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Zed Adams

Zed Adams

Associate Professor of Philosophy at The New School for Social Research; Vice President of Technology; Co-Director of the Institute for Philosophy and the New Humanities

Jun 12, 2026

8:41
Yeah.
8:42
Um, the second difference is the ending.
8:44
The, back to the melancholy thing, the theatrical cut has a happy ending.
8:50
It has this footage repurposed from B-roll shot for The Shining, um, of a kind of bucolic forest, uh, you know, nature, and up until that point, up- all we've seen is this dystopian LA.
9:06
And then the third thing is there's the insertion of, of, um, Deckard having a dream of a unicorn running through the forest, which on the standard reading establishes definitively that Deckard himself is a replicant.
9:26
And I wanna just begin by, uh, proposing that the question of whether Deckard is a replicant is kind of orthogonal to the main themes of the movie.
9:43
Um, and this is a kind of problem I have with the, the Final Cut that it, it emphasizes that so decisively.

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66:08
Mm.

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