# Shout-outs in Blade Runner 2049 to the original movie (spoilers ahoy!) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 16, 2017, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shout-outs-in-blade-runner-2049-to-the-original-movie-spoilers-ahoy/799019 "2017-10-16T04:28:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2017, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shout-outs-in-blade-runner-2049-to-the-original-movie-spoilers-ahoy/799019/1 "2017-10-16T04:28:06Z")
Just post what you noticed yourself - not points or lists which anyone else compiled, please. For me: - movie opens with a closeup of an eye - Tyrell pyramid (although all dark, presumably since the company went bankupt) - prostitute wears a furry coat just like Pris - Gaff does origami - Atari and Pan Am logos in the street advertising - blaring public announcement about the Off-World Colonies - K looks closer and closer at the bone scan, just as Deckard did of the photograph - Deckard has the same gun he did before - Deckard’s LAPD Spinner parked in the Vegas casino - Vangelis’s original theme plays over the scene where K is lying on the stairs in the snow at the end ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2017, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shout-outs-in-blade-runner-2049-to-the-original-movie-spoilers-ahoy/799019/2 "2017-10-16T12:41:53Z")
Lots of things happening in the rain or in water. ---
**Author:** ![ricksummon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ricksummon/32/3333_2.png) [@ricksummon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricksummon)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2017, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shout-outs-in-blade-runner-2049-to-the-original-movie-spoilers-ahoy/799019/3 "2017-10-24T16:24:57Z")
When Luv and K control their drones through voice commands, it’s reminiscent of Deckard controlling the Esper machine. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2017, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shout-outs-in-blade-runner-2049-to-the-original-movie-spoilers-ahoy/799019/4 "2017-10-24T22:26:25Z")
Asian languages, especially Japanese and Chinese but also what looked to me like a South Asian language, are prominent on signs alongside and sometimes instead of English. IIRC even the cake in the birthday party memory had a message in an Asian language written on it. However, unlike the original _Blade Runner_, there were few if any Asian _people_ to be seen. This struck me midway through the movie, and after that I was paying attention in crowd scenes and didn’t even spot any Asian extras. Back to similarities, K was repeatedly screened using some sort of test that required him to repeat a word in response to different prompts. This was never explained in detail, but it was presumably some sort of more advanced version of the Voight-Kampff test in the original that was checking his emotional response by measuring small changes in his eyes and face. Only instead of just checking to see if he was a replicant (which the police of course knew already) it was checking his emotional stability. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2017, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shout-outs-in-blade-runner-2049-to-the-original-movie-spoilers-ahoy/799019/5 "2017-10-26T18:11:38Z")
The opening music paid homage to the original Vangelis theme. The footage of Rachael’s eye from her VK test as well as some of the dialog. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2017, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shout-outs-in-blade-runner-2049-to-the-original-movie-spoilers-ahoy/799019/6 "2017-10-26T18:31:55Z")
A Microscopic serial number embedded in a repilcant’s body part.