Blade Runner Movie Character Analysis

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Like any other film based on a book Blade Runner takes several liberties with the original text Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? By Phillip K. Dick. Despite their differences however both book and film focus on the themes of humanity and morality. The main way this is done is by comparing and contrasting the different characters and how they portray a different argument about the theme. The main character of Richard Deckard as well as Rachel, Roy Batty, Pris Stratton, and Harry Bryant are found in the book and its adaptation. It is through each of these characters that we explore the ideas of humanity and morality. The most important character to analyze is Richard Deckard as he is not only the main character but the human counterpart to …show more content…

In the book, Rachel is portrayed more as a femme fatale that knows what she is doing and always seems to have a motive. From their first meeting Rachel tries to trick and bribe Deckard in order to help the Rosen Association discredit the empathy test used by the police. Later on, she calls Deckard offering him her assistance which he rejects multiple times. In the end after another bounty hunter recommends Deckard sleep with Rachel and then kill her he calls and ask for her help. Here Rachel uses his attraction towards her to manipulate him into retiring the other androids as well as her clone replicant Pris Stratton. When she shows up at his hotel room she is dressed in skins and pushed him to sleep with her with alcohol as well as coercion. Knowing that he feels its morally wrong to retire androids and thinks he is in love with her she offers to help him kill the androids if he sleeps with her. This posed many questions of both morality and humanity. In their society, it is unheard of having relations with androids and is a moral taboo. To feel more moral and a better person and not retire the androids Deckard sleeps with Rachel instead which according to their society would me morally wrong. This shows that in order to accommodate his personal morality he compromises the moral ideas and values of his society. Adding to this moral debate is the fact

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