Prophecy Thirty Years Ago

Lynn 2021-10-19 09:52:45

It is actually exactly the same as human beings. They are called replicators. Chain replicators are excellent in physical strength and agility, and their intelligence is no worse than the genetic engineer who created them. The replicators are used to explore the external world and engage in Slave labor is used for dangerous expedition work and colonization missions on other planets. However, the reproduction of human beings declared illegal on the earth must be executed. The Secret Service Team-Blade Runners, was ordered to detect any invading clones and kill them. It is not called execution, it is called retirement.
——[Blade Runner] in 1982

If the movie will leave something to this era, then the role of [Blade Runner] is nothing less than creation. As a sci-fi movie 30 years ago, [Blade Runner] contains prescient experience, which has been continuously realized in the future; the film uses a deduction method, a human and a copy of humanity The core of torture extends to many trivial questions. When these insightful questions were thrown out thirty years ago, they seemed to be covered by a thick mist at that time, and it was difficult to get a glimpse of the truth hidden in it. Gold will shine after all, and time is the touchstone for probing the truth. So, today, thirty years later, when the obscure fog that originally pervaded [Blade Runner] gradually became clear, people at that time discovered that Ridley Scott left the world with an insight. The prophecy of heaven.


Chen Ti: Environmental Karma.
In November 2019, Los Angeles was in a decadent and frustrated depression. At that time, the technology of the earth had already developed to a high level, but at the same time it also brought the evil consequences of being strong and old, and technological civilization. It has caused serious pollution. The sense of loss of smoke and dim lights pervades every corner. Most of the elites on the earth have immigrated to aliens, and the rest are some old, weak, sick and lingering. The story takes place in this mixed place.

The settings in [Blade Runner] are so subtle that every place has a deep meaning. The dark buildings, dazzling lights, and the rush of people make the whole tone very depressing, with a warm and cold feeling. Across people's skins. In the setting of the atmosphere, almost every scene is a rainy scene, always so lukewarm, and there is a trace of desperate loneliness under the cold surface. Scott moved the design idea of ​​[Alien] to Los Angeles. The city looks more like a desert. The people living in it seem to be exhausted, wanderers, rock musicians, and oriental faces. People of all colors are waiting one after another on the street. The only activity area is like a huge box, which limits people's footsteps and hopes. Dilapidated Gothic architecture and bustling Chinatown coexist, and a sense of violation is an important part of it. factor. The setting of the environment constitutes the frame of the whole topic, and the characters are the flesh and blood in the frame. Decker walks through the rainy streets in a windbreaker, and the mysterious heroine Rachel sits alone on the high shoulder pads in the castle. Shows the dignity of a classical and exaggerated person. In the confined space, any deliberate action becomes very obvious, both prominent and concealed hidden in the smoky blinds.

The overall tone is roughly the same. This is also Ridley Scott's assumption of the state of the world 37 years later in 1982. The extremely bold assumption constitutes the first hard-to-ignore foresight in [Blade Runner]. Thirty years later, we looked back at the scene, and we were surprised to find that one by one seemingly weird scenes at that time have become reality today: the neon lights swaying on the streets and the screen advertisements on the buildings are all reappearances of today's scenes. At that time, Los Angeles was like a messy technology tomb, and the toiling crowd became the last existence in this tomb.


Asking questions: a speculative exploration

When the puzzle of the story has been structured, the real problems have begun to spread. [Blade Runner] has many foresights about the future world. This kind of great innovation is not unique, because it is the first in the movie. This time, I put forward a subject that people will continue to interpret in the future-Replicant. [Blade Runner] The technological civilization in [Blade Runner] has created human-like replicators. The replicators and humans have almost the same physiological structure, and there is almost no difference even at the psychological level. The only difference is the life set by humans for the replicators. The cycle is only four years, in order to prevent them from producing unpredictable variation over a long period of time. It was the first time that a copyist appeared in a movie with a concrete concept and individual, which was ahead of the audience at that time. This kind of thinking jump also caused a cognitive difference to some extent. For example, the scientists designed in the movie have difficulty distinguishing the difference between humans and clones. They keep asking questions. Seeing that each question is asked of clones, in fact, this is a sharp blade stab at humans. Deep inside.

