Androids and Replicants (SPOILER ALERT)
After reading the text ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ and watching the Blade Runner one major key stuck out. One of the big differences that the movie and the book had is the personification of the androids. In the book author Philip K. Dick called androids, androids. While in the Movie they were called Replicants. At first one might think that these two humanoids are the same, but the both the text and the movie make it feel other wise. An example of this is seen in the ending of the film, when the replicant Roy Batty is talking to deckard as he is hanging on for his dear life on a beam off a building. He says “All those moments will be lost in time… like tears in the rain”, when the audience hears this, they can hear and feel the pain behind his words and see that he isn’t just an replicant, but also feels pain just as other humans. This aspect is one thing that the text could not portray as well, that is why the audience could associate them more like androids and might be a reason why they changed the names of it in the film. Over all both the text and film where thoroughly created and a complain one may have is that they both haven’t really aged with time, because of an outlandish feel that they have.
