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I don't know if you are endorsing the movies or not, but GitS is better.

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I have seen GitS many times, and doubt it was the main influence, but maybe one of them. Ever read Neuromancer by William Gibson? How about Decarte's Brain in a Vat thought experiments? That's where the Wachowski brothers and even GitS draw a large portion of their ideas from whether directly or indirectly.

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Have you ever heard of the electro/industrial group Haujobb? If you do, you might be interested to know that haujobb is the german translation of 'skinjob' which was a name for the replicants in BR. The music is very cold and electronic, dark, and hard at times. One of my favorite albums by them is Freeze Frame Reality. You might check it out. I think you might appreciate their stuff.

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My favorite movie, hands down, but I like the director's cut better. That voice over was annoying. BTW, Mute. . I've read enough Philip K. Dick to know, that there is no way he's going to tell you whether Deckard is a replicant (but he would hint for and against it, just to frustrate you), and I know that Harrison Ford said that he was told, by Ridley Scott, that Deckard is human. Score one for Ridley, way to fog the issue

Oh, and point in fact the 5th was Sean Young's character as stated by the police chief. If Deckard were a replicant, then that would make six.

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All this talk of Blade Runner got me looking up trivia about it. Found this interesting tidbit.

"The dialogue in all releases of the movie alludes to another replicant who dies before Deckard's final battles with Pris and Batty. The conflicting dialogue occurs in the first conversation between Deckard and Bryant. Bryant initially tells Deckard there are four "skin jobs" on the loose, but minutes later says six escaped, and one was killed by the "electronic gate", which should leave five. The explanation is that the script originally contained an additional replicant named "Mary", but time and budgetary constraints resulted in her being written out. M. Emmet Walsh who plays Bryant, reports that new dialogue was recorded to change the number of replicants in this scene, but Scott inexplicably only used half of the new dialogue, resulting in the inconsistency."

This is just priceless:

" In the sequence where Deckard and Gaff approach police headquarters in a spinner, a model of the Millennium Falcon (Harrison Ford's spaceship in Star Wars (1977)), disguised as a building, can be seen in the lower left corner of the frame. The model was a personal project of one of the film's model builders, and was used as a building at the last minute."

[ 12-03-2004: Message edited by: AcidWarp ]

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“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.”

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”

My favourite cyber-punk anime is Serial Experiments Lain.

Check otu, Cyberia by Douglas Rushkoff. http://www.rushkoff.com/cyberia.html
I guess I should finish myself.

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