Blade Runner 2049 (2017) - Quotes

Exploring Identity in Blade Runner 2049

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Examining Racial Themes in Blade Runner 2049

Quotes about Blade Runner 2049: Blade Runner 2049 is an example of science fiction as magical thinking: whites fear that all the sins they committed against black and brown people will come back to them tenfold, so they fantasize their own fall as a preventative measure to ensure that the white race will never fall.

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Reflections on the Past and Simplicity

Rick Deckard: I had your job once. I was good at it.

K: Things were simpler then.

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A Conversation About Cheese and Music

Rick Deckard: You mightn't happen to have a piece of cheese about you, now? Would you boy?

K: [[Treasure Island] ]?

Rick Deckard: He reads, that's good. Me too, not much else to do around here at night anymore. Many is the night I dream of cheese. Toasted, mostly. What Are You Doing Here?

K: I heard the piano.

Rick Deckard: Don't lie, it's rude. You're a cop.

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Confrontation Between Joi and Mariette

Joi: I'm done with you. You can go now.

Mariette: Quiet, now. I've been inside you. Not so much there as you think.

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The Elegance of Simplicity in Identity

Joi: Mere data makes a man. A and C and T and G. The alphabet of you. All from four symbols. I am only two: 1 and 0.

K: Half as much but twice as elegant, sweetheart.

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Exploring the Nature of False Memories

Lieutenant Joshi: Do you have any memories from before?

K: I have memories, but... They're not real, they're just implants.

Lieutenant Joshi: Tell me one, from when you were a kid.

K: I feel a little strange sharing a childhood story considering I was never a child.

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Identity and Purpose in Blade Runner 2049

Luv: I'm here for Mr. Wallace. I'm Luv.

K: He named you. You must be special.

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Reciting the Baseline Test in Blade Runner 2049

Interviewer: Officer K-D-six-dash-three-dot-seven, let's begin. Ready?

K: Yes, sir.

Interviewer: Recite your baseline.

K: And blood-black nothingness began to spin... A system of cells interlinked within cells interlinked within cells interlinked within one stem... And dreadfully distinct against the dark, a tall white fountain played.

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The Evolution of Replicants in Society

Narration: [[farming; [famine] Replicants are bioengineered humans, designed by Tyrell Corporation for use off-world. Their enhanced strength made them ideal slave labor. After a series of violent rebellions, their manufacture became prohibited and Tyrell Corp went bankrupt. The collapse of ecosystems in the mid 2020s led to the rise of industrialist Niander Wallace, whose mastery of synthetic ] averted ]. Wallace acquired the remains of Tyrell Corp and created a new line of replicants who obey. Many older model replicants--NEXUS 8s with open-ended lifespans--survived. They are hunted down and "Retired" Those that hunt them still go by the name...Blade Runner.

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Collaboration in Solitude

Gaff: He liked to work alone. So did I. So we worked together to keep it that way, and that was it.

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The Humanity of Sacrifice for a Cause

Freysa: Dying for the right cause. It's the most human thing we can do.

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The Consequences of Breaking Boundaries

Lieutenant Joshi: The world is built on a wall that separates kind. Tell either side there's no wall, you've bought a war. Or a slaughter.

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Perspective on Happiness and Miracles

Sapper Morton: You newer models are happy scraping the shit... because you've never seen a miracle.

Fear of Change and Resistance to Progress

Luv: Here, you are. You tiny thing. In the face of the fabulous and new, your only thought is to kill it?! For fear of great change?! You can't hold the tide with a broom.

The Connection Between Pain and Joy

Niander Wallace: Pain reminds you the joy you felt was real. More joy, then.

Courage Cannot Change Reality

Niander Wallace: All the courage in the world cannot alter fact.

The Cost of Ignorance and Information Control

Niander Wallace: It was very clever to keep yourself empty of information, and all it cost you was everything.

Desire for Replicant Population Growth

Niander Wallace: [[seed; [Heaven; [Eden] That barren pasture. Empty, and salted. The dead space between the stars. Right here. And this is the ] that we must change for ]. I cannot breed them. So help me, I have tried. We need more Replicants than can ever be assembled. Millions, so we can be trillions more. We could storm ] and retake her.