Bits and Pieces

[mbarrick]

This person can exist because I have met her in bits and peices. I have dated dollops of her, I am good friends with fractions of her, I have proposed to portions of her, and even once made a significant subset of her my significant other. She is passionate and romantic but not at the expense of her intellect. She's sexy and wild but never inappropriate: she'll go to the fetish club and the black tie soirée and not be out of place or uncomforable at either - there's even a good chance she'll pull them both off in the same dress. Friday she'll go to the pub and drink a pints and talk about philosophy and comic books. Saturday morning she'll shop for antiques and speak of laquers and varnishes, but Saturday night she'll down drinks that could peel paint and dance like she's kicking someone's ass in boots that make her ten feet tall and while wearing plasitc hair. She knows the bartender that freepours. She has one foot in the 19th century and the other in the 21st. Sunday she'll do the Times crossword waiting for Sunday brunch and spend the afternoon sipping coffee and listening to jazz while she makes art that I am envious of but not competative with. She'd rather have her name mentioned in a textbook than have a baby. She won't want to move in with me but she'll want to get an apartment in the same building. She'll be able to put on a black dress that makes you want to bite your hand like Squiggy and dance in a swishy way that makes you shut your eyes at work on a Wednesday afternoon and smile a private smile and makes the pile of crap on your desk go away just for a minute while you remember how she looked. And when work is out of control and you need to bring some of it home and work late, she'll sneak up behind you and kiss your neck while you are working and put a coffee beside you. She'll call you on your shit but not make you feel like shit while doing it. She'll go walking in the park with you and make fun of dogs. She's a city girl who'd rather go to a night-club than take a walk in the woods as a general rule, but she'll love the ocean and the mountians and visiting places like Duncan and Tofino. She's challenging, but rarely frustrating. She won't leave and argument unfinished and refuses to go to bed mad. When she's tired she curls up on the couch with the cats to read or watch TV and wants you with her.

I don't think she is impossible. Just very, very difficult to find.

Comments

[mediavictim.livejournal.com]

Childish love.. I can see that .. but consider that she is at the emotionally deveolped state of an 8 year old - It is more of a puppy love for Roy. She could have suduced sebastion other ways more direct ways.. lonely guy .. hot girl..but she chose to 'Toy' with him - an indirect approach - more intelligent to hit him with his weakness for toys "all my friends are toys".
I also didn't see pris as angry or suprised when Decker did't die - I saw it as Pris toying with her prey but then it was her overconfidence that led to her fall - she turned her back on him.


But what if the Directors cut vs the non-directors cut are actually telling different stories of Decker - In the non-d-c we hear the Sam Spayed Dialoge , the camera focuses on his vioce and we FEEL the Burnout - the retired experienced cop who has lived for a while - We see his fatigue , his lack of strength (having his ass kicked by ALL the Replicants) and we know that he is human - Not strong wenough for a Nexus six.

Where as the DC has that Unicorn scene , not as much focus on the weak deker, and the Dialogue is gone -and when he looks out the window - it seems like its all confusing to him- like it's all new.

So Mr Ridley Scott - wich is it?

Simple Answer

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

There is no answer. Whether or not Deckard is a replicant with implanted memories is ambiguous, intentionally.

*But* remember that the director's cut was not done after the fact, the Sam Spade narration and happy ending was *added* not removed. The directors cut is what was shown at the trial screenings, (which, incidentally, were done in Texas) and based on the confusion of the test audiences the movie was dumbed down for distribution.

And this is why Artistotle saw (Greek) democracy as the lowest form of government. When everyboody has a say the loudest and stupidest tend to win out.

But don't you think Pris' confidence may have come from her thinking Deckard was less than he was? And what if Deckard's "experience" is implanted, as is implied. He doesn't know. Real memories or not, he would be jaded and tired from the experience. That is definitely not conclusive. But it is interesting that Deckard does get his ass kicked and only manages to kill the women (Rachel kills Leon and Roy expires on his own). Is that because he is less capable, or because he doesn't know his capabilities? Remember that Zhora is trained for a "kick murder squad" and she does kick the crap out of Deckard, but he doesn't die and *then* she runs.

Point being this question is built into movie and very intentionally not answered, and it makes it a much better movie. Insead of the sappy, in-your-face BS in AI (as an example) Blade Runner leaves you to think about it yourself. Unfortunately the marketing morons and the hayseed test audience didn't want to think. Because this lowest-common-denominator approach is so much more refined now, a movie like Blade Runner would *never* come out of Hollywood now. It could only be produced independently or in a "foriegn" country (like Canada - every wondered why Canada is part of the US domestic film distribution network and our own films get distributed as if they were "foreign films" within Canada?).