally stood infront of the light used to make the effect. It was an accident. Rachel's eyes were meant to glow but he got in the shot.
The point isn't if Deckard is a replicant or not. The point is that there is not much of a difference.
The look Harrison Ford gives after you hear Gaff speak in the background. Total badass!
fuckin synths
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Its too bad she won't live, but then again, who does?
synth gen 4 now with super strength
that outro music is so sick
Cuando se cierra el ascenso y suena el mitico tema de Vangelis, lloro todas las veces.
Oh, and allow me to explain the Origami figures Gaff makes. The first is not an Owl, it's a chicken. This is Gaff's way of teasing Deckard. Gaff is calling Deckard a chicken for not taking the job Bryant 'offers' him straight away. The second is meant to be a man with an erection. Again, Gaff is teasing Deckard because he knows he has 'the horn' for Rachel. The 3rd one, the unicorn is obvious. There you are folks, all explained.
Lovely... :)
I don't mean to offend, but what's so obvious about the unicorn?
He also collectd old photos, replicants like photos.
Squadron266 But how is Deckard being a replicant make any sense?
PatrickOMulligan
He's was engineered but to be a regular human.
ZThe unicorn dream sequence wasn't in the origninal version, in which Deckard is human. The dream sequence was added later by Scott, and I don't think it works. Regardless of what Deckard is, it makes more sense and adds more to the film if he is human. The film is a comment on what humanity truly is, the corrupted and insignificant humans, devoid of all feeling, contrasted with the replicants, fallen angels, discovering their emotions and becoming truly more human than those born human in the usual way. Deckard is a witness to that transformation, and bridges the replicant-human divide. His love for Rachel is important for that reason. Making him a replicant adds little to the meaning of the film, and is an unnecessary addition
This, its like Scott decided that it would be cooler if he was actually replicant after the original movie, called Mulligan and just edited and cut the re-releases in that direction to sort of force the twist.
But to me the story is better as a human, and for me personally the original is what counts.
+iR3vil4te That makes so much sense, i never picked it up. Now i realize that this is because the version i own is the original version, so the scenes where it is "proven" that he is a replicant was not even there! Damn.
PS. i also think that he fact that he was a replicant doesnt add much to the story.
An Unicorn Origami.
Unicorn = An animal of fantasy
Origami = Handmade, artificially designed
A reference to the engineered humans specifically programmed to do some job.
In the sequel, it's a wooden horse.
This is how I see the unicorn thing.
Deckard fantasising about it is him trying to escape from the misery and violence of his normal life by thinking of something sweet and innocent, like a unicorn.
Gaff leaving the origami unicorn at the apartment merely indicates that he was there and didn't kill Rachel, showing that he wants her and Deckard to get away.
When Deckard sees the origami unicorn, he crumbles it up and finally realises that his dreams are finally coming true and there's a good life ahead of him.
Sure, some people might think it's a stupid interpretation but that's the way I look at it, makes much more sense then him being a replicant.
But how would Gaff know about this fantasy? I can't imagine Deckard would have told him.
happy 74th bday to Edward James Olmos for delivering one of the greatest movie ending lines ever
Clearly not a replicant. If he was then the othets would know. Ridley Scott pushed this idea well after the release and rehashed footage for the 'director's cut' to make himself seem like an auteur which he most definitely isn't.
Harrison Ford is so good with his hands.
If Deckard is a replicant it really diminishes the value of the scene where I save him from falling.
It diminishes EVERYTHING. OF COURSE the robot who just 'woke up' (his entire 'backstory would be implanted and not real) is siding with the other robots!
Didn’t you die?
1:56 Gaff: *ToO BaD sHe Won'T LiVe, But TheN aGaIn Who DoEs?*
ok Gaff
Nexus-7, no superhuman strength or ability, but artificially implanted memories. Completing the human illusion.
Even the newest book technically states he might be a Replicant. Also he ends up on the run for killing Pris who as it turns out according to the book was human. The book is set on him finding Rachel though who disappears and at some point he supposedly meets Tyrell's niece.
Deckard: "She doesn't know."
Tyrell: "She's beginning to suspect, I think."
Deckard: "Suspect? How can it not know what it is?"
