Blade Runner - What's the Difference?

[@NickonStark]

just finished the book in a single sitting. what a book, man. the atmosphere and Deckard's inner dialogue are so entrancing.

[@raniedelfajardo742]

I'm planning to read it. can it be done in a couple of days?

[@protadhentai1376]

@@raniedelfajardo742 yes i think so

[@NicKTsanicK7]

@@raniedelfajardo742 read it in a single Sunday so probably yes

[@themonkeykingkaiser]

In the book, the characters talk about animals. Like A LOT. Owning animals is basically the only thing anyone cares about. Owning a REAL animal is 100x better than owning a replicant animal, but people want one or the other either way. Killing an animal is crazy immoral. People are even troubled when they watch "old" movies where people are eating animals, they are utterly disgusted by the immorality. I dont know why im saying this. I just thought some people would find it interesting that the original book is really obsessed with this concept.

[@princemwamba5230]

Hunter of Earth sounds like today

[@bucketlistreviews6593]

Having read the book like 10 years ago, I actually remember that part about animals very vividly. To be honest, I find the film and book both equally good in their own ways. Its hard to compare which is better.

[@UnownDepth]

Hunter of Earth Ohhh was Owl in movie was a replicant

[@themonkeykingkaiser]

yes :)

[@daegan_ftw]

Jeremy from Cinemasins was confused by all the animals in the movie. Having watched the movie, read the book, and watched the movie again, the animals make way more sense.

[@JCOdrjones]

Has anyone pointed out that Clint and Michael sound way too alike?

[@Jillbles]

Guypersonmanthing3 Not to me, but I'm a walking voice recognition unit.

[@boigercat]

Two people were talking?

[@warreng675]

They certainly do

[@thumpyloudfoot864]

Shut up that was two people narrating this video..

[@DrDolan2000]

I'm not entirely convinced they're two different people

[@dominicnz]

Small detail - Deckard is eating Japanese not Chinese food. It's minor but notice all the Japanese stuff throughout - the giant Geisha billboard, Japanese characters everywhere, seems like Japanese language is used a lot... It's a thing of it's time (late 70's/80's that is) where the expectation (and fear at times) of the coming Japanese industrial domination and the decline of America is extrapolated into the world we see in Bladerunner...

[@barrelrolldog]

that was japanese, and there are plenty of japanese things as you said. but there are also chinese. the eyeball guy was cantonese i'm pretty sure. theres some chinese graffiti in one part

[@Gadget-Walkmen]

@@barrelrolldog but the majority of it was Japanese, only very few parts are chinese related.

[@beliasphyre3497]

Kinda oversimplified the conclusion to the book there. It ends with Deckard accepting his empathy for synthetic things, a trait that will doom the human race. Mercerism is being assaulted, because it's based on a lie, but at the same time, Mercer is manifesting to people. Androids are infiltrating and taking over earth, and are becoming bolder. Rachel is on the run, after showing enough empathy to know how to hurt Deckard deeply. John thinks he can bring animals back to life, and likely can.

[@brunodiaz696]

exactly that is why decard was happy with the electric toad

[@beliasphyre3497]

Oh! And then there's Resch, that tested human, though he might be a modified or new android that can beat the test. It doesn't make much sense that the androids would set up their own little community, and have a human bounty hunter roaming around with them. Also, Resch may have false memories, because he remembers working with Bryant for longer than Bryant has been on Earth. Only androids can have false memories. It hints that a human Bryant may have been replace by a synthetic Bryant, but that would mean that model was based on a living person, because Deckard has his poop sheet. It's more likely the memory is false.

[@yavrielsechelle7431]

This whole episode was a bit oversimplified. Just shows how all over the place the movie always has been.

[@Aristocratic13]

+Belias Phyre How come LA has a wall separating the ocean and city?

[@beliasphyre3497]

Supreme Nigga Snoke, I honestly have no idea about that. Is that featured heavily in the movie? I don't recall a wall between the city and ocean in the book. It may be a reference to the idea of rising tides due to global warming, and the walls are levies, holding back the ocean from swallowing up the city. Kinda like New Orleans. Anyways, I saw 2049 last night. Holy fuck it's good!

