12. What makes Blade Runner popular/special?
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This article is from the Blade Runner FAQ, by Murray Chapmanmuzzle@cs.uq.oz.au with numerous contributions by others.
12. What makes Blade Runner popular/special?
Deckard only retires two replicants, both women.
All replicants are referred to by first name, all humans by last name.
Pris' incept date is Valentine's Day.
The lamp on Bryant's desk has a translucent shade depicting a hunter
standing beside a fallen cape buffalo.
Each replicant's serial number summarizes their characteristics: for
example, Leon's "N6MAC41717" stands for Nexus-6, Male, A-Physical, C-Mental,
and incept date 4/17/17.
Leon's eyes glow faintly for a moment during the VK test but this is very
hard to discern. The major characters have either green or blue eyes.
Gaff's origami taunts Deckard: when Deckard tries to leave Bryant's office
without taking the job, Gaff makes a chicken. Gaff makes a man with a huge
erection to tease Deckard about either being attracted to Rachael, or getting
so involved/excited by the job (when he didn't want it in the first place).
Gaff might have felt that Deckard searching Leon's room was just "jacking
off". The origami unicorn is a reminder to Deckard of either Rachael's or
his own mortality.
During the scene where Deckard VK's Rachael, there is a dissolve to indicate
the passage of time. During the dissolve, Deckard can be heard mentioning
"orange body, green legs", the same description of the spider that Rachael
later describes. This may have been added as a form of pseudo-subliminal
message, so that later when Rachael mentions the same thing, the viewer's
memory is sparked in a subtle way. This is much the same as when Deckard
is travelling through the tunnel and "incorrectly" remembers what Leon said
just before shooting Holden.
The newspaper which lines the drawers in Leon's apartment is the same edition
as the one that Deckard reads at the beginning of the movie.
The Japanese characters for "police" ("kei-satu") are written on the
police spinner.
The music sitting on Deckard's piano is:
Concerto in D major for Guitar, Strings and Continuo
(Orig.Concerto con 2 violini, leuto e basso, RV 93)
by Antonio Vivaldi
Second movement : Largo
heading : Largo (Streicher "Sordine")
The notes of the guitar part are the German or English edition
from :
Publisher : Karl Scheit
GKM Nr.41
arranging by Karl Scheit
(c) Copyright 1978 by Ludwig Doblinger (Bernhard Herzmansky)
K.G., Wien - Muenchen
D.15.896a
Eye symbolism is rampant:
- The eye in the opening shots
- Replicants' eyes glow
- Tyrell has huge glasses to make his eyes bigger
- glasses like Tyrell's were used in DADoES for fallout protection
- Eyes are used in the VK test
- Chew's Eye World where Chew and Leon both handle the eyes
- "Eyes, eyes... I do only eyes"
- "Chew, if only you could see what I've seen with your eyes!"
- Leon tries to stick his fingers in Deckard's eyes
- The lights behind Pris when she enters Sebastian's apartment
- Batty plays with the glass-encased eyes in Sebastian's apartment
- Batty sticks his thumbs in Tyrell's eyes
- Pris rolls her eyes to show only the whites
- The owl's large eyes are shown frequently
- surrounding the top of the Bradbury building are large, bright blue,
lighted half-orbs, which resemble eyes.
- "I've SEEN things you people wouldn't believe"
- "Not an easy man to SEE, I guess"
- "I wanted to SEE you"
- "He wouldn't SEE me"
Rachael's picture comes to life momentarily, and the soundtrack has the sound
of children playing.
Rachael's hairstyle: as a replicant, it is perfect, rigid, machine like, and
cold. As a human, it's soft, curly, and messed up.
The theatre across from Sebastian's apartment shows films by Ridley Scott's
wife. **IF YOU SENT THIS INFORMATION IN, CAN YOU CONTACT ME AGAIN?***
Roy Batty's soliloquy was ad-libbed by Rutger Hauer.
Blade Runner won the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation in 1983
(beating out E.T.). In a poll of members of the 1992 World Science Fiction
Convention, Blade Runner was named as the third most favorite SF film of all
time (behind Star Wars and 2001: A Space Odyssey).
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