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Standing in the dark, rainy shadows of a city alleyway, I spied the
Replicant Ubik covertly transmitting a message to renegade friends in
alt.fan.blade-runner. Tracking...
>On Feb 1, 5:25 pm, Netrunner wrote:
>> Standing in the dark, rainy shadows of a city alleyway, I spied the
>> Replicant Sentinel covertly transmitting a message to renegade friends
>> in alt.fan.blade-runner. Tracking...
>>
>> >Gnomus wrote:
>> >>>>> ...
>> >>>>> More subtle? With the VO and the "happy ending"?
>>
>> >>>> No, in terms of the whole Deck-a-rep thing. It's gotten to the
>> >>>> point where Ridley Scott is calling people morons if they don't get
>> >>>> it.
>>
>> >>> Well, he was clearly being in a joking mood when he said that, for
>> >>> whatever that is worth.
>>
>> >> Was he? I'll have to watch it again.
>>
>> >Well, he was laughing, so I wouldn't take that *too* serious. He obviously
>> >has a sense of humour about it.
>>
>> What kinda irritates me is how he talks about how interesting the
>> whole idea of the ambiguity was, but then goes right on and says that
>> Deckard is a Replicant.
>
>Nothing to be irritated about IMO. These are 2 different contexts. The
>idea of ambiguity is meant to be expressed by the movie itself. When
>he says Deckard is a rep, he does that from a different position,
>outside of the movie. The MOVIE is supposed to be ambiguous, not
>Ridley in interviews.
I'm not irritated by his interpretation - as I have said, I am more
than happy to ignore that. I am irritated by the fact he felt he
needed to say it and that he would dare to suggest by that, that I am
sitting here wasting precious hours of sleep by arguing about it! How
dare you Ridley!
Netrunner
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