[@byron2521]

No...no...no...no! I have read the book 3 times. The reason people have android animals is that the nuclear war has made much of animal life on earth extinct. So, it is a status symbol to own a real animal. People buy android animals to fool people into thinking they have a real animal. It really doesn't have much to do with empathy. Decard has an android sheep in the book because his real sheep died and he doesn't want anyone to know. Movie reference: that is why Zora says "do you think I would be working at a place like this if I could afford a real snake?" This may confuse people that never read the book. But, real animals are expensive because most are almost extinct.

[@iansmart4158]

NO, its meant to "imply" empathy to the neighbors. It may not be sincere, but the book explicitly states that having a real animal shows your peers you aren't an android and you do care about something (but you're right it was a status thing too).

[@gabrielethier2046]

Ian Smart yeah, thinking about it for a minute, its pretty messed up since I remember hearing Deckard complain to one of his neighbors about his electric goat and I could see he still had a sort of love for it

[@boigercat]

I found that snake line quite obvious

[@user-jv7gr1jb3r]

Oh! That makes way more sense, Byron. Thanks! Guess the hustle never changes. Even after nuclear war there's a shmuck trying to make a buck.

[@TeurastajaNexus]

Americans

[@DodderingOldMan]

... Were there really two different people narrating this? I genuinely couldn't tell.

[@cadenbittle]

DodderingOldMan I honestly had no idea that two people were narrating

[@Beautyhuntress78]

Yes, Michael Truly and Clint Gage

[@thepickygamer4450]

I only noticed because of this comment, I'm also high and playing ESO.

[@defsomething_stupid]

Exactly

[@MarkMueller1975]

Ridley Scott's 2019 Las Angeles isn't overpopulated. It's still portrayed as a city with many people, but there are hints here and there that it is very underpopulated. The main hints I can think of off the top of my head are that Deckard and Sebastian both appear to have entire apartment buildings all to themselves, and Sebastian's comment to Priss that there's no shortage of space around here.

[@Gadget-Walkmen]

Is that a thematic statement at all or a noteworthy plot point. What is that aspect trying to say? That people are leaving earth?

[@YZYGWD]

@@Gadget-Walkmen yeah to the off-world colonies, pretty much earth is a thing of the past

[@Gadget-Walkmen]

@@YZYGWD gotcha. Thought so, just needed confirmation which this video for some reason downplays that aspect.

[@sigmundfreude4088]

There are signs that it was overpopulated but then, probably because the war and the radiation, was left alone. So it is post-overpopulated?

[@Gadget-Walkmen]

@@sigmundfreude4088 no it’s just underpopulated now on the current timeline of the movie!

[@michaelmacleod6517]

I love how in the book you can feel both the paranoia that Dick was famous for as well as questioning Deckard's own reality. It was a really good read

[@angelcanez4426]

The fake police department was a crazy read as it was left out of the movie

[@ikmnification5737]

2:17 ...it's Ramen, which is technically from China, but it's more known as Japanese, especially when the guy is speaking Japanese 「二つ十分ですよ」("two is sufficient" to Ford's request for four)

[@DeSpaceFairy]

Sadly nobody care about that, I have one exemple because of my skin colore most people assume I coming from somewhere of north africa or somewhere in the indian ocean but not at all I'm born in a place in south america who's tecnichaly a part of France. So basically you look like asian, you talk a funny jiberish, you're obviously chinese.That's prejudice 101 in everyday life.

[@tarmaque]

I'm glad I wasn't the only one who noticed that.

[@TheRealNormanBates]

Thanks for the post. This is the first time anyone has ever translated what the food vendor said to Deckard.

[@nickmattio3397]

“No spicy noodles this time I mean it!”

[@jonesey251]

that was japanese? i thought it might more of that "cityspeak" language...

[@MrDeejf]

Aw, you left out Buster Friendly & His Friendly Friends, maybe the most surreal running gag in the book.

[@thepickygamer4450]

I suddenly have an idea for an addition to my D&D campaign for next week.

[@VTPPGLVR]

I wonder if he’s related to Edgar Friendly of San Angeles....

[@themngreensteve3454]

Mercerism

[@vicenteortegarubilar9418]

I love all the new videos about blade runner. Thanks to 2049 people are re-looking this beatiful classic. And there is an anime

[@manillafb06]

2049

[@vicenteortegarubilar9418]

Thanks

[@KitchenSinkSoup]

And a short film.

