BLADE RUNNER Ultimate Breakdown | Film Analysis | Every Hidden Detail, Easter Egg In BR & 2049

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[@warrentalbot329]

2049 was better . So was black lotus

[@lkeke35]

Yes, some of us still possess attention spans. I love the long analysis vids!

[@Shakes_The_Clone]

I absolutely love that you continue to make these long videos. Thank you for understanding that a lot of us have still an attention span that doesn’t disengage after 9 minutes.

[@wileytheacmesalesman7760]

I agree with you. I like to watch this long form content where I don’t have to be looking for something to watch every 5-10 minutes. Then I can watch the movie and see so much more in them.

[@McNugget1]

10 minutes 1 second

[@AmigoVal]

Those 'long' videos are just older videos cut together as a lazy re-upload.

[@yourcommentisdumb]

@@AmigoVal In this case one that is 43 minutes and one that is 46. The recent Fellowship of the Ring was 2 hrs all new. So, shut up and go away AmigoVal. You sound dumb.

[@yourcommentisdumb]

@@AmigoVal In this case one that is 43 minutes and one that is 46. The Fellowship of the Ring was a 2 hr all new. So, shut up.

[@vainbelmont6645]

I have to agree with you. As much as I love the original, what Dennis did was not only almost impossible, but better. And what a surprise it must have been to see the 3 animated shorts. They explain so much.

[@wileytheacmesalesman7760]

BR Final Cut is one of my favorite movies, and what a nice surprise that 2049 was so good and didn’t ruin the first.

[@cheekster777]

Really enjoy these ‘Ultimate Breakdowns’. 👍🏻 Thank you Paul. 🙏🏻

[@Iamhassentme]

this is the breakdown i needed. fun fact, I like many others love these movies and when I was doing my mba I would often have them on in the background when I was reading or doing and assignment. the ideas explored in these movies are well worth being considered by us all....and the movies themselves are amazing no matter which cut you watch.

[@gregoryliedtka7510]

The book is really different, and after re-reading it recently I wondered if K was slightly based on the 2nd bounty hunter that we meet

[@henryloughlin8742]

The one in the replicant police station?

[@randallbesch2424]

There is a K in MIB films.

[@4678wer]

You do know that Rachel was a nexus 7, right?

[@Terrible0x0Trivium]

​@@randallbesch2424same universe confirmed. Great find!

[@pacman_17]

I'm appreciating the breakdowns videos even more watching watching it the second time.

[@abdullahenani9670]

One of my favorite films ever I’ve never been so invested

[@elliotnicklinmusic]

Dang this drops literally as I'm editing my video essay on Zimmer & Wallfisch's score for 2049!! Hope I didn't miss any easter eggs! Looking forward to this one keep it up!

[@tommyyoung9413]

If only all sequels could be so awesome

[@Solsev]

Not blasphemy, I absolutely adore Scott's Blader Runner, especially the Director's Cut, but I walked out of the theater for 2049 asking myself "Was that ... better than the original BR?" Years and many watches later, I feel the same. BR has the best single scene still, because Rutger Hauer just brought it, but as a total film 2049 is superior.

[@tracyranger]

100% agree. I saw both films in theater (yes I'm that old) absolutely mind blowing concept sci-fi and I had the biggest crush on Harrison Ford. I was transfixed watching BR 2049, absolute astounded. The visuals, amazing of course, but the story completely sucked me in. I really didn't think they could top the original but they did. Extremely rare in cinema that a sequel can live up to or even outshine the original work... it was crazy to me that both movies were considered box office failures. I figured most people just weren't intelligent enough to appreciate such a deep thought provoking movie. Just like the critics who thought Fight Club was too violent... they were completely missing the point. 🍻 cheers!

[@Solsev]

@tracyranger yeah, that Denis' received a box office blackeye for what I consider to be the best film of that year is disheartening, and I couldn't shut up about it, and barely anyone I knew went to see it. It's OK though, he had enough success with Dune to make up for it 😀

[@GeronimoPlaz]

​@@tracyranger eww

[@Chalepastel]

Cells interlinked within cells, interlinked

[@Element.Nullify]

Can u repeat that 3times

[@thespicemelange.1]

I was just trying to remember that.

