"They don't advertise for incompetent policemen in a newspaper..."

[pyat]

HEY!

In Blade Runner, Bryant shows Deckard profile data on the Replicants, including photos. So... um... why were they worried about the VK Tests not working? And why didn't Holden just walk into Tyrell Corporation with a photo of Leon and say, "Hey, have you seen this guy around? 6' 3" and a weak chin?"

And why was Deckard so coy when interviewing Zhora at the strip club? He had a positive ID! No need for the lame cover story and questions. Just retire the darn replicant, Rick!

That actually woke me up at 3 AM this morning. Stupid good movies being stupid and good. Like with Indiana Jones - why are all those Nazis running around British-ruled Egypt in 1937?

Also, velvetpage is home.

Comments

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1. Yeah, I guess that does get into the territory of "well, are there any Replicants on Earth or aren't there?"

2. A while back I noticed the initial exchange between Deckard and Tyrell about "On you?" "Try her." In initial drafts - and there are storyboards for it - there's a part where Deckard wanders into the depths of the Tyrell pyramid and finds a cryogenic chamber with the original Tyrell - the current Tyrell is a replicant. So I figure that bit of the script is a holdover, like the flickering screens behind Deckard and stuff - Tyrell knows he's a replicant, so he wants to test the artificial personalities thing on Rachel instead.

Which brings up the next "hey, this is dumb" point. Okay. If you're basically the fictional version of Bill Gates, heading up the fictional version of Microsoft, and all you really need to test out a possibly legally dodgy thing is to have some cops show up and run tests on a few Replicants, wouldn't you have done that already? I mean, why wait until a detective just happens to show up on your doorstep with a Voight-Kampf machine?

3. As regards Nazis in Egypt; Raiders is pretty well thought out compared to the other movies in the series. The Nazis truly were interested in the occult, though probably they'd have no interest in the Ark; the NDSAP had its origins in the Thule Society. Tanis is associated with Shishonq and was the site of pre-war digs organized by a French archaeologist (that's why you never hear about the excavation; all the published material is still in French). I figured they just combined 'em. And you can't just have random German researchers show up in a pulp film, that'd be like having relatively peaceful if completely delusional anthropologists show up at the beginning of Bulletproof Monk.