Blade: blade, blade; Runner: runner, runner-up. I really don't know how to translate it into "Blade Runner".
It is understood that the word Blade Runner comes from a novel with a different story structure. From the title, you can feel that the film has been implicit to a certain degree, and it has been discussed repeatedly until now.
Let us assume that the Chinese translated name is taken out separately from the English name. From the perspective of the film, the term "killer" is easy to understand, and "Silver Wing" does not come from where it came from. Disassemble the "silver" and "wings" again. The "wings" in the film have a few points. The most obvious ones are the copied owls and Roy's flying pigeons. Some people say that every copy of the film has its own death. "Wings" or hints that you can’t fly, such as Salome’s transparent raincoat, Pris’s convulsions, and something like that, especially Pris’s convulsions and struggles before his death. At first, I couldn’t understand what the director meant by arranging this behavior. Explain that it is a symbol of the constrained butterfly trying to fly, and after a closer look, it really looks like it. Besides "silver", "silver" generally represents the second (silver medal) and also represents a kind of sci-fi taste, which may be a bit close to "Runner".
The above are all related to the details of the film from the Chinese name "Blade Runner", rather than from the film to the title, which is a bit turning the cart before the horse. If you break away from the Chinese name, how can you understand the details of the film from Western thinking? This is beyond the scope of my thinking and beyond my ability to understand.
"Blade Runner" may not be the best translation, but I have not seen a better translation. "Blade Runner" implies that the clones being hunted down are "Silver Wings", which represents a feeling of wanting to fly. Every clone on the earth in the film leads a life without contending with the world, typical Representatives are Salome, who dances with snakes, and Pris who sleeps in the trash. Roy, as the leader of the resistance, just wants to last longer, but they are all hunted down, making people wonder where the human nature of the natural person in the film is.
To set off this kind of audience suspicion, the film has no sunshine in the city, constant rain, mechanical and broken buildings, and mixed regional background. If it is not for the credits, it means that this is Los Angeles. Contrary to the human nature of natural humans, it is that the title of the film prompts to prevent the copying person from having emotions, but many places in the film indicate that the copying person already has emotions: love, tears, smiles, etc., but they themselves may not understand that this is a kind of emotion. emotion. At the end of the film Roy chased Deckard repeatedly and said words like "Die" while counting. I thought that Roy wanted to torture Deckard to death. I did not expect that he not only saved Deckard's life but also counted down to his own. At the time of death, maybe Roy just wanted Deckard to experience the panic and uneasy feeling of their clones.
What makes me most ironic is that there are many hints in the film that Deckard is also a copy, the most obvious is the unicorn in Deckard's dream with a paper folded at the end, which also implies that the police will let Deckard and Rachel leave safely.
The last lines of Roy's life are very memorable. They have their own emotional system for copying people. "I've 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 Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain......Time to die."——"I have seen many scenes that you humans would not believe....... All of this will Gone with the wind, it's like tears melting in the rain...The end has come." Then Roy died peacefully, and the pigeon in his hand finally flew, Roy left the audience with complicated thoughts.
In the film, many plots that should be strictly expressed logically were omitted, and I went straight to the theme, which led to my thinking progress in the process of watching the film not as smooth as the task in the film. If this is really a good movie, then what I have seen should be very rare. Given my experience of watching movies, I would not recommend this movie to people easily. Most people I know may not accept this. I can count the cryptic shooting and connotation as half.
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