Can anyone see the Irony in that question? How can it (you Deckard) not know its/you a replicant?
The answer lies in Tyrell's response:
Tyrell: "Commerce is our goal here at Tyrell. More human than human is our motto. Rachael (and you Deckard) is an experiment, nothing more. We began to recognise in them a strange obsession. After all they are emotionally inexperienced, with only a few years in which to store up the experiences which you and I take for granted. If we gived them a past, we'd create a cushion, a pillow for their emotions and consequently we can control them better."
Deckard: "Memories. You're talking about memories..."
The director takes great pains to show us a man who lives primarily by himself; yet keeps old, ‘old’ photos of family and loved ones ‘prominently’ displayed on his piano. A man who doesn’t appear comfortable expressing love, or physical intimacy (because he hasn’t lived long enough to develop such emotions?)
Only a replicant could withstand the ‘blunt force trauma’ inflicted by another replicant in the heat of battle.
Roy Batty, was a self-sufficient combat model for the colonization defense program.
Zhora Salome, was "trained for an off-world kick murder squad".
Leon Kowalski, was a combat model or loader of nuclear fission materials.
To me it seems clear: Only a replicant has what it takes to retire/survive another replicant. Combat specialists, trained for hick murder squads; replicants skilled in the art of inflicting serious damage to the human body, yet Decard survives them all.
Throughout the entire movie, we can see how vulnerable Deckard is against replicants though. Leon would have killed him easily if it wasnt for Rachael coming to the rescue. In the final encounter of the movie Deckard is going to fall off a building if he doesnt get saved by Roy Batty. And honestly Zhora could have easily killed him as well if she didnt get distracted. That's what makes him such a deep character in the movie. He is not a killing machine who can outsmart every replicant and the only way to hurt him isnt to kill him, which is the case with Leon for example. It's intentional. Of course Deckard is really good at his job. But he is intentionally characterized as a vulnerable, therefore very human person.
While Scott may say he is a replicant, the entire movie says otherwise.
Deckard isn’t a replicant, and the story isn’t about the humanity of robots; it’s about the humanity of man. The script writer for Blade Runner explicitly stated Deckard is not a replicant, and if you thought he was, you were missing the entire point of the story. The story is about a man who regains his humanity in a soulless, artificial, robotic society.
replicants have glowy eyes. Both Rachel and Deckard are shown to have them in an apartment scene. So does the police chief for whom Gaff left an origami chicken. There are a lot of replicants living out everyday lives in blade runner. The ones we see are in positions of authority. I think a subtle commentary in the film is how those in power will place automatons in positions of authority to maintain order. The only way to do so while subverting everyone is to make both the people and the automatons themselves think they are normal people. If you look your boss in the eyes one day and see that they glow then you know it's already too late.
directors cut> the silly car ending
The perfect ending, everything fits and makes sense.
That scene blew my mind!
You missed the point of the film... There is no difference between replicant and human, that is why they use the Voight-Kampff test to be able to identify replicants since they lack an emotional response or empathy to the questions given. That is the ONLY difference between replicant and human. When Roy Batty dies and saves Deckards life, he displays empathy and so there is no difference between them. That is why Tyrell gave them a 4 year life cycle.
My problem with deckard as a replicant is that dosent that ruin the message of the film. If he's a replicant it's not a human falling for a replicant, or a replicant saving a human to prove a point. It's a replicant and replicant love, and a replicant saving a replicant to prove.....something. Maybe somebody can explain this to me.
Well, you probably only got that message because you thought Deckard was human. It's not the 'message' of the film. The overall message I can read is 'don't let the world turn in to the shit hole we have presented'. But, the beauty of the film is it asks more questions than it explicitly answers though, so even though you may not be on the money, at least you are thinking about things and that's what great art does, it opens your mind. If anything, the film is about Globalization and the de humanizing effects it has on the people of the Earth, at least that's how I see it.
