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A dark connection exists between "replicant technology" and Germans "in this story"
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| Early in the 21st Century, THE TYRELL CORPORATION advanced Robot evolution into the NEXUS phase - a being virtually identical to a human - Known as a Replicant The NEXUS 6 Replicants were superior in strength and agility, and at least equal in intelligence, to the genetic engineers who created them. Replicants were used Off-world as slave labor, in the hazardous exploration and colonization of the other planets. After a bloody mutiny by a NEXUS 6 combat team in an Off-world colony, Replicants were declared illegal on earth - under penalty of death. Special police squads - BLADE RUNNER UNITS - had orders to shoot to kill, upon detection, any trespassing Replicant.
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In the movie, a Blade Runner is the name of a special cop (bounty hunter) used to locate then retire replicants, which are forbidden on Earth.
The following excerpts are found on page 186 of:
"Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human" by K. W. Jeter
published by Bantam (c) 1995 by the Philip K. Dick Trust"But the truth of the matter is that all the blade runners have always been replicants, from day one. Even before there were any replicants being manufactured in the U.S., back when the industry was located in Stuttgart, and the original developers of the technology--people like Paul Derain, and Sudermann and Grozzi, the ones that Eldon Tyrell eventually ripped off--knew they were dealing with dangerous stuff and they put the first safeguards in place"
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"From the start," Batty went on, "Those (German) companies had replicants on-line whose sole purpose was to keep other replicants from escaping and trying to pass themselves off as human. That's where the name "blade runner" comes from; those enforcement replicants were originally called Bleibruhigers. Bleib ruhig is German for "stay quiet (or stay calm)". And that's what they did, they kept everything nice and quiet; most people around the turn of the century weren't even aware that the replicant technology had been developed. Then when Tyrell and the U.N. brought everything over to the States, and the catching of escaped replicants became a police function, that's when Bleibruhiger got Anglicized to blade runner. The term doesn't make sense, otherwise."
Please note that some Blade Runner FAQ's have a different explanation for the term "Blade Runner". Personally, I prefer the explanation given by Jeter since all B.R. fans know that Philip Dick got the idea for Voight-Kampff emphathy test after the emotional turmoil caused by reading the diaries of Nazi guards currently stored in the special documents library at UCLA.
Sound Clips (just a few)
Policeman: Hey, idi-wa. [Cityspeak-Korean for: "Come here."]
Gaff: Monsieur, ada-na kobishin angum bi-te. [Cityspeak-German for: "Sir. You will be required to accompany me please"]
Sushi Man: He say you under arrest, Mr. Deckard.
Deckard: Got the wrong guy, pal.
Gaff: Lo fa, ne-ko shi-ma de va-ja blade... Blade Runner. [Cityspeak-Hungarian for: "Horse Dick! So you say. You are the Blade Runner"]
Sushi Master: He say you brade runna.
Deckard: Tell him I'm eating.
The red text above was taken from P.116 of the book "Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner" by Paul M. Simon
Roy Batty: Quite an experience to live in fear isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.
Roy Batty: I've seen things that you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark near Tan Hauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain.
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*** no spoiler section ***
- This Philip K. Dick story was originally published as Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? in 1968
- It was repackaged and republished as "Blade Runner" in 1982 but not rewritten to match the movie:
- It does have movie characters such as Pris, Bryant, Roy Baty, and Holden
- It does not have J. F. Sebastian, Gaff, Leon, or Zorha
- It has other characters like J. R. Isidore (from book 2)
- Deckard is married and kills spare time tending an electro-mechanical sheep (almost all animals died many years ago after World War Terminus). He wants to buy an ostrich he saw in the window on "animal row" but his bounty money will only allow him the purchase of a goat.
- My Rating: 8/10. This book is a must-read for "Blade Runner" fans and fanatics.
*** mini-spoiler section ***
- Link: DADOES vs. Blade Runner (from a recent re-read in 2011)
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Publisher's Promo: To Blade Runner Rick Deckard, the most important aspect of replicant Rachel's life is saving it. Soon, he learns that Pris, whom he executed in the movie, "Blade Runner", was not a replicant, but a human. That makes Deckard a murderer and now, a moving target. And the Tyrell Corporation, manufacturer of android technology, is mired in a conspiracy with deadly consequences.
*** no spoiler section ***
- 1995 book by K. W. Jeter who reportedly worked with Philip K. Dick before Dick's death in 1982.
Could this pre-death collaboration story be just a marketing ploy for the book? There's a photo of them together on the dust jacket but this could have been faked. (I wished I had an ESPER machine to interrogate the Jeter-Dick photo in greater detail)- the book begins on August 2020 in Los Angeles in Bryant's office (the movie begins on November 2019 in Los Angeles)
- Highlights...
