Rick Deckard
| Rick Deckard | |
|---|---|
| Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? character | |
 Rick Deckard portrayed by Harrison Ford in the film Blade Runner | |
| First appearance | Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? |
| Created by | Philip K. Dick |
| Portrayed by |
Harrison Ford (film) James Purefoy (radio) |
| Information | |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Bounty hunter |
Rick Deckard is a fictional character and the protagonist of Philip K. Dick's 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?.
He was portrayed by Harrison Ford in the 1982 film adaptation Blade Runner directed by Ridley Scott and by James Purefoy in the 2014 BBC Radio 4 adaptation directed by Sasha Yevtushenko.[1]
Overview
Rick Deckard is a bounty hunter with the San Francisco Police Department, who goes after "andys" as they are called. He begins the story as a selfish, self-involved cop who sees no value in android life. His experiences within the novel cause him to develop empathy towards androids and all living things.
Deckard is married to Iran who is one of the more empathetic characters in the novel. She is able to allow herself to go into a depression and sadness with others over the state of humanity, and is able to find the empathy necessary to care for an electric toad at the end of the novel.[2]
Adaptation
In the film, the bounty hunters are termed "Blade Runners", the androids are called "replicants", terms not used in the original novel. Deckard is a divorcé and is retired from the Los Angeles Police Department. Philip K. Dick approved of Harrison Ford's performance, saying that Ford had brought to life "a genuine, real, authentic Deckard."[3]
"Harrison Ford is more like Rick Deckard than I could have even imagined...if Harrison Ford had not played that role, Deckard would never become an actual person. Ford radiates this tremendous reality when you see him. And seeing him as a character I created is a stunning and almost supernatural experience to me."
See also
References
- ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b047cz98
- ↑ "Novel Character Summaries". GradeSaver LLC. Retrieved 2012-10-11.
- ↑ The Official Bladerunner magazine©2000
- ↑ P.K. Dick Interview
External links
- Marj Kibby [Department of Sociology and Anthropology, The University of Newcastle]journal of interdisciplinary gender studies V1 N2 September 1996:139-146 retrieved 10:13 2011-11-02
- Slavoj ŽižekTarrying with the negative: Kant, Hegel, and the critique of ideology published:Duke University Press, 1993 retrieved 10:24 2011-10-02
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