I don't think I agree with the message of "don't let the world turn into that". I do think that globalization and dehumanization is one of its messages, but I think that that is just more to prove that he is a human. Deckard is a lifeless, alcoholic for most of the film because of the globalization. But, ironically because of the replicants he gets his humanity back. He also understands the pain the replicants go through because to everyone they are just toys( which you see all over Sebastion's house). Batty goes on about how people need to see things through his eyes, so he makes deckard go through his pain as a slave, and he saves him to prove he is above the blade runners, and that he is more human than humans. That us what makes him run away with Rachel. That is what I think the film is about. It's about how it shows that humans have turned into exactly how they think the replicants are. But, Roy Batty proves to deckard that humanity isn't about being born that. It's about you're actions. That is why I think Deckard is a human, because if he isn't it
(Continued) removes the revalation of humanity for deckard about humanity, because if he is a replicant he probably would have learned that anyway. Also if deckard is replicant he probably would've fell for Rachel anyway since they are both probably Nexus 6 models. I think the " don't make the world turn like this" message is there, but I don't think it is the overall message of the film. But that's just my opinion.
Although another way to look at it is the humans have become so de humanized that they no longer care, which makes it more pointed that the most humane people in the film are artificial. After all, the tag line for replicants is 'more human than human', that would seem to include their sense of morals too, by the end of the film at least. AI has the same message. Although David is a freak 'mecca' at the beginning, he's the most human character by the end. In other words Blade runner too has the Pinocchio idea that something fake can become 'real'. to me, that's way more potent a message than 'he was a bloke all along'. .Ok, one question to you. If Deckard is man, a tough cop living in a hell hole of a city, why on earth does he react like a child when he sees Zora dancing (off camera) in Taffy Lewis's bar? Do you think a tough copper in a world like that hasn't seen a naked woman before?! Anyway, it's the question that is interesting, not the answer. The movie wouldn't hold our attention if every question was answered for us!
Sorry it took me so long to respond, but if he is a replicant answer me this. If he's replicant what do Roy Batty's words mean than? Because in the film he says people need to see things in his eyes, and he does that to Deckard. Than he says: "I've seen things YOU PEOPLE wouldn't believe". Well Deckard isn't one of those people, so that dosent really mean anything. Also the reason Batty said that is that so his memories would live on through Deckard for more than 4 years. But if Deckard is a replicant than he will die in a few years later anyway. So his moments will be lost like tears in rain. It's not that I'm against hints of maybe Deckard as a replicant to show how similar we are becoming to the things we think we are below us. I just wish Ridley Scott hadn't confirmed it and called us Deckard humanists stupid for thinking otherwise. I guess Deckard as a replicant makes for sense from a philosophical perspective, but from a storytelling perspective I just find him as a human more effective and impactful.
I don't know if that unicorn dream appears in the original version, I've never seen it, but in director's cut version he is obviously a replicant
The unicorn dream is not in the original cut of the movie. Actually, the first three cuts of the film don’t have it at all.
@@VexJinks The original cuts are pretty bad. Directors cut is by far the best. Deckard doing a voice over does not fit at all with this movie.
I don't see how he can possibly be a replicant. He gets beat up a lot. It never occurred to me he wasn't human. He had a career with the police. It is not just implanted memories.
Yep, that's the scene that Ridley Scott wanted destroyed because it puts to rest the argument that Deckard is a replicant, he clearly is a human. If he is a replicant, it makes his entire journey throughout the film kind of meaningless.
Deckard is human
1) he isn’t able to properly fight any of the Replicants he finds he shoots one that running Rachel shoots another saving him and he loses the fight only to be saved by batty the last one in the end of the film
2) Every replicant is designed for something military or pleasure or even just workforce models deckard again can’t do anything like that and even if You well “he could be designed to hunt his own kind like K in the sequel” no this is the age of Tyrell NOT Wallace replicants are still unstable with new products (replicants) coming to the market daily a replicant wouldn’t be trusted in such a position he might lose control of his emotions and kill an officer exposing him as a replicant
3) Deckard doesn’t seem to have....well anything special about him he lives in a small cramped and dirty apartment with a piano he doesn’t play and endless bottles of whiskey he downs he has no purpose and we see how far he has fallen he has lost his humanity and we literally see him call Rachel a “she” to an “it” in one conversation then he meets with her talks with her she saves his life and slowly he falls in love with her beauty and grace she is more human than he is even though she questions her every decision once she knows she’s a replicant he assures her of her beauty and even helps her through it via the love/piano scene where he literally tells her what to do because she doesn’t believe it’s real he tells her to kiss him and say she wants him not because he wants her but to make herself believe that she’s human
So how would it make any sense for the character that’s not human be more human than the main character who is human except he isn’t human?
