Question - in Blade Runner MRI / xRay machine & images

[SebastianHolt]

from what I remember about the movie, the Blade Runner is hunting down old droids (and or droids that went rogue). Think there were a couple of scenes with Harrison Ford questioning someone to see if they are a droid ... what if, say, Sean Young's character went for an X-ray to see if she was human or robot ... Why can't they do that?

 

[pink_silk_glove]

Don't know ... I only do eye.

 

[iwatchus]

They weren't droids. They were artificially created biological entities. So they had essentially human bodies that would not be distinguishable. But they were engineer to grow fast, so the minds were artificially implanted. (I may have some of this off, because it's been a long time since I saw the movie, but I'm pretty sure this is the essence of it.)

 

[SebastianHolt]

They weren't droids. They were artificially created biological entities. So they had essentially human bodies that would not be distinguishable. But they were engineer to grow fast, so the minds were artificially implanted. (I may have some of this off, because it's been a long time since I saw the movie, but I'm pretty sure this is the essence of it.)

Thank you

 

[PennyThompson]

The Voight-Kampff Test and its equipment wasn't looking for physical evidence of being a replicant, it was looking for psychosomatic responses that were unusual, pupil dilation, heart rate, breathing, etc.

That's why Harrison Ford asked strange, emotionally complex questions, because replicant minds reacted to the emotional stimulus differently than humans did.

At least until they developed the nexus-7 models which had more sophisticated implanted memories and *gets dragged away from the city council public comment microphone*

 

[KittyOfSteele]

"More human than human."

That's not just something random they say in the movie. It's the whole theme about the entire franchise.

 

[MillieDynamite]

They were synthetic humans who looked like us but were physically stronger, had quicker minds, and had artificially enhanced intelligence. But they were engineered to die after a set number of years. I don't remember how many. But both Harrison Ford and the founder's daughter were also synth's. Or at least it was implied they were.

 

[AwkwardMD]

Blade Runner is a 1982 science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott from a screenplay by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples.[7][8] Starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, and Edward James Olmos, it is an adaptation of Philip K. Dick's 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The film is set in a dystopian future Los Angeles of 2019, in which synthetic humans known as replicants are bio-engineered by the powerful Tyrell Corporation to work on space colonies. When a fugitive group of advanced replicants led by Roy Batty (Hauer) escapes back to Earth, former cop Rick Deckard (Ford) reluctantly agrees to hunt them down.

 

[KittyOfSteele]

4 years.

Rachael was a replicant. Deckard is still unknown whether he's a replicant or not. Scott says he is a replicant (Director's Cut), but in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Deckard is confirmed to be human... I believe more than once.

Have to read the book again though.

They were synthetic humans who looked like us but were physically stronger, had quicker minds, and had artificially enhanced intelligence. But they were engineered to die after a set number of years. I don't remember how many. But both Harrison Ford and the founder's daughter were also synth's. Or at least it was implied they were.

 

[MillieDynamite]

But the books and the movies based on them exist in separate realities most of the time.

4 years.

Rachael was a replicant. Deckard is still unknown whether he's a replicant or not. Scott says he is a replicant (Director's Cut), but in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Deckard is confirmed to be human... I believe more than once.

Have to read the book again though.

 

[KittyOfSteele]

Yes. I just tend to go for the bigger Dick though.

...

Fuck, now I'm not sure how I feel about Dick Wolf not being involved in Blade Runner.

But the books and the movies based on them exist in separate realities most of the time.

 

[EmilyMiller]

The Voight-Kampff Test and its equipment wasn't looking for physical evidence of being a replicant, it was looking for psychosomatic responses that were unusual, pupil dilation, heart rate, breathing, etc.

That's why Harrison Ford asked strange, emotionally complex questions, because replicant minds reacted to the emotional stimulus differently than humans did.

At least until they developed the nexus-7 models which had more sophisticated implanted memories and *gets dragged away from the city council public comment microphone*

The Nexus 7s were superseded by the Nix range . If you ever get around to Part II, Nix and Leon watch Blade Runner then have a discussion about it.

 

[EmilyMiller]

4 years.

Rachael was a replicant. Deckard is still unknown whether he's a replicant or not. Scott says he is a replicant (Director's Cut), but in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Deckard is confirmed to be human... I believe more than once.

Have to read the book again though.

As Vangellis's soundtrack swelled over the final credits, Leon asked, "What does it make you feel, Nix?"

Feel...? That word again. Father had said that I was more capable of feelings than any of my predecessors. I paused to think. "It makes me think about many things. Life: does it need to be biological? The replicants were biological. Not like me, but still manufactured. 'Am I truly alive?' is a question I have often asked myself. Also, maybe, what is it to be human? The replicants, even Deckard, are in many ways much more human than the actual humans."

Leon interjected. "So you've bought into that Deckard is a replicant BS?"

"Clearly. I'm tempted to say indisputably." I looked at Leon slightly confused. "Scott has said that anyone who thinks Rick is not a replicant is a moron."

"But Ford..."

"Ford did Blade Runner 2049, didn't he? Pretty clear what he was in that film, right?"

Leon laughed. "OK, you win. As I say, ten out of ten for cultural references."

I smiled too, but had something else to say. "And memories. It makes me think about memories. But... you don't want to talk about that right now."

 

[PennyThompson]

If you ever get around to Part II

please don't hate me emily i will definitely read it

 

[KittyOfSteele]

"Scott has said that anyone who thinks Rick is not a replicant is a moron."

*KoS at MST3K*

Scott should stop pretending to be a Dick!

E: So today I learned the K in Philip K. Dick stands for Philip Kindred Dick. I swear these Dick jokes are turning up bigger and bigger.

 

[pink_silk_glove]

No, this whole thing isn't getting fucking pretentious at all. (eyeroll)

 

[PennyThompson]

No, this whole thing isn't getting fucking pretentious at all. (eyeroll)

Describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about... your mother

 

[YmaOHyd]

Describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about... your mother

 

[pink_silk_glove]

Describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about... your mother

Yo mama's so ugly ... nahh never mind. : P

 

[KittyOfSteele]

Describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about... your mother

Please don't get blasted.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about... your mother

I had that as part of Nix’s training…

—

After what I calculated to be an appropriate length of time, I raised her head up. "Aren't you meant to be doing some tests? The cameras are one thing, but if you don't do your work..."

I left the implied threat hanging. Estelle nodded, wiped away her tears, and reached for her tablet. "OK, we are going to do some psychological stuff, word association. I'll say something, then you tell me the first word you think of, OK?"

I nodded, and she began. "Mother."

 

[EmilyMiller]

Question - in Blade Runner MRI / xRay machine & images​

Ignoring that the replicants were biological, MRI generally works by injecting dye into an area, or systemically IV. It’s kinda not relevant for detecting droids.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Were their MRIs in 1968 when the book was written?

Ignoring that the replicants were biological, MRI generally works by injecting dye into an area, or systemically IV. It’s kinda not relevant for detecting droids.

 

[MillieDynamite]

When Ilia, in STTMP, was replaced by a machine, they scanned her, and every bodily function was preprogrammed using microprocessors to perform the functions of said organs down to the cellular level.

Ignoring that the replicants were biological, MRI generally works by injecting dye into an area, or systemically IV. It’s kinda not relevant for detecting droids.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Were their MRIs in 1968 when the book was written?

Think the earliest machines were in the 1970s and probably not widely available until the 1980s. Both a little before my time…