The Blade Runner Iceberg Explained
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- Опубліковано 17 чер 2024
- The Blade Runner Iceberg Explained
The first ever Blade Runner Iceberg, that goes over Lore, history, film knowledge, and fan theories.
This video goes over every entry in the 8 tier Iceberg, and explains its deeper meaning.
Thank you for watching.
You can find the Iceberg here
icebergcharts.com/i/Blade_Runner
Special thanks to Geeno for voice acting.
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Special thanks to Kyle for providing music.
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Music Used:
- Blade Runner Blues - Blade Runner Video Game Soundtrack
- Different - Kyle Boness
- Aquatic Ambience - Donkey Kong Country
- Dust - M.O.O.N (Slowed & Reverbed)
- Sidewalk Diner - The Rosen Corporation
- Atlantis - Audionautix
- Doomer Dreampunk Mix - Dream Catalogue EVO
- Rick's Theme - Rick and Morty
Intro 0:00
Tier 1 1:24
Tier 2 5:43
Tier 3 14:12
Tier 4 29:24
Tier 5 46:05
Tier 6 59:54
Tier 7 1:11:36
Tier 8 1:17:36
Ending 1:22:51 - Розваги
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22:57 "His only sin was wanting more life and to escape his owners" Lil bro typed that into the script and completely forgot the scene where Roy presses Tyrells eyeballs into the back of his brain and kills a 110% innocent toy maker by exploiting his loneliness.
Not only the toy maker.. they killed the eye guy too.
Id have done the same thing if I learned I was programmed to die in 4 years
@@Slibbo Exactly... Imagine being sentient and knowing exactly how long you have to live because people ACTIVELY murder you to prevent you from lasting longer. It's almost like you'd do things out of desperation....
Hey guys, Just want to say thank you, for stopping by. And sorry for the heavy censorship. This is my 6th time re-uploading this video. UA-cam has blocked it every time with copyright claims, even though the video should be protected by fair use, for being educational. Anyways, Hope you have enjoyed your stay. And happy new years.
The in textures you've been forced to add suggest a dreamlike state of mind. Beautiful.
When was the first time you uploaded the video?
@@tiagobernardo6807 They were all private uploads to test out the copyright claims.
Excellent video, Super underrated
I’ve seen many UA-cam videos on Blade Runner.Why is yours having problems if the others didn’t?
27:05 There is something I have not heard mentioned when people discuss "Sapper" Morton; Sapper is a nickname of a title, not the man's first name. A Sapper is a Combat Engineer, making Morton not only a field medic, familiar with physology, trauma and injury management, but also familiar with explosives, mines, construction, weapons and improvised warfare devices. Individuals that have been in combat while attached to Sapper units are often highly adaptable, intelligent, insightful and emotionally sensitive while still capable of violence. This insight makes Morton's comments about "witnessing a miracle" with the birth of Rachel's daughter that much poyninant.
Thanks for the knowledge.I always had a sneaking suspicion that Sapper must have meant something beyond just being a name.
Poignant 😂 *
The Mayan revival style is in Deckard's apartment because it was filmed in the Frank Lloyd Wright house called "Ennis House", pictured at 1:08:38
Thank you for this, amazing work
Thank you for all your hard work
this was fantastic
Thanks for this!!
amazing work here
Batty is not the villain. I understood that on my second viewing, as a 15 year old, in an otherwise empty cinema. Deckard guns down a fleeing woman, terrified of him, who just wants to live? He shoots her twice in the back, through a crowd of people. That’s not a good guy. He is dead inside. The replicants know more about life and the love of life than he does.
Roy is a Parsifal-like figure, seeking the Grail (of life) for others, as well as for himself. He loves his companions, to whom he is bonded by a humanity and kinship beyond anything these almost soulless humans display.
He is transformed, as the movie goes on, and even when he seems to fail, at the last - murdering his twisted creator as he does so - he then redeems himself, and chooses to live on, as part of the memories of the man who was sent to murder them all. We are, after all, an accretion of memories. Every single second of Deckard’s remaining days, he will owe them all to the “inhuman” “soulless” replicant he was sent to murder. The speech - the single greatest moment in a superb movie - will be ingrained in his memory.