When the entire point of this film is to show how humanity has lost......well
It’s humanity
"SHE doesn't know the significance of the Unicorn, but HE does."
Do androids dream of sheep? No, they dream of unicorns. He's human in the book, and a replicant in the film. It ain't rocket science.
I read the book too.
First watch had me saying human. But now....He may have been Gaffs resurrected partner, or Gaff himself. A replicant to hunt replicants.
That would be so cool, he knows what Deckard dreams because they're his dreams. And he's letting him live the life he himself can't have. How about that?
In the scenes where it's dim in Deckard's apartment his eyes always glow faintly red just like Rachel's. To me it's pretty obvious.
Jennifer Kondrat
It’s supposed to signify his love fore Rachel “infecting” him. The script writer for Blade Runner stated Deckard is not a replicant.
The dream of unicorn was implanted memory. He is a replicant. He doesn't have the strength b/c the light that burns twice as bright burns for half as long.
I just came here to apreciate what an amazing scene this is. The feeling as the credits roll is similar to reaching the end of a rollercoaster ride.
Is this the ending for the final cut version? Thx sm!
This ambiguous and uncertain ending is really more interesting than the "happy" ending of the 1982 release.
I don't think deckard is a replicant. However, I think it is sort of funny he loves a Robot.
ShadowGrave Not just any robot, hubba hubba.
What's the difference
ShadowGrave
Not a robot, bio-engineered woman.
I wish they had the clip when Sebastian and Pris meet.
Deckard can be a human or a replicant and the movie still works. This movie truly is a piece of art. This universe is so interesting and vast that the meaning of the film truly is up to the viewer. Some bring up flaws in the story and while they could be legitimate to them they could simply be flaws according to the perspective youre taking on the film, the flaw could just be a facet in someone elses perspective. Whatever stance you take on one detail opens up the door to a world of possibilities . Like all true art it is subjective and the interpretations vary so much among the people who watch it, explains the flame wars on every blade runner video, so if youre interested in finding the meaning i strongly suggest watch it multiple times and study it and study yourself then you will find the meaning. With all that said...deckard is obviously a replicant :p
i actually think this scene was designed by the writers to show that zhey actually couldve killed Rachel but he chose not to thats why Deckards nods he knows why he placed it there, its a leave or next time we come its to late. He even warns him when he meets him after the tesaars in rain scene, to bad she wont live he said knowing that he already was or is going to get there before Deckard anyway. But then again he does it so he can buy a owl, wich could also be a fake motivation implanted so he doesnt challange the fact that hes killing "People" with no rights or due process. They kill them at a certain "age" so they wont develop emotions and feelings of their own wich is a really sick reason to begin with and something that wouldve come up in your mind if you werent popped in the situation like in a Dream doing what you do becasue the reasons you believe you do it, dont ask, do. I also think Roy started to get more Emotional over the course of the Movie wich seems to indicate his"age" and maybe killing Sebastian was something he regreted as their was no real reason for it that he mabye changed his mind in a State where he could express real Emotion wich are expressed in the Tears in rains Scene.
Welp Harris Ford confirmed that Deckard is a replicant take that as you may I guess
Deckard is a replecant, that is part of what makes the movie so great. Through out the film he learns that replecants can feel human emotions. He finds the origammi unicorn from his dreams and gives a knowing nod, as if finally seeing the truth.
Read the book....Deckard is not a replicant
@@theloner6063 He's not a replicant in the book. He is in the movie.
"It's too bad she won't live but then again who does"? A quote 30 years in the making.
I don't think Deckard is a Replicant, Gaff is just a jerk and Bryant doesn't treat him with any prejudice. He also emotionally mature, unlike Rachel.
If you’re still debating in your head if he is a robot or not, or if you care about who said what about it, then you haven’t understood the movies or the book.
The question isn’t if you’re a machine or not, created or not.
The basic question is what it means to be alive. And the profound question is if you’ve decided to live.
