Blade Runner:Is Deckard a replicant?

[Will]

Ridley Scott says yes and that seems to be the meaning of the unicorn origami and the references to five escaped replicants. But I preferred it when it was ambiguous, because it asks all of us how we can be sure that our own memories are real. How can any of us know that we are not a brain in a tank (Matrix), a replicant (Blade Runner) or having a lucid dream (Inception)?

Unfortunately, Hollywood prefers certainty and simplicity over ambiguity. So rather than leave it to our imaginations, Ridley Scott has said that, yes, Will Smith has a robotic arm ... sorry I meant that Deckard is a replicant.

[Ken]

Since you said Blade Runner, yes, Deckard is a replicant.

In Androids Dream, he is not.

I prefer the ambiguity though.

[Carole-Ann]

OMG don't spoil it...

I've been a fan of the film for years; have read the Philip K Dick book :) and much prefer that you/they leave Deckard alone.

I hate it when Hollywood dictates what we should/should not understand/believe/whatever.

[Bob]

For some reason, this kind of reminds me of the JK Rowling statement the other day that we've all been pronouncing Voldermort wrong. She says the T should be silent. REALLY? Can't she just leave it alone?

I also prefer ambiguity, as in Total Recall, where you can go with the whole thing being real or a hallucination.

[Micah]

Yes. No. Yes. Maybe.

That's the definitive answer.

Actually, in the movie it entirely depends on which version of the film you watch. And even then there is no definitive. The unicorn stuff, IMHO, doesn't prove it...it simply indicates that the ambiguity had put on weight.

[Micah]

In the book, I liked how PKD totally f's with your mind (and Deckard's) when he has Deckard arrested by the "other" police office. Classic PKD. [However, the outcome of that scene, IIRC, left no ambiguity.]

[Steph]

Ridley Scott is a replicant. He just assumed Harrison Ford was too.