Rick Deckard is the protagonist in Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, and also the 1982 film adaptation Blade Runner directed by Ridley Scott. The cinematic version of the character Deckard is played by the actor Harrison Ford.
In the film adaptation Deckard is a blade runner, a special member (or bounty hunter) of the Los Angeles Police Department whose job is to hunt and retire androids, called replicants, as they have been declared illegal on Earth. At the beginning of the film, a group of replicants hijack a shuttle to Earth, intending to infiltrate their place of manufacture and extend their four-year lifespans. Deckard, formerly the best blade runner in the LAPD, is called out of retirement to hunt them down. He is reluctant to resume work, but is told he has no choice and must use some of "the old blade runner magic" to succeed.
The term "blade runner" is, in fact, never used by the author of the original novel. Deckard is an active bounty hunter working in San Francisco rather than a Los Angeles detective, tasked with hunting down six escaped replicants, called "androids", who hope not to extend their lifespans, instead only to escape slavery on the colonies. Philip K. Dick approved of Harrison Ford's performance, saying that Ford had brought to life a "a genuine, real, authentic Deckard."
Sir Ridley Scott (born 30 November, 1937) is an English film director and producer. His most famous films include The Duellists (1977), Alien (1979), Blade Runner (1982), Legend (1985), Black Rain (1989), Thelma & Louise (1991), Gladiator (2000), Hannibal (2001), Black Hawk Down (2001), Kingdom of Heaven (2005) American Gangster (2007), Body of Lies (2008), and Prometheus (2012).
Scott has been nominated for three Academy Awards for Directing, as well as Golden Globe and Emmy Awards. He was knighted in the 2003 New Year Honours. In 2011, Scott received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He is the older brother of film director Tony Scott.
Scott was born in South Shields, England, the son of Elizabeth and Colonel Francis Percy Scott. He was raised in an Army family, meaning that for most of his early life, his father — an officer in the Royal Engineers — was absent. Ridley's older brother, Frank, joined the Merchant Navy when he was still young and the pair had little contact. During this time the family moved around, living in (among other areas) Cumbria, Wales and Germany. He has a younger brother, Tony, also a film director. After the Second World War, the Scott family moved back to their native north-east England, eventually settling in Teesside (whose industrial landscape would later inspire similar scenes in Blade Runner). He enjoyed watching films, and his favourites include Lawrence of Arabia, Citizen Kane and Seven Samurai. Scott studied in Teesside from 1954 to 1958, at Grangefield Grammar School and later in West Hartlepool College of Art, graduating with a Diploma in Design.
Daniel Dumile (pronounced /ˈduːmɨleɪ/ DOO-mə-lay; born January 9, 1971) is a hip hop artist who has taken on several stage names in his career, most notably MF Doom, often stylized as MF DOOM, where the "MF" stands for metal face, but metal fingers when using his producing name. He has appeared in several collaborative projects such as Danger Doom (with Danger Mouse) and Madvillain (with Madlib).
Dumile was born on January 9, 1971, in London, England, the son of a Trinidadian mother and Zimbabwean father. He then moved with his family to New York and was raised in the city of Long Beach, New York on Long Island.
As Zev Love X, he formed the group KMD in 1988 with his younger brother DJ Subroc and another MC called Rodan. When Rodan left the group, Zev found another MC to replace Rodan named Onyx the Birthstone Kid.A&R rep Dante Ross learned of KMD through the hip hop group 3rd Bass, and signed the group to Elektra Records.
Dumile and KMD's recorded debut came on 3rd Bass's song "The Gas Face" from The Cactus Album, followed in 1991 with KMD's album Mr. Hood, which became a minor hit through its singles "Peachfuzz", "Who Me?" and heavy video play on cable TV's Yo! MTV Raps and Rap City.
Paul Nathaniel Barman better known as MC Paul Barman (born October 30, 1974, in Ridgewood, New Jersey) is a Jewish- American emcee from Ridgewood, New Jersey, who attended Brown University.