The movie is about systems and rules, and how they affect an “individual”.
If you doubt this, ask yourself, “have I ever seen my brain functioning? How do I know that I am not a machine? Did I choose this thought?”
And if you’re honest, you’ll realize that you probably don’t have a answer to this question, because the only reason you have that belief is because of systems and rules themselves. That should cause you to wonder at existence, not check out by trusting systems and structures that appeal to your most base instincts.
And if you look very closely, you’ll realize that is a question that doesn’t depend on whether you are a robot, a human, or a program inside of a Matrix.
It is a question that you must simply ask yourself if you are going to decide to live.
Gaff had been there and let her live. I didn't know how long we had together who does
Deckard dreamt of a unicorn. If memories can be implanted into replicants; so can dreams. Just as Deckard knew of Racheal's implanted memories, Gaff knew about Deckard's implanted dream.
That could have also been interpreted as Gaff trying to tell him "You are chasing a unicorn. She isn't real."
I think he was using the unicorn to show how good he was at origami.
MeesterVegas But why not bigfoot, a fairy, or some other mythological creature, why a unicorn? If the unicorn is unimportant, why have him dream of one.
***** I guess my point was that in the original film, there was no unicorn dream. From my understanding, the whole idea that Deckard is a replicant was the desire of the director Ridley Scott. The producer and Harrison Ford argued with Scott against it (I agree with them). But, I guess he wanted to have the last say, so he eventually came out with the Directors Cut. I suppose they didn't argue with him too much since, by that time, it had become a cult classic and a little extra money in the pocket never hurt anyone. Also, the author of the original story, Philip K. Dick, wrote Deckard as a human. He states "The purpose of this story as I saw it was that in his job of hunting and killing these replicants, Deckard becomes progressively dehumanized. At the same time, the replicants are being perceived as becoming more human. Finally, Deckard must question what he is doing, and really what is the essential difference between him and them? And, to take it one step further, who is he if there is no real difference?"
MeesterVegas You are aware Scott had no part in the "Director's Cut," now the Final Cut he did, but not the DC.
You've done a man's job sir. Another quote and another clue to Deckard being a replicant
Yes, they would make it ambiguous because in the end, do we really know what it means to be "human"? When Roy saves Deckard at the end, in his own way he acted more human than some people would have.
Think about this folks (I will go on a bit, but it's just for the heck of it, I'm not trying to change anyone else's opinions on the matter) The opening script, the foreword to the movie that explains the world we are about to enter, states that Blade Runners have only been around since a bloody mutiny by Nexus 6 Replicants on an Off World Colony. But, the Nexus 6 Replicants are brand new or very recent, at least that's the impression we are given. The fact their attributes have to be explained points to peoples lack of knowledge about them. That wouldn't be the case if they had been around for a while. So, Blade Runners are a recent addition to the Police Force. The film also gives the impression that all the 'top' people have already left the rotting city. If that's the case, where did the Police recruit the men to go and chase and kill these artificial Humans who are superior in strength and so on? Firstly, find men tough enough to do it (think about it, news about a bloody mutiny, about how dangerous these beings are, you'd want to be bat shit crazy to go up against that!) Secondly, train these bat shit crazy tough guys to follow orders and then train them to out think and out muscle these beings that are simply stronger than you and won't bend to your will. That's not going to happen in a hurry right?!? What I am getting at is the Police would of had no choice BUT to recruit Replicants themselves, to fight fire with fire you could say. There would be old cops like Bryant and Gaff given charge to run the Blade Runner units, so as to keep an eye on the androids in their charge, of course, but the donkey work, the actual rough and tumble of detection and 'retirement' had to be a job for a tough, made to order Replicant (yeah, is that Tryell? HI ya, it's Chief Bryant here. Remember those murderous fucks up you made, the Nexus 6 Replicants? Well they've gone and run totally amuck!!! Gone mad they have! So, I need you to build us some Replicants that are stronger again, so we can try and clean up this fucking mess you have made! You will? Ah, good man, cheers. Oh, and make it quick, we think some of them are on their way to Earth!). Deckard is one of those made to order Replicants.He has to be.
If you have gotten this far, I thank you, well done!! Peace!
