Early in the 21st Century, THE TYRELL
CORPORATION advanced Robot evolution
into the NEXUS phase--a being virtually
identical to a human--known as a replicant.
The NEXUS 6 Replicants were superior
in strenght and agility, and at least equal
in intelligence, to the genetic engineers
who created them.
Replicants were used Off-world as
slave labor, in the hazardous exploration and
colonization of other planets.
After a bloody mutiny by a Nexus 6
combat team in an Off-world colony,
Replicants were declared illegal
on earth--under penalty of death.
Special police squads--BLADE RUNNER
UNITS--had orders to shoot to kill, upon
detection, any trespassing Replicants.

This was not called execution.
It was called retirement.

Filmen Blade Runner bygger i viss mån på novellen "Do Androids Dream of
Electric Sheep" som skrevs 1968 av Philip K. Dick.
Blade Runner kom 1982 och är regisserad av Ridley Scott, som också gjort
bland annat Alien och Thelma & Louise.
Filmen är olik alla andra science-fiction filmer eftersom den saknar
"silver-kläder-syndromet". Filmen är mer realistisk än andra i samma genre.
Handlingen utspelar sig i Los Angeles 2019.
En replikant är en "tillverkad" människa. De skulle utföra farligt och tråkigt
arbete åt bland annat militären och industrin.
Men efter ett blodigt uppror, förbjöds dom.
Deckard (spelad av Harrison Ford) är en sorts polis som kallas Blade Runner,
och vars jobb är att utrota replikanter.
Han börjar så småningom ifrågasätta om det han gör är rätt...

CITAT FRÅN FILMEN:


DECKARD:
"Sushi. That´s what my ex-wife called me. Cold fish."
"I´ve had people walk out on me before, but not when I was being so charming."
"Shakes? Me too. I get them bad. It´s part of the business."

RACHEL:
"Is this testing whether I´m a replicant, or a lesbian, Mr Deckard?"
"I´m not in the business...I am the business."
"Have you ever taken that test yourself?"

CHEW:
"I design your eyes."

ROY BATTY:
"Chew, if only you could see what I´ve seen with your eyes!"
"It´s not an easy thing to meat your maker."
"I want more life, father!" (some versions have: "I want more life, fucker!")
"I´ve done...questionable things. Nothing the God of biomechanics wouldn´t let you
into heaven for."
"You´d better get it up, or I´m gonna have to kill you!"
"That was irrational of you. Not to mention unsportsmanlike."
"I´ve seen things you people wouldn´t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."

TAFFY LEWIS:
"Louie. The man is dry."

TYRELL:
"Milk and cookies kept you awake?"
"The light that burns twice as bright burn half as long...and you have burned so very, very brightly, Roy."

ZHORA
"Are you for real?"

LEON:
"My mother...let me tell you about my mother!"
"Nothing´s worse than having an itch you can never scratch!"
"Wake up! Time to die!"

SEBASTIAN:
"I MAKE friends."

PRIS:
"I´m sort of an orphan."
"I think, Sebastian, therefore I am."
"Then we´re stupid, and we´ll die!"

GAFF:
"Lo fa, ne-ko shi-ma, de va-ja blade...Blade Runner."
"You´ve done a man´s job, sir!"
"It´s too bad she won´t live! But then again, who does?"

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