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Blade Runner 2049

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Blade Runner 2049	comment	Blade Runner 2049 is a 2017 neo-noir Science Fiction film, and the sequel to 1982's Blade Runner. The film was directed by Denis Villeneuve, written by Hampton Fancher and Micheal Green and co-produced by Ridley Scott (who also contributed to the script). The cast includes Ryan Gosling, Jared Leto, Ana de Armas, Harrison Ford (reprising his role from the first film), Sylvia Hoeks, Robin Wright, Carla Juri, Dave Bautista, David Dastmalchian, Wood Harris, Barkhad Abdi, Mackenzie Davis and Lennie James. Hans Zimmer and Benjamin Wallfisch composed the soundtrack.Its plot follows an LAPD Blade Runner known as Officer K (Gosling), who is tasked to eliminate pre-Nexus-9 Replicants. One day on a mission, K makes a discovery that leads him to a former Blade Runner, Rick Deckard (Ford), who has been missing for 30 years. While doing so, he unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. The ruthless Replicant manufacturer Niander Wallace (Leto), who bought out Tyrell Corporation and resumed its activities, is also deeply interested in this secret.The project spent 15 years in Development Hell before being released on October 6th, 2017.Three short films were made to fill in the gap between this movie and the first and expand The 'Verse a little. Their page can be found here.Character tropes go on to the Characters Sheet.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_108c268e	type	Hotter and Sexier
Blade Runner 2049 / int_108c268e	comment	Hotter and Sexier: While the original was by no means a chaste film, actual nudity was confined to a brief shot or two of Zhora's breasts while she was changing. This film has multiple scenes of naked Replicants - albeit in a distinctly unerotic context - and plentiful female nudity, including two scenes of skyscraper-sized note The first example being the gigantic erotic statues in Las Vegas outside Deckard's hideout, and the second being the gigantic hot-pink hologram of Joi that appears to K naked women.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_116eeb4a	type	Non-Residential Residence
Blade Runner 2049 / int_116eeb4a	comment	Non-Residential Residence: An older Deckard has the entirety of Las Vegas at his disposal after it was abandoned following a dirty bombing. In practical terms, it means he lives in the upper floors of a hotel, and uses a barroom as his living space.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_11e0d645	type	Arc Symbol
Blade Runner 2049 / int_11e0d645	comment	Arc Symbol: Water and snow. A pot of boiling water is prominently focused on during the fateful meeting between K and Sapper Morton in the opening. The climate of the Earth has deteriorated so badly by the time of the film's setting that it's snowing in Los Angeles in the summer time. When K and Joi leave LA to search for the missing child, the camera cuts to a massive flood of water pouring down from the LA Sea Wall, probably symbolizing the release of knowledge and truth upon the world. The ocean is apparently toxic and clean water is incredibly rare, as K's shower proudly announces that it's "99.9% detoxified water" and sprays him for barely five seconds. Niander Wallace, naturally, has his office in a room that's flooded with crystal-clear water. Luv tells Joshi "you can't hold back the tide with a broom". Three times, the film shows an artificial being quietly contemplating the precipitation: Joi, after K buys her an expensive present that allows her to "feel" the raindrops on her skin, K, watching the snowflakes land on his hand at the memory center when he thinks that he's the Replicant child, and finally, at the end, when K again watches the snow falling on him as he lies dying on the memory center steps. Similarly, the first time we see Sapper Morton, he's examining a pool of some kind of liquid. When Luv stabs Joshi to death, the camera cuts to the snow falling on the window outside. The Replicant resistance movement hides out in a building partially flooded with ankle-deep water. K's encounter with the giant, pink, naked Joi and his subsequent decision to take action and realize himself is set in the biggest rain in the entire film. K rescues Deckard from Wallace's convoy while it's pouring rain outside, and Deckard's spinner lands half-submerged in the ocean. The battle between Luv and K takes place as the two of them are fighting the pounding ocean waves over the crashed vehicle, while Deckard is drowning in the flooding spinner. K wins by drowning Luv in the ocean waves, and while K and Deckard swim to safety and emerge from the water, Luv does not. Poignantly, Ana Stelline is shown generating herself an artificial snowstorm inside her cell as K lies dying in the snow for real outside, and Deckard watches his daughter, knowing that she'll never have to be stuck making her own snow ever again. The orphanage K visits is set in an abandoned, partially stripped ship. Ironically, the lack of moisture is important for one setting. Deckard is hiding from the rest of the world in Vegas, which is abandoned and covered in sand. He's also shown drinking alcohol, says he probably has the largest whiskey collection in the world, and presumably eats honey from his bees instead of proper water-based drinks.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Blade Runner 2049 / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Sapper, Coco the coroner, Rachael, Joshi, Joi, Luv, and finally K don't survive the movie.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_13a6b7ef	type	Gaia's Lament
Blade Runner 2049 / int_13a6b7ef	comment	Gaia's Lament: The toxic pollution and environmental fallout has gotten drastically worse in 30 years. According to Denis Villeneuve, "The climate has gone berserk — the ocean, the rain, the snow is all toxic." To go into further detail: Los Angeles has gigantic walls all along the coastline designed to hold off tidal waves. The city only seems to have three types of weather: constant rain, constant smog, and constant ash-snow. Las Vegas is a ghost country coated in a constant orange haze, but the background radiation has since returned to non-lethal levels. San Diego is now used exclusively as Los Angeles' dumping grounds. It's only a matter of when you'll get Tetanus from all the rust, not if. Trees are so rare that a toy horse the size of your hand-carved out of real wood is considered a sign of wealth. The snow is a twofer: Not only is it snowing in Southern California, the film is explicitly set in the summer. There's also a hint that the water is so polluted, there's some difficulty in completely decontaminating it, as K's shower announces it uses "99.9% Detoxified Water" every time it's turned on. K's shower lasts exactly one second, implying that even this "99.9% Detoxified Water" is also extremely scarce and expensive to use. There are literally no real, living plants seen anywhere. Farms are giant fields of plastic white greenhouses instead of natural green fields, and they farm artificial protein instead of natural food.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
Blade Runner 2049 / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: While it happens too quickly to properly notice in the main trailer, one of the featurettes clearly showed that it is K who charges through the marble wall in pursuit of Deckard, thereby spoiling the reveal that he is a Replicant. Downplayed in that this particular reveal happens in the first few minutes of the movie, but the rest of the marketing campaign did a reasonably good job to hide it, which is why it sticks out. Deckard's first meeting with K was plastered all over the trailers and marketing materials, spoiling the suspense and the mystery of whether or not K will actually find him.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Blade Runner 2049 / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Whilst the original was already bleak, this movie is even more so. The environment is worse, the tensions between human and replicants have increased and there is a more tragic nature to K's character.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Blade Runner 2049 / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: A huge factory-like building, full of children in essentially slavery and forced to work? It's only a wonder they're not making sneakers.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_14fe0d94	type	Older Hero vs. Younger Villain
Blade Runner 2049 / int_14fe0d94	comment	Older Hero vs. Younger Villain: 75-year old Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard vs. 46-year old Jared Leto as Niander Wallace. Averted with K, as both Ryan Gosling and K are younger than Leto/Wallace, and in any case K and Wallace never meet.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
Blade Runner 2049 / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: The tie-ins help to establish key events that take place between the original film and 2049: Black Out 2022 is an anime Interquel that explains how and why things are the way they turned out in the sequel — a pair of Replicants and a human sympathizer seek to "even the odds" against Replicants by detonating a nuclear bomb above the West Coast, which causes an EMP surge that knocks out the city's power and eventually causes Replicants to be placed under prohibition. Nexus Dawn: Taking place 14 years after Black Out, Niander Wallace meets with a government committee in an attempt to have the prohibition on Replicants lifted, via demonstrating a new type, the perfectly subservient Nexus-9 model. Nowhere to Run: Set shortly before 2049, the short follows Sapper Morton as he goes about his daily routine, but is forced on the run after protecting a mother and daughter from thugs. The Road to 2049 website fills in some key details that aren't addressed by the shorts — namely, that the population almost starved to death until Niander Wallace developed genetically-modified food products, which the populace relies on by the time 2049 begins.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_1865f13a	type	Apocalypse Anarchy
Blade Runner 2049 / int_1865f13a	comment	Apocalypse Anarchy: There doesn't seem to be much in the way of law and order outside of the major cities, judging by how K's officially marked police vehicle is almost immediately assaulted with harpoons and gunfire when he flies to San Diego.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Blade Runner 2049 / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Gaff (Edward James Olmos) has a cameo in one scene. Sean Young reprises her role as Rachael via archive footage and, in one scene, via motion-capture and a body double.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_1c398324	type	Death from Above
Blade Runner 2049 / int_1c398324	comment	Death from Above: A missile strike from unseen aerial drones assists K at one point in his investigation.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
Blade Runner 2049 / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: An extremely dark example: Love kills Joy.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_1ed91e2a	type	Revealing Hug
Blade Runner 2049 / int_1ed91e2a	comment	Revealing Hug: When Mariette/Joi and K kiss, Joi and K keep their eyes closed, while Mariette (who is spying on K) opens her eyes and peers curiously at K.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_1f6854a4	type	Tragic Intangibility
Blade Runner 2049 / int_1f6854a4	comment	Tragic Intangibility: The main character is extremely lonely and only has his girlfriend to comfort him. The problem is, she's a hologram he bought to overcome his loneliness, so whenever he tries to kiss her, he's just reminded that she isn't real. Later in the movie, he tries to overcome this by hiring a prostitute to kiss him at the same time the hologram does, so he can at least pretend to be touching his holographic love.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_20598ec4	type	Cyberpunk with a Chance of Rain
Blade Runner 2049 / int_20598ec4	comment	Cyberpunk with a Chance of Rain: Appropriately for the sequel to one of the Trope Codifiers, there is plenty of this throughout. The Climax in particular takes place during a huge rainstorm. What's more, climate change has increased so much that there's now heavy snowfall in Los Angeles.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
Blade Runner 2049 / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: No, K. You were not Hired to Hunt Yourself, you were just one of many Replicants who each believed that they were the Chosen One. Played with in Joi. She isn't an AI that Grew Beyond Their Programming to fall in genuine love with K - that was part of the programming all along. Or maybe not. It's left ambiguous. But probably.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Blade Runner 2049 / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Life on Earth has gotten even worse in the 30 years since the first film. The oceans have risen and become completely toxic to the point that a giant sea wall had to be built to prevent the toxic waters from flooding Los Angeles, while the climate has continued deteriorating to the point that it is snowing in southern California in July. In addition, vast sections of the city are left completely unlit, either due to the blackout or sheer degradation. Las Vegas was abandoned following a dirty bomb detonation during the chaos caused by the Black Out while San Diego has been reduced to a giant trash dump. There is no fresh food available with the populace surviving off artificial food produced by the Wallace Corporation, while the elite of society have abandoned Earth for the off-world colonies. The rich had gotten even richer in the 30 years to the point where the Wallace Earth HQ towers over the Tyrell building, and racial tensions between humans and Replicants are boiling to critical mass.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_222969af	type	All There in the Script
Blade Runner 2049 / int_222969af	comment	All There in the Script: Although nothing hints at it in the movie, the script's version of the final scene has Joe seeing a "ghost" of Joi as he lies dying on the memory facility steps, who asks him "Would you read to me?" like she did in their very first scene together.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_225d8ff9	type	Ambiguously Human
Blade Runner 2049 / int_225d8ff9	comment	Another phrase of the baseline is "When you're not performing your duties, do they keep you in a little box?" which fairly accurately describes the duty and confinement of Ana Stelline, who like K, is also at least partially, if not entirely Replicant (depending on what Deckard really is.)
