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Sep 15, 2026
Metropolis
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18:22Joel MorrisHOST
And the main image is the Tower of Babel.
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18:25Joel MorrisHOST
which the big building that was the inspiration for the big Tyrell Corporation building in Blade Runner is called the New Tower of Babel.
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18:33Joel MorrisHOST
There are signs that point to it.
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18:35Joel MorrisHOST
And the idea is, has mankind overreached? Have we gone too far? Are we building too high? And the idea that people at the top can't understand the people at the bottom is the central theme of the film.
Blade Runner
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37:46BrandonHOST
If they are in love with a replicant, and B, replicants if they know they are replicants.
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37:51BrandonHOST
This has always been a contri- contrived problem, easily avoidable in practical ways, unless, as I suspect, the Tyrell Corporation has more up its sleeve than arms.
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38:01BrandonHOST
But to stumble on plot logic seems absurd in a film that is more about vision, and I continue to find it fascinating how film noir, a genre born in the 1940s, has such a hammerlock on the future.
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38:14BrandonHOST
I suspect film noir is so fruitful and suggestive that if you bring it on board, half of, half your set and costume decisions have been made for you, and you know what your tone will be." That's the other thing.
Terminator 2 3-D: Battle Across Time
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20:16AlecHOST
But the, and I'm building up to this, don't worry, there's a reason I brought this up.
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20:21AlecHOST
The Cyberdyne Pyramid was an actual direct homage to the Tyrell Corporation headquarters in Blade Runner.
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20:29AlecHOST
No way.
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20:29AlecHOST
So the idea is a pyramid visually communicates absolute technological dominance because the As a computer, as a non-human entity, Skynet does not care about windows or any sort of perfect structural shapes.
'The Dog Stars' Director Ridley Scott
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11:09Ridley ScottGUEST
It grew.
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11:09Ridley ScottGUEST
So that's how the Tyrell Corporation came about.
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11:12Ridley ScottGUEST
Well, the reason how the pyramid happened was I thought so any age, any time, anywhere, any century, there will always be a disease that we can't figure.
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11:24Ridley ScottGUEST
Tyrell had made six clones of himself so he could place the clones in Tokyo, all around the world, 'cause he was one of the two corporations that will run the world, that we're headed there right now.
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Why Blade Runner 2049 Is A Masterpiece
Aug 22 · 2 Mentions
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15:34TedHOST
But the immediate fallout of the blackout is the total prohibition of replicant manufacturing.
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15:39TedHOST
The Tyrell Corporation totally collapses.
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15:41TedHOST
The world is plunged into darkness and famine.
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15:43speaker_5HOST
Which paves the way for a new deity to emerge.
26 MINS LATER
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41:16speaker_5HOST
Despite their completely opposite starting points, both machines arrive at the exact same destination.
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41:23speaker_5HOST
They choose empathy over their programming.
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41:25speaker_5HOST
They fulfill the Tyrell Corporation's hollow marketing motto and literally become more human than human.
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41:33TedHOST
Breathtaking storytelling.