Blade Runner VK Test on Leon

[JonTonify]

2:20 That face is the face I will make in a job interview.

[phelps12471]

His mother must of been someone you shouldn't mess with lol.

[ITSONLYRNR]

Wow! "you want to hear about my mother, Let me tell you about my mother!" Great sceene. Awesome movie.

[markfreemon]

looks like he Aced the test!

[respuestasveganas]

It is estimated that 1% to 6% of the population is psychopathic. Please show your compassion for those who are weaker, stop being speciesist and become vegan.

[ballickmoyler]

What the hell is a turtle? or a tortise? WTF are those goddam things? ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[iainhead]

Good to see they have brought back smoking in the work place in the future

[achmedlolol]

even robots are sensitive about mother questions

[berner]

I thought you were supposed to roll a D20

[jgtdaw]

Let me tel u abot mi mutha.BANG!BANG! ur dead!{+!+}.

[jgtdaw]

TURTLE,TORTOISE THINGY?

[WLP1024usarmy]

This scene should be dedicated to all the shrinks and therapists who make $80 an hour to ask a bunch degrading questions.

[gsixtysix]

@WLP1024usarmy

No, it should be dedicated to all the corporate cocksuckers

[facecheek]

let me tell you bout my mother, bang lol

[brainwasher9876]

MY MOTHER IS A FISH

[Komodokid57]

@brainwasher9876

Hello Vardaman.

[Grey13Human]

Maybe they should have put some guards there? In case this test of their gives positive result?

[mcw000]

I have a job interview tomorrow...I hope it goes better than this.

[TheMarkTenification]

Can you please allow embedding??

[steveteaches]

the subs for this are sooo wrong lol

[xxekekxx]

@steveteaches subs normally aren't literal translations of what is being heard in the movie, otherwise it would sound unnatural

[mfuji02]

fck subs >_<

[PtAltmVansanTarr]

@photonlust Just look at the Sunday NYTimes the fnords are all over the place

[photonlust]

From fiction to fact, and happening F.A.S.T. I've seen the fnords you people can not as of yet believe, it is almost time to get those 'Future Attributes' screened!

[dasgdasg]

You see a snail crawling on the edge of a straight-razor...

Wait, wrong movie.

[criggs187]

@dasgdasg On the contrary, I think that Leon just shot that guy with a diamond bullet right through the forehead.

[klavss76]

Question: Tell me the good things you can remember about your mother.

Answer: Hmmmm... I think now I'm gonna use the handgun-under-the-desk lifeline, pal.

[klavss76]

Leon is human enough for me, I love the way he's troubled about not helping the hypotetical tortoise

[CheesyStranger]

If this were Deckard doing the examination, then do you think he would've shot first?

[The31415927]

The whole "Peace" release thing just never gets old...

MR ASHmore, so what should I do about this thing I have stuck through my hand?

Carrot and Ginger soup.... 

[The31415927]

Why do you STILL want to know about your mother, Prince William? She was just a prop, remember?

The abject unprofessional..

[The31415927]

You still want to hear about this other guy's mother?

You want to hear about MY mother?

[ballsthatclank]

If this is the future, kill me now.

[chrisconwaypeters]

trying to tell you that your a bad crop

[christineparis18]

Cult !! Leon Test can't get tired of those lines

[XSC3]

for some reason the interviewer always reminded me of a young Johnny Carson

[ScrotalKarma]

His mommy actually cut the crust off his sandwiches :P

[carig121]

still amazed by the power of this ridiculous tiny gun lol

[LordChampoo]

@carig121 then check out MIB's noisy cricket...

[tehkao]

Sometimes I think about this scene when I'm in a meeting with my boss.

[morfius93638]

um do replacants have blood or urine to check instead of a psych exam and if this is what 2019 looks lik im outa here

[breezeman199]

For an android, this guy is one immense moron.

