I've always took it as an extension of the line "Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave". I don't see the line (if it is actually being said) as literally meaning Roy and he are related (both replicants), but rather he now understood what it felt like to be in the replicants' place.
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I've always took it as an extension of the line "Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave". I don't see the line (if it is actually being said) as literally meaning Roy and he are related (both replicants), but rather he now understood what it felt like to be in the replicants' place.
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I wish I had posted that article as I promised, it was written and all! Now that the kinship debate resurfaced, I was just about to send it to Gary Carden, but if Future Noir mentions it, I dunno. I don't own FutureNoir. Someone at ComicCon please go and confirm from Hauer if he said Ah! Kinship! or not. All I have is an email from Mr. Hauer's website domain, signed by him (or someone pretending to be him), telling me that he never said that, but then I can't prove that it was in fact Mr. Hauer the one who composed and sent that reply to me.
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Ridiculous. It's quite clear that batty shouts, "Quiche!" when he grabs Deckard's arm. Replicants love a good quiche, because 'real men don't eat it'.
EXACTLY !!
As far as i'm concerned he doesnt say "Ah ! Kinship !" at all....
Its merely an expulsion of effort vocalised...
Its also not in the subtitles or in any script i've seen either,if people want to think hes says ahhhh ! bisto ,kinship or anything else fine just dont try and tell me he does !
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Director Ridley Scott wanted the audience to find out that Deckard is (or, at the very least, might be) a replicant himself. (In Dick's original book the possibility was hinted at, but Deckard was eventually tested and was human.) However, it was a passage in an early version of the script that gave Scott the idea, even though this "We were brothers, Roy Batty and I!" passage was intended to be metaphorical, not literal.) This is still hinted at when Roy grabs Deckard as he's about to fall and says "Kinship!"
Roy: Kinship! [(Note: There is debate about whether this is actually said. Hauer claims he didn't, but that is irrelevant as it could have been dubbed in by Scott later (as I think it almost certainly was.)]
Sources:
http://brmovie.com/FAQs/BR_FAQ_Deck-a-Rep.htm
http://brmovie.com/Downloads/Docs/BR_Mu ... runner.txt
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Most of the information is taken from Paul Sammon's Future Noir, where the mag is somewhat misleading in the "new" interviews, matter. However there is a new interview with Rutger Hauer and the producer of the Final Cut project.
So of course you must go out and buy it, simply because it offers a few new tantalizing morsels of information to digest. I did...
I'm like Homer Simpson who sees a nirvana of donut paradise when it comes to Blade Runner. I'll try and walk through transparent walls to get the prize without thinking about the invisible barrier blocking my entry.
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