"Enter Pan-Man," from his self-produced 7-inch Postgraduate Work (Househusband Records, 1998), attracted the attention of Prince Paul, and the two collaborated, releasing the It's Very Stimulating EP in 2000 on Wordsound. Paullelujah! followed in late 2002, with production by Prince Paul, MF DOOM, MikeTheMusicGuy and Phofo. He has appeared on records with Deltron 3030 and Masta Ace, and has toured with Del tha Funkee Homosapien and Blackalicious. In film he made a cameo in the 2008 Michel Gondry film Be Kind Rewind and in the same year narrated the satirical political short Because Washington is Hollywood for Ugly People. While Barman is culturally Jewish, religiously he is an atheist. He also performs regularly on tracks by DJ Yoda.
Dr. Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones, Jr. is a fictional character and the protagonist of the Indiana Jones franchise. George Lucas and Steven Spielberg created the character in homage to the action heroes of 1930s film serials. The character first appeared in the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark, to be followed by Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom in 1984, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in 1989, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles from 1992 to 1996, and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in 2008. Alongside the more widely known films and television programs, the character is also featured in novels, comics, video games, and other media. Jones is also featured in the theme park attraction Indiana Jones Adventure, which exists in similar forms at Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea.
Jones is most famously played by Harrison Ford and has also been portrayed by River Phoenix (as the young Jones in The Last Crusade), and in the television series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles by Corey Carrier, Sean Patrick Flanery, and George Hall. Doug Lee has supplied Jones's voice to two LucasArts video games, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis and Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine, while David Esch supplied his voice to Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb and John Armstrong in Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings.
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This is a the full cut of a remake of Blade Runner originally created for Empire Magazine's Done in Sixty Seconds competition. Blade Runner 60 moves the film's action to London, and takes inspiration from the novel 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.' The Empire Magazine cut was 60 seconds long - this is around 5 minutes. NOTE: This cut is an assembly edit. The final cut will be submitted to the festival when it's completed later this month.
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This newly-assembled narrative of 24 deleted and alternate scenes from the film "Blade Runner" is presented as a unique and abridged version of the film itself, featuring never-before-heard narration by Harrison Ford. Scenes involving a hospitalized Holden and two different endings are included, as are additional clues to the true nature of Rick Deckard.
Rick Deckard: [narrating] I didn't know anything about Holden getting wasted at the Tyrell corporation. Why should I? I was retired. Holden was my replacement. I quit after my wife left me. She went off-world with some guy who made a fortune in the Colonies. I thought I'd have a shot at being human again. I'm Deckard, Blade Runner. Retired. At least... I thought I was retired.
Rick Deckard: [narrating] The guy who arrested me, or whatever you wanna to call it, a guy named Gaff. Smartass, real dandy. New in Blade Runner, very ambitious. Couldn't understand much of his chatter, talked garbage, a street dialect. He was probably telling me about the escape, but maybe he was talking about his girlfriend's rear end, I don't know.
Rick Deckard: [narrating] Bryant was the head of Replicant Detection, Rep Detect. The Blade Runner unit. An old timer. No particular qualifications. But he held on to his job 'cause he knew a little something about everybody. The things Bryant knew about you were the things... you didn't want anybody else to know. Made you see his point of view.
Dave Holden: It's all over, it's a wipe-out. They're almost us, Deck, it's a disease! [coughs] Push it. Push that button.::Rick Deckard: What button?::Dave Holden: The green one right there.::Rick Deckard: [Deckard pushes it] What does that do?::Dave Holden: It's for pain, asshole.
Rick Deckard: [narrating] Gaff picked me up in the morning and gave me the files on the escapees. Useless stuff, but scary. I had a headache by the time I got to page two.
Rick Deckard: [narrating] Leon must have found Hannibal Chew's adress in the personel files at Tyrell. Chew was a cottage industry genius who sold genetic research to outfits like Tyrell on a contract basis. His specialty was eyes. He loved eyes...
