Despite the fact that Deck of cards introduced as the main character of the first part Sword runner-up movie, he was never actually the hero of that story, and a scene in the subsequent series proves that.
1982’s Blade Runner follows Rick Deckard, an LAPD Blade Runner who is hired on a top-secret mission to find and ‘retire’ a small group of Replicants. By doing so, he would save the life of the most powerful man in the world at that time, Tyrell. Tyrell is the head of the Tyrell Corporation and the man responsible for creating the Replicants. Replicants are artificial humans created to work freely on off-world colonies. They are given sentient abilities to work more effectively, but they also only have a lifespan of three years. This angered a small group of them, and Blade Runner’s main rogue Replicant went after Tyrell to force him to extend their lives – and if he didn’t, they’d kill him. . However, brave Blade Runner Deckard was on the case, and by the end of the film, he had acquired all the Clones he was after despite the fact that he was unable to save Tyrell in time. . The film’s perspective initially makes it seem like Deckard is a good guy facing off against a group of ‘killer robots’. However, that couldn’t be further from the truth, and Blade Runner: Black Lotus highlights it brilliantly.
Blade Runner: Black Lotus exposes the true cruelty of Blade Runners
In Blade Runner: Black Lotus episode 5 (written by Eugene Son, directed by Kenji Kamiyama and Shinji Aramaki), a lone Replicant boards a bus leaving LA in the dead of night, fear-induced paranoia coursing through his body. his artificial body. As soon as the bus left the stop, a man walked in front of the bus and got on the bus himself. After a moment, the man made a comment suggesting that his companion was a Replicant and he himself was a Blade Runner. The Blade Runner, named Brook Marlowe, easily defeated this Replicant, throwing him out of the back of the still moving bus. Marlowe then slowly approached the injured Replicant, while his victim lay helpless on the road. Without an ounce of remorse, Marlowe shot Replicant in the head, killing him instantly.
This scene may have some suspense, but it’s mostly just sad. The Replicant escaped from an underground Replicant fighting ring that was just destroyed a few episodes earlier. All he wanted to do was leave the city that forced him to kill his own kind for fun and live the rest of his life in peace. But, that didn’t happen, all thanks to the “hero” Blade Runner. If Marlowe seems like the obvious bad guy in this situation, it’s because he was – and so was Deckard in the original. The hunting Deckard Replicants want the same thing this Replicant wants in the Black Lotus: to live. That’s all, these Replicants don’t want to die. For fully sentient and nearly human life forms, the desire to simply survive is not too much to ask and certainly should not be met with an instant and brutal death.
The movie Blade Runner has ‘leading man’ Harrison Ford playing the role of roughneck cop, Deckard, in a futuristic society where ‘robots’ are on the loose, and he needs to shoot first and never ask questions . That’s how many fans have seen the film, another 80s sci-fi/action flick in which the handsome hero wins and the evil ‘robots’ lose. However, Blade Runner was never that simple, and all Black Lotus does is simply clarify that fact. However, one thing is understandable Deck of cards never been a hero of Sword runner-upbecause it is objectively wrong to kill things just because they exist.