[@kingguy3]

It's actually 3 shorts, 1 just happens to be anime. And tells the story of the blackout

[@princesoulger999]

Vicente Ortega Rubilar I didn't know it had an anime, but I'm guessing It's like Ghost In The Shell or a depreesing version of Cowboy Bebop.

[@morbid1.]

the future of 2019, oh my...

[@MrThedorkknight]

I can't even imagine such a far off future!

[@mathewanderson5111]

And the world isn't as crappy as blade runner. Yet.

[@noahjohnson5359]

MrThedorkknight We've got a lot of ground to cover in the next 5 months...

[@superbaconish]

Ayy lmao

[@remimartin8493]

WHERE IS THE FUTUR ?

[@Coolbillion]

I don't think I expected this to be uploaded so soon after the "Things you didn't know" on Blade Runner But then again, who does?

[@alexchavez2550]

Coolbillion Same, I was surprised as hell

[@Wackamole56]

Boom, bonus thing!

[@AskAScreenwriter]

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

[@fanfaretloudest]

- Edward James Olmos. ;)

[@miguelhacependejadas850]

AskAScreenwriter *literally inquisition

[@mainstreamintoxicated6021]

You forgot to mention that whole thing with the tv show host Buster Friendly and Wilbur Mercer

[@briankentpirrie5228]

buster friendly is an android.

[@peste2574]

And that is very important for the story, because of how hard Buster and his friends try to disprove and discredit Wilbur Mercer. They don't feel empathy, and maybe they're jealous of humans or just angry that they need, or can, feel that empathy for one another, for animals, and for no reason at all. It asks: So Mercer isn't real. But does that make his teachings any less true?

[@Shiva-sb2my]

Everyone is uploading videos about Blade Runner... *I LOVE IT*

[@kratosfuckedmymotherbecaus6264]

spider man stfu comic book geek

[@joshpecker4352]

Lockjaw is cute hahaha you're one too also u mad

[@joshpecker4352]

Lockjaw is cute thanks LOL

[@GangStalker17]

Im not

[@ULTIMATEGAMEDUDE]

And I'm just sitting here, masturbating..

[@MiKeDaBoMb321]

Whoa, when's the last time Michael did a voiceover on this channel? Good to see (hear?) him back

[@idyn977]

I'd like to see a what's the difference between 'Who Goes There?' and the 1982 The Thing. I'm sure it would be interesting.

[@MateDrinker33]

idin: Already tackled. :D

[@HenryFordOfficial]

of the three The Thing movies, John Carpenter's is the truest to the book

[@scottc4199]

ALL THESE BLADE RUNNER VIDEOS MAKE ME HAPPY

[@HorriblePodcast]

Among other things you forgot to mention kipple, Buster Friendly, & the spider scene, the latter one being pretty important to show the Android's lack of empathy. Also, for more on Mercerism there's a short story called "The Little Black Box" that has a slightly different/more detailed version of the religion. "A man stood before her, a sorrowful light in his gray, pain-drenched eyes. "I am your friend," he said, "but you must go on as if I did not exist. Can you understand that?" He spread empty hands. "No," she said, "I can't understand that." "How can I save you," the man said, "if I can't save myself?" He smiled: "Don't you see? There is no salvation." "Then what's it all for?" she asked. "To show you," Wilbur Mercer said, "that you aren't alone. I am here with you and always will be. Go back and face them. And tell them that.""

[@MrKite]

Clint and Michael sound exactly alike.

[@MeepMayCry]

I swear to God, I thought they were the same person and that Michael just changed his name to Clint.

[@Darthsantana]

I literally went the whole video thinking it was one guy being funny.

[@ArynWellspring]

Is one of them a replicant?

[@ultimateblong]

What's the difference?

[@michaelstuart341]

At least they're better to listen to than the woman they had for a couple of episodes.

[@nickmattio3397]

Deckard: You're reading a magazine. You come across a full-page nude photo of a girl. Rachael: Is this testing whether I'm a replicant or a lesbian, Mr. Deckard? Deckard: I have had people walk out on me before, but not... when I was being so charming.