The name of this sharp blade is called: Empathy Test, which is a process of judging whether the tester is a copy of a person through a series of questions, the breathing effect, blushing response, heart rate, pupil dilation under the stimulation of external problems And so on, to judge whether it has human emotional function, or whether it has "humanity". To use a simple analogy, you ask a copy person if he has eaten, and he will definitely answer you based on his actual situation, "I have eaten." Asking the answer once is like this, and asking a hundred times the answer will be eaten, because it is difficult for the copying person to make a timely emotional response to the judgment of the empathy information. But if you ask the same question to a human, he will answer you "have eaten" the first time, but if you ask the same question a second time, it will definitely cause psychological discomfort. This is the resistance of human beings to empathy. sex. The empathy test comes from Philip K. Dick's original book "Did Robots Dream of Electronic Sheep?" "(Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), is fictionalized by the author Philip based on the principle of the famous Turing Test.

The Turing test means that if one party uses a language that the test subject understands to ask any set of questions about two objects that he cannot see, for example, one is a normal-thinking human, and the other is a copying person. After several inquiries, the judgment is made. The difference between the two. The Turing test only has physical interaction with the copying person, because the physical copying person is not the research category of artificial intelligence. In [Blade Runner], the empathy test only exists as a means. Whether it is the opening question of Lyon, who absconded back to Earth, or Decker's test of Rachel, they are just rules for judging and falsifying. But whether the empathy test can really judge whether a person is a copy or not, the film has already explained. Decker said that usually 20 or 30 questions can tell whether a person is a copy or not, but he mentioned to Rachel. More than a hundred questions are still difficult to judge. It can be seen that the empathy test is not the absolute only standard, nor is it useful, especially when dealing with complex human nature. In the icy forest society, human nature is probably the last place of tenderness. In the words of the original author Philip K. Dick: "The theme of this story is that Deykerd loses humanity more and more in the process of hunting down the copy, and this At the same time, cloners have gradually revealed a more human side. Finally, Decker must ask himself: What am I doing? What is the nature of the difference between me and them? If there is no difference, then who am I?" This is the whole The key to the story is also the key to answering the questions raised in [Blade Runner]—whether clones are also human, and if they praise humanity, what is the difference between them and humans. The premise of Philip’s hypothesis is very close to Kant’s view of conscious autonomy. He said: "The will is a force that makes our actions obey the law. This force exists only in rational life... People, in short All rational animals exist as ends themselves, not just as means for a certain will to use arbitrarily, we must be in all his actions, whether this action is for himself or for other rational animals, Always treat him as a goal.” In reality, copying people have more rational and logical abilities than humans, and they always follow algorithms, logical deductions and mathematical calculations. Copying people in the category of rational thinking also has unique advantages. Will emotions or metaphysical things, whether they have the ability to be included together. The biggest question in this film, Stecko gave the answer at the end. This answer makes all humans who have normal thinking feel ashamed, so that in the decades after the birth of [Blade Runner], people continue to ask questions. And think about the value in it.