And the child owes its existence to him. He is, therefore, the soul of the movie, where Rachael is the heart. Her love sparks a small flame in Deckard’s cold dead heart, and prompts him to rediscover his humanity. He clings to that rooftop for her, as much as - if not more so - than for himself. If he falls, she dies. His desperation to live is seen by Roy, who chooses to save him, in that moment, and thereby set the two free, to eventually produce a child together.
Roy and Rachael. Without them, both movies are meaningless. The replicants are more important than the humans, because they show more humanity than any of the herds milling about a first dying, and then blighted, Earth.
Rick? He is a villain; a weapon (a “goddamn one man slaughterhouse”, as Bryant describes him) who is only redeemed by his own rediscovered humanity, thanks entirely to Rachael.
28:35 coincidence i think not
I had a voice take where I said that line. Guess VC wanted to stick to the script :P
LITERALLY goosebumps with this 32:00 FKN HLL! I will have to rewatch with this in mind now!
Total Recall takes place decades after Blade Runner:2049 and before the 1st Alien movie; Dr.Strangelove (the movie) is a retelling of World War Terminus.
1990's Blade Runner is an excellent film well made with a wholly believeable story and a particularly evil villain by the great Ronny Cox the remake was but a sad spent shell of a film.
I rather think you have “Blade Runner” confused with “Total Recall”? Totally different movies, although both are (loosely, in TR’s case) based upon the works of Philip K Dick - the most filmed author of all time, even beating Steven King, due to all the short stories and anthologies, which have been filmed, as well as the novels and novellas.
There’s absolutely nothing, in canon, to link any of them. Fan fic and crew “nods” to other significant or classic SciFi movies, do not make for the same universe.
great video, just recently rewatched both movies and with this iceburg video so many more things make sense
I wouldn’t be so sure that Blade Runner happens in the same universe as Alien. Or least not in the same universe as all Alien movies. It seems to me that the connections between this two universes are more like easter eggs than real proof.
But anyway, Im a big fan of BR and managed to learn some new things, which is awesome. Your video, editing was even the music was absolutely on point. Great video. Keep it up!
If you look closely at the Nostromo crew's dossiers during Ripley's ICC board inquiry during 'Aliens', Dallas's file showed that he worked for Tyrell Corporation before he hired on with Weyland-Yutani. The special features in 'Prometheus' detail some texted musings by Peter Weyland of some discussions he had with Tyrell as to the problems Tyrell had with his organic servants; one of the reasons why Weyland took the synthetic route. And Ridley himself said they were a shared universe in an interview.
Unfortunately, the timelines don’t fit. Ridley changed his mind over significant details more often than he changed his underpants during filming. “Because the director says so” doesn’t mean it’s so.
It’s like the whole “Deckard as replicant” idea - the single most contentious part of the whole movie. It was never mooted, to anyone, other than in passing, during the filming, and like many other ideas for the movie (filming the replicant warsuit which gave Batty his “tattoos”; their escape and arrival on earth; multiple endings for the movie, including Tyrell being a replicant - his real body being in a ‘stasis’ sarcophagus, on top of the ziggurat - and Gaff tracking Deckard and Rachael, as they escape into the countryside) it was shelved for budgetary and financial constraints.
Ford said Deckard was not a replicant. Hauer said he was not a replicant. Fancher and Peoples said he was not a replicant. Only Scott (later, in the 90s) said that Deckard was a replicant. The eyeshine, seen in his apartment, with Rachael, was according to Ford, a mistake, thrown up by the diffuse lighting effect (Schüfftan process) used by Scott and Cronenweth, as a diegetic indication to the audience, that these beings were replicants. “I strayed into her mark”, he said, when asked about it. He was furious with Scott, for changing the narrative, when the movie became a cult favourite, following the advent of home video. They only truly made up, when they made 2049. Scott instructed Villeneuve to make Deckard a replicant, but the director chose to leave it open to Leto’s character, to define the question, using his “micronics” (the networked “Barracuda” scanners he uses to “see”). Leto chose to leave it open, his Wallace having scanned Deckard to a cellular level - which would have given him the answer.
