@@wingsclippedwolf Yeah. The comment I was replying to said he wrote the speech which could lead someone to believe he wrote the entire speech. His additions and the delivery are what made the speech iconic.
Vangelis produced hours of material for this movie, a lot of it unreleased. It’s on top of everyone’s “best soundtrack” list. Bootlegs of various incarnations are found online… it may be the most bootlegged soundtrack of them all. I’ve lost count of all the versions I’ve collected so far.
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die." Absolutely love Roy Batty's final monologue when he reflects on his own mortality. You go instantly from disliking him as a villain to actually feeling really sorry for him. It's probably one of the few times in the history of cinema that you're really moved by the death of the main antagonist. Rutger Hauer was absolutely amazing in this movie.
Rutger Hauer was also the one who came up with those lines. They weren't originally in the script. The night before shooting of the scene, Rutger Hauer thought that it would be more impactful if Roy said something poetic before the end. Next day he ran it by Ridley Scott and he was impressed enough to leave it in the final edit.
He was never trying to kill Decker. Roy was trying to put the same fear of death into him that he was feeling on the edge of his own mortality. I like to think he was telling Decker (in the most terrifying and memorable way possible) that he should appreciate his own life, and don't waste it.
if you look at the movie through the antagonists pov, he's actually the hero and harrison ford is the antagonist. ford kills all his friends and kills his girlfriend, so roy batty had every right to avenge them. but he doesnt (like the typical protagonist) and lets harrison ford live. I think this movie is almost like ridley scott poking fun at us for choosing sides without knowing the full story. thinking roy batty was the antagonist and ford was the protagonist, when it will the reverse all along.
" Like tears in DA rain." I'll go to my grave with that. He says it with his Dutch accent and very low...."The" = "Da" Tears in rain sounds just wrong. It's not natural. The whole speech gives me chills, esp. when you realize he's crying. Cinematic gold.
@@Garryck-1 Yes he does. You just have to listen with your ears open . And tears in rain is stupid. It sounds completely wrong. He's Dutch and his accent makes the sound "DA" Sorry we can't agree but we can agree that it an amazingly speech, and I still get chills when you know he's crying....in the rain! 😭😢😆✌
The movie questions what it means to be "human". The replicants had emotions, memories, opinions. What really separates them from humans. Roy loved Pris, and was broken hearted when she died, but he could not bring himself to kill Deckard. Roy's last act (saving Harrison Ford's character) was supposed to demonstrate his humanity.
That's pretty much what every cyberpunk movie does at its core, when you think about it. Cyberization brings with it the inevitable element of transhumanism, since you are essentially turning yourself into a cyborg when you use technology, even without replacing any body parts, although the cyberpunk genre is ripe with that too, like Ghost in the Shell; when doing so, one can't help but wonder what exactly is the essence of humanity, as more and more cognitive functions and biological parts get replaced with technology, until "you" are just a brain in a brain case (literally a "brain in a vat"), or even when going so far as to replace the brain itself too, either partially or in its entirety.
@@JulioLeonFandinho Phillip K Dick , The Minority Report, The Man in the High Castle, Total Recall and so on is not that easy to understand. But he was a prolific genius, and Hollywood has slowly tried to bring him to the mainstream with varied success.
@@JulioLeonFandinho The theatrical release was terrible. Say what you want about the ambiguity around Deckard, but the director's cut is far, far superior.
The song "Expiration Date" by Fear Factory does use some of the melodies and part of the final dialogue at the end of the song. I think it's a good listen for Blade Runner's fans :)
The opening captions are so misleading, "ROBOT EVOLUTION into the Nexus phase." They should have used "HUMAN GENETICS into the Nexus phase." First-time viewers are misled to think replicants are ROBOTS (like terminators).
I always thought that the reason why Roy saves Deckard at the end is because the realises that the closest thing that man has to immortality is by being remembered, and everyone that knew Roy by that point is dead either by Deckard's hand or Roy's. There is no way that Deckard could forgot the man/ replicant who had him at his absolute mercy, saved him out of nowhere and then dies in front of him. Roy made sure his last witness could never forget him.
Good point ! Never saw it like that before. I always thought... because in the theatrical version with Deckard's soliloquies... he said maybe he learned the value of human life in his last moments.
I always thought his motives were more simple: to show that he was more human than Deckard (though I think he’s a replicant) by saving a life rather than retiring one. Batty’s game of cat & mouse at the end was simply that: a game. And Roy won.
@@Drforrester31 Ya the original was much longer but Rutger cut the bullshit and turned it into a hard hitting concise oratory that tears your guts out.
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die." Absolute classic.
Rutger Hauer improvised a good bit of that speech. It was different in the script, but Ridley Scott thought it was perfect the way Hauer delivered it, and he kept it. He was right... probably the most memorable death scene in cinema history.
Me too! It's the most human thing what he said and it comes from a replicant. Just poetic and beautiful monologue written by Rutger Hauer the actor and poet.
That or he wanted the end of his life to be about something other than what his maker had created him for. ie giving death. A last act of defiance against 'god' so that he could go into the dark as his own man and not just Tyrell's creation.
I like to think he realized Deckard was a replicant and wasn't aware of it, so he spared his life. Then said "You people", as Deckard had been working as a BR with the Police alongside Tyrell Corp in a brilliant irony.
I am 61 years old and I was IN LOVE with Harrison Ford. I still am. That being said, there is no other Sci Fi film on the same level with this one. It was so ahead of its time. Still unequaled.
The year in the movie is 2019, the actor playing Roy (Rutger Hauer) died in 2019. So the tears in the rain monologue became a sort of prediction/prophecy.
I think Rutger Hauer might be the original actor who played psychopaths so frequently and so well it's hard to imagine him not being an actual psychopath simply playing himself. He was that good at it. Christian Bale comes to mind as well, in the same mold.
okay...in forty years of seeing this I have never heard: "I think he should eat something". Priceless. Remember, when this came out, nobody knew what the hell it all 'meant' either. Your emotionally immersive reactions to the script/plot beats are exactly what the makers intended and hoped for from the audience and is why I enjoy watching you discover what once blew my mind...
Some of us knew what it all meant!! I watched it in 82 but I'd read the Philip K Dick book it was based on, 'Do androids dream of electric sheep?' although the film was a brilliant visualisation of the novel.
Nonsense. Deckard is obviously human. Ridley Scott is the only one who played with the idea of him being a replicant. Harrison Ford rejected that idea entirely. And it would be entirely inconsistent with the timeline and state of replicant technology as given in the movie. They just invented Rachel, the first Nexus 6 with memory implants, last Tuesday. But Deckard worked as a blade runner for Bryant for years before that.
Imagine being in the audience watching this in 1982. I was there, in my 20's, and was completely blown away by the intense darkness of the film, I fell in love with Sean Young (who didn't?) and was also perplexed by the ending. It took 35 years for the sequel, and it's worth watching as a second chapter, as inventive and intricate as this.
The final speech Rutger Hauer, the actor playing Roy Batty (your "half-robot blonde psychopath") gave was improvised. The scene called for Roy to sit down and tell Decker about his regrets -- namely, that he had his own memories, not the ones implanted by the company when he was created, and that he was afraid to die because when he did, all those memories, the things that made him, him, would be gone. As he says to Deckard, "Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it?" Its at this point that you begin to realize that while Deckard was the protagonist, he might not have been the good guy...
Late, It also is to draw a connection to what Deckard does to the Replicants. He is a blade runner and kills them. No remorse. But he is more like them and they have become more human. He is in fact an old Replicant. Designed to kill other wayward replicants. He dreams of unicorns. His cop buddy leaves a unicorn oragami at his place to signify he is one of them. And he is going to hunt Deckard.
@@michaelross1452I don’t agree what he signifies with the unicorn is that he knows and has been there and decided to let them live.. because perhaps he thinks she and he will die.. His own gift.. or gesture to deckard
I wish that were the case, and originally read as such, but no - going by memory he condensed the speech and moved it around a bit, added a touch I think, but he didn't just improvise the whole monologue.
I don't think regular nexus 6s have implanted memories, Rachel is an experiment, it took Deckard over 4x as many questions to determine she is a replicant.
Interesting Fact: Daryl Hannah is the actress who played Pris and during the scene where she meets sympathetic genetic designer J.F. Sebastian, Pris is seen slipping on the pavement as she runs away and smashing her elbow through a car window. Hannah’s slip was a genuine mistake and the car window was made of real glass; though she gamely carried on with the take, the actress had in fact chipped her elbow in eight places. Also if you have an Amazon Echo Device say " Alexa I have seen things you people wouldn't believe."
@@Thom1212 It coined the term 'retro-futuristic' - which is such an obvious and very plausible futuristic concept it's almost amazing nobody really thought of it before. You look around yourself now and see glass skyscrapers existing next to 100 year-old neoclassical and art deco architecture (etc), but sci-fi never really did that before. Even Vangelis's soundtrack typified that theme by using classical methods and genres of composition in an electronic score, which was really unique, and incredibly influential to this day (the score is a kinda landmark in electronic music). I don't blame people for not really getting why or how this film was so revolutionary and beloved, because it's conceits were so influential that today it almost seems typical and passe. I wrote a paper on it in uni and I was amazed at how many people had thought about this film and been inspired by it - from philosophers to architects, and beyond. It's the the archetypal cult film.
You know which future I always thought looked like it would be fun to live in? The Fifth Element. It's bright and beautiful, has flying cars and doesn't look like the citizens are depressed. Plus there are aliens that we've integrated with and some we call enemies which gives us a cool space opera type theme. The biggest mystery I have about that future is the fact that the buildings are above the clouds. I wonder what's closer towards the ground? Also, the Demolition Man future seemed pleasant enough. Though a bit...restricted. Like candy coating over something a little bit nefarious.
@@Spiqaro Funny you mention The Fifth Element... Blade Runner was my top favourite sci-fi film because of how the film looked with its visual style, until 5th Element came along and surpassed it for the same reasons IMO.
@@onylra6265 Rutger Hauer’s performance sold this future as real and “plausible”. This was an Oscar worthy performance by a brilliant actor that was never given proper credit.