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Blade Runner 2049 / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: "I hope you are satisfied with our product." Doubles as a Pre-Mortem One Liner. Luv herself is on the receiving end of this, albeit in a subtler way. She tells Joshi that she can't "hold back the ocean with a broom", and at the end of the movie she's drowned in the ocean by K. To the first movie. Roy Batty attacked Deckard after he killed the female replicant Pris, but then saved Deckard's life before expiring in the pouring rain. K kills the female replicant Luv to save Deckard's life, and later expires under a gentle snowfall. Both death scenes have the "Tears in Rain" score as accompaniment.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_2482df9c	type	Companion Cube
Blade Runner 2049 / int_2482df9c	comment	Companion Cube: K has an emotionally confusing romance with his in-house AI, Joi. He treats her like a girlfriend while still understanding that she's programmed to love him. When she tells him that he makes her happy, he gets annoyed and says that she doesn't have to say things like that. It's ultimately unclear how legitimate her love for him is.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_2504772e	type	Walking Spoiler
Blade Runner 2049 / int_2504772e	comment	Walking Spoiler: K's status as a Replicant wasn't revealed in any of the marketing, but is explicitly said early on in the film. K (also known as "KD6-3.7", his full name) is a current-gen Replicant who hunts older models that don't have a finite lifespan. An even bigger case is Rachael, who was hidden from all promotion and is instrumental to the plot, starting from the fact she died between movies.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Blade Runner 2049 / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: Rachael's death after the original movie and replicants procreating had previously been used in the K.W. Jeter follow-up novels The Edge of Human and Replicant Night, respectively. K being a Replicant hunting down other Replicants is also from the books. The idea of using Androids as bounty hunters to go after other Androids was also discussed in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. Rick suspects they'd be very good at it, since they lack empathy, while expressing disgust that his temporary partner, Phil Resch, was not an Android as he suspected, but instead simply a cruel man who enjoys killing Androids. The opening to the movie is reused from the scrapped original opening for the first film. On their first encounter Deckard recites to K lines from Treasure Island, a book that Dave Holden was reading when Deckard was visiting him at a hospital in a deleted scene of the original film. Ridley Scott always said that a sequel to Blade Runner 2 would open on a dead tree, strung up with tons of electronics. This film does that, but with fewer electronics.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_26ce6ea7	type	Title by Year
Blade Runner 2049 / int_26ce6ea7	comment	Title by Year: 2049 is the setting of this film; its predecessor took place in 2019.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_26d48b37	type	Earth That Used to Be Better
Blade Runner 2049 / int_26d48b37	comment	Earth That Used to Be Better: Pollution and climate conditions weren't all that great in the first film. They've both been dialed up to eleven by this time frame. For example, climate change has risen sea levels so far inland that Los Angeles' coast is where Mulholland Drive currently exists in Real Life, and that's with the construction of an artificial sea wall.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_285f34c7	type	World of Symbolism
Blade Runner 2049 / int_285f34c7	comment	World of Symbolism: Much like the original, this film is stacked top-to-bottom with repeated motifs, symbols, images, and literary allusions.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_29ad1d69	type	Facial Dialogue
Blade Runner 2049 / int_29ad1d69	comment	Facial Dialogue: K doesn't verbally react when the giant hologram of Joi addresses him with the pet name that his now-deceased copy of her used, but the look on his face says pages about his decision to go rescue Deckard.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_29c5faf	type	Background Halo
Blade Runner 2049 / int_29c5faf	comment	Background Halo: Considering how Wallace considers Luv his "first angel", it's quite symbolically rich that the last thing she sees as she dies is K with the lights behind his head not dissimilar to a halo.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_2a44899	type	Plot Armor
Blade Runner 2049 / int_2a44899	comment	When K gets shot down and captured by rebels at the scrapyard, Luv sends an airship that kills all rebels except for K.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_2ab79021	type	Emerging from the Shadows
Blade Runner 2049 / int_2ab79021	comment	Deckard first appears to K out of the shadows while quoting Treasure Island to him at gunpoint. After hunting the younger man down through his apartment and getting in a rather brutal fistfight, Deckard somewhat sheepishly tells him they could keep fighting or go get drinks to talk things over, establishing that this is an older, wiser, but no less determined Deckard than we saw in the first movie.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_2bfabe7	type	Trespassing to Talk
Blade Runner 2049 / int_2bfabe7	comment	Trespassing to Talk: K enters Sapper Morton's dwelling and sits down in the kitchen waiting for Sapper to return.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_2cd69f80	type	Fantastic Noir
Blade Runner 2049 / int_2cd69f80	comment	Fantastic Noir: Follows many Film Noir conventions in a Cyberpunk setting.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_2da1421	type	Booby Trap
Blade Runner 2049 / int_2da1421	comment	Booby Trap: Deckard installed tripwires in his home.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_2dc3e97c	type	Ghost Town
Blade Runner 2049 / int_2dc3e97c	comment	Even the prequel shorts give basically no information whatsoever on whatever happened to Las Vegas that caused it to be evacuated. It's implied to be some sort of dirty bomb, but the exact level of toxicity is left ambiguous, given that the only life we see there are Deckard's bees and dog, K and Luv (who are both Replicants) and Deckard and Wallace's henchmen (who might be.)
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_33029735	type	Dies Wide Open
Blade Runner 2049 / int_33029735	comment	Dies Wide Open: Luv. K, too, assuming he actually dies.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_334b7f3a	type	Cryptic Background Reference
Blade Runner 2049 / int_334b7f3a	comment	Cryptic Background Reference: Carries on this proud tradition from the original. Even counting the prequel shorts, there are a number of things that are never elaborated on, like Wallace offhandedly mentioning that humans have colonized most of the solar system, the bombing that caused Las Vegas to be evacuated, or K noting that Sapper must have been involved in the fighting on Calantha and mentioning that it must have been brutal.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_341b1691	type	"Take That!" Kiss
Blade Runner 2049 / int_341b1691	comment	"Take That!" Kiss: Luv plants one on K after stabbing him. Wallace also kisses that poor Replicant woman before slicing her gut open.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Blade Runner 2049 / int_34dcfc96	comment	Wallace also kisses that poor Replicant woman before slicing her gut open.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_34dd5f3	type	La RÃ©sistance
Blade Runner 2049 / int_34dd5f3	comment	La Résistance: A Replicant rebellion is on the rise.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_35e5a546	type	Digital Head Swap
Blade Runner 2049 / int_35e5a546	comment	Digital Head Swap: Rachael is portrayed through motion capture by Loren Peta and voiced by a sound-alike actress. Sean Young was, however, on hand to coach Peta on how to replicate her original physical performance.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_369a1bf6	type	Death Faked for You
Blade Runner 2049 / int_369a1bf6	comment	Death Faked for You: Twice. Deckard falsified the records of his daughter's birth to say she'd died of Galatians Syndrome, so that anyone who discovered the existence of his and Rachael's child would go looking for a boy instead. At the end of the movie, after rescuing Deckard from Luv and her men, Deckard tells K "You should kill me." K replies, "I did."
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_37d2818	type	Title In
Blade Runner 2049 / int_37d2818	comment	Title In: New locations are announced via on-screen text.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_382a6399	type	The Hero Dies
Blade Runner 2049 / int_382a6399	comment	The Hero Dies: K ends the film laying down on snow-covered steps still heavily bleeding from earlier injuries. The film ends as the camera pans out with him lying motionless on the stairs, looking up into the sky.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_38a57680	type	Flying Car
Blade Runner 2049 / int_38a57680	comment	Bringing down a speeding Flying Car with a jury-rigged harpoon in one shot? Respect.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
Blade Runner 2049 / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: Par for the course for this franchise. Despite initially fighting back, Sapper Morton lets K/Joe kill him for the sake of his cause. Lieutenant Joshi is attacked in her office by Luv, who crushes a glass in her hand and forces it into a fist. Despite this, Joshi barely flinches, and when Luv announces her intention to kill her, she calmly tells her to do what she has to do. Joi doesn't even flinch upon realizing that Luv is about to destroy her, and spends her last moments telling K she loves him before her deactivation. Despite sustaining multiple, fatal stab wounds, K/Joe musters up enough strength to fly Deckard to Dr. Stelline's lab to reunite him with his long-lost daughter. Alone at the steps of the lab, he lies down in the snow to seemingly die, in a call-back to Roy Batty's death from the original film.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_3979d6da	type	Male Might, Female Finesse
Blade Runner 2049 / int_3979d6da	comment	Male Might, Female Finesse: K and Luv are both Nexus-9 Replicants but differ in their fighting styles. K is heavier and primarily uses grappling, punching, or crushing blows, while Luv is more skilled and fights with acrobatic kicks and flashier kung-fu style moves (as well as her knives.) This is highlighted in the final battle, where Luv beats the shit out of him and stabs him several times but he eventually wins by holding her underwater, and his superior physical strength and weight means she's unable to escape and eventually drowns.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_39b8d3d6	type	Boring, but Practical
Blade Runner 2049 / int_39b8d3d6	comment	Boring, but Practical: How K defeats Luv in the finale. For all her flashy moves and combat prowess, she's still smaller and physically weaker, so once he gets a hold of her, she's done for, as all her Waif-Fu is rendered useless, while she's drowned.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_39ba2515	type	Advert-Overloaded Future
Blade Runner 2049 / int_39ba2515	comment	Advert-Overloaded Future: Los Angeles is just as full of ads in 2049 as it was 30 years before. Only this time it's with giant holograms. The nude hologram advert for the "Joi" virtual woman stands out, along with the absolutely massive ballerina which only serves to impede everyone's traffic.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_3a6efd9d	type	Unnecessarily Large Interior
Blade Runner 2049 / int_3a6efd9d	comment	Unnecessarily Large Interior: One of the signs of Wallace's wealth is not only how his corporate headquarters dwarfs the old Tyrell Corporation HQ that sits in its shadow but how spartan and empty it is, with giant rooms staffed by a single employee (or replicant) and walls covered in ludicrously expensive real wood paneling.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_3b79029a	type	Crapsaccharine World
Blade Runner 2049 / int_3b79029a	comment	Crapsaccharine World: The off-world colonies are implied to be this. On the one hand, the standard of living is infinitely better than on Earth, all the rich and powerful have moved there in droves and the downtrodden masses see them as paradise. However, their prosperity is built upon the enslavement of Replicants and Wallace outright states that he will have more leeway to torture the information he needs out of Deckard once he gets him there.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Blade Runner 2049 / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: In the film itself, many characters refer to the "Black Out" as a cataclysmic event that wiped out most data on the remaining Tyrell replicants. However, in order to find find out what the Black Out actually was, you would have to watch Blade Runner Black Out 2022. Even the prequel shorts give basically no information whatsoever on whatever happened to Las Vegas that caused it to be evacuated. It's implied to be some sort of dirty bomb, but the exact level of toxicity is left ambiguous, given that the only life we see there are Deckard's bees and dog, K and Luv (who are both Replicants) and Deckard and Wallace's henchmen (who might be.)