Answer: reflection on human nature

Decker is the origin of a wheel and axle, radiating many ambiguous speculations on the grounds that he arrested and escaped the clone. First of all, when Decker contacted Rachel, he used the empathy test to judge Rachel as usual, but the choice of the answer became more and more difficult to discern. However, Rachel asked Deykerd "Have you ever done such a test for yourself?" This was the first foreshadowing that laid a clue, questioning and doubting Deykerd. It is whether Decker is a clone or not. This is the problem that cannot be solved during the viewing process. As a blade runner, he is performing the task of hunting and killing clones. As a human being, he has not considered the purest starting point. This is difficult for people to understand. I have always been suspicious. In other words, Decker is just playing the role of a human being. His existence as a human being is undoubtedly a powerful lashing. Whether human beings allow clones to be better than themselves in all aspects, a creator is created by himself. Isn’t it an irony that the product defeated? This irony first appeared in 1982. Today, when humans are defeated by a computer created by themselves in a chess game, we suddenly find that the prediction 30 years ago has been fulfilled. real. The realistic predictions of the movie are everywhere, hidden in inadvertent details like various mysteries. For example, the interpretation of "Silver Wing" is literally "white wings", but there are three in the movie. The death of the replicator implies the existence of this context. The first one is Zola. When Decker chased her all the way, and then died, Zola was shot and fell to the ground. The transparent raincoat on her body floated gently, like white wings. The second is Prius. She hid in a room full of decorative models, preparing to attack the hunter who came, but the fight between the two ended in the sound of Decker's gunshots, and Paris, who was shot, convulsed frantically on the ground. The body twisting violently is like a butterfly that flutters its wings but is bound forcibly, only boundless pain and despair spread. The third is Roy. His death is also the most dramatic. It is like a quiet disillusionment full of signs of the end of the world. When Decker was about to fall to the top of the building, Roy held him tightly. His hand is still pierced with a long iron nail, which contains the metaphor of Christ Jesus. In Christianity, God sent Jesus to the world to save mankind from sins and disasters. In the movie, he became a savior. A copy that humans want to kill. When human beings are saved by their own inferior individuals, this kind of angle full of tension and contempt makes people feel a deep irony, which is the interpretation of "Silver Wing".

In the end, we tried to analyze a hypothesis that can answer all questions, whether Decker is a copycat or not. In the version released in 1982, many key details were obscured, making the audience unclear about the connotation. But in the coming time, various continuously repaired versions have been released one after another, and a few details fully explain this problem. First of all, when Sergeant Bryant ordered Decker to execute the hunting of the cloned characters, he was resisting and unwilling at first. At this time, the Sergeant said a word to change his attention, "You're little man." , This sentence literally means that you are just an inconspicuous little person, but if you extend it, isn’t it just that Dyke Derby is inferior to humans, and that he is also a clone. In addition, the appearance of Guff, Decker's executor, is also of profound significance, especially the unicorn mentioned repeatedly in the film. The image of the unicorn is a scene that appears in Decker’s dream, which means that only Decker can know the picture. When Gaff placed an origami unicorn in Decker’s residence, it undoubtedly tells him that this dream is not. Only he knows. Because this memory was implanted when the human gene was set to replicate, the appearance of the unicorn image also means that others have insight into the scene in your mind, and Decker's existence as a human identity no longer exists. When we understand this meaning, we can understand that the process of [Blade Runner] is a process of negation and negation. It initially denied the existence of replicators as slaves, so the demand for hunting replicators began to appear. And when this kind of denial was about to be established, he suddenly told the audience that in fact, the power holders who thought they were superior and in control of everything were actually clones. When in the end, the copyist redeemed the self-righteous "humanity", and when he declared war on this dark reality with sacrifice, he undoubtedly fanned the "human" face with the loudest ear, and this pain has been so painful so far. Still there.


"The things I have seen, you humans absolutely cannot believe. I have seen warships burning on the edge of the Orion constellation; I have watched C-rays, shining in the darkness near the gate of Don Wise, all these moments, finally Will be lost, in time, like tears, disappearing in the rain. The moment of death is here."
-Roy Roy, Roy Batty



, Rick Deckard, Rick Deckard
Actor: Harrison Ford
Number (ID): B-263-54

Rick Decker , the hero in the film, also known as Blade Runner. He serves as a special agent in the police department of Los Angeles, and his function is to hunt down and end the lives of artificial people. Before retiring, Decker was the best blade killer in the police department. After being told that the man-made man returned to the earth and carried out illegal activities, Decker was recalled again. Even though he didn't want to go out of the mountain, he was moved by a word from his superiors. This sentence to the effect is "You are really not like a person." When facing Decker's masculinity and heroic feelings, this sentence can also be regarded as a foreshadowing of the director's suggestion of Decker's identity as an artificial person. The superior asked Decker to use the successful hunting methods of his old veterans, and in the end he also "successfully" completed the mission, with the exception of Rachel, whom he fell in love with.

