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example, Deckard accepting Rachael as human before the Voight-Kampff machine proves her otherwise was first presented to us in the novel. The Voight-Kampff machine itself is a Dickian invention that the film utilised, as was the idea of a genetic engineering mega- corporation providing incentives for off-world emigration in the form of personally tailored artificial life-forms, as well as their built-in four year life-spans. A great deal of the characters’ names in the novel were retained for the film, and even some of the original dialogue of the novel made the transition onto the screen. For example, in the novel, "'In a magazine you come across a full-page colour picture of a nude girl.' He paused. 'Is this testing whether I'm an android,' Rachael asked tartly, 'or whether I'm homosexual?'" (page 41). In the film, Deckard: "You're reading a magazine. You come across a full-page nude photo. of a girl" Rachael: "Is this testing whether I'm a replicant or a lesbian, Mr. Deckard?". The films script is almost a word- for-word transcription of the novels dialogue. However, Paul Sammon makes the point much more |
eloquently than I ever could,In short then, what Paul Sammon is saying"These minor moments are nothing is that far from Blade Runner being merely based on the premise of the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? it actually was most faithful to its source with the aspects of visualisation, which ironically are the aspects of the film that viewers tend to have the most difficulty overcoming. However, all this being said, there is no denying that there are as many |
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