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Written and Edited By: Nathan Hardisty Protected under the Creative Common license I do not own Blade Runner, Blade Runner is property of ‘The Blade Runner Partnership’ and ‘Warner Bros.’ This work is protected under the First Amendment. For all commercial inquiries, email the author at nathan.hardisty@gmail.com Published: 25th June 2012 NOTE: If I mention any other film or other work of fiction then I will likely spoil it. You have been warned.
“I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I've 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.” - Roy Batty
Page 4 and 5: INTRODUCTION Blade Runner is consid
Page 6 and 7: SECTION I: IDEAS I don’t think it
Page 8 and 9: (1.1) DECKARD Any film, video-game
Page 10 and 11: some of his wit. Yet, Blade Runner
Page 12 and 13: Perhaps he’s on the edge of his h
Page 14 and 15: about immigration, but he is also t
Page 16 and 17: he’s using it to go in and kill Z
Page 18 and 19: dependent he is upon her love now.
Page 20 and 21: Deckard is not a powerful character
Page 22 and 23: Roy Batty kills the last remaining
Page 24 and 25: What about his humanity? Well, as c
Page 26 and 27: Deckard appear so inhuman at the st
Page 28 and 29: system in any way. Roy, as evil and
Page 30 and 31: Whereas Sheep is definitely centred
Page 32 and 33: SECTION II: BEYOND 1980s. This was
Page 34 and 35: for Star Wars and Blade Runner. The
Page 36 and 37: cityscape scene from Episode Two. A
Page 38 and 39: Superhero movies aren’t exactly s
Page 40 and 41: eal first ‘ideas’ film that led
Page 42 and 43: notes. There was a great rusty feel
Page 44 and 45: with ideas and philosophies and not
Page 46 and 47: I mentioned the Hamlet comparison e
Page 48 and 49: The biggest grossing film of 1982 h
Page 50 and 51: opposite to what E.T said, but the
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games that was an inevitability I c
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(2.5) AFTERMATH Blade Runner was a
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elieves if you go in disappointed a
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those events. Blade Runner is undou
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SECTION III: SYMBOLS Memories. Is t
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Batty takes this upon himself to ri
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Coming away from the more abstract,
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give more evidence and integrity to
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Tyrell is then rewarded by having h
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a family, now he is only Roy Batty.
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through the ceiling, hangs off stee
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Blade Runner does not argue with re
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(3.3) TRAGEDY "When one man dies it
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thought I had won Ridley's agreemen
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Except the original Star Wars trilo
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the extreme of sympathy. Reduced, e
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to the Replicants. He knows what he
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(3.5) GAFF Who or what is Gaff? As
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common culture there is some humani
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(4.1) EAST AND WEST I write this at
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acist or other discriminatory attit
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physically into Deckard, to carry o
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(4.2) THE CAPITALIST MACHINE Blade
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parties but that he can watch them.
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Deckard recognizes this, eventually
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glory days of almost 1920s ‘rugge
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they fundamentally destroy it and l
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(4.4) TODAY Today. As I type this,
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capitalism. The docile populace see
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SECTION V: EVOLUTION Blade Runner e
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females who use their pure sexualit
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I respect Barr’s interpretation,
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and indeed the placement of women a
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(5.2) THE NEXT STEP “THE NEXUS 6
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Deckard spits in his face there’s
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Final Cut whether Blade Runner was
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trace of sarcasm from Holden. He’
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CONCLUSION When I took on this proj
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Kerman, J.B (1997 edit
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Nathan Hardisty is
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