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_3c5ae1a1	type	Schizo Tech
Blade Runner 2049 / int_3c5ae1a1	comment	Schizo Tech: As a function of the series' Zeerust Canon, tech is both higher and lower-tech than in the real world of 2017. Joi is essentially an Alexa with a roomscale 3D hologram projector and complex emotions. On the flip side, all the screens clearly use cathode ray tubes, and cell phones don't seem to exist.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_3eb7c6b7	type	The Easy Way or the Hard Way
Blade Runner 2049 / int_3eb7c6b7	comment	The Easy Way or the Hard Way: K practically begs Sapper Morton to come quietly, but the man forces him into Suicide by Cop. Wallace admits that they can take Deckard off-world to be tortured, but he has more than pain to offer him. Cue a Replicant in the form of Rachael Emerging from the Shadows. K wants to get answers from Deckard without hurting him and admits the older man is not making it easy for him.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Blade Runner 2049 / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Deckard is reunited with his daughter, but K probably dies of the wounds he got fighting Luv. Niander Wallace, the mastermind behind the nasty Replicant business is still at large, but there's also a brewing Replicant resistance ready for revolution.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_41a3e267	type	Hidden in Plain Sight
Blade Runner 2049 / int_41a3e267	comment	Hidden in Plain Sight: Not only is Deckard's child not in hiding, she's actually already a prisoner with no power to defend herself. K at least has the excuse of only visiting her when prompted by unusual circumstances, but Wallace's failure is cataclysmic - not only could he have waltzed in and taken the Replicant child he was so desperate to find whenever he wanted to with little resistance, he could have done so legally because she works for his company!
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_437820dc	type	Villainous Crush
Blade Runner 2049 / int_437820dc	comment	Villainous Crush: Hinted at, with Luv toward K. She compliments him and tries to question him on personal matters (right after K said that's a way to tell someone likes another person). Later she plants a "Take That!" Kiss on him. That also gives her destroying Joi's emitter a Murder the Hypotenuse vibe.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_446c5792	type	Villainous Rescue
Blade Runner 2049 / int_446c5792	comment	Villainous Rescue: Luv saves K from a band of hostile scavengers who downed his car and are about to kill him by directing drone missile strikes to wipe them out or chase them away.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_454b2f2b	type	Secretly Dying
Blade Runner 2049 / int_454b2f2b	comment	Secretly Dying: K hides his lethal stab wound from Deckard.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_46cd696	type	Eye Open
Blade Runner 2049 / int_46cd696	comment	Eye Open: The opening scene shows a close-up on K's right eye-opening.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_4783acfa	type	Bait the Dog
Blade Runner 2049 / int_4783acfa	comment	Bait the Dog: Niander Wallace acts rather kindly and paternal to his newborn Replicant before cutting her stomach open and leaving her to die just to make a point about his Replicants' inability to reproduce.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
Blade Runner 2049 / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: With both Denis Villeneuve and Roger Deakins behind the lens, it's a given. Deakins finally won his Oscar for cinematography after thirteen previous nominations.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
Blade Runner 2049 / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: In the "Nexus Dawn" short, the camera cuts to the horrified reactions of the Magistrates right as Wallace's Replicant cuts his own throat. K's execution of Sapper Morton only shows K firing two shots at him and then the sound of Sapper falling to the floor offscreen. Wallace mutilating that poor replicant woman is shot from behind her back and cuts to a shot of the blood spilling down her legs. Luv stabbing Joshi is shot from a distance and through a window, so we don't get to see most of the gory details. Played with in an interesting way: There's no actual blood during Joi's death, obviously, but it shows only K's expression as Luv smashes Joi's emitter.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_4b0ef86e	type	Advertised Extra
Blade Runner 2049 / int_4b0ef86e	comment	Advertised Extra: Harrison Ford receives second billing in most of the promotional material but only appears in the third act. Dave Bautista is rather prominent in many trailers and advertisements but he appears only briefly in the first act. Jared Leto appears prominently on the posters and trailers but only appears twice in the movie, in the first and third acts.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_4b47b936	type	Zeerust Canon
Blade Runner 2049 / int_4b47b936	comment	Zeerust Canon: This film has an interesting take on this trope. The original Blade Runner is set in 2019, which in 1982 was thirty-seven years in the future. 2049 came out in 2017, just two years away from when the original movie is set. To get around this issue, the film is explicitly and deliberately set in an alternate future, though it isn't outright stated - for example, a holographic advertisement depicting giant ballerinas can be heard saying "CCCP", because in the world of 2049, the Soviet collapse never happened. Also, many of the companies that have infamously gone bust or massively restructured since the original film's release are still extant in 2049, as shown by an enormous Atari logo that K flies over. The look of the film is still close to the clunky '80s cyberpunk aesthetic from the first.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_4cb7f0d8	type	Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome
Blade Runner 2049 / int_4cb7f0d8	comment	Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: Rachael died in childbirth after the events of the first film.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_4d1423b9	type	Become a Real Boy
Blade Runner 2049 / int_4d1423b9	comment	Become a Real Boy: Joi wants to die naturally, like a living being would. She convinces K to delete her from the hard drive in his apartment, despite his protests that the only copy of her will be left on the emitter and she'll die if it is destroyed. Joi then tells him that she's fine with that, because it just means that she's become as mortal as him or anyone else.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Blade Runner 2049 / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: When K meets a replicant woman who helped birth the replicant child, she remarks on the child being a daughter, when K and the audience had both been led to believe that K was the child. When Freysa then comforts him over the fact that he isn't the child, what she says further destroys K's hope as even his Tragic Dream isn't his own. A lesser example is the giant pink hologram Joi telling K "You look like a good Joe," the same pet name his copy gave to him, which throws the nature of her feelings for him and whether she was truly unique severely into question.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_51beab21	type	Good Old Fisticuffs
Blade Runner 2049 / int_51beab21	comment	Good Old Fisticuffs: Luv rather easily dismantles K in a kickboxing fight and knife-fight. Then K comes back and simply asphyxiates her with raw strength.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Blade Runner 2049 / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: Easy to miss if you don't read Cyrillic. The greenhouses at the farm in the opening scene are branded with the word ЦЕЛИНА, or "Tselina" (Russian for 'virgin soil'); at the end of the film, the door to the upgrade center reads "Stelline Laboratories," 'stelline' being the plural of Italian 'stellina' ('starlet'). It's not an exact transliteration, but pretty darn close. ('Tselina' also means 'entirety' in Serbian, so it arguably even calls itself out as a Book End.) The film begins with K killing a morally upright member of his own kind at the behest of humans. He ends the film by killing a morally bankrupt member of his own kind so that other Replicants might live. The fights are also a bit inverted: Sapper strangles K and stabs him while they're grappling, but K does not react. K stabs Luv while they are grappling and she does not react, and he later strangles her. The film both begins and ends with a heroic male Replicant laying down his own life to protect Deckard and Rachael's child. The movie opens with K sleeping. It ends with him lying down for his possibly-eternal sleep.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_53c5f30e	type	Happy Ending Override
Blade Runner 2049 / int_53c5f30e	comment	Happy Ending Override: At the end of the first movie, Deckard and Rachael retired to a peaceful life in the countryside.note In the original theatrical cut. In the Final Cut, the movie just ends with them leaving in an elevator. In this movie, Rachael is dead, and Deckard is living in the ruins of an old city.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_5473668f	type	Logo Joke
Blade Runner 2049 / int_5473668f	comment	Logo Joke: The Warner Bros. Pictures, Alcon Entertainment, Sony, and Columbia Pictures logo are monochrome and digitized, glitching between their usual backgrounds and a blank space with a blinding light shining behind them.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_55180ce	type	Snow Means Death
Blade Runner 2049 / int_55180ce	comment	Snow Means Death: When Luv kills Lieutenant Joshi, the view cuts to outside the window, where snow is falling on the pane. In the final scene, K lies back in the falling snow and probably succumbs to his injuries, though this is never made clear.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_5565bf30	type	Three-Way Sex
Blade Runner 2049 / int_5565bf30	comment	Three-Way Sex: K's AI girlfriend Joi syncs her hologram's movements with Mariette, a local prostitute, so she and K can have sex.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
Blade Runner 2049 / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: Even more so than the original Blade Runner. Replicants were outright banned for ten years between 2026 and 2036, with the remaining longer-lived Replicants forcibly "retired" en masse. The Wallace Corporation has brought them back with the Nexus-9 line, who are built to be even more subservient and slave-like than the Replicants in the original film. K is shoulder-checked and called a skin-job by co-workers. The people he shares a tenement with treat him with disgust and the door of his apartment has been vandalized, calling him a "skinner". Even the Replicants hate him for being a next gen Blade Runner. All of the LAPD's Replicant employees are apparently required to take a highly invasive baseline test that torments them with rapid-fire, pre-conditioned emotionally loaded trigger questions. If what Joshi says is literally true, then deviation from the baseline is instantly punishable by death. The Replicants themselves express some of this towards Joi, as Mariette tells her (paraphrased) "she's not as real as she thinks she is". Happens even amongst Replicants. K makes a distinction between "his kind" (obedient) and the defiant older models like Sapper.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_57cfcbdd	type	Meta Twist
Blade Runner 2049 / int_57cfcbdd	comment	Meta Twist: In stories featuring an adult protagonist with a mysterious past, and a plot about past events involving the birth of a chosen one and/or a long lost child, the protagonist is usually the child grown up. While K came to believe he is the lost child of Deckard and Rachael, it's eventually proved he isn't.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_58d31a8b	type	Body Motifs
Blade Runner 2049 / int_58d31a8b	comment	Body Motifs: As with the original, eyes, and, to a lesser extent, hands. Just like the original, it opens with an extreme close-up of a blue eye. The massive fields of solar panels that K's spinner flies over are ranged in circles and resemble gigantic eyes from above. Sapper Morton's eyes are highlighted by the glasses he wears, and after his death, K scoops his eye out to scan it. Niander Wallace is blind and his eyes are covered by milky cataracts. Det. Gaff tells K he knew Deckard was leaving because of "something in his eyes." Ana Stelline's job is all about digitally recreating the sights she will never be able to see with her own eyes. Fittingly, the shape of her domed room resembles a giant eyeball. Luv frequently cries a single tear while murdering people, drawing attention to her own eyes, and she scans Joshi's eyes into the computer after killing her. When Luv kills Coco, the camera focuses on his eyes filling up with blood. During the "hologram sex scene", K and Mariette's movements occasionally become de-synchronized from each other, but their brown eyes are always perfectly matched up. Freysa, the leader of the Replicant resistance, is missing her right eye. The giant pink hologram version of Joi that appears to K has her eyes tinted an unsettling solid red, in contrast to K's version whose eyes are a more natural brown. When Wallace summons a "reborn" Rachael to tempt Deckard, Deckard dismisses him by saying "Her eyes were green." When K drowns Luv, the camera focuses on her wide-open, staring eyes. As this Tumblr post points out, repeated shots of hands are prominently featured: Among the questions in the baseline test are the phrases "What's it like to hold the hand of someone you love? Did they teach you how they feel, finger to finger?" This question is especially cruel because K is in love with a holographic woman. K letting the snow fall onto his palms at the beginning of the movie, and as he lies dying outside the Memory Works at the end. K's bloody hands as he washes Sapper's removed artificial eyeball. Joi's hands as she "feels" the rain on her skin. The closeup of Luv's fingers as she gets her nails done while piloting the missile drone. Luv squeezing Joshi's palm full of broken glass shards. Joi and Mariette synchronizing their hand movements during the "hologram love scene." K watching a bee crawling on his hand in the ruins of Las Vegas. During the final battle, K pulls a Barehanded Blade Block on Luv and gets his palm sliced deeply open for his troubles. Ana Stelline simulating the snow falling on her palms. The shot that ends the movie: Deckard lovingly laying a hand on the window outside his daughter's cell.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_59657f84	type	Trapped in a Sinking Car