- whether there was a sixth replicant by playing recordings from Bryant's office.
- Consider these statements from the movie:
- I've got four skin jobs walking the streets.
- There was an escape from the off-world colonies two weeks ago. Six replicants, three male, three female. They slaughtered twenty-three people and jumped a shuttle. An aerial patrol spotted the ship off the coast. No crew, no sight of them. Three nights ago they tried to break into Tyrell Corporation.
- One of them got fried running through an electrical field. We lost the others. On the possibility they might try to infiltrate his employees, I had Holden go over and run Voight-Kampff tests on the new workers. Looks like he got himself one.
- Rachael wasn't one of the six (quote 2) or one of the four (quote 1)
- Leon, Roy, Zohra and Pris are part of Bryant's video documentary for Deckard (four skin jobs)
- Calculation: 6 - 1 - 4 = 1
- Many fans believed Bryant misspoke (he was a very heavy drinker) but it now appears he may have purposely dropped one replicant from the list.
- the origins of replicant technology in Germany (page 186)
- "But the truth of the matter is that all the blade runners have always been replicants, from day one. Even before there were any replicants being manufactured in the U.S., back when the industry was located in Stuttgart, and the original developers of the technology--people like Paul Derain, and Sudermann and Grozzi, the ones that Eldon Tyrell eventually ripped off--knew they were dealing with dangerous stuff and they put the first safeguards in place"
- My Rating: 9/10. If you liked the movie then you'll like this book.
- Comments:
- Most fans of P.K. Dick know he became very upset while attempting to make sense of the personal diaries of SS men guarding concentration camp during World War II (these documents are kept in a limited-access vault at the U. C. Berkeley Library). The dust cover of Jeter's book leaves us with the impression that Jeter knew Dick which means that Dick may have relayed these personal experiences to Jeter (I'm going out on a limb here and hoping the picture is not marketing hype). I'm not sure who came up with the idea of Bleibruhiger as a German phrase for Blade Runner but the concept is novel and, in true sci-fi fashion, presents a cautionary tale for all humanity.
- I don't want you to think that either Jeter or Dick approved of NAZI atrocities or were anti Semitic or pro NAZI. But it must be said that many NAZIs considered many millions of people to be "sub human" and we now know that this is how many characters in this story viewed replicants. In fact, there is one very disturbing description about Deckard's encounter with a shipment of defective replicants that made me think about parallels with the Jewish European holocaust.
- As an 4th generation German-Canadian, I personally do not feel that Jeter or Dick were anti-German
- I also do not feel these authors are anti-Semitic. Like most sci-fi stories, these Blade Runner stories are cautionary tales for all of humanity.
- For new information about Dick's problems with NAZI thinking, click here
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- why Rachael looks like Sarah Tyrell (Eldon Tyrell's niece)
HS: Sarah is the human template for Rachael- what happened to Gaff
HS: He was murdered by a replicant- what happen to Bryant
HS: Bryant was murdered in his office just after Gaff's funeral- what happened to Dave Holden
HS: Rescued from the hospital by another Roy Batty. BTW, Holden is a replicant and was shown a dead copy of himself- what happened to J. F. Sebastian
HS: Still alive and living with "his friends"- paraphrased non-spoiler information from page 81:
"You Blade Runners administer Voight-Kampff tests the way Rassenprüfer ("racial purity proofer" or "breed tester") in the Third Reich measured nose lengths. A millimeter too long and you were not considered human, then killed"- what was the "Saint Paul Incident" (see page 82)
HS: After consuming discontinued flu medicine, humans can no longer pass an empathy test and so are retired as replicants- why a human calling himself "Roy Batty" is running around causing mayhem. (see page 139)
HS: This human Roy Batty is the template for the replicant Roy Batty and is receiving royalty payments from the Tyrell Corporation- why the Roy Batty replicant was so much more efficient than the other replicants (page 146)
HS: The brain of the Roy Batty template has a reverse-wired amygdala- why only one company manufactures replicants (page 148)
HS: Tyrell had them eliminated- why the Tyrell flat-top pyramids are encircled by four outer buildings leaning inward (page 149)
HS: So supervisors at the U.N. can push a destruct button causing them to collapse inward- why the police station is above a train station (page 200)
HS: Too shocking to reveal. Probably the most horrifying vision I've encountered in sci-fi- who killed the Roy Batty template (page 313)
HS: Dave Holden shot Roy while Roy was chasing Deckard- the identify of the sixth replicant (page 321)
HS: Although many theories are propossed throughout, on this page Deckard states "the was no sixth replicant" and Sarah replies "perhaps"- who killed Bryant (page 323)
HS: Sarah Tyrell- what happened to the Tyrell Corporation (page 323)
HS: Realizing that Replicant technology is too dangerous, the UN decided pushed the button to destroy the pyramids- What happened to Deckard and Rachael (page 336)
HS: They left for A NEW LIFE in the off-world colonies as Mr. and Mrs. Niemand- What happened to Dave Holden (page 338)
HS: They gave him a better heart transplant then provided him with a new job at the LAPD- What did Holden discover on his first investigation (page 339)
HS: A long-dead Rachael is found in a shipping container north of L.A.- What does the previous spoiler mean
HS: Dechard thinks he is traveling with Rachael but he is really travelling with Sarah who is impersonating her
Publisher's Promo: Acclaimed author K. W. Jeter adds another chapter to the adventures of Rick Deckard, the android-hunter hero created by SF legend Philip K. Dick and brought to life in the 1982 Ridley Scott movie. In the Los Angeles of the future, Deckard is in dire need of cash. To earn money, he consults on a movie adaptation of his hunt for the original replicants as seen in the film "Blade Runner". But when a living replicant and Deckard's former LAPD partner are slain, the movie fantasy becomes grimly real.
