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Oct 12, 2017 · In Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049, the special police task force who hunt down and kill replicants are called Blade Runners, just like the movie title. It's a cool name, but they don't use blades, nor do the replicants they go up against necessarily use blades (though knife attacks do happen).
Oct 4, 2017 · The term is impressionistic at best and nonsensical at worst. That’s to be expected because, as it turns out, the term predates the original movie by eight years and was invented to...
Blade Runner is a 1982 science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott from a screenplay by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples. Starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, and Edward James Olmos, it is an adaptation of Philip K. Dick's 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Jul 14, 2023 · In the world of "Blade Runner," cybernetic beings called Replicants are used as cheap labor, but when they malfunction or go rogue, an elite group of police detectives known as Blade Runners is...
Blade Runner is arguably the second best sci-fi film ever made (behind 2001). Deckard’s character journey shows him transform from someone who doesn’t see the humanity in replicants to someone who doesn’t care if there’s a difference.
Oct 4, 2017 · We’ve reached the future from Blade Runner — but we’re a decade past The Bladerunner, a book that inspired the name of Ridley Scott’s film.
Feb 20, 2022 · In the Blade Runner universe, a “Blade Runner” is a special member of a specific police task force that is responsible for hunting down and “retiring” — or, simply, killing — rogue...
Oct 4, 2017 · Well… Characters. The titular Blade Runner is Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), jaded detective and Replicant retirer. He’s a bounty hunter for Replicants, hunting down fugitive faux humans and...
Jul 25, 2012 · The title originates from the science fiction novella Blade Runner (a movie) by William S. Burroughs. According to Wikipedia: The term "blade runner" referred to a smuggler of medical supplies, e.g. scalpels. And according to Focus On: 100 Most Popular United States National Film Registry Films by Wikipedia contributors:
Sep 8, 2021 · In this novel, "bladerunners" are the middlemen who smuggle scalpels and other surgical and medical tools to rogue doctors. Which makes sense ... but why port it over to...
