I empathize; I have an uncle who's about 100 miles away. So this is an old XP machine? Buy a removable hard drive tray system with two trays and a 2nd hard drive. Ghost or CloneZilla her current hard drive to the new one. Give her a short tutorial on turning the key in the lock and swapping the hard drive. Provide her with a padded box to put the hard drive tray into. When she mucks it up again, have her swap hard drives and then ship you the mucked up one. Fix at your leisure, send back. Repeat the process for the rest of her life...
This is just as bad as news sites such as CNN. I click on link to Ubuntu video, I get a mandatory commercial at first. Fine, gotta pay the rent, I understand. But then, the video goes so far before there's a pause. Great, I hit pause, let the whole thing buffer. With the progress bar of the whole thing buffered, I hit play again. It starts back up where I left off. Then, it pauses again. Followed by rewinding back to the beginning silly Slashdot robot voice crap. then bounces back to where it paused to play again. Repeat eight or nine times through the course of a lousy 3-4 minute video. It's as bad as Yahoo! Please leave the video technology to YouTube; they seem to be the only ones who ever get it right.
I just don't buy that. I've had people hypothesize that Deckard was a replicant before and with the narration, there may have been an allusion to that in "Replicants weren't supposed to have feelings. Neither were bladerunners. What was happening to me?" But that he actually was a member of the wrecking crew? No way. The book, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep may have alluded more to your point of Deckard being a replicant than the movie. As for the replicants recognizing Deckard, Zhora didn't. She simply recognized being in paranoid fear of being discovered and then being killed. Leon watched her die so immediately set about taking out the "murderer". Batty and Pris recognized after the other's deaths that they were being hunted -- that they were "stupid" and didn't recognize some subltety about themselves which made them stand out like a sore thumb to the trained eye. If Deckard were even a replicant himself, where was his super-human superior strenght and agility? It was certainly absent in every one of all four encounters he had with "the crew". Deckard got his ass kicked by each one of them.
Well, I think the original release kicks butt over the Director's Cut in all ways except that I prefer the movie ending with the elevator door closing in DC; that is a better ending which leaves the big Que?tion mark to the viewer. Since I'd originally seen the movie on VHS years back before DC and it became MY all-time favorite flick, I'm very comfortable with the narration. The pegasus/unicorn dream sequence isn't long enough to totally annoy me though when I first saw in theater, I was like WTF?! I recently (a week ago!) purchased a copy of DC on VHS as I was sick of trying unsuccessfully to find the original anywhere. Echh, four bucks... So now I noticed the DC doesn't have Roy's thumbs pushing in Eldon's eyes - surprise I missed in theater. I like the blood better than the extended length neck-breaking in DC.
The peculiarities of BladeRunner are what still attract me to watching this flick over and over. I've never been able to figure out the math from Bryant:
...six replicants jumped a ship on an off-world colony, a couple of nights ago, they tried breaking into the Tyrell Corporation. One got fried running through an electric fence.
But then he goes to show video of four replicants. It doesn't ever add up.
Then there's Bryant's narration to Deckard about the video of the replicants. One minute he's speaking normally, the next, it's like he's some voice-over recording on the video footage itself;
The fourth skin job is Pris, a basic pleasure model...
blah-blah-blah. Oh well, I like Ridley Scott for both BladeRunner and Alien ~ there should never have been a single sequel to Alien, nor Highlander for that matter -- "There can be only one!"
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I empathize; I have an uncle who's about 100 miles away. So this is an old XP machine? Buy a removable hard drive tray system with two trays and a 2nd hard drive. Ghost or CloneZilla her current hard drive to the new one. Give her a short tutorial on turning the key in the lock and swapping the hard drive. Provide her with a padded box to put the hard drive tray into. When she mucks it up again, have her swap hard drives and then ship you the mucked up one. Fix at your leisure, send back. Repeat the process for the rest of her life...
This is just as bad as news sites such as CNN. I click on link to Ubuntu video, I get a mandatory commercial at first. Fine, gotta pay the rent, I understand. But then, the video goes so far before there's a pause. Great, I hit pause, let the whole thing buffer. With the progress bar of the whole thing buffered, I hit play again. It starts back up where I left off. Then, it pauses again. Followed by rewinding back to the beginning silly Slashdot robot voice crap. then bounces back to where it paused to play again. Repeat eight or nine times through the course of a lousy 3-4 minute video. It's as bad as Yahoo! Please leave the video technology to YouTube; they seem to be the only ones who ever get it right.
I just don't buy that. I've had people hypothesize that Deckard was a replicant before and with the narration, there may have been an allusion to that in "Replicants weren't supposed to have feelings. Neither were bladerunners. What was happening to me?" But that he actually was a member of the wrecking crew? No way. The book, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep may have alluded more to your point of Deckard being a replicant than the movie. As for the replicants recognizing Deckard, Zhora didn't. She simply recognized being in paranoid fear of being discovered and then being killed. Leon watched her die so immediately set about taking out the "murderer". Batty and Pris recognized after the other's deaths that they were being hunted -- that they were "stupid" and didn't recognize some subltety about themselves which made them stand out like a sore thumb to the trained eye. If Deckard were even a replicant himself, where was his super-human superior strenght and agility? It was certainly absent in every one of all four encounters he had with "the crew". Deckard got his ass kicked by each one of them.