Blade Runner - Voight-Kampff Test (HQ)

The iconic scene in Blade Runner where we get a first glimpse of the psychotic nature of the "Nexus-6" replicants. Leon doesn't take kindly to the bizarre questions posed to him by an interviewer working for the Tyrell Corporation to screen their workers...

[@scottjackson67]

George Lucas is redoing this scene so the test administrator shoots first

[@dieselboy87]

bravo

[@andrescastro5520]

You sir, are a steely eyed missile man.

[@allencheng1356]

And Michael Bay is redoing this scene with an epic car chase and random thermonuclear explosions

[@MrBeaux]

+jwdonal No one said anything about JJ Abrams

[@Leondrius]

Rick Deckard shot first.

[@SovietWomble]

That wasn't telling him about his mother, that was a gunshot.

[@YashendraShuklaTheOG]

+SovietWomble Of all the KZbin videos...

[@zaster101]

*nep stretch*

[@dank6617]

We got a replicant here.

[@peacefuljeffrey]

SovietWomble Nothing gets past YOU, huh?

[@Joelenz]

SovietWomble well well well nice to see you here.

[@MrRandomname010101]

How I feel during job interviews...

[@jbloun911]

"you're fired!"

[@mikek9297]

Interlinked ?

[@jamesgoldring1052]

A tall white fountain played

[@armands3153]

@@mikek9297 Dreadfully.

[@user-sj3fp2xq2m]

Let me tell you about my previous working experience..

[@kewkabe]

I fed the turtle question into ChatGPT and it kept saying it doesn't have a physical presence so can't go into a desert. Then it yelled at me for flipping the turtle over because it "stressed' the turtle. I said YOU flipped it over and it rage quit and said to change the topic.

[@Ryu1ify]

The test still works

[@mikeb3488]

Maybe you stopped the Rise of the Machines by stifling ChatGPT like that ;)

[@naughtyskywalker9292]

How does it feel to hold the tortoise you love. - Interlinked.

[@druunderwood5602]

Its because your also a tortoise................................Took me 23 years to get that!

[@WobblesandBean]

Interlinked.

[@auradzrts691]

Interlinked

[@anthonymurphy5850]

@@auradzrts691 😁⁉️you're teasing 😆 🤣 LOL

[@Jordacar]

Within shells interlinked within shells interlinked

[@-BuddyGuy]

1:45 Holden gets the willies. 2:10 Leon figures it out. 2:15 Leon reaches down for his gun. 2:17 Holden senses Leon has figured it out and 2:31 extinguishes his cigarette to free up his gun hand. 2:47 Leon blasts. 2:52 after the second shot you can see Holden had a gun in his right hand.

[@harizotoh7]

I had in fact wondered what the hell these test administrators were going to do if someone failed. He should have armed guards with guns around him to immediately take the person who fails into custody. Instead he's just solo.

[@shko-mi]

They don't tell them they failed until they are eacorted out of the room.

[@-BuddyGuy]

@@shko-mi They kill them...

[@raymoney6503]

@@-BuddyGuy after saying what the results of the test are

[@raymoney6503]

@@harizotoh7 usually they finish the test and give the results. If the person is a special (a person who is mentally lacking) they test their bone marrow to see if they’re human or not I think

[@leonflorence118]

I love the cold swagger that Holden carries in this scene. Despite the android getting the jump on him, you can tell he was a really good at his job.

[@Tommykey07]

The way he talks is very similar to Deckard.

[@leonflorence118]

@@Tommykey07 Yes very similar. But more heartless.

[@DanielAppleton-lr9eq]

@@leonflorence118 Holden's a freaking paper - pushing bureaucrat. Most of them just LOOK human.

[@joefish6091]

@@leonflorence118 Decker murders replicantes for money to buy pets. He is told they mass murdered a ships crew to get to Earth, he believes this.

[@LandersWorkshop]

@@leonflorence118 More professional and borderline fashy.

[@manlypowers9967]

Honestly, an extremely good warning was the hotel address. Leon processed an offhand mention of his hotel's address, one that was likely pretty new to him, much too quickly for a human - about like a google autocomplete or a computer rapidly processing the input and responding to it.

[@orangejoe204]

Good point. The Nexus 7s are at least as intelligent as humans and have detailed files on normal human responses to various stimuli, but they have no instinctive reactions to moral issues; all of those reactions are filtered through their logical subroutines first. This creates a tiny but perceptible gap in normal reaction time that the instruments can pick up. Leon should not have been confused; his confusion was a sign he was searching for subroutines he didn't have, that even a near-moron level human laborer would have (simply from living in that society).