Since the film was released, the controversy about whether the actor Decker is a human or a man-made person has been a topic of constant debate among movie fans. Director Ridley Scott, after maintaining a vague statement for 20 years, finally published an explanation in 2002, saying that Decker was indeed a human being. But this answer seems to be closely related to the different versions of the movie, because its actor Harrison Ford thinks that Decker is a human being. So there is a rough consensus among fans: Dyke may be a human in the original film, but in the director's edited version he is a human being. Specifically, in the edited version, we can think of the performance of Decker's dream, and use the unicorn as a symbol. The unicorn made of paper that Geff left to Decker in the end of the film may represent Geff knows That dream, then Decker might be like Rachel, an artificial person with implanted memories.

If this is the case, the film's tragic color and critical spirit will undoubtedly be more intense: humans are still using artificial humans, and they are killing each other. Of course, the audience does not have to struggle with this issue for too long, the voice of the creator seems to be able to raise the question to a higher level. The original role of Decker, and whether Decker is human or inhuman, in the original novel author Philip K. Dick’s comment on his own creative purpose, which is deep enough and in place, seems not so mysterious or so. It's qualitative: "The original intention of creating this story, in my opinion, is in Decker's hunting and hunting of humanoids. Decker's inevitably become'non-human' in this process. At the same time, the artificial humans treated as prey, these "non-humans" have become more like humans and exude human charm. In the end, Decker had to ask himself a question: what am I doing. In humans and What is the boundary between non-human beings? Of course, if this gap between the two individuals disappears, then who am I, or to whom do I belong?"

Rachel
Sean Young, played by Rachael

Rachel is Elton Terry’s latest experiment. Terry believed that the four-year short life span of humanoids would make it difficult for them to control their feelings and emotions. After all, managing them would be a very tricky thing (in fact, this is no exception for humans). . The solution he thought of was to implant memories for them. When these creatures have memories that do not belong to them, the past will also become an effective buffer, so that their emotional management can be well developed, and they will also Become more self-controlling, Rachel is the "lucky product" born under this latest concept. Terry implanted Rachel's memory of his niece, and successfully convinced her that she was a pure person. Obviously the film has acknowledged the success of Terry’s concept, and of course it has subsequently shown its shortcomings. Although we have not been told how long Rachel has lived, she has begun to doubt her existence and authenticity. Terry also realized this. As Tyrell’s secretary, she met Dykerd when he went to Tyrell Corporation to confirm whether the humanity test is valid for the "chain VI". In order to learn the truth, she later visited Dykerd’s residence, the latter Tell her many of her most private memories, and clearly tell her that those memories do not belong to her at all, but are designed to be implanted. Rachel left sadly, and finally faced the tragic fate of being ignored and abandoned by Terry. In Rachel’s despair, Decker was also told that Rachel needs to be removed, but the emergence of love between the two blocked the possibility of this tragedy. Fortunately, as a high-level Gef also acquiesced in their continued survival. When Roy Roy passed away, Decker hurried back to his apartment and saw Rachel lying unharmed on the boat, and Gave on the floor. The unicorn origami that was left behind seemed to imply that they could set off together towards the unknown future.


Roy Batty
Actor: Rutger Hauer
Code: NEXUS-6 N6MAC41717

Roy Barty is a member of the human-made NEXUS-6 robot team in the future world. He has a leading position in it. He is unwilling to be content with the status quo and led several other colleagues. Man, escaped from outer space Mars, and is regarded as a traitor that must be eliminated by mankind. In the film, he is also the most threatening opponent facing Blade Runner Decker.
Roy, who was created with the hard work and wisdom of his creator Terry, has a strong fighting capacity, is clever, fast, and skillful in fighting skills. Perhaps the only thing he needs to strive for is the only thing left for him. , Learning to make one's own emotional mechanism grow more. In the eyes of humans, he can be called the "perfect model of combat" and is used for military services in outer space. On the physical level, he has supernatural strength and endurance, and on the spiritual level, he has genius-level intelligence. It was this double advantage that made him finally return to Earth with the five man-made people who served with him, trying to find a way to extend their lives (only four years). At JF Sebastian’s residence, he met his creator, the company’s original founder and designer Elton Terry (later abandoned by the Terry company named after him), and asked the latter Satisfy your wish to "live longer". The latter uttered the word "genius", calling Roy his "son", but told him the cruel fact that his life could not be continued. The only advice he can give is to let Roy enjoy what he already has, to appreciate the things that others can only get in dreams, as he used to do. Upon hearing this, the desperate Roy killed his creator Roy and left.

