Harrison Ford Ends Decades of Blade Runner Debates: 'I Was a Replicant'
After 40 years of debates and discussions, the Blade Runner actor reveals that his character was, in fact, a replicant all along. But the movie's director doesn't agree!
Ridley Scott 's Blade Runner came out all the way back in 1982 and immediately became a massive cultural phenomenon.
As of today, Blade Runner's been out over four decades ago, and some discussions about it are just as old; the main one is, of course, whether Deckard was a replicant or not.
Initially, the situation was rather simple: a human replicant hunter, Deckard, fell in love with one of his targets.
Then, Ridley Scott decided to complicate things and added scenes that made it seem like Deckard himself was a replicant even though he didn't know that. But back then, the lead actor Harrison Ford didn't agree.
Ford was insisting that his character was human; Scott was doing his best to assure the viewers that Deckard was secretly a replicant.
The Blade Runner fans were divided into two groups and started an internal war that lasted for decades as neither of the sides managed to convince the other that they were wrong.
But just a couple of days ago, Harrison Ford suddenly changed his public statement. In his most recent interview with Esquire, the actor claimed that Deckard was in fact a replicant — and that he, Ford, knew it all along!
"I always knew that I was a replicant. I just wanted to push back against it though. I think a replicant would want to believe that they're human. At least this one did," suggested the actor.
This seems to be the final answer the fans have been waiting for so long. After all, even 2017's Blade Runner 2049 didn't provide any definitive explanation, and the movie's director Denis Villeneuve did that on purpose.
He felt that it was the right thing to do… And enjoyed the bickering between Scott and Ford all too much.
"Deckard, in the movie, is unsure, as we are, of what his identity is. <...> I really love that. Again, Harrison and Ridley are still arguing about that. If you put them in the same room, they don't agree… And they start to talk very loud when they do. It's very funny," laughed Villeneuve.
Now, it seems, the mystery is finally over — at least, for those who want it to be over. For the rest of us, the duality of Deckard still stands.
If the lead actor and the director couldn't agree on the matter for decades, how can we be sure that now they are both correct and not simultaneously delusional? Even Deckard didn't know the truth!
Source: Esquire