Blade Runner 2049 / int_59657f84	comment	Trapped in a Sinking Car: K saves Deckard from drowning in Luv's spinner.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_5a3b8032	type	The Un-Reveal
Blade Runner 2049 / int_5a3b8032	comment	The Unreveal: The film has only one direct reference to the original film's mystery of whether Deckard is human or a Replicant, and it doesn't answer this question either way. In the opening scene, the pot that Sapper has boiling on the stove gets several insert shots. At the end of the scene, K lifts open the lid and looks inside. We then cut away without finding out what's inside.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_5b64e6d4	type	Red Herring Mole
Blade Runner 2049 / int_5b64e6d4	comment	Red Herring Mole: The prostitute, Mariette, is seen following K around throughout the film in a suspicious manner and even rifling through his luggage. She's not a Femme Fatale spy working for the bad guys, she's working for the Replicant resistance movement and her tracking device saves K's life when Luv's men capture Deckard and leave K for dead.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_5c1d5030	type	Grew Beyond Their Programming
Blade Runner 2049 / int_5c1d5030	comment	Played with in Joi. She isn't an AI that Grew Beyond Their Programming to fall in genuine love with K - that was part of the programming all along. Or maybe not. It's left ambiguous. But probably.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_5c91635a	type	Bare-Handed Blade Block
Blade Runner 2049 / int_5c91635a	comment	During the final battle, K pulls a Barehanded Blade Block on Luv and gets his palm sliced deeply open for his troubles.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_5c960229	type	Futuristic Pyramid
Blade Runner 2049 / int_5c960229	comment	Futuristic Pyramid: Eldon Tyrell's gigantic pyramid-shaped (or rather ziggurat-shaped) complex in Los Angeles remains standing as part of Niander Wallace's Earth headquarters, but is now shrouded in darkness and spectacularly dwarfed by newer and even more imposing wedge-shaped mega-extensions.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_5ce2c9c6	type	Suddenly Shouting
Blade Runner 2049 / int_5ce2c9c6	comment	Suddenly Shouting: K's explosive "GOD DAMMIT!" upon learning that one of his memories is real, followed by kicking a piece of furniture. Luv gets suddenly loud when confronting Joshi in her office.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
Blade Runner 2049 / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: Much like the first film, empathy, without hope of personal benefit, being what makes us "real" and human is a central concept running through 2049. Joi equates K being a "real boy" to being wanted and loved by parents who never got to know him. Dr. Ana Stelline discusses how giving Replicants happy memories that she herself never got to have is the one kindness as a human she can give to them. Deckard, who can be seen as either a human or a replicant who became indistinguishable from a human emotionally, states that disappearing so his child wouldn't be killed and dissected, even if he never gets to see them, is the best thing he can do for them. And K, in an attempt to perform one "real" act, reunites Deckard and his daughter, two people he barely even knows, at the potential cost of his life.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_5e7163c9	type	Alternative Character Interpretation
Blade Runner 2049 / int_5e7163c9	comment	A lesser example is the giant pink hologram Joi telling K "You look like a good Joe," the same pet name his copy gave to him, which throws the nature of her feelings for him and whether she was truly unique severely into question.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_5fc68f05	type	There Was a Door
Blade Runner 2049 / int_5fc68f05	comment	While it happens too quickly to properly notice in the main trailer, one of the featurettes clearly showed that it is K who charges through the marble wall in pursuit of Deckard, thereby spoiling the reveal that he is a Replicant. Downplayed in that this particular reveal happens in the first few minutes of the movie, but the rest of the marketing campaign did a reasonably good job to hide it, which is why it sticks out.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
Blade Runner 2049 / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: The film is set in 2049, 30 years after the first, which was set in 2019.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_61c683d2	type	We Have Reserves
Blade Runner 2049 / int_61c683d2	comment	We Have Reserves: Wallace's attitude towards his replicants, to the point where he casually murders one immediately after being born just to prove a point to Luv. It's also implied that replicants are employed as expendable shock troops in off-world wars.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
Blade Runner 2049 / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: There is an incoming Replicant rebellion, Deckard and his daughter have been reunited, and Big Bad Niander Wallace is still alive by the end of the film.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Blade Runner 2049 / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: Adam Savage has a blink-and-you'll miss it cameo in Nowhere to Run in the scene where Sapper is haggling with a merchant. He's visible over Sapper's left shoulder as the guy trying to sell bags full of human blood. Officer K's serial number, identifying him as a Replicant, is visible on his car's display before The Reveal. It's obscured by crashing waves, but there is a quick frame showing both Luv and K doubling back after shooting each other. The light on Joi's emanator glows whenever he's talking to other women throughout the film, indicating that she's listening in on their conversations - and only when he's talking to other women. Jealous, much? When K is syncing her new emanator, Joi's customization settings are briefly displayed. One of them lists her nationality as Cuban, the same as Ana de Armas.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_637b6123	type	Sickening "Crunch!"
Blade Runner 2049 / int_637b6123	comment	Sickening "Crunch!": When Luv confronts Joshi in her office, she grips her hand hard enough to slowly crush the bones in her fingers.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_652bf890	type	Drone of Dread
Blade Runner 2049 / int_652bf890	comment	Drone of Dread: A recurring musical motif that is especially prevalent in the downtown LA scenes is a massive "VRUMMMM" noise, drowning out almost all other instruments for a moment before it passes. The instrument used for the sound effect is called a bullroarer.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_66ce8a39	type	Fake Memories
Blade Runner 2049 / int_66ce8a39	comment	Fake Memories: Like in the original, Replicants have false memories implanted of a life before they were activated. Between movies it was made illegal to use real memories for this purpose which is why K is shocked to find one of his memories is real, thus proving he was born, not made. However, this is later Double Subverted when K discovers that these memories actually belonged to the engineer who tested their authenticity for him.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_68186dcd	type	Double Tap
Blade Runner 2049 / int_68186dcd	comment	Double Tap: K does this every time that he fires his gun.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Blade Runner 2049 / int_6b2b3b59	comment	Officer K's serial number, identifying him as a Replicant, is visible on his car's display before The Reveal.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_6b5a92dc	type	Uncanny Valley
Blade Runner 2049 / int_6b5a92dc	comment	Uncanny Valley: Wallace in general just looks off◊, mostly because of the glowing chip on his neck a la Frankenstein's bolts and his blind, scarred eyes. At times, his bizarre, stilted delivery and slow, mechanical movements make him seem more like a robot than any of the Replicants (which is almost certainly intentional.) The CGI on Wallace's version of Rachel is one of the best replications of a photorealistic human face in film to date, but it's still not perfect. Then again, considering the purpose of that scene, it's almost certainly at least partially intentional, and arguably works to the movie's advantage. Joi's pure hologram averts this completely, but when she synchronizes with Mariette's body, the process is just imperfect enough to look at least slightly off. It's most notable on the hands because hers and Mariette's fingers rarely synchronize at all, which results in someone with twenty fingers caressing K. Face synchronization also falters slightly from time to time, leading to a strange hybrid look composed of both women's features. Given that it'd be way easier to film it with just Joi, this is probably deliberate. Joi's ad hologram is an intentional example, with her completely dark eyes.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_6b898eb8	type	Post-Apocalyptic Dog
Blade Runner 2049 / int_6b898eb8	comment	Post-Apocalyptic Dog: Deckard's only companion in the deserted ruins of Las Vegas is a dog he found living there. Neither he nor K can tell if it's artificial.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Blade Runner 2049 / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Rachael's name becomes a fascinating retroactive example. In the Bible, Rachael was the mother of Joseph and Benjamin, two of the progenitors of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. In this movie, she gave birth to a living child, the firstborn of a Replicant-Human relationship, who the Replicant resistance believes will be the progenitor of a new tribe of humanlike Replicants. Like the Biblical Rachael, she also dies in childbirth. Joi is the only person who gives K joy. Luv wants to be the most beloved of Wallace's creations. Joi names K Joe. As in Joseph K. Neander Wallace: "Neander" means "new man" in Greek; "Wallace" may be a reference to Alfred Russell Wallace, the co-discoverer of evolution.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_6fb4d332	type	Invulnerable Knuckles
Blade Runner 2049 / int_6fb4d332	comment	Invulnerable Knuckles: Averted. K's hands are noticeably bruised after his fight with Sapper.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_7064ec04	type	Cassette Futurism
Blade Runner 2049 / int_7064ec04	comment	Cassette Futurism: An interesting example thanks to Zeerust Canon. CRT monitors are still used in 2049, whilst computers and other machines look bulky, clunky, monochrome and analogued. On the other hand, advanced holographic A.I. are present. But even then, those holograms resemble a grainy, neon, used projection requiring physical buttons to operate rather than the high-tech, flashy and minimalist touch-screen graphics of other Sci-Fi franchises.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_72c07237	type	Swiss-Cheese Security
Blade Runner 2049 / int_72c07237	comment	Swiss-Cheese Security: Luv goes into the LAPD precinct with no legal access, steals crucial evidence, kills a coroner and proceeds out with no trouble. Next time she goes straight to Lieutenant Joshi's office, kills her and goes out, again with no trouble. K still has full access to his police car with surveillance drone and machine gun after being suspended and giving up his badge and gun.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_72c8b35c	type	When She Smiles
Blade Runner 2049 / int_72c8b35c	comment	When She Smiles: K doesn't smile at all until the very end of the film when he reunites Deckard with his daughter and lays down on the stairs, dying from the mortal wound Luv gave him.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_73328e84	type	Suicide by Cop
Blade Runner 2049 / int_73328e84	comment	K practically begs Sapper Morton to come quietly, but the man forces him into Suicide by Cop.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_7335ffa9	type	Grey-and-Gray Morality
Blade Runner 2049 / int_7335ffa9	comment	Unlike the original film which had Grey-and-Gray Morality with an Anti-Hero cop and an Anti-Villain Replicant, this movie is more definite on who the bad guys are and who the good guys are.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Blade Runner 2049 / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "Cells interlinked within cells", the phrase that reappears most prominently throughout K's baseline test. It's a Shout-Out to Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire, a copy of which K has in his apartment. "What's it like to hold the hand of someone you love?" "Miracle", referring to Deckard and Rachael's child. "Dying for the right cause is the most human thing we can do."
