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Blade Runner continues to generate debate after forty years. Actor Harrison Ford has changed his mind about the big controversy.
Harrison Ford has changed his opinion on the great controversy of Blade Runner. The Star Wars and Indiana Jones star has varied his public and media stance on the biggest debate surrounding the 1982 science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott. The actor has now admitted that he “always knew” that Rick Deckard was actually a replicant. Something that he had never recognized among the fans, quite the opposite.
Blade Runner director Ridley Scott has long maintained that he believes Harrison Ford’s character is really a replicant. By contrast, Harrison Ford has long been opposed to this idea. However, the 80-year-old actor recently changed his mind during a video interview with Esquire. “I always knew that he was a replicant,” said the iconic actor. “But I wanted to refute it. I think a replicant would want to believe that he is human. At least this one did.”
The great debate on whether or not Rick Deckard is a replicant
Much of the debate over whether Rick Deckard is a replicant revolves around the “dream unicorn” scene that appears in the 1992 director’s cut and the 2007 final cut of Blade Runner. Ridley Scott has stated that he intended the scene to imply that the character of Harrison Ford was a replicant and that the dream had been implanted. The star of the film, on the other hand, did not see it that way at first.
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“That was the main point of disagreement between myself and Ridley Scott at the time,” Harrison Ford said in 2006. “I thought audiences deserved an on-screen human being with whom they could establish an emotional relationship. I thought Ridley was on board, but actually I think he had some reservations about it. I think I really wanted to have it both ways.” In a 2009 interview, Ridley Scott suggested that Ford might have changed his mind about Blade Runner. In 2017, however, director Denis Villeneuve revealed that Scott and Ford were still arguing about this issue.
