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   Sentinel to Sentinel   
   Re: About the recent deck-a-rep thread   
   22 Mar 08 21:20:00   
   
   From: darth.vader@empire.gov   
      
   "Sentinel"  schreef in bericht   
   news:64l7odF2cba8dU1@mid.individual.net...   
   >   
   > "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.   
      
   Then again (arguing with myself here, sorry 'bout that) does it actually   
   MATTER if Deck's a rep for the movie to have a valid humane message or not?   
      
   Wasn't the movie pointing out how HUMAN the reps really were?   
      
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