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- From: angel@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
- Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
- Subject: More on Bladerunner...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.132537.45051@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 13:25:37 CST
- Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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- Okay, now it's my turn to comment on this BladeRunner thread, whether or not
- Deckard is an android...
-
- Perhaps this is out of line, but the movie was based on a book by Philip K.
- Dick called DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? The whole point of the book,
- I think, was the fact that Deckard himself is not sure whether he is human or
- android. His relationship with the android played by Rachel Ward (I forget the
- names now, it's been a long time since I've seen the movie or read the book) is
- what causes him to question his own humanity. He realizes that if she has been
- implanted with fake memories, then so he could have been implanted also. I can
- distinctly remember a scene in the book which was not in the movie, in which
- Deckard finds a turtle. Most animals are extinct at this time, and he flips the
- turtle over on its back to see if it is real. It is not, and he doesn't know
- what to feel about this. The whole story is based on this ambiguity: he doesn't
- really feel anything about anything, does he? He seems to just float through
- life with a sneer on his face...
-
- Anyway, to pick up where a previous poster left off, discussing the 'droids
- as classified A, B, and C for their physical and mental abilities, could it be
- that Deckard is a B in both physical and mental, Roy is an A in both, Priss is
- A in physical and B in mental, and Leon is an A in physical and C in mental--
- who says that they all have to be the same? Also, in the case of Deckard being
- classified lower than the rest, isn't this possible also? Maybe his level was
- the only one that the police force could afford....
-
- And, to respond to the question from Michael Wojcik of UPenn, which was: "Is
- there a logically ordered, edited, rewriten (sic) paper based on the IDAR?
- thread?" The answer is YES!! Read the book!!!
-
- That's all I have to say now.....
- angel
-