i know you are talking books. Philip K Dick , *cough* stated:
"no, that's stupid, Deckard is a human. that's the whole point of the book."
you know that scene, in Star Wars the-one-not-called-a-new-hope, Obi Wan says "i knew him", implying they were friends a long time ago, right?
And Grand Moff Tarkin, tells Vader "you are all the remains of your ancient religion". And Han Solo scoffing at "the force, LOL".
Throughout the film they imply that Jedi are about as well known as Sorcery. People literally do not believe they exist any more than we believe in dragons. Most people have never seen a Jedi or even heard of one. NOT like they were the official pacekeeping force of the just-defunct Galactic Government and "there are two Jedi here to see you" was a common phrase just 40 years before; in a universe where there were enough Jedi to do Jedi stuff, that you could easily pick a couple hundred of them JUST to go fight a small war on a barely-relevant world.
these things grate against what has been done in the prequels. it is simply not believable that the Jedi were common and then suddenly vanished from reality, taking their very memory too. The blade runner rehash attempt that Scott did is just the same.
1. people do not consider what it was like to make films in the 80s. That awesome film The Thing still has a massive loophole in it, there is one character who gets infected but nobody knows how. And there's dozens of different timeline conjectures on the web, all using physically-possible-but-extremely-unlikely solutions, but nobody ever says "the guys who did the storyboard screwed up".
It's a film. it's fake. There's the scene with the defibrillator, where you can clearly see Dr. Copper try to DIVE into the chest, instead of simply leaning the paddles against his chest.
This is due to the need to activate the collapsible prop, but if there was relevance to a paranoid theory from the internet, someone would say "see, thats unnatural - HE WAS CLEARLY IN ON IT".
2. the source material is about how a human becomes more machine, and how a machine becomes more human. There are many implied rules about the modern world that make it impossible for Deckard to be a replicant. He's too old and predates the Nexus 6 series, much less the prototype. He behaves like a human, while Rachel does not. When he figures out she's a replicant, she doesn't break down in tears, she just stares ahead. She's too new, hasn't developed the "faults" that the other Nexus 6 have, and it's why she fails the voight-kampff test.
See, i know that this is because Sean Young is an absolutely garbage actress, but it's convenient to my narrative, so i'm going to lie or purposedly ignore details to make it seem like i'm right.
3. the unicorn does not symbolize ANYTHING, aside from the fact that it's spare footage that Scott had left over from Legend. But if you really want to be anal, then i can be anal too. The unicorn symbolizes Gaff, Deckard's failure in life, the pressure from the police chief. It symbolizes the world that Deckard wanted to leave, the world of responsibility, of work, of reality. Deckard had quit the force, and since this is a film noir, we have the same exact character as Rick Blaine - he needs to moan "leave me alone" before he can be the hero. And for the same reason that he is a film noir protagonist, when he's asked if he has taken the voight-kampff himself, he doesn't answer - BECAUSE FILM NOIR ANTIHEROES DO NOT GIVE STRAIGHT ANSWERS. Now the nerds on the internet have the unicorn unequivocally mean that Deckard has fake memories.
4. Zhora, a pleasure model, takes a bullet from the-gun-specially-designed-to-kill-everything and keeps running. You might have missed this, but in the years before this "Deckard is a replicant" bullshit, the nerd fanbase of the film went to great lengths to how awesome thing gun was and how stronk the recoil was and this and that. Replicants are strong because they are machines. They look organic but are about as organic as plastic.
the world of balde runner is, surprisingly enough, fake. It's a film. There is no reason to have a company manufacture a replica of a living owl, if there are at least two owls left in the world, because - surprise - biological reproduction is cheaper. And this is still assuming that replicants even eat (which Deckard does), at which point i'm not sure why you would even want replicants, when the rules of teh film clearly state "we're overpopulated to extinction". USE HUMANS ! THEY ARE CHEAPER AND IDENTICAL!!
