Blade Runner 2 with Harrison Ford confirmed

[Simon_Jester]

There's also the unicorn.

Deckard has a dream of a white unicorn. Later on in the movie, Gaff gives Deckard an origami unicorn. Deckard never mentioned the dream to anybody.

I read the novel, but I was young and have a bad memory... are replicants supposed to be telepathic or something, explaining how that would matter?

[Vendetta]

I read the novel, but I was young and have a bad memory... are replicants supposed to be telepathic or something, explaining how that would matter?

The idea is that the unicorn dream is an implanted memory (the thing which allows Rachel to fool the Voigt-Kampff test), Gaff knows about it because he knows Deckard is a replicant and what memories he has had implanted.

It's not a part of the book (the story of the book works better if Deckard is human, he's human but has less empathy than the replicants because whilst they develop it as they live the job of hunting them burned it out of him)

[Irbis]

It also begs the question of why you would send an inferior model in terms of strength and intelligence to take down a group of superior models...

How Deckard was intellectually inferior?

And sending weaker model would actually make sense, smaller problem if he rebels, you're ensuring cure isn't potentially worse than disease. If he is killed instead? So what, replicants are expendable, just order new model.

[jwl]

Erm, I haven't watched the movie but I have read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, and didn't Deckard and Resch test each other and they both passed?

[jwl]

Also, in "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep", they make clear that the bounty hunters are only after androids who kill their owners and run away to earth, whilst Rachael has an owner and works as an advert for the Nexus 6. In fact Rachael says that Deckard can't legally retire her when he's about to try.

[Eleventh Century Remnant]

Yes- but the movie and the book are so different that it doesn't matter. Resch isn't even in the movie, nor anyone really recognizable as him; the Rick Deckard of the book is a junior agent on his first really big case, the Deckard of the movie is a burnt- out retiree with no family and little to live for. Not even an electric sheep.

The Deckard of the book is not a replicant- the suggestion that he might be is psyops by the renegade replicant underground. The Deckard of the movie probably is.

[Iroscato]

I lean towards Deckard being human, personally. If the technology exists to extract memories - specific memories at that - and implant them in replicants, then in theory Deckard and other Blade Runners could be subject to some form of mind scanning/reading. Could be a useful way of exerting a hold on them if they step too far out of line, for example. In a world where empathy is almost a swear word, I can see that being plausible.
Also Jwl, watch the film. If nothing else it's a visually astonishing experience, even by today's standards, especially in HD

[Mr. G]

Who cares, Hollywood has been dead for a couple of decades now.