Olivia's Blog- HON 255

  Olivia Geishauser Professor Santiago Echeverry Honors Idea Lab 11 October 2022 Group 8: Olivia Geishauser, Naomi Vogel, Emma Panaroni   Quote:   Roy Batty’s monologue “I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the  Tannhäuser  Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.”    We decided to construct our collage around the quote within the film said by Roy just before his death. When Roy said “All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain. Time to die.”, I began to think about the two sides within  Blade Runner ’s world and how the construct of time remains an ever-present theme throughout the depiction of both Deckard and the Replicants.    For these reasons, I found that the use of an umbrella could act as a metaphor for the want or need for more time by humanity and the rain washing everything away as reality.   On the top of the umbrella,

  -         Blade Runner  Info - Release Date: June 25, 1982 - Director: Ridley Scott -Main Storyline: Within the film, the Tyrell Corporation developed a kind of artificial intelligence in the form of “replicants” who look and act like humans. When these replicants begin to rebel on an off-Earth colony, they then become illegal on Earth. As the story continues the viewer meets a member of the police force tasked with destroying these replicants.    -         Notes taken throughout film -takes place in the year 2019 -   in the first initial scene two men sit across from each other and one man must take a test using hypothetical questions  -in the middle of a question regarding his mother the man shoots the interviewer -Deckard is known as a “Blade Runner” (destroyer of replicants) -interviews a woman named Rachael who is not human he interviews her, and the creator says Nexus’s mission is to reach a consensus “more human than human” -decker finds scale of animal in bathtub -he figures