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-> '''Holden:''' Describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about... your mother.


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-> '''Leon:''' ''Blows Holden across the room.''
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* PreMortemOneLiner:
-> '''Leon:''' Let me tell you about my mother.
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* ProperlyParanoid: Leon and Zhora both seal their fate by pre-emptively attacking the bladerunners investigating them, thus confirming their guilt.

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-> ''Deckard:'' I'm from the, uh, Confidential Committee On Moral Abuses. ... There's been some reports that the management has taken liberties with the artists in this place. Have you felt yourself to be exploited by anyone? [[CastingCouch To get this job ... did you do, or were you asked to do anything that's lewd or unsavory?]] Or otherwise repulsive to your person ...I'd like to check your dressing room, if I may ... for holes. You'd be surprised what a guy would go through to get a glimpse of a beautiful body.

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-> ''Deckard:'' '''Deckard:''' I'm from the, uh, Confidential Committee On Moral Abuses. ... There's been some reports that the management has taken liberties with the artists in this place. Have you felt yourself to be exploited by anyone? [[CastingCouch To get this job ... did you do, or were you asked to do anything that's lewd or unsavory?]] Or otherwise repulsive to your person ...I'd like to check your dressing room, if I may ... for holes. You'd be surprised what a guy would go through to get a glimpse of a beautiful body.body.
-> '''Zhora:''' No, I wouldn't.
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-> ''Deckard:'' I'm from the, uh, Confidential Committee On Moral Abuses. ... There's been some reports that the management has taken liberties with the artists in this place. Have you felt yourself to be exploited by anyone? [[CastingCouch To get this job ... did you do, or were you asked to do anything that's lewd or unsavory?]] Or otherwise repulsive to your person ...I'd like to check your dressing room, if I may ... for holes. You'd be surprised what a guy would go through to get a glimpse of a beautiful body.
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* BookEnds: Roy's EstablishingCharacterShot starts with his involuntarily-clenched hand, emblematic of his impending mortality. In his climactic fight with Deckard we see the same shot, and he is forced to impale his palm to keep his hand functioning.

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* BookEnds: {{Bookends}}: Roy's EstablishingCharacterShot EstablishingCharacterMoment starts with his involuntarily-clenched hand, emblematic of his impending mortality. In his climactic fight with Deckard we see the same shot, and he is forced to impale his palm to keep his hand functioning.
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* BookEnds: Roy's EstablishingCharacterShot starts with his involuntarily-clenched hand, emblematic of his impending mortality. In his climactic fight with Deckard we see the same shot, and he is forced to impale his palm to keep his hand functioning.

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* ForcefulKiss: Deckard to Rachael.

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Deckard to Rachael. Rachael, as a prelude to sex.
** Roy to Tyrell, as a prelude to gouging his eyes out.
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* CovertPervert: Invoked by Deckard when he sneaks into Zhora's dressing room as she is changing, pretending to be a MoralGuardian there with ulterior motives. In fact he is there with no interest in her sexual treatment either way, he simply wants to investigate her snake without interference. Sadly for him, she is ProperlyParanoid and attacks him.
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* ActorAllusion: Or rather, a possible case of musician allusion. Creator/RutgerHauer improvised part of Roy Batty's famous dying "Tears in rain" monologue. The phrase "tears in rain" resembles the title of the popular song ''Rain and Tears'' of ''Music/AphroditesChild'', written by Music/{{Vangelis}} and performed by Demis Roussos. Vangelis went on to compose the score for ''Film/BladeRunner'' and Roussos contributed the vocals, so it's possible that Rutger Hauer included the line as a tribute to the creators of the film score.

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* ActorAllusion: Or rather, a possible case of musician allusion. Creator/RutgerHauer improvised part of Roy Batty's famous dying "Tears in rain" monologue. The phrase "tears in rain" resembles the title of the popular song ''Rain and Tears'' of ''Music/AphroditesChild'', written by Music/{{Vangelis}} and performed by Demis Roussos. Vangelis went on to compose the score for ''Film/BladeRunner'' and Roussos contributed the vocals, so it's possible quite likely that Rutger Hauer included the line phrase as a tribute to the creators of the film score.
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* ActorAllusion: Or rather, a possible case of musician allusion. Creator/RutgerHauer improvised part of Roy Batty's famous dying "Tears in rain" monologue. The phrase "tears in rain" resembles the title of the popular song ''Rain and Tears'' of ''Music/AphroditesChild'', written by Music/{{Vangelis}} and performed by Demis Roussos. Vangelis went on to compose the score for ''Film/BladeRunner'' and Roussos contributed the vocals, so it's possible that Rutger Hauer included the line as a tribute to the creators of the film score.
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I've...seen things you people wouldn't believe..."'']]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I've... seen things you people wouldn't believe..."'']]
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* LogicBomb: The Voight-Kampff test. Consisting of verbal questions giving contradictory or confusing information designed to provoke an emotional response in replicants. Humans would be better to deal with ambiguity or comfortably answer with incomplete information.
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* CurbStompBattle: In the final confrontation it's pretty clear that [[spoiler:Deckard is outmatched by Batty, who even [[NoSell no sells]] a metal pipe to the head, the only reason Deckard survives is that Batty lets him.]]
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* DefiantToTheEnd: At the film's climax, Deckard is left literally hanging by his fingertips from a rooftop as Roy stares down at him. Just as he loses his grip, Deckard angrily spits at Roy. [[spoiler:Averted at the last second as Roy grabs Deckard and pulls him to safety.]]
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%%(ZCE)* ArtificialHuman: The Tyrell Corporation's Human Replicants. Roy, Leon, Zhora, Pris, Rachael, [[spoiler:and perhaps Deckard. Also Tyrell himself in a scrapped version of the script]].


