Ridley Scott allowed Olmos to create a background story for Gaff, deciding that the character was primarily of Mexican-Japanese heritage, with his American lineage going back at least five generations. Olmos also created the cityspeak on his own, using a variety of his own extensive language experience.
In a draft of the film, dated February 23, , it is Bryant rather than Gaff who appears on the rooftop after Roy Batty dies. Another draft included Gaff chasing Deckard and Rachael as they fled the city. Gaff" seemingly confirming that the name Gaff is his surname. During the events of both films, Gaff leaves several origami figures representing different animals.
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Edit source History Talk 6. Do you like this video? I never bought into the Deckard-is-a-replicant idea, but instead always thought it was that both men saw Rachel as beautiful, impossible, unique and magical, which is well represented well by the symbol of a Unicorn.
I have an input about the unicorn dream. The unicorn is an christological symbol. In the book physiologus popular book in the middle ages about magical creatures and so on the unicorn is described as hard to capture. Only a virgin could do this. This unicorn myth has been used as a symbol incarnation of Christ, who has been born by the virgin Mary. Furthermore it was believed that the unicorn had magical powers. The Unicorn could bring dead back to life, and the person who drinks his blood becomes immortal.
So my two cents about the Unicorn in the Movie: Mybe Deckard and Rachael don't have a short lifespan as the other replicants do. Perhaps it could also mean, that Decker and Rachael get the opportunity to run away and start a family. They could get a child together and be the founders of a Replicant Civilization reference to Mary who gave birth to jesus.
One could say, 'I Dream therefore I am', or one could simply think that since real humans need to dream to stay sane Griffin, Dreaming Reality , Deckard's dream is simply a necessary by-product of his replicated mind. Deckard dreams of unicorns yet this is an implanted memory. You might wonder why Tyrrel Corp would take the trouble to implant dreams at all.
They will need at least six a night and this is going to add up to thousands altogether. So, why is THIS dream the one that stands out? It also symbolizes power, gentleness, and purity" - Dream Moods. Is this, I wonder, what Deckard's subconscious is fascinated with?
I recently watched the Director's Cut and after reading other posts regarding Deckard being a replicant, I personally don't think he was even though many signs point to him being one. I think this mainly because everytime he physically came up against a replicant which was at least 3 times in the movie he was always inferior to them and lost unless he used his gun.
I could be wrong, that's just my opinion. I like the basic idea that Gaff left the origami to let Deckard know that he saw Rachel and let her live. The reason he made it into a unicorn was to let Deckard know that he should follow his dream, which was to be with Rachel. Then again how did Gaff know about the dream. It's just my two cents. I think the unicorn can only mean that Gaff knew what was in Decker's dream, therefore meaning that he was a replicant.
The fact that it has the voice-over of Gaff saying 'she won't live, but then who does' accompanying it reinforces that. In addition you had Rachael asking Decker earlier in the movie if he had ever done the eye test on himself, and enquiring about his memories which would suggest she suspected also. Bryant didn't know about Rachael, and I don't think he knew about Decker either.
I don't believe there was anything telling in that respect in his 'little people' remark, merely that he would make life hard for him if he didn't help out. I think there was a lot more to Gaff than met the eye, and knew more of what was going on than anyone. He knew both Decker and Rachael were replicants from the start, and had deduced that they were in love. He knew where Rachael was but let her live, to be with Decker. The unicorn was both telling Decker he was a replicant and signalling that he had his blessing to escape with Rachael.
The only thing which doesn't make sense is if Decker was a replicant, why didn't he have their physical attributes? He couldn't make the jump from one building to another and spent half the time getting his arse kicked. Also, if the Nexus are meant to be so pefect, why was Leon so damned ugly?? I think that Ridley Scott added the part of Decker being a replicant so that the movie would have different meanings to everyone and cause great discussion about it.
But to me, the unicorn left behind means one thing - that others have already said. Gaff knows she's a replicant and knows that Decker is in love with her, and decides to spare her. When Gaff says "It's to bad she won't live, but then again who does" means she only has four years of life and that Decker is becoming too infatuated with her. But then again, she dies, and no matter who he ends up with will eventually die too. That's just me though. I also kind of hate the idea that he is a replicant.
The movie to me is about man's ability to survive even against powerful things like replicants. I think director's cuts do this too much. It goes back to Star Wars. What's the significance of Gaff's origami? Ask Question. Asked 4 years, 1 month ago. Active 2 years, 1 month ago. Viewed 11k times. Improve this question. Napoleon Wilson. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Rapid Readers Rapid Readers 3, 8 8 gold badges 25 25 silver badges 52 52 bronze badges.
That makes a lot more sense than what I had thought Scott: Sure. To me it's entirely logical, particularly when you are doing a film noire, you may as well go right through with that theme, and the central character could in fact be what he is chasing McKenzie: Did you actually shoot the sequence in the glade with the unicorn? Scott: Absolutely. It was cut into the picture, and I think it worked wonderfully.
Deckard was sitting, playing the piano rather badly because he was drunk, and there's a moment where he gets absorbed and goes off a little at a tangent and we went into the shot of the unicorn plunging out of the forest.
It's not subliminal, but it's a brief shot. Cut back to Deckard and there's absolutely no reaction to that, and he just carries on with the scene. That's where the whole idea of the character of Gaff with his origami figures -- the chicken and the little stick-figure man, so the origami figure of the unicorn tells you that Gaff has been there. One of the layers of the film has been talking about private thoughts and memories, so how would Gaff have known that a private thought of Deckard was of a unicorn?
That's why Deckard shook his head like that [referring to Deckard nodding his head after picking up the paper unicorn].
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