Blade Runner - The Final Cut (1982)

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In Los Angeles, November 2019, retired police officer Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) is detained at a noodle bar by officer Gaff (Edward James Olmos). Gaff takes Deckard to see his former supervisor, Bryant (M. Emmet Walsh). Deckard's former job, as a "Blade Runner", was to track down replicants, bioengineered robots, and "retire" them. Bryant tells Deckard that several late-model replicants have escaped, and have come to Earth illegally. These replicants are Tyrell Corporation Nexus-6 models and have a four-year life as a fail-safe, to prevent them from developing emotions. They may have come to Earth to try to have their lives extended.

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Bryant shows Deckard a video of another Blade Runner, Holden (Morgan Paull), administering a Voight-Kampff test, which distinguishes humans from replicants based on their empathic response to questions. The subject of the test, Leon (Brion James), shoots Holden when it becomes likely he will be exposed. Bryant wants Deckard to return to work to retire Leon and three other replicants—Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer), Zhora (Joanna Cassidy) and Pris (Daryl Hannah). Deckard attempts to decline the job, but reluctantly agrees after Bryant issues a veiled threat.

Deckard is teamed with Gaff and sent to the Tyrell Corporation to ensure that the Voight-Kampff test works on Nexus-6 models. While he is there Deckard discovers that Tyrell's (Joe Turkel) assistant Rachael (Sean Young) is an experimental replicant who believes she is human; Rachael's consciousness has been enhanced with extra memories, to provide an "emotional cushion". As a result, a more extensive Voight-Kampff test is required to identify her as a replicant.

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The replicants attempt to meet with Tyrell. Their first attempt leads Roy and Leon to the eye-manufacturing laboratory of Chew (James Hong). Under duress, Chew directs them to J.F. Sebastian (William Sanderson), a gifted designer who works closely with Tyrell. Rachael visits Deckard at his apartment to prove her humanity by showing him a family photo. Dropping the photo to the floor, Rachael leaves in tears after Deckard demonstrates that her memories are implanted from Tyrell's niece. Pris meets J.F. Sebastian at his apartment in the Bradbury Building, where he lives with manufactured companions.

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At Leon's apartment, Deckard finds an image of Zhora in Leon's photos, and some sort of scale in the bathtub. Deckard visits a replicant animal vendor and learns that it came from a snake made by Abdul Ben Hassan (Ben Astar). Hassan directs Deckard to Taffey Lewis's (Hy Pyke) strip club, where Zhora works. Deckard "retires" Zhora, whose death is witnessed by Leon. Deckard meets with Bryant shortly after and is told to add Rachael to his list of retirements, as she has disappeared from the Tyrell Corporation headquarters. Deckard spots Rachael in a crowd but is attacked by Leon. Rachael saves Deckard by killing Leon. The two return to Deckard's apartment, where Deckard promises not to hunt Rachael. Later they share an intimate moment; Rachael then tries to leave, but Deckard forcibly compels her to kiss him and ask for sex.

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Roy arrives at Sebastian's apartment and tells Pris they are the only ones left alive. They gain Sebastian's help after explaining their plight. Sebastian reveals that their lives will be similarly short; Sebastian suffers from a genetic disorder that accelerates his aging. Under the pretext of Sebastian informing Tyrell of a winning move in a game of correspondence chess, Roy and Sebastian enter Tyrell's penthouse. Roy demands more life from his maker, but Tyrell explains that a way to accomplish this was never found. Roy asks absolution for his sins, confessing that he has done "questionable things". Tyrell dismisses Roy's guilt, praising Roy's advanced design and his accomplishments. He tells Roy to "revel in his time", to which Roy responds "Nothing the god of biomechanics wouldn't let you into Heaven for". Roy then holds Tyrell's head in his hands, kisses him, and then kills him. Sebastian runs for the elevator with Roy following. Roy rides the elevator down alone. In The Final Cut, Deckard is told by Bryant that Sebastian's body was found at the flat, but this is left unsaid in other versions.

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Deckard arrives at Sebastian's apartment and is ambushed by Pris, managing to kill her just as Roy returns. Roy punches through a wall, grabbing Deckard's right arm and breaks two of his fingers in retaliation for "retiring" Zhora and Pris. Roy releases Deckard and gives him time to run before hunting him through the building. The symptoms of Roy's limited life worsen and his right hand begins failing; he jabs a nail through it to regain control. Roy forces Deckard to the roof where, in an attempt to escape, Deckard leaps across to another building but falls short and ends up hanging from a rain-slicked girder. As Deckard loses his grip, Roy, having made the same leap effortlessly, seizes his arm and hauls him onto the roof. As Roy's life ends he delivers a soliloquy on his life before dying in front of Deckard. Deckard sits silently looking up at Roy.

Gaff arrives and shouts over to Deckard regarding Rachael, "It's too bad she won't live but then again, who does?" Deckard returns to his apartment to find Rachael alive and sleeping in his bed; as they leave Deckard finds an origami unicorn, a calling card left by Gaff who, throughout the film, was seen making various origami pieces. Depending on the version, the film ends with Deckard and Rachael either leaving the apartment block to an uncertain future or driving through an idyllic pastoral landscape.

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Blade Runner is a 1982 American science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, and Sean Young. The screenplay, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, is loosely based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick.

The film depicts a dystopian Los Angeles in November 2019 in which genetically engineered organic robots called replicants—visually indistinguishable from adult humans—are manufactured by the powerful Tyrell Corporation as well as by other "mega–manufacturers" around the world. Their use on Earth is banned and replicants are exclusively used for dangerous, menial or leisure work on Earth's off-world colonies. Replicants who defy the ban and return to Earth are hunted down and "retired" by police special operatives known as "Blade Runners". The plot focuses on a brutal and cunning group of recently escaped replicants hiding in Los Angeles and the burnt out expert Blade Runner, Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), who reluctantly agrees to take on one more assignment to hunt them down.

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Blade Runner initially polarized critics: some were displeased with the pacing, while others enjoyed its thematic complexity. The film performed poorly in North American theaters but, despite the box office failure of the film, it has since become a cult classic. Blade Runner has been hailed for its production design, depicting a "retrofitted" future, and it remains a leading example of the neo-noir genre. Blade Runner brought the work of author Philip K. Dick to the attention of Hollywood and several later films were based on his work. Ridley Scott regards Blade Runner as "probably" his most complete and personal film. In 1993 Blade Runner was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Seven versions of the film have been shown for various markets as a result of controversial changes made by film executives. A rushed Director's Cut was released in 1992 after a strong response to workprint screenings. This, in conjunction with its popularity as a video rental, made it one of the first films released on DVD, resulting in a basic disc with mediocre video and audio quality. In 2007 Warner Bros. released The Final Cut, a 25th anniversary digitally remastered version by Scott in selected theaters, and subsequently on DVD, HD DVD, and Blu-ray Disc

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