The movie made much more sense to me when I realized that the Replicants are 4-year old - literally - talking and behaving like 4 - year old Kids ... even though they have the body of an adult and a head full of memories, they are still just children.
The speech that Rutger Hauer delivers near the end of the movie... "Tears in the rain" was written by Rutger shortly before they filmed the scenes. He gave the lines to Ridley Scott the director and he approved them - it is considered the best dying speech in a movie.
@@alanparsonsfan The crew were unaware that Rutger had changed the script. He'd only approved it with Ridley. On the other hand it may have been because it had been a long night of filming, they were spraying water over the set, most of the crew were soaked and tired and the sun was coming up and they still had a few more scenes to complete. If you watch the moment where the dove flies away, you can see that the sky is starting to show dawn twilight.
I think that is the less appealing of the elements that Ridley Scott added to the Director's Cut, a truly "George Lucas move" if you ask me. Because it doesnt make any sense.... The whole point of the story is that the Replicants are actually more humane than the protagonist, who is just an enforcer, while they are pursuing for more life, a truly human thing to do. Also, if Deckard is a replicant, why do all the replicants just kick his ass so easily? Besides, it makes sense that the protagonist is the human, so the audience have a common perspective from the start, someone to idenfy themselves with... that is the way that it was written.
A better interpretation is that the Chinese cop is also a replicant (as are all the Blade Runners) and they all dream the same things..... 'but then, who does?', has that self awareness to it.
@@winterfell_forever Couldn't have put it better myself. The whole idea of Deckart being a replicant is stupid and destroys the core concept of the film.
Edward James Olmos wrote the other most quotable line in the film. The "It's to bad she wont live, but then again who does" line, much like "All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain" was written by Rutger Hauers the two most popular lines in the film were written by the actors.
@@wavertone The important thing is that it's got everyone discussing it, even decades later! Some movies offer easy answers; others just ask difficult questions and trust the audience to work it out. "It's a test, designed to provoke an emotional response..."
This movie really made a huge step into viewing some of the possible moral issues of the future- mainly in creating intelligent AI and human like robots- which is inevitable.
@@Danny-rs2mk no humans won't go extinct from that...humans are extremely adaptable. People have spent a long time adapting our environment to us, but we are more than capable of adapting to our environment just like any other animal.
@@markcarpenter6020 only if we don't choose to choke our oxygen levels, which it does look like we're actually doing. Deforestation, Carbon emissions, and mass mask mandates. We've pretty much killed the planet.
This is my most loved movie...music...speeches...actors...characters...and atmosphere. R.I.P. - Rutger Hauer & Vangelis ... thx for those best memories
The movie is based on a book "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep". The story definitely hints that Dekard might be a Replicant. The 'unicorn' is a one-of-a-kind... like Rachel. The last part, where Gaff leaves the origami unicorn was to let Deckard know he was there, understood what Rachel was, and let her live.
In the interviews almost everyone making the film (including Harrison Ford) thinks that Deckard being a replicant is stupid. Ridley Scott is the standout who thinks otherwise. Deckard being a replicant goes against the story of how artificial humans teach a real human how to feel and value life.
@@CaptainVideoBlaster Yes, the point of the ORIGINAL film is how Replicants are 'more human' than their human creators and executioners. Deckard is seen as a fragile drunk who has no emotions at all. As his ex-wife said: "cold fish."
This is a movie where you are supposed to have more questions than answers. This is one of the only films I know of where it gets better and better each time you watch it, even after 100 times.
@@Flantomas true but then she probably thought they'd be mindless automatons at first. She should probably watch the movie again in a few weeks after her brain has time to process it all while sleeping.
This movie is truly a landmark film. I love how it makes the viewer question just what it means to be human. It is, however, a bit difficult to understand. Congrats to Cassie for figuring out the unicorn clue at the end.
Yes, watch it again. You'll see something new every time you do. I interpret the unicorn origami as the other blade runner (Edward James Olmos) letting Decker know he was there but decided to let Rachel live so Decker and Rachel could be together. Also, letting them know that they would be hunted and they needed to flee.
@@dougnurse4952 I think Gaff was more than happy to have Deckard go. At least in the original movie version with the narrations, Deckard talks about how Gaff didn't really like having Deckard come back from retirement. He didn't like the competition.
@@dougnurse4952 He was also letting him know that Deckard is a replicant himself. How did Gaff just so happen to know about the unicorn? Because Deckard’s memories are implanted.
Replicants aren't robots, they're genetically engineered akin to clones. They have human emotions and in the world of Bladerunner they fear their impending fate. So in desperation, they have to meet their maker for any hope of more life. It's a brilliant brilliant film. Great reaction!
I saw Bladerunner when I was 15 in 1982. I had to sneak into the theatre as I was underage for the Rating! I've probably seen it 200 times since then. In my Top 5 movies of all time.
Same! On all accounts! Including sneaking into the theater--I was 12 at the time. And definitely in m top five favorite movies of all time. It still holds up.
How well the scenery and sci-fi effects hold up, even today, is amazing. I don't think younger people can really understand how utterly mind-blowing it was to see that on the big screen when it first came out.
It's actually realistic to have old looking computers in the "future". Even today, our industrial stuff runs on hardware and software that's quite old. Same with military computer tech. Cutting edge consumer products are fine for us to use, but generally machinery like trucks, oil rigs, military aircraft and the like use older tech. This is because the bugs are worked out. You trade capability for reliability.
That is absolutely true. Many banks and government systems, for example, run their data on IBM CICS. It was first released in 1969. Also, in fiction, you can always point out towards the tech looking old due to divergencies in the timeline. Like the Fallout series which has power armor suits, genetic manipulation and fusion power but looks like the 50s and has obsolete-looking computers due to a difference in the technological advances and resulting modes of production and research to that of our timeline despite being set in 22nd - 23rd century.
This is true, however in a future world flat screens would be older tech, so this still bothers me. It bothers me much more in "Alien" though. One of the many awesome things about "2001: A Space Odyssey" is all of the technological predictions it made. It portrays all displays as flat screens and even shows personal tablet computers.
I am a fan of this movie. I didn't cringe when you said you have so many questions, it made me smile and remember talking to my friends and trying to figure out what it was about myself! I was really happy when they remastered this movie for blue ray and the 5 different versions in one set!
Rachel is the unicorn. She's a one-off. A unique replicant with a normal human lifespan. It would probably help if you also watched the original release version of the film. The one with Harrison doing a voice-over throughout the movie. Most don't like that version, but I think that would really help someone who's not really in to 'sci-fi' understand more of what's going on. It's really a movie you have to watch more than once to 'get-it'. Then on to Blade Runner 2049. The sequel I didn't want, but am very happy we got. It's awesome too.
It's interesting how sometimes a movie fails at the box office, yet after it comes out on DVD it becomes a classic. I've watched this movie at least 10 times. I read the book, which has very little to do with the movie. They are to different tales with the same questions. What is life. Are we our memories.
A global poll of sci-fi fans voted “Blade Runner” the greatest science fiction movie of all time. “The Final Cut” is probably the best choice of the many versions of this classic. The sequel, “Blade Runner 2049”, is superb too and definitely worthy of a spot on Ms. Popcorn’s to-be-watched list.
You know what Cassie, bookmark this reaction. This is probably one of the Most comprehensive post film chats about deep existential feelings that truly shows your overall growth as an individual. Fantastic reaction! Keep going!
Rutger Hauer is the lunatic replicant. He is fantastic in a movie with Michelle Pfeiffer and Matthew Broderick called Lady Hawk. It's kind of a medieval fantasy flick but it is amazing. You have to react to as I've seen very few reactions done to that movie. You would love the fantasy and love story aspect!
@@DylansPen For having what appears to be such a dedicated fan base it's just too bad we never got a sequel. There was just so much to explore with sea battles in the Napoleonic era. (Sigh)
As a 41 year old who has been watching Blade Runner consistently since he was 7 years old (I'm a Blade Runner veteran!), I can say that this film's subtle (and often hidden) emotional and thematic beauty only grows as time goes by. And I think that's the point. Our time is limited. Most of us experience the blessing of living much longer than four years. No matter how dark the world gets, use the eyes that your maker gave you, create memories, and take nothing for granted. This film is an enduring masterpiece with a deeply spiritual soul.
Yes, and Deckkard actually says this in the original movie version, which I prefer to these cuts. This was such a '30's film noir that the voiceover in the theatre version was actually appropriate, even tho Ford didn't like it. BTW, the director wanted Deckard to be a replicant, and that's why he kept releasing cuts of the movie. But both the scriptwriter AND Harrison Ford himself said that Deckard is definitely a human. That's good enough for me!
@@alanparsonsfan I agree. So many reviewers are swayed by the opinion they shouldn't watch the theatrical cut. Then spend two hours scratching their heads saying "I don't understand". The studio was right - the noir voiceover is needed for the world building info dumps.
You remeber it from the theatrical cut of the movie - they added this line in order to create a happy ending. Rachel's story in the novel is quite different.
@@svenidol Yes, the replicants are more mechanical internally and Deckard has a wife. I like the way they updated them to basically be genetically engineered clones. The book was written the 60's IIRC.
I didnt like this film when i first saw it. Couple months ago sat and watched the final cut and really enjoyed it. Terrific film and i expect to have the same experience of liking it more upon further watching.
Didn't see a comment about how Blade Runner was a game changer movie, a sci-fi masterpiece. It's a historical landmark in sci-fi setting the tone for pretty much every sci-fi movies that came after, especially the dystopian ones. It was revolutionary. Still regarded as of the best sci-fi movie ever made, aged so well, with a dark tone, an eternal Vangelis music and the ultimate question: what does it mean to be human and to be conscious? Oh, and there's a young Harrison Ford. Hope you enjoyed it. *edit: Unicorn daydream(it's not a dream) and origami unicorns: so the biggest question in this movie is: "is Deckard a replicant?". The director Ridley Scott wanted that question to remain unanswered and Deckard's nature ambiguous, and Harrison Ford wanted Deckard to be human. Denis Villeneuve (director of Blade Runner 2019) said that at a dinner with Harrison Ford and Ridley Scott, he found himself watching them both arguing about that point. He says it was surrealist to him, as Blade Runner is his favorite movie and what made him into making movies. The bleak future is called dystopian, as in the opposite of utopia (just like dysphoria is the opposite of euphoria). It's a future where governments have ultimate power over people and where the population cannot escape and have no freedom. Lots of suffering and injustice. Very often technology is being used as a method of ultimate population control.
