HGrubbs: Blade Runner Notes

 Blade Runner

  • AI human “replicants” on Earth

  • Tyrell corp

  • Test to provoke an emotional response - man shoots questioner

  • Very futuristic world, highly electronic, but dirty and crowded

  • Flying cars

  • Nexus 6 Roy Batty - leaders of replicants on Earth 

  • Have you ever retired a human by mistake?

  • Rachael is a replicant and doesn’t know 

  • Tyrell wants to provide them with pasts and memories (emotional experiences) before telling them they're not human so they can control them better

  • Roy and gunman question man who makes the Nexus eyes - tips them off to go to Tyrell with Sebastian

  • He tells Rachael her memories aren’t her own, she cries and is clearly distraught by finding out she’s a replicant

  • Pris and JF Sebastian meet, he lets her in his home

  • Deckard meets Selame and the snake, retires her 

  • 1:00:38

  • Spots Rachael, goes after her - runs into Leon, Leon tries to kill Deckard but Rachael comes and kills Leon

  • “Have you ever taken that test yourself?” 

  • Rachael lets down her hair 

  • Starts playing piano, not knowing if it’s her own memory or Tyrell’s niece

  • Deckard kisses Rachael - she tries to leave and he forces her to stay 

  • He instructs her on what to say and do 

  • Roy comes to Sebastian’s

  • His toys look scared

  • “I think therefore I am”

  • Sebastian agreed to help them solve their issue of accelerated decrepitude - getting them to Tyrell

  • “There’s a little bit of me in you” 

  • Roy’s problem - death

  • “I want more life, father”

  • The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long

  • Roy as the prodigal son

  • Roy kisses Tyrell - gouges out his eyes and kills him

  • “Sorry Sebastian, come come”

  • Deckard calls JF’s - Pris answers - hangs up

  • Pris pretends to be one of Sebastian’s toys - attacks Deckard - he kills her

  • Roy shows up - kisses Pris before Deckard takes fire 

  • His nails, his degeneration is started - begins to move more rapidly 

  • Roy is howling, crazy, singing of killing Deckard 

  • Roy begins to shrivel up, sticks a nail in his hand and revives a little 

  • Roy catches Deckard before he falls to his death

  • “Time to die” - Roy releases the dove, allows himself to die 

  • Man says too bad Rachael can never live - Deckard goes and finds her, do you love me? Do you trust me?

  • Protects Rachael - the end

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