[@Chalepastel]

@@Element.Nullify sadly, i'm not ryan gosling

[@Doughboy14145]

This randomly pops into my head from time to time. 😂🍃

[@mimigoodluck303]

Batty dies in front of a sign, TDK, a Japanese electronics company. They make components and recording and data storage media. Batty is winding down like a used up magnetic tape.

[@Shway_Maximus]

What an amazing movie. I watched it in theatre's. I loved it then and I love it now. I just rewatched it for your breakdown. Thank you for doing what you do.

[@ParisKarlaPrecious]

whatsinmy AI fixes this. Blade Runner ultimate breakdown analysis.

[@ianbubble1378]

The directors cut of BladeRunner is the best. The lack of narration shows the absolute truth that "less" is more.

[@TerryOnTuesday]

I love Ford's laconic narration, tbh. I like the Sam Spade noir style. Mind you, how can you tell Ford hated the narration? EVERYTHING he does is laconic!

[@eyespy3001]

I like it as well. It’s the first version I saw (and one of the first handful of movies I had seen in my life, as I was born in 1980, and my father LOVED science fiction), so it has been imprinted on me as the definitive version. However, I do think the Director’s Cut and Final Version are better overall (despite some redundant exposition scenes early on in the movie).

[@tylerg5797]

I could use some JOI in my life...

[@waynegoddard4065]

Thanks Paul. My feed has got too political today. I NEED this. Watched the thing videos earlier and then this popped up. Once again. Thank you.

[@kevthepoet]

Love these longer video essays on classic movies.

[@BloodofEli]

One of my favorite movie franchises… Thank you!

[@DanBellinger2371]

One of my favourite films. This film is a cinematic masterpiece. Thank you, Paul.

[@commanderkeen2078]

The questioning scene with Roy in the first film is so good. It’s a microchasm of the entire films themes. Roy is subjugated to the test to determine if he has empathy. He gets more and more emotional, showing that he has basically human reactions. On the other hand the human questioner is basically void of any emotion, showing that androids are basically more human than the desensitized humans at this point. So good.

[@BigMob05]

👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾, thanks for doing this video Heavy Spoilers.

[@crissyb65]

I saw the movie in the theater. I like the narration. It makes it more noir. Even with it being bad.

[@NeonPlanes]

I feel like Deckard either got those photos off other Replicants, or he 100% is a Replicant, because that is OBVIOUSLY the same porch.

[@KyloRenRadio]

My husband is a huge PKD fan, and loved this deep dive. He'd like to check out some of the materials you used to create this analysis; books, bluray extras, and whatnot. Thanks!!

[@zhangdawei3138]

So good! really love this!

[@jamien134]

Paul mate you are an absolute legend for making this and the other long form videos! Don;t let it go to your head tho, like....theory time, theory time...

[@DCOM20.]

Great show. Giving details of the movie were good.

[@baanibarnes9711]

You've said it all - these are two of my all-time favourite movies, BR 2049 actually managing the impossible and taking the original in a direction that builds on the first film in a clever and meaningful way. My brother and I saw 'Blade Runner' on it's original release and we were blown away. We left the cinema, the ABC in Southend, and walked straight onto the set of the film we had just seen - neon lit ads, brown/grey skies with relentless rain! Definitely left an impression on me. The film is best seen in the final cut though, cleaned up, tight and without that dreadful voice-over, respect to Harrison for trying to do his best to make it unusable! As far as the theme of the original goes, personally I think it makes more sense that Deckard is human as the first film is for me asking the question 'what is it to be human?' and challenges the viewer to question which of the characters behaves in the most human fashion. Deckard a cold, remorseless killer, Batty and his fellow replicants behaving in a much more sympathetic way except for the brutal killing of Tyrell, perhaps understandable at Batty's frustration not getting the answers he wanted from his creator. And Batty passes the 'Voight-Kampf' test at the end by saving Deckard, his enemy who killed his girlfriend, when he could easily just have let him slip and fall to his death. I really wish film makers would make more in this vein of deep, intelligent, thought provoking films that challenge the viewer to think and ask questions of themselves. However, both films were not runaway successes on their initial releases, not sure what that says about the general viewing public . . . Great break-down on two modern classics.