Cyberpunk, as a Genre was just starting to pick up steam when this was made (1982). Philip K. Dick "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", the basis for this show (1968) was one of the first novels of the Genre.
I saw another millennial review of this movie and the person was complaining that the film was in essence derivative of films that they had seen without realizing that it was the opposite, and the films they had watched came after Blade Runner, and were themselves derivative. It's sometimes frustrating to watch video reactions because I think the watchers place an emphasis on reaction, and don't spend much time trying to understand. I think in this reaction, it was really disappointing to see how little effect Rutger Hauers ending siloloquy had on the watcher. The character, contemplating their own mortality, cherished life enough to save his would be murderer. The replicants were slaves, used for labor, for war, for other things. No value had been placed on their life. Priss quotes Descartes, "I think therefore I am." The movie is supposed to question humanity, whether the replicants are actually human. Ridley Scott has said Deckard was a replicant. I think the director's cut makes it more obvious than the theater cut. I think you're right, that the director wants you to wonder, but in the end of the movie, I don't think there's a question anymore. Deckard is a replicant, killing replicants. He never doubts that he is human.
@@jrmarcus Well, that's very sad that a lot of reactors are so preoccupied with their behaviors on camera and force themselves to give a "good show". It's a tragedy that that reactor did not look up the year Blade Runner came out. You're right that Ridley Scott said the story does not make sense if Deckard is a human and I agree that it's pretty obvious with the director's cut. He daydreams of unicorns, we assume he didn't tell anyone, and we can assume Gaff, his "boss", is not making origami unicorns just by sheer coincidence. It's just because it's not established without any doubt (that Deckard is a replicant) that we can say it's somewhat ambiguous, but for me it's always been clear. *edit: I like what you say about Priss and about the nature of humanity, the value of life and the way replicants are used.
The original theatre version of this movie, had a narration track of Harrison speaking a lot of his thoughts. I personally liked this original. The movie to me appeared to be styled a lot like old detective movies, the oak furniture, clothing, the abruptness of the characters, that aggressive kiss, the lighting and especially the main character doing the narration. I believe the original version is part of one of the releases. A lot of people seem to not like the narration, I don't get why.
"Do you mind if I smoke?" "It won't affect the test." The hell it won't. The machine reads pulse rate, blush response, pupillary dilation, and smoking alters all of those readings. It took extra time for Rachel because of her cigarette. Once she crushed it out, the test was over in the space of a single question.
Maybe that's true for only humans and it would help speed up the test since a replicant handles it better? Hell, toss the test and just have them smoke. ;-)
Respect to Cassie for pushing her boundaries and broadening her horizons. Really impressed that she understood the ending to Blade Runner! A lot of people don't.
This is my favorite movie, all time. You MUST watch the sequel. ALSO: The "Is Decker a Replicant?" debate has been raging since the movies release. Hopefully nobody spoils it for you before you catch the second/final film. EDIT: As I am new to your channel and checking out older reactions I see that you have watched the sequel. So...never-mind. I'll go there next. Cheers.
Gary Numan was a huge fan of this film and wrote a tribute song called "Time To Die", featuring the lyrics "It's all lost to me now, like tears in the rain." ruclips.net/video/5nIdVMc_RCo/видео.html
In all the years I've been watching this movie, I never noticed the blood before. And I thought he ONLY drank Johnnie Walker Black Label. I had to go back and re-watch it (just that scene). That's the only scene in the entire movie where he's not drinking Johnnie Walker Black Label & I'm guessing it's because the blood wouldn't have been as visible.
This movie and its soundtrack (Vangelis) are a masterpiece. It has one of the most iconic dialogues in the history of cinema.. It's one of my 10 favorite movies of all time.
@@emilywilhite5807 Back in the 80's, it was common for certain blockbuster-level movies to have tie-in storybook versions targeted to young people in their second decade. And I believe that in Blade Runner's adaptation to this format, Batty let Sebastian live, since his syndrome meant he would die fairly young anyway. Before leaving to get Pris, he told their friend, "You can think of us as racing you, hand in hand, to the grave."
When you consider the fact that this film was released in 1982 and, with the exception of the flying cars and the depiction of computers, that it holds up so well to the test of time, something few science fiction films do, is a testament to the brilliance of this masterpiece. Forty years later and it is still widely considered on of the greatest science fiction films ever made. I was 11 years old when I first watched this film at the AMC Fiesta Village movie theater in Mesa AZ, I was young and completely confused by the story but as I grew older and watched it more it became more clear to me. I think everyone has a their own interpretation of the meaning of this film and that is what makes it so good. Absolutely Ridley's best work and his interpretation of the story, and the reason why he included the unicorn footage in his edit of the film, was that Deckard was also a replicant. The sequel does not represent this and Denis Villenuve took it in a different direction, something I think was a mistake.
🤣 Best part about this channel is the quaint realistic reactions. 16:34 "Poor girl, I feel like her feelings are so valid" 16:45 "I just want them to turn some light on" 29:39 "that is the opposite of everything in a movie that I liked before; but I can appreciate that this was a very specific style"
absolutely agree.. this was one of my favorite movies and what I considered the pinnacle of cyberpunk futurism .. until 2049 came and usurped this.. the character arcs, the story and of course everything else are pretty much superior in every way. This is saying something from a guy who holds the original BL is the highest regard.
Since you have watched two of the Alien movies, here is something cool to know: The Alien franchise and the Blade Runner franchise have secretly shared the same universe for years, with more connections made with each installment. The theory that Ridley Scott’s Alien and Blade Runner are connected has evolved from folklore to fact ever since one of Blade Runner's screenwriters, David Peoples, said that his other film, Soldier, is a spin-off sidequel to Blade Runner despite their tenuous connections. If Soldier, despite its schlocky tone, can be considered canon to Blade Runner, then Alien certainly can as well. Not only do the two franchises share similar technology and ties between the Tyrell and Weyland Corporations, but their themes about artificial life go hand-in-hand. Towards the conclusion of Alien, Ripley manages to get into an escape pod where she commences her engines by turning a blue screen into a red “purge” screen. Blade Runner starts off with Officer Gaff getting into his flying car where he, too, commences the engines by turning a blue screen into a red “purge” screen. Given that Blade Runner takes place in alternate-2019 and Alien takes place in 2122, is the Nostromo such a junk heap that it’s using technology over a hundred years old, or it just a clever Easter egg?
"There's got to be some ethics being crossed." You pretty much got the movie in the first 20 minutes! Blade Runner is one of my favorite films for the ethical issues it raises.
@Romanogers4ever Commodifying humans into cheap, disposable labor. Giving them memories they never made so they think they lived a life they never did. Making them vibrantly physically alive, but engineering planned obsolescence into them so they die after 4 short years.
"More human than human, that's our motto". It was true of the replicants themselves, they were emotionally small children. The actual humans we encountered in this move were mostly less than human....
@@donlarsen4841 Be fair, there's a lot of layers in there. I count it as an achievement that someone manages to get as deep as the unicorn bit on their first viewing. I mean, I've seen it at least a hundred times, and I'm still not sure I've plumbed it's depths.
@@krannok the movie is not as sophisticated as some would like it to be . That said it appears we have the overall enjoyment of this flick in common . 👍
@@donlarsen4841 Some might suggest that if a lot of people see deeper meaning in a piece of art and you can't see it, the failing might be yours and not theirs. It might be more sophisticated than you've grasped. Judgmental passive-aggressive quips aside, I'm glad you took the time out of your day to say this.
This is going to be a very interesting reaction... Blade Runner is much more than a sci-fi fantasy. There are some really serious themes and thought provoking issues addressed in it. A little clarification, without spoiling it for you: The novel this film was inspired by is called "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?" The key difference in the film is that they are not mechanical robots, but living biological creatures, human in almost every sense. It's literally wall-to-wall eye candy, every shot could hang in an art gallery. The whole movie is stunning to look at and I'm sure you'll be suitably impressed they could pull it off, almost 40 years ago. I really hope you like it. Cannot wait for your Terminator 2: Judgment Day reaction!
More human than human! That's a concept, especially comparing the characters of Roy and Rachel. This was also Sean Young's first lead, and Daryl Hannah's first big part.
I used to be part of the goth scene and in one club there was a Pris clone and so I really enjoyed dancing with her. One of those magic moments in life.
Deckard found a reoccuring dream of his own (the unicorn) among the "memory" files given to the advanced models while he was researching the case. Apparently his partner knew something about this as well since the final figure he left was a unicorn.
No that's not in the source material. That's something extra tacked on to it. Nowhere in the actual film does it say he recognised the dream as anything other than a little bit strange. And there is disagreement among the people who made the film whether or not he is a replicant. In the end, the themes of the story play out better if he's not one. Replicants are artificial beings who discover their own humanity, and he is a human who rediscovers his own humanity. If he's a replicant too, then basically his character arc is the same as the other replicants. I know Ridley Scott loves to say how Deckard is a replicant, but it's just a clever plot conceit that kind of ruins the story and breaks the film.
But the advanced models could handle heat, were extremely powerful, ... Deckard wasn't very strong, got hurt and had to rely on his weapon when fighting them.
The partner knows that Deckard is a replicant too, he tells him "you have done a man's job" after Roy "dies", implying that he is not a real man. Also, the unicorn shape origami is basically means that the memories from Deckard are also created and inserted as they mentioned early in the memory as being a practice used to make the replicants more "human".
One of my favorite films. Despite being dated now I still think all the visuals still look great. And I love how they mixed the old noir film style with the sci fi elements. This movie stuck with me since the first time I watched it. Just something about it.