[@taylorcasale680]

You forgot about how the Andies found out how that whole Mercerism deal was recored on a sound stage and even found the actor that plays Mercer (I forget if they found him on Mars or Earth). This one bit adds so much to the idea of Mercerism thematically! (I haven't read the book in years so I might be misspelling Mercerism)

[@wolfzeru5745]

Roy in the book is not as frightening as the one from movie. For an instance, book Roy was a pharmacist in Mars, while movie Roy was a war android. Book Roy wanted to hide himself along his wife, movie Roy wanted a longer life for him and his comrades. Book Roy only appears at the end, movie Roy is the head of the operation from the beginning. Book Roy was easily killed and barely met Deckard, movie Roy was a depretator in his last encounter with Deckard and gave one of the best monologue in sci/fi history before passing away.

[@robertjohnson9397]

Blade Runner is my favorite movie of all time and I'm glad to see people are uploading videos about it.

[@ianstradian]

Very well done. I would have liked have had more said about the differences in the main character Decker from book to movie. But you nailed the rest of it dead on.

[@wg8561]

Also the androids in the book are only about as smart and athletic as a normal human. Despite making lot's of mistakes Deckard doesn't have much difficulty retiring them. In the movie they are genius level super soldiers, that toss him around like a rag doll.

[@loganross1861]

Y’all should read the book it’s interesting how the androids are actually kind of dumb and limited by the fact they aren’t human. It’s a cool story and reads FAST.

[@Jalmerk]

I'm so glad 2049 turned out to be a worthy sequel. It's so rare these days to see a reboot/sequel actually expand upon the original in a meaningful way, rather than just dish out a bunch of throwbacks and half assed references and laugh all the way to the bank.

[@webdevmarcus]

Not sure how I haven't found this channel sooner. This was really well put together! I'm a fan of both the movie and the book.

[@Renogade]

HISHE Cinefix Screen Junkies Cinemasins They all have a pact to Blade Runner together right now

[@UltimateLegoFan324]

Awesome Sunhatted Seal Productions what?

[@LostScot]

Robo Po-Po is the best thing I've seen all day :)

[@andywalker7657]

I just scrolled thru the comments to find this exact comment. I literally laughed out loud - Robo Po-Po - love it.

[@Rollwiththevibes]

This is one of the few times that I have read the book and seen the movie, but I will say that this was a really thorough analysis for under 13 minutes. Loved it!

[@potterpal5]

There is also a very significant scene in the book where Jon Isador sees the Androids torturing a spider and realizes that despite their similarities, Androids can never really be human.

[@PizzaHutAsuka]

Wait, Clint Gage and Michael Trooley in the same episode? I... I can't tell them apart... THEY'RE MULTIPLYING!

[@sugarnads]

Theyre nexus6 so duh

[@angiekelley2416]

I love that they make L.A look all dark, cold, and rainy. It's a great way to show that this is not the L.A we're familiar with.

[@littleblu33]

I love Philip K. Dick and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is definitely one of my favorite books of his. Blade Runner is a great film too, but much like my feelings between the V for Vendetta book and movie, they're really both better taken separately. The message behind them is completely shifted by the changes made during adaptation, which is not a bad thing! It just means that, though both movies were inspired by the books, they're different stories.

[@solarasolarwind4323]

This really shows how, many times, the original Novels can be far more Deeper than the movies that try to portray them, Dune is another Sci-Fi movie where the novels are so much more than any movie that tried to portray it.

[@vishalgoradia8019]

I was looking forward to this Also.... YAY! It's the older (better) format for what's the difference

[@HAL-vm3wn]

I hated that bitches voice

[@vishalgoradia8019]

HAL 9000 idk. It was not that really. Just the format they chose killed the series for me

[@wierdalien1]

Vishal Goradia i liked that format

[@jonaschisolm1368]

What was different about the old format?

[@vishalgoradia8019]

Naa... for a couple episodes they tried a new format which was absolutely bizarre. This video is more in keeping with the older (better) format

[@TheColonelKlink]

I love being an android. It is everything I was programed to dream it would be.

[@GwyndowsXP]

What I'd like to know is how a blade runner ends up becoming commander of a Battlestar in the war against the Cylons... weird.

[@MagicAccent]

Mike Gonzalez Frakking replicants!

[@Lirka_906]

So say we all

[@mrbastos]

small nitpick, but pretty sure he's getting Japanese food at the beginning of the movie, not Chinese. The guy is speaking Japanese, and is telling him 2 is plenty when he's asking for 4. :P I'm so stoked for 2049 though, love seeing all the Blade Runner videos being uploaded

[@ZanathKariashi]

yeah, but Chinese restaurants are always owned by Japanese people, and Japanese restaurants always owned by Chinese people. Except for those times with those filthy Thai or Koreans try to pass their slop off as Chinese or Japanese.

