"I've seen things..."

Ok guys.
I'm a high school teacher who lectures Blade Runner to my senior media studies students.
Rick Deckard always is, always was a replicant.
Adams wrote him as a replicant and Director Ridley Scott filmed it that way.
Want proof? Listen to Ridley.
Here's the link:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7o0rvVxU0w

Enjoy !

Say, there's this guy named Philip K Dick. He kinda wrote the original story. He said Deckard wasn't.... How can you lecture on it and ignore the source material?

Blade runner: The Final Cut is being shown for one show only at a local theater... I cannot help but wonder if they're just projecting the DVD and not a reel to reel.

irascible, I'd love to read that quote/article. I've read the book and PKD always seemed intentionally vague. Depending on which version of Blade Runner you watch seems to determine whether he is or is not a replicant..I'm thinking specifically about the unicorn scene in the Director's cut I think? Anyway, I'd love to read something cited and or definitive if you can locate it.

re: Deckard as a replicant.

Who is Adams? Dick wrote the novel, where Deckard was not an android, and Peoples & Fancher wrote the movie where they implied that he might be. (Scott just ran with that implication.) The fact that it really doesn't make a lick of sense for Deckard to be a replicant aside, the implications only arose in a later draft of the screenplay.

wikipedia: The film leaves lingering the question of whether or not Deckard is an android. In the novel, Deckard appears more certain not to be an android. Reference is made to him having passed the Voight-Kampff test before the events of the novel, although the test is not assuredly accurate; partway through the novel, Deckard partially applies the Voight-Kampff test to himself, confirming that he is feeling empathy for androids. Also Deckard appears to have human empathic reactions, and is able to use an empathy box (an ability which androids lack). However, some of the aspects of the setting that are missing from the film (the Penfield mood organ, Mercerism, and similar) create the impression that, even if Deckard is physically a human, what constitutes "being a human" in the book's imagined future is very different from the reader's likely opinion.
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Philip K. Dick became concerned that no one had informed him about the film's production. After Dick criticized an early version of the script in an article in the Los Angeles Select TV Guide, the studio sent Dick the David Peoples rewrite. Although Dick died before the film's release, he was pleased with a forty-minute special effects test reel that he viewed and the motion picture was dedicated to him.
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The most famous film adaptation is Ridley Scott's classic movie Blade Runner (based on Dick's 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?). Dick was apprehensive about how his story would be adapted for the film; he refused to do a novelization of the film and he was critical of it and its director, Ridley Scott, during its production. When given an opportunity to see some of the special effects sequences of Los Angeles 2019, Dick was amazed that the environment was "exactly as how I'd imagined it!"[17] Following the screening, Dick and Scott had a frank but cordial discussion of Blade Runner's themes and characters, and although they had differing views, Dick fully backed the film from then on. Dick died from a stroke less than four months before the release of the film.


ALSO

Blade Runner initially polarized critics; some were displeased with the pacing, while others enjoyed its thematic complexity.[1] The film performed poorly in North American theaters but achieved success overseas. Despite the box office failure of the film, it has since become a cult classic.[2]

Adams? Please correct yourself so I don't have to weep for the future.

Adams? I think you "hitch hiked" with the wrong author!

In an interview shown on G4 Sean Young and Ridley Scott both said Yes he is a replicant.

Okay, let's just settle this part. The book and movie are two different things. In the book he was not a replicant. In the "original" film verision it was left very vauge. I'm not sure how Sean Young should chime in, because Harrison Ford is on record as saying they filmed it as Deckard not being a replicant. Personally, I prefer vauge, but because I believe the director saw an opportunity to cash in...several versions have now been updated that imply that he is a replicant. So, Ridley says he is, Ford said he wasn't...Ridley updates to win the argument. Now, I just want to know something...why would it make sense for Deckard to actually be a replicant? I do seem to recall quite well he didn't have any special functions, strength, etc. I personally liked the idea of a human falling in love with the replicant and learning the error of his ways. BTW, whatever happened to letting kids "think on their own"? I'd let my senior class develop their own therories on the subject. At least make them read the original source material too.