Blade Runner (Final Cut) | Canadian First Time Watching | Movie Reaction | Movie Review | Commentary

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  @TennSeven · 4 years ago

  "They're just people, then." And that was the whole point of the original story the movie is based off of: if you were to create a being that is otherwise indistinguishable from a human, would that being be any less than a human that was created naturally? Would that being's life not be as worthy as anyone else's?

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• TI

  @Tigermania · 4 years ago

  If you think a 40 year old film looks good today, imagine those of us who first saw it in the 80's, the style, effects and the thought provoking story.  One of my top 10 movies of all time.

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• WI

  @willcool713 · 4 years ago (edited)

  &quot;All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain. Time to die.&quot;<br>One of the greatest lines in Cinema.

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• NI

  @NialasDubh · 4 years ago

  &quot;It&apos;s too bad she won&apos;t live...but then again, who does?&quot; is a line that has stayed with me for years. It&apos;s the whole essence of this masterwork of a movie - who lives? Who is alive? What is humanity? Really glad you watched this one. I can&apos;t fault your reaction at any point.

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  @jkoehler82 · 4 years ago

  This is the crown jewel of Cyberpunk in cinema. &nbsp;The ending is a complex series of ideas. &nbsp;One element from the book that was demonstrated and not fully explained was people&apos;s relationship with animals. &nbsp;Empathy was the single emotion that most demonstrated humanity. &nbsp;This was demonstrated by keeping pets. &nbsp;Roy, at the end was wrestling a lot with his own humanity. &nbsp;In a final act of defiance he demonstrated empathy by saving Decard, proving he was more than base emotions and could express empathy.

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• PR

  @Primo_Luca · 4 years ago (edited)

  I absolutely love the fact that Roy, a combat replicant created to kill, uses his last moments to save a life, it&apos;s his ultimate expression of defiance. <br><br>This and the soundtrack peaking at his monologue, hits me in the feels like a kick in the nuts, absolute perfection.

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• IM

  @implicitmintjulep · 4 years ago

  Glad you mentioned Sean Young&apos;s performance. Everyone is on top form here but Young&apos;s physical performance as something visibly human and yet not was outstanding. I also like Daryl Hannah&apos;s ability to switch from innocent to sinister on a dime

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• AC

  @Acme1970 · 4 years ago

  If you notice each of the Replicants is associated with an animal, Leon get asked the question about the Tortoise, Pris makes herself up to look like a Racoon, Zhora has the Snake, Rachel has the Owl, Deckard dreams about the Unicorn and Batty howls like a Wolf.

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• DE

  @deano42 · 4 years ago

  Philip K. Dick wrote a book in the late 60&apos;s called &quot;Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?&quot; &nbsp;This novel is the building blocks for Blade Runner and much later Blade Runner 2049. &nbsp;Philip is regarded in many circles as the Grandfather of Cyberpunk, with the billing of Father being bestowed upon William Gibson for his Neuromancer series. &nbsp;Both of these are must-reads, remembering at all times when they were written and that they started it all.

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• BR

  @brian5154 · 4 years ago (edited)

  Dutch actor Rutger Hauer&apos;s performance as the Replicant sweeps all before it. His final dying speech is regarded by some as the greatest piece of cinema ever.

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  @chafinofsuburbia · 4 years ago

  It&apos;s a strange thing sharing someone&apos;s last minutes of life. In the case they&apos;ve made peace with it, they&apos;re still scared at the moment everything starts to turn dark. I don&apos;t think it&apos;s a fear of what&apos;s to come. I think it&apos;s a final angst over what will soon vanish. The Tears in Rain scene always had that weight for me.

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  @NestorCaster · 4 years ago (edited)

  The entire “Tears in the rain” speech, spoken by Rutger Hauer(Roy Batty), was filmed after he ad-lib it significantly to the final version we see…

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