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Originally Posted by Dave Do you think the film is better with Deckard as a Replicant or as a human?
Rutger Hauer said at a recent Sci-Fi and Fantasy Creators Convention in NYC on June 30th 2002 that having Deckard as a replicant took away a lot of the dramatic impact of the film. He said that a replicant saving a replicant lacks the power of a replicant saving a human. I would agree with that, it spoils the theme of the machines becoming human while the humans become machine-like. In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, the barrier between man and robot is more unsettlingly blurred than in its cinematic version, where that point is already buried and reduced in its plot to simply that that of a bounty hunter seeking an errant robot. The Directors Cut makes the point even less clear still. |
That might have been the theme of the book but I'd say Scott always intended to take the film in a different direction. His version of the story was IMHO half about Deckard/Rachael and the uncertainies of humanity/memory then half about Roy's personal growth.
Deckards part of the story does afterall focus far more on his relationship with Rachael and his general malaise that it does the negative effects of his job(although they play into it aswell). The fact its hinted he's a replicant rather than confirmed 100% works well too for me as it plays on the uncertainy of the rest of the story.
I don't think Roy's character is really weakened by the suggestion of Dekchard being a replicant either. Theres no real reason to believe he knows but even if he did I'd say the fact he saves the person has killed two of his friends and his lover is more important than him saving a human/replicant.