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From: dad@eisx.UUCP (D. DeCourcelle)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Blade Runner and Genetics vs. Robotics
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Date: Fri, 7-Oct-83 17:09:26 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  7 17:09:26 1983
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Wow... what an incredible idea!!  I totally agree that the post production
narritive (Harrison Ford speaking in a '40s style detective) really ruined
the movie.  Too bad!! Second my vote for a pre-voiceover copy.  A magazine
article I read about 2 years ago said that Blade Runner was about a society
capabable of creating robots that thought and lived just as humans (but not
necessarilly genetically designed beings... they were still made of circuit
cards etc).  The plot of the film as they described it was in "taking life"
, the quandry the blade runner faced in killing a rational being (or should
I say entity), one that had a past, one that had memories, friends, etc. just
like any other human.  It sounded like a really neat premice for a film...
yeah... what problems will our future generations face when robots can be
made to think and act (but not necessarilly look like) humans.  TOO BAD
this theme never came across in the film.