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- 1996 book by K. W. Jeter
- this story begins with Deckard on Mars waiting to go to the off-world colonies
- Deckard needs money and agrees to fly back to Earth to consult for a movie documentary about his last job before retirement.
- My Rating: 7/10. Buy this book only if you're a Blade Runner fanatic. It isn't as good as "Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human."
- Comments: I got the feeling that this story was quickly written. In my opinion, the author (or publisher) was either trying to ride on the success of the previous book, or this book was just part of someone's contractual obligation.
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Publisher's Promo: Fully authorized by the estate of Philip K. Dick and written by the author they felt best equipped to take forward the vision of one of the great names in SF, BLADE RUNNER 4: BEYOND ORION combines the dark imagery, paranoia, tension and pace of Dick’s original novel and the cinematic genius of Ridley Scott in a novel that takes the Blade Runner series into a new millennium.
- 2000 book by K. W. Jeter
- My Rating: 4/10. Buy this book only if you're a Blade Runner fanatic. It isn't as good as "Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human."
- Comments: Now I know why this book was only released in Europe. I find Jeter's writing style in this publication annoying (as if he was abusing drugs -or- hurried the work due to some deadline)
- Reader Promo From Amazon: Eye and Talon starts strongly, with a female blade runner named Iris getting the puzzling assignment of retrieving Eldon Tyrell's owl (although it was presented as an artificial owl in the film, Iris quickly learns that it was in fact a live owl). She meets a mysterious character named Vogel who possesses some critical inside information and offers to assist her. Some exciting, well-drawn action scenes follow, including a thrilling chase inside the ruins of the Tyrell Corporation's pyramid. Unfortunately, the story quickly runs out of steam after that; the novel ends with 50+ pages of tedious exposition in which the Big Secrets are revealed as slowly as possible.
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Publisher's Promo: The 1995 release of the "director's cut" of Ridley Scott's Blade Runner only confirmed what the international cognoscenti has known all along--Blade Runner still rules as the most visually dense, thematically challenging, and influential SF film ever made. Future Noir offers the story of that triumph, providing readers with a fascinating, behind-the-scenes look at the production of this innovative cult classic. Photos.
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- 1996 book by Paul M. Sammon
- a documentary about the "Blade Runner" movie from novel to sci-fi cult
- contains lots of inside info like:
- details of how the movie journeyed a very rock road from "story" to "screen play" to "movie"
- detailed descriptions of the 6 major versions that were released to the public
- interviews with all the key people including (but not limited to):
- Ridley Scott and Philip K. Dick
- Hampton Fancher and David Peoples
- Syd Mead, Douglas Trumbull, and Vangelis
- all the actors
- lots of info about Philip Dick (a very hard guy to find information about)
- for example: Page 16 mentions that Dick was shocked at what America was doing in Vietnam and originally used an "android metaphor" to describe people who were physiologically human but were behaving in non-human (read: no empathy) ways. It goes on to state:
Dick first became interested in this [non-human] problem while doing research for [the book] "The Man in the High Castle". Given access to prime Gestapo documents in the closed archives of the University of California at Berkeley, Dick discovered certain diaries scribed by SS men stationed in [NAZI occupied] Poland."
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I later realized that, with the Nazis, what we were essentially dealing with was a defective group mind.
