Should anime be watched with English dubbing or English subtitles? How is Data so sexy? But one question rises to the top of the genre pile this week: Is Rick Deckard a replicant?
But does it? Thankfully or unfortunately, if you hate ambiguity , the answer is no. So what are we to think when Deckard steps out of his bathroom, glimpses at Rachael, and his eyes start to glow? Some suggest Deckard is an android because replicants are created to perform dangerous or demeaning tasks, like serving in the military, serving as sex workers…or hunting down a bunch of emotionally unstable robots with super human strength.
Emmet Walsh. We know the other four Roy, Pris, Leon, and Zhora so who is the sixth? Is it possibly Deckard? Of course, not everyone thinks Deckard is a replicant. However, director Guillermo del Toro respectfully disagrees. Most of the humans in this movie are cold and dead whereas the replicants feel things like pain, sadness, and joy. Together, these observations may prove that Deckard is human. For one, the replicants in the original film were engineered with 4-year life spans. Second, since Deckard is still alive and older, he has aged.
Why would a replicant be designed to age if they have open-ended life spans? No other older replicants are seen until the opening scene in when we are introduced to Sapper Morton. Until then, all of them are younger. The plot of revolves around Rachel being able to have a child with Deckard. This child is later revealed to be Dr.
Whether or not she is human is unclear. If she is human, that would provide evidence that Deckard is also human. This assumes that one of her parents would have to be human to have a human child.
But if she is replicant, that would not really prove anything one way or the other. Since Rachel IS a replicant, it is logical to assume that her child conceived with either human or replicant father, could also be a replicant. Two interesting wrinkles are 1.
Stelline has a genetic disorder which affects her immune system, and 2. If she is a replicant, this would be the first evidence of a replicant being capable of these things. As such, it could be taken as proof that she is human, and so is Deckard. It seems that his company has reached the zenith of replicant technology and production, and self-reproduction would allow him to expand his reach even further.
If Dr. Stelline represents the next step in Replicant technology, perhaps that would mean that they are able to utilize genetics and grow, just like real humans. If the child was human, Wallace would not have any interest in it because he would not be able to control it like he can control his own replicants.
But again, Stelline being a replicant is not necessarily proof that Deckard is also a replicant. Yet, this observation leads to the most compelling evidence in Blade Runner: that Deckard is a replicant. This evidence comes from the scene where Deckard is brought to Niander Wallace to be interrogated. This shows his interest in Deckard may go beyond the fact that he fathered a child with Rachel. He even brings up the possibility that Deckard was created specifically to fall in love with Rachel.
Besides Deckard himself, if anyone else knew that Deckard was a replicant, it would be Wallace. Furthermore, with Deckard in his captivity, Wallace would be able to scan him and verify his nature once and for all. Regardless, Wallace is the most trustworthy option we have besides Deckard and Tyrell who is dead. First, Deckard is hiding in what is assumed to be a radioactive wasteland former Las Vegas that would be lethal to humans. Although, when K goes to find him, the radiation seems to not be as harmful.
It is possible that the radiation was once harmful to humans, but it has reduced over time. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Dick approved of Ford being cast in the role. As paraphrased by Paul M. Sammon , Dick stated, "Ford's an ideal choice for Rick Deckard. He's an intelligent performer, I'm sure he'll bring depth and conflict to the character. Is Deckard a Replicant? The question has been asked since Blade Runner was first released in Many people, including the director Ridley Scott and writer Paul M.
Sammon , regard Deckard is a replicant. Ridley Scott has mentioned this matter in several interviews. BBC News ran a story about this in , where he concludes that Deckard is a replicant. Also in an interview Ridley Scott did in Wired magazine in , [15] he explained this matter:. Scott: It was, actually. That's the whole point of Gaff, the guy who makes origami and leaves little matchstick figures around.
He doesn't like Deckard, and we don't really know why. If you take for granted for a moment that, let's say, Deckard is a Nexus 7, he probably has an unknown life span and therefore is starting to get awfully human. Gaff, at the very end, leaves an origami, which is a piece of silver paper you might find in a cigarette packet, and it's a unicorn.
Now, the unicorn in Deckard's daydream tells me that Deckard wouldn't normally talk about such a thing to anyone. If Gaff knew about that, it's Gaff's message to say, "I've read your file, mate. The spider is an implanted piece of imagination. And therefore Deckard, too, has imagination and even history implanted in his head. Some of the deleted scenes that were never incorporated into either versions of the film seem to heavily support Deckard being a replicant.
This included extended looks at Deckard looking over photos of his wife which seem to mirror the scenes where Rachael looks over a fake photo of her as a child. In an extended version of the theatrical ending, Rachael asks Deckard as they're driving off into the mountains, whether he knew his wife a long time, to which Deckard replies that although he once thought he did, he's not quite sure anymore, as he seems to be doubting his memory. Rachael then remarks that she thinks the two of them are 'made' for each other.
Although these deleted scenes seem to unequivocally prove that the filmmakers did indeed put a lot of thought and consideration into the possibility of strongly hinting that Deckard is a replicant, the fact that they were deleted from the film casts doubt on whether these scenes can still be taken as canon or merely a remnant of old plans by the filmmakers that were later discarded.
In a version of the script by Hampton Fancher, the film ends with Deckard playing his piano until his hand cramps up like Roy Batty's does earlier, suggesting the possibility of Deckard being a replicant. He tells K that there was "Something in his eyes" and how Deckard was "not one for this world". Deckard is shown to be living in the wastes of Las Vegas. Because it was made uninhabitable by a dirty bomb, one could assume Deckard a replicant due to his ability to survive in such a hostile environment.
However, this can be countered by the fact that K's readings of the area prove that life can exist in Vegas once again.
His response to K about whether his dog Bo is real "I don't know. Ask Him". The conversation between Deckard and Wallace in the third act of the film mirrors the questions we ask ourselves about Deckard.
Wallace offers up the idea that Deckard may have been designed to fall in love with Rachael in order to create a replicant child as part of Eldon Tyrell's grand plan.
He immedietly puts doubt into Deckard's own self-identity by questioning his own statement:. Designed to do nothing short of fall for her then and there? All to make that single perfect specimen.
That is, if you were designed. Love, or mathematical precision? Thus, the writing provides us with no clear answer and only serves to remind us that there isn't a clear answer and, perhaps, that the question might not matter much in the first place. Jared Leto , who portrayed Niander Wallace , did have this to say about his knowledge of Deckard:. Harrison has another. Denis has another.
Many people involved in the original movie maintain that Deckard is human including Harrison Ford and the screenwriter Hampton Fancher. In the original Philip K.
Dick novel , Deckard seems to be human and passes the Voight-Kampff test. Ford and Scott continue to argue about the issue to this day. Producer Michael Deeley also resisted the idea:. That was just a bit of bullshit a little extra layer Ridley put in. Also an obfuscation. Not only did I never believe Deckard was a replicant, I also thought it futile to try and make him one. Harrison resisted this idea, too.
But that was Ridley's pet theory, even if it didn't make any sense. Why would you do that? Deckard would be the first replicant you'd knock off if you were getting rid of them.
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