[@dangerszewski9816]

@@orangejoe204 I think he was feigning the confusion, and constantly interrupting the test in hopes it would throw off the results, if he convinced the Blade Runner that he was too stupid and that's why he took time to process, or if he managed to create plausible deniability with the interruptions, giving his subroutines time to process and figure out the "appropriate" human response while the Blade Runner was answering a digression, he just might survive. You can spot the moment he figures out this has no chance of working (in a brilliant of acting acting and directing) and becomes more compliant, because he's realized his only hope is to shoot his way out.

[@Sheridan2LT]

@@orangejoe204 Nexus 6. Leon was a Nexus 6, only Rachael was a Nexus 7 with memory implants.

[@Sheridan2LT]

@@dangerszewski9816 Exactly. He's even panicking, he can't believe Tyrell is administering VK tests. He was hoping to infiltrate employment at Tyrell but due to his and his 3 Replicant friends escape off the colony and onto Earth, Tyrell was expecting exactly this. If he failed the test he would've been killed on the spot, he was terrified.

[@sexobscura]

that's because he's a Situationist

[@geekconnection]

He wasn't even close to baseline smh.

[@robrick9361]

WITHIN CELLS INTERLINKED

[@ryonmailnurse]

A blood black nothingness began to spin...

[@extrapressure]

within each step

[@ryonmailnurse]

And dreadfully distinct

[@Glizzy_Shaman]

A Tall White Fountain Played.

[@orangejoe204]

Part of what people don't get about the Voight-Kampff questions is how the moral philosophies of humanity have changed after the nuclear wars that preceded the novel/movie. In this world, animals are unbelievably precious and rare, and a massive sense of guilt for their near extinction (and responsibility for protecting and nurturing life in the ones that remain) is now the central tenet of human morality. Obviously, you or I would have much more muted reactions to swatting a bee, having a leather wallet or even seeing a taxidermized stag head, but in the novel/movie, all of those things would be highly illegal and the mere suggestion would be enough to make anybody raised in that time visibly uncomfortable if not disgusted. They wouldn't be able to hide that reaction - a normal person would feel it right away. As is proven with the secondary character John Isidore, even a radiation-degenerated "chickenhead" human still feels pity for animals on an instinctive level, whereas even a top-of-the-line artificial human can't fake that reaction quick enough to pass a Voight-Kampff test. This "good" attitude of instinctual guilty reverence for even the tiniest animal life is used throughout the story to contrast the "bad" inherent lack of mercy or recognition for animal life by the andies/replicants, which is the whole point of the Voight-Kampff test. I mean, if you *don't* know what to do when you see a turtle roasting in the hot sun on it's back...

[@carolkewley7410]

Good analysis.

[@orionred2489]

I remember a little bit about the book...was there a sheep that his ex-wife killed?

[@samcavanagh7993]

Orion Red no, the main character bought a real goat to replace his fake sheep, but one of the replicants came and killed it.

[@abbyboyone]

ah, no wonder animals are mentioned through out the movie.

[@jonathantan2469]

That makes more sense now. A values change. A similar analogy... 1717 A.D.: "You see a woman. She is a slave. Her master smacks her for a mistake." 2017 A.D.: "You see a woman. She is a slave. Her master smacks her for a mistake." The subject in 1717 would think it's justified for the master to punish her. The subject in 2017 would think it's disgusting that a person would even own a slave.

[@Raptorman0909]

Brion James acting in the part of Leon is about as good as it gets -- highly under-rated. The facial ticks and other manors are convincing.

[@Tommykey07]

And how he is pretending to be dumb when he really isn't.

[@BlackMrBlack]

"Wake up!" (slap slap) "Time to die!"

[@Lordmylord3002]

RIP 😭

[@morganahoff2242]

"But how come I be there?" It's a highly underrated line. Talking like he's four years old...which the replicant is.

[@johnkelley8647]

Tottally.

[@mikecotto1167]

Anyone ever notice the small detail of Holden also having a gun under the table? It’s very quick but if you play the part where Leon shoots Holden in slow motion, you see he’s holding a gun. Never spotted it until I bought the Blu-ray version.

[@harizotoh7]

Yeah, that would have been visible to audiences in 1982. Holden goes for his gun beforehand and was ready to retire Leon. But he didn't know Leon was armed himself.

[@mikecotto1167]

@@harizotoh7 it is if you’re paying real close attention. He gets blasted through the wall so fast you barely have time to see it.

[@att7364]

@@mikecotto1167 you can clearly see it at 2:51 even without slow motion

[@morganahoff2242]

Crap, you're right. I've watched that movie so many times, and I'm still seeing things I never noticed before. That's what makes it a movie worth re-watching; there's so much in it.

[@Sapsche]

Holden shot first

[@nathanielhrt9]

“I’m kind of nervous when taking tests” “Just, please don’t move” Wow. So much can be inferred about the characters in just two lines dialogue. A masterpiece movie from the very start.

[@ricarleite]

Movies are not made like this anymore because it requires talent. And talent is gone.

