Blade Runner tops SFX poll

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Originally Posted by Skybird

Not correct I think - it gets indicated that he has doubts in all versions of the movie, even without the first happy ending. It is when Rachel asks him whether he ever had run the Voigt-Kampff-test on himself. The question gets asked - and THEN he closes his eyes and pretends to sleep, and just does not answer. Does he prefer not to answer? Is he not sure of himself anymore? Is he afraid of the implications of the question? For me this scene always was an indication that at that time of the story he already had doubts about himself.

Even clearer it becomes in the director'S and the final cut. The scene about the unicorn, when he sits at the piano and the film shows the unicorn breaking through the bushes and trees in his imagination. At the end of the movie, Gaff leaves an origami figure in the shape of a unicorn on the floor. Decktrd finds it, freezes and stares at it - and nodds. Gaff had read his file, and there he read about all memories that giot implanted into deckard'S mind. Gaff told him by leaving that figure that Deckard is a Replicant - and Deckard learns it at this point of the film at the latest.

So they just let Deckard run off with Rachael (who'se supposedly the only replicant without an expiration date), and the details about the implanted memory of a unicorn are in Deckards file for Gaff to read ?

I don't think the unicorn is referring to Deckard at all, always thought it referred to Rachael since that ending scene when Deckard holding the oragami unicorn has Gaff narrating 'too bad she wont live...', but Gaff doesn't know she wont 'expire' after 4 years.