Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 3:45 am
Just my ideas:
The "Deck-A-Rep" question sort of redundant. Real question is "Is Batty (and all the other Replicants) human?".
What is a Replicant?
From the film:
In the deleted hospital scene Holden says ?They?re becoming us?, but they always were us. Replicants are human. Genetically engineered to be stronger, faster, smart, but still human. Only considered sub-human by their slave masters, their creators and marketed as such to the masses by the multinationals. As Parker said in Ridley?s previous film "The Damn Company".
Batty is the same as you or me, or rather a variant of us, it?s just that his light burns half as long and twice as bright.
Batty and Deckard aren?t brothers because they?re both Replicants. They?re brothers because they?re both human.
The "Deck-A-Rep" question sort of redundant. Real question is "Is Batty (and all the other Replicants) human?".
What is a Replicant?
From the film:
Opening crawl
The Nexus 6 Replicants were superior in strength and agility, and a least equal in intelligence, to the genetic engineers who created them.
Tyrell
Commerce is our goal here. More Human Than Human is our motto.
We began to recognise in them a strange obsession, after all they are emotionally inexperienced with only a few years in which to store up the experiences we take for granted. If we gift them a past we create a pillow or cushion for their emotions and consequently we can control them better.
Chew
Just eyes. Genetic design. Just eyes. You Nexus, huh? I design your eyes.
JF Sebastian
I?m a genetic designer.
In the deleted hospital scene Holden says ?They?re becoming us?, but they always were us. Replicants are human. Genetically engineered to be stronger, faster, smart, but still human. Only considered sub-human by their slave masters, their creators and marketed as such to the masses by the multinationals. As Parker said in Ridley?s previous film "The Damn Company".
Batty is the same as you or me, or rather a variant of us, it?s just that his light burns half as long and twice as bright.
Batty and Deckard aren?t brothers because they?re both Replicants. They?re brothers because they?re both human.