About 7 years ago, before the saga of Dune (the second opus of which was released recently), the film director Denis Villeneuve proposed the long-awaited sequel to another science fiction monument: Ridley Scott’s iconic Blade Runner.
In Blade Runner 2049, directed by Ryan Gosling and also marking the big return of Harrison Ford as the enigmatic Rick Deckard, the director continues to ask the audience questions about the nature of the famous replicants.
Winking from the first second
These androids with perfectly human qualities, of which the character played by Ford is without a doubt a good chance to participate in it, are always at the heart of Villeneuve’s feature film. So much so that the latter decided to start his film with a very nice (and subtle) chapter for true Blade Runner fans.
Indeed, as recently recalled XA Shot Report.One way the protagonists of Blade Runner can check if someone is a replicant is to ask them to look up and to the left to detect the presence of a possible number at the end of their pupil.
are you a replicator
However, Denis Villeneuve decided to open his film by inviting his audience to do the same test. Indeed, from the first second of the feature film, a single word (first in the introductory text) is shown at the top left of the screen, forcing the viewer to look in that exact direction.
The word is not chosen at random, because it is clearly… replicants.
It is enough to start with the brilliant intention of Blade Runner 2049, which, of course, only a few viewers will notice.
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Source: Allocine
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