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_74e9a5b1	type	Scavenger World
Blade Runner 2049 / int_74e9a5b1	comment	Scavenger World: San Diego is now a vast garbage dump whose entire economy is based on salvaging material. Its inhabitants have no problem with shooting spinners from the sky for this either.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_7570a10c	type	Bond Villain Stupidity
Blade Runner 2049 / int_7570a10c	comment	Bond Villain Stupidity: Luv leaves K alive at Las Vegas while she had the chance to off him like all her other victims.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_77414bc2	type	Action Prologue
Blade Runner 2049 / int_77414bc2	comment	While on assignment in the Action Prologue, K goes out of his way to avoid conflict and repeatedly asks that his target come quietly. When the man refuses and attacks him, K retires him with ruthless efficiency despite being much smaller and less muscular. It's also during this sequence that we learn K's a Replicant.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_7a9f921d	type	Extinct in the Future
Blade Runner 2049 / int_7a9f921d	comment	Extinct in the Future: Like the previous film, nearly all animals besides insects and grubs have gone extinct. When Doc Badger offers to exchange the wooden horse for a "real" horse, he explains that it will Wallace's best stuff, ie a replicant horse. The protagonist runs into a single stray dog in the desolate wilderness, but its owner isn't even sure if it's artificial or not. Trees are also extremely rare, to the point that Mariette doesn't know what one is when she sees a picture of it.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_7abd339f	type	Black-and-White Morality
Blade Runner 2049 / int_7abd339f	comment	Black-and-White Morality: Unlike the original film which had Grey-and-Gray Morality with an Anti-Hero cop and an Anti-Villain Replicant, this movie is more definite on who the bad guys are and who the good guys are. Played straight with Wallace, but could be subverted with Luv. Luv could be trying to find the child to protect it from both Wallace and K. From Luv's perspective, K is a Blade Runner who murders his own kind and has been assigned to kill the child. She is also visibly shaken when Wallace kills a Replicant in cold blood, cries when killing others, and it is shown that she can lie like K.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_7b7f90d5	type	Pronoun Trouble
Blade Runner 2049 / int_7b7f90d5	comment	Pronoun Trouble: When Freysa talks about the replicant child, she refers to her as "baby" and "child" and avoids "she" and "daughter" until the right moment comes for the Wham Line. When K asks Rick Deckard about his child, K only uses the gender-neutral terms "child" or "kid", and Deckard never corrects him.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Blade Runner 2049 / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Most of the cast gets one. While on assignment in the Action Prologue, K goes out of his way to avoid conflict and repeatedly asks that his target come quietly. When the man refuses and attacks him, K retires him with ruthless efficiency despite being much smaller and less muscular. It's also during this sequence that we learn K's a Replicant. Joshi first appears on K's video call, after he's been beaten half to hell by Sapper. Joshi's first line is, "You're wounded. I'm not paying for that!" This establishes that she sees K as a tool rather than a person. In his first scene, Niander Wallace gives an ominous monologue to Luv in a hugely opulent, shadowy office and releases one of his own Nexus-9 Replicants. He speaks gently to her and almost tenderly wipes the "birthing fluid" from her naked body before stabbing her and letting her bleed out on the floor just to make a point to Luv. Joi first appears as a disembodied voice in K's apartment, preparing him a meal and changing form to accommodate his every fantasy like a simple pleasure model AI. When he activates her emanator and tells her she can go anywhere in the world, she simply chooses to stand outside in the rain with him, giggling and letting the rainfall "on" her body with an expression of rapturous joy, before telling K that she loves him. And thus the audience gets it immediately: K loves her deeply, and she appears to love him too, even though we're constantly aware that she's just a "product." Luv gets a subtle one. She chitchats to K and flirts with him in typical Sexy Secretary fashion, until a massive vault door jams on them. Luv immediately shoves it open on her own. Deckard first appears to K out of the shadows while quoting Treasure Island to him at gunpoint. After hunting the younger man down through his apartment and getting in a rather brutal fistfight, Deckard somewhat sheepishly tells him they could keep fighting or go get drinks to talk things over, establishing that this is an older, wiser, but no less determined Deckard than we saw in the first movie.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_82f5ced1	type	Conservation of Ninjutsu
Blade Runner 2049 / int_82f5ced1	comment	Conservation of Ninjutsu: Played straight. K wins handily any time he's fighting multiple opponents but has a lot more trouble when he's facing single combatants. This includes when everybody involved is using heavily armed Spinners. Of course, this is justified by the fact that the one on one fights are with other Replicants, and in his fight with Deckard, he's quite clearly holding back.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_83cef301	type	Right for the Wrong Reasons
Blade Runner 2049 / int_83cef301	comment	Right for the Wrong Reasons: After leaving Ana Stelline's facility, K tells Joshi "I found the kid." He's right that he found the kid, but it's actually Ana who's the child and not him.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_8485d41a	type	Interspecies Romance
Blade Runner 2049 / int_8485d41a	comment	Rachael's name becomes a fascinating retroactive example. In the Bible, Rachael was the mother of Joseph and Benjamin, two of the progenitors of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. In this movie, she gave birth to a living child, the firstborn of a Replicant-Human relationship, who the Replicant resistance believes will be the progenitor of a new tribe of humanlike Replicants. Like the Biblical Rachael, she also dies in childbirth.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
Blade Runner 2049 / int_85557b38	comment	Reality Is Unrealistic: Since she plays a holographic character and the franchise has a prominent focus on eyes, a number of fans came up with theories about the symbolism behind the decision to give Joi such intense yellow eyes. They weren't edited, Ana de Armas' eyes really are golden.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Blade Runner 2049 / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Even though it's heavily implied K died from his injuries, the film deliberately cuts away from after he lies down on the stairs, leaving his ultimate fate ambiguous. Niander Wallace, the film's unambiguous Big Bad, disappears from the movie right before the climax. The underground replicant resistance movement is never seen again after its introduction. Deckard's dog, who was still alive when the Resistance members found K, is nowhere to be seen after that. With Deckard free at the end, he can presumably fetch him if he wanted to.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_86e12b9a	type	City Noir
Blade Runner 2049 / int_86e12b9a	comment	City Noir: Much like the first film, there's a maze of overbearing black skyscrapers and Sinister Subways, a very limited color palette, a palpable air of decay and depression, and giant slums.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_870bbf64	type	Show, Don't Tell
Blade Runner 2049 / int_870bbf64	comment	Show, Don't Tell: The film is light on exposition and generally prefers to let the audience figure things out.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_87bb6874	type	Villain with Good Publicity
Blade Runner 2049 / int_87bb6874	comment	Villain with Good Publicity: Tie-in materials indicate that Niander Wallace saved the country from a complete collapse via starvation, due to inventing genetically-modified food products to replace the crops that were being destroyed by climate change, and then making the patents for the food available to everyone, free of charge. By the time 2049 begins, much of the populace relies on Wallace's food products, which are sold from vending machines with his name on them.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_87bc9c07	type	Fire/Water Juxtaposition
Blade Runner 2049 / int_87bc9c07	comment	Fire/Water Juxtaposition: Compare K's implanted memory of himself as a child hiding the toy wooden horse in the furnace or K burning down Sapper's house with his Redemption in the Rain fight against Luv in the climax to save Deckard's life at the cost of his own.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_87ede6fc	type	That Man Is Dead
Blade Runner 2049 / int_87ede6fc	comment	At the end of the movie, after rescuing Deckard from Luv and her men, Deckard tells K "You should kill me." K replies, "I did."
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_8947140b	type	Significant Reference Date
Blade Runner 2049 / int_8947140b	comment	Significant Reference Date: The birthday and Arc Number on the wooden horse is 06-10-21. Read it in European order, and the date becomes October 6th, the day the movie is released and the metaphorical "birth day" of K.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_8a0d290b	type	Conlang
Blade Runner 2049 / int_8a0d290b	comment	Conlang: Cityspeak - the unholy abomination of a creole language composed of Chinese, French, German, Hungarian, Japanese and Spanish that was introduced in the original movie - has a couple of brief cameos. It now also includes Korean and Finnish.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
Blade Runner 2049 / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: On the franchise page.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_91e3910c	type	Ruins of the Modern Age
Blade Runner 2049 / int_91e3910c	comment	Ruins of the Modern Age: K eventually finds Deckard hiding out in the ruins of Las Vegas. The city was abandoned after a dirty bomb attack in the 2020s.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_9203bf6	type	Arc Number
Blade Runner 2049 / int_9203bf6	comment	Arc Number: "06-10-21". It's the day that the child of Deckard and Rachael was born and the date of death for Rachael.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_93c04c8a	type	Future Food Is Artificial
Blade Runner 2049 / int_93c04c8a	comment	Future Food Is Artificial: Humanity lives off of genetically engineered artificial food made in imitation of old dishes produced by the Wallace Corporation since regular food is all but depleted at this point. One protein source is vat-grown grubs. When K makes dinner, it turns out to be an extremely unappetizing bowl of clear noodles and mysterious black balls. Joi places a holographic plate of steak, fries and veggies over it so K can fantasize about eating something tastier.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
Blade Runner 2049 / int_95b7c400	comment	In his first scene, Niander Wallace gives an ominous monologue to Luv in a hugely opulent, shadowy office and releases one of his own Nexus-9 Replicants. He speaks gently to her and almost tenderly wipes the "birthing fluid" from her naked body before stabbing her and letting her bleed out on the floor just to make a point to Luv.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_963d947b	type	It's Personal with the Dragon
Blade Runner 2049 / int_963d947b	comment	It's Personal with the Dragon: The moment Luv steps on Joi's emitter, K has a personal stake with her, particularly since by that point, K has no personal interest on rebelling against Wallace.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_967856d8	type	Hired to Hunt Yourself
Blade Runner 2049 / int_967856d8	comment	No, K. You were not Hired to Hunt Yourself, you were just one of many Replicants who each believed that they were the Chosen One.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_967edd3a	type	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene
Blade Runner 2049 / int_967edd3a	comment	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: Loads of them. Two good examples include K talking with Joshi in his apartment, and the "hologram love scene" between K, Joi, and Mariette. In fact, there's so many, it could be argued that it's the opposite of this trope, being a quiet drama, with some occasionally intense action thrown in there.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_96a2363c	type	Bathos
Blade Runner 2049 / int_96a2363c	comment	Bathos: After an almost unceasingly bleak and moody two hours, Rick Deckard returns to cinema screens dramatically Emerging from the Shadows and asks K about...cheese. We promise It Makes Sense in Context.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Blade Runner 2049 / int_970c790a	comment	Niander Wallace, the film's unambiguous Big Bad, disappears from the movie right before the climax.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
Blade Runner 2049 / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: Though it was before his time, it's safe to assume K already knew what happened during the Black Out without needing Wallace's file clerk to fill him in. Luckily, the clerk in question is a chatty, friendly sort who probably doesn't get much human contact.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_998360a	type	Take Up My Sword
Blade Runner 2049 / int_998360a	comment	Take Up My Sword: A subtle variation, but when K ambushes Wallace's convoy to rescue Deckard , he uses Deckard's old LAPD two-trigger blaster rather than his own more modern version.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_99ddfcec	type	Unwitting Instigator of Doom
Blade Runner 2049 / int_99ddfcec	comment	Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Stelline, by using her own memories as a basis for replicant memories. In doing so, she perhaps has directly caused the resistant movement to be born due to millions of replicants wanting to be 'real'.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_9c45b5a2	type	What Measure Is a Non-Human?