[@bkccards64]

You are consistently hilarious.

[@sandrodelacruz8125]

Excellent breakdown Paul, soo many things I didn't realise. Here's one for you though - the references to Japan - Philip K Dick wrote The Man in The High Castle where the axis countries one the war (also a tv show!).

[@niallkennedy23]

Great video Paul!

[@grahamsimpson9086]

I love the films and i didn't understand or know what Robot actually stood for until i watched Terminator Zero recently..now i understand whay synthetics hated the word in the Alien franchise, but in zero they broke it down to translate as slave😮 but the word “robot” i found comes from the Czech word robota, which means “forced labor”. The word was first used in Karel Čapek's 1920 play R.U.R., which stands for Rossum's Universal Robots.

[@alines4920]

A part 2 with more detail on the animated shorts and the black lotus series would be great. They do a lot for the world building and the timeline

[@WoobiewookieBlogspot]

I really enjoyed this analysis, especially given that I have not met a lot of other fans of the first movie who were also fans of 2049. To me, K was an even more empathetic character because his struggle to achieve "humanity" or empathy was much more obviously a part of the plot than Deckerd's. In this light, I would say that K *IS* special, because he was able to recognize and develop his own humanity (even though he was not The One) during his own story arc, whereas Love (ironically named) remained just "a machine" and reveled in her character as her boss's enforcer. Perhaps, as a successful model of the entirely obedient replicants. I think the baseline test has developed because the replicants like K really aren't trusted nor obedient as Niander Wallace promised

[@powderedmartini]

At 1:21:05 you've noticed the 2 fingers on the bottom of the glass, those were broken earlier. Good theory. Yours is correct or Ford's a drinker irl. Alternate theory: heavy drinkers put a finger under the glass/bottle/can so they don't drop it. After 4 too many, sense of touch and grip sensitivity is about gone and it's easy to let it slip out of hand, unless a finger's in the way.😮 Kudos for not knowing this. Next time you get out look around and see how many do it.

[@__mads__]

He’s done it, goddammit! He’s really done it!

[@Brook11223]

The Sean Young deaging was done really well.

[@EGRJ]

It was actually the same thing they did with Elvis. Digital recreation, based on Sean Young's head scan and a head cast from around the time of the original movie, over a model. TheCGBros has a breakdown at v=bvE1-DMlzFA Also, "Discover How John Nelson & His VFX Team Brought Rachael Back to Life in 'Blade Runner 2049' | No Film School".

[@jasse803]

Awesome clip, but small correction: "robotnik" does not mean a slave. It means, literally a "worker".

[@cliftonsargent1572]

Love the channel I’m new so forgive my rookie question but wouldn’t any of the replicants have super human strength? Or crazy endurance? Something that would be easy to tell they are not human?

[@TheoRae8289]

William Sanderson is my favorite character actor. I've loved the guy since Newhart. :D

[@Storm_Bringer]

I wish you would’ve mentioned how terrified Sebastian’s toys look when Roy showed up

[@rmckinnon]

Even when I’m watching the later cuts I still have the narration going on in my head from having seen it so many times prior to the unnarrated versions. I guess that means it’s the canon version for me.

[@roromad9603]

i like deckard being a replicant. it mimics the progression of humans, from pure survival in the beginning to now domination and death.

[@eyespy3001]

Deckard being a replicant betrays his character arc, though. As Paul says in this video, he’s a jaded hunter who ends up falling in love with and empathizing with his with his prey. Empathy is a major theme in both the book and the movie. In the book, there’s a passage about how empathy is antithetical to survival. A spider would die if it had empathy for its prey. But, that’s what makes humans human- our capacity for empathy. In the movie, empathy is used as a test to suss out replicants from humans, since replicants are incapable of empathy, like spiders. That is, until the end, when Roy shows empathy for Deckard after he becomes the Hunter and Deckard becomes the prey. The tables are turned and Deckard’s life is spared because the replicant is shown to value life. All of this is null and void if Deckard is just another replicant.

