Blade Runner


Like Deckard from Blade Runner?

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Don't answer, rhetorical question)

Pros:

Flying cars.

An in-her-prime Daryl Hannah playing hard to get by kicking your ass.

There are such things as basic pleasure replicants in 2019. Rejoice World of Warcraft players, the future is almost here.

You get to run off with an in-her-prime Sean Young and if she gets on your nerves, you can just "retire" her. I kid, I kid. No letters, please.

Cons:

Having to live in rainy, rainy Los Angeles.

Having to drive by big-ass tv screens showing the faces of Japanese women eating.

You'll get sick and tired of administering the Voight-Kampff test.

Edward James Olmos is kind of a freaky partner, with the origami and all.

Having to "retire" the replicants working as strippers and basic pleasure models.

Having to fight replicants who've attacked ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. You may be a bit out of your league.

Quotes:

Deckard: They don't advertise for killers in the newspaper. That was my profession. Ex-cop. Ex-blade runner. Ex-killer.

Deckard: She's a replicant, isn't she?
Tyrell: I'm impressed. How many questions does it usually take to spot them?
Deckard: I don't get it Tyrell.
Tyrell: How many questions?
Deckard: Twenty, thirty, cross-referenced.
Tyrell: It took more than a hundred for Rachael, didn't it?
Deckard: She doesn't know.
Tyrell: She's beginning to suspect, I think.
Deckard: Suspect? How can it not know what it is?
Deckard:: The report read "Routine retirement of a replicant." That didn't make me feel any better about shooting a woman in the back.

Deckard: I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last moments he loved life more than he ever had before. Not just his life, anybody's life, my life. All he'd wanted were the same answers the rest of us want. Where did I come from? Where am I going? How long have I got? All I could do was sit there and watch him die.

Gaff: You've done a man's job, sir. I guess you're through, huh?
Deckard: Finished.
Gaff: It's too bad she won't live! But then again, who does?

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Internet Resources on Becoming a Replicant:

Replicant - Wikipedia

Blade Runner - Wikipedia

Blade Runner - IMDB

Blade Runner - BRMovie

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