Question regarding story

[andy]

[SCOFFMAN]

[The Loyalizer]

Yeah I'd forgotten about the sequins in the esper photo.
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[OUTLAW]

What about Deckards photos on his piano ???
These also seem too old to fit in with the time period of the movie, they seem to be well over 100 years old and more likely to be his great grand parents and not the typical pics you would have around the house, again Tyrell provided memories/history ???

This is the only detail that has ever put any doubt in my mind regarding Deckard being a Replicant, apart from this I´ve always thought of him as being human.

My son has just watched the movie for the 1st time. I let him watch both the Final cut and the 1982 International cut (my personal favourite)

He thinks Deckard is human also.

The Final cut version IMHO was a clever way of generating fresh appeal (sales) and to get everyone talking, it worked a treat but its not the same movie for me.
Clever insertion of a borrowed unicorn clip, well done Ridley Scott but I would have preffered a 1982 version cleaned up etc for the "Final" version on Blueray.

[joberg]

Yes...the debate goes on. And what about the photo with Deckard and that blonde on the porch? Friend or wife/ex-wife? It could go both ways: implants and all those pics being supplied by Tyrell to make it air-tight...or Deck is really human and these pics are really his.

[andy]

The photos on Deckard's piano appear to be the same ones he found at Leon's apartment.

Andy

[Bishop To King 7]

[OUTLAW]

[Vader]

[photek]

good post Vader. as a vegan i can offer my tupence ...

there is a guy working on exactly what you spoke of. growing tissue cultures in a bioreactor. you take a single cell swab or DNA sample from a cow, fish, chicken, etc., foster cell-division then put it in this bio-reactor they are engineering. the tissue would be constantly exposed to a nutrient rich solution to speed up the process. the bio reactor would essentially be a kind of muscle inducing treadmill since the tissue would need to literally exercise for it have a more muscle-like consistency. less a treadmill and probably more like a dough hook you see at the pizza restaurants. he said the kitchen of the future would ideally have a bioreactor next to the bread-maker and similarly, in the morning you had a fresh loaf of bread and a fresh steak, chicken, lobster, etc. it would do away with resource-intensive factory farms (not to mention what goes on in them), trucking meat all over, etc. its called called New Harvest.

or ... a simpler solution is veggie or faux-meats. a personal favorite since i love the taste of meat (i refrain for ethical reasons). for years i have been eating veggie prawn and once its marinated in teriyaki and grilled on a kabob ... one can hardly tell the difference. the Asians have this down to a science. http://www.vegieworld.com/cart/product_pages.asp?id=580

its also an interesting side-bar to the story - since there is a shortage of real animals but plenty of humans ... so we would have to resort to protein analogs. not sure Ridley considered this, but its highly likely that shrimp or fish is soy-based. i like Deckard more and more each day!
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[SundayForever]

"He had a belly full of killing" (in VO). When Bryant told him, the Nexus 6 is worse, this could explain their inability to be discovered by machine VK. Deckard is why he later asked the question about the machine does not work when Bryant remains silent, I guess it is because he knows Deckard may be right. I think we can infer that Bryant needs is to assume Deckard replicant because Holden has been decommissioned.