![]() And in the U.S., where both Blade Runner films are exclusively set, the historical line between slave and not-slave was always racial. To illustrate this, we need to racialize the human/ replicant situation, which is warranted since replicants are slaves. Joshi’s fears are well-founded, Wallace is as hopelessly nearsighted as every Frankensteinian creator before him, and Freysa without a doubt has the mascot she hoped for. If Deckard is human and Ana is a human-replicant hybrid, everything changes. Finally, industrialist Niander Wallace (Jared Leto) sees the child as the key to discovering how to make a self-replenishing replicant population capable of exponential growth, a secret that the original film’s Eldon Tyrell (Joe Turkel) had unlocked shortly before his death only for that knowledge to be lost due to a technological blackout. Meanwhile, Freysa ( Hiam Abbass) and her burgeoning replicant rebellion see the child as a figurehead for their movement. ![]() K’s boss, Lieutenant Joshi (Robin Wright), fears knowledge of the child’s existence could lead to a literal societal collapse. In Blade Runner 2049, replicant blade runner Officer K (Ryan Gosling) is volleyed between a number of parties with different agendas all searching for a child “miraculously” born to the replicant Rachael and Deckard almost 30 years prior. Blade Runner 2049does not answer the Deckard question, but it does turn it into a matter with far-reaching implications, not only for the film, but what it says about our own society. Is Harrison Ford’s Blade Runner character a replicant or a human? It’s a question that has spawned years of impassioned fan debate, though the answer was not all that important within the world of 1982’s Blade Runner for people besides Deckard himself.
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