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Surprising. I had assumed it was a random future-world term, but was also meant to evoke Deckard's dilemmas - balanced on a knife edge.
by neilk 3y ago
Surprising. I had assumed it was a random future-world term, but was also meant to evoke Deckard's dilemmas - balanced on a knife edge.
- twoodfin 3y agoProbably why everyone involved liked it: It's evocative across multiple interpretations. In addition to yours, "runner" works as a kind of diminution of the job, runners being minor functionaries who shuttle back and forth at the beck of their superiors ("No choice, pal.") That what Deckard's running is a "blade"—death—only emphasizes either his powerlessness or his victims'. He's a pageboy being made to do murder. Or a janitor cleaning up mere "hazards".
- coldtea 3y ago>That what Deckard's running is a "blade"—death Yeah, could be "running" as in operating ("run: be in charge of; manage") a metaphorical blade, that is cutting their life short.
- mdp2021 3y agoOr, since the original intended sense was "smuggler of blades", within the world in the movie "blade runner" could be interpreted as "smuggler of death in the underworld of the replicants". (With the dark irony that the original was meant to be "smuggling equipment to heal the needy", re-applied to a context of "bringing death to the desperate".)
- r2on3nge 3y agoI had similar thoughts as well only to read through and fully understand what all these meant