Roy Barty is not a vicious villain in people's minds. On the contrary, as a thoughtful man-made person, he is perfused with the tragic color of human self-identity and helplessness towards reality. When Decker was ordered to go to Sebastian's residence again, he was ambushed by Priss. After a fight, Dyke reluctantly shot her. Suddenly Roy came back. He chased Dykerd like a game in the room, and finally broke his finger. When Decker was forced to retreat to the roof, he tried to jump to another building, but he could only hang on a roof beam in despair. Roy easily passed the house and stared at Decker, but just as Decker's hand was about to loosen, Roy grabbed his wrist and saved him. At the same time, Roy's four-year life span was about to come to an end, and he began to quickly enter a state of weakness. In the rain, before he died, facing the human adversary who came to chase him down, Roy quietly told him about the most exciting days of his life, and the amazing things he saw and heard. He also understood deeply. How all these memories will fade away in time with their own departure, gone forever. With a slight smile on his face, he spit out: "The day of death...come", and then left quietly. In the humid air, only Dykerd was watching all this quietly, and his expression was as if he had just woke up from a dream and returned to the real world. Four years, this cruel time limit is the protective mechanism that human beings set up to avoid the development of unstable emotions in the "Chain No. 6". But in the end, we were surprised to find from Roy's confession that he seemed to have become a real person. At the moment of facing death, what he did was like any old man who greeted death naturally. In the original novel "Did the Robot Dream of an Electronic Sheep?" In ", Roy Roy is described as the leader of eight humanoids, all of whom were able to escape the fate of slaves on Mars and killed the human owners who controlled them. Roy married Imgard Roy, another cyborg, and his relationship with his girlfriend Prius in the movie was originally pure friendship.

Pris
Actor: Daryl Hannah
Code: NEXUS-6 N6FAB21416
Perhaps because it was originally "born" on Valentine's Day, Prius was designed with more feminine elements. It is a "basic happy model" among artificial people, and her body is striking and impressive. The inspiration for the punk costumes came from a "new wave" calendar (here, "new wave" specifically refers to a music trend that followed punk rock in the late 70s and early 90s). She appeared as Roy Roy’s girlfriend. After meeting JF Sebastian, the two quickly became good friends. In the end, Sebastian’s apartment became their residence when they lived on the earth, and it was also there in despair. Roy killed Terry and Sebastian. From a physical point of view, Prius is blessed with a level A, so he also has superhuman endurance no less than Roy. For example, there is a scene in the film where she grabs a boiling egg with her bare hands. But she is safe and sound; from the spiritual and intellectual level, she is obviously inferior to the leader Roy, staying at the B level, so the IQ is not as good as the latter, but this does not prevent her from using strategies and successfully Lure Decker to the Bradbury Building to be ambushed. She pretended to be an adult model and attacked Decker with her unique gymnastic fighting skills. Of course, she ended in failure and took her life. But what is interesting is that in the American science fiction novelist KW Kit based on [Blade Runner] and "Did the Robot Dream of an Electronic Sheep?" In the sequel "Blade Runner II: The Edge of Mankind", Prius is described as a character who has fallen into madness. She is not a real artificial person, but a person who believes that she is Cyborg women.



[Blade Runner]'s failure and the

trivialities of the great bidding

In 1982, [Blade Runner] first appeared on the big screen, but encountered an unexpected Waterloo. The audience couldn't understand the obscure story that the film was about to express, let alone the inner core, and people were full of expectations. [Blade Runner] will be a thrilling adventure movie like Harrison Ford’s earlier [Indiana Jones]. As a result, all this is beyond people’s expectations, so the box office and word-of-mouth loss of the film became Director Ridley Scott is always in pain. In fact, there were many reasons for this situation, and Ridley Scott was naturally inseparable from the relationship. Like most science fiction films, [Blade Runner] also encountered budgetary problems at the beginning of the shooting. The initial cost of the film was 22 million U.S. dollars, of which two senior TV producers accounted for one-third of the investment. , That also means that if the film overspends, the investor will bear the overspend, but at the same time it will also own the copyright of the film. As a result, the film will eventually overspend by 7 million US dollars.

