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Blade Runner/Phillip K Dick

     Phillip K. Dick was the author of no fewer than forty novels, the majority of which were set in the genre of science fiction. Sadly, he died four months before the film Blade Runner, based on his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was released and before his work was recognized on a large scale for the ground-breaking literature it is. In 1953 Dick published his first "successful" book: The Man in the High Castle, a chilling tale of an alternate reality in which Hitler and the axis powers won WWII. He wrote this book and others while living in San Fransisco, I thought he and Allen Ginsberg or Wiliam Burroughs would have some good discussions, but I couldn't find any evidence that they'd met despite San Fransico being the pulse of the Beatnik movement. Like other writers at the time, Dick became heavily involved in drugs. Many people point to this being the reason for his "2-3-74 hallucinations", which began on February 3rd of 1974 after an encounter with a delivery woman. He claimed to be experiencing two parallel existences, one as Phillip K Dick and another as a man named Thomas. He died from a series of strokes in 1982, leaving behind a plethora of novels and short stories which would inspire numerous film adaptations and even more conversations surrounding humanity and technology. 


Blade Runner film notes 

    • Minmal and electronic 
    • Blade runners kill (retire) replicants 
    • Test with eye scan; lense looks like Hal
    • Turning test; mother, tortoise, emotional response
    • Absolutely massive city 
    • "opportunity awaits you in the off-world colonies"
    • Flying car 
    • They want him to come back to work- no choice
    • Paper crane 
    • "skin job"
    • In a few years they might develop their own emotional response; 4-year life span
    • Owl 
    • "Have you ever 'retired' a human by mistake?"
    • The replicant Rachel doesn't know she's a replicant 
    • "gift them with a past"; implanted memories 
    • The little man made of matches 
    • Photographs in a drawer
    • Roy is not happy; policemen were at the replicant's apartment
    • Ice chamber with eyes; they're going to make the old man freeze to death 
    • J.F. Sebastian; 
    • All the same memories as Tyrell's niece 
    • She knows she's a replicant 
    • Perpetually raining even though it's LA
    • Pris meets JF Sebastian 
    • She says she doesn't have a home
    • He's going to give her food; uh oh spaghetti-o; bad news for JF 
    • Creepy/cute little toys that JF made 
    • Unicorn 
    • Somethings off with the photos;
    • The little piece of something from the bathtub has something to do with the photos 
    • The scale has a maker serial number on it 
    • Snake scale made by a man 
    • Taffy Lewis
    • Miss Salome and the snake 
    • Super cool hairdryer bubble 
    • Salome was about to strangle him (girl boss) 
    • I'll hear the crosswalk voice in my nightmares
    • Sick shot of the blood on the raincoat; shattered glass
    • Killed a human being by mistake 
    • "I'm not in the business, I am the business"
    • "you ever take that test yourself?"
    • Sexy music; if he fucks the robot I'm leaving 
    • I hate it here 
    • Good for her. Leave Harrison ford. 
    • He's being creepy.  That didn't look like consent to me. 
    • Can robots consent? 
    • I hate JF. He scares me. Him and his weird toy friends. 
    • Chess!
    • I think, therefore I am
    • Baroque obsession; oppulence
    • Tyrell says they can't save him 
    • "You were made the best we can make you"
    • "But not to last"
    • Judas kiss before he kills his maker 
    • Destruction of the eyes; symbolic 
    • The Bradbury; reference to Ray Bradbury (sci-fi and technology doomsday daddy) 
    • TBH I want Pris to kill this man, even if it's in a ridiculously sexualized manner 
    • RIP Pris; very upsetting death scene 
    • Uh oh, here comes Roy 
    • Can we please stop kissing corpses? (is she even a corpse?)
    • "Aren't you the good man?" No, I don't think so 
    • Animal cry of pain; howls like a wolf
    • Somehow Mr. Ridley Scott is upsetting me more than Mr. David Lynch 
    • Wolf chewing off his own foot
    • Stigmata; christ imagery 
    • I thought Deckard's fingers were supposed to be broken?? How is he climbing this shit?
    • Holding a dove; a symbol of peace 
    • To be a slave is to live in fear
    • He saves him from falling with the stigmata hand; christ and salvation 
    • Death is peace; release of the dove 
    • "it's too bad she won't live, but then again who does"
    • Stepped on the foil unicorn; means Gaff was there and will come after them 
    • They will live in fear as slaves till death when they are free


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