what are the off world colonies like in blade runner? I always wondered tbh
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what are the off world colonies like in blade runner? I always wondered desu
get your ass to mars
they suck that's why they send robot prostitutes to placate the miners
why don't they just
uh
have the robots do the laboring?
They do, there's soldier models, miner models, pleasure models, but they they all have 2 year lifespans in the movie.
It's possible but in Remember it for you Wholesale, they didn't mention Mars being an actual colony you could visit, it was like a false memory people could get to make them happier. I don't remember them mentioning Mars being an actual place in Remember it for you Wholesale, but it could've been. PKD wrote short stories primarily, I don't think there's a PKD extended universe in fiction but a lot of his stories could happen on the same timeline, like Scanner Darkly could be before Androids which would be maybe before or after Wholesale.
I've read the book many, many times. I would recommend this if you want to revisit it, it's a graphic novel or whatever but anything PKD wrote in the book is in this comic, from the mood organs to Phil Resh and the LA branch, any thing he wrote is represented in this and it's actually really good. They even made a follow up called Dust to Dust.
it's because of imagination-lets like you every fricking syllable of anything good 30 years ago is made into a homosexual series for morons
Blade runner actually deserves a spin off series though
It's getting one. Amazon picked up the rights for BR2099 which is supposed to be a 10 episode series with each episode being an hour long.
Cool hope it's good. Should be aesthetic as hell
Pretty comfy place, according to that "i've seen places" monologue.
It was literally Mars, there were space stations too though but most were industrial in nature and filled to the brim with pleasure model androids. The reason Deckard stayed on earth was for reasons, but most of the people still on earth are there for having radioactive damage to their cell structures or had a mental disability that made them unfit for relocation. In the book, a huge part of the story was lead codpieces to keep one's nuts from radioactive damage. The only people still on earth during this movie are unhinged crazies and people with severe disability because it was expensive to move them off planet.
pretty sure interstellar travel is canon and several stars within 20ly radius have been colonized/
It's possible? But not in the book. A lot of lore was carpeted over for the movie, they even made Deckard an android, completely omitted the LA offices, Phil Resh, Mercerism. Still though, of all the Philip K. Dick movie conversions, this is one of the better ones.
A good example would be Total Recall, it's movie about Mars spies but the book is about rats with magic wands who can resurrect any life form giving one to a kid and saying 'If you ever tell anyone about this, we will destroy your planet.' He mentions it during the Recall procedure and the rats return to annihilate earth.
There's a huge disconnect from the books to the movies, I won't claim to know them all, so you're probably right, but in the book, it's Mars and giant space colonies. Mr. Dick never even got to see this movie, such a shame, I think he would've liked it at least a little.
>made Deckard an android
anon, Scott is a brainlet who doesn't understand his own films and you have to learn nothing he says has any relationship to reality.
I don't hate it? You can't make movies based on books 100% accurate, but Scott made him an android and it makes me think he didn't understand the source material at all, I don't even think he read it, he probably just read scripts.
So since it's PKD, was this mars the same as what was presented in the Total Recall novel & movie?
book mars was an alien colony and give the people the air meant pushing the button they left for us to melt some big ice cubes
in the PKD timeline maybe but in the Ridley Scott timeline most likely not. In my head canon(because I haven't read the books) Blade Runner takes place in the Alien universe because that also has androids and it is heavily implied in 2049.
ah someone else who read the story. my memory is hazy though, what was going on with the barney the dinosaur character who reads the weather and tells you when the fallout is gonna hit had a grudge against not-L. Ron Hubbard who you communicated with by holding two rods and wanted to expose him as a fake?
That was Buster Friendly, your Friendly Friend. He was basically android propaganda for humans to accept more android positions being filled on earth. His true purpose was to sew Mercerism, a religion of ryona and self-sacrifice for the greater good, further into humans and make them sympathize with androids who were virtually identical by that point. His show was just crazy psyop propaganda. In the book, CA is basically deserted and only a handful of police offices still exist and they are grappling with the ability to detect androids. One of the ways they would prove they are not androids was empathy for animals, so everyone is constantly clamoring for real animals to take care of to prove how human they are. After Deckard retires 3-4 androids, he puts a down payment on a goat. Phil Resh has a squirrel. Deckard's office uses the Voight-Kampf and Resh's uses tiny probes put into the spine to detect quicker-than-human iris responses to flashes of lights because the androids are physically superior. Basically it's androids not even knowing they're androids and being freaked out by androids while entire cities are body-swapped to androids and the few remaining sane humans try to feel relevant.
frick it's all coming back to me. i thought it was pretty whacked out at the time but still fascinating. now it just feels ominous. i should reread his stuff
sweet, thanks very much anon
Try the comic, it'll be a whole new thing and I can't tell the difference between a person who read the comic and the book, it's really thorough.
tfw Phil Resh is Agent K. Think about it. It's a rabbit hole.