Sorry for my English.... "To fight fire with fire" I agree Dennis. I always thought that way....Deckard is a replicant, It is obvious...
lawrencetboyer I have read it thanks. You got to remember, film is now an art form all it's own. A film can be deliberately a very different experience from the book it is based on, so very often a book gives little clue as to the meaning of the resulting film.
lol, I doubt it, but it's a nice story. If they were investigating him it would of been because of his anti establishment and therefore, anti american sentiments. I'd say any american artist that airs their anti american views gets investigated. For example, the ones coming out in favor of Gaza now are living with things like wire taps and NSA spying I'd bet. On the contrary, if he was predicting anything, they'd of gotten him working for them!!
Dennis Potter Also, when Rachael kills Leon and she and Deckard go back to the apartment, he asks her "if she got the shakes" and that he always gets them too. IMO if he were a seasoned human officer/agent he wouldnt get the shakes, especially since he would be killing artificial beings. However, he always does, and you can see he gets disturbed when he kills a Replicant. He is one, and he knows it, and he just wants to live his few years as one "of the little people", drinking himself away. Even his intimacy with Rachael, almost "forcing her hand" when she's at his house (him shutting the door), kind of forcing her to admit she has emotions like he does. He knows that if he can feel love and all that, so can she, because they were made at the same time
Dennis Potter When you watch it a second time you notice so many hints that he is well aware of what he is
For me it doesn't matter if Deckard is a Replicant or not. What matters is Deckard realized the Replicants were alive in a very human way when Roy spared him on the rooftop and that was something he never considered. Because if the Replicants are alive in this way it doesn't matter if Rachel was born in an artificial way. It doesn't matter if anyone is. They are just as human as everyone else. So ride off into the sunset with your best girl and start actually living instead of being stuck doing what everyone else tells you to do. That was the true gift Roy gave Deckard when he spared Deckard's life. Human? Replicant? Its all the same. You live. You die. And and at the end you hope it was worth something.
"All those moments will be lost.....like tears in rain. Time to die." - Roy
My only complaint/question is how does Gaff even know about the unicorn? Gaff gave no indications of telepathic ability and Deckard, if he is a replicant, wouldn't tell Gaff about it. HOW DOES HE KNOW!?!?!!??
+ForceMaximus84 If Deckard is a replicant, Gaff could have had access to what are the memories of Deckard.
If the scene where Deckard tell Rachel she is one, he tell her things about what she think is her past that she had never told anyone. That's why the unicorn dream kinda proves he is a replicant.
Gaff is intuitive. He's no dummy. He's my favorite character in this film.
damn it, now i need to rewatch this movie. but it's 2 in the morning...
My personal theory about Deckard :
1. Deckard is a Replicant but he doesn't know it
2. Deckard is a Replicant and he knows it
3. Deckard is not a Replicant
If Deckard is a Replicant, he must be an older model (not a Nexus 6) because Nexus 6 models have a 4 year life span.
If Deckard is a Replicant and he knows it, can he accept to terminate other Replicants ?
at 0:37 raise ur volume all the way up and tell me if u hear a whispered "thank god" as he see's she's alive.
He knows what he thinks, so he, along with the two scriptwriters, dropped in sequences that question Deckard's humanity, but Scott himself admits the film is ambiguous, he is merely expressing his opinion about a character. Furthermore if Shakespaere were to come out of a time warp and tell us that Hamlet is just mad, would that immediately mean all other interpretations on the character were off?
When I first saw this movie, not long after its initial release, I took the unicorn to simply mean that Gaff had been there and had left the unicorn to let Dekkard know he'd been there, and as a sign he was letting them go. I feel, though, that when I first saw the movie on HBO, though this would have been shortly after theatrical release and long before The Director's Cut or other editions, that it lacked the line about Rachel living more than 4 years (or I just missed it). I was originally under the impression they had, at best, 4 years. When I saw it again later, it had the extra lines and more scenes driving away. It wasn't until many years later that I ran across the theories that Dekkard was a replicant, and although only an unconfirmed internet theory at the time, I felt it made sense. Dekkard confronts Rachel with the memories of Tyrell's niece, forcing her to accept that she really is a replicant. The unicorn, from a dream that (at least in the movie) Dekkard told to no one, could be Gaff's way of doing the same. There's another theory that just as Rachel had the memories of Tyrell's niece, Dekkard had Gaff's memories, and was supposed to be his replacement as Gaff, now disabled, can no longer chase replicants effectively, which might explain why Gaff always seems to be shadowing him, and seems to dislike him intensely.
