We might not get replicants but at least there are reddit bots. Posted in Twin Peaks and got some traction with what I thought was just a fairly nonpolitical post…but I guess I didn’t think they would enter the Black Lodge. I was wrong. But I don’t know if they come here. I would be like….ohhh we got a Batty.

What kind of concepts would you like to see in this series? I'm really interested in these directions:

• Cloning. We know that biological mimickry and replication has been mastered. So what about cloning? Altered Carbon "sleeve" technology, if you will. If you can transplant memories into a replicant, you can transplant your own in a clone body. Which one is the real you? Do only the rich have access to this technology by 2099? Have they always? Could Tyrell still be alive in his 6th body?

Memory transfer. We know the memories can be copied. By 2099, memory storage and implantation is probably common place. Do people transplant the memories of cool trips and wild sexual experiences into their own mind?

Who rules society? Have replicants become the dominant species by 2099? If so, have they subjugated humanity?

Interspecies mating. We now know this is possible, so has it become common place? Is the offspring of a replicant and human considered human? Are they shunned by both?

Like yeah I know about the theory, but I really don't understand why it's such an important talking point. The movie is layered and deep enough already. Deckard gets his butt handed to him any time he takes anyone on in a fight without his fancy gun, so he really doesn't show any more impressive feats than a normal human.

With other famous movie theories, I can kinda see the implications and why they would change everything. But here, I don't really see what is the point of it all. Seems like it changes nothing. I'd say it even takes away from that final scene with Roy.

Not to mention that the sequel has Ford be all old and helpless, so while I look at these two projects as their own things, I do feel like absolutely not saying anything about it, and having older Ford appear, kinda says that he wasn't a replicant in 2049. Unless we are supposed to take from it that not only was Deckard built as a much weaker replicant, but he also had no life span issue put into him. Which again, isn't said in the text, so idk.

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The first time I watched Blade Runner it was the Director’s Cut on VHS. Yesterday, almost 30 years later, I finally saw it on the big screen, at the cinema, as it was intended. Never thought I would get the chance in my lifetime still but there you go.

I was watching blade runner yet again when I began to have questions about the bird that Roy was holding. Opinions were varied among the people I was talking with, some said dove, some said pigeon. So I went looking to see what bird it looks like and it looks the most like a mourning dove. That suddenly made Roy's holding the dove and letting it go make sense to me symbolically.

EDIT: looking over the comments, I want to clear up some confusion.
First, pigeons (also known as rock doves)and doves are both members of the Columbidae bird family and share many similar characteristics, so the main difference between them is linguistic.
Second, the mourning dove is also a dove.
Third, the dove in the movie is pure white with a curved yellow beak. And I went looking to see which dove fits that description. I saw a pic that had a white feathers and yellow beak. Whoever posted that picture listed it as a mourning dove. However now I'm not sure if it really could be. Apparently doves come in so many different colors

Cool feature in Meta AI once you upload an image of yourself you can prompt "imagine me..." Kinda fun.

I think that top to bottom BR2049 is a masterpiece, but for me at least Roger Deakins' genius has sort of overshadowed how truly incredible nearly all the acting performances are. Even actors that only spend 10 minutes on screen are electric (Bautista, Lennie James, Carla Juri most notably imo). I don't think there are any bad performances in this movie, but what do you think are the best? For me

Jared Leto, maybe he's a creep IRL but he completely creates Wallace. It's a big swing but it lands

Sylvia Hoeks. Luv is terrifying and when K kills her it feels like I'm watching true violence. It makes me so uncomfortable

Ryan Gosling. K is one of the best sci fi protagonists of all time.

I'd even throw Carla Juri in there. "Someone lived this". Fucking a

So what say you?

Yellow lettering and green tint. Is this a test print?

It seems there has been some debate about whether she stays a commercial product, aiming to meet K's needs or whether she becomes sentient. Here are some things I noticed..

When K is coming home and starts telling her "you were right about everything", she hushes him, she'd been looking out the window and knows Mariette was following close behind. I think Joi really believes he is the child and she brought Mariette there to find out what she knows. Remember, she syncs with Mariette, which means she can tap into her and find out more about what she's doing. It's possible that Mariette's first conversation with him raised some kind of flag indicating an ulterior motive for joining him at the table. After all, Mariette knew he was a blade runner, a supposedly emotionless replicant with a purpose, not just a regular man looking for a good time, so why approach him at all? Joi knows this.

When she dismisses Mariette, I think part of that scene might be a rivalry thing, but I think after syncing with her and understanding her motives, she does not want her to find out that K is the child and get him involved, for his protection, considering that the resistance might not be as benevolent as they seem. Considering the emanator didn't go off until after Mariette placed the tracker, Joi would not have known she placed it.

I assume she can read replicants when syncing, because that's the only way I can imagine she knew what the wooden horse looked like, even though K had not yet acquired it when she was holding it in her hand. She might have synced with him at some point and saw it in his memory.

When Luv breaks her emanator, she looks directly at Joi when she says "I do hope you're satisfied with our product", a recall of when she'd said the same thing to K, indicating an acknowledgement of Joi's sentience, as K is also a Wallace Corp. product.

The entire scene with Deckard and Wallace helps set up the very next scene with K and the giant Joi advert. At one point, Wallace says "pain reminds you the joy you felt was real". The very next scene would be K in pain, looking at Joi. Could be coincidence, but maybe not.

When Deckard tells Wallace that Rachael's eyes were green. They were green in the initial Voight-Kampff test in the first Blade Runner. Sean Young appeared for the rest of the film with her natural brown eye color which was, according to IMDB a revealing mistake, I'm guessing her eyes were meant to be considered green. It's obvious that Deckard knows this near perfect replica of his Rachael is not really her, and if he can dismiss a realistic flesh version of the woman he loves in front of him, then imagine K looking at a simple black eyed advert.

They say that the eyes are the windows to the soul, the ad was black eyed because it was the soulless version of her that K would both recognize as her likeness, yet realize that it was not his Joi that he was looking at. I think his pain reminding him that his Joi was real was what made him go after Luv and decide to save Deckard in the process against the wishes of the resistance.

The resistance is tainted by pain and revenge. While they are not technically bad, as they have a worthy cause, I believe they would have misused K for their benefit, and in order to make him feel unified with them, they could have lied to him about the birth of the child to make him separate himself from humans.

Sapper suggests that experiencing a miracle was key in triggering his awakening, could be that Joi experiencing agency (like walking out into the rain), or syncing with K and believing he was the child triggered hers.

Maybe I'm just thinking too much. What are your thoughts?

Hi, not sure if this is the right place to ask but I really liked Arrival and wanted to check out Villeneuve's movies, I was wondering how important it was to have watched the first movie before 2049 / if I needed to to enjoy 2049?

Edit: thank you, I'll watch the first one asap!

Blade Runner 2099 - character spoiler

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Eldon Tyrell

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During the Spinner takeoff, Gaff says something to Deckard in city speak and then chuckles while they are flying to the police station. The soundtrack mutes this in the final cut, and the voice-over interrupts the theatrical cut. Does anyone know what he says?

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