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Read the questions below and answer them by watching the linked video clips. Write the answers down and use them to help answer the essay task.

1. Look at these stills and clips of street scenes.

What kind of world does it show us?
What effect do these scenes have on us?
What particular features are most effective in conveying the atmosphere of Los Angeles in 2019? (hint - look at rain, lighting, advertising ....)

2. The replicants were designed to work for man. The job of the Blade Runner was to find replicants and eliminate them. Deckard is told that he must take on this job even though he has retired. Perhaps we are all slaves in some way ... Do you think that's true?

3 The hands of both Roy and Deckard are used as symbols to represent their struggle to live. Roy breaks Deckard's fingers - one for Zhora, one for Pris; Roy pushes a nail through his own palm so the pain will keep him alert.

Does this make them seem similar - or different? Explain.

Who else suffered pain with nails through his palms shortly before he died? Is that significant?

4 The replicants seem almost indistinguishable from humans - yet they are man-made robots.

What features in the frame remind us they are robots?

"D: I get the shakes ...
It's part of the business

R: I'm not in the business ...I am the business"

5 Tyrrel explains that the new replicants have had memories implanted in them to make them seem more human. Rachel has memories - she remembers piano lessons but she wasn't sure that she could play.

Deckard dismisses her memories as just implants.

Can a robot with memories cease to be a robot and believe it is a human? How does Deckard's attitude change when he realises this?

Read the questions below and answer them by watching the linked video clips. Write the answers down and use them to help answer the essay task.
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2. The replicants were designed to work for man. The job of the Blade Runner was to find replicants and eliminate them. Deckard is told that he must take on this job even though he has retired. Perhaps we are all slaves in some way ... Do you think that's true?
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3 The hands of both Roy and Deckard are used as symbols to represent their struggle to live. Roy breaks Deckard's fingers - one for Zhora, one for Pris; Roy pushes a nail through his own palm so the pain will keep him alert. Does this make them seem similar - or different? Explain. Who else suffered pain with nails through his palms shortly before he died? Is that significant?		100k
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4 The replicants seem almost indistinguishable from humans - yet they are man-made robots. What features in the frame remind us they are robots?	"D: I get the shakes ... It's part of the business R: I'm not in the business ...I am the business"
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5 Tyrrel explains that the new replicants have had memories implanted in them to make them seem more human. Rachel has memories - she remembers piano lessons but she wasn't sure that she could play. Deckard dismisses her memories as just implants. Can a robot with memories cease to be a robot and believe it is a human? How does Deckard's attitude change when he realises this?
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6 "Time to die" The replicants come back to earth to find out how long they have left to live. Gaff says, "It's too bad she won't live - but then again, who does ..." 236k What comments on life and death are expressed in Blade Runner?
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7 There is a theory that Deckard is himself a replicant. There are two main reasons for this: 1 that his minder, Gaff, seems to know about his dream of the unicorn. He leaves an origami unicorn outside Deckard's flat and could only know about the dream if it had been implanted 2 Deckard refuses to reply to Rachel's question "Did you ever take the test yourself?" There are other hints. What do you think?
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