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*** Bearing in mind however, that the man whose head Roy Batty crushed is the man responsible for installing him and his fellow replicants with a retirement date, you cant really blame him. To me he is more a Type III

* DesignatedHero: The replicants are escaped slaves. The Blade Runners are bounty hunters who get money for gunning them down. A Blade Runner protagonist makes for an uneasy moral setting at best. [[invoked]]

* DullSurprise: The narration in the theatrical cut seems to be trying for "PrivateEyeMonologue" and falling into "Bored Out of My Mind" instead. (Part of the reason for the "[[DisContinuity What theatrical cut?]]" mentality) Rumor has it that Harrison Ford disliked the idea of the narration and tried to prevent it from happening by deliberately botching his line delivery. [[SpringtimeForHitler The narration got used anyway.]] Ford denies that he did it deliberately, saying he did his best with what he was given. Possibly the legendarily difficult shoot had got to him.

* TheProblemWithLicensedGames: Averted. Westwood Studios released a lovingly faithful AdventureGame based on this movie in 1997. LetsPlay: [[http://fromearth.net/LetsPlay/BladeRunner/ Here]]. The game featured randomized plot points and the player's actions could lead the game towards thirteen different alternate endings.

* HeyItsThatGuy: [[BattlestarGalactica Edward James Olmos]] in the role that made him famous (well, sort of) as Gaff. He only appears about three times, but he's got the [[ImpossiblyCoolClothes best outfit in the movie]] and gets one of its last, and best, lines. If [[spoiler:Deckard is a replicant himself]], Gaff is presumably his human handler and the model for some of his fake memories.

* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: Blade Runner has been re-released '''many''' times. There's a Director's Cut, a Special Edition, and now a "Five-Disc Ultimate Collector's Edition" that comes in the same kind of metal briefcase as the Voight-Kampff machines. Ridley Scott tweaks scenes and dialogue in each one, sometimes altering the mood of scenes significantly.

* DeathOfTheAuthor: One refuge for those that think that Deckard is not a replicant. (Also, a film has multiple authors, and in this case [[FlipFlopOfGod they disagree with each other]].)

* RuinedForever: If you prefer the film [[spoiler: with Deckard as human]].

* EarnyourHappyEnding : In the theatrical cut Deckard's voiceover informs that the four years expiration date did not apply to Rachael, and the final shot is just the opposite of the dark and oppressive mood of the whole movie; a bucolical and sunny place crossed by a road that implies they reach a HappilyEverAfter.

* AdultChild: While the Replicants are adults both physically and mentally, they're still very childlike in their emotions, be it Pris's very whimsical behavior or Roy basically having a temper tantrum [[spoiler:when meeting Tyrell]].

''Blade Runner'' is a genre-bending 1982 ScienceFiction film that borrowed stylistic elements from FilmNoir and HardboiledDetective fiction. Set in a [[{{Dystopia}} dystopian]] [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture near-future]] [[CityNoir Los Angeles]], it established much of the tone and flavor of the CyberPunk movement and the film style of [[TheFutureIsNoir Tech Noir]]. It is a highly intelligent film, visually ''stunning'' and featuring a seriously great script. The definitive high-def/BluRay DirectorsCut came out in 2007, and you have no excuse not to have seen it.

* InstantDeathBullet: Mostly averted. With the exception of [[spoiler: Leon]] who falls victim to a BoomHeadshot, all the characters that get shot take several hits before going down for good. Of course this might be an attempt to highlight the Replicants' post-human nature rather than an attempt to be realistic. The only human character who gets shot is Holden, and even then he's shot twice by Leon. Having said that, he did still (barely) survive it.

* InstantDeathBullet: Mostly averted. With the exception of [[spoiler: Leon]] who falls victim to a BoomHeadshot, all the characters that get shot take several hits before going down for good. Of course this might be an attempt to highlight the Replicants' post-human nature rather than an attempt to be realistic. We only see one human character (the blade runner who interrogates Leon at the start) getting shot. Having said that, he did still (barely) survive it.

* RapeIsLove: Deckard and Rachael's "romance" has elements of this.

''Blade Runner'' is a genre-bending 1982 ScienceFiction film that borrowed stylistic elements from FilmNoir and Hardboiled detective fiction. Set in a [[{{Dystopia}} dystopian]] [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture near-future]] [[CityNoir Los Angeles]], it established much of the tone and flavor of the CyberPunk movement and the film style of [[TheFutureIsNoir Tech Noir]]. It is a highly intelligent film, visually ''stunning'' and featuring a seriously great script. The definitive high-def/BluRay DirectorsCut came out in 2007, and you have no excuse not to have seen it.

''Blade Runner'' was loosely based on the [[PhilipKDick Philip K. Dick]] novel ''DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricSheep?'' The title itself comes from the novel ''The Bladerunner'' by Alan E. Nourse. Other than the title, the movie has nothing to do with ''The Bladerunner''. It just [[RuleOfCool sounded cool]].

* HandCannon: Deckard's handgun seems to fire explosive shells. It certainly makes pretty big holes in walls during his fight with Roy in the hotel. It's based off a stripped-down .223 caliber rifle. So it's basically a huge single shot rifle in the shape of a pistol.

* DesignatedHero: The replicants are escaped slaves. The Blade Runners are bounty hunters who get money for gunning them down. A Blade Runner protagonist makes for an uneasy moral setting at best.

* FarEast: The film runs a kind of "the future is Asian" thing with a mishmash of East Asian cultural stereotypes: Geishas in advertising, Chinese noodle stalls, Japanese and Chinese writing scattered about, broken {{Engrish}}, squadrons of bicycles ridden through squalid streets by people in big hats etc. It verges on, some would say plunges into, UnfortunateImplications.

* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy/WhiteHairedPrettyGirl: Both Roy and Pris have almost white, platinum blond hair.