Blade Runner - The Dream

the unicorn scene

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• blade
• runner
• unicorn
• dream

[Indienads]

Thats actually my favorite scene in the film. So much is said in this sequence, without anything really being said.

[ficsci]

I've only seen the theatrical cut, and felt like the only things that might suggest that Deckard is also a replicant are the part where Rachel asked if he has taken the test himself and the fact that there are a bunch of unexplained photos on his piano. But those could mean anything. I wonder if they just put that scene in the later cuts because they thought, "hey wouldn't it be interesting if he was a replicant?" ....uh..... (-_-)

[BobbyD167]

@episodemp3 According to the dvd extra on blade runner, this was apparently a test scene from legend that the editor used in this film mixed with the unrelated shot of harrison on the piano. its amazing how this scene came together. totally unprovoked yet so haunting and brilliant

[b7r7u7c7e]

@SteveSpicerPortsmuth I have the Blue Ray Blade Runner and Scott says in so many words you have to be a fool to think Deckard is human. There are so many clues that point to him being an Android. He and Rachel are Nexis 7. Deckard unlike the Nexis 6 models dose not have super strength. But keeps pictures like they do, has dreams that are really implants, grows angry because he dosent understand new emotions,(When Rachel tries to leave) and eyes glow red in the kitchen after Rachel saves him.

[episodemp3]

Did they just reuse footage from Legend? Directed by Ridley Also.

[gerrymoran1]

What makes it more likely that the dream scene is an afterthought is that the Unicorns were taken from outtakes from "Legend", a later Ridley Scott film.

[AnotherSchmoe]

@SteveSpicerPortsmuth

Yeah I've seen a clip of him saying "Are you sure you ARE a man" and it was really heavy-handed, I'm glad they cut it out. Either way, human or replicant, doesn't really matter to me. It's the question, the ambiguity, that makes it interesting, and knowing that we aren't all that different.

[SteveSpicerPortsmuth]

@AnotherSchmoe

In the first cut of the movie (before it was released) Gaff said to Deckard:"You've done a man's job sir! But are you sure you ARE a man??"

That was seen as way too obvious and left nothing for the audience to figure out. Instead Rachel asks Deckard if he's ever taken a Voight-Kampff test himself and the unicorn dream was added in the 1991 director's cut.

Harrison Ford himself thought Deckard was a human and thought Ridley Scott had agreed on him being one.

[Caligula138]

Its not called Do Androids Dream Of Electric Unicorns...

[monteoner]

isnt this scene the one scene that tells you hes a robot? surely the film would be totally different without it?

[cripplehawk]

Leon=Tortoise

Zhora=snake

Priss= Racoon

Batty=Wolf

Rachel=Spider

Decard=Unicorn