You should watch the sequel.
Gotta say still not as depressing as the sequel. Awesome film
the word artificial is used to describe anything man-made. it does not mean what is artificial is not natural. the only thing that can be considered not natural is something that would be considered supernatural or preternatural.. and the replicants are neither of which.
There are two ways to look at this scene:
1. If Deckard is a Replicant, he is like the Unicorn in that he is something new. Something thought nearly impossible to exist since... there is no such thing as Unicorns.
2. Gaff, and by extension his old boss Bryant, knows that he is harboring Rachel who has now been classified as an illegal and have made both of them a target that he will have to watch out for. Either way, you get something intriguing.
Although Gaff seems to play by his own rules in the film. Most of the time he is unclear because of his City Speak. Chances are, he uses that as diversion. There is a clip of him speaking in English with Bryant in the deleted scenes, but I think he's buttering him up threre. In the film itself, the only time we hear him speak in English is to Deckard at the end. I think you can read that he is doing so out of respect, because Deckard has 'done a man's job'. My guess is Gaff just lets Deckard and Rachel go with out the approval of Bryant. In other words, he's one of the few humans in the film who show compassion. In any case, as you say, the question is intriguing.
it's obvious, Gaff is showing Deckard he knows about his dreams thus saying to him, he (Deckard) is a replicant as well.
wladwlad
as we have been saying, yes.
Dennis Potter It is possible, but here is the question: If Deckard was a Replicant, why make a replicant that was weaker than normal Replicants? Even Pris, who was a standard pleasure model, was agile and strong enough to kick Deckard's ass.
***** I like the idea that the whole world of Blade Runner is populated by tyrell replicants and the whole retiring game is just a sick game of his.
Undoubtedly the best movie ending ever!!!!
K in 2049 was a replicant so it's not too far fetched that Decker was too, but why name then in the first movie and use numbers and letters in 2049.
My guess is that Deckard actually believes he is human, but in fact is a replicant. They made him that way on purpose, so he can kill his kind with no remorse. Therefore, Roy overpowers Deckard, because Deckard doesnt know how strong he really is, he doesnt know he is a replicant. Gaff lets him know in the unicorn scene.
Let me know what you think.
Then how come he feels pain also? I sorry, I don't buy that Deckard is a replicant
Wat Tyrell would make a weak replicant that hunts stronger replicants? Makes no sense.
facundo garcia I think he definitely is a replicant. The unicorn scene in the directors cut, for one, shows his dreams were probably implanted. Also, the argument about Deckard being weaker than Batty is, in my opinion, because the Nexus 6 Models were made very recently (perhaps within the last few years?) and Deckard is the most recent model left on Earth, considering the Nexus 6 models were made exclusively for slave labour/war/pleasure on other planets. In addition, I also think Batty saves Deckard because he knows this-he would rather one replicant die (himself) than two. Finally I've concluded that Bryant's argument, that replicants have no emotions, is bullshit. I just think because of the slave like nature of their lives they've had to suppress their emotions, which has lead to their seemingly cold exterior. When you are in the company of those who abuse you you can only stay sane by, "switching off".
BLADE RUNNER................................................PERFECT MOVIE !!!
I think something is lost if it is true that Deckard is a replicant. If he is then what is he a nexus 4 or something. Replicants cannot be built to last it is not a "failsafe" but a limitation of their design. This is proved with the talk with Tyrell. This would mean that Deckard is also "special" like Rachel but built much earlier? I don't think so.
And if he was a replicant I think Batty saving his life is a less meaningful act at the end.
where is nexus 7 mencioned on the movie???
I want to live in the Ennis House where they filmed this scene and the earlier scene when Rachel comes into Deckerd's apartment.
The unicorn origami is a dream memory implant he saw...olmos knew he was advanced type of replicant