1982 Blade Runner

 ·      Blade runner 

o   This movie is supposed to represent 2019 

o   It always looks like nighttime- no sunshine

o   Minimal electronic music by Vangelis 

o   Replicants are robots 

§  Extremely realistic 

§  Used as slave labor 

§  Became illegal 

§  Blade runners are employed to kill the replicants 

o   Flying cars are seen once again 

o   Off-world colony 

§  Where the replicants are 

§  Another place for people to live besides Earth 

o   A couple replicants jumped a plane from the off-world colony and came to earth 

o   Deckard- a blade runner- is tasked to catch them because he is the best in the game 

o   6 replicants- 3 male and 3 female 

§  Leon is a Nexus 6 Replicant 

§  Nexus 6 Roy Batty- Combat model (probably leader) 

§  Zhora- beauty and the beast 

§  Pris- standard model for military 

o   They copy human beings in every way except emotions but they are expected to develop their own emotions in time 

§  Expiration date of four years 

o   “More human than human” is their motto

§  The replicant Rachel doesn’t even know that she’s a replicant 

o   They want to implant memories into the replicants 

o   The two replicants go into a place called eye world that has a black circle with red surrounding it as the symbol- resembles the ever- seeing eye of HAL 

§  The place where they design eyes for the nexus 

o   Tyrell is the corporation that designs the replicants 

o   Phone booth has facetime like in space odyssey 

§  1.25

o   Leon attacks Deckard and tries to kill him 

§  Rachel shoots Leon 

o   Rachel “I am not in the business, I am the business.”

o   Deckard kisses Rachel but she has no expression on her face and runs out 

o   Deckard runs after her and forces her to keep kissing him 

§  Tells her to say “kiss me” and “I want you” 

o   In certain lightings Rachel’s and the other robot’s (Pris) pupils glow yellowish orange resembling HAL

o   J.F Sebastian makes friends for himself (robots) 

o   Pris “I think therefore I am” 

o   J.F “there is a little bit of me in you”

§  Him and the robots both are awaiting early deaths 

o   Roy crushes Tyrell’s skull and gouges his eyes out because he did not have a way to make him live longer 

o   When Deckard shoots Pris she goes into a shock, flopping around like a fish out of water and screaming 

o   Roy takes Pris’ blood and wipes it on his lips 

o   Roy begins running around and howling like an animal on the hunt 

o   You can tell by Roy’s decaying finger nails that his time is coming 

o   Roy and Deckard are running around and fighting each other when Deckard attempts to jump on the roof of another building and does not make it 

o   Roy follows Deckard onto the roof and helps him up

o   Roy “Quite an experience to live in fear, that’s what it is to be a slave.” 

o   Roy is talking to Deckard “quote for homework” 

§  It was his final speech at the end he said “time to die”

§  Roy was aware the end was near 

§  All the things he saw and experienced would disappear with him- memories, ideas, knowledge that he never told 

o   Deckard “The Bladerunner” fell in love with a replicant