I am going to have much much much less time to watch and write about movies now, and as much as I tell myself that I'll make it work, I'm still not really sure how I'm going to do it or what it might look like. I love it so much that, even though I'll probably never feel completely comfortable saying I love it more than the original, I get a little closer every time I watch it.Īnd because I'm an extreme nerd-ass loser, the second thought that went through my head after my manager delivered the news to me (immediately after 'yes please oh my god I've been scraping the shit for this for over seven years') was to wonder what's going to happen to my cherished movie-watching schedule (the third thought was 'what time am I going to have to wake up'). I love every facet of this film, from its electro-industrial score to its neo-noir aesthetic to its decentered hero's journey. So I celebrated with a bottle of champagne and a rewatch of Blade Runner 2049, a movie that I didn't realize I loved so much until my buddy Andrew responded 'Again?' the last time I rewatched it. I finally succeeded in holding the tide with a broom. Yesterday I witnessed a miracle: I got the big promotion I'd been scraping the shit working toward for over seven years.

In my heart, I prefer to keep the question alive.'You newer models are happy scraping the shit… because you have never seen a miracle.' 'I love the fact that we are not sure,' he says. 'It’s more exciting and more dynamic. Wallace might know, but Villeneuve happily insists even he doesn't.

'Deckard himself is unsure of his own identity,' says Villeneuve, adding that replicant creator Niander Wallace (Jared Leto) 'plays with (Deckard) with this at the end.' Paranoia is an important theme of Blade Runner 2049. 'They start to see symptoms of the sickness. 'In the book, blade runners themselves are doubting their own identity, like a doctor always in contact with sick people,' Villeneuve says. Dick - the movie is based on 1968's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - was filled with ambiguity. A: The question has raged since Ridley Scott's 1982 Blade Runner : Is replicant hunter Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) a replicant himself? Ford has always argued that the character is human, while Scott has maintained Deckard is a replicant. The original novel by Philip K.

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