Ooh, do you remember where you read that film note? It'd be interesting to know, the eye bit was just what I observed from watching the film (that, and Deckard was the only "human" who's eyes I saw do that). I'm not sure that you can do that trick by mistake, since human eyes don't turn animal-like even with stage lights...
"To me, the theme of the story was about what makes a human a human - emotions, empathy, memories - and what you call something that isn't biologically human, but is capable of these things..."
Isn't that why Deckard as a replicant gives the story a punch? He proves that replicants are no different from the humans (shorter life spans aside), and that humans have only clung to that dividing line because they were afraid of being surpassed by their own creations.
Can you really give a spoiler for a movie that's been out almost 25 years? I mean, c'mon--how long do we give Harry Potter books before we remove their spoiler alerts in discussions? 2 months, max. It's a bit of a given that something this old won't contain many surprises, especially considering that Blade Runner's an underground cult film and has semi-iconic status in pop culture.
Also, on a slightly different note there's a pretty easy to discern that Deckard is a replicant: all replicants have "animal eyes" (the way eyes reflect at night or with a flash of light), and Deckard's eyes get shown a few times like that in the Director's cut.
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Ooh, do you remember where you read that film note? It'd be interesting to know, the eye bit was just what I observed from watching the film (that, and Deckard was the only "human" who's eyes I saw do that). I'm not sure that you can do that trick by mistake, since human eyes don't turn animal-like even with stage lights...
"To me, the theme of the story was about what makes a human a human - emotions, empathy, memories - and what you call something that isn't biologically human, but is capable of these things..."
Isn't that why Deckard as a replicant gives the story a punch? He proves that replicants are no different from the humans (shorter life spans aside), and that humans have only clung to that dividing line because they were afraid of being surpassed by their own creations.
Can you really give a spoiler for a movie that's been out almost 25 years? I mean, c'mon--how long do we give Harry Potter books before we remove their spoiler alerts in discussions? 2 months, max. It's a bit of a given that something this old won't contain many surprises, especially considering that Blade Runner's an underground cult film and has semi-iconic status in pop culture. Also, on a slightly different note there's a pretty easy to discern that Deckard is a replicant: all replicants have "animal eyes" (the way eyes reflect at night or with a flash of light), and Deckard's eyes get shown a few times like that in the Director's cut.