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   Sentinel to Sentinel   
   Re: About the recent deck-a-rep thread   
   22 Mar 08 21:16:27   
   
   From: darth.vader@empire.gov   
      
   "Sentinel"  schreef in bericht   
   news:64l7baF2bv9esU1@mid.individual.net...   
   >   
   > "SanFrancisco2019"  schreef in bericht   
   > news:zndFj.23426$Ej5.1499@newssvr29.news.prodigy.net...   
   >> "Sentinel"  wrote in message   
   >> news:64itt6F284jqkU1@mid.individual.net...   
   >>>   
   >>> Are you quite sure you "got" the "humane" message of this movie? Doesn't   
   >>> if seem strange you have to distance yourself from its director to   
   >>> really feel you are comfortable with it?   
   >>>   
   >>> Once more, Blade Runner is the movie it is BECAUSE of Ridley Scott.   
   >>> Without him does anyone think we would even be here discussing some   
   >>> 26-year-old movie?   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>    I don't wish to be insulting, but you must have a yard of guts to   
   >> question whether I, or any other regular, trusted poster to this group,   
   >> "gets" what Blade Runner is, at it's core, all about.  [...]   
   >   
   > I never insult people unless they really have it coming. But remember that   
   > this IS a discussion forum, and that whatever you or anyone post   
   > can/may/will be dissected by anyone else.   
   >   
   > You wrote about the supposed "humane message" of the film. I was merely   
   > addressing that with my follow-up post. *Is* there even a humane message   
   > here? And even if so, does Deckard being a replicant himself have any   
   > impact on that?   
      
   Expanding on that, knowing that Scott fully intended for Deckard to be a   
   replicant, are you sure a humane message is really what the movie is about?   
   Etc etc.   
      
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