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Originally Posted by Agiel7
But with his cold, detached attitude towards his work, Deckard comes off as less human than the Replicants in the film. This to me presents the most interesting existential quandary.
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Which just falls in line with the way the replicants in the movie develope. They start as preprogrammed robots, doing what they were programmed for. The combat models (Roy, Leon). The sex models (Pris, Zorah). The experimental model (Rachel). The police hunting model (Deckard). Tyrell says that Rachel had began to feel that she was a replicant, she fell in despair and gave in to a path that led to revolting: she agreed to flee. Figther Roy and whore Pris fell in love - a human emotion, and decided to revolt, and tried to expand their lives. Fighter Leon got obsessed with his artificial memories, and revolted. Zorah is a bit less differentiated in the movie, we do not get shown her motive why she revolted, but she did. And Deckard functioned like an automat, and then fell in love, and got scruples - and revolted as well. Like the other replicants, he turned out to becomer human after his rebellion against the system. - We also learn in the film that time and again replicants risk their lives to return to Earth, although they know it means a death sentence for them when they get caught - this is the treaosn why Blade Runners even exist.
So what you say, makes sense in supporting that Deckard is a replicant.
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I'm sorry, but Deckard being a Replicant is way too Shyamalan for my tastes. Plus, Deckard being a human fits more with Dick's themes in his book.
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The film does not tell the story of the book, indeed the book is VERY different. Plus Dick's protagonists almost always find out that reality remote-controls people or is not the natural relaity it is taken for, but an artifical product. His protagonists than are confronted by a universe that all of a sudden breaks apart around them, often leaving them with nothing but uncertainty, even about themselves and their own identity.
The movie stresses this question very strongly - to what degree are people, their ideas and ways of thinking, their beliefs about world and life and their own nature, just produ cts of artifical, alien construction and manipulation processes that they have no own control over, and mostly are not even aware of?
And again I remind of what scott said in an interview himself. He made it clear that the role of Deckard is constructed in a way to make it clear to the careful watcher that Deckard finds oiut to be a replicant himself. It is said in the material and the Making-ofs that come with the metal 25 year-jubilee box, which has hours and hours of documentaries about how the film was made. Very well done dociumentary, btw, I watched it all three times, and found it to be extremely fascinating. Usually I do not care for such stuff.
Their extensive making-of for Gladiator also was a very compelling piece of work, also several hours, as I seem to recall. Or I mix that up with LOTR.
Anyhow...
I'm easily getting passionate about Blade Runner, so I better log out here.