Returning from Dorset yesterday, as passed a sign that said "Nexus 6" advertising something, which got us talking about Blade Runner, where Rutger Hauer played a Nexus 6 combat replicant in the first film of the series.
We both wondered who on earth thought of giving the coolest character in a sci-fi film the name Roy Batty? It's a name that's more suited to a character in Last of the Summer Wine, or Coronation Street, for God's sake.
A character called Roy Batty wouldn't give the famous monologue; "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die." He'd be more likely to say; "Ay up love - what's for tea? Get tha' skates on later and us'll go t' pub."
Philip K Dick must have had a recent holiday in the north of England before writing his novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, on which the film was based.
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