[@PaoloLery]

Fabulous Paul thanks

[@kowalski3769]

The original Blade Runner is one of my favorite films. The 2nd film is nowhere near as good but I still really, really enjoyed it. It actually added a lot of depth to the 1st one by filling in some of the unexplored themes. Ana De Armas is stunning and her character added an interesting story line for K. The pseudo 3 Way was trippy with outstanding special effects. Overall I liked both films a lot with a nod towards the original Blade Runner.

[@MPdub]

So the way I understood it, I thought the film wasn't trying to make him seem human at the start (those parts where he reads a million lines of text in a sec and running through the wall etc.). He's not surprised that he can do this and humans can't. So he knows. I understood that because he was half human, half replicant, that he is some new breed? Some new mutation with the best of both worlds?

[@RyanHaney55]

4:12 OHHHHhhh! That explains the book title!

[@luisreyes8903]

Seriously I’m surprised Ford didn’t add fart sounds into the narrations 😂😂

[@M0RGAT0RY]

The deck-hard joke was too soon, bro😂

[@Zed-fq3lj]

Blade Runner - the best sci-fi duology of all times.🙌🙌

[@CalebA-sv2kw]

In a deleted scene from the original cut one of the pictures on the piano is revealed to be Deckard on the porch with his wife, who is now, as the voice over says "living off world with some prosperous jerk" they zoom in on the picture and it is a younger Deckard with a woman. So in the original cut he is a human, and also a beautiful variation of the love theme is cut out for that unicorn dream sequence,

[@IsabellaCatherine19XX]

Another lovely video. The replicants, especially Roy Batty, are the interesting characters. Much more engaging than Deckard. Not sure why you didn't name Holden as the man running the VK test on Leon but this is a nitpick.

[@DinerLingo]

Not sure if it’s been mentioned already, but “robot” has a Czech origin, not Russian. As I understand it, its definition as we know it today is derived from its usage in a 1920 play, “R.U.R,” by Czech writer Karel Capek, but was coined by his brother, Josef.

[@danielstreuli7563]

Anyone know where to watch the short films? Never knew they where around. Thank you again Heavy Spoilers Brilliant again

[@OrinThomas]

If Deckard was a replicant, he's far in advance of all the other models and had been around for some time given the familiarity the police department had with his work. Rachel would be an advancement over such a model as she was developed more recently. This lends more weight to the Human hypothesis as even by 2049 Deckard comes across as Human compared to other artificial beings.

[@zombiehampster1397]

Oh I love Blade Runner (both) and I will agree as far as 2049 being better than the original.

[@newton2105]

The first film remains my all time favorite sci-fi film. The second was a masterpiece in its own right, but I felt lacked a bit of the character of the first film, and the musical score, while excellent, did not match up to Vangelis.

[@archstanton9073]

The pyramids were built by the farmers in the Nile region during growing season when they didn't have much work to do on their farms. There's even boastful graffiti about the teams of builders in their housing. Not something...unpaid, unwilling workers...would do.

[@jinstinky501]

Did you mean Slaves? They'll do anything. That's why they were so popular.

[@ichabod72]

Adam Savage cameos in one of the shorts.

[@ichabod72]

Great vid about two of the best films ever made. But...Slaves didn't build the pyramids and I don't think Leon killed the interviewer as I'm sure the Chief of Detectives makes a flippant comment to Deckkard about it implying he was nearly killed but survived, just.

[@jasondiasauthorpage615]

Love is a replicant. She wants to be the most important replicant but she can't. Love isn't real. Now there's a bleak message--Love isn't real.

[@TheShadowguy64]

24:19 Keep this in mind: No one ever told you were human. You claimed to be one and no one ever corrected you.

[@CalebA-sv2kw]

Rachel was the Nexus 7. There is a 7 at the beginning of her serial number.

[@waynegoddard4065]

If I was him. Looking for something. The best thing to do is act like it. He's a great character.

[@carpemkarzi]

I am going mildly disagree with you as Rachel was special, she’s a nexus 6 with implanted memories. The rest of the nexus 6 have developed their own memories and emotional responses. Leon’s pictures were just pictures he has kept to create past he never had. That’s my head canon. I do love these breakdowns and the fact that Ridley did this and Alien back to back redefining Sci fi. Denis’ 2049 is a masterpiece on making a sequel.