>corporation replaces everything with ai to the point where only ai is both doing work and is also the primary consumer base
hahaha... and this is the same universe with aliens so when a group of humans does do something, the company sends xenomorphs to wipe them out. what a fricking nightmare setting.
>entire cities are body-swapped to androids
I thought it just one fake police station
>“I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.”
It's pretty clear that there is an extensive interstellar civilization at this point.
Yeah buddy but what you don't understand is that Scott wrote a script for this and Rutger Hauer improvised this bit of the film so while people go nuts over his lines like he was some visionary, he was a delusional actor making shit up that sounded cool. He literally pulled this out of his ass on set and they ran with it, he never read the book, he was just saying sci-fi shit.
Sources: Literally google it
>In the documentary Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner, Hauer, director Ridley Scott, and screenwriter David Peoples confirm that Hauer significantly modified the speech. In his autobiography, Hauer said he merely cut the original scripted speech by several lines, adding only, "All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain".
Try again anon, I know everything about this book, I know everything about the bastard son of a movie. I don't know what more proof you will need than these idiots literally saying, word for word, what Rutger made up on the spot or the day before.
so did he improvise it or did he write it down and get it approved by Ridley Scott? which is it? if the video is the truth, that means that Roy's dying speech fits into Scott's vision of the world, which means it's accurate to the Blade Runner universe.
You are being neurotic, whether he wrote it and it got approved or he wrote it, he wrote it. Don't split hairs with me, I know more than this about you, anon, there's no shame is just saying you just want to argue but can't. It's all the same, it's different than what Scott wrote, either submitted the night before or the day of filming. Rutger improvised it. So your favorite meaningful line for a shit movie based on a good short story is from someone bogged out of control.
>your favorite meaningful line for a shit movie based on a good short story is from someone bogged out of control.
Not that other gay but I have no problem with this. Happy little accidents and egos make great art all the time.
I have no qualms with it, it's fine, just don't like it when people confuse reality with what they read on BuzzFeed. That line is probably more true to the book than anything else in that movie. I'm not going to sit here and say BOOK BETTER THAN MOVIE, but I won't let some redditor murky up the truth because he got drunk one night and cried about how tragic Rutger Hauer was in that movie and how the script made him feel something because he works at a gas station and feels cheated.
Huuh just to butt in guys, you (
) sound like quite the butthole and none of the anons gathered around here are impressed with your bravado.
We're just talking about movies bro. I'm sure I'd get along with anyone posting in here. It's fine to disagree.
Androids is a short story, I'm sure if he looked forward and saw George RR Martin's shit, he would've focused on more in depth shit. Androids take place entirely in CA and has no other frame of reference of implications. Androids is a short story you can finish in a 3 hour train ride. As much as I love it, it's 1/6th of a book length wise.
I'm sure you know more about a lot of things than me, but I studied this book, it's red headed stepchild movie and PKD, no one is going to substantiate a post by going BUT BUT BUT REDDIT SAID AND I AGREED.
This is one thing I know about, explicitly, down to it's atoms and what PKD wanted to convey.
>knowing something about a thing is bravado
Okay buddy.
Its the same universe as Alien so something like that.
This is Calantha. They show it in the anime. It is a desert wasteland. The sequel books talk about dome cities on Mars.
There’s an anime?
It's really good imo.
Soldier from 1998 takes place in the same timeline as the original Blade Runner
if u want to know what the off world colonies look like then watch it
The guy that helps out pris is a special a 'chickenhead'
Too altered by the radioactive dust to be allowed to go to an off world colony.
Off world colonies however are still being terraformed which is a slow and tedious proces which is preformed by skin jobs.
SInce the atmosphere is probably still thin they may have to wear breathing equipment or even pressure suits. It also means that radiation isn't being filtered.
Astraunauts still get about a chest x-ray a day so earth must be pretty damn poluted if colonies are the better alternative.
I think in bladerunner most humanity lives on colony ships or prefab habitats
please don't wonder, someone from warner bros will see that post and decide to create a pozzed extended universe.
I could have sworn you see a photo of it on the esper machine in that Blade Runner PC game .
I was going to try the HD version of the game but just never got around to it, I hear it's a good game for lore but kind of basic.
As far as point and click adventure games go it's pretty complex. The world is in real time and there's 13 different endings. I read that the HD version is not good, haven't tried it myself, I have the old GoG version.
13 endings isn't basic, no denying that.
>OFF WORLD
why not just say in space
Earth is in space too
Watch Soldier (1998) of you want to know the answer to this question. It’s the only off-world Blade Runner spinoff produced so far.