Blade Runner 2049 / int_9c45b5a2	comment	What Measure Is a Non-Human?: The transhumanist themes of the original are taken to even further extremes in the sequel. K's emotional arc is heavily tied to his growing belief that he is more "real" than he originally thought when he discovers that some of his memories were real and not fabricated like those of other Replicants. These hopes are dashed when he discovers that his memory of the horse toy, while genuine, was transplanted into him from the actual child of Deckard and Rachael. From that point on, he attempts to create a new purpose for himself in reuniting Deckard with his daughter. Likewise, it's not obvious how much of Joi's affection towards K is a genuine interpersonal connection and how much of it is simply her programming obliging her to love her owner, although the latter is implied more heavily by the end. The voiceover during that scene makes it more ambiguous, however.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Blade Runner 2049 / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Sapper Morton tries and fails to stab K in the film's opening, but K grabs his hand before he can do so. In the film's climax, the same thing happens with Luv and K, but she pulls a second knife on him in other hand and stabs him, giving a wound that contributes to his eventual death. K is slammed repeatedly into and then through a concrete wall to seemingly no ill effect before he is identified as a Replicant. K's baseline test includes several phrases that later turn out to be plot-relevant: "What's it like to hold the hand of someone you love?" and "What's it like to hold your child in your arms?", refers to the birth of a Replicant child and K's quest for love and self-actualization with Joi. Another phrase of the baseline is "When you're not performing your duties, do they keep you in a little box?" which fairly accurately describes the duty and confinement of Ana Stelline, who like K, is also at least partially, if not entirely Replicant (depending on what Deckard really is.) "Do you like being separated from other people?" possibly references both Ana Stelline and Rick Deckard, who are both secluded away from other people, and are father and daughter. "Against the dark, a tall white fountain played." The final battle takes place at night on an ocean shore, where the crashing ocean waves are lit up like white fountains against the darkness. Somewhat esoteric, but the Pale Fire reference used in the baseline test also foreshadows K's "birth" was not real, and his hopes were built on a false idea. In Pale Fire, the "Against the dark, a tall white fountain played" poem was describing a person's near-death experiences, and causes another person to find the original author because they had experienced an identical near-death experience too. However, it turns out that the poem was misprinted, and the original poem had "mountain" instead of "fountain". This is very similar to how K reacted to his "birth records," even though they were not his. Luv muscles open a stuck, heavy door before she is in any scene that requires her to be combative. When K goes to the orphanage, only the girls have any hair, all the boys have shaved heads. This is an early hint that the person in K's memory is a girl, not a boy. Ana Stillane is shown crying when she examines K's implanted memory, and confirms that it's real but doesn't ask whose it is. That's because it's not his memory- it's hers. Ana tells K that "there's a bit of every artist in her work." The memory that she put into K was her own. After leaving the memory creation facility, K tells Joshi "I found the kid". He's right that he found the child, but it isn't him. It's Ana. Luv tells Joshi before killing her, "You can't hold back the tide with a broom." Luv dies when K drowns her in the oncoming ocean tide After K deletes Joi from his apartment's database, he warns her that she'll die for good if her mobile emitter is destroyed. Sure enough, when in the attack on Deckard's building, Luv finds Joi and exactly that happens. Attentive viewers will notice that Rick Deckard never refers to the gender of his child. When K first arrives home, Joi layers the image of a more appetizing meal over his bowl of noodles. Later, she does something similar with Marriette and herself. Wallace calls Luv "the best angel of all." The last thing she sees is K with (the lights of the crashed spinner making) a halo around his head, above her. He's a better "angel" than her. Or, perhaps, closer to God, or Jesus. Especially with his oncoming sacrifice.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Blade Runner 2049 / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: Rick Deckard still has his iconic blaster gun. Deckard had the collar of his overcoat flipped up around his neck in at least one scene in the original. K is introduced with the collar of his own overcoat covering his neck and lower face. Both films prominently feature an extreme close-up of a blue eye in the opening. Both films' opening chapters have a blade runner and a replicant in a confrontation, during which one of them gets smashed through a wall and put down. 2049 twists this around in that both are now replicants and it's not the blade runner who gets taken out. Tyrell sported enormous owl glasses and suffered an Eye Scream, while his equivalent in this film, Wallace, is blind with scars around his eyes. K undergoes a baseline test involving highly invasive, aggressive questions and a camera recording his responses, alluding heavily to the VK Test from the first movie. This time the interviewer isn't in the same room with the subject - evidently they learned their lesson from Dave Holden. Gaff, during his brief cameo, crafts an origami sheep, referencing both the original film and the title of the novel it was based on. Appropriately, he's still wearing his signature buttoned-up white shirt and blue bow-tie. A prostitute identifies K as blade runner in Cityspeak - using Finnish words - while the latter is eating at a street vendor, much like Gaff did in the original. Gaff also uses a Cityspeak term during his cameo. The advertisement for the off-world colonies can be heard droning on in the background in several scenes. Prominent depictions of pianos at Sapper's home (where Rachael lived and died) and the casino where Deckard resides allude to scenes in the original film of Deckard and Rachael intimately playing the piano together. The umbrella-wielding bicyclists make a reappearance. A member of the replicant resistance describes their kind as being "more human than human", a line that was originally the motto of the now long-defunct Tyrell Corporation. Like the late J.F. Sebastian, a genetic disorder prevents Ana Stelline from leaving Earth for the Colonies. A replicant dies after saving Deckard's life during a rain-soaked fight scene. To drive the comparison home even further, the scene is scored to "Tears in Rain" from the original film. When the audience is first introduced to Rachael in the original during the scene where she first meets Deckard, she is seen approaching him with her right hand in her pocket after answering Deckard's question about the owl being a replicant. When a resurrected copy of Rachael approaches after entering the room, she puts her right hand into the same pocket in the same way she did when she first met Deckard. While using the drone from his Spinner, from the drone's POV, you can see a car in a similar design to Deckard's from the first film sitting on the abandoned freeway, looking like it got T-boned. Considering the theatrical cut of the film has Deckard and Rachael driving off in the same car, it could possibly be the same car that belonged to him. K and Luv both give vocal directions to pieces of technology viewing a scene (K to his car's camera drone, Luv to the bomber drone) in a similar manner as the famous "enhance" scene from the original in which Deckard examines a photograph. Luv kisses K after stabbing him, and Wallace does the same thing to a Replicant, much like Roy Batty did to Tyrell in the original movie before killing him. K asks Deckard if his dog is real or not. Deckard doesn't know, much like in the first movie about Tyrell's owl, Zhora's snake or himself.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_9e27c8a9	type	Killed Mid-Sentence
Blade Runner 2049 / int_9e27c8a9	comment	Joi doesn't even flinch upon realizing that Luv is about to destroy her, and spends her last moments telling K she loves him before her deactivation.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_9eb7e397	type	Long-Lived
Blade Runner 2049 / int_9eb7e397	comment	The movie doesn't actually reveal if Deckard is a Long-Lived Replicant or not, instead going for The Unreveal when the question is brought up, in order to preserve the mystery present in the original film, and to avoid upsetting screenwriter Hampton Fancher and Ford, both of whom have declared that they saw the character as humannote Fancher insists that the interpretation of Deckard-as-Replicant came up with Scott mid-production, was not planned at the start and baffled every one of Scott's colleagues. Fancher feels that it should never become part of the film or on-screen action so as to satisfy both parties, leaving it entirely to the audience who wants to see Deckard-as-Replicant to decide how to see the film.; furthermore, this is actually alluded to in the movie itself, as when Wallace presents the copy of Rachael to Deckard, he contemplates whether or not Deckard was born naturally or if he's a Replicant. When K interviews a retired Gaff about Deckard, that character obliquely muses that Deckard's a Replicant, but it's clearly just reiterating views expressed in the original.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
Blade Runner 2049 / int_9f6fb586	comment	Leitmotif: The first notes of Peter's leitmotif from Peter and the Wolf play when Joi is activated.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_a0d9c2f3	type	Final Speech
Blade Runner 2049 / int_a0d9c2f3	comment	Final Speech: Very clearly and deliberately averted. Unlike Roy, K's final words to Deckard simply consists of two short sentences. As K lies dying and a remastered version of Vangelis's "Tears in Rain" begins to play, K's end is a homage to Roy's end, but is a Moment of Silence instead of another dramatic final speech.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_a1a1491e	type	Homage
Blade Runner 2049 / int_a1a1491e	comment	Homage: Combining K's name with his nickname gives you Joe K, a nod to Josef K from Franz Kafka's The Trial. Another literary reference can be found in the baseline tests that are administered to K: The words "cells interlinked within cells" are lifted from Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire. K even has a copy of the book in his apartment. The shots of K walking away from Sapper's burning house mirror a similar scene in Andrei Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice. At one point while flying over the wall, K and Joi pass by a giant aircraft that vaguely resembles the USS Sulaco◊ from Aliens. K spends part of the third act with a large bandage over his nose, recalling Jake Gittes from the Neo Noir film Chinatown. The story's general premise seems to be partly inspired by A Scanner Darkly, another Philip K. Dick tale about a detective in the future sent to find a fugitive criminal who turns out to be himself. At least until it's revealed that Ana Stelline is Deckard and Rachael's child, not K. The final battle seems to homage Drive (2011), which also features Ryan Gosling's character attacking a car the film's antagonist is driving in, running it into the sea, and then killing the villain by ultimately drowning them when they climb out (though Luv puts up much more of a fight than Nino did).
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_a2022cc9	type	Killed Mid-Sentence
Blade Runner 2049 / int_a2022cc9	comment	Killed Mid-Sentence: Luv crushes Joi's emitter just before she can finish telling K one last "I love you".
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Blade Runner 2049 / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Hinted at with Wallace's condition, as his eyelids are heavily scarred. Sapper Morton's right eye is gouged out post-mortem so that he can be identified by the serial number engraved on it. Freysa, the leader of the Replicant rebellion, is also missing her right eye, which she hides behind sunglasses. It's implied she cut it out herself to avoid detection through her serial number.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_a32334b4	type	Canon Discontinuity
Blade Runner 2049 / int_a32334b4	comment	Canon Discontinuity: 2049 ignores the sequel books written by K. W. Jeter (The Edge of Human, Replicant Night and Eye and Talon).
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_a86069f	type	Alternate History
Blade Runner 2049 / int_a86069f	comment	Alternate History: The film pretty much states that its universe's 2010s were way more advanced than ours, and long gone brands such as Atari or regimes such as the Soviet Union are still around.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_a8c1433e	type	Dead Star Walking
Blade Runner 2049 / int_a8c1433e	comment	Dead Star Walking: Dave Bautista's Sapper Morton was prominently featured in trailers and even got his own web short, but dies in the first 10 minutes.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_aa87556f	type	Orange/Blue Contrast
Blade Runner 2049 / int_aa87556f	comment	Orange/Blue Contrast: There are many scenes with a harsh yellow and orange hue, including Las Vegas, the Wallace Corporation headquarters, and Dr. Badger's lab. Other scenes, such as various night scenes around the city, have a softer grey and blue hue. Both hues can be seen in the Final Battle as well as quite blatantly in the theatrical poster.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_aa8db5e2	type	Mega City
Blade Runner 2049 / int_aa8db5e2	comment	Mega City: The LA in 2049 is just as big of an example of a cyberpunk megacity as the original film, if not even more extreme. When K flies back from Sapper Morton's farm to LAPD, we see miles upon miles of tightly-packed city blocks (to the point where roads are no longer visible), surrounding a downtown of humongous skyscraper blocks.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_aa8dcc21	type	MegaCorp
Blade Runner 2049 / int_aa8dcc21	comment	Mega-Corp: The Wallace Corporation, which bought out the now-bankrupt Tyrell Corporation from the previous film, produces virtually all of Earth's artificial food supply, the new Nexus-9 line of Replicants, and even the Joi A.I. companion.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_abd29ad8	type	No-Sell
Blade Runner 2049 / int_abd29ad8	comment	No-Sell: When Deckard punches K's face inside the abandoned casino, K takes it without much problem.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_ac09dc0f	type	Alas, Poor Villain
Blade Runner 2049 / int_ac09dc0f	comment	Alas, Poor Villain: Like Pris, Roy, and Zhora, Luv's death is painful, drawn-out, and unglamorous, and K visibly struggles with having to do it, especially given the small flickers of empathy that we'd seen from Luv over the course of the film.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_ac18c727	type	Projected Man
Blade Runner 2049 / int_ac18c727	comment	The Replicants themselves express some of this towards Joi, as Mariette tells her (paraphrased) "she's not as real as she thinks she is".
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Blade Runner 2049 / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Mr. Cotton, the overseer at the orphanage, panics when he sees K's badge.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_add14bc2	type	Orcus on His Throne
Blade Runner 2049 / int_add14bc2	comment	Orcus on His Throne: Niander Wallace spends all of his time lounging in his headquarters, a huge, cavernous, maze-like building.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_adfd3165	type	For the Evulz
Blade Runner 2049 / int_adfd3165	comment	For the Evulz: Luv steps on Joi's emanator purely out of spite.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_ae087674	type	I Can Still Fight!
