Word: deckard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ford's latest character, Rick Deckard in Blade Runner, isn't too good, but he's very true. Deckard is a product of his society, and it is a society with which we can readily identify. Director Ridley Scott presents a very bleak landscape for his depiction of Los Angeles in the 21 St century. The stark buildings, neon signs, and dismal rain paint the picture of a world without any connection to human emotion or morality. It is a world which could easily be ours...
There are no heroes in Blade Runner, only people who mechanically go about their jobs and survive. The focus of the film is not on what makes a hero, but what makes a human being. People like Deckard have forgotten what it is to feel; they substitute sex for love and indifference for politics In the end, they must be taught even the most primitive of human emotions--fear. As Deckard runs from his pursuer in the film's climax, we realize that he has never experienced so intense an emotion in his life...
Some people don't belong in this decaying cityscape. One is Deckard (Harrison Ford), a burntout, Bogie-style detective; the others are "replicants," robots of advanced design who have infiltrated the city to find their creator and prolong their short, violent lives beyond the allotted four-year span. Deckard, brought back into service to kill the quartet of replicants, finds it no easy job-for they are powerful and cunning, and he is tired beyond caring. Moreover, Deckard's emotions have been short-circuited from a lifetime of dirty police work, whereas the emotions of the replicant leader...