[@johnathandoe6034]

​@@ricarleiteidk maybe you need to actually watch modern good movies instead of just complaining

[@JohnnyRico118]

There's always been good and bad movies being made, we just only remember the good ones.

[@ricarleite]

@@JohnnyRico118 I don't remember good movies at this level of quality from the past 15 years.

[@JohnnyRico118]

@@ricarleite Well there's Bladerunner 2049. I honestly think 2049 is better than the original (original is too short!) but that's just my opinion.

[@alexblack8660]

Both actors are so good. Especially the actor playing Leon.

[@kevlareditor7532]

@Hanzo He was awesome in 5th Element

[@jjohnston94]

@@kevlareditor7532 He was awesome in everything he did. Here's another (also note a young "Mike" from "Breaking Bad"): kzbin.info/www/bejne/f33Wq5hsitx5adE

[@MikeHalk100]

Morgan Paull (RIP) played _Holden_ . He _is_ good, but if you watch the cut scene in which Deckard is debriefing him, one has to wonder what kind of direction he was given, because he was really over the top in his lines.

[@sliceserve234]

i agree Alex, the casting and the direction are superb, both actors completely nailing their lines

[@dangerszewski9816]

it's an amazing performance, you can tell by his eyes and expressions he's WAY smarter than he's letting on and calculating his way out of that room. You can even see on his face the exact moment he realizes his attempt to throw off the test by interrupting and creating digressions, and pretending not to understand questions, isn't going to work and he's going to have to start shooting. it's a very subtle change but you can almost follow the character's thought process.

[@yutro213]

Such patience from the interviewer... I would have lost my shit with Leon in less than 1 minute and retired him right there.

[@chrisjimenez603]

Lol. Before or after the positive ID?

[@Njennings42]

@Nuclear Muscle he was referring to his hotel room not being fancy, not the test

[@Njennings42]

​@Nuclear Muscle 0:57 check it out, he's talking about the hotel :P

[@VenturiLife]

@Nuclear Muscle He meant the hotel room, a really delayed response.

[@orangejoe204]

Leon was playing both stupid and ignorant in the hopes that Holden would mistake him for a common radiation-addled idiot. Unfortunately for the andies, that's not what the Voight-Kampff test measures. You can be plenty stupid and still have the humanity to feel bad for a dying tortoise. The character of John Isidore in the book proves that.

[@Landrew0]

Scott's casting was brilliant in this one. It's like a movie in itself.

[@tuttt99]

RIP Morgan Paull and Brion James

[@chumbersdee]

I like his smirk at 2:31. He already knows he's got him.

[@BigALBoomer]

Chumbersdee then why not retire him right there

[@SJReid82]

There may be a procedure. I always felt Holden knew pretty much after the tortoise question that Leon was a replicant. I suspect Holden was getting his sidearm ready though; notice his hands are below the table as he proceeds to the next line of questions and he has his blaster out after getting shot. Leon basically got the drop on him- probably saw what Holden was doing, knew the jig was up, and reacted. Keep in mind the replicants have much greater reaction times than a human, so if Holden had made a more obvious draw of his weapon, he'd have known he would've been killed (assuming he suspected Leon was armed).

[@jim4686]

The Likely Lad Calming him down and continuing with the test before taking him somewhere else would be less likely to result in violence than taking him in by force while he's freaking out like that

[@mrbrightside051284]

@@jim4686 I agree. Notice how the next question is about his mother (generally a topic that evokes safe, happy memories) and Holden asking him to recall "only the good things", and in single words to keep him from stressing. It's like Holden has some idea of what he is but needs to get him to drop his guard, but Leon doesn't fall for it.

[@UGOTNUKED]

Yes, he puts out his cigarette to grab a gun from under the table while calmly continuing. You can see the gun in his right hand at 2:52.

[@bigboaby555]

and the moral of the story is - don't ask anyone called Leon about their mother .

[@kilikus822]

Or fuck with their plants. Dont forget the milk.

[@DarkSpiderZero]

Can you imagine Leon taking the "Baseline Test" from Blade Runner 2049: Interviewer: When you're not working, do they keep you in a little box? Cells. Leon: Uh, what??? W-Where do I work at... Interviewer: Interlinked. Leon: What are you talking about?! What? Interviewer: Do you dream of your heart being interlinked? Interlinked. Leon: What does interlinked mean??? Grrrr Interviewer: Have you ever been in an institution? Inter-- Leon: Interlink this! *Leon shoots the interviewer camera*

[@ajaxk7677]

You are not even in close to baseline

[@katiebayliss9887]

I still don't understand what that test was supposed to do.

[@juristjavisst]

@@katiebayliss9887 If you watch the movie you will know its about identifying whether the test person is a human or droid

[@KillThad]

@@katiebayliss9887 It was to measure trauma.