Blade Runner 2049 / int_ae087674	comment	I Can Still Fight!: Justified since K is a Replicant, but over the course of the film (roughly a week) he's beaten heavily by Sapper, stabbed in the arm by Sapper, blown away by an explosion, hit multiple times in the face by Deckard, grazed on the side of the head by a bullet before falling three stories, knocked back by another explosion that leaves shrapnel in his side, beaten by Luv, shot and stabbed in the side by Luv before getting kicked more, having his hand sliced open. And even then it still takes a few more hours before he potentially succumbs to his wounds.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_b034d333	type	Film Noir
Blade Runner 2049 / int_b034d333	comment	K spends part of the third act with a large bandage over his nose, recalling Jake Gittes from the Neo Noir film Chinatown.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_b1c2112	type	Tracking Device
Blade Runner 2049 / int_b1c2112	comment	Tracking Device: The prostitute Mariette sneaks a tracker into K's jacket which helps the Replicant resistance movement to pull a Bedouin Rescue Service on K after he gets Left for Dead by Luv in the ruins of Las Vegas.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_b2280b66	type	Retcon
Blade Runner 2049 / int_b2280b66	comment	Retcon: In the original film, Rachel was special because she had no expiration date; the rest of the Nexus replicants had a fixed time of death (which was the driving conflict in the story). This film states that there were many replicants with "open-ended" lifespans.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_b22fdc19	type	Stacked Characters Poster
Blade Runner 2049 / int_b22fdc19	comment	Stacked Characters Poster: The movie poster shows all major players in a stack consisting of the villain Niander Wallace, holographic Joi and the two protagonists K and Deckard.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_b39b84ee	type	Fiery Coverup
Blade Runner 2049 / int_b39b84ee	comment	Fiery Cover-Up: Officer K burns Sapper Morton's house to Destroy the Evidence of a human-replicant birth, under Joshi's orders.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_b486877f	type	Squick
Blade Runner 2049 / int_b486877f	comment	When Luv kills Coco, the camera focuses on his eyes filling up with blood.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Blade Runner 2049 / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: To all the fans who won't stop asking whether or not Deckard is a replicant himself, there's the moment of K asking Deckard if the dog is a replicant. Deckard basically tells K to figure it out himself.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_b545453b	type	Internal Homage
Blade Runner 2049 / int_b545453b	comment	Internal Homage: K sustains mortal wounds saving Deckard's life during a Battle in the Rain, just as Roy Batty did in the first movie. K asking if Deckard's dog is real echoes Deckard asking if the owl at Tyrell's office is real. K dies in the rain following a final act of kindness, just like Roy Batty did in the first film.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_b6203862	type	Interquel
Blade Runner 2049 / int_b6203862	comment	Black Out 2022 is an anime Interquel that explains how and why things are the way they turned out in the sequel — a pair of Replicants and a human sympathizer seek to "even the odds" against Replicants by detonating a nuclear bomb above the West Coast, which causes an EMP surge that knocks out the city's power and eventually causes Replicants to be placed under prohibition.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_b72923df	type	The Final Temptation
Blade Runner 2049 / int_b72923df	comment	The Final Temptation: Niander Wallace decides to convince Deckard to tell him the location of the replicant child by tempting him with an almost perfect replica of Rachael, as she was when they first met. Deckard ultimately refuses, causing an enraged Wallace to kill the Rachael clone and order Deckard to be transported off-world to be tortured.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_b731fa6e	type	I Cannot Self-Terminate
Blade Runner 2049 / int_b731fa6e	comment	I Cannot Self-Terminate: A non-lethal variant. Joi asks K to delete her copy from the apartment console since she cannot do it herself.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
Blade Runner 2049 / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: Of a sort: Mariette the prostitute/replicant resistant agent clearly shows attraction to K when she first meets him, and shows significant concern for him after he is found almost dead in Las Vegas. Joi speaks callously towards her, possibly envious of the fact that she can physically touch K and dismisses her after their cybersex threesome rudely. K for his part is very smitten with Joi, and is initially very uncomfortable with having sex with Mariette, only proceeding at Joi's insistence. He later shows significant grief after Joi's death, though still affectionately touches Mariette after his rescue in Las Vegas. It gets more complex when you factor in Luv's Villainous Crush toward K.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_b8dbe475	type	Blood from the Mouth
Blade Runner 2049 / int_b8dbe475	comment	Blood from the Mouth: K spouts blood when being defeated by Luv at Deckard's place.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
Blade Runner 2049 / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: On the one hand, Rick Deckard, Ana, and Joi ("Joy" being a fairly common woman's name.) On the other, there's Sapper, Freysa, Luv (which is as much a pun on "Love" as Joi is for "Joy"), Joshi, Coco...Niander Wallace even provides a rare example of the "weird name/normal name" pairing in the same character.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_bb040b01	type	Cool Guns
Blade Runner 2049 / int_bb040b01	comment	Cool Guns: Several. Rick Deckard still has his old iconic LAPD two-trigger blaster, while K wields a more modernized police version◊ and Luv gets a snub-nosed double-barrelled blaster◊ for assassinations.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_bb40e7e0	type	Failed Future Forecast
Blade Runner 2049 / int_bb40e7e0	comment	Failed Future Forecast: Played with. The previous film was made before the USSR collapsed, and thus played this trope straight by showing a USSR still existing in the future. 2049, however, creates an Alternate History Retro Universe that assumes the assumptions made in the first film were true and keeps the USSR around on purpose.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_bc7e1c5b	type	These Gloves Are Made for Killin'
Blade Runner 2049 / int_bc7e1c5b	comment	These Gloves Are Made for Killin': Coco catches Luv in the morgue stealing Rachael's remains while wearing black leather gloves contrasting her white coat making it clear she's doing something she does not want to be traced back to her. She distracts him by lying about her presence having gone through the proper channels and presenting him with paperwork before killing him by cracking his neck from behind and leaving him to choke on his blood. She then tortures and murders Joshi in her office in a later scene wearing the same gloves and coat. Luv ditches the coat for a black jacket as part of her battle outfit in the movie's third act.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_bcd27e37	type	Improbable Aiming Skills
Blade Runner 2049 / int_bcd27e37	comment	Improbable Aiming Skills: As per being a Replicant, K manages to kill all of his targets with one shot except for Luv due to the intense rain. Bringing down a speeding Flying Car with a jury-rigged harpoon in one shot? Respect.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_bd50ec63	type	Battle in the Rain
Blade Runner 2049 / int_bd50ec63	comment	K sustains mortal wounds saving Deckard's life during a Battle in the Rain, just as Roy Batty did in the first movie.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_bd842706	type	Hologram
Blade Runner 2049 / int_bd842706	comment	Holograms: 2010s special effects allow for the film to feature holograms prominently in urban environments.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_bdf2a460	type	Tragic Dream
Blade Runner 2049 / int_bdf2a460	comment	When Freysa then comforts him over the fact that he isn't the child, what she says further destroys K's hope as even his Tragic Dream isn't his own.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_beccd0d7	type	Cyberpunk Is Techno
Blade Runner 2049 / int_beccd0d7	comment	Cyberpunk Is Techno: Hans Zimmer provided some variations on the synthesizer-heavy 1982 Vangelis soundtrack, although noticeably less so than the snippets of Jóhann Jóhannsson's unused work in the movie's trailers, which directly remixed Vangelis' work.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_bf68ac04	type	First Time Feeling
Blade Runner 2049 / int_bf68ac04	comment	First Time Feeling: After becoming non-stationary, Joi enjoys the touch of rain drops on her skin on the rooftop.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_c0d32460	type	Sexy Secretary
Blade Runner 2049 / int_c0d32460	comment	Luv gets a subtle one. She chitchats to K and flirts with him in typical Sexy Secretary fashion, until a massive vault door jams on them. Luv immediately shoves it open on her own.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_c0d598fe	type	Evil Gloating
Blade Runner 2049 / int_c0d598fe	comment	Evil Gloating: Luv does this before murdering Joshi, mocking her efforts at concealing the existence of the replicant child. She does this again, in an even more sadistic manner, before murdering Joi.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_c1967d3e	type	Retro Universe
Blade Runner 2049 / int_c1967d3e	comment	Retro Universe: Rather than retconning the aesthetics of the Blade Runner universe for a more modern sci-fi look, the film doubles down on the clunky technology, outdated brands, a still-active USSR, and general retro-futuristic '80s visuals of the original. An example of the deliberate aesthetics is that K's smart tablet is actually a plate holder from a 1920s camera.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_c253090a	type	Big Blackout
Blade Runner 2049 / int_c253090a	comment	Big Blackout: The "Black Out" was an unprecedented electricity blackout that affected Los Angeles for ten days in May 2022. It also wipes out all electronic data.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_c26ebed4	type	Finagle's Law
Blade Runner 2049 / int_c26ebed4	comment	Finagle's Law: Joi tells K to delete her from his apartment so he will be harder to track down, leaving the portable emitter only for Joi to exist. If the emitter is damaged, she will disappear. Sure enough, Luv crushes the portable emitter later on, killing Joi in the process.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_c2c80ef	type	Neck Lift
Blade Runner 2049 / int_c2c80ef	comment	Neck Lift: When K attacks Luv inside her sinking spinner, he grabs her by the neck and lifts her up in the air.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_c3585f4a	type	Boom, Headshot!
Blade Runner 2049 / int_c3585f4a	comment	Boom, Headshot!: Averted when Deckard shoots K in Las Vegas. He's grazed on the side of the head and falls over a railing and down three stories but survives. Being a Replicant helps. Played straight in other instances, including the final action sequence.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_c40c8b74	type	And Starring
Blade Runner 2049 / int_c40c8b74	comment	And Starring: "With Dave Bautista and Jared Leto".