But they are not, because we know that replicants are really, really strong, WHICH DECKARD IS NOT, because Leon beats the shit out of him, he can't run as fast as Zhora, he can't stand up to Pris, and Roy casually crushes his fingers.
So you want to tell me that there is a secret program in which the government is in, where the police force is all pretending to have known Deckard, and Deckard was specifically made to study the faults present on the Nexus 6 at the same time that there exists a a law that makes presence of Nexus 6s on earth illegal, but was made NOT as all the other Nexus 6 (likely invalidating any study) but instead made identical to a human, also implying that all replicants also eat, which makes them synthetic biological entities. Why not just have replicants breed?
A replicant is a machine. It's probably got a plug somewhere. It might have parts that resemble humans but it is not artificial life, because if it was, you wouldn't need to manufacture them. They were given brains to make it easier for them to be commanded, but the last model was so good it became self aware. Deckard states clearly (and is not-given-a-negative-answer) that the Nexus 6 know that they are machines.
And i'm not even done. It takes Deckard a minute of time to completely mess up Rachel's mind. Rachel needs to be kept in a contained environment because (well, it's illegal for her to exist on earth) otherwise she would become self-aware. With all likelyhood Rachel has just come out of the research laboratory and is a few days old. her brain must have been deliberately forced into a situation where it ignores her own memories of self. The implanted memory of Eldon's nice must contain images of Eldon's niece, it shouldn't be hard for anyone to notice that when you think about your past, you notice how, idk, you were taller, or your hair is of a different color.
Sentience in the Nexus 6 series si something which Tyrell didn't even think possible - it's not technology over which they have control.
And finally, there is the point that the film simply isn't about that. This is what everyone just blatantly ignores. It's as if you read Animal Farm and genuinely thought it was about animals. It's the story of US, who are the protagonist, who are against enemy-because-different Replicants, and we then find out, we're not so different, you and i. What if Roy wasn't an android, but was actually human. What if the whole film is a dream, and reality is what we see in the billboards. What color is happiness.
because if it was, then it would have been told as you tell a film, about someone not knowing THEY ARE A CLONE ON THE MOON, sorry, i mean about not knowing they are a replicant, as you tell a a story about someone not knowing they are a replicant. You know, there's the bit where you discover you are a clone. And this becomes a rather important thing, because it's quite a big thing in your life when you discover that you are not really Rachel omg i did it agin, im sorry, that you discover you are not who you think you are.
because, you know, ALL blade runners could be replicants. They could be a model that has a human brain inside a replicant skeleton. they could be augmented. they could have cell walls reinforced with nanites. maybe EVERYONE has bioengineered components in their body, and just about everyone is vat-grown, but while everyone essentially still is human, the Nexus are just big machines, like the terminator. That's why replicant humans are ok and replicant replicants are a no-no. And this DOES NOT enter the story, because the story isn't about the cell structure of Deckard, but about him facing an enemy, and their differences uniting them.
When Clockwork Orange was released, people approached Kubrick and told him how happy they were that finally someone understood their need for ultraviolence. When Starship Troopers was written, it was criticized as being a hymn to fascism. There's idiots everywhere, and now it's even worse, there's idiots with computers. While it's easy to say "Scott tried to sell more Blade Runner DVDs by claiming there was a secret in the film we had not discovered (the man must google himself incessantly)" people who have absolutely no life are desperately trying to find a reason for their own existence by crapping all over a good film, regardless of the damage they make to its legacy. Because people are shit. Like, for example, the "actor" who wore the greenscreen suit on which Jar-Jar Binks was superimposed, who "admits that the theory where Ja-Jar is a Sith Master is true" because WHO THE ***** WOULD INTERVIEW HIM OTHERWISE, HE WAS JAR-JAR BINKS THE WORST CHARACTER EVER PUT ON FILM.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-e...ry-is-partially-true-says-actor-a6923351.html
https://www.cinemablend.com/new/Jar...-Wars-Theory-Isn-t-Crazy-You-Think-98257.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/comments/3qvj6w/theory_jar_jar_binks_was_a_trained_force_user/