[@franklippert4278]

The goal of the BR2049 test was reversed. Instead if priving you are human with real human emotiins like here, the baseline test was to prove you are still a (well behaved) replucant (without emotions)

[@DevilDogMuNky]

This is what happens when you become too relaxed when it's your job to find rogue replicants. You can see he's acting strange about the test.

[@harizotoh7]

He didn't think he was armed, that's the key thing. Holden had his gun drawn and was holding it when he got shot.

[@YouriCarma]

There should be a Voight-Kampff test for politicians and people in leader positions.

[@na-Baron]

It won’t work.

[@jari2018]

The voters should do the test since it can be easy to pick out a liar but not if you have a big stick in your eye of hate.

[@thiscorrosion900]

Trump would just throw Big Macs.

[@martinhess7334]

But what if politicians are humans and voters are the replicants?

[@feraudyh]

They could try and screen out republicants, with questions about America First. That's a joke, by the way.

[@Tommykey07]

What I like about this scene is that Leon pretends to be dumb to deceive Holden. There is a moment when you see the expression on Leon's face where he suspects Holden is going to figure out he is a replicant and is waiting for the right moment to strike. The one question I have is how was Leon able to bring the gun into the building, unless they have really bad security.

[@dannyhightower911]

Holden already figured it out, he just wasn't quick enough with his gun.

[@wizewizard1840]

He hid it in his prison purse.

[@Chuked]

Tyrell has awful security, Roy was able to get in simply sebastians approval

[@onlynameMrBlank]

Maybe replicants have a hip compartment for guns like Robocop.

[@gtassa01]

Considering they let a replicant in and never suspected him I imagine security in the building must be pretty bad. Roy and the rest are also designed to be incredibly smart so they probably figured out a way to sneak a gun past security.

[@Escylon]

Holden, the interviewer, does not work for the Tyrell Corporation directly. He is a Blade Runner, same as Deckard. He works for the police and was send over to Tyrell Corporation to check new employers for the Nexus-6, that escaped and might have tried to infliltrate the corporation that created them.

[@IndyCrewInNYC]

And you can clearly see Holden holding a gun at 2:52. Seems he may have already drawn it out as he was already suspicious but Leon got the better of him.

[@desmondbirch298]

Evan T Well spotted!!!! :O)

[@IndyCrewInNYC]

Desmond Birch Thanks. You notice stuff like that when you've seen the film a million times. : )

[@desmondbirch298]

Evan T :O)

[@rcnelson]

Evan T Must not be metal detectors in the future.

[@jonahfalcon1970]

Wonder how many of you realize that Holden looks, acts, and talks exactly like Deckard. Morgan Paull is doing his best Harrison Ford impression.

[@Tommykey07]

I was just saying that replying to the comment above yours and then I see your comment saying the same thing. How funny is that?

[@incognit0mode]

Or perhaps replicant deckard was unknowingly doing his best holden impression

[@jonahfalcon1970]

@@incognit0mode No, that's Morgan Paull.

[@expressrobkill]

Yup theirs great tension cos your not entirely sure whats going on but you can infer. Also the investigator is neither a good or bad guy, hes just confidently good at his job, feel like allot of films try to exposit this kind of scene, this plays very naturally which is what makes their actions seem odd /tense.

[@timoaksel9320]

Maybe they were both replicants.

[@Y0uGuysAreTh3RealHer0es]

This scene goes for everybody who does "your mom" jokes. Careful with what's under the table.

[@draconusfrigidus]

Let me tell you about my mother....she was a real STRAIGHT SHOOTER! Guess you could say I'm a SON OF A GUN! Yeah my mother, she was a HIGH CALIBER type! Knew how to hit you with a FULL BARREL! Holden: For God's sake, just finish me off now!

[@Mazryonh]

Leon was feeling punny because you posted that comment on his incept date.

[@SPQRCincinnatus]

The original NPC test.

[@jgrillo638]

You see a cis gendered white male laying on his back in the hot sun

[@imasonite]

@@jgrillo638 the loud minority would watch him bake. interlinked.

[@ferdinandbardamu.]

@@DrTiggy666 have you ever wished you lived in a traditional society interlinked

[@alexandriac6641]

@@ferdinandbardamu. what the fuck is a "traditional society"

[@samw1501]

- A tortoise? What's that? - You know what a turtle is? - Of course. - Same thing. Except it isn't the same thing at all. A turtle wouldn't even *be* in the desert. This guy is splitting hairs between human and replicant and doesn't deign to recognise the more pronounced difference between tortoise and turtle. I love this script so much.

[@queti486]

You just fucked up buddy! Not all turtles are tortoises, but all tortoises are turtles!

[@user-ql3ye1lk6v]

1:10 Beautifull sound. OMG

[@anonymousanonymous4706]

He's too analytical, asking what desert, what's a tortoise, etc. He doesn't understand the main point of the question.

