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Deckard is a Blade Runner. His job is to [[Deadly Euphemism|"retire"]] renegade [[Artificial Human|Replicants]] -- rogue androids that are not supposed to be on Earth. Some of the most advanced Replicants yet have escaped, and Deckard is [[One Last Job|assigned to retire them]]. But they are so like normal humans that Deckard can't help but empathize with them, and he even falls for one.
'''Blade Runner''' was loosely based on the [[Philip K. Dick]] novel ''[[Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?]]'' The title itself comes from the novel ''The Bladerunner'' by Alan E. Nourse.<ref>Though in a roundabout fashion; the writer Hampton Fascher, took it from a [[William S. Burroughs]] adaptation Blade_Runner_(a_movie) which was originally meant to be a treatment of Nourse's novel but became its own novella.</ref>. Other than the title, the movie has nothing to do with ''The Bladerunner''. It just [[Rule of Cool|sounded cool]].
The film was a [[Box Office Bomb|commercial failure upon release]], but it [[Vindicated by History|later become a widely acknowledged classic]] that [http://www.time.com/time/2005/100movies/0,23220,blade_runner,00.html regularly appears on "Best Films Of All Time" lists].
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** In an interview, Rutger Hauer revealed that he had been a fan of the book long before the movie, and preferred to think of film Deckard as a sap who was [[Robosexual|pining over a vibrator]].
* [[Adult Child]]: While the Replicants are adults both physically and mentally, they're still very childlike in their emotions, be it Pris's very whimsical behavior or Roy basically having a temper tantrum {{spoiler|when meeting Tyrell and becoming a [[Self-Made Orphan]]}}.
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** And the 21st century [http://www.flickr.com/photos/59303791@N00/2518314792/ actually turned out like that]! (But without the blimps)
* [[The Alcoholic]]: It's much faster to count the scenes in which Deckard ''isn't'' drinking. And if you can still drink with a split lip, then you are an überholic.
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* [[Defective Detective]]: Deckard. Not only is he plagued with self-loathing and doubt, he becomes increasingly unsure that his role as Blade Runner is ethical, and eventually {{spoiler|becomes a fugitive with Rachael}}.
* [[Designated Hero]]: Invoked in this case. The Replicants are escaped slaves. The Blade Runners are bounty hunters who get money for gunning them down. A Blade Runner protagonist makes for an uneasy moral setting at best.
* [[Digital Head Swap]]: The original version had a shot during Zhora's death where it was obvious that a stunt double was standing in for the actress. For the 2007 [[
* [[Disturbed Doves]]: In the Bradbury Building, where the final confrontation takes place.
* [[Do Androids Dream?]]: Ironically more than in the book.
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