Blade Runner Movie Facts
50 of the most interesting Blade Runner facts you didn't know about. Handpicked and verified, these little-known details can be obscure enough most people will miss. These behind the scene easter eggs and hidden messages will give you another view of Blade Runner movie message.


Blade Runner Movie Trivia Facts
These trivia from Reddit and other sources can be used as questions with answers in quizzes or games.
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Ridley Scott and Jordan Cronenweth achieved the famous 'shining eyes' effect by using a technique invented by Fritz Lang known as the 'Sch?fftan Process': light is bounced into the actors' eyes off a piece of half mirrored glass mounted at a 45-degree angle to the camera.
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Roy Batty has chest & arm tattoos, which were originally markings that denoted points where a space war-suit would plug into sockets, but the idea was later dropped.
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Niander Wallace's headquarters are made of wood, a rare and very expensive material in 2049, to emphasize how wealthy he is.
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This is actually Joanna Cassidy's pet snake.
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Rutger Hauer made last minute changes to his character's final words as well as inserting the phrase, "All those moments will be lost like Tears in Rain". When asked why he said it was due to viewing the original lines as "opera talk". RIP Rutger Hauer.
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Rutger Hauer himself edited his final monologue, and added, "All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."
Blade Runner Easter Eggs
Hidden objects, characters, easter eggs, and their meanings are wonderful ways to discover the filmmaker's perspectives of any given movie.
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Rachel takes the Voight-Kampff test (similar to the Turing test) to determine if she's a replicant. Deckard says "a wasp lands on your arm", to which Rachel replies "I'd kill it." In Blade Runner 2049 a bee lands on K's hand. He does nothing but stares at it. -
The noodle bar cook speaks "Cityspeak," a mashup of German and Japanese. In Phillip K. Dick's other novel, Man in the High Tower, the Axis powers won WW2 and these two countries occupied the U.S. -
A screen labelled "PURGE" inside the hover car is the same screen displayed when Ripley activates the escape shuttle in Alien (1979)
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Pays homage to Cowboy Bepop. Shinichir? Watanabe directed both Cowboy Bepop and Blade Runner Black Out 2022. -
Just after K endures his first onscreen psychological conditioning "Baseline" he returns home and we see the words below on his door (slang for "Skinjob"). B.F. Skinner is the father of Behaviourism, suggesting K is already willing his conditioning away. -
She cuts the lieutenant in the same way that Wallace kills the newly-born replicant--a horizontal slice across the lower abdomen. She does it this way because she has seen it be done this way.
Blade Runner Hidden Facts




Deckard's blood mixes with his drink after a fight.





As Elvis Presley's "Can't Help Falling in Love" plays in the background, Deckard tells K "I like this song." Later, Wallace suggests to Deckard that his infatuation with Rachel was by design.
049, when K visits a retired Gaff, Gaff gives K an origami sheep, alluding that he is not special in comparison to Deckard who gets a unicorn in the Classic.

When Bryant describes replicant Pris as "a basic pleasure model" it shows her incept date being Valentine's Day.

049 (2017) 'K' describes an old memory of his when he hid a wooden horse.
When K drinks at home, he offers some to Joi, when Joshi drinks in her office, she does not think to ask K if he wants to drink

K's jacket has salt stains, as would appear upon drying after being in the ocean in the previous scene









The end of Blade Runner and the last line of Blade Runner 2049 have a nice relationship to eachother.
The trash-dump aircraft in Blade Runner 2049 (2017) mirror the trash-dump spacecraft in Soldier (1997) - Soldier is an unofficial/non-canon sequel to the original Blade Runner (1982)
Deckard examines a fake family photo owned by a replicant he retired, and it appears to come to life momentarily
Rachel changes her hair after looking at photos on Deckard's piano. In Prometheus David also changes his hair to a likeness. Alien: Covenant and Blade Runner also feature synthetics saying "that's the spirit!" and the Spinner and Nostromo have the same graphical landing displays.


Blade Runner Plot
A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space, and have returned to Earth to find their creator.
Cast and Details
Here are the full cast and crew of Blade Runner. The goofs, crazy credits, and trivia they have performed may have not taken your attention. Some are hidden for a reason, while others randomly forgotten.
Genre | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller |
Director | Ridley Scott |
Stars | Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos |
IMDB score | 8.1 |