... of Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner- (1982), which is on home video. Scott has abandoned the Harrison Ford narration of the original version, added some moments to the love affair between Ford and Sean Young, fleshed out a few other scenes and, most notably, provided what he describes as a "somewhat bleaker ending." This is, he says ... to positive response, Scott decided to make a final version he'd be happy with. The narration and ending are gone. Scott has added shadings to the love affair between Harrison Ford and replicant Sean Young, and he has sewn in new implications about Ford's past...

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... Runner somewhat resembles the world created by Aldous Huxley in Brave New World. Blade Runner and Brave New World both predict a world where humanity has lost its way and has been profoundly manipulate by science and technology; worlds where nature has no influence on humanity. Through the study of text from ... with a eye overlooking the fire flames and then a shot is changed to the eye is reflecting the flames. The shot suggest a world that has lost its way and represent a hell-like place. Many high angles shots are used to shows the building of LA, which shows the changed nature of t...

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... to be able to live longer means they will be more human. Yet, we will see that the replicants with four-year life spans at times exhibit a desire for life, love and dignity more than most of the real humans in the film. Their accession to human status is stopped by only the unwillingness and refusal of other human beings. They ... to the niece of her creator, Tyrell. Memories then can be faked. They do not last as Roy points out in his moving final words "all those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain." Our memories are not what make us human. We see another possible answer ...

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... term for Replicants, cursed with a four year life span and desperately trying to extend it, hijack a ship back to Earth seeking to confront their maker. But when Deckerd falls in love with one such clone, Rachel, he has to think twice about what he is doing. The city that Deckard must search for his prey is a huge, sprawling cyberpunk vision of ... seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."-Roy Batty. I t...

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... World. He, like us, needs to experience both ends of the spectrum of life. He needs to know what pain is to appreciate pleasure and to have hatred to know love. Savage cannot accept the grey mediocre existence that is BNW. It is a false portrayal of happiness in John's eyes because they don't know why they are happy because they don ... . Also his suicide is predictable because it's the death of a tragic hero. He is a victim of his own aberrant conditioning. Savage cannot live in a world where emotions are suppressed and love is perverted. And so he chooses death rather than living in a ...

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... the misuse of science for personal glory, cautioning how the obsessive pursuit of knowledge can alienate individuals, "I seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit." Likened to Satan in John Milton's "Paradise Lost", Victor turns from God and the natural, pursuing an obsessive passion, "my eyes were insensible to the charms of ... nature". The recurring intertextuality of "Paradise Lost" and recurring darkness motif symbolizes Victor's blind attraction to science. In searching science's "new and almost unlimited powers", Victor creates the monster in isolation, h...

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... 's room where they are both "set free" and become intimate with one another. Just as Joh Fredersen , master and founder, lost control of Metropolis, the boss of the factory was clearly no longer in command and had lost his slave (a symbol of status) in the process. The video ends with the quote "Without the heart, there can be no ... ...

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... and emotionally throughout the film. The characters in the movie, even the ones that were not human, had many humanistic and believable qualities. Many of them were able to feel love as well as hate. Although Deckard is supposedly human he at times shows less emotion than Roy. He seems heartless and uncompassionate making himself look very unhuman. We see that ... viewers. The whole definition of humanity is changed by its interaction with the Replicants. For the replicant Roy Batty it was obvious that that he felt strong emotions, perhaps even love for his fellow replicants. After Deck...

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... at least one scene where light eminates from the iris of their eye like a cat with light reflecting in its night eyes. Deckard's eyes do this just before his first love scene with Rachel. Like Roy and Rachel, Deckard clearly has severe issues dealing with any emotion besides anger. In addition, Deckard exhibits a fascination with pictures much like the replicants in ... leave much to think about. This, above all else, is what makes Blade Runner a fantastic film and a true classic. Wither Deckard is now a renegade cop running away with his replicant love, or a replicant cop doing the sam...

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... and questions about humanity, and eventually time proves him right, by showing that the same questions exist even now in our modern times. Although in this technological superiority, they remain lost and confused in terms of understanding the concept of humanity. Dick proves that being a human is much more complicated notion and despite how intellect or technologically advanced we become, we ... ...

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... of what constitutes being human. At birth, Victor's creation reflects the Lockean "blank slate" concept as he begins in a state of innocence, exemplified in the metaphor "my soul glowed with love and humanity." He develops characteristically human traits such as the understanding of values, illustrated in his use of superlatives "I felt the greatest ardor for virtue and abhorrence for vice." However ... ...

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... does not know who throws them. Yet at the end of the book, Deckard finally begins to think for himself, and his vision of the world changes. He falls in love with Rachel Rosen, and begins to doubt that killing androids is necessary. In a final plot twist, Deckard freely fuses with Mercer for an extended period of time, despite the contradictions ... ...

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... and interpret our laws. "In cyberspace, we chat and argue, engage in intellectual intercourse, perform acts of commerce, exchange knowledge, share emotional support, make plans, brainstorm, gossip, feud, fall in love, find friends and loose them, play games and metagames, flirt, create a little high art and a lot of idle talk. We do everything people do when they get together, but we ... ...

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... , or act happy when they see a picture of their family. How could these emotions be real, if those pictures are not even of their family? How can it be true love and elation they are feeling if they've never even met these people? Obviously it must be a programmed response. In conclusion, these replicants, while very similar to humans, are not ... ...

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... set the mood for a place of crime and punishment. The Acting in Blade Runner was very good. Harrison Ford did very well; he showed the raw emotion, the spite, the love, the fear brilliantly. He fitted perfectly into the movie. His lame voice over no longer there shows a whole new side. He also extended the Romance between Rachael played by Sean ... ...

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... on the bed, he decides to spare her life because he loves her and wants to spend the rest of his life with her, since she has no termination date. Love is an emotion. Machines don't have emotions. Therefore Deckard isn't a machine. However, if Deckard were a replicant, he would have no second thought to kill Rachel or not. He would have ... ...

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