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Blade Runner Film Summary

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by Ridley Scott
About 37 pages (11,008 words)
Blade Runner Summary

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Rick Deckard, a retired cop of the Los Angeles Police Force, is summoned back to work to help find and destroy escaped Replicants who pose a threat to the rest of humanity. Replicants were originally created by the Tyrell Corporation in the same design as humans to act as slaves on Earth and in the off-world colonies. Some of these Replicants are originally used to explore new off world colonies, but a bloody battle ended one such exploration and caused them to be left to exist on a colony by themselves. They have a tendency for violence and super-human qualities: superior strength, agility and equal intelligence to that of humans. Their life span was only four years and it was believed they would die out, ending any threat to mankind.

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