Blade Runner 2049 is a complex and amazing film and there are a ton of little nods and
inside moments in this film so we wanted to share a few of our favorite Blade Runner 2049
easter eggs that you may have missed.
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A dog joke?
Blade Runner 2049 is set a ways in the future and is a extension of the world in the original
blade runner.
Although things have progress.
They haven't made the moves you would like for a movie that takes place 30 years after
the original.
That includes in the replicants as well.
In the first film Deckard is chasing the Nexus 6 model replicants and nearly 30 years later
we have only moved up 3 full revisions to the Nexus 9 Which is what our protagonist
K is.
It looks like their biggest upgrade is the removal of their freedom and their names.
And the fact that his name is K and he is a nexus 9 is kind of hard not to make the
dog connection.
His full name ‘KD9-3.7’ So let me get this The hero in our movie is a loyal lapd
Nexus 9 with Letter designation K Come on now.
Not really the most high brow joke or reference but we think that is more than just a coincidence.
Skin Jobs Blade Runner 2049 does a pretty solid job
at showing that Replicants are second class citizens.
From the sideways glances from the people of LA to the slurs used for replicants which
seemed to have been a holdover all the way from 2019.
That being Skinjob or the variation Skinner.
First uttered by Police Chief Harry Bryant when he and Deckard meet at the LAPD headquarters.
In 2049 in the first lab scene the forensic scientist CoCo calls replicants skinjobs and
on K’s apartment the word skinner is spray painted on his door.
A neat little world building building easter egg showing that people are still pretty hateful
towards artificial beings.
Deckards LAPD Blaster It takes a good long while for us to even
get a glimpse of Harrison Fords Deckard in Blade Runner 2049.
Seriously he shows up at the tail end of the second act almost 90 mins into the film.
When we do meet him it is in orange tinted and potentially radiated ruins of Las Vegas.
He gets the drop on K while he is messing with Deckard's piano.
In the reveal we get to see the aged and haggard Deckard bare down on K with a weapon drawn.
That weapon?
His official LAPD 2019 Blaster pistol from the original Blade Runner.
Even after all this time and advancement.
Deckard still prefers his original gun from his time as a Blade Runner.
Phillip K Dick Reference In The Early Portion of the film Agent K is
tracking down the origins of some Nexus 7 bones and is looking for any type of lead
he can get.
This leads to a cameo by Edward James Olmos’ Blade Runner Gaff.
No longer the Suave and Stylish Blade Runner.
Now Gaff is in an assisted living home.
During the conversation Gaff informs K as much as he can about the information that
he is seeking and at the end of their conversation he puts down some of his trademark origami.
Only this time it is a sheep.
A direct reference to the Philip K Dick novel.
Do androids dream of electric sheep.
The book on which the original Blade Runner takes place.
A tiny bit of a two-fer here.
While talking to K he goes back and forth between english and city speak.
Which he used in the first film.
K/ Joe living the Voigt Kompff questions The Voight-Kampff Test is they way Blade Runners
determined whether a person of interest was human or replicant in the first film.
In 2049 they have a portable eye scanner which can tell instantly whether someone is or is
not replication.
But back in 2019 they had no such device and relied on the arduous task of the voigt Kompff
test.
Oddly enough the Voigt Kompff test questions from the first film seem to come to life in
the second act of the sequel.
With one of the questions referring to a sandy desert which parallels with K walking through
the Las Vegas desert.
To the more famous question which Deckard asks Rachael about a wasp crawling on her
arm.
Which is paralleled by K encountering the beehive and have a bees crawling on his arm.
And interesting character moment here.
In the Voigt Kompff test Rachael responds very quickly that she would kill the wasp
on her arm whereas the more obedient Nexus 9 replicant K has no violent tendency towards
the bees crawling on his hand and seemling just looks at them.
Coke is here to stay There is a metric ton of product placement
in Blade Runner 2049 and while that is thematically correct with the first film.
