Blade Runner 2049 - Film Analysis - Tyrell/Wallace Reflections - Would you Adam and Eve it?

[@GraemeWight-wx3xz]

I found that to be quite an interesting take and rather entertaining with good presentation. Well done. 😉👍

[@bakerward1977]

If Wallace is referring to Terrel as god in the quote, and “God remembered Rachel and blessed her by heading her woumb” that would make Terrell literally like Jesus in the fact that he created life and was killed by his own creation (just like Jesus was when he was crucified). That’s crazy if that’s true, I never even thought about this. Terrell would’ve literally created a mechanism of spiritual and technological means that could harness either another replicant’s semen or another human’s seamen (since we don’t know clearly if decker is a replicant or not) which is possibly the greatest feat any scientist can achieve. And that means Terrel knew from the beginning that they (Rachel and Decker) would “mate”. It’s like he knew as soon as Decker saw her (even though it could take a while) that he would eventually fall in love with her. He just knew that the machine he created was to perfect for even a sturdy by himself man ( or replicant) like Decker who literally hunts her own kind (and possibly his own kind) down couldn’t resist.’

[@smilesforcinephiles]

Correct. Let’s suppose... Scenario one. Deckard is human. IF Tyrell created Rachel specifically so that Deckard will fall in love with her, so they can produce reproductively viable replicant offspring, then Tyrell knows the mind of man, guides his freewill and is therefore God. Scenario two. Deckard is a replicant. Tyrell has preprogrammed everything to become a mortal God by achieving God’s divine abilities. Scenario three. Tyrell roles the dice and replicant evolution takes over...

[@sheevpalpatine6070]

You should definitely go in to more depth about this subject in the future 👍

[@MamaPinks]

I just finally watched 2049 last night. My biggest question is, what happened to Wallace in the end? I feel like missed something? 😕

[@MrCjsb]

Fascinating! Do you lecture University courses in Film Studies? You should!

[@tyrell.]

Wow, I never understood the religious undertones present singularly in both movies until you put them next to each other in this manner. Very interesting, thank you for posting this. Almost biblical in exact terms, are these two films not?

[@samgott8689]

Yeah, there’s definitely Christian themes at work in the stories, but really all you need is a good understanding of Genesis and the general thrust of Scripture to get it. Technology is the new Tower of Babel, the new Babylon - the latest way for humanity to shake its fist at God in defiance of both His curses and His promise to restore humanity Himself. It’s an old, old story, really, just with a shiny high-tech spin. It is Gen 3:15 and the curse of the Fall and mankind’s perpetual search to be returned to an Edenic state *without* God’s help. It’s the OG Original Sin, “did God *really* say we will surely die? I don’t think so - look at that epic Tower, bro; look at that (insert way of concealing the fact that we’re all doomed to die here)” Hence, Wallace - the blind leading the blind in a half-assed, albeit high-tech, attempt to “storm Eden, and take it by force”.

[@Garyruizjr]

Great analysis! We’re definitely seeing this play before our eyes right now! Even Satan’s last attempt to rule the world through his mark of the beast will fail!

[@samgott8689]

I mean, it’s just a super common Christian theme in a sci-fi movie - it’s not Christian theology itself. Revelation and the mark of the beast is strictly speaking a matter of worship. Technology is a neutral, Common Grace matter that is neither good or evil in and of itself. The “mark” is a mirror opposite of the Shema seen in Deuteronomy 6:4-9. It’s about who you serve. Technology doesn’t really have anything to do with it. This is just clever story telling, and so is anything that you might here about microchips in your hand or what have you.