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_c558da6a	type	Gunship Rescue
Blade Runner 2049 / int_c558da6a	comment	Gunship Rescue: When K gets shot down and captured by rebels at the scrapyard, Luv sends an airship that kills all rebels except for K. K's rescue of Deckard in the climax. A variation in that the people he's attacking also are in gunships.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_c5a1fb94	type	Hologram Projection Imperfection
Blade Runner 2049 / int_c5a1fb94	comment	Hologram Projection Imperfection: Joi shows some glitches early on before K makes her non-stationary. The jukebox hologram of Frank Sinatra at the Las Vegas casino goes through flickers. There is also the malfunctioning hologram of the late Elvis Presley going in and out playing a song.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
Blade Runner 2049 / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: The naked female Replicant that Wallace activates and brings out of her bag. The entire time, the Replicant is covered in a slimy substance and is trying to get used to her surroundings and body like a newborn child. After musing about her inability to reproduce, Wallace promptly stabs her in the lower abdomen, letting her bleed to death. The giant naked ad campaign version of the Joi hologram, despite still being played by a gorgeous Ana de Armas, has overtones of this, with its off-putting all-black eyes and echoing voice and unnatural skin and hair colors. Adding to this is that she shows up shortly after K's version of Joi dies, and clumsily flirts with K. Her dialogue also echoes several of K's model's turns of phrase, casting doubt on the legitimacy of their relationship.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Blade Runner 2049 / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: When Deckard meets K, he quotes Treasure Island. K acknowledges the reference, which impresses Deckard. K wears a bandage over his nose in the third act after a brutal beating, not unlike Jake Gittes in Chinatown. The overall plot itself Replicants being able to conceive and have children is itself a bit of a shoutout to Armitage III, which is also a cyberpunk/post-cyberpunk story that involves Humanoid machines being able to conceive and have children. Even the major viewpoints and character motivations are referenced in detail With the creator of Armitage and the Third-series androids doing so in order to boost the population of Mars, a colony world that lacked the ability to flourish due to population; nearly the exact statement made by Niander Wallace. Lieutenant Joshi's desire to eliminate the issue to stop a war is in the story as well. When Joi flashes through her outfits and asks K to dance with her, she briefly wears a sparkly silver dress and blonde bob wig that makes her look like Roxie Hart. K's physical consummation of his love for Joi (an AI lover) via a human surrogate is similar to a key scene from the movie her.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_cb83d23b	type	I Just Want to Be Special
Blade Runner 2049 / int_cb83d23b	comment	I Just Want to Be Special: Deep down, K wanted to be the Replicant child, a real person born of a woman. As the resistance leader explains to K, every Replicant with Stelline's memories wishes it were them. This is why Joi was so insistent to K that it was the case; she is programmed to say "What you want to hear" as the advertisements say, and she could tell that K really wanted it to be true despite his outward protestations to the contrary.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_cbd2bfa3	type	Glory Days
Blade Runner 2049 / int_cbd2bfa3	comment	Glory Days: Deckard tells K he had the same job as him once and that he was good at it.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_ce750b4	type	Living MacGuffin
Blade Runner 2049 / int_ce750b4	comment	Living Macguffin: Several factions are searching for the living child of a replicant, due to the implications of their existence.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_ce75a983	type	Screw Destiny
Blade Runner 2049 / int_ce75a983	comment	Screw Destiny: Weirdly inverted. K chooses to fulfill his "destiny" and save Rick Deckard from Wallace's forces even though he's not Deckard's child when he decides that he wants to make a choice of his own free will.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_d074c3a2	type	Coming in Hot
Blade Runner 2049 / int_d074c3a2	comment	Coming in Hot: When the power of K's police car shuts down and he crashlands on the San Diego junkyard.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_d1b0004	type	Portal Statue Pairs
Blade Runner 2049 / int_d1b0004	comment	Portal Statue Pairs: K comes across a pair of huge nude women statues at the entrance of Las Vegas.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_d1e332e8	type	Crush the Keepsake
Blade Runner 2049 / int_d1e332e8	comment	Crush the Keepsake: After having defeated K in combat, Luv stomps on and crushes the emitter of K's holographic lover Joi which equates to killing her.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_d2a9f080	type	Opening Scroll
Blade Runner 2049 / int_d2a9f080	comment	Opening Scroll: Before the film starts proper there is an opening screen of text explaining the term "Replicant" and providing background information as a courtesy to viewers who didn't see the short films in the lead up to 2049, as well as serving as an Internal Homage to the opening text from the original film.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_d48605dc	type	Our Weapons Will Be Boxy in the Future
Blade Runner 2049 / int_d48605dc	comment	Our Weapons Will Be Boxy in the Future: K's handgun is quite boxy compared to contemporary models.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_d50e7e13	type	White Void Room
Blade Runner 2049 / int_d50e7e13	comment	White Void Room: The holographic chamber where Ana Stelline creates memories for the replicants has this sort of aesthetic. The scan room at LAPD HQ is a downplayed example. While far from looking like an actual void, the claustrophobic walls give off a harsh, sterile white glare, in contrast to the muted grey tones more common throughout the city.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_d6fce123	type	The Future Is Noir
Blade Runner 2049 / int_d6fce123	comment	The Future Is Noir: Like the first film, the future in which the film is set doesn't have very good lighting.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_d8e0e9f7	type	Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You
Blade Runner 2049 / int_d8e0e9f7	comment	Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: Deckard didn't go looking for his and Rachael's child to avoid accidentally leading Wallace straight to her.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_dae815bb	type	A Glass in the Hand
Blade Runner 2049 / int_dae815bb	comment	A Glass in the Hand: Invoked by Luv who squeezes Joshi's hand so the glass therein would break and hurt her.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_db8b1727	type	Window Love
Blade Runner 2049 / int_db8b1727	comment	Window Love: The final shot of the film, as Rick Deckard approaches his daughter, Ana Stelline, in her enclosure, and tenderly lays a hand on the window. Cut to black.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
Blade Runner 2049 / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: K discovered that his childhood memories aren't actually fake, but real, thus learning that he might be a Replicant-born child, specifically Rachael's child. It turns out that he's actually not, it's Dr. Ana Stelline. The memories are indeed real, but they're Ana's, not K's.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_dbed9cf7	type	I Was Never Here
Blade Runner 2049 / int_dbed9cf7	comment	I Was Never Here: In an attempt to uphold the order Lieutenant Joshi tells K that the pregnant replicant "didn't happen".
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
Blade Runner 2049 / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: Subverted. The Replicant child of Rachael and Deckard being the one to discover her remains on Sapper's farm would be this...if K was actually the child.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_dc67d9ba	type	Kiss of Death
Blade Runner 2049 / int_dc67d9ba	comment	Kiss of Death: Two of them, as an homage to the Kiss of Death from Roy Batty to Eldon Tyrell in the original film: Wallace kisses the newly dispatched, still-naked female replicant after slicing her belly open. Subverted during the climactic battle between Luv and K with Luv kissing K after stabbing him in the side, assuming him to die soon after.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
Blade Runner 2049 / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: Ana Stelline shows up for a couple of minutes to solve one of K's doubts. She sheds a tear upon watching K's memories, which is a clue that she's the long lost Replicant child. The prostitute Mariette first appears flirting with K before showing up to "synchronise" with Joi so she and K can have simulated sex. Then she shows up again with the Replicant resistance to save K after he's left for dead by Luv, thanks to the tracker she placed in his things.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_dcd29760	type	They Would Cut You Up
Blade Runner 2049 / int_dcd29760	comment	They Would Cut You Up: Deckard and Rachel had a baby after they escaped at the end of Blade Runner. This was supposed to be impossible since Rachel was a replicant (genetically enhanced human "robot"), which can't have children. Deckard tells Officer K (AKA Joe) that he hid the child because he knew that it would be dissected in order to find out how it was conceived.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_de306ba6	type	Worst Aid
Blade Runner 2049 / int_de306ba6	comment	Worst Aid: Early in the movie, K treats a deep stab wound in his arm by gluing it shut. While gluing is an established medical practice in Real Life, the stuff he uses looks like some bog-standard DIY store-type superglue that shouldn't even come into contact with skin, let alone an open wound. Considering the world he lives in, it fits the tone perfectly.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_def7c6ec	type	Artificial Outdoors Display
Blade Runner 2049 / int_def7c6ec	comment	Artificial Outdoors Display: Ana gets interrupted by K while doing photography in an artificial forest on her holodeck.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_e154ff08	type	Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique
Blade Runner 2049 / int_e154ff08	comment	Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: K employs it successfully on the Evil Orphanage Owner to get him to disclose the register from 30 years back.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_e2ccee25	type	Animal Motifs
Blade Runner 2049 / int_e2ccee25	comment	Animal Motifs: As with the original film, K's is a horse. His wooden horse he had in his childhood memories plays a large role in the film. The memories are actually Dr. Ana's, Deckard and Rachael's daughter.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_e77e2787	type	We Will Use Manual Labor in the Future
Blade Runner 2049 / int_e77e2787	comment	We Will Use Manual Labor in the Future: As in the previous installment, the Opening Scroll reveals that Replicants are used as slaves in off-world colonies.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_e8123047	type	Borrowed Biometric Bypass
Blade Runner 2049 / int_e8123047	comment	Borrowed Biometric Bypass: Unlike many instances of this trope, the corpse isn't even dismembered - Luv just holds Joshi up so the system can scan the entire head. This time still captures the usual utilitarian disrespect for the deceased, as the body is just dropped and the head bangs against the desk afterward.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Blade Runner 2049 / int_e9e35e8f	comment	After leaving the memory creation facility, K tells Joshi "I found the kid". He's right that he found the child, but it isn't him. It's Ana.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_eb24d076	type	Freud Was Right
Blade Runner 2049 / int_eb24d076	comment	Freud Was Right: Wallace's complete lack of interest in understanding how Deckard is capable of reproduction, despite outright stating he suspects Deckard might be a replicant, and the statement that he is the father of the millions of current replicants, brings up disturbing implications of who he plans the biological father of the next generation replicants to be if he can make female ones who can reproduce.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_eb5b71fe	type	Clingy Jealous Girl
Blade Runner 2049 / int_eb5b71fe	comment	The light on Joi's emanator glows whenever he's talking to other women throughout the film, indicating that she's listening in on their conversations - and only when he's talking to other women. Jealous, much?
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Blade Runner 2049 / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: K ambushing Luv's convoy to rescue Deckard in his heavily armed LAPD spinner.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_ed503b22	type	Match Cut
Blade Runner 2049 / int_ed503b22	comment	Match Cut: A couple times, most notably with the opening shot of K's blue eye cutting to an overhead view of solar panels arranged in a circular eye-shaped pattern that resembles an iris.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_eff83d77	type	Mundane Utility
Blade Runner 2049 / int_eff83d77	comment	Mundane Utility: Being a Replicant grants Officer K a massive advantage in speed, strength, aim, and fighting prowess. It also allows him to read scrolling text really really fast.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_f005700f	type	Conspicuous Consumption
Blade Runner 2049 / int_f005700f	comment	Conspicuous Consumption: The Wallace Corp headquarters. In 2049 a tiny piece of wood is worth a fortune, clear sunlight is a luxury, and almost all water is heavily contaminated. Naturally, all of the offices in the Wallace Corporation's Earth headquarters are lined with wood, lit with caustics (as if the light is being filtered through a layer of water) and natural yellow sunlight. Taken to the extreme in Wallace's personal space, which is a stretch of wood surrounded by a fish-filled pool of water. In a place where space is at a premium not only does it dwarf the old vacant Tyrell Corp building to the point to where the viewer can't see the entire building in the mist but there are a lot of empty corridors and large rooms filled with mostly nothing. Including Wallace we only see a handful of characters even working inside the building, making it appear to be big merely for the sake of being big.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_f0c4ce7d	type	The Lost Lenore
Blade Runner 2049 / int_f0c4ce7d	comment	Wallace admits that they can take Deckard off-world to be tortured, but he has more than pain to offer him. Cue a Replicant in the form of Rachael Emerging from the Shadows.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
Blade Runner 2049 / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: As with the original film, large advertisements dominate certain areas of the city, including both modern brands such as Coca-Cola and defunct brands like Pan-Am, showing that the film takes place in a Retro Universe. Amusingly, one of the brands is Atari, which became defunct for a while but was resurrected by other companies. More traditional product placement also occurs in the film, such as for Peugeot (the brand of car K drives) and the film's international distributor Sony (on the holographic jukebox). Holographic versions of Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley turn up in Vegas. Who owns their back catalogs? Sony.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_f51e530a	type	Romantic Rain
Blade Runner 2049 / int_f51e530a	comment	Romantic Rain: When K buys Joi an emanator and asks her where she wants to go, she chooses to go outside so she can "feel" the rain on her skin, before embracing K tightly.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_f62b8d00	type	Sinister Switchblade
Blade Runner 2049 / int_f62b8d00	comment	Sinister Switchblade: Luv has one which she uses to stab K repeatedly and gut Joshi.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
Blade Runner 2049 / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: Deckard lost both his lover and his child, and a lot of people died in the process, but thanks to K's efforts, he is freed from being hunted by both the replicants and Wallace and is eventually reunited with his daughter.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_f65c014c	type	Conveniently Interrupted Document
Blade Runner 2049 / int_f65c014c	comment	Conveniently Interrupted Document: K goes to an orphanage to search for records but the entire year that he's interested has been ripped out of the paper ledger.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_f722f635	type	Great Offscreen War
Blade Runner 2049 / int_f722f635	comment	Great Offscreen War: whatever it is that's going on on Kalantha, and presumably other off-world colonies.
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Blade Runner 2049 / int_fa779d17	comment	Ascetic Aesthetic: Wallace's headquarters. In a world where everything is dirty, cluttered, and overcrowded, Wallace's building is unnervingly clean, quiet, and empty, being inhabited solely by him and a few of his employees.
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