'Blade Runner' is one of the most iconic films out there, and now, following the release of its sequel, 'Blade Runner 2049', we're still left wondering about the answer to one certain question. Is Rick Deckard a Replicant?
Ridley Scott, who directed the first, and produced the second film, left no room for error when he spoke to The Hollywood Reporter: Deckard "is a replicant, a fucking replicant". Scott added that the key to understanding this lay in the origami left by Eddie Gaff, played by Edward James Olmos. "This man leaves a trail of origami as a comment of what he thinks. At the very end of the movie I asked myself «how am I gonna tell subliminally the audience that this guys a replicant?» In the middle of the movie when he's plastered with piano playing, and he dreams of green and there's a unicorn, now that can only be a private thought. So when Harrison walks back to the elevator, stops, goes back picks it up and does that and nods as if in agreement with what he knows about Eddie. Eddie's seen his file. He's a replicant."
Scott insists that Rick Deckard isn't human, for "the whole point of the story of the new film, is that he has to be a replicant otherwise it doesn't work."
No one can agree
Despite what Scott had to say, it appears as though everyone has a different point of view. For Harrison Ford, his character is more human than anything, and for 'Blade Runner 2049' scriptwriters, Hampton Fancher and Michael Green, who spoke to Collider, Deckard isn't a Replicant.
"Yeah, I always believed he's not a replicant. I thought if he's a replicant, the game's over. I think he doesn't know, also. So to make him a replicant - Ridley from the beginning [said] he's a replicant, and I from the beginning I said he's not, or we shouldn't know if he is, I don't know if he is. The press has always asked me, I don't know. And when Ridley put in the ostensible evidence that he is, the red eyes or whatever, in Blade Runner 1 I didn't like that."
To conclude then, it's clear everyone has their own opinion on Deckard's true origins.