[@MystikalScopeProductions]

Sylvia A yeah he’s fucked if he took a baseline test

[@Tommykey07]

Actually, Leon is trying to distract Holden, throw him off his game.

[@orangejoe204]

He understands just fine. He's playing stupid and in an effort to delay and hopefully screw up the test; in the book, they all try that, but it doesn't work.

[@VueiyVisarelli]

To be fair...I've known people like this. Or maybe... ...I _didn't..._ 😱

[@riverland8809]

@@VueiyVisarelli I've known people you people wouldn't believe. People on fire off the shoulder off people. I watch people glitter in the dark near the people's gate All those people will be lost in time, like people in a crowd. Time to people.

[@Savior20061]

Leon was a real "son of a gun." LOL

[@pb25801705]

best comment on youtube tbh

[@pll9000]

I love the bit where he takes a puff on his cigarette, like "wow, this guy's a moron"

[@dcanmore]

RIP Brion James; RIP Morgan Paull

[@cairosilver2932]

"The man is asking you about your mother. But you're not telling him about your mother, Leon. You're shooting him" Leon: "Whaddayamean I'm shooting him?" "I mean you're shooting him. Why is that, Leon?" Leon: Flips the tortoise in front of him

[@DogmanUndertheSea]

Morgan Paull nails this scene! It's one of my favorite scenes in the movie, I just love the way he delivers his lines.

[@r4h4al]

Agree. Maybe he should have played Deckard instead.

[@mikeb3488]

That split second of surprise&fear Paull/Holden shows at about 1:45, when he barely catches Leon's pupil dilate, then smoothly (but not smoothly enough, even for relatively dull Leon) tries to recover from while unlocking his own gun, is maybe the best bit of acting in this whole great movie IMHO. It also shows how laser-sharp someone would have to be to be a Blade Runner in the first place. Deckard actually gets away several times with being a lot more stupid than Holden here, and somehow lives to tell about it.

[@IsmailofeRegime]

@@r4h4al Nah, both characters have different personalities, which the actors do a great job fitting themselves into. Holden seems more methodical and doesn't mind being a blade runner.

[@immortalsofar5314]

I just had one of those high tech eye tests. I asked the technician if I was a replicant and he replied, nope, it looks like we're both human.

[@RamdomView]

Lesson of this story: Always check the suspect for weapons before they are admitted into anywhere sensitive and make sure there are guards presents around the suspect whenever suspect is not in a cell.

[@Rutherford_Inchworm_III]

He wasn't a prisoner, just a manual laborer who was getting screened. But yes, they should have frisked him.

[@harizotoh7]

@@Rutherford_Inchworm_III Doesn't matter. Holden is a police officer screening potential psychopathic killers. He should have had two police officers beside him and the suspects should have been searched.

[@NameAC_]

It was likely already planted under the table. Notice how he leans in to grab it.

[@jopsalvado]

Cell.

[@davidsinclair7439]

@@harizotoh7 He's not screening psychopathic killers. He's hunting down escaped slaves to murder them in cold blood - the way Deckard does with Zhora later on. Shooting the cop was perfectly reasonable self-defence. The beauty of the film is that it's shot from the PoV of the slaveowners in a slave society, so, like Deckard, the viewers initially think the bad guys are the good guys because they look a bit scary and have the temerity to fight back against the severe injustice they're suffering.

[@jimboAndersenReviews]

I like that Holden seems to have refined lunch manners, and has his lunch unwrapped; sandwiches without crust, cut right.

[@cymes82]

People who refuse to eat crust are the polar opposite of "refined"

[@followingtheroe1952]

Fuck man this movie is so god damn cool man. Like immediately the replicant is addressing the shit we are all asking in general "how did I get here?" and all of that, much like with the media res of Deckard. And then you think of how heartless and unsympathetic it is to saving the tortoise, but in reality it doesn't know why it should. And by the end you truly understand that it does have a life, and that it like anyone else, wants to live. Fucking beautiful shit man.

[@manco828]

1:45 Holden realizes Leon is a replicant.

[@Turrican60]

'Suspects' is the term I'd personally use rather than "realises" since the test has barely got underway, therefore no firm conclusions can be drawn. As Deckard makes very clear later in the film, it usually takes "twenty or thirty questions, cross-referenced" to detect a Replicant. In response, Dr. Eldon Tyrell proudly boasts that it took "over a hundred" questions before Rachel, a Nexus 6 model, was revealed to be a Replicant. Well, Leon just happens to be a Nexus 6 model, too...

[@lotussavage1283]

@Jack McLean WOOOOW!!! really?! is that in the book?

[@user-ok1yl3px3b]

@@lotussavage1283 In the book there is only one model that becomes central to the plot; Nexus-6. It's not clearly stated that android can reproduce and btw Rachael in the book is 18 years old android. Nexus-6 is the latest model. beyond Nexus-6 is only appeared in the film version.

