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Blade Runner TYRELL Well, Mr. Deckard? Deckard is looking at Tyrell and wincing indecisively. He doesn't get it. Are they playing with him? TYRELL (continuing) Perhaps some privacy will loosen your tongue, Mr. Deckard. He turns to Rachael TYRELL Would you step out for a few moments, Rachael? Rachael exits looking a little shaken. What's going on? Deckard stares at Tyrell. Tyrell meets his look. TYRELL I'm impressed. How many questions does it usually take to spot one? DECKARD I don't get it. TYRELL How many questions ? DECKARD In columns of four cross referenced, twenty or thirty. TYRELL It took more than a hundred for Rachael, didn't it ? DECKARD She really doesn't know ? TYRELL She's beginning to suspect, I think. DECKARD Suspect! How can she not know she is. TYRELL Well, we began to notice in them a strange obsession. Tyrell is pacing now, lecturing. TYRELL After all, they are emotionally inexperienced with only a few years inwhich to store up the experiences which you and I take for granted. If we gift them with a past... we create a cushion or pillow for their emotions.. and we can control them better. DECKARD They want memories? TYRELL It's the dark corners, the little shadowy places that makes you interesting, Deckard..... gusty emotions on a wet road on an autumn night.. the change of seasons..... the sweet guilt after masturbation. DECKARD Jesus Christ,Tyrell! Tyrell looks startled. DECKARD Where do you get them, the memories? TYRELL In the case of Rachael, I simply copied and regenerated cells from the brain of my sixteen-year- old niece. Rachael remembers what my little niece remembers. DECKARD I saw an old movie once. The guy had bolts in his head. Deckard looks amazed while Tyrell looks pleased with himself. Video: http://youtu.be/yWPyRSURYFQ (Note the script has been substantially changed. The production version is shorter, more concise, and direct to the point of the "memories" concept. In the released version, Deckard simply speaks the word "memories," while in the script this is explained in much more detail.) The basis of robots in movies, for me, has always been the comparison with them to humans. What can they do that humans can't? What can humans do that they can't? Ultimately it always comes down to a reference to the abstract, such as to art, love or to the soul. Can a robot have a soul? Can a robot love? I find Blade Runner especially interesting. Rachel apparently isn't aware she is a robot, she is so perfectly made. Even Deckard can't detect her at first and he is the supposed expert. I love that she is a love interest in light of all this.

Bicentennial Man Isaac Asimov ... (short story "The Bicentennial Man") Isaac Asimov ... (novel "The Positronic Man") and Robert Silverberg ... (novel "The Positronic Man") Nicholas Kazan ... (screenplay) http://youtu.be/WMDkzwl6ApY Andrew Martin: May one, sir? Is now a good time? 'Ma'am' Martin: What? A good time for what? Andrew Martin: Last night, Sir taught... Sir: No, no, no, don't blame me Andrew. Just... go ahead. Andrew Martin: Thank you sir Andrew Martin: [Very fast] Two cannibals were eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "Does this taste funny to you?" How do you make a hanky dance? Put a little boogie in it! What is a brunette between two blondes? A translator! Do you know why blind people don't like to sky-dive? It scares their dogs! A man with demensia is driving on the freeway. His wife calls him on the mobile phone and says "Sweetheart, I heard there's someone driving the wrong way on the freeway." He says "One? There's hundreds!" What's silent and smells like worms? Bird farts. It must have been an engineer who designed the human body. Who else would put a waste processing plant next to a recreation area? A woman goes into a doctor's office, and the doctor says "Do you mind if I numb your breasts?" "Not at all." *makes 'motor-boating' noise. "Num-num-num-num." Andrew Martin: [Family chuckles] One did it sir! Sir: Andrew, it was fine, but we might want to talk about appropriateness and um, and timing. Andrew Martin: It's ten-fifteen sir. (I know its pure cheese but I love it. Also love this quote on IMDB, Nicolas Kazan: "The next time someone reads your script and either really hates something that you know works, or makes cavalier and foolish suggestions - perhaps you should ask them 'Did you ever hear a song for the first time and hate it and then, two weeks later, find yourself singing it?' " )

Marvin: I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed. Trillian: Well, we have something that may take your mind off it. Marvin: It won't work, I have an exceptionally large mind. The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (2005), directed by Garth Jennings, screenplay by Douglas Adams & Karey Kirkpatrick from the book by Douglas Adams. Comment: many of the best robot moments are robots aspiring to act like people - noble, passionate, heroic, emotional. Marvin acts exactly like a person - but it's that annoying guy who's always moaning and won't shut up...