* ArtificialHuman: The Tyrell Corporation's Human Replicants. Roy, Leon, Zhora, Pris, Rachael, [[spoiler:and perhaps Deckard. Also Tyrell himself in a scrapped version of the script]].

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* %%(ZCE)* ArtificialHuman: The Tyrell Corporation's Human Replicants. Roy, Leon, Zhora, Pris, Rachael, [[spoiler:and perhaps Deckard. Also Tyrell himself in a scrapped version of the script]].
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->''"It's too bad she won't live! But then again who does?"''

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->''"It's too bad she won't live! But then again again, who does?"''
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* PhotoIdentificationDenial: * ''Film/BladeRunner''. When Deckard shows bar owner Taffy Lewis a picture of the fugitive replicant Zhora, Taffy says he's never seen her. He's lying, because he hired Zhora to do a snake act to entertain his customers.

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* PhotoIdentificationDenial: * ''Film/BladeRunner''. When Deckard shows bar owner Taffy Lewis a picture of the fugitive replicant Zhora, Taffy says he's never seen her. He's lying, because he hired Zhora to do a snake act to entertain his customers.
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* PhotoIdentificationDenial: * ''Film/BladeRunner''. When Deckard shows bar owner Taffy Lewis a picture of the fugitive replicant Zhora, Taffy says he's never seen her. He's lying, because he hired Zhora to do a snake act to entertain his customers.
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Interestingly, the director's cut was the second ever title to be released on DVD, released on March 27th, 1997 (the first ever film was ''Film/{{Twister}}'', released the day prior.)

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Interestingly, the The director's cut was one of the first four films to be released on UsefulNotes/{{DVD}} when the format debuted in Japan in 1996, together with ''Film/TheFugitive'', ''Film/{{Eraser}}'', and ''Film/{{Assassins}}''. It was also the second ever title to be released on DVD, released the format in the United States, coming out on March 27th, 27, 1997 (the first ever film was ''Film/{{Twister}}'', released (just one day after the day prior.)
DVD release of ''Film/{{Twister}}'').
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To the 1920s silent film ''Film/{{Metropolis}}'', in the minds of most critics.
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* GlamourFailure: Can be forced by using the Voight-Kampff test to detect them, which monitors answers and subtle physical response to emotional questions. Otherwise replicants are identical to humans. On occasion their pupils can be seen to reflect light slightly, but according to WordOfGod, this is for the audience, and characters can't see it).

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* GlamourFailure: Can be forced by using the Voight-Kampff test to detect them, which monitors answers and subtle physical response to emotional questions. Otherwise replicants are identical to humans. On occasion their pupils can be seen to reflect light slightly, but according to WordOfGod, this is for the audience, and characters can't see it).it.
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* HeadCrushing: ImpliedTrope when [[spoiler: Roy Batty kills Tyrell. Tyrell's head is in Batty's hands as he is killed.]]
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* SurpriseInspectionRuse: Deckard claims to be a sexual harassment investigator from a burlesque performers' union when he's tracking a replicant he suspects is performing in the show in question.

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* DeathByAdaptation: Roy kills Sebastian [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness once the Replicants no longer need his help]], whereas the Androids never harm his counterpart in ''Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep'', in which their bonding with him is relatively more genuine.



* InformedAbility: We're told that Deckard is the expert at "retiring" replicants, that he's a one-man slaughterhouse. And yet, every single one of them absolutely kicks his ass, and he only actually kills two of them himself. The only reason he doesn't die himself is they all either [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim take too long killing him]] or decide not to.

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* InformedAbility: We're told that Deckard is the expert at "retiring" replicants, that he's a one-man slaughterhouse. And yet, every single one of them absolutely kicks his ass, and he only actually kills two of them himself. The only reason he doesn't die himself is they all either [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim take too long killing him]] or decide not to. Potentially justified in that Deckard has been retired for some time and has never gone up against a Nexus-6, who are superior to previous models.
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* RecycledSoundtrack: The soundtrack song "Memories of Green" is carried over from Music/{{Vangelis}}' 1980 album ''See You Later''.

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