Watching Blade Runner and
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primeideal-yeah, I saw it originally after visiting the Bradbury Building in LA (where Sebastian's apartment is), but I did not expect to recognize the police HQ as Los Angeles' Union Station! #trainlife
-I know people talk about "Deckard needs to meet Han Solo so they can commiserate about their parenting skills and also the fact that they are the same person," but also, Deckard's bluffing skills are almost as bad as Han's "boring conversation anyway."
--investigating Zhora and ad-libbing about "how did you get this job? Did your employer coerce you to do anything, uh, lewd, or untoward to your person? Let me just inspect these walls to make sure there's no, um, voyeurism."
--video-chatting Pris after he gets Sebastian's address. "Hello? Um, I'm Eddie, I'm an old friend of Sebastian's..." (Pris hangs up on him.) "...That's no way to treat a friend."
-Roy doesn't mention Leon when he breaks Deckard's fingers ("this is for Pris, and this is for Zhora,") but Leon is kind of a longer-term presence in the story from Deckard's point of view, since the recording of him failing the VK test is always there. (I've seen some good takes on that as a metaphor for empathy, and the limits thereof.)
-Deckard interrogating the restaurant guy "are your licenses up-to-date? hmm?" is the same gambit K tries on the orphanage owner in 2049.
-I know people talk about "Deckard needs to meet Han Solo so they can commiserate about their parenting skills and also the fact that they are the same person," but also, Deckard's bluffing skills are almost as bad as Han's "boring conversation anyway."
--investigating Zhora and ad-libbing about "how did you get this job? Did your employer coerce you to do anything, uh, lewd, or untoward to your person? Let me just inspect these walls to make sure there's no, um, voyeurism."
--video-chatting Pris after he gets Sebastian's address. "Hello? Um, I'm Eddie, I'm an old friend of Sebastian's..." (Pris hangs up on him.) "...That's no way to treat a friend."
-Roy doesn't mention Leon when he breaks Deckard's fingers ("this is for Pris, and this is for Zhora,") but Leon is kind of a longer-term presence in the story from Deckard's point of view, since the recording of him failing the VK test is always there. (I've seen some good takes on that as a metaphor for empathy, and the limits thereof.)
-Deckard interrogating the restaurant guy "are your licenses up-to-date? hmm?" is the same gambit K tries on the orphanage owner in 2049.
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