[@milestones140]

PLEEEEEASE COVER “from” it’s such a great show

[@jpegues452]

I think the love that Joi had was real!

[@crist11101]

Yes!

[@flemwad]

Bladerunner. Best. Movie. Ever.

[@niallkennedy23]

Smokey and the Bandit 2 was rad as heck! Check it out dude.

[@Zombiesnyder13]

I hope Denis Villeneuve adapts RENDEZVOUS WITH RAMA as soon as possible

[@erictrevilian3180]

Descartes. Deckard. Wondering if that’s from where Deckard’s name was derived by the writer.

[@randallbesch2424]

Every evidence in the film shows Deckard is human .

[@spiderbug7615]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@kevthepoet]

Decades of debates and 3 different endings would say it's debatable at best, deliberately debatable judging by the creators refusal to give us an answer.

[@luketheirishteen]

CAN WE GET A FIFTH ELEMENT BREAKDOWN??? Would love it ❤

[@PepeElToro]

YES!!!!!!

[@PeterRichardsandYoureNot]

Or he has dreams about unicorns because Scott also directed “legacy” which featured unicorns at the center of its story

[@TerryOnTuesday]

Q: Is that really Edward James? A: Almost.

[@Obijuan02]

The “slaves story" in Egypt is no longer considered historically accurate. 😊

[@daleboydell7150]

I'm a massive fan of Heavy Spoilers content, I'm going to be a bit pedantic though. Humans have always been able to create life. It just takes us around 9mths to complete the process 😂

[@NeonPlanes]

I really want to read Do Robots Dream of Electric Sheep, but every decent book I've found costs a lot, like the Se7en comics. It's so dumb.

[@AndresSarmientoS]

Get the audiobook

[@Sci-Fi-Mike]

I can't agree with the comparison between Blade Runner and 2049. The original is far superior, in my opinion. Deckard is a wimp in 2049, and Harrison Ford ain't no wimp.

[@PepeElToro]

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

[@holmboy]

44:24 same

[@RichEDMixed]

You should bo poltergeist

[@AndresSarmientoS]

Hes human, just like in the book and what is special is that he falls in love with a bot and they have a kid which would be the first halfling

[@kampferlin2079]

Rick Deckard is not a replicant, IMO. Captain Bryant has strong dislike toward replicants, unlikely he will play along pretending to be friendly toward Deckard. If Deckard was a replicant then he must be a terrible one, he is physically weaker than other replicants and has no special abilities to help him to hunt down other replicant. The chances of him succeeding is slim at best. base on logic, I'd say Deckard is not a replicant.

[@354Entertainment]

Lol, Alien³ is a classic movie!

[@thespicemelange.1]

Enhance.... Enhance...... Enhance.....

[@JBarG22]

1:09:12 what

[@bloated_complacency]

Someone needs to upload the narrated version in it's entirety 😂

[@troyhall226]

Take a drink every time he says much like or very much

[@CHESSZILLA]

49:12 f this video the eye scientist has clay tobacco pipes on his desk which is a strange old timey thing for him to have

[@JaymeSplendid]

Dude, for over 100 years the English term for men who pay for sex are called "Johns" NOT "Joe's" That is just a really weird mistake to make and its like, something EVERYONE knows. Its like thinking wrongly that the word "Pants" has a silent "K" in it.

[@Element.Nullify]

It's too bad she won't live, but then again who does....

[@briangreene7085]

I work as a chef, when people ask me about my job my go to line is "I've seen things you people wouldn't Believe!" haha

[@Element.Nullify]

@@briangreene7085 at my job I'll go up to my coworkers cars and write, what a day, huh? In there windshields lolol

[@tracyranger]

​@@briangreene7085 same, I'm a Paramedic. My stories can give people nightmares 😢

[@vipsellson495]

1:09:45 I believe she speaks finnish instead of russian hehe

[@qoaa]

Was Sean Young in this movie that gave me a bit of a smoking fetish.

[@yahtzeetee1965]

Well I guess I have to watch 2049 so I can watch this now…

[@McNugget1]

Like tears in rain*