Although the film is loosely based on Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, director Ridley Scott didn't even bother to read the book before making the movie: "I actually couldn't get into it. I met Philip K. Dick later, and he said, 'I understand you couldn't read the book.' And I said, 'You know you're so dense, mate, by page 32, there's about 17 storylines."
The Nexus-series of replicants are virtually identical to adult humans but have superior strength, speed, agility, resilience, and intelligence, to varying degrees depending on the model.
The Tyrell Corporation fills a much-needed (and highly lucrative) niche in the hazardous business of off-world colonization by producing "replicants" for slave labor.
When a fugitive group of advanced replicants escapes back to Earth, burnt-out cop Rick Deckard reluctantly agrees to hunt them down.
Pris is a "basic pleasure model" incepted on Valentine's Day, 2016, making her the second-oldest of the four fugitive replicants at three years, nine months.
The Voight-Kampff test measures bodily functions such as respiration, heart rate, blushing and eye movement in response to emotionally provocative questions.
When Deckard goes to test the Voight-Kampff on a Nexus-6, CEO Eldon Tyrell expresses an interest in seeing the test fail first and asks him to administer it on his assistant Rachael. After a much longer than standard test, Deckard concludes that Rachael is a replicant who believes she is human. Tyrell confirms that she has been given false memories to provide an "emotional cushion".
Hannibal Chew's job is to create the eyes for the replicants. In the film, Roy and Leon visit him while he is working in a freezer, rip open his jacket and interrogate him as he slowly freezes to death.
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