Jay Passer

It Wasn’t About Deckard

During administration of the Voight-Kampff test Leon shoots the
smoker cop which seemed appropriate considering his rather
patronizing line of questioning

Then Deckard shoots a woman in the back for rabbiting after dancing 
with a snake

Most people argue that the director’s cut is superior to the original 
release featuring Harrison Ford’s voiceover

Personally I’ll take the noir detective original over the artsy atmospheric 
revision

Personally I like it better when Roy Batty practically snarls, I want more 
life, fucker! rather than the director’s cut version where the word father 
is dubbed in for the word fucker

Lee, sitting on the Ikea couch rolling a joint of skunk bud with his 
running critique punctuating the movie’s dialogue distractedly 

What I liked was Lee’s sister Sylvia who looked a little like Pris who 
mighta been on the dumb side but was super strong and agile until of 
course Deckard shot her dead

The story’s really about Roy Batty said Lee as he bogarted the joint, 
even though Roy’s this badass rebel euro-murderbot he’s emotionally 
just a child 

Yeah piped up Sylvia he’s actually kinda a poet, y’know like a samurai 
poet

You mean a ronin, not a samurai, Lee who didn’t like his sister much 
retorted, but the fact I was interested in seducing his sister he liked even 
less

When Roy and Leon interrogated the eye guy and the eye guy said I 
only do eyes and Roy said if you could only see what I’ve seen with 
your eyes, I had to admit Sylvia was pretty damn accurate with her 
assessment

Her body did kinda resemble Pris’s but her face looked more like her 
brother Lee’s which posed a problem for me

Meanwhile, after Leon slaps Deckard silly and is about to crush his skull 
like a melon, Rachael saves his weak ass by blowing Leon’s head off

Ever notice Deckard only shoots women in this film? Lee asked 
philosophically

Right? Which probably doesn’t sit too pretty with feminists, Sylvia 
added

I wasn’t especially thrilled with Deckard and Rachael’s escape at the end 
and that Rachael could actually live beyond the genetically-coded 4-year 
lifespan but credit due, in the director’s cut that bullshit happy ending 
was removed

Technically though it’ll always be the actual ending since y’know, when 
you consider the 2nd law of thermodynamics and all, right?

Sylvia was pretty smart for a replicant