@@originalbadboy32 Deckard has dreams of a unicorn, gaff leaving the origami is suggesting that gaff knows about deckards dreams of the unicorn, ie implanted memories.
@@ItsJustDozzy or Gaff is telling Deckard that he (Gaff) is a replicant. Deckard knows that replicants have dreams about unicorns .. hes talking about it to Rachel, so why can't he just have a dream because he is thinking about it ?
A favorite factoid related to the story: back in the 2003 SF mayoral election, a journalist for The Wave magazine managed to get the candidates to answer a bunch of Voight-Kampff questions. All but two of the candidates failed. One of the candidates who failed - with very Lyon like responses - was Gavin Newsom, who is therefore probably a Nexus 5.
@@Halo4Lyf No, he's just a standard politician with blanche policies and average level hypocrisy and corruption. He's definitely not a sociopath, just fairly dumb, like Lyon.
the background to this movie and the characters is deep. the fan theories are rampant. such a great movie. tyrell, the guy who made the replicants in blade runner, and weyland, the guy who made the replicants in alien, went to school together in the background stories of each movie. both movies directed and produced by ridley scott.
If you want the most sci-fi(y) movie that might get even more confusing on the first watch you need to check out '2001 - A Space Odyssey', it also might blow your mind when you see it and that it was made in 1968 and the effects are still holding up.
That's true, they tried so hard to make it as realistic and scientifically accurate as they could for what limited information there was seeing how we hadn't even landed on the moon for another year. Same time it's an incredibly long film and awfully slow. But does have sort of a fun thrill to it.
You did well, you worked out he was in Leon's apartment, that Zora was a replicant, that they would use JF to get to Tyrell and why. A lot would have missed these things!
Not just Leons apartment. The Chelsea Hotel is on of the most used film sets in history. I have my name becous of a song called Chelsea Hotel. Leonard Cohens song is about having oral sex with Janis Joplin. Im called Leonard becouse of this song. My moms english wasnt good at the time...
I've always found it helpful to view the replicant's behavior like children, because they honestly are children only being 3-4 years old. They have love, fear, and empathy like any other human. But they also have that childlike playfulness and selfishness. And while children aren't cruel by nature, the replicants have absorbed cruelty and manipulation from the world they were born into. They just want to exist, and will go to violent or cruel lengths to do so.
Rutger hauers last scene before his character dies is so iconic to me because he improvised the whole monologue' and in those last words he's almost human.
Rutger Hauer wrote the "Tears in Rain" speech. Pure poetry. 💙
Technically he just altered part of what was written for him. Beautiful nonetheless.
"The tears in the rain" line was Hauer. So was adding, "Time to die."
@@wingsclippedwolf Yeah. The comment I was replying to said he wrote the speech which could lead someone to believe he wrote the entire speech. His additions and the delivery are what made the speech iconic.
The final line of that speech inspired my Instagram name, given the fleeting nature of social media.
He really was great at giving a speech
Hell, even in Hobo with a Shotgun he gives an epic speech in the hospital nursery
The sad thing is that Roy batty died in 2019 and so did Rutger Hauer
Both replicants, obviously.
Rutger Hauer still lives in *The Hitcher.*
Wow I totally forgot it was the same year. His moments will never be lost like tears in rain :)
@@DominusLuna Who ever made the remake needs to "retired".
@@stevenjones916 Not a remake. A continuation of the same story, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Vangelis far from getting enough love in this comment section. Can't imagine this movie without their score is epic as movie itself.
You mean HIS score. Vangelis is one man.
Also Chariots of Fire. A fantastic movie and a beautiful soundtrack.
Some people like to listen to Led Zeppelin when they smoke weed... I like to sit in a dark room & listen to this soundtrack...
The soundtrack is INCREDIBLE!
Vangelis produced hours of material for this movie, a lot of it unreleased. It’s on top of everyone’s “best soundtrack” list. Bootlegs of various incarnations are found online… it may be the most bootlegged soundtrack of them all. I’ve lost count of all the versions I’ve collected so far.
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."
Absolutely love Roy Batty's final monologue when he reflects on his own mortality. You go instantly from disliking him as a villain to actually feeling really sorry for him.
It's probably one of the few times in the history of cinema that you're really moved by the death of the main antagonist.
Rutger Hauer was absolutely amazing in this movie.
Rutger Hauer was also the one who came up with those lines. They weren't originally in the script. The night before shooting of the scene, Rutger Hauer thought that it would be more impactful if Roy said something poetic before the end. Next day he ran it by Ridley Scott and he was impressed enough to leave it in the final edit.
He was never trying to kill Decker. Roy was trying to put the same fear of death into him that he was feeling on the edge of his own mortality. I like to think he was telling Decker (in the most terrifying and memorable way possible) that he should appreciate his own life, and don't waste it.
if you look at the movie through the antagonists pov, he's actually the hero and harrison ford is the antagonist. ford kills all his friends and kills his girlfriend, so roy batty had every right to avenge them. but he doesnt (like the typical protagonist) and lets harrison ford live. I think this movie is almost like ridley scott poking fun at us for choosing sides without knowing the full story. thinking roy batty was the antagonist and ford was the protagonist, when it will the reverse all along.
" Like tears in DA rain." I'll go to my grave with that.
He says it with his Dutch accent and very low...."The" = "Da"
Tears in rain sounds just wrong. It's not natural.
The whole speech gives me chills, esp. when you realize he's crying.
Cinematic gold.
@@Garryck-1 Yes he does. You just have to listen with your ears open . And tears in rain is stupid. It sounds completely wrong. He's Dutch and his accent makes the sound "DA" Sorry we can't agree but we can agree that it an amazingly speech, and I still get chills when you know he's crying....in the rain!
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The movie questions what it means to be "human". The replicants had emotions, memories, opinions. What really separates them from humans. Roy loved Pris, and was broken hearted when she died, but he could not bring himself to kill Deckard. Roy's last act (saving Harrison Ford's character) was supposed to demonstrate his humanity.
@@Hiraghm You should write it all down. Keep a journal so you can go back and read your memories so you won't forget. Blessings.
That's pretty much what every cyberpunk movie does at its core, when you think about it. Cyberization brings with it the inevitable element of transhumanism, since you are essentially turning yourself into a cyborg when you use technology, even without replacing any body parts, although the cyberpunk genre is ripe with that too, like Ghost in the Shell; when doing so, one can't help but wonder what exactly is the essence of humanity, as more and more cognitive functions and biological parts get replaced with technology, until "you" are just a brain in a brain case (literally a "brain in a vat"), or even when going so far as to replace the brain itself too, either partially or in its entirety.
all of it ruined in all the cuts after the theatrical release because Ridley Scott thinks Deckard is a replicant... he didn't get Philip K Dick
@@JulioLeonFandinho Phillip K Dick , The Minority Report, The Man in the High Castle, Total Recall and so on is not that easy to understand. But he was a prolific genius, and Hollywood has slowly tried to bring him to the mainstream with varied success.
@@JulioLeonFandinho The theatrical release was terrible. Say what you want about the ambiguity around Deckard, but the director's cut is far, far superior.
R.I.P. Rutger Hauer.
One of the greatest of all time.
And R.I.P. Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou aka Vangelis.
Gone but unforgettable.
the music during the “tears in the rain” scene will forever be one of the most moving, beautiful pieces of music I’ve ever heard 💙
Fully agree! Another masterpiece by Vangelis 😊👍
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The song "Expiration Date" by Fear Factory does use some of the melodies and part of the final dialogue at the end of the song. I think it's a good listen for Blade Runner's fans :)
I love the soundtrack album. I listen to it on repeat overnight on low volume.
Vangelis's score just runs rings around Zimmer's BR 2049 score, words can't express how much I love listening to it.
This film is a masterpiece. It is probably one of the most influential films ever made, especially in the scifi genre.
Agreed, definitely one of the best films ever.
All practical effects, and miniature models for the city.
The last futuristic movie without any CGI.
The opening captions are so misleading, "ROBOT EVOLUTION into the Nexus phase." They should have used "HUMAN GENETICS into the Nexus phase." First-time viewers are misled to think replicants are ROBOTS (like terminators).
I always thought that the reason why Roy saves Deckard at the end is because the realises that the closest thing that man has to immortality is by being remembered, and everyone that knew Roy by that point is dead either by Deckard's hand or Roy's. There is no way that Deckard could forgot the man/ replicant who had him at his absolute mercy, saved him out of nowhere and then dies in front of him. Roy made sure his last witness could never forget him.
Good point ! Never saw it like that before. I always thought... because in the theatrical version with Deckard's soliloquies... he said maybe he learned the value of human life in his last moments.
I always thought his motives were more simple: to show that he was more human than Deckard (though I think he’s a replicant) by saving a life rather than retiring one.
Batty’s game of cat & mouse at the end was simply that: a game. And Roy won.
Roy’s whole purpose for creation was combat. His final act is to defy his programming and to save a life rather than take one
Also, Tyrrell could only give 4 years. Roy could give someone their whole life.
*The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.*
-Bruce Lee
I love Roy’s epilogue, his struggle to keep living is very real.
I've read that a good bit was improvised.
@@menolikey_ Not to be the "actually" guy, but Rutger Hauer rewrote the lines beforehand. It wasn't improvised but they were his words
@@Drforrester31 thank you for correcting me. The lines were amazing no matter what.
@@Drforrester31 Ya the original was much longer but Rutger cut the bullshit and turned it into a hard hitting concise oratory that tears your guts out.
Roy Batty sounded like some guy at a bar.
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."
Absolute classic.
Great performance by the great Rutger Hauer.
Rutger Hauer improvised a good bit of that speech. It was different in the script, but Ridley Scott thought it was perfect the way Hauer delivered it, and he kept it. He was right... probably the most memorable death scene in cinema history.
Totally improvised too
@@Mr.Ekshin the whole line was improvised.
Greatest soliloquy in film history.
I watched this movie, like, 40 times... and Roy's monologue at the end always get me crying.