[@MateDrinker33]

Mr. Bastos: Very true! This also explains why he speaks in Engrish (as far as I can tell, this only appears in the US theatrical cut; the 2007 Final Cut and potentially other versions exclude this).

[@patrickparr3331]

I thought so too. In the narrated version Decker says "sushi. Cold fish. That's what my ex wife used to call me." We could not pick that apart cuz he was thinking of sashimi. Haha.

[@88feji]

+ZanathKariashi don't be silly, Thais and Koreans do have their own unique distinctive cultural food which is different from Japanese and Chinese ... you're trying to be culturally arrogant wanting to label all other countries's cuisines as a "bastardising" of chinese and japanese food, and labelling them as filthy shows how much of an ill-mannered uncultured snob you are.

[@jdmga1]

The scene of the Andys ripping off the legs of the spider just to see what would happen killed my empathy for them

[@gunsmithcat]

Just finished the book. I absolutely agree. I prefer the movie for this reason

[@tarquinnff3]

Thanks for the video. Read this book a while back after having finished A Scanner Darkly (speaking of an idea for what's the difference...). Philip K. Dick became one of my favorite writers after these two books.

[@vollsticks]

It's incredibly different--I would LOVE to see a film that was an absolutely faithful adaptation of the book. It would LOOK entirely differnent to Blade Runner and would feature many of the best ideas from "Androids..." that were left out. Like Mercerism, the Mood Organ, the police precinct staffed by replicants where he takes the opera singer and obviously the whole electric sheep aspect, with real animals as status symbols...like you say, empathy is a key...so much subtext to the book. Dick had a thing for shared "telepathic" experiences (the Perky Pat experiments and layouts from, uhm, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch); this would all be sooo dope on screen. great video, subbed, thanks!

[@sigmundfreude4088]

I don't know if the story would work 1:1 on screen. There is much inner dialogue which is always difficult to transfer. I remeber that the first blade runner film version had a voice over which was removed after heavy critisism.

[@vollsticks]

@@sigmundfreude4088 Oh, yeah, I've seen the theatrical cut with the voice-over. I don't HATE it--Scott was maybe going for that kind of film noir, private eye, inner-monologue thing--but the director's cut is much more satisfying. And, iirc, the ending is different in the former.

[@Christian_H3rnand3z]

10:39 My god, you just brought together the most iconic robotic characters of all time, god bless you Cinefix😔😪

[@ridgesail]

Well, one is a cyborg not a robot, but still iconic 🤣

[@Christian_H3rnand3z]

@@ridgesail And still robotic

[@passthebutterrobot2600]

Great video, thanks! Love the use of the Futurama Planet Express ship

[@kageakuma3009]

As much as I love Blade Runner, nowadays with Blade Runner I always start thinking of The Venture Bros. reference where Hank just mentions it offhand warning his father about Venturestein maybe killing Dr. Venture. something like if Venturestein is wearing bicycle shorts and starts talking about tears in rain he's deadly.

[@thisismyname007]

No one seems to clue in to the importance of eyes in the movie. The book doesn’t say anything about eyes. But if you check out E.T.A. Hoffman’s novelette The Sandman which appears on the stage as Tales of Hoffman, you’ll see that there is a beautiful automaton which has “beautiful eyes.” And the theme of eyes carries over into BR2049.

[@MercAran]

Michael's back? Awesome!! Great to have one of the original (and incomparable) voices of the show back. Also, great episode guys. Can't wait to see what else you tackle

[@The_Real_RIIKA]

"Los Angeles in 2019" Gosh darn it wish we had flying cars

[@mintwestwood7827]

I've read the book and just watched the movie. And I have to say as confusing as it is, there is no other experience like reading the book and watching the movie. They are hard to understand because they're both meant to be thoroughly thought about. You step in to the stories and stepping out is weird.

[@Kornknealious]

David Peoples and Hampton Francher boiled down the essence of "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" into cinematic elements. "Blade Runner", to me, is a compendium to the novel. The plot where they expose "Mercerisim" (or "kill god", so to speak) is reduced to Roy literally killing his god (his creator/father/fucker) The paranoia that Dick's novels are ripe with is almost gone...but I'm okay with that.