So, Blade Runner is the perfect example of a subjective artistic experience. If you want them to be all in the same universe, good for you. If you want Deckard as a replicant, same. If you choose him to be human (for, as many fans believe - and as Hauer, himself, said - the rooftop monologue and death scene is “meaningless”, otherwise), fine and dandy.
There are so many cuts, so many significant differences and so many theories, you can decide your own, and leave it at that, rather than trying to shove it down others’ throats as “fact” or “canon”.
It’s the perfect subjective experience.
22:05 That is compelling, but I think the most compelling was his eyes glowing at the end...only Replicant eyes do that
44:05 EATER EGG 😂😂
@1:10:35 so when Gaff says “you’ve done a man’s job” it’s referring to the famous quote: “never send a boy to do a man’s job.” Gaff is referring to Deckard as a MAN.
Same mentioned at 22 mins in... Yet missed mentioning his eyes glowing when in his apt with rachel.
That’s actually a mistake due to Harrison standing in Rachel’s light.
@@Metal_Muscles7 A happy accident that added to the replicant theory fuel.
Another of those small details to get you thinking, like the gum wrapper unicorn. =]
But “some people” said different, so it MUST be true. (Roll eyes). Some people have to tell you they are right, and so clever, rather than just another fan.
Its pretty good iceberg, but I think something is missing there:
- "Do you like our owl" reference in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided ("Adam's Safehouse" song have a Rachel's "Do you like our owl" quote taken from Blade Runner movie)
- Ray McCoy is a replicant (or some of the other characters in 1997 videogame, like: Lucy Devlin, Dektora, Gordo Frizz or Sadik). But that theory is false, since Ray McCoy is mentioned in "Blade Runner: The Roleplaying Game" tabletop game that sets in the year 2037 (18 years after a Blade Runner events), so he can't be a replicant (at least a Nexus-6 or lower). And he is not a rep-sympathiser (so the "pacifist run" is not canon)
- Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition (crappy Westwood's 1997 Blade Runner remastered, developed by Alcon Entertainment and Nightdive Studios)
- Cut content in 1997 Blade Runner videogame
- Blade Runner books by K. W. Jeter
- another Blade Runner videogames (Blade Runner for Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum, and Blade Runner Rogue for Android and iOS)
- Niander Wallace supposed to be played by David Bowie (but sadly, he died in 2016)
But this video have some quirks (related to Westwood's Blade Runner videogame), like incorrect Frank Klepacki name pronounce (its pronounced as "Klepa-k-i, not Klepa-sk-i)
- Westwood didn't got a permission for a movie score from Blade Runner Partnership, not from Alcon Entertainment
I feel like a lot of this are just random main characters, memes and plot points scattered in random tiers. The second half is better, but it’s hard to ignore the fact there are random characters, memes and thoughts that are considered deeper in tiers all the way down to 3, 4 and some of 5… when it reality they are just things people see upon first or second watch.
Still an ok video. It’s just a bit annoying having to 2x the speed over halfway to get to the somewhat interesting stuff.
The Joi thing being towards the end is a really odd choice considering how it’s a very main theme and question the movie brings up.
Btw you forgot the marvel blade runner comics.
Also the ending was honestly just a conspiracy theory that didn’t have much to do with the film outside of the common idea of clones…
I'm surprised you didn't add in a Snatcher entry as it is the closest thing to a Blade Runner game at the time.
Wow ur right, I completly forgot about that game... thanks
Does anyone know what version of the song played around 14:55 ~ 20:30? I'm pretty sure the track is "aquatic ambience donkey kong country" but I don't which version was used for it...
I like videos like this. ✌️
Nice dude solid vid...one thing it's Rut-Ger with a hard G, not Rutter like gutter.
I wish they would release 2049's Open Matte on 4k Blu Ray or Streaming. I'm not really a torrenting kind of guy and would want to see it on the biggest screen possible.
Moar icebergs please!