Rick Deckard: [narrating] All I had was a bunch of meaningless snapshots. A flake from a bathtub, a bad headache and a worse temper. I figured if I found them, there was a good chance I'd get killed. And sooner or later, I knew I was gonna find them.
Rick Deckard: [narrating] The last census showed a hundred and six million people in the city. Somwhere in the crowd I was supposed to find the four phony ones, the Replicants. I didn't know it then, but they were looking for something too.
Rick Deckard: [narrating] J.F. Sebastian was another of those oddball geniuses who did genetic designing. Hands were his his specialty. His hobby was making fancy mechanical toys. Most important, though, he had access to Eldon Tyrell. The poor jerk had no idea what was waiting for him.
Rick Deckard: [narrating] There was a sequin dress in the closet. I hadn't seen a sequin dress in twenty years. Not since my days watching hot-pantsers in the fourth sector.
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In a cyberpunk vision of the future, man has developed the technology to create replicants, human clones used to serve in the colonies outside Earth but with fixed lifespans. In Los Angeles, 2019, Deckard is a Blade Runner, a cop who specializes in terminating replicants. Originally in retirement, he is forced to re-enter the force when four replicants escape from an off-world colony to Earth.
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A Futuristic Vision Perfected [2007 Final Cut]
Man Has Made His Match... Now It's His Problem
A chilling, bold, mesmerizing, futuristic detective thriller.
The original cut of the futuristic adventure. [Director's Cut]
The star of "RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK" and the director of "ALIEN" take you on a spectacular journey to the savage world of the year 2019!!
Batty: 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 Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain... Time to die.
Deckard: [getting up to leave] I was quit when I come in here, Bryant, I'm twice as quit now.::Bryant: Stop right where you are! You know the score, pal. You're not cop, you're little people!::[Deckard stops at the door]::Deckard: No choice, huh?::Bryant: [smiles] No choice, pal.
[Batty has grabbed Deckard's gun hand and pulled it, along with the gun, through a hole in the wall]::Batty: Proud of yourself, little man?::[Batty takes the gun out of Deckard's hand]::Batty: This is for Zhora!::[Batty breaks one of Deckard's fingers]::Batty: This is for Pris!::[Batty breaks another one of Deckard's fingers, puts the gun back into his hand and lets him go]::Batty: C'mon, Deckard. I'm right here, but you've gotta shoot straight!::[Deckard shoots through the hole in the wall and blows one of Batty's ears off]::Batty: Straight doesn't seem to be good enough! Now it's my turn! I'm going to give you a few seconds before I come.
Batty: Not very sporting to fire on an unarmed opponent. I thought you were supposed to be good. Aren't you the "good" man? C'mon, Deckard. Show me what you're made of.
Bryant: I need ya, Deck. This is a bad one, the worst yet. I need the old blade runner, I need your magic.
Deckard: [narrating] They don't advertise for killers in the newspaper. That was my profession. Ex-cop. Ex-blade runner. Ex-killer.
Deckard: Have you felt yourself to be exploited in any way?::Zhora: Like what?::Deckard: Well... well, like to get this job. I mean, did... did you do, or... or were you asked to do anything lewd... or unsavory, or... or, otherwise repulsive to your... your person, huh?::Zhora: [laughs] Are you for real?
Deckard: She's a replicant, isn't she?::Tyrell: I'm impressed. How many questions does it usually take to spot them?::Deckard: I don't get it, Tyrell.::Tyrell: How many questions?::Deckard: Twenty, thirty, cross-referenced.::Tyrell: It took more than a hundred for Rachael, didn't it?::Deckard: [realizing Rachael believes she's human] She doesn't know.::Tyrell: She's beginning to suspect, I think.::Deckard: Suspect? How can it not know what it is?
Deckard: [narrating] The report read "Routine retirement of a replicant." That didn't make me feel any better about shooting a woman in the back.
Bryant: You could learn from this guy, Gaff. He's a goddamned one-man slaughterhouse, that's what he is. Four more to go!