[@peste2574]

Wow. What an over simplification. The only thing that the movie "Loses" is the Paranoia, yes. But atleast it traded it for far better characters then in the book.

[@BerrianPaleblood]

I'm surprised you didn't compare Gaff to Phil Resch. Also, not that it really matters, but Deckard finds out about Rachael killing his goat before he has the vision about being Mercer and finding the toad.

[@hummingpylon]

I wish there was a game based on the book, it would be epic.

[@Loverrover]

It also inspired the song Are Friends Electric by Gary Numan and Tubeway Army in 1979. Great song check it out if you aren't familiar with it. It was way ahead of its time.

[@michaelcollier3792]

You should do the movie vs book version of Shutter Island! They're actually shockingly similar, but one is basically how it was and the other about how he perceives the world around him in his insanity.

[@hombreerana]

is michael truly truly back to cinefix?

[@DocAlexandrite]

Truly!

[@jeronimotorres1]

Outrageous!

[@Artemis526]

-What is my purpose -Pass the butter -Oh my god -Yeah, welcome to the club pal.

[@mic7able]

Ryan Gosling won't need the Voight-Kampff test. His eyes are too close together to be a replicant.

[@JP-lz3vk]

That is one of the key things that make the movie so great - the script is so sparse that every sentence has meaning and you can remember them. Like "Have you ever tried the [Voight-Kampff] machine on yourself...Deckard?" or "Painful isn't it, being a slave?" There is not a single word wasted in the movie. Also what stands out is that humanity through the Tyrell corporation has created slaves, artificial people who have implanted memories of a past that existed for someone else who are given one single (dreadful) purpose and have the ultimate chains upon them - they only live four years. So those artificial people have no time to love, reproduce or even be remembered. They live in constant fear that each day will be their last. So they break the law and come to Earth to find their creator to give them a longer life. For me, the film is much better than the book. I wonder if Philip K Dick thought so too.

[@wewillalleatglass]

Clint and Truly the dynamic duo of Cinefix reunited and it feels so freakin good. I might've gotten just a bit too excited when i heard Truly's voice but thats not a real problem.

[@theactualtrash]

You guys should do Stand By Me/The Body! It's an amazing movie and even more amazing book!

[@HAL-vm3wn]

I knew this would come. Btw, could we get a little more Art of the scene, please?

[@CrippledLeivliss]

“Los angeles in 2019” huh,sadly we only got ground cars.

[@omnesomnibus2845]

Focusing on the theme of empathy gives the best evidence for why Deckard is a human, as the screenplay writer originally intended. If he were a replicant, the entire story would be one about... replicants learning empathy for other replicants? And why would humans program a replicant who had to be convinced or bullied to do his job? Why wouldn't they just program him to happily be a bladerunner? So, that whole idea is just Ridley Scott wanting to be cooler than he was after the movie was made.

[@WinstonGuitar]

"But then again, who does?"

[@Bodankful]

Oooooooo

[@charlemagnetheFranks]

🦄😰💔

[@evapalma9899]

I feel like they should have set the film in San Francisco like the book. November 2019 here was dystopian and everybody was obsessed with synthwave, which basically sounds like the score.

[@cowsaysboo]

I can't get enough of this movie

[@teodorkirov678]

Actually I'm pretty sure he first discovers that Rachael killed the goat, and then goes to the desert to find the toad.

[@hyakuyon]

2:15 "grabbing some Chinese in the rain" >Japanese man responds in Japanese

[@Radagast-]

Blade Runner's replicants are biomechanical and are capable of emotional development (although they only had 4 years to develop). The andys were robots and were programmed... I don't remember there being any suggestion that they had any a.i learning capability. That's why VK was of limited use on the Blade Runner replicants... For me, as with a lot of Dick's stories, Do Androids... was essentially looking at the question of what it is to be human.

[@JaquesBobe]

2:04 - They clearly say in the movie that most people moved to off world colonies...

[@mikeoakeshart3823]

"minding his own business and grabbing some chinese food in the rain." man, i really like this spanish food called pizza.lol

[@tylerlivingston2637]

Ever since reading Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? shortly after watching the Final Cut, I'd always described the two as completely different animals.

[@joneshugh]

Love to see series based on the book!

