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• Defictionalization: Deckard's whiskey glasses and bottle, trenchcoat and even the tiles in his apartment have been made into real (albeit insanely expensive) products. Even the neon light umbrellas are available from Thinkgeek (albeit the Thinkgeek versions are. more practical LED/fiber-optic rather then neon tubes).
  • The police offices constructed in Union Station, Los Angeles for the filming still stand till today, in use as station offices. The crew was able to get a little bit of a discount if Union Station officials agreed to keep the set for practical use after filming was over.
• Enforced Method Acting: The scene with Chew was shot in a freezer and was ice cold, so the cast really were shivering.
• Executive Meddling: The ending in the original movie was changed by higher-ups due to its ambiguity, and narration was added to help dispel the ambiguity evident in most of the movie itself. The ending has -- thank God -- been restored and the narration deleted in the Directors Cut.
• Flip-Flop of God: Is Deckard a replicant? Director Ridley Scott and lead actor Harrison Ford, as well as screenwriters Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, initially said no. Ever since the Directors Cut in 1993, they now say yes.
  • More solidified now in that it's generally agreed upon that he is human in the theatrical cut and a replicant in the directors
• Hey, It's That Guy!:
  • Naturally, Dr. Jones is the protagonist.
  • Sheriff Dearborn is Sebastian.
  • Carinal Roark is Roy Batty.
  • Edward James Olmos in the role that made him famous (well, sort of) as Gaff. He only appears about three times, but he's got the best outfit in the movie and gets one of its last, and best, lines. If Deckard is a replicant himself, Gaff is presumably his human handler and the model for some of his fake memories.
  • Bryant is played by M. Emmett Walsh, who's been one of the ultimate 'That Guy's' over countless films, usually playing some sort of sleazy, amoral character.
• Troubled Production: One of the most (in)famous in movie history.
• What Could Have Been: This was offered to Ralph Bakshi. He passed on it, but recommended Ridley Scott for the director's chair. And the rest is history...