In fact, Ridley Scott had many conflicts with the investors during the filming, and the problems caused one after another. The script of the earlier movie could not get everyone’s consensus. The original script was written by Hampton, but because of Hampton’s The temper and persistence made it difficult for him and the two of them to agree, and they couldn't find a balance point for working together. Therefore, under such a premise, Scott asked another screenwriter, David Webb Piples, to modify and rewrite the original script slightly. This made the original screenwriter Hampton simply unacceptable, but the producer told Hampshire. Suddenly, the script he wrote is very elegant, but what they want is a script that can be made into a movie. After several changes in the script, the title was changed from the original "Dangerous Days" to "Blade Runner". A large part of this has commercial considerations. For example, the producer and screenwriter first talked about Philip K· Philip K. Dick's sci-fi classic "Did Robots Dream of Electronic Sheep?" "(Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), when the producer finished reading the novel, he did not feel that the novel has the potential to be adapted into a successful commercial film, because the original script was set in a small format, only rooted in a room and It's just a few streets, and in the end, Rachel committed suicide and ended his life.

From funding to script, and from script to lineup, every step [Blade Runner] takes is very bumpy. When the team was considering the male protagonist, the first choice was not Harrison Ford, but Dustin Hoffman. , Director Ridley Scott felt that Dustin Hoffman did not have the temperament of the lone hunter in the script, but even so Scott flew to New York and Dustin Hoffman for a long time. After the discussion, the producers felt that Harrison Ford had the charm of a tough guy image, because he was very popular after the filming of [Star Wars], and it was not surprising that he became the leading actor of [Blade Runner]. Later, for the selection of the heroine Rachel, Ridley Scott decided to choose a new actor. After a series of auditions and casting process, at the end of the 23-year-old Sean Yang was appointed by the director, although before that Sean Yang does not have any film acting experience, which also makes her performance in the film hide some transparent and green feeling. The twists and turns in the early stage of the

version's

complexity are just a small mess, so the bad reviews at the beginning of the release of [Blade Runner] really made it fall to the bottom. The reason is probably that the theater version released in 1982 was quite different from the original intention of the director. Because there are rumors about the relationship with investors and even that Scott was kicked out of post-production, the monologue used in the theater version and the final happy ending made the director very angry. But later, according to Scott’s own memories, he originally wanted to use Martin Sheen’s monologue in [Apocalypse Now], so he only complained a little about the previous changes. In the end, Scott was in post-production. I found the screenwriter to rewrite the monologue, and then I found Stanley Kubrick, and asked for some unused mountain scenes in [The Shining] from others, and used them as the background for the happy ending. In this way, although there are flaws in the structure of the whole work, it is still somewhat due to Scott's intention. In the following years, [Blade Runner] was constantly adjusted so that there are as many as five versions today. In fact, viewers outside the United States have basically never seen the original theatrical feature film of 1982, because all the videotapes released before 1993 were actually the international feature film, not the version released in American theaters in 1982. . It was also in the 1982 theater version that several key details were changed, and the changes in the scene made the audience see the cloud.

Later, when the DVD was released, a director’s cut version was released, which was the re-edited version by Ridley Scott in 1991. The biggest difference between the theater version and the latter is that the end of the film is missing. Decker and Rachel are driving together. The happy ending of the departure, accompanied by a thoughtful narration, should remind people that Rachel is different from other clones and only has four years of life. Regardless of the limitation of the life span, the purpose of the happy ending is just that After the film trial, too many viewers could not understand the version edited by the director. As a result, [Blade Runner] is stuck in a process of constant adjustments and then launching a new version. Up to now, there have been five versions of [Blade Runner] for fans to eat. The last version is the final edited version in 2007. , In fact, is an extension of the director’s version edited by Ridley Scott. In addition to adding Deckerd’s dream about unicorns, it also more clearly insinuates the reality compared to the metaphor of unicorn dreams at the end of the film. Decker himself is a copycat.