[@sammosaurusrex]

I could not disagree more with your reading on DADoES -- the point is not that humans have become mindless robots, it's almost the exact opposite. The point is that human beings are transcendent beings, capable of overcoming our natures, and that empathy is our most important virtue. This empathy and transcendent nature are literally what distinguish us from androids in the novel -- andies view human empathy as a weakness to be preyed upon (a la convincing police that they themselves are actually andies), they torture Isidore's spider just out of curiosity. Deckard, on the other hand, empathizes with the machines and comes recognizes that electronic beings have life and value, even as he recognizes their fundamental inhumanity. And John Isidore plays the exact opposite role of the one you describe, "midless[ly] going about his day to day with no real purpose... like a roomba." Isidore is marginalized and lives in fear of people recognizing him as a "chickenhead" -- he also has the most accurate perspective on the world out of all the characters, he is the embodiment of human empathy and therefore (in the framework of the book) human virtue. While other characters distract themselves from the horror of the world with their penfield mood organs, or Buster Friendly and his Friendly Friends, Isidore literally sees the death that has conquered the earth as silence pouring from the walls, ceiling and floor in vividly described episodes of synesthesia. He views the androids as other living beings worthy of his compassion, even after they torture his spider to death -- he is literally the OPPOSITE of robotic.

[@TheMaverickHouston]

RIP Rutger Hauer.

[@Stetle]

Nice to hear Truly and Clint together, again.

[@pacoromes]

At some point you should find an excuse to do Full Metal Jacket vs The Short-Timers. Just throwing that out there.

[@TryppiUnkle]

For Halloween this year, you guys should do either Dracula or Frankenstein.

[@Lakefront_Khan]

So all this happens next year huh, flying cars and all?

[@yuugenr7549]

It's the 1980s what if perception of 2019

[@mikefiore1058]

Not sure if someone mentioned this already, but "The Bladerunner" is actually a novel by Alan E. Nourse about underground medical services and smuggling. Burroughs wrote a treatment for film, published as "Blade Runner (a movie)", but nothing came of it. The title "Blade Runner" was bought for the Scott film and takes on a completely different meaning from Nourse's original text.

[@nhprman]

I LOL'd at that Mars license tag!

[@rachelconsoli8428]

yay!! Michael truly is back!!! Now all we need is Casey and this series will be back to its original brilliance :)

[@Nick-4K]

I still haven't seen the first movie. I plan too.

[@afonsolucas2219]

DEW IT!

[@Lundarigirl]

NET Alliance - Star Wars Fun Same

[@20DollarGoldPiece]

It's alright I watched it for the first time last month and I don't get the hype, but it looks cool.

[@kevinmundo36]

NET Alliance i never had the chance to see 2049

[@cradleofdeath123]

2 movies I'm excited about this year... bladerunner... and justice league... they both look so awesome...

[@byronius57]

Dude I love your analyses! And your way of presenting them. Keep it up it's very interesting and entertaining, and your sarcasm is perfectly hilarious!

[@ACShotRun]

Truly! Nice to hear your voice again!

[@kohzabest]

I read the graphic novel and it is excellent. Lots of reading but it’s almost word for word of the novel. Very good, especially for those visual learners.

[@MovieHouseNow]

Awesome 🔥

[@SeanNurse]

I'm so happy Clint and Michael in the same video yaaaas!

[@JL0ndon]

I really don’t know how they can even compare. Blade runner is so different and totally drops all the religious aspects of the book and the Sisyphus metaphor. I mean they have similar ideas and settings but the most important part about android animals and the level of importance you are by the real animal you have. And the owl at least in the film gives homage to that.

[@KingDaveth]

Book Deckard at the end is pretty much me all the time. "Fuck this going to bed."

[@michaelkeaton5394]

I don't really think replicants are androids,what I mean is that in the movie when Roy talk with Tyrell they talk about cells and gene, for me they are manufactured human which are much stronger!!!

[@Daniel-Rosa.]

I'm *impressed* by the under-the-sheets similarities. 4:16 They try to blur the line between humans and not-humans in different ways.

[@jackalfred9400]

i'm so glad i chose to do this as an assignment i actually don't have to do any work now, thanks

[@bencoventry1376]

I can't wait for your review of Blade Runner 2049!

[@briankentpirrie5228]

i saw it last week.

[@stefanfilipovits21]

Can we get an episode on Falling Angel by William Hjortsberg & its adaptation Angel Heart starring Robert DeNiro & Mickey Rourke?

[@GustafStechmann]

this video made me want to finally read the book. thanks