Top Fifteen Movie Songs 15/15 (in no particular order that I will admit to):
15) "More Human Than Human"
15) "More Human Than Human"
I am cheating on this one.
See, Blade Runner - in the film the Tyrell corp produces the Nexus replicants (androids). Their motto is "More human than human." Their product has an expiration date. In the film, the current product generation is "Nexus 6"
And White Zombie - the song has the line, "I am the Nexus One, I want more life [censored] I ain't done." And so on. So, the two are inseparable in my mind.
Okay, now, for the rest, well, I can imagine a replicant thinking of himself like the zombie described in the song.
The replicants were made to do the things that humans did not want to do, or were too dangerous to do. Mostly described in the film, they were pleasure androids and wariers. They were also used as assassins and other things like that and they had become so human-like, that they were made illegal to have on earth.
So, Tyrell corp experimented with giving them a "past" - a collection of fictitious human histories by which they can develop an empathy for the human perspective. This, as the replicants began to approach their own expiration date, caused much introspection as they also developed a stronger, living-organism-like, sense of self preservation. This is also described in the lyrics:
"Yeah, I am the jigsaw man
I turn the world around with a skeleton hand - say
I am electric head,
A cannibal core,
A television said - yeah
.
.
.
Into a psychic war,
I tear my soul apart and I eat it some more"
"jigsaw man" - their parts are synthetic, vat grown, and then assembled.
"I turn the world around with a skeleton hand" - describes that thier super-human qualities put them outside the natural world, able to control it; but (skeleton hand) still not human, not "living", and not in control of their own, ultimate destiny.
"electric head" - android
"cannibal core" - self expiring - time limit.
"television said" - not quite sure, but I have my thought on this... maybe referring to their "invented past"
Then
"Into a psychic war" - refers to the point at which they suffer an internal struggle driven by psychological motivators.
"I tear my soul apart and I eat it some more" - the introspection they go through during the "psychic war"
So, the film was awesome. It is iconic of the "dystopian future." It helped define a genre. There is a lot missing from the book, but the film stands well enough on its own. I have seen it with and without the narration, but I saw it with, first, so memory kept filling it in, so I do not know that I can form a proper opinion of the director's cut.
Take Care-
LQ
See, Blade Runner - in the film the Tyrell corp produces the Nexus replicants (androids). Their motto is "More human than human." Their product has an expiration date. In the film, the current product generation is "Nexus 6"
And White Zombie - the song has the line, "I am the Nexus One, I want more life [censored] I ain't done." And so on. So, the two are inseparable in my mind.
Okay, now, for the rest, well, I can imagine a replicant thinking of himself like the zombie described in the song.
The replicants were made to do the things that humans did not want to do, or were too dangerous to do. Mostly described in the film, they were pleasure androids and wariers. They were also used as assassins and other things like that and they had become so human-like, that they were made illegal to have on earth.
So, Tyrell corp experimented with giving them a "past" - a collection of fictitious human histories by which they can develop an empathy for the human perspective. This, as the replicants began to approach their own expiration date, caused much introspection as they also developed a stronger, living-organism-like, sense of self preservation. This is also described in the lyrics:
"Yeah, I am the jigsaw man
I turn the world around with a skeleton hand - say
I am electric head,
A cannibal core,
A television said - yeah
.
.
.
Into a psychic war,
I tear my soul apart and I eat it some more"
"jigsaw man" - their parts are synthetic, vat grown, and then assembled.
"I turn the world around with a skeleton hand" - describes that thier super-human qualities put them outside the natural world, able to control it; but (skeleton hand) still not human, not "living", and not in control of their own, ultimate destiny.
"electric head" - android
"cannibal core" - self expiring - time limit.
"television said" - not quite sure, but I have my thought on this... maybe referring to their "invented past"
Then
"Into a psychic war" - refers to the point at which they suffer an internal struggle driven by psychological motivators.
"I tear my soul apart and I eat it some more" - the introspection they go through during the "psychic war"
So, the film was awesome. It is iconic of the "dystopian future." It helped define a genre. There is a lot missing from the book, but the film stands well enough on its own. I have seen it with and without the narration, but I saw it with, first, so memory kept filling it in, so I do not know that I can form a proper opinion of the director's cut.
Take Care-
LQ
(p.s. Spell check does not know dystopian, but it know utopian? How wrong is that?)
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