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Skating the edge
Update:
Okay, with the Director's Cut vs Original Cut argument bypass firmly in place we skip straight to the recent Channel 4 documentary where Ridley Scott answered point blank that yes, Deckard was a Replicant.
Funny, Harrison Ford claims that Ridley told him to play the character as a human almost convinced himself that he might be more human than human as the Tyrell slogan went.
Red glowing eyes; Oh please, I get red glowing eyes in just about every picture that's taken of me.
Performance: Deckard's a Replicant? He can't out fight Pris or Zhora, he can't out-smart Leon and he can't jump as far as Batty. Pretty substandard Replicant if you ask me, and he's supposed to be this new model with bad breath, real skin, undetectable from the real thing? What is he, the Drunken Loser model?
Deckard is the Sixth Replicant: Nope, in Ridley Scott's own words Stacey Nelkin was cast as "Mary", a Replicant who dies in the presence of the other five, prompting them to break into Tyrell. The scene wasn't shot for budgetary reasons. You could argue that as the scene wasn't shot it's not relevant to the story, but since its in the shooting script and the rest of the script is relevant the sixth Replicant remains Mary, even if we don't see her at any point.
But Ridley specifically says that Deckard is a Replicant: Come on, after twenty years of being asked by people who can't make up their own minds? What would you expect him to eventually say? If Deckard doesn't talk like a duck, act like a duck or leap tall buildings like a duck why should I believe that he is a duck? In an interview fourteen years on from the filming he was still telling Paul Sammon that Deckard was a "soulless man" mirroring the artificiality of the Replicants.
So, not a Replicant. Unless you can argue otherwise?
Mar. 7.2002