I wanted to start this thread as a place to discuss what we know about the sequel to 1982's Blade Runner.
MAJOR SPOILERS: DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THE FILM!
These are some things I think I understood about 2049:
- The scene in the beginning with the bodybuilder replicant..that scene was gently lifted from Philip K. Dick's original book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. I believe I remember reading a scene of that exact environment. Crummy kitchen, something on the stove, farm land outside. Although in the book the land outside I believe had greener pastures.
-K is indeed very much a replicant hoping he was real, and that Deckard was his dad. He had to be a replicant, K did. He busted through walls, Deckard's punches had little effect on him, physically.
-Deckard was an experiment. Not a replicant. He was a human being who was coerced into banging Rachael, a womb capable replicant who delivered child. Deckard is human, but also a pawn and a studied specimen.
-K's snowflake heart ache scene at the end when Deckard goes to his daughter is the emotional bang of the film, not so much Deckard's contact with his own child. We feel for K. He wanted a dad, and like Pinnochio, he wanted to be a real boy. It was Deckard's daughter who implanted the memory of the wooden horse...but the memory was hers.
I need clarity on all of this, though.
MAJOR SPOILERS: DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THE FILM!
These are some things I think I understood about 2049:
- The scene in the beginning with the bodybuilder replicant..that scene was gently lifted from Philip K. Dick's original book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. I believe I remember reading a scene of that exact environment. Crummy kitchen, something on the stove, farm land outside. Although in the book the land outside I believe had greener pastures.
-K is indeed very much a replicant hoping he was real, and that Deckard was his dad. He had to be a replicant, K did. He busted through walls, Deckard's punches had little effect on him, physically.
-Deckard was an experiment. Not a replicant. He was a human being who was coerced into banging Rachael, a womb capable replicant who delivered child. Deckard is human, but also a pawn and a studied specimen.
-K's snowflake heart ache scene at the end when Deckard goes to his daughter is the emotional bang of the film, not so much Deckard's contact with his own child. We feel for K. He wanted a dad, and like Pinnochio, he wanted to be a real boy. It was Deckard's daughter who implanted the memory of the wooden horse...but the memory was hers.
I need clarity on all of this, though.