[McLarenMercedes]

@breezeman199

He was designed to be some strong load lifter in the colonies, and hence wasn't equiped with much of a brain.

Btw, Leon isn't as much of a "moron" as he is emotionally immature. Lack of emotional experience and seemingly childish behaviour for adult age, is seen in most replicants. Notice how he later plays with Chew's eyes as if he was some bored child.

[44eelz]

tortoise, whats that?..do you know what a turtle is?..of course!! lol

[frankly1970]

Harrison Ford Versus Greedo

[HUTUMAGIC]

HOLDEN WAS A CUNT AND DESERVED DEATH AT THE HAND OF TEH PROPHET LEON (PEACE BE UNTO HIM)

[Ruck2]

This is like a conversation between Gervais and Pilkington. "What desert?"

[slantyrock]

@Ruck2 lol, you're dead right

[nathan2511]

@Ruck2 haha this is EXACTLY what I thought! XD

[FoodCubes]

He shoots through the table, at an angle towards Holdon's torso?

[McLarenMercedes]

Funny. It seems Leon was such a typical replicant being emotionally very unstable and easily annoyed, Holden didn't need that machine or the VK test to see that he was a replicant.

[Incognito1986]

Hmm. The AC must of been broken.

[bobby4500]

lol @ google released nexus one ^^

great coment

[faroolabjalmak]

wot dis shit? dis asshole say dis shit his muder wan fuck his asshole o som shit? fucking american fagot dis fucking replacant try dis shit mi country e be fucked over n den his fucking muder b raped in da eye o som shit fuck u suck mi dick

[SickOfStars]

Wow, he has a cool mom.

[FUSER2K07]

is the film on blu-ray yet? i love it

[Orlor]

@FUSER2K07 It's been on Blu-ray for quite awhile now.



[wfpereira]

See, Google has just released Nexus One. ;-]

[gunsandroses88]

It'd be so funny if the doctor shouted "YOUR MUM"

Leon would have ripped his head from his shoulder's and taken a shit down his windpipe LOL !

;) xD

[Fanco3]

That was badass.

[AidanMclaren]

@Fanco3

Nice one, troll.

Mankind...

[ospTube]

My teenage son would fail this test.

[ArtieatsRamen]

Where did that gun come from and where was he hiding it!? 0_o

[DanaBanana75]

I second that, RIP Brion James. He was fantastic in this.

[k9thru12]

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[edaines]

wait, what the fuck happened at 3:04? what was that bucket of goo?

[thedigitalcollective]

"let me tell you bout my mother" i jumped when he did.lol

[xhable]

Why to never VK test a spambot

[jovanstankovic]

xkcd? :)

[celtichobos]

wat movie is this

[mrpeanut25]

Blade Runner....

[theemceemurdah]

Why are you even alive?

[adeworks]

Brion James, class actor, RIP

[josieldeassis]

Hummm... I guess he doesn't like to talk about his mother!

[PaytonWestlake]

Poor Leon is emotionally conflicted. He both Hates & Loves his Mother. It is suggested that the mother of the replicants is Earth (Mother Earth). The replicants are forbidden from earth. Leon hates his mother for this. Yet the replicants return to Earth (their mother) suggesting love for her. But their return to earth is through a violent attack on the off-world colonies. This brings the conflicting emotions together... an act of love carried out in Hate (rape). Not somethin you wanna talk about

[lars3939]

sigh...Sigmund Freud is in the house...

[PaytonWestlake]

Sigh...

[randomlaughingman]

On a different note, a Video Watchdog edition had dialogues (and I think stills - it seemed to exist as a watchable bit of film or video) from an extended scene of Deckard at the hospital visiting the guy in this clip - there was a parallel drawn between the breathing apparatus to the VK pnuenmatic / pump thing.

[randomlaughingman]

There should be empathy tests done on everyone for real, to determine whether they qualify as a real human or not. The book this is based on makes the animal empathy a lot more obvious; the ability or feature to feel compassion with other creatures.

