![]() ![]() Instead, all the audience finds out is that test audiences can't be trusted. Crucially, the viewer learns nothing about whether Deckard is a replicant or anything else. In this much-maligned version, Deckard and the lone surviving replicant ride off into the sunset over footage recycled from The Shining. For evidence of this phenomenon just look at how many modern movies end on an ambiguous note, then compare this to Blade Runner's original audience-approved ending. In the decades since the movie was released, it's fair to say that audiences at large appear to have become more open to open-ended endings. It's been so long since Scott's film first arrived in theatres in its truncated form that Blade Runner is no longer set in the future. ![]() But another element of the Blade Runner Final Cut – the addition of the full unicorn dream sequence combined with this and the removal of the terrible original theatrical ending that help to more thrillingly make sense of the film's plot. This Christian symbolism is much stronger with this restored violence in the movie. This sequence also contrasts Batty's tragic villain status with Deckard's alignment with Judas, which is a possibility for the film to remind viewers that the hero of the movie could be a replicant himself, killing his fellow replicants. This Final Cut version of the film incorporates more grisly shots of Batty giving himself bloody stigmata, steeped in religious symbolism that emphasizes his god complex. The scene in which Tyrell is killed at the hands of Roy once again includes his eyes being gouged out, which the director's cut left out. ![]() This included a re-shot death scene for Zhora that gives her demise more dignity and replaces the stunt performer's face with that of Lee Pulford, but also some more infamous gore. But the studio was concerned by the violent content in Blade Runner's theatrical cut. Thus they opted to cut out a lot of cutting and slicing. After all, his most recent release at the time of this film's production was an iconic 1979 sci-fi horror Alien, leading the director to include a fun Alien easter egg in Blade Runner. Now director Ridley Scott was no stranger to the grim specter of some gory sci-fi violence. ![]()
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