Ridley Scott confirms that Deckard is a Replicant

Ridley Scott confirms that the Blade Runner Deckard is a Replicant

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• Blade
• Runner
• Ridley
• Scott
• Deckard
• Replicant

[NotHenryMarkum]

If he's an organic machine designed specificallly to hunt and kill these guys, why did they make him so weak?

That's like making a jig saw out of soft lumber.

[b7r7u7c7e]

@glennbroadway I agree. I think Deckard is a Nexis 7. A new version like Rachel without added strength and planted dreams so he wouldnt suspect hes a robot. The humans on earth had humans do there dirty work so why not have them be Blade runners. Theres so many clues hes more robot then human. They way Gaff follows him around. The way he can take damage from powerful replics. They way he dosent know how to deal with Rachel in there love seen, and how he obessed over photos.

[Planet7Station]

He's a replicant, it's Ridley's film so that's it.

[OneWithTheEyeOfTruth]

@Scytheriah

I think Blade Runner units have been around for years, hunting renegade replicants, earlier models. Replicants just weren't illegal on Earth until recently. "Special police squads - BLADE RUNNER UNITS - had orders to shoot to kill..." doesn't mean Blade Runner units were just now formed. It means the already long-established Blade Runner units NOW HAD ORDERS to kill any replicants that came to Earth.

[OneWithTheEyeOfTruth]

@hayesis

Ridley Scott: "...and that was the only reference right there to this abstract image which was a Unicorn.... and that never occurs again until the end of the movie... there it is ... a Unicorn."

Not in the original it wasn't. In the original 1982 version of the film, the origami Unicorn is the ONLY reference to that image. That crappy wobbly-horned Unicorn was only in the Director's Cut and (fixed in) later versions.

What's its significance in the original film?

[jimbobhk2009]

@wydok then how come gaff knew about his dream? it's just like how deckard knew about rachels memory right?

[gnikcuf888]

why argue with Ridley, it's HIS direction, his movie.......personally it makes perfect sense...plus...Ridley agrees...

[wydok]

Scott can bite me, Deckard is not a replicant!

[SaucisseMerguez]

how could he be a replicant it makes no sense 

[SuperNiels91]

The question still remains unanswered as Scott says that he is a replicant and his screenwriter says that he's not, along with the actor and the book author. And I think the question deserves to be raised but it doesn't need to be answered. I actually kinda like the mystery floating around the nature of the character. Oh and also I thought the love scene with Rachael was really weird and ambiguous too (bcs of its violence). But I don't go around saying it ruined the point of the romance.

[SuperNiels91]

He MIGHT be a replicant because Gaff knows about his dream, which means it's not a dream of his own but one which has been implanted, just as Rachael's memories. And I don't think it ruins the point of the movie as Deckard being a replicant raises the same matter : if even Deckard, who's supposed to be a human hunting replicants, is himself a replicant, then all the points of reference are lost, good and evil, human and machine, the hunter and the target. The aim of it all is ambiguity.

[cepomwa]

ok he is a replickant but why should we understand it thanks to the unicorn? what does it mean I dont get it?

He is a replickant because he dreams of unicorn? and how gaff knows this?