Me too! It's the most human thing what he said and it comes from a replicant. Just poetic and beautiful monologue written by Rutger Hauer the actor and poet.
@@dr.juerdotitsgo5119 I also like Adrian Hates' version of End Titles: ruclips.net/video/e4cOBlXZ4aA/видео.html
I think this is the greatest film ever made.
more then 50 for me......
He realized how valuable life was, that's why he saved Deckard.
That or he wanted the end of his life to be about something other than what his maker had created him for.
ie giving death.
A last act of defiance against 'god' so that he could go into the dark as his own man and not just Tyrell's creation.
he also wanted deckard to become his memento mori.
Indeed
I like to think he realized Deckard was a replicant and wasn't aware of it, so he spared his life. Then said "You people", as Deckard had been working as a BR with the Police alongside Tyrell Corp in a brilliant irony.
@@UncleUncleRj Well with 2049 its kind of canonized that he is Human
The imagery of Roy Batty, with a nail driven through his hand, saving the life of another is beautifully symbolic.
Good catch.
He became Jesus.
Cassie didn't understand why Roy saved Deckard.
@@hughjorg4008 Only that? x)
@@hughjorg4008 Lol..
I am 61 years old and I was IN LOVE with Harrison Ford. I still am.
That being said, there is no other Sci Fi film on the same level with this one. It was so ahead of its time. Still unequaled.
The year in the movie is 2019, the actor playing Roy (Rutger Hauer) died in 2019. So the tears in the rain monologue became a sort of prediction/prophecy.
And it was Rugter improvisation! So sad and Epic
Best term for it: coincidence.
2019, not bad. At least he didn't have to live in Covid World
@@patsk8872 There was covid in China in 2019 but yeah, it wasn't covid world yet.
I think Rutger Hauer might be the original actor who played psychopaths so frequently and so well it's hard to imagine him not being an actual psychopath simply playing himself. He was that good at it. Christian Bale comes to mind as well, in the same mold.
okay...in forty years of seeing this I have never heard: "I think he should eat something". Priceless.
Remember, when this came out, nobody knew what the hell it all 'meant' either. Your emotionally immersive reactions to the script/plot beats are exactly what the makers intended and hoped for from the audience and is why I enjoy watching you discover what once blew my mind...
because i think at that moment we realize the antagonist is deckard.
She sounded like my mom when she said he should eat..... LOL
Some of us knew what it all meant!! I watched it in 82 but I'd read the Philip K Dick book it was based on, 'Do androids dream of electric sheep?' although the film was a brilliant visualisation of the novel.
Don't forget many had watched the lousy theatrical cut
When Gaff says "You've done a man's job, sir!" that's the giveaway that Decker is a replicant.
Nonsense. Deckard is obviously human. Ridley Scott is the only one who played with the idea of him being a replicant. Harrison Ford rejected that idea entirely. And it would be entirely inconsistent with the timeline and state of replicant technology as given in the movie. They just invented Rachel, the first Nexus 6 with memory implants, last Tuesday. But Deckard worked as a blade runner for Bryant for years before that.
@@michaelgilbrook5996 What's nonsense is you believing the timeline presented as fact!
“Who’s she?”
Pris is played by Darryl Hannah, who starred in Roxanne which you watched just recently.
@@Thom1212
Yes, but I don’t think Jen has seen that.
She even meets another with a long nose in this movie. 11:37
@@Bfdidc
True.
hope she watches Kill Bill soon
@@Thom1212
I thought we’d prefer her to watch good movies?
Arguably the greatest cyberpunk movie ever, with "Dark City" a close second in my book.
Great movies. Matrix (first movie) are also among the best.
Yes! _Dark City_ is a masterpiece which doesn't get near enough love in the Sci-Fi community.
Another good cyberpunk movies : Strange Days (1995), Equilibrium (2002), Ghost in the Shell (1995), Brazil (1985).
@@orvoloco8261 akira...
Dark City needs to be seen by far more people. It’s excellent.
Imagine being in the audience watching this in 1982. I was there, in my 20's, and was completely blown away by the intense darkness of the film, I fell in love with Sean Young (who didn't?) and was also perplexed by the ending. It took 35 years for the sequel, and it's worth watching as a second chapter, as inventive and intricate as this.
"I feel he should eat something" Cas has the motherly vibe and warmth of all 80's sitcom moms combined.
I was going to mention something like that, too! You were more eloquent than I would have been, though!
this type of comment bothers the shit out of me.. it always makes me want to tell people to go on a diet..
@@J4ME5_ I think she was referring to the fact that he had consumed tons of alcohol, but eaten very little
That came from nowhere and really cracked me up 😂😂😂
@@J4ME5_ Get over yourself.
This movie ages like a fine wine 👌👌
The final speech Rutger Hauer, the actor playing Roy Batty (your "half-robot blonde psychopath") gave was improvised. The scene called for Roy to sit down and tell Decker about his regrets -- namely, that he had his own memories, not the ones implanted by the company when he was created, and that he was afraid to die because when he did, all those memories, the things that made him, him, would be gone. As he says to Deckard, "Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it?"
Its at this point that you begin to realize that while Deckard was the protagonist, he might not have been the good guy...
Late,
It also is to draw a connection to what Deckard does to the Replicants.
He is a blade runner and kills them. No remorse. But he is more like them and they have become more human.
He is in fact an old Replicant. Designed to kill other wayward replicants.
He dreams of unicorns. His cop buddy leaves a unicorn oragami at his place to signify he is one of them. And he is going to hunt Deckard.
@@michaelross1452I don’t agree what he signifies with the unicorn is that he knows and has been there and decided to let them live.. because perhaps he thinks she and he will die..
His own gift.. or gesture to deckard
@@svendtang5432 What i said is canon.
Blade Runner 2049.
I wish that were the case, and originally read as such, but no - going by memory he condensed the speech and moved it around a bit, added a touch I think, but he didn't just improvise the whole monologue.
I don't think regular nexus 6s have implanted memories, Rachel is an experiment, it took Deckard over 4x as many questions to determine she is a replicant.
Cassie wearing movie shirts now and quoting other movies while watching others. So great to see her grow!
I noticed her shirt right away! Lol, so great.
Cassie's watched so much Character Development, she's Having her own!
Interesting Fact: Daryl Hannah is the actress who played Pris and during the scene where she meets sympathetic genetic designer J.F. Sebastian, Pris is seen slipping on the pavement as she runs away and smashing her elbow through a car window. Hannah’s slip was a genuine mistake and the car window was made of real glass; though she gamely carried on with the take, the actress had in fact chipped her elbow in eight places.
Also if you have an Amazon Echo Device say " Alexa I have seen things you people wouldn't believe."
Hannah is badass, she was a trained gymnast and very athletic, so she did her own stunts as Pris in the movie. Very impressive!
RIP Rutger Hauer, one of the best final scenes in movie history.
"some parts were slow" yes thats one of the best aspects lol
Depends on what your tastes are.
Yeah I don't mind a slow scene if the dialogue can hold it up, but when the dialogue can't hold up the scene, it's actually really boring.
It's a neo noir so there's a detective trying to solve a mystery. It can't help but be slow at times.
Blade Runner is the movie that every futuristic movie wants to look like…
@@Thom1212 It coined the term 'retro-futuristic' - which is such an obvious and very plausible futuristic concept it's almost amazing nobody really thought of it before. You look around yourself now and see glass skyscrapers existing next to 100 year-old neoclassical and art deco architecture (etc), but sci-fi never really did that before. Even Vangelis's soundtrack typified that theme by using classical methods and genres of composition in an electronic score, which was really unique, and incredibly influential to this day (the score is a kinda landmark in electronic music).
I don't blame people for not really getting why or how this film was so revolutionary and beloved, because it's conceits were so influential that today it almost seems typical and passe. I wrote a paper on it in uni and I was amazed at how many people had thought about this film and been inspired by it - from philosophers to architects, and beyond. It's the the archetypal cult film.
You know which future I always thought looked like it would be fun to live in? The Fifth Element. It's bright and beautiful, has flying cars and doesn't look like the citizens are depressed.
Plus there are aliens that we've integrated with and some we call enemies which gives us a cool space opera type theme.
The biggest mystery I have about that future is the fact that the buildings are above the clouds. I wonder what's closer towards the ground?
Also, the Demolition Man future seemed pleasant enough. Though a bit...restricted. Like candy coating over something a little bit nefarious.
@@Spiqaro Funny you mention The Fifth Element... Blade Runner was my top favourite sci-fi film because of how the film looked with its visual style, until 5th Element came along and surpassed it for the same reasons IMO.
@@onylra6265 Rutger Hauer’s performance sold this future as real and “plausible”. This was an Oscar worthy performance by a brilliant actor that was never given proper credit.
....And just about every 80's anime OVA aswell.
The movie made much more sense to me when I realized that the Replicants are 4-year old - literally - talking and behaving like 4 - year old Kids ... even though they have the body of an adult and a head full of memories, they are still just children.
The speech that Rutger Hauer delivers near the end of the movie... "Tears in the rain" was written by Rutger shortly before they filmed the scenes. He gave the lines to Ridley Scott the director and he approved them - it is considered the best dying speech in a movie.
And I've read that none of the crew knew that it was coming. That once he died, the entire set was in tears.
@@alanparsonsfan The crew were unaware that Rutger had changed the script. He'd only approved it with Ridley.
On the other hand it may have been because it had been a long night of filming, they were spraying water over the set, most of the crew were soaked and tired and the sun was coming up and they still had a few more scenes to complete. If you watch the moment where the dove flies away, you can see that the sky is starting to show dawn twilight.
The paper unicorn and the unicorn dream are widely interpreted to mean that the cop know what Dekard dreams. Because his dreams are not his own.
Couldn't have Deckard told him about his dreams?
I think that is the less appealing of the elements that Ridley Scott added to the Director's Cut, a truly "George Lucas move" if you ask me. Because it doesnt make any sense.... The whole point of the story is that the Replicants are actually more humane than the protagonist, who is just an enforcer, while they are pursuing for more life, a truly human thing to do. Also, if Deckard is a replicant, why do all the replicants just kick his ass so easily? Besides, it makes sense that the protagonist is the human, so the audience have a common perspective from the start, someone to idenfy themselves with... that is the way that it was written.
