“Off world slave labour”
Context: In the opening prologue, describing the purpose of replicants
Theme: Wealth/class, replicants are slaves and lowest class
“Turtle? What’s that?”
Context: Leon is taking the VK test and doesn’t know what turtle is which demonstrates the scarcity of real natural animals in the world
Characters: Leon
Theme: Reality
“A new life awaits for you in the off-world colonies, the chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure”
Context: Advertising displayed on the blimps. The message implies that earth doesnt have opportunities or adventures
Theme: Reality and class
“He say your under arrest, Mr. Deckard”
Context: The worker at the noodle bar is translating what Gaff has said. Deckard is not literally under arrest, he is just being dragged into working so is he losing his freedom and becoming enslaved?
Characters: Gaff, Deckard
Theme: Class
“I’ve got four skin jobs walking the streets”
Context: Bryant uses this derogative term of skin jobs to refer to replicants.
Characters: Captain Bryant
Theme: Class
“I don’t work here anymore” “No choice pal”
Context: Deckard is reluctant about working again but he has to. Is he being enslaved?
Characters: Deckard, Captain Bryant
Theme: Wealth/Class
“Slaughtered 23 people”
Context: Bryant is talking about the replicants to Deckard and framing them as very dangerous
Characters: Bryant, Deckard
“Whats this” “Standard item”
Context: Deckard and Bryant are talking about the replicants and using object pronouns
Characters: Deckard, Bryant
Theme: Class
“Have you ever retired a human by mistake”
Context: Rachel asks Deckard this, explore the moral ambiguity of being a blade runner
Characters: Rachel, Deckard
Theme: Empathy
“Replicants are like any other machine, they’re either a benefit or a hazard”
Context: Deckard says this to Rachel. His view of technology
Characters: Deckard, Rachel
Theme: Reality/technology
“If we gift them a past it creates a cushion for their emotions and we can control them better”
Context: Tyrell controls everything and has the most influence in the world around him
Characters: Tyrell to deckard
Theme: Wealth/class, reality and memory
“Did you get your precious photos”
Context: Roy says to Leon. Shows the significance of photos for replicants as they are memories
Characters: Leon, roy
Theme: Memory
“Fiery the angels fell, deep thunder around their shores, burning with the fires of Orc”
Context: Poetry said by roy in the eye lab, using religious imagery of replicants as angels.
Characters: Roy
Theme:
“He wouldn’t see me”
Context: Rachel says to Deckard, she has been abandoned by Tyrell painting him as exploitative after he has moved on from his experiment of her.
Characters: Rachel, tyrell
Theme:
“Remember when you were six… you were gonna play doctor?”
Context: Deckard is describing rachels private memories which are invasive and make her feel confronted
Characters: Deckard, Rachel
Theme: Memory, empathy and reality
“those aren’t your memories. They’re somebody else’s. They’re Tyrells niece”
Context: Deckard has just revealed that Rachels memories are implanted therefore revealing she’s a replicant. She is confronted and tearing up as emotion builds
Characters: Rachel and Deckard
Theme: Memory, reality and empathy
“I make friends”
Context: JF Sebastian literally makes friends out of toys to feel connection and avoid loneliness
Characters: JF
Theme: class and reality
“Artificial snake license XB71”
Context: Deckard is at the market about the scale in Leons apartment. This shows the technology and lack of real animals
Characters: Deckard
Theme: Reality/technology
“Think I’d be working in a place like this if I could afford a real snake?”
Context: Zhora says to Deckard, suggesting the issue of how expensive real/natural animals are.
Theme: Wealth/class and reality
“Painful to live in fear, isn’t it”
Context: Leon is attacking Deckard and says this, implying that replicants are constantly fearful of their life.
Characters: Deckard, leon
Theme: Empathy
“Shakes? Me too. I get them bad”
Context: Rachel has just killed Leon to save Deckard. Deckard seems to bond with Rachel over the difficulty of killing replicants.
Characters: Deckard and Rachel
Theme: Empathy
“Part of the business” “I’m not in the business… I am the business”
Context: Rachel is grappling with her identity
Characters: Rachel Deckard
Theme: Reality and empathy
“You know that Voight-Kampff test of yours? did you ever take that yourself?”
Context: Rachel says to Deckard, implying that he could be a replicant himself
Characters: Rachel, deckard
Theme: Empathy and reality
“I couldn’t pass the medical”
Context: JF was not accepted to the off-world colonies because of his Methuselah syndrome which causes him to age quickly and die younger (ironic because methuselah is the longest living human in the Christian bible
Characters: JF Sebastian
Theme: Class