- that Dick was offered a large sum of money to rewrite "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" which would be re-released with the movie but turned it down.
- Scenes that were left out of the movie because they were either too expensive to shoot or the production was running out of money. Like:
- the bloody android mutiny at the off world colony (a Replicant destruction facility)
- that Roy Batty killed an Eldon Tyrell replicant
- My Rating: 10/10. This book is a must for "Blade Runner" fans and fanatics alike.
- Comments: I learned that Philip Dick created "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" while Ridley Scott created "Blade Runner". This book will tell you who gets credit for what.
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Replicant (M) Des: LEON V.K. NEXUS 6 N6MAC41717 96/W/9-3H Incept Date: 10 APRIL., 2017 Func: Combat/Loader (Nuc. Fiss.) Phys: LEV.A Ment: LEV.C ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Replicant (M) Des: BATTY (Roy) NEXUS 6 N6MAA10816 Incept Date: 8 JAN., 2016 Func: Combat, Colonization Defense Prog. Phys: LEV.A Ment: LEV.A ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Replicant (F) Des: ZOHRA NEXUS 6 N6FAB61216 Incept Date: 12 JUNE., 2016 Func: Retrained (9 Feb,2018) Polit.Homicide Phys: LEV.A Ment: LEV.B ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Replicant (F) Des: PRIS NEXUS 6 N6FAB21416 Incept Date: 14 FEB., 2016 Func: Military / Leisure Phys: LEV.A Ment: LEV.B ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Notes:
N6MAC41717 (as charted in the movie) N6MAC41017 (correction from verbal question to Deckard) ||||||||++- Incept Year : 2017 ||||||++--- Incept Day : 10 |||||+----- Incept Month: 4 (April) ||||+------ Mental : C (low) |||+------- Physical : A (high) ||+-------- Sex : Male ++--------- Model Series: Nexus 6 |
When the Asian woman on Animoid Row looks into the electron microscope, she says "9906947XB71" but we can clearly see a segment of the serial number that reads "07XB".
Statement #1 in Bryant's office:
Bryant: I've got four skin jobs walking around.
Statement #2 in Bryant's office:
Bryant: There was an escape in the off world colony 2 weeks ago. Six replicants. Three male and three female. They slaughtered twenty three people and jumped a shuttle. An aerial patrol spotted the ship off the coast. No crew. No sight of them. Three nights ago they tried to break into the Tyrell Corporation. One of them got fried running through an electrical field.
Statement #3 in street after Zohra's death:
Bryant: Four more to go. Come on Gaff.
Deckard: Three. There's three to go.
Bryant: There's four. There's that skin job you V.K.'d at the Tyrell Corporation. Rachael. Disappeared! Vanished. Didn't even know that she was a replicant. Something to do with a brain implant says Tyrell.
Notes:
Westwood Studios is the maker of a neat 4-CD Blade Runner game for Windows 95 and Windows NT. As of 99.04.30 it only costs $39.95 (CDN or US). Interact on 140 scenes with over 70 characters including Rachael, Eldon Tyrell, Leon, and Sebastian. Buy some sushi at Howie Lee's. Talk to the oriental woman down on Animoid Row. Visit Chew at the Eye-Works on DNA Row. Fly the Spinner from location to location. Run the Voigt-Kampff machine to determine who is, and is not, a replicant. Run the ESPER machine to analyze crime scene photos. But try not to retire any humans by mistake! Click here to visit the original Westwood - Blade Runner Teaser pages set up by their marketing people.
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Blade Runner Five-Disc Ultimate Collector's
Edition Available December 18, 2007 but you can pre-order now from Amazon.com Available in three different flavors: DVD, HD-DVD (yippee), Blu-ray (I think I can see a unicorn near the red disc) |
I purchased the HD-DVD version but only three of the five discs were published in HD
Contents:
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DECKARD Okay, gimme a run-down on
the ESPER Nexus designated Mary: incept DECKARD Next |
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BATTY I've know adventures, seen places DECKHARD Ah... BATTY I've felt wind in my hair riding |
| Reproduction. Sex. Love. The simple things. But no way to satisfy them. To be homesick with no place to go. Lots of little oversights. |
| You've done a man's job sir... But are you sure you're a man? |
These items are from Disc-5: Pre-Release Workprint
REPLICANT \rep'-li-cant\n. See also ROBOT (antique):
ANDROID (obsolete): Nexus (generic): Synthetic human
with paraphysical capabilities, having skin/flesh culture.
Also, Rep, skin job (slang): Off world uses: combat, high
risk industrial, deep space probe. On-world uses prohibited.
Specifications and quantities - information classified.NEW AMERICAN DICTIONARY
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