Blade Runner Notes

 

  • Imagining the future in 2019

  • Ridley Scot director

  • Minimal electronic music

  • Replicants are very realistic robots used for slave labor on other plants but then became illegal and the blade runners kill them if the come to earth

  • Los Angeles is very big. Tall futuristic building. Flying cars

  • Test people using an emotional test to figure out if they are replicants 

    • The test consist of a series of questions looking at the pupil

  • Advertisements shown directly on buildings

    • Like New York

  • Off world colonies

  • Parking on top of buildings

  • Very dusty old looking buildings inside but high-tech looking outside

  • The only way to hurt them is to kill them

  • Each replicate is trained in different things 

    • They are similar to humans in every way except emotions

    • A new nexus 6 is being developed with emotions but it has a four year life span

  • Artificial owl, looks very realistic

  • Racheal is a replica but she doesn’t know she’s a replica 

  • They use implanted memories to make them “more human than not human”

  • All the signs are neon and bright but everything else is very dark and dingy

  • Tyrell corporations designed the replicas and their brains

  • The blade runner feels bad when he tell the replica what she actually is

    • He’s supposed to kill them but is instead sympathizing with her

    • The replica cried meaning she can show emotions

  • The replicas are very good at faking emotions

  • J.F. Sebastian is a genetic designer. He makes his own friends by making toys that come and talk to him

  • Have scanners that can enhance pictures and take voice commands

  • Found an artificial snake scale with a serial number on it

  • Face video calls like pay phones 

  • “Painful isn’t fear”

  • Rachael shot Leon when he is attacking Deckard

  • Rachael understands she is a replica and is not supposed to be a live because of it 

    • “I’m not part of the business…I am the business”

  • Even after years of hunting replicas Deckard would let Rachael go but there would also be someone out there that would kill her

  • All of Rachael's memories are Tyrell’s nieces

    • “I don’t know if it’s me or Tyrell’s niece”

    • How much of our memories are what we actually remember vs the stories people have told us that have turned into memories

    • People remember different things of the same memories

  • Replicas eyes have a read tint to them when the light hits them

  • Sebastian could easily tell they were replicas

  • “I think Sebastian, therefore I am”

  • Pris stuck her hand in boiling water without being affected

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

  • The replicas manipulated Sebastian to get them to Tyrell 

  • Tyrell knew Roy was a replica the minute he say him  

    • His first question is if he wants to be modified

    • “I want more life father” -Roy to Tyrell

    • “You were made as well as we could make you” “But not to last”

    • Tyrell is proud of Roy and all he has done in his short period of time

  • Deckard killed Pris. It looked like she was throwing a tantrum of sorts when she was shot

  • Roy is toying with Deckard before he kills him

  • Roy is morning Pris's death

  • Roy’s body is degenerating 

  • “Quite an experience to live in fear isn’t it? That’s what it is to be a slave”

  • Once you die all you have seen and all your true memories will die with you

    • No one can experience things from your prospective and so no memories are the same

  • “It's too bad she won't live. But then again, who does”

  • Visual futurist 

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