Re: Suggest a movie!
The replicants aren't great, they're slaves. Creating them was evil. It's the result of a total lack of empathy.
Replicants are stronger, faster, and tougher than humans. Their engineered short lifespan is the only thing that isn't equal or better. They have emotions and sentience, so it's evil to enslave them, but it's not inherently evil to create them. Humans create creatures that are very similar to themselves every day.
The whole unicorn thing in Blade Runner is a suggestion that Deckard is also a replicant, which if you watch the other movies based on Philip K. Dick stories, questioning reality is a common theme.
Right, but it doesn't work with the major theme Scott develops. "Humanity confronted by its creation" falls apart if the protagonist isn't human. A lot of Dick's questioning-reality stuff works in stories because we can be inside the character's head, knowing his thoughts, experiencing his reality with him. But that's impossible in a movie. The audience is always outside the characters looking in--VO narration notwithstanding.
EDIT:
It suddenly occurs to me that you may have been joking by choosing train wreck adaptations of Dick's work. I would add Minority Report (is Anderton locked up and dreaming the third act?) and say that even tho it and Total Recall are fun, the questioning-reality parts tend to derail all the Dick adaptatations.
Last edited by Zarban (2010-10-12 18:07:20)
