Director Ridley Scott has explained why Eldon Tyrell lived in a pyramid-like building inBlade Runnerand revealed a shocking truth about the character. The story follows former police officer Rick Deckard, whose job was to find bioengineered humanoids known as replicants and “retire” them. After it is discovered that four replicants are on Earth illegally, Deckard is sent to find them. The cast ofBlade Runnerincludes Harrison Ford, Sean Young, Rutger Hauer, and Joe Turkel.Blade Runneris one ofRidley Scott’s best moviesand currently has a score of 89% on Rotten Tomatoes.
In an interview withGQ, Scott revealed why Eldon Tyrell resides in a pyramid inBlade Runner. The director claimed that the Tyrell seen in the movie is actually a replicant. Herevealed that the real Tyrell is actually in a sarcophagus in the middle of the pyramid, and placed himself in stasis years before the events of the movie after having several replicants of himself made. Scott intended to shoot a scene that would have shown that the real Tyrell is now dead in the sarcophagus, but was not able to do it. Read Scott’s full comments below:
The reason for the pyramid, the pyramid was, I think, the true Tyrell was dead inside a sarcophagus in the middle of the pyramid, because he knew he was dying. Whatever the age and the time, there would always be some industrial disease that we haven’t actually dealt with. But he’d also, here’s the trick, does Putin have six clones? So Tyrell had made several lookalikes of himself so he could be anywhere. You wouldn’t know where the real one was. So the Tyrell we were talking to was probably not the real Tyrell, but was a fundamentally replication of himself. So that’s how complex it gets. That’s how we ended up with the pyramid. We never got to do the scene where they go to the sarcophagus and see he’s dead. I think he died in the sarcophagus and then some, I took it from, there’s a massive power breakdown on the East Coast of America. One powerhouse in one of the states. It was crazy. All the three states switched off for 22 hours. So I think I went from that idea, when it went down, Tyrell may have died in the dep freeze.
What Eldon Tyrell Being A Replicant Means For Blade Runner
Tyrell Created Replicants InBlade Runner
Even though Tyrell is only a minor character inBlade Runner, he is extremely important in the movie’s world. In theBlade Runneruniverse,Eldon Tyrell is the founder of the Tyrell Corporation, which is the company responsible for the design, manufacturing, and selling of replicants. SinceBlade Runner’s plotrevolves around Deckard hunting replicants, Tyrell is an extremely notable character in the film.
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Before the events ofBlade Runner,replicants were declared illegal on Earthfollowing an off-world mutiny. Now knowing that the Tyrell Deckard talks to inBlade Runneris actually a replicant, this scene becomes very ironic.Deckard’s job inBlade Runneris to hunt down replicants, but little does he know he is talking to an extremely influential replicant at this point in the movie.
Our Take On Tyrell Being Replicant In Blade Runner
The Shots Of The Pyramid InBlade RunnerAre Stunning
It is very interesting to learn thatthe real version of Tyrell was meant to be revealed as dead inBlade Runner. This further explains why Tyrell lives in a pyramid, which is a surprising choice in the film. However, leaving the reason why Tyrell lives in a pyramid as ambiguous is just as effective. The shots of the pyramid further ensure that the version of Los Angeles seen inBlade Runneris almost otherwordly. Therefore, even though the reason for the pyramid was never stated inBlade Runner, it is still an effective setting in the classic sci-fi movie.
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The original Blade Runner is a sci-fi neo-noir film set in 2019 in a dystopian cyber-punk society. Harrison Ford stars as Rick Deckard as a Blade Runner for the LAPD, tasked with hunting rogue replicants, genetically engineered humans designed to tackle tasks that human beings cannot. When four replicants go rogue and begin killing humans, Deckard is forced out of retirement to hunt them down and stop them - but the truth isn’t as simple as it seems. Deckard will have to reckon with the philosophical dilemma of what makes someone human.