Nice
Tier 8: someone said something on 4chan
Ok i think we are below the iceberg now....
not even a minute in bro quoted thanos 💀
What's the name of the song in 57:34 I love it very beautiful, I am the only blade runner black lotus fan ❤️❤️❤️
Im suprised you included the cyberpunk 2077 easter egg but not the Ion Fury one. Its in the first level of Ion Fury
wohoo ,i was the exact 9000 and 1 viewer on this video
Awesome video! It took me 3 watches to appreciate OG Bladerunner, now 2049, I would say is in my top 5 films ever made, and OG br just gets better, I find myself torn whether I want a sequel or not. The way Hollywood is at the moment I think fan made would be better 🤦♂️
55:18 yes , I do
R.I.P. Vangelis
How comes you have hidden 4 of the vids on this playlist?
32:49 yet again there are labels Aptly named
29:51’ the quiet ones know. They love telling tho, thru clues and hints , drips , and drops, not….not unlike a literal guardian Angel, a mentor / partner of sorts. One is the investigator and one is the finisher. Guess who’s who.
R.i.p Vengelaecs how you pronounce it ibelieve 😅
1:20:07 until we can care that there are real human slaves still today, cloned ones are a moot point.
23:03 killing his creator didn’t help.
I unfortunately didn't like the og. But I love the world and concepts. And presentation
However 2049 is one of my fav movies of all time. It got me into the world. And prompted me to see the 1st. And after 2 viewings I still don't like the 1st lmao. It's got too many issues
Yeah, alot of people prefer the second. It's a better overall movie. The og is more of an acquired taste I would say...
@@VirtualCarbon I find the acquired taste to be more "the execution is flawed but it's all in the sub text and overall story (not plot) where it's really good". I hold the last Jedi in that same category yet I really like that one. Altho if there's one thing I feel the og does over the 2049 it's the visual style. We don't see a whole lot of the cool shit we see in the og
Probably really reaching here just because I love the movie Cyborg. I especially love the wild pirates: they are so beautiful. That movie should have just been called Fender and his friends Break Shit. OK anyway: Fender, the head pirate does mention a "skin job" referring to the cybernetically enhanced woman they have abducted; although it comes across more or less as a joke about Blade Runner the movie rather than any allusion to him being aware of replicants. If we want to ask some questions about it and really dare to dream, Cyborg takes place in the American South during a worldwide plague where a cure can be found in Atlanta, Georgia. Could that fit into Blade Runner's world? Maybe so...
The original theatrical release was more ambiguous on the question as to whether Deckard was a replicant or not and the discussions which permeated from it I think largely attributed to its cult classic status. Allowing viewers to come to their own conclusion was more poignant as it forces introspection on the viewer to reflect on the narrative to define what humanity is. That's where a lot of the value comes from.
The Blade Runner revisions have George Lucas syndrome and removed a lot of that ambiguity with the bonus scenes. To me, that cheapens the discussion on the topic of Deckard's identity since people will forever argue in hindsight and that by in large lowers it's value as a narrative piece.
Don't forget the 1997 PC game...
Great video. Just one thing, BR isn't cyberpunk and didn't kick off the genre (it's generally considered to be William Gibson who does that) but is, in fact, Future Noir. This is considered the main reason why BR: Black Lotus is seen less favourably than the films precisely because its cyberpunk.
Didnt u mention score from bladerunner by vangelis... its his whole music vibe the 2049 score is built on.
Oh u did.. good!
I’m gonna pretend that total recall and alien have nothing to do with blade runner, it’s just really dumb to feel the need to connect the movies for the sake of having an “interesting” connected cinematic universe, blade runner is perfectly fine on its own
I guess John Williams never existed.
What kind of iceberg is this when you just put some random facts together?
You mentioned the United Nations several times. Look at the United Nations logo. Then look at the Flat Earth map. Spoiler: They are the *EXACT* same image. It explains other things such as the disappearance of MHS370. Did you know that flights in the so called "southern hemisphere" are not tracked via GPS shortly after leaving a land mass? If they were, then it would reveal the truth. Another example is the jet stream. It looks like this random crazy wave pattern. But if you plot it on a Flat Earth map, the jet stream forms perfect circles. Check out flight paths in the "southern hemisphere." Also look into the Antarctic treaty. Good luck. Your reality is about to change. Nobody likes becoming aware that they've been DUPED all their life. Once you discover the truth, you can never go back.