Blade Runner 2049 - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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Fan of Blade Runner 2049 or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Blade Runner 2049

[russell]

At 2 hours and 43 minutes, this sequel is 46 minutes longer than the original Blade Runner (1982) which ran 1 hour and 57 minutes.

[lonnie]

(1) The Frank Sinatra song that was played in the jukebox was titled "One For My Baby (And One More For The Road)". The lyrics when listened and read carefully actually outlines the third act of the film. In this instance, the first two verses starting with "It's quarter to three / There's no one in the place except you and me / So set them up Joe " until "We're drinking my friend / To the end of a brief episode" parallels when K meets Deckard--there were only the two of them meeting, and then they had a drink after they got off to a wrong start resulted in a fist fight. Joe is K's human pseudonym that Joi gives him. (2) The fifth and sixth verses containing "You never know it / But buddy I am kind of poet / And I've got a lot things to say" / "And Joe I know you're getting anxious to close" would then have Deckard, being more poetic than 30 years previously, answering the questions that K was looking for closure. (3) The final verse, "But this torch that I found / It's got to be drowned / Or it soon might explode" parallels Deckard being held hostage by Luv and the fight between K and her, resulting in her being drowned. (4) The final sequence when Deckard and K part ways in front of Ana Stelline's place is a mirror of the chorus "So make it one for my baby / One more for the road".

[richard]

Jared Leto traveled to Budapest, Hungary, in September 2016 to film his scenes and was wrapped in just under two weeks.

[marc]

Sony Pictures, which handles worldwide distribution of this film, incurred the wrath of the Film Critics Association of Turkey (SIYAD) when it defended its decision to supply Turkey with a self-censored version of the movie, deleting all instances of nudity, by stating that it was done out of "respect for the local culture." SIYAD responded in an open letter to Sony, saying, "Seeing oneself as an authority to decide what is appropriate and what is not appropriate for a 'local culture' and imposing your view on that 'culture' is one of the greatest shows of disrespect for that 'culture'. It is an insult to the people of Turkey and specifically to movie-goers in Turkey to assume them to be disturbed by any sign of nudity whatsoever."

[sara]

Director Denis Villeneuve worked with David Dastmalchian on Prisoners (2013). Ryan Gosling also auditioned for that same movie, but Jake Gyllenhaal was cast instead.

[linda]

A theme of human nature being naturally bad is present in this film. One of the most prominent references is how Officer K (Ryan Gosling), a replicant, shows more purpose and emotion than all other humans throughout the movie. Officer K even denies orders, showing him to be more human than other humans in the movie.

[bryan]

The breed of Deckard's dog is an Estrela Mountain Dog.

[veronica]

Soldier (1998) was written by David Webb Peoples, who also wrote the screenplay to Blade Runner (1982). He has always maintained that "Soldier" is set in the same universe as "Blade Runner," and "2049" contains at least one subtle nod to "Soldier:" The garbage scows that K sees in the metal wasteland on his way to the sweatshop are nearly identical to the one that deposited Todd (the protagonist of "Soldier," played by Kurt Russell) onto the off-world colony Arcadia, the primary setting of the 1998 film. Since "2049" happens over a decade after "Soldier," the scows have minor modifications--though they are immediately recognizable to the eagle-eyed viewer.

[linda]

When Ridley Scott talked about the sequel's story and what involvement Harrison Ford would have, he said, "We talked at length about what it could be, and came up with a pretty strong three-act story line, and it all makes sense in terms of how it relates to the first one. Harrison is very much part of this one, but really it's about finding him; he comes in in the third act."

[nora]

In a 21 September 2017 interview in the Dutch magazine "Algemeen Dagblad", Sylvia Hoeks explained her hair was dyed black to give her "an Asian appearance". Hoeks said, "I became the Japanese version of myself. My best friend and I even started to greet each other in Japanese."

[chad]

There are three short films that fill the gap between Blade Runner (1982) and this sequel. Blade Runner: Black Out 2022 (2017) is the first in chronological order, followed by 2036: Nexus Dawn (2017) and 2048: Nowhere to Run (2017). "Black Out 2022" was made by anime director Shin'ichirô Watanabe, who is famous for his work on The Animatrix (2003) and Cowboy Bebop (1998). The other two films were directed by Luke Scott, Ridley Scott's son.

[frances]

The famous 'Ribbon' chairs by Pierre Paulin for Dutch furniture company Artifort are seen at approx. 30 minutes in the first scene with Luv (played by Dutch actress Sylvia Hoeks).

[lynn]

(at around 36 mins) When K asks why Gaff believed Deckard was always going to end up leaving society, Gaff said, "It was something in his eyes." This alludes to the running theory that Deckard is a replicant: in the original Blade Runner (1982), the Voight-Kampff test used to identify replicants focused intensely on the subject's eyes and pupil responses. Also, the replicant's pupils would occasionally glow (Pris and Rachael) and there was a brief scene where Deckard is talking to Rachael and his pupils glow for a brief time.

[jim]

(at around 2h 15 mins) In the climatic scene, the Rachael (Sean Young) character (from Blade Runner (1982)) is re-created for Deckard--and he rejects her because, he says, the original Rachael had green eyes. However, a re-viewing of the original movie shows a close-up of Young's eyes, and the same close-ups are seen in this movie when fragments of her interview from the first movie are played, and they are undeniably golden brown.

[bernice]

The film's cast includes one Oscar winner (Jared Leto) and four Oscar nominees (Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Edward James Olmos and Barkhad Abdi).

[ivan]

When asked for his thoughts about the sequel beforehand, Rutger Hauer (who played Roy Batty in Blade Runner (1982)) stated that he was completely indifferent to it. He saw no reason why the makers would go back to something which he thought was already perfect, but admitted that it could be considered a compliment. He was equally unimpressed after seeing the film, stating that "it's not a character-driven movie and there's no humor, there's no love, there's no soul. You can see the homage to the original. But that's not enough to me.". But hasn't actually seen the film.

[veronica]

(at around 59 mins) The image of garbage transports dropping their loads into the junkyard of San Diego echoes the setting of Soldier (1998), written by Blade Runner (1982) co-screenwriter David Webb Peoples. In that film, the protagonist is a space Soldier deemed obsolete and dumped on a junkyard planet, and is a veteran of battles described by Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) in Blade Runner (1982).

[kim]

Originally, at the early development stage of the project, Ridley Scott was set to take on directorial duties. By the time the movie was getting close to pre-production, however, he announced he would no longer take the helm but would stay involved as a producer. Specifics weren't given by Scott on why he dropped out of directing the film. Oddly enough, a report came out in August 2014 that Alien: Covenant (2017), a sequel to Prometheus (2012), may be getting delayed because Scott planned to helm this film after The Martian (2015), which was in production at the time. However, it seems that Scott's commitment to Alien: Covenant (2017) may have forced him to step away from directing this film.

[chris]

In the scene showing the ruins of Las Vegas you can clearly spot modified versions of the Luxor and MGM Grand casinos, including actual signs and decorations.