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- From: mwojcik@mail.sas.upenn.edu (Michael Wojcik)
- Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
- Subject: BR-Replicants and Pain
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- Date: 16 Nov 92 17:56:10 GMT
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- I just watched Blade Runner (not the DC) over the weekend. I tried to keep
- the recent "Is Deckard a replicant?" thread out of my mind (not that I read
- all of it), and the question I have is this...
-
- Do replicants feel pain? In several scenes (the eye shop, Priss's egg), the
- replicants intentionally demonstrate their absence of pain, and when
- Deckard wastes the first replicant, she keeps running with several bullet
- holes in her. Yet near the end, Priss is flailing around in GREAT pain, and
- when Roy is attempting to ward off the tissue necrosis, he pushes a nail
- through his hand to, I guess, "stimulate" it into functioning. Can you
- say...Inconsistant?
-
- OK. The relevance to the IDAR? thread. If replicants either feel no pain,
- have a high tolerance for pain, or can control WHEN they feel pain, then
- Deckard is not a replicant since he obviously feels *something* when Roy
- breaks his fingers.
-
- Oh boy, I hope I didn't open a can of worms again. Is there a logically
- ordered, edited, rewriten paper based on the IDAR? thread floating around
- the nets somewhere? Can someone email it to me? please?
-
- PS The same day I watched BR, Ladyhawke was on later that afternoon.
- Gotta love that Rutger Hauer!
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