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Deckard and main
The main plot follows Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter who is faced with " retiring " six escaped Nexus-6 brain model androids, the latest and most advanced model, while a secondary plot follows John Isidore, a man of sub-normal intelligence who aids the fugitive androids.
In the book, Rick Deckard ( the main character ) is at one point tricked into following an android, who believes himself to be a police officer, to a faked police station.
Although the film's main character, Deckard, only appears fleetingly in a non-speaking role in Blade Runner, he is referred to multiple times, and his recent activities are mentioned by non-player characters.

Deckard and character
Harrison Ford, who played Deckard in the film, has said that he did not think Deckard was a replicant, and also states he and the director had discussions that ended in the agreement that the character was human.
* Deckard Cain, a character in the Diablo video game series
* Philip K. Dick wrote the character Deckard as a human in the original novel.
* Hampton Fancher ( original screenwriter ) has said that he wrote the character Deckard as a human, but wanted the film to suggest the possibility that he may be a replicant.

Deckard and film
They continue the story of Rick Deckard and attempt to resolve many of the differences between the novel and the film.
Pris and Zhora's descriptions were mixed up ( perhaps deliberately ) in the film: Zhora acts as a " basic pleasure model ", attempting to pass off as a stripper, while Pris ( who is dressed like a prostitute ) is capable of acrobatic combat moves which nearly kill Deckard.
Unicorns also appear several times in the dream sequences of the director's cut, and as it is explained in the film ; Rachel's memories are known by her creators, e. g. the memory Rachel has of the spiders ( as explained to her by Deckard in the movie ).
The 1942 Casablanca centers on the development of conscience in the cynical American Rick Blaine ( Humphrey Bogart ) in the face of oppression by the Nazis and the example of the resistance leader Victor Laszlo. The David Lean and Robert Bolt screenplay for Doctor Zhivago ( an adaptation of Boris Pasternak's novel ) focuses strongly on the conscience of a doctor-poet in the midst of the Russian Revolution ( in the end " the walls of his heart were like paper "). The 1982 Ridley Scott film Blade Runner focuses on the struggles of conscience between and within a bounty hunter ( Rick Deckard ( Harrison Ford )) and a renegade replicant android ( Roy Batty ( Rutger Hauer )) in a future society which refuses to accept that forms of artificial intelligence can have aspects of being such as conscience.
* In 1982 science fiction film Blade Runner, the bounty hunter Deckard is shown buying a bottle of Tsingtao right after dispatching the replicant Zhora.
* The 1982 film Blade Runner contains an early depiction of smart glass in a scene in which a room is darkened with a smart glass-like shade so Rick Deckard, played by Harrison Ford, can administer a polygraph-style test to determine whether Rachael, portrayed by Sean Young, is an organic robot known as a replicant.
The film goes so far as to put in doubt the nature of Deckard and forces the audience to reevaluate what it means to be human.
Some film critics believe Roy saved Deckard's life so that Deckard would continue to live with knowledge of Roy's experience — being about to die.
There is a sequence added in the Director's Cut version ( that was not in the original theatrical release ) where Deckard dreams about a unicorn, and at the end of film finds an origami unicorn that Gaff leaves in Deckard's apartment, possibly suggesting to the viewer ( and to Deckard ) that Gaff knows about Deckard's dream in the same manner that Deckard knows about Rachael's implanted memories.
* the fact that Gaff, who had shown no sympathy for Deckard throughout the film, tells him " You've done a man's job, sir!
" During a discussion panel with Ridley Scott to discuss Blade Runner: The Final Cut, Fancher again stated that he believes Deckard is human ( saying that " Scott's idea is too complex "), but also repeated that he prefers the film to remain ambiguous: " I like asking the question and I like it to be asked but I think it ’ s nonsense to answer it.

