The baseline scene (“cells interlinked”) in Blade Runner 2049 was conceived by Ryan Gosling, who convinced Denis Villeneuve to put it in the movie. The scene combines a Nabokov poem and an actor’s exercise called “dropping in”.
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Thank you so much for this. It's not just that I love the Blade Runner movies so I love to read people write deeply and intensely about them -- it's also that I love that movies can do this to people, send them into intense and profound places that have resonance so far beyond the entertainment function assigned to most films. I don't know that science fiction does this better than any other genre, but it does it so *interestingly*...
p.s. I totally disagree with the writer's assessment of the way the Voight-Kampf test works in the original BR. We could have a good ol' fashioned geek-brawl over that one.
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