[smalltalentforwar]

Ahh the good old days- when government employees were allowed to smoke at their desks

[WatchRyder]

Yo, cool times they were.

[risc19]

lol!

[stephan96]

@smalltalentforwar Back when we were 'free'.

[racookster]

@smalltalentforwar Some government employees can still smoke. Your Senators and House Representatives can. The stated reason is that it's to make their guests comfortable -- which is true. Since most of their guests are in fact powerful lobbyists, heads of corporations and wealthy campaign donors, and those "guests" are actually the Congresscritters' bosses, they can do as they like.

One set of rules for them, another for the rest of us.

[jcfbell3001]

@smalltalentforwar

they still are...they have to use your cash instead of tobacco, though...

[420Balance]

This is badass. Awesome movie.

[xanapax]

Oh yeahhh!

[doctorspankluv]

Wake up....time ta die.

[ianclivewright]

He shouldn't have asked him about his mother, Nexus 6 androids are notoriously Freudian, and touchy on the subject.

[neuromandw]

Nice! :) FWIW, I heard Chcuk Norris is Nexus 6.

[sacrednic]

hahahah.. classic :)

[NOOBNUT08]

@ianclivewright There not androids there more like laboratory made humans

[owaffs]

@NOOBNUT08

Nope, laboratory made humans is 'Brave New World'. In the Blade Runner / Do Androids dream of electric sheep world, the Replicants were essentially cyborgs - kinda like the Terminators. That's what gave them their superior strength and speed (and for the Nexus 6s an on par intellect with humans).

[DHTSciFiArtist]

@owaffs No these are not androids like in robots that are made to look human. These are genetically engineered humans grown in labs, specially designed for menial, dangerous tasks.

[owaffs]

@DHTSciFiArtist

The story comes from a book called "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Androids are robots with human appearance. If they were just engineered humans (like in Brave New World or Gattaca) then they wouldn't be androids (especially not in terms recognised back in the 1980s). The book was about how we define humanity in a world where robots could develop emotions (traditionally seen as a human trait) which wouldn't be an issue if Replicants were engineered humans.

[owaffs]

@owaffs

That was the point of the VK test. It made the defining difference between humans and robots being that robots can't empathise. One of the lines Deckard says to Rachel, shortly before doing the VK test on her, is "Replicants are like any other machine; they're either a benefit or a hazard. If they're a benefit, it's not my problem".

Do you really think anyone would refer to a clone or a genetically-altered human as a machine if they didn't have artificial, mechanical parts?

[DHTSciFiArtist]

@owaffs In the movie based on the novel. The replicants are not robots in the sense of mechanical machines but genetically engineered humans that are manufactured meaning born in a chamber in a lab. They are called machines in the same sense as the black slaves of 1700s being called "Chattel" They are both considered property and not sentient life. They are artificial in the sense they are built from tailor made DNA. They simply had no time to develop social skills like humans do.

[666Apparition]

@ianclivewright Hah, good one!

[scaldingwalter]

Great scenes are those that are short but intense, and set the tone for the rest of the picture. This is undoubtedly one of them. Brion James (RIP) as Leon was excellent not in what he said, but in what he didn't say. His facial expressions and subtle physical actions are disturbing to watch and quite intense. I especially like it when he says, "but I know what you mean." There's a cool and calculating menace in the way he says it, which belies his nervous outward demeanor.

[truxor2]

Very well put.

[stevebritgimp]

Bad ass scene, bad ass film. All time great.

Odd I wanted to see this scene, and earlier I'd been watching 'I like turtles'. Maybe Leon don't like turtles.

[AidanMclaren]

Why why why...did you call this "bad ass" out of all the compliments you could have given it?

You are an anti-intellectual, aren't you?