A better interpretation is that the Chinese cop is also a replicant (as are all the Blade Runners) and they all dream the same things..... 'but then, who does?', has that self awareness to it.
'You've done a man's job'
@@winterfell_forever Couldn't have put it better myself. The whole idea of Deckart being a replicant is stupid and destroys the core concept of the film.
Edward James Olmos wrote the other most quotable line in the film. The "It's to bad she wont live, but then again who does" line, much like "All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain" was written by Rutger Hauers the two most popular lines in the film were written by the actors.
A dove flying upwards is a symbol of a human soul ascending to heaven. It suggests that Roy, however he was created, died a moral human being.
the conceit is that replicants don't have souls, but we know that isn't true, and the dove helps illustrate that. i think that was rutger's idea too.
I thought it was a symbol of holding onto life as long as possible
@@joerich1629 it is great because it is tons of things not just one thing. at the end roy is a superior human.
@@wavertone The important thing is that it's got everyone discussing it, even decades later! Some movies offer easy answers; others just ask difficult questions and trust the audience to work it out.
"It's a test, designed to provoke an emotional response..."
A dove flying upwards is actually a symbol of peace ending
This movie really made a huge step into viewing some of the possible moral issues of the future- mainly in creating intelligent AI and human like robots- which is inevitable.
@@Danny-rs2mk no humans won't go extinct from that...humans are extremely adaptable. People have spent a long time adapting our environment to us, but we are more than capable of adapting to our environment just like any other animal.
@@markcarpenter6020 only if we don't choose to choke our oxygen levels, which it does look like we're actually doing. Deforestation, Carbon emissions, and mass mask mandates. We've pretty much killed the planet.
@@markcarpenter6020 lots of other animals couldn't and went extinct, so maybe not just like "any other animal"
@@Danny-rs2mk that's why they are wiping out 98% of the human population. 500,000,000 people will remain. That should make the Climate happy again
@@Ishai1 we are one of the only animals that has learned to live in every biome on earth. Don't underestimate homo sapiens.
This is my most loved movie...music...speeches...actors...characters...and atmosphere.
R.I.P. - Rutger Hauer & Vangelis ... thx for those best memories
"Did everyone's mom love Harrison Ford?"
Yes... and she reminded me every time we saw him in a movie in case I forgot. I never forgot.
The movie is based on a book "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep". The story definitely hints that Dekard might be a Replicant.
The 'unicorn' is a one-of-a-kind... like Rachel. The last part, where Gaff leaves the origami unicorn was to let Deckard know he was there, understood what Rachel was, and let her live.
It's too bad Philip K Dick didn't get to see his stories become such successful movies.
Also, the unicorn is a symbol of male virility. Feelings for Rachel coming up.
In the book, Deckard uses the machine on himself. It shows him as human. The revised film of 1992 was Scott trying to raise cash.
In the interviews almost everyone making the film (including Harrison Ford) thinks that Deckard being a replicant is stupid. Ridley Scott is the standout who thinks otherwise. Deckard being a replicant goes against the story of how artificial humans teach a real human how to feel and value life.
@@CaptainVideoBlaster Yes, the point of the ORIGINAL film is how Replicants are 'more human' than their human creators and executioners. Deckard is seen as a fragile drunk who has no emotions at all. As his ex-wife said: "cold fish."
This is a movie where you are supposed to have more questions than answers. This is one of the only films I know of where it gets better and better each time you watch it, even after 100 times.
#facts
This is a movie I must have watched 20-30 times and I still feel like I learn something about the movie or myself every time.
Same here. One of my favorites and the sequel was great.
I can see that you love Harrison Ford, if you haven’t watched “ The Fugitive “ you’re missing a really good movie; with Harrison Ford. 👍🏼
Yessssss!!!
Witness is another one she would probably enjoy.
Big thumbs up for “The Fugitive” from me. Easily one of my favorite movies of all time.
I would add Frantic. I thought that film deserved more recognition.
@@ThothWhoWrites I saw the three movies in theaters when they have been released.
The other cop found her and let her live. He figured she will only live 4 years. He left his calling card to let Deckard know.
"So some ethics were crossed?"
The crux of the entire movie.
No ethics were crossed
its fun that she mentions that when she discovers they implant memories, but not when the movie explains the replicants used as slaves.
@@Flantomas true but then she probably thought they'd be mindless automatons at first. She should probably watch the movie again in a few weeks after her brain has time to process it all while sleeping.
This movie is truly a landmark film. I love how it makes the viewer question just what it means to be human. It is, however, a bit difficult to understand. Congrats to Cassie for figuring out the unicorn clue at the end.
Yes, watch it again. You'll see something new every time you do.
I interpret the unicorn origami as the other blade runner (Edward James Olmos) letting Decker know he was there but decided to let Rachel live so Decker and Rachel could be together. Also, letting them know that they would be hunted and they needed to flee.
Exactly. He was giving them a sporting head start.
@@alanparsonsfan Or perhaps not. Maybe he was saying, "I'm gonna let you go.You've earned it."
@@dougnurse4952 I think Gaff was more than happy to have Deckard go. At least in the original movie version with the narrations, Deckard talks about how Gaff didn't really like having Deckard come back from retirement. He didn't like the competition.
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He was also letting him know that Deckard is a replicant himself. How did Gaff just so happen to know about the unicorn? Because Deckard’s memories are implanted.
Rutger Hauer...from the Dutch town of Brooklyn (Breukelen)...All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain
He wrote that. The script had a different speech, and Hauer re-wrote it.
@@catherinelw9365 I know..I am a proud Dutchie...
R.I.P Rutger
"This is creepy... this is very creepy." Congratulations, you just passed the Voight-Kampff test!
Replicants aren't robots, they're genetically engineered akin to clones. They have human emotions and in the world of Bladerunner they fear their impending fate. So in desperation, they have to meet their maker for any hope of more life. It's a brilliant brilliant film. Great reaction!
One of the greatest sci-fi movies ever made.
Great adaption of one of the greatest sci-fi books ever written.
This is one of those movies you can watch again and again and notice something new every time.
There are so many different cuts the odds are pretty good you will see something new every time.
I saw Bladerunner when I was 15 in 1982. I had to sneak into the theatre as I was underage for the Rating! I've probably seen it 200 times since then. In my Top 5 movies of all time.
Too bad Scott ruined it in 1992. I left the theatre bitterly disappointed by the horrid revisionist tactic.
Same! On all accounts! Including sneaking into the theater--I was 12 at the time. And definitely in m top five favorite movies of all time. It still holds up.
How well the scenery and sci-fi effects hold up, even today, is amazing. I don't think younger people can really understand how utterly mind-blowing it was to see that on the big screen when it first came out.
@@RideAcrossTheRiver sorry what movie you talking about in 1992? He only has one movie In 1992 and it’s nothing about blade runner
@@TwoToneTonyLee The revised travesty came out in 1992.
It's actually realistic to have old looking computers in the "future". Even today, our industrial stuff runs on hardware and software that's quite old. Same with military computer tech. Cutting edge consumer products are fine for us to use, but generally machinery like trucks, oil rigs, military aircraft and the like use older tech. This is because the bugs are worked out. You trade capability for reliability.
Also because old tech was build to last...
That is absolutely true. Many banks and government systems, for example, run their data on IBM CICS. It was first released in 1969.
Also, in fiction, you can always point out towards the tech looking old due to divergencies in the timeline. Like the Fallout series which has power armor suits, genetic manipulation and fusion power but looks like the 50s and has obsolete-looking computers due to a difference in the technological advances and resulting modes of production and research to that of our timeline despite being set in 22nd - 23rd century.
@@kohinarec6580 My job still uses AS/400 as the underlying software to our inventory system, lmao
...and also retro-futurism just looks cool
This is true, however in a future world flat screens would be older tech, so this still bothers me. It bothers me much more in "Alien" though.
One of the many awesome things about "2001: A Space Odyssey" is all of the technological predictions it made. It portrays all displays as flat screens and even shows personal tablet computers.
Those of us who love this movie had the same questions the first time we saw it. Blade Runner gets better every time you watch it.
I am a fan of this movie. I didn't cringe when you said you have so many questions, it made me smile and remember talking to my friends and trying to figure out what it was about myself! I was really happy when they remastered this movie for blue ray and the 5 different versions in one set!
The Speech Rutger Hauer gave he ad libbed quite a lot of it, it was an outstanding performance.
Rutger Hauer wrote poetry. I believe when he goes to see Chew he recites a bit of something else he wrote.
Ad libbed in that he basically condensed the written words of the script, yes.
Rachel is the unicorn. She's a one-off. A unique replicant with a normal human lifespan.
It would probably help if you also watched the original release version of the film. The one with Harrison doing a voice-over throughout the movie. Most don't like that version, but I think that would really help someone who's not really in to 'sci-fi' understand more of what's going on.
It's really a movie you have to watch more than once to 'get-it'.
Then on to Blade Runner 2049. The sequel I didn't want, but am very happy we got. It's awesome too.
It's interesting how sometimes a movie fails at the box office, yet after it comes out on DVD it becomes a classic. I've watched this movie at least 10 times. I read the book, which has very little to do with the movie. They are to different tales with the same questions. What is life. Are we our memories.
A global poll of sci-fi fans voted “Blade Runner” the greatest science fiction movie of all time. “The Final Cut” is probably the best choice of the many versions of this classic. The sequel, “Blade Runner 2049”, is superb too and definitely worthy of a spot on Ms. Popcorn’s to-be-watched list.
Easily!
I have high hopes for Dune though
I really liked 2049, but I happen to be a fan of the theatrical cut over the others.
@Necramonium well you are wrong. Both blade runners are perfect.
@Necramonium Watch it a few times until you begin to understand. Also, you may want to watch the original with the Harrison Ford voiceovers.
You know what Cassie, bookmark this reaction. This is probably one of the Most comprehensive post film chats about deep existential feelings that truly shows your overall growth as an individual. Fantastic reaction! Keep going!