[@gregbauer4433]

Yeah, you can clearly see the meter at the top of the scanner is already in the red, on the very first question. I'm thinking 20-30 questions may not be necessary for Leon.

[@manulito2]

What a shitty Blade Runner he is, right? He could've/should've retired Leon at least at the turtle question, but he hasitated till Leon got the upper hand

[@guthax30]

"Hey, Tyrell. You think maybe we should design these slave androids with some kind of built in identifying marker, like say...a serial number on their forehead, in case they trying posing as humans?" "Nah, let's make them look exactly like humans then invent a completely separate perspiration and pupil dilation detection system that takes hours to complete and leaves the interrogator completely open to attack by a caught android. Also lets create an entirely new division of the police force to administer these tests and hunt down rogue replicant's." "How about we just print a serial number on their heads?" "MORE HUMAN THAN HUMAN. YOU'RE FIRED."

[@dancox5706]

😂😂👍👍👏

[@harveywallbanger3123]

In the book the Nexus 7 series androids are genetically-engineered and mechanically-crafted "wetware" cyborgs that mimic the human body to the point of requiring a bone marrow biopsy to confirm they aren't actually human. I think it's a bit of a plot hole for PKD, but that's what he said.

[@606danco]

Never ask a android about his mother

[@callofdutyguy9]

Alec Powers replicants are actually humans though.

[@Name-tm9xj]

he is a "son of a gun" lol

[@mangoldm]

“It’s an evil tortoise that got cocky after outracing the hare.”

[@ricardoalexandredias472]

The interesting fact is that he got an emotional response from a Replicant at the end

[@afarmenian]

anyone else think he pretty much knew when he mumbled the hotel, you could barely hear him and then leon is so quick to answer correctly. Its great how that and not understanding the context of the questions gives him away easy, almost seems to work like the ideal lie detector test, you hope to expose the person before the questions even begin.

[@tyr573]

1:43 i think he realised here you can see him slowly put down the cigarette and grab his gun

[@peterp2153]

I like that just before the Mother question, both guys lean in, guns drawn under the table.

[@TheRogueWolf]

"Leon, you seem to be expressing some hostility. Would you like to tell me what's upset you while I bleed out in my chair?"

[@iwillnoteatzebugs]

This scene is phenomenal

[@samrussell9742]

If he feels nervous about a test then he have emotions of some degree.

[@imalrockme]

Yes, fear. Tyrell explained that, they actually learn reactions and emotions but they're not durable enough to develope empathy and love. Rachael was different, as his master piece.

[@as07011]

Cells interlinked within cells interlinked Within one stem. And dreadfully distinct Against the dark, a tall white fountain played.

[@WorldwideJamal]

Andris Jansons Interlinked.

[@WobblesandBean]

Interlinked.

[@Jordacar]

He can’t fail you if he’s dead. I can’t fault your logic on that one, Leon.

[@flippert0]

Leon plays this "WTF is actually going on here?" part very well.

[@n0denz]

The suspense is dialed up so high, that 30 seconds feels like 5 minutes.

[@puertoaltoabcd]

So this is where Amazon get their interview questions from!

[@dank6617]

I typed "tell me about good things about your mother" in my phone. It exploded. I'm switching to iOS.

[@mr.redhands8390]

Rage quit

[@phaaaahaha]

The sound design of this film is amazing

[@pedrobakale7180]

"A tortoise? What's that?" I have always been afraid of that phrase and I do not know why

[@speedysteve9121]

Do androids dream of electric sheep? Do you like my new briefcase? It's made of genuine babyhide.

[@binal-flecki2387]

We need to put the Zuckerberg to the test.

[@fredfredburger5150]

He's way off baseline.

[@Mazryonh]

It is April 10, 2017 as of this comment. Happy Incept Date Leon Kowalski!

[@CapitanTavish]

Brilliant

[@MystikalScopeProductions]

See Blade Runners like Holden and Deckard did have a “simpler” job like K says in 2049, they could interview their suspects than confirm their suspicions and proceed to take out them out but so many things can go wrong in that entire process plus it’s incredibly time consuming. Now I can see why the LAPD decided to just enlist Nexus 9s and had them brutally dispatch the older models with no prejudice

[@anti-illuminati685]

Yeah, the older replicants had lower intelligence and would be pretty easy to spot with VK machine or fooling them with an act like Dekkard tried with Zhora. The Nexus 6s are much higher intelligence and thus are much harder to spot. This would require Bladerunners getting much closer to interrogate their suspects which would put them in a lot of danger. Deckard nearly gets killed in every encounter with a Nexus 6, so I'd say their survival odds for Bladerunners aren't that good. I'm surprised that Gaff made it to retirement seeing that he had a disability.

