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Originally Posted by Rhodes
Why the first two?
About the film, also love the soundtrack, the final theme I ear it so many times!
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In some scenes, the known replicants have a certain, alien golden glow in their eyes. When Deckard got beaten up by Leon, and brought Rachel to his appartement, then cleans himself in the bathroom, he leaves the bathroom and Rachel asks him about what she could do, he looks back to her from the dark living room behind - and you see the same golden glow in his eyes.
In the director's cuts - only these reveal the following - , there is the scene where Deckard sits at the piano, daydreaming, and his mind is carried away and he has a memory of an apparent dream or a hallucination: a scene in a forest, and a unicorn breaks free between the trees hidden in the fog. At the end of the movie, when Deckard gets Rachel out of his appratement, on the stairs he finds a small paper figure that Gaff, the deputy, had made and left behind to show Deckard that he had been there - and let Rachel live. Gaff used to make these figures when he was bored: and in this scene its a small unicorn. He reminded Deckard of his dream - and that is a detail that Gaff only could know when he had read about it in Deckard's personnel file. Which would mean that the dream got implanted. Earlier in the movie, Deckard told Rachel that her memories of her childhood where those of Tyrell'S nice, and got implanted inbto her mind, same for her memories about small baby spider in front of her windows of the place where she beolieved she once lived with her mother. On the stairs, with the unicorn in his hand, Deckard seems to realsie beyond all doubt what Gaff told him by ieaving the figurine behind: Deckard in this scene realises that he is a replicant himself, too.
Earlier in the movie, after the fight with Leon, and Deckard and Rachel being in his appartement, Deckard is totally finished and k.o. and lies down in his living room to rest with a drink on his chest, and Rachel asks him if he knows her files and the info about her -
and if he ever had run the Voigt-Kampff-test on himself : he registers the question, but saves himself from an answer, saying nothing. Here, he still is in doubt and does not know for sure, or he is refusing to accept the possibility that he could be a replicant himself, too. But when he finally finds the unicorn on the stairs, he knows for sure, and that Gaff knew him in any way like you use to know about any manufactured product with this colour and feature list ordered (and not any other one), because it is printed on the product description chart.
One could add another point to the list of indices that Deckard is a replicant: the movie'S repeated mentioning of photgraphies. Photgraphies play a role for Rachel, but she relasies that they are forged illustrations of an identity she never had. Leon goes back to his appartement to get some photos, getting mocked for this pointless sentimentality by Roy Batty, because both men know the photos are showing a forged history of Leon. The giant advertising movies on the houses showing scenes from alien places on other planets and better life - but it remaisn unproven that the good life they show is a reality, and look at the place where the mkovie is set: the contrast between harsh reality and paradise images on TV is stunning! And finally, the piano in Deckard's appartement, framed by all those "old" family photos, and Deckard looks at them, and the camera just films him with Deckard just saiyng nothing. The theme of photos and the forged identity and forged history they refer to, repeats itself several times throughout the movie.
Artificial identity, artifical reality with the subject of the story initially being unaware of that, but later finding out, is a standard theme in Dick's work. I know probably all of his - roughly - 40 novels. The novel the film is basing on, is not bad, but Blade Runner is one of the few cases when a movie that turns a book into a film surpasses, if not outclasses the book it is basing on.
And yes, the soundtrack is - awesome.