Rutger Hauer is the lunatic replicant. He is fantastic in a movie with Michelle Pfeiffer and Matthew Broderick called Lady Hawk. It's kind of a medieval fantasy flick but it is amazing. You have to react to as I've seen very few reactions done to that movie. You would love the fantasy and love story aspect!
I'm just still happy she reacted to Master and Commander
Agreed. I watched it again after seeing her reaction, such a classic.
No kidding, one of the best movies ever.
@@DylansPen For having what appears to be such a dedicated fan base it's just too bad we never got a sequel. There was just so much to explore with sea battles in the Napoleonic era. (Sigh)
@@Jon.A.Scholt It didn't do well at the box office, much like The Shawshank Redemption. Both of those movies in my opinion are masterpieces.
@@Jon.A.Scholt I hear they are making one and if you like napoleonic era sea shows try the Horatio Hornblower series
As a 41 year old who has been watching Blade Runner consistently since he was 7 years old (I'm a Blade Runner veteran!), I can say that this film's subtle (and often hidden) emotional and thematic beauty only grows as time goes by. And I think that's the point. Our time is limited. Most of us experience the blessing of living much longer than four years. No matter how dark the world gets, use the eyes that your maker gave you, create memories, and take nothing for granted. This film is an enduring masterpiece with a deeply spiritual soul.
Well said, this film is THE masterpiece of cinematography, I couldn’t even guess how many times I’ve seen this.
Rachel was created without having a end-date which meant she'd live longer than 4 years (from what I remember from the book)...
Yes, and Deckkard actually says this in the original movie version, which I prefer to these cuts. This was such a '30's film noir that the voiceover in the theatre version was actually appropriate, even tho Ford didn't like it. BTW, the director wanted Deckard to be a replicant, and that's why he kept releasing cuts of the movie. But both the scriptwriter AND Harrison Ford himself said that Deckard is definitely a human. That's good enough for me!
@@alanparsonsfan I agree. So many reviewers are swayed by the opinion they shouldn't watch the theatrical cut. Then spend two hours scratching their heads saying "I don't understand". The studio was right - the noir voiceover is needed for the world building info dumps.
You remeber it from the theatrical cut of the movie - they added this line in order to create a happy ending. Rachel's story in the novel is quite different.
@@MichalGlowacz86 Everything in the novel is quite different, tbh.
@@svenidol Yes, the replicants are more mechanical internally and Deckard has a wife.
I like the way they updated them to basically be genetically engineered clones.
The book was written the 60's IIRC.
Blade Runner became better every single time I re-watched it.
This movie is so precious, especially the music
The music is Vangelis. Also did Chariots of Fire, amongst many other things.
I discovered Vangelis because of this movie. He is a modern composer up there with all the great ones of time.
Check out his work in the soundtrack from 'Cosmos' (1980)
Vangelis composed out of his mind for this movie. Just perfect, as if the music is a character in this movie.
I didnt like this film when i first saw it. Couple months ago sat and watched the final cut and really enjoyed it. Terrific film and i expect to have the same experience of liking it more upon further watching.
Didn't see a comment about how Blade Runner was a game changer movie, a sci-fi masterpiece. It's a historical landmark in sci-fi setting the tone for pretty much every sci-fi movies that came after, especially the dystopian ones. It was revolutionary. Still regarded as of the best sci-fi movie ever made, aged so well, with a dark tone, an eternal Vangelis music and the ultimate question: what does it mean to be human and to be conscious? Oh, and there's a young Harrison Ford.
Hope you enjoyed it.
*edit: Unicorn daydream(it's not a dream) and origami unicorns: so the biggest question in this movie is: "is Deckard a replicant?". The director Ridley Scott wanted that question to remain unanswered and Deckard's nature ambiguous, and Harrison Ford wanted Deckard to be human.
Denis Villeneuve (director of Blade Runner 2019) said that at a dinner with Harrison Ford and Ridley Scott, he found himself watching them both arguing about that point. He says it was surrealist to him, as Blade Runner is his favorite movie and what made him into making movies.
The bleak future is called dystopian, as in the opposite of utopia (just like dysphoria is the opposite of euphoria). It's a future where governments have ultimate power over people and where the population cannot escape and have no freedom. Lots of suffering and injustice. Very often technology is being used as a method of ultimate population control.
Cyberpunk, as a Genre was just starting to pick up steam when this was made (1982).
Philip K. Dick "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", the basis for this show (1968) was one of the first novels of the Genre.
Governments... Or corporations? I think corporate takeover is more common in dystopian cyberpunk, but I am not an expert.
@@kohinarec6580 Well, the lines are blurring between those two.
I saw another millennial review of this movie and the person was complaining that the film was in essence derivative of films that they had seen without realizing that it was the opposite, and the films they had watched came after Blade Runner, and were themselves derivative. It's sometimes frustrating to watch video reactions because I think the watchers place an emphasis on reaction, and don't spend much time trying to understand. I think in this reaction, it was really disappointing to see how little effect Rutger Hauers ending siloloquy had on the watcher. The character, contemplating their own mortality, cherished life enough to save his would be murderer. The replicants were slaves, used for labor, for war, for other things. No value had been placed on their life.
Priss quotes Descartes, "I think therefore I am." The movie is supposed to question humanity, whether the replicants are actually human. Ridley Scott has said Deckard was a replicant. I think the director's cut makes it more obvious than the theater cut. I think you're right, that the director wants you to wonder, but in the end of the movie, I don't think there's a question anymore. Deckard is a replicant, killing replicants. He never doubts that he is human.
@@jrmarcus Well, that's very sad that a lot of reactors are so preoccupied with their behaviors on camera and force themselves to give a "good show". It's a tragedy that that reactor did not look up the year Blade Runner came out.
You're right that Ridley Scott said the story does not make sense if Deckard is a human and I agree that it's pretty obvious with the director's cut. He daydreams of unicorns, we assume he didn't tell anyone, and we can assume Gaff, his "boss", is not making origami unicorns just by sheer coincidence.
It's just because it's not established without any doubt (that Deckard is a replicant) that we can say it's somewhat ambiguous, but for me it's always been clear.
*edit: I like what you say about Priss and about the nature of humanity, the value of life and the way replicants are used.
The original theatre version of this movie, had a narration track of Harrison speaking a lot of his thoughts. I personally liked this original. The movie to me appeared to be styled a lot like old detective movies, the oak furniture, clothing, the abruptness of the characters, that aggressive kiss, the lighting and especially the main character doing the narration. I believe the original version is part of one of the releases. A lot of people seem to not like the narration, I don't get why.
I agree with you... I loved the narration. Made it more film noir... if Phillip Marlowe had gone forward it time.
I also prefered the narrated version. It upped the pace of the movie a bit.
Plus the Sunshine at the end in contrast to the darkness throughout the entire movie.
I prefer no narration personally.
Same here, I saw it in theaters and it added to the film noir vibe. Ridley has released so many versions of it who can keep track.
"Do you mind if I smoke?"
"It won't affect the test."
The hell it won't. The machine reads pulse rate, blush response, pupillary dilation, and smoking alters all of those readings. It took extra time for Rachel because of her cigarette. Once she crushed it out, the test was over in the space of a single question.
Stop. Geez.
Maybe that's true for only humans and it would help speed up the test since a replicant handles it better? Hell, toss the test and just have them smoke. ;-)
Respect to Cassie for pushing her boundaries and broadening her horizons.
Really impressed that she understood the ending to Blade Runner! A lot of people don't.
Including Ridley Scott...
This is my favorite movie, all time. You MUST watch the sequel. ALSO: The "Is Decker a Replicant?" debate has been raging since the movies release. Hopefully nobody spoils it for you before you catch the second/final film.
EDIT: As I am new to your channel and checking out older reactions I see that you have watched the sequel. So...never-mind. I'll go there next. Cheers.
That slight smile from you when Ford takes his shirt off... super charming.
he didn't want to die alone, hence the bird and saving Decker *starts crying*
I absolutely love the score of this film. RIP, Vangelis.
One of the most beautiful soundtracks...ever!
Roy’s death makes me emotional every. single. time.
Gary Numan was a huge fan of this film and wrote a tribute song called "Time To Die", featuring the lyrics "It's all lost to me now, like tears in the rain."
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Deckard takes a sip of vodka, leaves blood in the glass.
"I think you should eat something"
GREATEST REACTION COMMENT EVER!!!!!!!
Right?! I thought, yep, that's why we all like Cassie so much.
It's a very "mom" thing to say
In all the years I've been watching this movie, I never noticed the blood before. And I thought he ONLY drank Johnnie Walker Black Label. I had to go back and re-watch it (just that scene). That's the only scene in the entire movie where he's not drinking Johnnie Walker Black Label & I'm guessing it's because the blood wouldn't have been as visible.
This movie and its soundtrack (Vangelis) are a masterpiece. It has one of the most iconic dialogues in the history of cinema.. It's one of my 10 favorite movies of all time.
You are so smart picking up on that unicorn thing... Great job. Great reaction. 👍
Sebastian has such heart. He is among the few people in this world that does have heart, all the rest are fakes. Even humans.
I was ok with Roy killing Tyrell. But I hated that he killed JF.
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True. I don't think it was Pris' skills that led J.F. to inviting her into his apartment. I think he was lonely, and had a good heart.
With her waifish appearance and husky little-girl's voice, Pris was easy for me to fall for, too...once upon a time. 🤗
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Back in the 80's, it was common for certain blockbuster-level movies to have tie-in storybook versions targeted to young people in their second decade. And I believe that in Blade Runner's adaptation to this format, Batty let Sebastian live, since his syndrome meant he would die fairly young anyway. Before leaving to get Pris, he told their friend, "You can think of us as racing you, hand in hand, to the grave."
