But maybe it was exactly what the producer intended when he requested the changing of the ending.)
In the following part of my essay I would like to concentrate on the replicants and how humanity, history and memory worked and were reflected in the film. To speak of humanity in connection with replicants might be a bit misleading, however, the film is in its tone very human indeed and this fact, paradoxically, comes from replicants. They were designed, as Dr. Tyrell said "to be more human that human" but one substantial feature differentiated them from humans. They don't die as "ordinary" people do it means they are programmed to die after a certain time of dirty work, which the usual purpose of their creation is. They are not happy with their gift - playing second rate to humans, living in fear and useless end. That's why they came to the Earth, to find their Maker and prolong their lives. What thus might seem more human that one's effort to preserve his / her life? This is exactly what they are after, moreover, trying to find not only functional, but also emotional fulfillment. Dr Tyrell indeed said that they might have developed their own emotional responses that are nothing less than ordinary human fear or even love. When one towards the end of the film sees Pris playing with a doll, he / she is aware of the fact that "she is capable of poetry as well as irony". Humanity of the replicants is finally confirmed when the leader of the replicants and the last one to die - Roy Batty gives a hand to the falling Deckard. This is a moment when even he realises that in this war between humans and non-humans both sides pose the same global questions; who am I, where am I going to, how long have I got to live? And the line of separation and clear distinction becomes fussy and indistinct, leading one to consider the essence of humanity. That’s why one must agree with the quote from Sobchak's book where she claims: "And nowhere before in the SF film...has such a fully self-conscious longing for life and eloquently ferocious challenge to humanity beýn articulated as in Blade Runner“
History and memory are another two important factors that substantially contributed to the "psychology" of the replicants. However, the most important feature of the replicants is that of the absence of their memory and paradoxically that's why Blade Runner is "obsessed with memory because the replicants' assurance of a future relies on the possibility of acquiring a past". That's why Leon keeps his "beloved" photographs in the drawer, to have a proof of his so short existence. Rachel is another example of a character who, being a replicant, too claims her right for the past. The "inhumanity" of Dr.