[@LandersWorkshop]

@@anti-illuminati685 I think Gaff probably went into retirement because of that disability personally.

[@EverDownward]

1:46 it was at that moment Holden knew

[@Nergalsama01]

1:45 Holden needs to work on his poker face. >_>

[@mrbrightside051284]

I think it's a progressively more pissed off face because Leon won't stop talking.

[@harizotoh7]

@@mrbrightside051284 He sees the eye monitor. He knows Leon is a replicant.

[@GordiansKnotHere]

Great scene & Great acting!

[@killa1711]

I always imagine this scene where Holden shoots Leon instead moments after the machine starts beeping, only asking about his mother as a distraction

[@chrisjimenez603]

"You're gonna find em' and you're gonna air them out!

[@jackjanssen9040]

Two great character actors here...Morgan Paull and Brion James...R.I.P. to both

[@lucascarioli]

Great performance from both actors.

[@millsshumps1968]

I remember the first time I saw this scene when Leon stares at 2:02 and you hear the heart pounding soundtrack, really freaked me out that there was something really eriee about this character.

[@alextimossi7444]

Because he was panicking. His small mind was less than human lowest iq… while Roy batty empathy leads to save deckard from death, and starts a countdown to scare the blade runner, so it means he’s smart, knows how to fight his enemy…Leon only way to answer is beating anything. As you can see he also takes questions to recreate a “desert” scene, with a purpose of being there…Leon was programmed to “obey” and then he needed precise informations. We simply would imagine a desert, we don’t mind why or where… and when doesn’t get answers from Holden his mind “crashes” and gets mad… yelling at Holden, getting angry… heartbeat increases… he’s cornered… and to get away from this…he shoots at Holden at his last question.

[@millsshumps1968]

@@alextimossi7444 Because he's Nexus6 replicant. They don't have memories other than what they accumulate within their 4yr lifespan. But watching this scene unfold was scary watch first time

[@millsshumps1968]

@@alextimossi7444 at 2;15 Leon reaches down for something assuming his gun. Also his left eye twitch

[@alextimossi7444]

@@millsshumps1968 he was getting mad at questions XD mind class C means pretty stupid

[@jimmymcpherson2679]

Answer: Because I would have undone my hard work to flip the tortoise on his back in the first place.

[@Marhathor]

That gun has a knockback enchantment.

[@NateSean]

Forget the replicants, I want to know who's responsible for that shoddy craftsmanship. I've seen cardboard stronger than that wall.

[@charlesferrin5]

In the future, everyone can smoke indoors again, but with no health consequences.

[@GreyWolfLeaderTW]

I think Leon realized about the time that the administrator was telling him the test was for testing emotional response in people that he was being investigated as a possible replicant, and he knew the jig was up.

[@stevelantz4684]

10 APRIL., 2017. Happy Incept Date, Kowalski, Leon!

[@collinlynch4569]

I think the Voight-Kampff test is honestly a spiritual test. The questions and scenarios are very primitively human. It’s to see if a person has a soul or not, which in this movie replicants do not. All of the replicant’s answers are logical and analytical and not in the moment “I don’t know.” Leon when asking about what desert or what a tortoise was was still very calculated.

[@marcusaaronliaogo9158]

Its kind off funny how the movie makes a lot of things that makes replicants inhuman while also showing some human characteristics like Roy at the end.

[@dayvancowboi9135]

i don't think replicants are "soulless", but they lack the deep socialization of concern for the now nearly extinct animals that's been engrained into standard people. Roy, with no hope of reward and plenty of inner rage at deckard, still saves his life right before dying, not exactly the actions of an unfeeling soulless monster.

[@yamilink03]

​@DayvanCowboi he saved his life in order to prove that Roy Batty existed. By Deckard continuing to live, so does Roy.

[@gtassa01]

They aren't soulless, they psychopaths. Normal human empathy is alien to them, so they have to fake it, like how psychopaths do in real life. Remember Tyrell asks Deckard "is this to be an empathy test?" Because that's exactly what Vought-Kampff is, an empathy test.

[@elis7393]

Never seen this movie and I still love this scene

[@Leondrius]

Brion James has those psychotic eyes. Perfect actor for the part. How did the test administrator not see what Leon was capable of doing? The whole time his eyes were saying, "I'm going to kill someone." It was tense.

