Wed Oct 17, 2001 7:51 am by Deckard BR26354
Paul: My comments about emotional responses are more to do with adult maturity and behavioural patterns learned from childhood through to adulthood rather than patterns of emotional behaviour 'inherited' from the (now) highly evolved human race (does that make sense?).<BR><BR>I suppose this begs the question (and I have asked this before) how are replicants made? What are the raw materials used? Are they 'grown' from modified human DNA and therefore already have the appropriate genetic 'apparatus' to deal with complex emotions in the same way that humans already can? <BR><BR>Basically, my point is that replicants, IMHO, are super-beings, with the mental capacity of an above-average intelligence human but with the emotional responses of a small child. <BR><BR>Roy exhibits very 'child-like' behaviour several times in the movie. <BR><BR>When he meets up with Pris again in JFs apartment, he looks very vulnerable.<BR><BR>Roy (to JF): 'Gosh, you really got some nice toys here.'<BR><BR>When he tells Pris that 'There's only two of us now', he looks like a little lost boy who want's his mother (which, I suppose is more or less the case!). <BR><BR>Roy even plays a game of hide-and-seek with Deckard at the end (well not really, but you know what I mean).<BR><BR>Remember Rachel's photo of her and her 'mother' - the (implanted memory) of motherly love, probably has a big positive impact on Rachels ability to handle her emotions and conversely the lack of that same 'experience' in the lives of the other Replicants can only hinder their emphatic responses.<BR><BR>The four-year thing - did Ridley introduce that idea for the movie or was it in DADOES (I must admit, I don't remember reading it in PKD's book)?<BR><BR>_________________<BR><!-- BBCode Start --><IMG SRC="http://www.deckard.worldonline.co.uk/filez/b26354.jpg" BORDER="0"><!-- BBCode End --><BR>B26354<BR><BR>--------------------------------------------<BR><BR>The difference between the impossible and the possible is equal to the difference between today and tomorrow.<BR><BR><font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Deckard BR26354 on 2001-10-17 14:17 ]</font>
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