Speaking to The National at the film's international press launch in Berlin, about this debate, Villeneuve says: "I didn't find the answer in the movies, I found the answer in the book, where there is so much contact between replicants, between humans and non-humans that they start to doubt their own identity."įans of 'the book' – Phillip K Dick's short story Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968), on which Blade Runner is based, will be aware that the literary Deckard is very much human – the book deals with the way in which Deckard becomes increasingly dehumanised through his brutal job, while the replicants become increasingly human as they seek their own identities, to the point where the two start to converge. The original film, particularly in Scott's later alternative cuts, left a huge question mark over whether Deckard himself was unknowingly a replicant. Denis Villeneuve, director of the eagerly anticipated, 30 years-in-the-making, sequel to Ridley Scott's 1982 classic film Blade Runner, may have settled one of the most hotly debated topics in contemporary cinema – is Deckard a replicant?ĭeckard, the movie's main character, played by Harrison Ford, who reprises his role in Villeneuve's sequel, is a Blade Runner – an elite police officer whose job is to hunt down and 'retire' (kill) escaped replicants – a race of artificial humans bred as a slave labour force for space colonies.
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