[@lilalong7776]

Okay so let me tell y’all a little story. I work at an amazon warehouse where i use a scan gun to scan the items we need to be shipped out. I am a “picker” because i pick out the items. Anyways i have a friend that is a problem solver in another department. Because he is a problem solver, he has a computer with him at all times. From said computer he can send anyone a message. Whenever you are picking and you receive a message the message will block your whole screen so you have no other choice but to read whatever the message might be. My coworker had asked if i had seen the original blade runner and i said no. He left it at that, no further questioning. The other day i was minding my own business, picking, the usual. I get a message on my scanner from him and it was the entire turtle scene, except with my name repeatedly throughout. He told me the turtle was walking towards me and the whole situation. At the end of the message he asked me why i wasn’t helping the turtle. I felt absolutely HELPLESS in the situation. On our scanner we only have the option “ok” after every message to clarify we received it. I had no choice but to accept the message without being able to respond or clarify i would help the turtle. Then when i saw my coworker later on he said that i would get a kick out of this scene whenever i do get around to watching it.

[@Tidalx]

didnt happen

[@KillingDeadThings]

So many beautiful scenes in this movie. I find it hard to chose a favourite. But, this comes in second only to Tears in the Rain scene at the end.

[@kapnerad]

Should have paid more attention to that B1 Security Alert.

[@guillermovaccarezza7105]

Quick reminder: NEVER ask a replicant about his mother

[@humanrightsadvocate]

2:41 If that's how you fail the Voight-Kampff test, it means the test needs more work.

[@davidtatro7457]

Masterful performance by Brion James here.

[@The_Platinum_Realist]

“Is that part of the test?” He already failed. 🤣

[@marygrimaldi8706]

A turtoise within cells interlinked...

[@gavinmasterson3256]

"Let me tell you about my mother..." BAM! Love that scene

[@brettthomas7038]

This is the internal conversation we all have when we wake up. Part of us is the test administrator, so confident in our authority over reality. The other half is our ID, that part that works from within the subconscious, to parse what we see, hear, and feel into a congent narrative of our minute by minute experience. When that dialogue is damaged, hindered, corrupted, or injured, we end up with psychosis, spiraling down into madness.

[@TonyOnlyandFriends]

You look down and see a tortoise.. -A tortoise. What's that? Know what a turtle is? -Of course. So telling. How does someone know about a turtle but not have any idea what a tortoise is? Amazing writing jeez

[@queti486]

Most animals died, they aren't that common then

[@angryoldfatman]

He's breathing fine, as long as they don't unplug him.

[@RetroRobotRadio]

Amazing fact. the detective is played by Morgan Paull, who you may also know as Matt Hunter from Challenge of the GoBots!

[@peterp2153]

I like how Leon blows the test on the first question when you see Holden’s face when he looks at the image of Leon’s pupils dilating after he says he never saw a tortoise before. The average replicant takes 20-30 questions and an experimental model like Rachel took over a hundred.

[@hotelmario510]

That "BIB-boop" is one of my favourite sound effects in any movie.

[@mrwhite9830]

Mine is the Wilhelm scream. haha

[@ylette]

Only three more years before this will be reality.

[@MerkinMuffly]

It's already a reality. In the US we call people with 0 empathy, Republicans.

[@Leondrius]

Who knows? There could already be some replicants out there among us. The government is decades ahead of society in technology and bioengineering.

[@josielpontocom]

Just like "Back to the Future" became true in 21th October 2015

[@bighands69]

+MerkinMuffly Tell us what do you call democrats that founded the KKK, opposed the civil right movement and then up until 2010 were still members of the democratic party. Robert Byrd who was a democratic senator up until his death in 2010 was the former head of the KKK before he joined the democratic party. He also voted against the civil rights act. Tell us does you little joke about the republicans still make sense.

[@TRevroN91srfsktnsnw]

It’s already a reality. Leftists do nothing but interrogate normal people and accuse them of thought crime. Then they try to get people fired from their jobs. Words like “Nazi” and “racist” are used so frequently by these people that the words have almost completely lost their intended meaning, doing a disservice to any past victims of these designations who suffered under those types of authoritarians. The irony in these claims lies in the fact that Leftists formed the Nazi Party as well as the KKK. Now they sit on their thrones of virtue and use their past sins as “insults” to hurl against those who don’t tow their cancerous line.

[@Star_Sn1per]

Best SCi-FI movie ever..

[@SoniListon-lu4cn]

That was quite an emotional response..

[@Searsnick18]

I work at wholefoods and this was exactly how my interview was.

[@tgg213]

Any Mr Robot fans here??

[@DarkBane3]

Why Mr.Robot ?

[@tgg213]

๖OxyRyZzing there's an interrogation scene in S02E11 that takes inspiration from this one

[@StrychtenFilms]

can't wait ..just started season 2

[@Oi325]

Of course

[@SnowElf_96]

Let me tell you about my mother....BOOM!!!!! LMAO

[@josephmurphy8403]

I read this on another site, in case someone didn't know: at 2:54 you can see Holden has his gun out before Leon shoots him a second time. I believe Holden survived the shooting, and there is a deleted scene of Deckard visiting him in ICU.

[@sebastianfuentes1943]

Yes. And in the book, Holden is in ICU.

[@deathrays]

ugh good glob i love this movie so much