If I were Tyrell, I’d have a personal squad of hot, scantily-clad kick-death pleasure models guarding me at all times.
Could be, but his “twice as bright” candle analogy was desperate and lame, it seemed to me.
I like the OP’s idea that Roy’s “I’ve done questionable things” comment was intended as a test of Tyrell’s morality against Roy’s own young but rapidly developing morality. His “god” flunked, I’d say.
In case any of you don’t already know, Rutger Hauer has some video responses up on Youtube about his work on Bladerunner, his own interpretations of the character, certain scenes, etc. Hauer is kind of a trippy guy, but cool.
I got the sense from the film that Tyrell knew something was up the second Sebastian called him from the elevator, I think he suspected the replicants were using Sebastian at that point but he still removed the lock on the elevator and did not contact security.
I wonder if it was just plain arrogance or if on some level Tyrell didn’t care about being killed.
I think that would undermine a central theme of the movie, that of Roy becoming human, if he simply saves Deckard because he thinks he’s another replicant. The point is, there is no real difference between replicants and humans.
Why the heck didn’t Sebastian run for his life when he saw Roy kill Tyrell? All he did was wince, for heaven’s sake! While it’s true that Sebastian didn’t have that much longer to live anyway due to his rapid aging, I somehow doubt he’d want to go out with his eyes being squished like grapes.
The Tyrell Corporation Motto: “More human than human”. That wasn’t thrown in just to kill time. It was to make a point.
The replicants are humans, if anything, too human. The opposite side of uncanny valley. Roy was teaching his fellow replicant how to be a real human. (His makers-Chew, Tyrell, Sebastian, are inhuman bastards and deserve to die.)
Exactly. Whether or not Roy knew Deckard was a replicant, I think he spared Deckard to demonstrate that he (Roy) was a bigger, better man than the humans he’d encountered. Not only “More human than human” – “More humane than a human.”
…What? Huh? Sorry. I got distracted there for a second.
Agreed. His failure to set in place more elaborate security measures, even after Leon’s earlier near-murder of an LAPD blade runner on the premises, is of a piece with that.
Is that your own view, or are you trying to reflect what Roy was thinking? I don’t see either Chew or Sebastian as being in the same league of moral culpability as Tyrell.
If Deckard was a replicant, it brings a couple questions to mind:
Deckard has the skills and emotional maturity to be able to gauge the “proper” reactions to a VK test. Is this likely with Deckard being a replicant?
Rachel is presented as a leading edge prototype in memory implants in replicants, but there were gaps or flaws in her emotional makeup that Deckard could identify. Why would Rachel be less advanced than Deckard?
Wouldn’t Tyrell be familiar with all of the advanced Replicant models? Wouldn’t he have recognised Deckard as being “Hardbitten Gumshoe Mk-VI”, or whatever? Would his interactions with Deckard be different based on whether or not he [Tyrell] believed Deckard to be a replicant?
Why didn’t Tyrell have a body double/decoy replicant? He has an elevator which he locks/unlocks from the penthouse. Why not a 24 hour guard/combat model in the foyer?
The VK test consists of the Blade Runner reading cue cards and using equipment to check for involuntary eye movements caused by emotional stress. It doesn’t seem to me that it would require a great deal of expertise to perform it.
Qui custodes ipso custodis? If you’re worried about resentful replicants trying to murder you, the last thing you want is to keep a replicant inside your primary security full-time.
Thinking about it, when Deckard is responding to Tyrell’s question about how many questions it takes to spot a replicant, he says something like “20 to 30, cross-referenced”. So that does suggest there is more to it than simply following a script.
I think they mentioned that the replicants begin to develope their own personality around five or so, which is why it’s decided to build in their death date for that time frame. (Right?)
So, you use a combat model for three years max, then assign it to other duties, sell it, or kill it.
Of course, it may be that Tyrell was never threatened much. And not really in much danger for most of his life. Of course, Roy was combat, strategy, and tacics. But one of the others was the assassin. (Pris?) So why wasn’t Pris the one in the penthouse?
Pris was described by Bryant as “your basic pleasure model,” but she was clearly able to beat the hell out of Deckard. If she hadn’t (stupidly) backed up for that running jump, giving him the chance to get his gun, she probably would’ve killed him.
