OrionWorks wrote: >>From Remi: > >> Was it Gene Hackman in a film I can't remember with this line >> "You're either police or little people." > > I believe you are referring to a memorable quote from the famous film, > "Blad Runner" with Harrison Ford as Deckard. See: Memorable quotes for > Blade Runner:
Interesting you should mention Blade Runner in the context of a discussion which is intermixed with other threads containing a lot of apocalyptic talk about global warming, mass extinctions, and, by implication, what may or may not survive the current round of changes to the biosphere. We haven't mentioned bees recently, but they figured indirectly in Blade Runner. As you may recall, Blade Runner was based on the Philip Dick novel, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep". That was one his more obscure novels (actually, most of his books could be described that way). An interesting detail in the novel which I don't think they emphasized in the film was that *all* animal life on Earth had apparently died off, except for humans. Quite aside from any practical consequences, this had such a major psychological impact on people that an entire industry had grown up, producing *robot* animals to take the place of the missing "real" animals. In the book, at one point the protagonist tests a woman to determine whether she's a real human, or an android. The test consisted of a series of questions. The most significant one, buried in the list, was, "If a bee landed on your arm, what would you do?" She responded, "Swat it!" which immediately pegged her as an android, because no true human would ever have given such an answer -- bees were too precious. The loss of the animals was never explained, as far as I can recall. > > http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083658/quotes > > Deckard: [getting up to leave] I was quit when I come in here, Bryant, > I'm twice as quit now. > Bryant: Stop right where you are! You know the score, pal. You're not > cop, you're little people! > [Deckard stops at the door] > Deckard: No choice, huh? > Bryant: [smiles] No choice, pal. > > > Regards > Steven Vincent Johnson > www.OrionWorks.com > www.zazzle.com/orionworks >