This has also resulted in the identification of the two results. The audience believes that the theater version of Decker is a human, while the director's version and the final version of Decker is undoubtedly a copy. The difference between the two orientations also brings more to [Blade Runner]. For interesting discussions, the audience can use their own views to position the role. The special meaning of the theater version is not entirely the story edited by the director under consideration of the real environment. That is to say, the theater version is not the best film version the director thinks, but because most people see the theater The version of [Blade Runner], so it left a deep impression on many fans. The final edited version, released on the 25th anniversary of [Blade Runner], not only made up for the special effects of the year, but also left an indelible dialectic on the human thinking of the duplicator.


[Blade Runner] Version Discrimination


In 1982 [Theatrical Edition]
Decker set up a self-narration at the beginning of the show to help the audience better understand this character, and other sections also added a lot of narration, as well as the ending credits of Decker and Rachel rode in the car, joined the happy ending explained by Dyckard's narration, plus a bird's-eye view of the high-altitude flight. This film is borrowed from Kubrick by Scott that year and is derived from the clip in [The Shining].

1982 [International Edition]
This version is basically the same as the theater version. In order to match the North American video tape release classification system at the time, some images that were not too violent in the [theatre version] were added. The barbaric scene of the latter’s nostrils and the second one. The second shot of Decker shooting and killing Prius has been lengthened. There were three shots in the international version, and there were more Prius dying kicks than the theater version. The barking scene; the shot of Roy piercing the nail through the palm of his hand has a complete performance; in the final sunset scene, both Decker and Rachel appear in the shot, which is not available in the theater version.

In 1982 [Original Working Version]
, the scene at the beginning of the film used different lens scheduling, which is different from the close-up and zoom-out of Holden’s eyes in other versions, but a closer look at the Taylor Company Building from the perspective of a flying car; The food that Decker ordered in the bar can be seen in the camera, instead of just hearing the name of the dish like in other versions; Decker did not have a monologue when waiting for a seat in the bar, but it did not change the background advertising banner like the 1992 director’s cut version. When Decker was playing the piano, there was no unicorn image or background music inserted. This section contains all the tones played by Harrison Ford himself during the shooting; when Decker and Rachel are in the same room , Without the accompaniment of background music, the soundtrack of the previous scene will not continue; this version has a unique monologue in the whole film when Roy is dying, which is different from the 1992 director’s cut version which has no monologue at all, but a monologue. The content is different from [theatre version].

In 1992, [Director's Cut Edition]
deleted all the monologues of Decker in the film; cut out the violent and bloody scenes added in the international version; cut off the happy ending of Decker and Rachel, and turned it into the movie at the elevator door. The closing time is over; when Decker plays the piano, add a 12-second unicorn video; when Decker waits for a seat in the noodle stall, extend the time of the virtual advertising banner to fill the space for cutting off the monologue, and also add An ad word.

2007 [Final Edited Version]
Based on the [Director’s Cut Version], the background of special effects in the screen was newly repaired, and some of the actors’ faces captured and photographed were recovered and placed on the faces of the stunt actor in the film. In one of the scenes, Harrison Ford questioned a snake dealer. Because the mouth shape did not match the line, the director asked Harrison Ford’s son to capture the image of his mouth and re-speak the line, and put it into the face of Harrison Ford in the film; some shots were deleted, and the new version is included. Decker did not appear in the newspaper; a new monologue by Sheriff Bryant was added to describe Lyon’s work; when the hotel manager opened the door for Decker and Lyon, he mumbled "Kowalski"; additional violent fragments in the international version Was added in.

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Blade Runner quotes

  • Deckard: You're reading a magazine. You come across a full-page nude photo of a girl.

    Rachael: Is this testing whether I'm a replicant or a lesbian, Mr. Deckard?

  • Deckard: I have had people walk out on me before, but not... when I was being so charming.