wake up the next morning there is
twice as much of it.
it always gets
more and more." (p. 53)
The hypothetical build-up of
decaying
matter or used rubbish seems to represent the
encroachment
of the pressures of life, or
survival in general, and the
inevitable
destruction of a being when its life-span has
finished.
"No one can win against kipple, except
temporarily and
maybe in one spot,
like in my apartment. I've sort of
created a
stasis between the pressures
of kipple and nonkipple, for the
time
being. But eventually I'll die or go
away, and then the
kipple will again
take over. It's a universal
principal
operating throughout the universe; the
entire universe
is heading toward a
final state of total,
absolute
kippleization." (Ibid) In the
film this idea of accumulating
refuse is only used for a greater
impact
visually. But the theme of an inevitability
of one's life is
presented within the film by the |
replicants' search for longevity, because they
only have a
four- year life span. They have
come back to Earth to penetrate the
Tyrell
Corporation to seek the assistance of their
maker, Dr. Eldon
Tyrell, who is later murdered
by Roy Batty.
The character of Dr. Eldon Tyrell is
presented as a kind of deity
figure who has the
power of creating life, but unable to
prevent
death. In the original screenplay Ridley Scott
wanted this
character as well as Deckard to be a
replicant (Future Noir, p. 392).
During the
development of the original story-line the
Tyrell
Corporation megastructure building is
actually a pyramid, and at the
base of this is a
cryogenic chamber which houses the body of
the
real Tyrell. The replicant Tyrell, by creating
near human
genetically engineered machines is
also trying to discover a way to
bring the real
Tyrell back to life. Another variation had the
bones
buried beneath the building protected by
the mysteries of 'pyramid
power'.
The many different variations of the |