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Nick
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Joined: 16 Jun 2004
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Location: Sydney, NSW
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Ah, the missing replicant problem. They simply screwed up due to the ever changing script and budget pressure from the studio. The 6th replicant was supposed to be a woman called Mary.
They fixed it by voicing over Bryant's dialogue where he briefs Deckard on the situation; he says two replicants were fried breaking into the Tyrell HQ. Ridley Scott didn't like the obvious lip sync problem and changed the number of fried replicants back to one and lived with the discrepancy. In early scripts, the fried replicant was called Holden, same as the initial Bladerunner who was shot - kinda confusing?
There are several intentional hints that Deckard is a replicant: Its briefly in the original book, where Deckard is arrested by a bogus investigor who thinks he is an android. All replicant's eyes glow (even the owl in Tyrell's office) and you see Deckard's eyes glowing in his apartment's kitchen. Another possible hint is at the end where Gaff congratulates Deckard with "you've done a
man's
job, sir" I always took that to mean Gaff saying the Deckard exceeded his replicant abilities and did a human's job.
In the director's cut there is the suggestion that the unicorn is an implanted memory like Rachel's spider story. It's reinforced when Gaff leaves an origami unicorn at Deckard's apartment, suggesting he knows what memories Deckard has. Its always just hints, as Ridley wanted the audience to go away thinking about it.
Apparently, the various writers, Ridley, and Harrison Ford all had different ideas about this. Harrrison hated it as he thought the audience needed a hero to cheer for. Ridley loved the concept. The original writer (Hampton Fancher) started the idea and most of the later writers went along with it. _________________ Australian 2015 Featherweight champion
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