When you consider the fact that this film was released in 1982 and, with the exception of the flying cars and the depiction of computers, that it holds up so well to the test of time, something few science fiction films do, is a testament to the brilliance of this masterpiece. Forty years later and it is still widely considered on of the greatest science fiction films ever made. I was 11 years old when I first watched this film at the AMC Fiesta Village movie theater in Mesa AZ, I was young and completely confused by the story but as I grew older and watched it more it became more clear to me. I think everyone has a their own interpretation of the meaning of this film and that is what makes it so good. Absolutely Ridley's best work and his interpretation of the story, and the reason why he included the unicorn footage in his edit of the film, was that Deckard was also a replicant. The sequel does not represent this and Denis Villenuve took it in a different direction, something I think was a mistake.
🤣 Best part about this channel is the quaint realistic reactions.
16:34 "Poor girl, I feel like her feelings are so valid"
16:45 "I just want them to turn some light on"
29:39 "that is the opposite of everything in a movie that I liked before; but I can appreciate that this was a very specific style"
I hope we see Blade Runner 2049 reaction soon!
One of my favorite sci fi movies of the last decade
absolutely agree.. this was one of my favorite movies and what I considered the pinnacle of cyberpunk futurism .. until 2049 came and usurped this.. the character arcs, the story and of course everything else are pretty much superior in every way. This is saying something from a guy who holds the original BL is the highest regard.
Nothing can top the original.
Since you have watched two of the Alien movies, here is something cool to know: The Alien franchise and the Blade Runner franchise have secretly shared the same universe for years, with more connections made with each installment. The theory that Ridley Scott’s Alien and Blade Runner are connected has evolved from folklore to fact ever since one of Blade Runner's screenwriters, David Peoples, said that his other film, Soldier, is a spin-off sidequel to Blade Runner despite their tenuous connections. If Soldier, despite its schlocky tone, can be considered canon to Blade Runner, then Alien certainly can as well. Not only do the two franchises share similar technology and ties between the Tyrell and Weyland Corporations, but their themes about artificial life go hand-in-hand. Towards the conclusion of Alien, Ripley manages to get into an escape pod where she commences her engines by turning a blue screen into a red “purge” screen. Blade Runner starts off with Officer Gaff getting into his flying car where he, too, commences the engines by turning a blue screen into a red “purge” screen. Given that Blade Runner takes place in alternate-2019 and Alien takes place in 2122, is the Nostromo such a junk heap that it’s using technology over a hundred years old, or it just a clever Easter egg?
This and BR2049 are two of my favorites. I honestly can't wait to see what you think. Very excited.
She may want to watch the 3 blade runner shorts before she watches BR2049.
I liked BR2049 until the ending
"There's got to be some ethics being crossed."
You pretty much got the movie in the first 20 minutes! Blade Runner is one of my favorite films for the ethical issues it raises.
@Romanogers4ever Commodifying humans into cheap, disposable labor. Giving them memories they never made so they think they lived a life they never did. Making them vibrantly physically alive, but engineering planned obsolescence into them so they die after 4 short years.
"More human than human, that's our motto". It was true of the replicants themselves, they were emotionally small children. The actual humans we encountered in this move were mostly less than human....
@@alanparsonsfan Also a clue what ethics means in that world. Not a whole lot.
It's clear you fully engaged with the story, good to see. Love that you picked up on the significance of the unicorn origami.
She missed a lot as well .
@@donlarsen4841 Be fair, there's a lot of layers in there. I count it as an achievement that someone manages to get as deep as the unicorn bit on their first viewing.
I mean, I've seen it at least a hundred times, and I'm still not sure I've plumbed it's depths.
@@krannok the movie is not as sophisticated as some would like it to be . That said it appears we have the overall enjoyment of this flick in common . 👍
@@donlarsen4841 Some might suggest that if a lot of people see deeper meaning in a piece of art and you can't see it, the failing might be yours and not theirs. It might be more sophisticated than you've grasped.
Judgmental passive-aggressive quips aside, I'm glad you took the time out of your day to say this.
This is going to be a very interesting reaction... Blade Runner is much more than a sci-fi fantasy.
There are some really serious themes and thought provoking issues addressed in it.
A little clarification, without spoiling it for you:
The novel this film was inspired by is called "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?"
The key difference in the film is that they are not mechanical robots, but living biological creatures, human in almost every sense.
It's literally wall-to-wall eye candy, every shot could hang in an art gallery.
The whole movie is stunning to look at and I'm sure you'll be suitably impressed they could pull it off, almost 40 years ago.
I really hope you like it.
Cannot wait for your Terminator 2: Judgment Day reaction!
More human than human! That's a concept, especially comparing the characters of Roy and Rachel. This was also Sean Young's first lead, and Daryl Hannah's first big part.
The production design and the attention to detail to make it look like a real world is just insane.
She’s not gonna read this dum dum
I love Pris. I once drew her on paper with the movie on pause. She's fascinating.
I used to be part of the goth scene and in one club there was a Pris clone and so I really enjoyed dancing with her. One of those magic moments in life.
A beautiful movie about existentialism, masquerading as neo noir, masquerading as science fiction movie. Genius!
It didn’t win the poll, but still hope you get to see Fifth Element at some point, even just for your own enjoyment.
Deckard found a reoccuring dream of his own (the unicorn) among the "memory" files given to the advanced models while he was researching the case. Apparently his partner knew something about this as well since the final figure he left was a unicorn.
With the sequel taking away the ambiguity of Deckard's own humanity, that is as good an explanation as any.
No that's not in the source material. That's something extra tacked on to it. Nowhere in the actual film does it say he recognised the dream as anything other than a little bit strange.
And there is disagreement among the people who made the film whether or not he is a replicant. In the end, the themes of the story play out better if he's not one.
Replicants are artificial beings who discover their own humanity, and he is a human who rediscovers his own humanity.
If he's a replicant too, then basically his character arc is the same as the other replicants. I know Ridley Scott loves to say how Deckard is a replicant, but it's just a clever plot conceit that kind of ruins the story and breaks the film.
But the advanced models could handle heat, were extremely powerful, ... Deckard wasn't very strong, got hurt and had to rely on his weapon when fighting them.
I've never subscribed to the Deckard as replicant theory.
The partner knows that Deckard is a replicant too, he tells him "you have done a man's job" after Roy "dies", implying that he is not a real man. Also, the unicorn shape origami is basically means that the memories from Deckard are also created and inserted as they mentioned early in the memory as being a practice used to make the replicants more "human".
One of my favorite films. Despite being dated now I still think all the visuals still look great. And I love how they mixed the old noir film style with the sci fi elements. This movie stuck with me since the first time I watched it. Just something about it.
That unicorn was an artificial memory - that's why Gaff left the origami unicorn there - to let him know that he's (Deckard) a replicant too.
It’s suggestive of that, but it’s kept open ended, who Dekard really is.
No Gaff is the replicant , looking after his own (Rachel). The fact that he creates the origami proves that.
@@originalbadboy32 Deckard has dreams of a unicorn, gaff leaving the origami is suggesting that gaff knows about deckards dreams of the unicorn, ie implanted memories.
@@ItsJustDozzy or Gaff is telling Deckard that he (Gaff) is a replicant.
Deckard knows that replicants have dreams about unicorns .. hes talking about it to Rachel, so why can't he just have a dream because he is thinking about it ?
A favorite factoid related to the story: back in the 2003 SF mayoral election, a journalist for The Wave magazine managed to get the candidates to answer a bunch of Voight-Kampff questions. All but two of the candidates failed. One of the candidates who failed - with very Lyon like responses - was Gavin Newsom, who is therefore probably a Nexus 5.
Certainly a sociopath.
@@Halo4Lyf No, he's just a standard politician with blanche policies and average level hypocrisy and corruption. He's definitely not a sociopath, just fairly dumb, like Lyon.
@@orthochronicity6428 Agreed, just a career politician
@@orthochronicity6428 As a Californian, I can def say he isn't a pleasure droid model
@@TheGunderian lol agreed
the background to this movie and the characters is deep. the fan theories are rampant. such a great movie.
tyrell, the guy who made the replicants in blade runner, and weyland, the guy who made the replicants in alien, went to school together in the background stories of each movie. both movies directed and produced by ridley scott.
If you want the most sci-fi(y) movie that might get even more confusing on the first watch you need to check out '2001 - A Space Odyssey', it also might blow your mind when you see it and that it was made in 1968 and the effects are still holding up.
That's true, they tried so hard to make it as realistic and scientifically accurate as they could for what limited information there was seeing how we hadn't even landed on the moon for another year.
Same time it's an incredibly long film and awfully slow. But does have sort of a fun thrill to it.
@@Hikuro2pnt0 Agreed about it being long and slow. I'm not at all an impatient person but I was bored. I know it's a classic but...
Have pity on her!😂 That's my favorite... but-...but yeah, it's been 9 months. Let's see.
This movie was ahead of its time, had an amazing soundtrack and Rutger Hauer played an incredible part
The set designs and all the city scape props in this movie still blow me away and I’ve seen this movie at least ten times.
You did well, you worked out he was in Leon's apartment, that Zora was a replicant, that they would use JF to get to Tyrell and why. A lot would have missed these things!
Not just Leons apartment. The Chelsea Hotel is on of the most used film sets in history. I have my name becous of a song called Chelsea Hotel. Leonard Cohens song is about having oral sex with Janis Joplin. Im called Leonard becouse of this song. My moms english wasnt good at the time...
I've always found it helpful to view the replicant's behavior like children, because they honestly are children only being 3-4 years old. They have love, fear, and empathy like any other human. But they also have that childlike playfulness and selfishness. And while children aren't cruel by nature, the replicants have absorbed cruelty and manipulation from the world they were born into. They just want to exist, and will go to violent or cruel lengths to do so.
Rutger hauers last scene before his character dies is so iconic to me because he improvised the whole monologue' and in those last words he's almost human.
If you want to keep the dark future theme movies going, you need to see “Escape From New York”
‘The name’s Snake….’
Fun movie, but not in the same league as Blade Runner. I might suggest Robocop (not on par with Blade Runner, but similar themes about what is human)
Def more fun, and also has a killer soundtrack, tho very different of course from this one
@@alexanderdgray Which "Robocop"? (or either one 🤔)
@@croftatron "I heard you were dead..."