Blade Runner vs. Star Wars - C3PO's Voight-Kampff Test

Deckard administers a Voight-Kampff test on a suspected replicant going by the name C3PO. Watch for Uncle Owen buying Roy Batty and other replicants from the Jawas. And please don't ask R2 how he feels about his mother.

All audio and video taken from Blade Runner (director's cut), the 1998 edition of Star Wars: A New Hope (Episode IV), and a few seconds from Metropolis (1927) except for the text crawl at the start and the cola ad, plus a few effects.

Alternate titles:
Droid Runner
Do Protocol Droids Dream of Electric Sheep?

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[Demonicronos]

LoL @ "You show it to your husband..."

[TotalLibertaria]

"Sweep-do-weoop, let me tell you about my mother. BZZZZZZT" Fucking brilliant.

[InstantCoffee79]

What the bloody hell are you guys writing about down there?

[DrHoldowicz]

Somehow, I'd read one book by an author, but not follow up by getting other works by the same author..so that's the only Le Guin I've read.. I tried reading Asimov but couldn't concentrate for long enough -should try again I guess, likewise Proust.

Yet I never tire at Kafka or Foucault..

And sci-fi movie-wise, I can't think of any recent ones that I like.. "Alien" was on TV here last Saturday night, that still cuts it I think..

[deidzoeb]

Left Hand of Darkness. Thumbs up. Le Guin is another one who focuses on character and speculation about society, not a lot of lasers and hi-tech stuff. The Dispossessed is interesting and Earthsea is some of the best fantasy next to Tolkien.

[DrHoldowicz]

(cont) ... That one really put the zap on my prepubescent brain.. dinosaurs, time travel, consequences.. I still have that book, actually..

And the 1960 movie of "The Time Machine" with Rod Taylor -the scenes when he time travels and the sun whizzes over, zap, dawn/dusk/dawn/dusk,,, is actually OK, not Art but cool for a diversion... when I worked in a big grey building with few windows, going in early am, coming out late pm -that scene of the days, whizzing by, used to plague me..

[DrHoldowicz]

Haven't read that one. I really liked Arthur C Clarke's "Rendezvous with Rama" as a kid, and Ursula K Le Guin's "The Left Hand of Darkness" which dealt with a race of hermaphrodites whose gender was decided during a 'breeding season' -gender depending on who had the stronger pheromones.. great read I reckon..

And I think my first Sci-fi book was an early print of Ray Bradbury short stories, got it at a 2nd hand shop as an eight year old -had a story called "A Sound of Thunder".. (cont)

[deidzoeb]

I assumed that the empathic experience of so many people all at once overpowered most of the individual parts, so it wouldn't be much like eavesdropping on others, or letting them eavesdrop on you.

Yeah, Dick seems more character-oriented. That might be what put me off in "We Can Build You" because it's just about one or two androids clashing socially with their creators, exploring their confused identities. I was expecting more hardware & sci-fi. Maybe I should read it again.

[DrHoldowicz]

(cont) Socially, I'm not sure how I'd feel about letting people "in" to my uncensored, unmoderated feelings.. might blow the plug out of a few more mellow types who've "jacked into" the device to get happy, and a serve of Holdowicz righteous rage comes whooshing down the cable.. eeek, omg, erghhh.. bad trip, maan..

P K Dick sounds like an interesting guy.. sounds like he was more into the "internal" and senses-oriented, as opposed to hardware-oriented sci-fi authors, if you get me...

[DrHoldowicz]

ok.. not having read it, It does seem pretty complex -hooking into a device that connects everyone to everyone else, sounds like an empathy orgy.. I will have to read it. I keep getting visions of "Minority Report" (based also on a P K Dick story) and the precog girl and Tom Cruise, etc..

Empathy per se would be fkn brilliant -if people could see into others' lives to know how arbitrary decisions of govt impacts on individual lives.. (cont)