Deckard and Blade
Blade Runner 3: Replicant Night ( 1996 ) is a novel by K. W. Jeter that continues the story of Rick Deckard.
Living on Mars, Deckard is acting as a consultant to a movie crew filming the story of his Blade Runner days.
Beginning several months after the events in Blade Runner, Deckard has retired to an isolated shack outside the city, taking the replicant Rachael with him in a Tyrell transport container, which slows down the replicant aging process.
* Deckard, Pris, Sebastian, Leon, Batty, and Holden all appeared in Blade Runner.
Paul Sammon, author of Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner, has suggested in interviews that Deckard may be a Nexus-7, a next-generation replicant who possesses no superhuman strength or intelligence, but brain implants that complete the human illusion.
Ford is also known for his roles as Rick Deckard in Blade Runner, John Book in Witness and Jack Ryan in Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger.
He then starred as Rick Deckard in Ridley Scott's cult sci-fi classic Blade Runner ( 1982 ), and in a number of dramatic-action films: Peter Weir's Witness ( 1985 ) and The Mosquito Coast ( 1986 ), and Roman Polanski's Frantic ( 1988 ).
In Blade Runner ( 1982 ), there is a photo-scanning sequence in which Deckard ( Harrison Ford ) scans a photograph and then electronically pans to and blows up specific portions of the photographic image to find clues for his investigation.
When visiting the Tyrell building, Rachael mentions that she has already spoken to another Blade Runner and Tyrell himself tells McCoy that " as I explained to Mr. Deckard earlier, I've given the Nexus 6 a past.
* The Batty and Deckard chase scene in Blade Runner ( 1982 )
In 2011, NowGamer ranked him as the eight best game detective, calling him " the epitome of the hard boiled flatfoot detective ", but wondering why he " dress like a cross between an alcoholic Indiana Jones and Deckard from Blade Runner.
Given the many Asian peoples populating Los Angeles in A. D. 2019, and the cityspeak dialect policeman Gaff speaks to the Blade Runner, Rick Deckard, clearly indicates that much cultural mixing has happened.
* Blade Runner FAQ – Is Deckard a Replicant?
His clothing also resembles that worn by Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard in Blade Runner.

', and allusion
In 1991, addressing a graduating class of the University of Michigan, U. S. President George H. W. Bush spoke against " a movement would declare certain topics ' off-limits ,' certain expressions ' off-limits ', even certain gestures ' off-limits '" in allusion to liberal Political Correctness.
', this conflicts with the biblical account which says Abraham's response was this: ' My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering ', which according to William Whiston was an allusion to the sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
The owls suggest that the family, like the town, called itself ' Owdham ', and adopted the birds in allusion to its name.
The motto of the Church of Scotland is nec tamen consumebatur ( Latin )-' Yet it was not consumed ', an allusion to Exodus 3: 2 and the Burning Bush.
The earliest known evidence of this flag was recorded by Davies Gilbert in his 1838 work: ' The Parochial History of Cornwall ', where he gives reference to .." a white cross on a black ground was formerly the banner of St Perran and the Standard of Cornwall ; probably with some allusion to the black ore and the white metal of tin "
' Ashvegas ', Ashburton's common nickname, is an ironic allusion to Las Vegas.
* The concert scene of Jackie's band, ' The Losers ', an allusion to ' 70s Cantopop band The Wynners.
The combination of two words that can mean either ' port-close ', ' landing on pillars ' or a Ferreoli Domini, " the lord of Ferreol " veiled allusion to the town, which could have had a temple under the patronage of St. Ferreol.
The doomed child's name Nepomuk, in the 19th century quite popular in Austria and southern Germany and middle name of the composer Hummel and the playwright Johann Nestroy, can be seen as an allusion to the high rococo, the're-echoing of movement ', in the St John Nepomuk Church architecture by the Asam brothers in Munich ( as described and interpreted by Heinrich Wölfflin ).
Although Weber himself used the word ' agency ', in modern social science this term is often appropriated with a given acceptance of Weberian conceptions of social action, unless a work intends to make the direct allusion.

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