Posted: 7/3/2007 9:43:00 PM EDT
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I just finished watching Blade Runner this evening and I seem to remember Deckard's boss tell him that (6) replicants escaped but one was fried by an electric field trying to enter the Tyrell Corp. We know who the other four were but who is the sixth one? 
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definitely not Deckard. Both the director and Harrison Ford said at the time of the release of the film that Deckard was not a replicant. About a decade later, the director says he was a replicant, basically because he's bought into the fan's vision of a coverup/conspiracy. There are lots of little flubs in the movie, like when Roy Batty is in the telephone booth. There is a hand on his shoulder, but then he exits, no one else is in there with him. But it's still my favorite movie of all time 
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Bryant: "There was an escape from the off-world colonies two weeks ago. Six replicants, three male, three female. They slaughtered twenty-three people and jumped a shuttle. An aerial patrol spotted the ship off the coast. No crew, no sight of them. Three nights ago they tried to break into Tyrell Corporation. One of them got fried running through an electrical field. We lost the others. On the possibility they might try to infiltrate his employees, I had Holden go over and run Voight-Kampff tests on the new workers. Looks like he got himself one." Given that info, you wouldn't know if the sixth was male or female...hmmm... |
The scenes that suggest Deckard was a replicant were cut from the original film, and later included in the director's cut. The fact that the scenes were actually shot for the original film means that the idea of Deckard being a replicant is not exactly new. |
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It is Deckard. Also another update for serious fans. They actually went back and spent some serious money this past year to update and correct some continuity issues in some scene, i.e. bullet holes etc. They refilmed a few minor scenes and will rerelease an new cut that is supposed to be better and cleaner. P |
Why would it be Deckard?  Deckard wasn't new to the department. He was a veteran Blade Runner. If he would have been on the shuttle he'd have remembered it. Are you saying that they found him and reprogrammed him? I don't really think that's possible with the replicants. The only way to tell them apart from real people aside from their inhuman strength is by their bone marrow. The whole idea of him being one is pretty lame. I don't buy into it. |
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There have been so many conflicting stories about this movie over the years that it's hard to tell what's true and what isn't. That being said, I remember reading once that there was another Replicant character in the original draft of the script. Supposedly, the character was dropped, but Bryant's dialogue wasn't changed. Simple continuity error. Who knows? (Shrug) |
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Straight from Ridley Scotts' mouth: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7o0rvVxU0w End of thread. |
Uh Oh, Scott didn't give it the Lucas treatment did he?
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Has anybody read the book by Philip K. Dick? I had to read it for an english class in college and it was very entertaining. This class was a while ago and I don't remember what happened at the end. But perhaps going to the original source of the film would give more answers? The book is called "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep" Actually this author has written many novels and short stories that were later turned into movies. Total Recall, Impostor, Paycheck, Minority Report, Screamers, Next, and A Scanner Darkly. I think at the time he wrote them the stories weren't very big until they made the Blade Runner Movie. That seems to be when people "discovered" his writings and began writing them into screenplays. |