Most of the adverts have changed over the years.
With Atari Logos becoming these huge traffic framing signs and pan am logos popping up
in the cityscape.
Only one advert has never changed and that is the giant coca-cola sign which is roughly
100 feet tall if you look at the spinners flying by it.
While an awesome easter egg Ridley Scott when asked about the inclusion of the Coke sign
in the original film.
He simply said of course Coke would be there “Even in a dystopian world Coca-Cola is
everlasting” a point which 2049 director Dennis Villeneuve must have taken to heart
when he included that exact same advertisement in his film which takes place 30 years later.
But not to be left out in the cold parent company Sony made sure to include their products
everywhere as to show they also would stand the test of time.
The Tyrell Pyramid The tyrell company was the pinnacle of corporate
excess in the 2019 and nothing is more evident of that than their gigantic pyramid adorning
the Los Angeles skyline.
After the events of the original Blade Runner the company continues on for a while before
plummeting and going bankrupt.
The great Blackout pretty much seals their fate and Niander Wallace swoops in and buys
what is left of the company.
Converting the great Tyrell Pyramid into his company's headquarters.
Thus keeping the great LA pyramid a fixture of the skyline for many years to come.
There is also a throw away reference to the Tyrell corporation's motto in Blade Runner
2049.
That motto fo course is “More Human than Human”
She Had Green Eyes In the third act of the film Deckard is apprehended
by Niander Wallace and brought to the Wallace Corporation's headquarters where Wallace attempts
to get Deckard to come over to his side by showing him a recreation of his Nexus 7 love
Rachael.
At first it looks as though Deckard is weakening in his resolve at the prospect of being reunited
with a version of Rachael.
Until he stops and tells off Wallace that Rachael had green eyes.
But here is the rub.
She didn't have green eyes they were dark brown.
Which raises all sorts of questions about Deckard's memories.
But that will have to wait for another time.
2049 opens the way Blade Runner was scripted to
The original script for Blade Runner began with a pot of soup boiling on a stove in a
farm house kitchen.
A heavy-set character asks Deckard if he would like some before the man attacks deckard without
warning, Decakrd kills the heavy set man without explanation.
This would have been a pretty electrifying opening to the original Blade Runner but was
eventually scrapped from the Voigt Kompff opening.
In 2049 though it looks like Denis Villeneuve wanted to pay homage to that original opening
by including many of the core elements.
Including opening on a boiling pot and having a sequence with a larger man.
Although in this version it's the muscle bound Sapper Morton played by Dave bautista as opposed
to a heavy set man and instead of Deckard it is our new protagonist K. They have a short
chat and before you know it Sapper attacks K out of nowhere and leads to a Sapper being
retired.
This is a really cool moment for die hard Blade Runner fans to see what the original
movies opening would look like recreated and used in the sequel.
The Pale Fire After K has retired Sapper Morton, he returns
to the LAPD headquarters where is required to complete a Post-Trauma Baseline Test to
ensure he wasn't emotionally compromised by his most recent mission.
Something which can lead to disaterous results for a replicant
It appears that this baseline test is standard procedure for Blade Runners in the LAPD by
the number of suites that exist after K exits his first baseline test.
The Baseline procedure has the subject recite words like 'cell' and 'interlinked' in response
to a string of prompts.
It comes off sounding like gibberish, but it's actuality it is poetry, taken from the
book Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov which is chocked full of existential musings much like
Blade Runner or the book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.
Several of K’s prompts are taken from this passage in Pale Fire.
And blood-black nothingness began to spin A system of cells interlinked within cells
interlinked within cells interlinked within one stem.
And dreadfully distinct Against the dark, a tall white fountain played.
The choice to use Pale Fire must have been deliberate as the story of the book centers
around a fictitious poe, and its editor.
Playing with the idea of what is real, what is not, and who gets to decide.
Ironically The book appears in K’s apartment and K’s AI girlfriend Joi hates it.
And that’s the list.
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