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Rick Deckard
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Technology & AIWho is Rick Deckard in the Agency editorial?
Rick Deckard is the protagonist of the film Blade Runner, a detective and android hunter played by Harrison Ford. The Agency editorial names him once, in Issue.9, in the cinema recommendation of the section Pandora's Box, where the reader is invited to meet the character and the film.
In short
Rick Deckard is the protagonist of Blade Runner. In the Agency editorial he appears only in Issue.9, the edition about metareality, inside the section of recommendations called Pandora's Box. Under the heading Cinema, the edition says the reader almost certainly knows Harrison Ford and that it is time to meet one of his characters, "the detective and android hunter Rick Deckard". It describes Blade Runner as a movie from 1982 that represents the true cornerstone of a sci-fi dystopia in cinema, and adds that the original story was written by Philip K. Dick in the book Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?
Key facts
- Which work does Rick Deckard belong to?
- The film Blade Runner, from 1982. Issue.9 names the film, the actor Harrison Ford and the book by Philip K. Dick that holds the original story.
- Where does the Agency editorial name Rick Deckard?
- Only in Issue.9, in the cinema recommendation of the section Pandora's Box, numbered 9.3.4.
- How does Issue.9 describe Rick Deckard?
- As a detective and android hunter, one of the characters played by Harrison Ford. The edition says nothing else about him or about the plot.
Who is Rick Deckard?
Rick Deckard is the main character of Blade Runner, the 1982 film directed by Ridley Scott, and of the novel by Philip K. Dick on which the film is based. In the film he is played by Harrison Ford. Issue.9 gives the actor, the year and the book, and presents the character in a single phrase.
How does Issue.9 use Rick Deckard?
Issue.9 ends with a section of personal recommendations, with music, literature, cinema and TV. The cinema pick is Blade Runner. The edition tells the reader that it is time to meet one of the characters of Harrison Ford, "the detective and android hunter Rick Deckard", and calls the film the true cornerstone of a sci-fi dystopia in cinema. The literature pick that comes right before it is Neuromancer, by William Gibson, so the character arrives in a sequence of science fiction references.
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