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- From: pete@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Peter Alexander Merel)
- Subject: Re: BLADE RUNNER FAQ Version 0.9
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 22:47:20 GMT
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- owens@cs.utk.edu (Stephen Owens) writes:
- >>12. Why couldn't Tyrell afford a real owl?
- > DADOES takes place after a nuclear holocaust, where many species
- > of animals have been decimated. Owls are especially rare and
- > therefore especially costly. Companies like Tyrell make much
- > of their profit by producing "replicant" animals for people
- > to buy and take care of like regular pets (which raises questions
- > about what makes humans unique: Why do we like to take care of
- > animals? In the book, replicants were unable to care properly
- > for animals because they had no capability for empathy and they
- > would forget to feed them).
-
- As discussed many times here, and hopefully as explained in the new faq, the
- book is a poor guide to the film. The obvious differences in world population,
- the fact that the movie replicants (replicant is a word not used in the book
- btw) are capable of empathy and love, and the obvious differences in theme and
- plot make the movie more an answer to the book than a recapitulation of it.
-
- But I phrased this question poorly. It should have read, "Why couldn't Tyrell
- afford a real owl when Sebastien has live doves in his attic?"
-
- > The question I have searched unsuccessfully for the answer to
- > concerns the origin of the poem Roy quotes when he and Leon
- > confront the genetic eye designer. The quote, I believe,
- > begins: "Fiery the angels fell . . ." On a hunch, I checked
- > Milton's Paradise Lost, but to no avail.
- > Anyone have a clue?
-
- It is not a quote. It is a paraphrase of lines in Blake's America.
-
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