#651

I didn’t get why
Jarod Leto even wanted the baby robot - as he had Harrison ford and a new Mum robot, which is all he needs to make the baby robots

Yeah?

#652

What a grand lark to STILL NOT TELL US FOR SURE if Deck is robo-Deck or not. A brilliant wheeze that, i bet Hampton Fancher was pissing himself.

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#653

Is deckard a replicant

  • Yes
  • No
  • Dunno

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#654

Can we have a “don’t care” or “it’s better if it’s vague” option?

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#655

Considered a ‘shroedinger’s replicant’ option but bottled it

#656

Hahahahhahaha you fucking coward! :joy:

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#657

If you watch Kermode’s Edge Of Blade Runner doc he interviews the 2 writers Hampton Fancher and David Peoples together sitting next to each other, and they pretty much say it was based on a misunderstanding between the 2 of them. They didn’t really know whether he was or he wasn’t, it was just a very vague idea that Fancher had that he might be, but barely hinted at in the first draft of the screenplay. Peoples then picked up on this, and ran with a bit more, which Fancher, liking Peoples’ more-explicit-suggestion in the script, then took slightly further still in his own final re-draft.

So ‘Dunno’ is exactly the correct option.

#658

saw someone talking about how it’s now broken even at the box office? can’t see any sources for it myself but be more likely we’ll see a sequel if so.

#659

surely Leto didn;t want the replicants to reproduce, so he was trying to find the daughter as well to reverse engineer whatever was allowing them to get pregnant

#660

Leto wanted replicants to reproduce because it would be quicker/cheaper than making them. He currently couldn’t make enough to populate the off-planet colonies at the rate he wanted. He says there are currently only 30(?) colonised planets and wants many more, i.e. some form of galactic empire thing.

Needed the baby replicant so he could work out how Tyrell did it as hadn’t been able to work out how to do it himself. Think that is why he rather unnecessarily kills that newly born replicant as she was an unsuccessful attempt.

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#661

Oh …oops I missed that

#662

I think the point is we don’t know what he wants. His story and the Replicant army seem to be left so that they can make sequels IMO. I don’t think much of the raggedness of this writing.

#663

yeah but he had a clone of Rachael (made from the same dna, so the same, not buying that differnt colour eyes nonsense) and deckard, so he has the mum and dad of the baby robot, he doesn’t they need the baby robot does he?

#664

I don’t think the new Rachel had the same replimum abilities old Rachel had. He didn’t know how to make replimums hence trying to find the child.

#665

The new rachel isnt the same, they didnt have enough info about her.

#666

Nah it was pretty obvious what he wanted. Anothwrebilbadguy is right

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#667

pffft! looked pretty similar to me!

#668

didn’t even try did he!!!

#669

Smh budget

#670

Nah mate. You don’t have to be wrong every time, you know? :wink:

We can speculate and I would tend to favour @anotherevilbadguy’s explanation to a degree but I think the point is more about getting the tech not to reproduce via sex because like hell is 9 months gestation and 16 years growing up. Yeah maybe it’s quicker but we know it isn’t (on account of the actual child) but even if we assume Leto might make it more quickly but then speculation.

So the answer would seem to be that he values that technology, but then who is he? What is he? Ambiguity is the SOUL of Blade Runner and so the very point is that we don’t really know why. I mean this film has gone and cast more ambiguity over whether or not Deckard is a replicant just by how Leto’s character treats him as a human rather than the other half of reproductive pairing.

The point is that we can’t really be sure. Leto is meant to be playing a mysterious character. It’s just a shame Leto is really bad at portraying this character.