[stevebritgimp]

Mate - please don't let my use of bad-ass and the liking turtles thing make you think I'm anti-intellectual - I'm pretty sure a lot of people on youtube wouldn't be able to spell intellectual. I was at a speech by A C Grayling last month (I kid you not). It's just a turn of phrase in a light-hearted way.  It's not like I'm American or anything.

What compliment would you like me to have made? Would you like to be modified?

[AidanMclaren]

@stevebritgimp

So you admit you're saying that because you just wanted to be childish?

Now you see why I hate the word "bad-ass". And the fact that a Brit feels the need to say an American phrase...

Oh, and can the person who voted me down speak up? I think complimenting anything with "badass" makes a mockery of the thing being complimented.

[MFCBastion]

@AidanMclaren Because your disdain of the phrase makes you come off as an asshole.

[AidanMclaren]

@MFCBastion

I'd say you're more of an "asshole" for not having a disdain of it.

A word said by people who are insecure macho men.

[MFCBastion]

@AidanMclaren

Sure I can be an asshole. It's really satisfying, isn't it?

[AidanMclaren]

@MFCBastion

No.

[AidanMclaren]

Hilarious.

Voted down three times for saying "no" to someone proclaiming being an "ass"hole is satisfying.

Idiots.

[slantyrock]

Cowards, they love mocking people without pressing the reply button and giving a thumbs down when they know they have lost. Here, have a thumbs up heh heh.

[AidanMclaren]

@slantyrock

Um, thanks.

[stevebritgimp]

Mate, I'll say what I want, and use whatever words I wish. I noticed someone thumbed down your comment so I thumbed it back up again. Did I say I wanted to be childish? Is being light-hearted being childish? We're watching a scene where a robot shoots a bloke. So what is it, the Battleship Potemkin? Have you ever read flamewars on youtube and thought you were above it? If people don't find what you write interesting or affirming to read they aren't going to stick around.

[AidanMclaren]

@stevebritgimp

To a man like me, being light-hearted enough to say "badass" is childish. You can use whatever words you wish, whenever you wish, but that doesn't mean I can't argue with those words.

I never said I was above flamewars or arguing, I pretty much implied I hate language that is bred from insecurity, such as "badass".

[stevebritgimp]

That seems fair enough. I agree that you are right that language of bluster is indicative of a fault somewhere, and in the real world I myself would shy away from people who straight-facedly express themselves like that. We can explore those faults with further interrogation :) . I would only add that as someone hitting middle age as I am, letting your hair down and having fun are moments in time that you value a lot more after years where you haven't been doing so, and are a cause of regret.

[stevebritgimp]

PS - managed to catch the film for the umpteenth time on BBC iplayer on Christmas Eve - am still not entirely happy with the 'father' change. For my faults - I'm happy with 'focker' in Rutger Hauer's Dutch accent. We get the father/son symbology from the whole scene, and the aggression should stay. Putting the word into Batty's mouth is laying things on a bit thick in my opinion, and I think it's treating us like we're stupid. But then I'm sure there'll be other versions...

[WorfSonofMoog]

@AidanMclaren This comment is pretty badass

[qwertj1]

hahahaha leons brother is my spanish teacher.

seriously no joke.

[hskyart]

the guy is so funny, ask question back to the question.

[jmbladel]

Awesome scene. This movie could have been made yesterday.

[hisoj]

movies like this don't really get made anymore

they didn't really get made back when this was made either but um

[tazi401]

Its a completely timeless film!

[NicoretteMan]

Thanks for the pics again.

[Jahkonen]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN IM NOT HELPING!?

Hey M.I.T,develop replicants fast,pleeeeaze!

[retaliatorek]

Leon Kowalski! Fuck yeah! ;))))))

[aasddf4]

Thanks :).

[kelillo]

Great scene for a great movie

[ShadowPoo]

lol that mop eating popcorn at the end is hilarious

[2youth]

Brilliant movie. Better CG integration than alot of tripe coming out now, 25 years later. Tnx for the upload