Replicant
A replicant (in the original Replicant ) is a fictional, biotechnologically developed Android in the film Blade Runner from 1982 and in its sequel Blade Runner 2049 from 2017.
The replicants of the Nexus series are almost identical to adult humans, but depending on the model, they have superior strength, speed, agility, resilience and intelligence.
A replicant can only be identified using the fictitious Voigt-Kampff test , in which emotional reactions are triggered and the non-verbal reactions of a replicant are different from those of a human.
literature
- Nigel Wheale: Recognizing a 'human-Thing': cyborgs, robots and replicants in Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" and Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner" . In: Critical Survey . tape 3 , no. 3 , 1991, pp. 297-304 , JSTOR : 41556521 .
- Alison Landsberg: Prosthetic Memory: Total Recall and Blade Runner . In: Body & Society . tape 1 , no. 3-4 , November 1, 1995, ISSN 1357-034X , pp. 175-189 , doi : 10.1177 / 1357034X95001003010 .
- Joe Abbott: The “Monster” Reconsidered: Blade Runner's Replicant as Romantic Hero . In: extrapolation . tape 34 , no. 4 , 1993, ISSN 0014-5483 , pp. 340-350 , doi : 10.3828 / extr.1993.34.4.340 .
Web links
- Description of the Voight-Kampff machine
- Voight-Kampff test of the US magazine "Wave" with the mayoral candidates of San Francisco ( Memento from January 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- Replicant in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Blade Runner Black Out 2022 , American-Japanese anime short film