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In three pages this paper presents a summary of the film’s production information, plot overview, message, and what it conveys about the mind’s complexities. Two sources are cited in the bibliography.
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of Electric Sheep?; was produced by Michael Deeley and Charles de Laurzirika; starred in the leading roles Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard, Rutger Hauer as Roy Batty, Sean Young
as Rachael, and Daryl Hannah as Pris; and was first released by Warner Bros. in the United States on June 25, 1982. In a synopsis provided by the Internet
Movie Database (n.d.), the film is set in Los Angeles in the year 2019, and the plot involves human clones that were programmed to live for four years, and transported
to other planets to serve various work and entertainment functions. They are treated like deadly illegal aliens, and it is the responsibility of LAPD blade runner Rick Deckard (Harrison
Ford) to hunt and kill these replicants. When six of the replicants infiltrate Los Angeles, Deckards responsibility is to terminate them, a task he approaches like everything else with
complete emotional detachment. In an ironic twist, the Replicants educate Deckard about humanity instead of the other way around. This film considers the minds power and its origins.
For instance, philosophers have always contended that it was the addition of a mind and soul that defined a human being. The Replicants in The Blade Runner were genetically
engineered, and yet while their initial data was programmed and they had a life span of exactly four years, they were able to go beyond the parameters of their computer
programming. These robotic figures are capable of further thought development, of experiencing events and situations, of memory, and of emotional feeling. There are, as the film takes great
pains to emphasize, great similarities that exist between the replicants and human development. For example, while children are born with minds, they depend on their caregivers, life experiences, and
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